#Exhalation

[tizzymcwizzy]

exaltation was smth else huh

believe it or not i am STILL thinking about this episode fhfhhfjggf (i started this drawing the day the episode aired and only just got around to coloring it)

#ive been shipping marichat for like 5 years at this point and i #the way i went bananas when this episode dropped #i almost flipped a table #ANYWAY #not the happiest with the coloring on this but ive been doing it all day so ive given up lol #ml #mlb #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug season 5 #exhalation #chat noir #marinette dupain cheng #marichat #my art #kiss

[szynkaaa]

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

I knew I wanted to do a cut out cover at some point, but I also wanted the cutout to serve a good purpose. The front cover is made of 4 layers: cardstock, laminated gold leafs, thicc cardstock, and then bookcloth with reflective htv ironed on it. Gottay turn on the flash light to see it shine on camera.

I wanted to achieve a floating affect for the gold leafs above the lungs. edges are gold foiled (still practicing that bit).

The dust jacket illustration took me the longest - 12h to paint it. But it's fun! I started book binding to have something to do while I had bad art block, but it looks like I'm back to making art again too while binding books, which is neat :)

#bookbinding #book binding #ted chiang #exhalation #eggfriedpenguin

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#exhalation #ted chiang #short stories #science fiction #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[oceanvuongs]

— ted chiang, exhalation

#words. #ted chiang #exhalation #chiang leaving this in the post-story notes is the literary equivalent to the moots leaving gems in the tags imo #anyway i rly enjoyed exhalation!! chiang makes very readable sff….has very thoughtful takes on the emotional impact of spectech……

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

EXHALATION by Ted Chiang (2008) (link) - tw: apocalypse, death

Every day we consume two lungs heavy with air; every day we remove the empty ones from our chest and replace them with full ones.

A STUDY IN EMERALD by Neil Gaiman (2003) (link) - tw: death

A murder had been committed in that little bedsit. The body, what was left of it, was still there, on the floor. I saw it, but, at first, somehow, I did not see it.

#short story tournament #ted chiang #neil gaiman #exhalation #a study in emerald #now with a new study in emerald link! my apologies id gotten so caught up in scanning all the gaimans i couldnt find online #that i didnt realize this one WAS online! #polls #round 2

[phasingphoenix]

I really love reading all of Ted Chiang’s works. He’ll craft these interesting settings and scenarios and wax poetic about some fundamental piece of human existence, and then you go read his notes in the back of the book and it’s always just like, “I heard a man say something in 1998 and thought I’d write a little thing about it :)”

#ted chiang #exhalation #stories of your life and others

[mothandnessieread]

After the way too busy and stressful week I’ve had, I’m taking as much time as possible to just sit and be with myself and my books. I must admit that I’ve been reading Ted Chiang’s Exhalation here for quite some time now but hey, at least I’m giving myself time to enjoy each story. And hopefully I’ll finally have the time I need to finish it this weekend!

#sonjastudies #sonjareads #studyblr #studyspo #study aesthetic #bookblr #amreading #exhalation #ted chiang #scifi #ebook #sunset #plants #flowers

[er-cryptid]

#studyblr #notes #medblr #medical notes #med notes #lungs #lung expansion #expansion of lungs #inhalation #exhalation #respiratory system #respiratory system notes #lungs notes #lung anatomy #lung physiology #anatomy and physiology #anatomy notes #physiology notes #anatomy #physiology #visceral pleura #parietal pleura #pleura #lung pleura

[se-hace-camino]

"Sex isn’t what makes a relationship real; the willingness to expend effort maintaining it is."

#ted chiang #exhalation #book quote #relationships

[juniperusashei]

Exhalation by Ted Chiang - 3/5

Ted Chiang’s writing has been compared to Black Mirror, but Exhalation felt more like a humorless Rick and Morty to me. Aside from the first story, it’s clear that Chiang is more of an “ideas guy,” because most of the stories in this collection felt like they were more about some extremely conceptual sci-fi technology. For this reason, a lot of them felt too long, but would have been acceptable if they were just a couple pages long.

The first short story, “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” was a strong opener that set expectations way too high for the rest of this collection. Perhaps I liked it because it was the only one that wasn’t sci-fi. Rather, it’s a fantasy story about time-travel via alchemy, and takes place in medieval Baghdad, and uses an Arabian Nights-esque frame story to tell multiple little tales. I found it creative and unexpected, and wish I could read more like this.

A lot of the rest of the stories were overlong and relied on one sci-fi concept (a prism that lets you talk to yourself in parallel timelines, a universe where entropy is physically quantifiable, a machine that disproves free will). What really bothers me is at the end Chiang includes “Story Notes” explaining everything to an unnecessary degree! None of the stories really needed explanation, but to include such an appendix is a bizarre move that I haven’t seen since I read In the Land of the Lawn Weenies as a kid. It feels a little insulting to the audience’s intelligence, as well as proof that Chiang is more interested in the concept than actually developing a convincing story. The exception to this is “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling”; despite being high concept (what if all your memories were recorded?!), it focuses more on the character drama. By no means was it free from the philosophical pontification that got so old in this book, but its pathos provided relief from the clinical and sterile rest.

#exhalation #ted chiang #scifi #science fiction #short stories #3 #june 2023 #2023

[szynkaaa]

Dust jacket illustration for my rebind of Ted Chiang's Exhalation

My original dust jacket idea was to have the lungs in the android's branch out like a tree and grow out of their mouth into a big tree, but when I sketched it out it kinda looked more like gore and horror LOL

The other concept I had was a close up of their chest with the lungs glowing and also growing out of their body like vines overtaking something, but I wasn't happy with the pose

Anyway in the end I settled for "what if we all have an android in our lung" jk jk

Gonna hit up the printer tomorrow and then post photos of the book with the dust jacket on

#szynkART #ted chiang #exhalation #dust jacket art #eggfriedpenguin

[freudianblunders]

Ted Chiang.

#ted chiang #exhalation #currently reading

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

EXHALATION by Ted Chiang (2008) (link) - tw: apocalypse, death

Every day we consume two lungs heavy with air; every day we remove the empty ones from our chest and replace them with full ones.

THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE by Pamela Zoline (1988) (link) - tw: apocalypse, animal death

All the objects (819) and surfaces in the living room are dusty, gray common dust as though this were the den of a giant molting mouse. Suddenly quantities of waves or particles of very strong sunlight speed in through the window, and everything incandesces, multiple rainbows. Poised in what has become a solid cube of light, like an ancient insect trapped in amber, Sarah Boyle realizes that the dust is indeed the most beautiful stuff in the room, a manna for the eyes.

#short story tournament #exhalation #ted chiang #the heat death of the universe #pamela zoline #literature #round 1 #polls #sometimes the stories just line up so perfectly

[mothandnessieread]

Even though I didn’t get quite as much reading done as I wanted to, I’m so glad I got some extra time to myself over the long weekend. Best of all, I’m finally about 90% of the way through Exhalation now and I can’t wait to finish it later today!

#sonjastudies #sonjareads #studyblr #studyspo #study aesthetic #bookblr #amreading #graphic novel #scifi #lucky penny #exhalation #cat #mothman sighting