Paranormal.
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Milky Way orbiting Earth (?)
Recent report suggests otherwise
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The Short Story Reader #88 - The Rope is the World by China Miéville | Or, Conceptualising a Whole Galaxy From a Grain of Sand
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China Mieville paints ambitious worlds in such bold brushstrokes across the various stories you’ll find in Three Moments of an Explosion. What he does in “The Rope is the World” is no different, and reading its opening, I figured I’d take a few moments to highlight just how it is that Mieville does it. Take the following sentence:
Initial outlays were clearly gigavast, but…
If you had teeth and a jaw strong enough to chew and eat metal, what do you think the best would be? Copper's obviously a basic bitch answer, but I just don't think aluminium would have the depth of flavour. I mean, I don't want to be the lead guy, but why mess with a classic?
if literally any driver other than lewis hamilton was his teammate, like if merc had gone with hulkenberg like they'd scouted for a while nico rosberg would be a 4x wdc rn and because the car was that goated, and his entire perception by fans would be different.
he won his first (and only race that year) in 2012. and in 2013 he won 2 races. from 2014-2016 he won 20 races, while having peak lewis fucking hamilton as his teammate. 20 races in 3 years. he was fucking fast
valtteri bottas won 10 races over the span of 5 years in merc for rocketship reference, and checo perez won 5 races with redbull over 3 years.
when ppl think nico is the hope for second drivers to pull off a wdc against their generational teammate, they're wrong. bc he's not the trend, he's the statistical anomaly. and he was no second driver.
Ok so, I was thinking about how, in a lot of fics for the other seasons of life, they're in the games for like a few weeks/months but it couldn't be like that this time cause they have 24 hours. But then I remembered
Minecraft days last 20 real life minutes
This means that, if you want to be accurate to Minecraft rules, they have 72 days to live
im not tryna dampen anybody’s good time or anything but also like.
one of the first pieces of info we were given abt this universe is that the (manchester-based) institute burned down in 1999
it has been well established that tmagp is going to be constructed to be beginner friendly
other contextual bits of info seem to suggest that this story is going to be about exploring similar but not identical concepts in different ways (see also the amount of time that’s already been spent on the cataloguing system)
which is not to suggest you can’t or shouldn’t think about or focus on the institute and its role in this world, but i do think that its focus and inclusion in episode one was more as like, an orientation session for existing fans: like, here is the burnt out corpse of something we recognise. here is a place filled with ghosts you swear you could identify. and here it is in a place you do not yet know or understand. like i just don’t think it’s going to be The Central Focus
In a beginner guide to heresy, why are the human character's names are like... steel... and concrete...
Is there plot significance to it? Or do you think it's just funny to name people related to building construction?
Everything in BGH exists and happens because I thought it would be cool or funny. Also it's a pun on "reinforced concrete", which works better in Russian (сталик + бетон = железобетон)
if you use the word degenerate/degeneracy you should not call yourself a socialist or even a progressive, this is not negotiable, you have not done the basic work required of you to use such a label