#expanse book spoilers

[rocicrew]

The part where I think how much I want him to be here and safe and not hurting, and telling me not to hurt, either.

#the expanse #nolden #james holden #naomi nagata #persepolis rising spoilers #the expanse book spoilers #expanse book spoilers #mine : art. #pUTS MY HEAD IN MY FUCKING HANDS AND SOBSSSSSSS #also i cannot draw bruises but we're ignoring that

[elenstar]

History that became legend

Does Thirty worlds remember it?

#the expanse #expanse books #expanse book spoilers #leviathan falls #my doodles #ugh i finished it

[battlestarbones]

Leviathan Falls Spoilers

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scenes that make me wanna howl at the moon and be shot into space at the same time!! jim is basically a lump of PTSD in a human skin at this point but the traumas just keep coming!!

#leviathan falls #leviathan falls spoilers #the expanse #the expanse spoilers #the expanse book spoilers #expanse book spoilers

[souldagger]

i only have 1/5 of Leviathan Falls left and i WANT to be mad that [redacted] is going to die but like. oh, of course. of course it’s going to end like this. it makes absolutely perfect sense, narratively and character-wise. i can’t think of a more fitting way for it to end, honestly. but also

#so mad that i cant even be mad bc it makes sense but also [falls to my hands and knees] #.txt #the expanse #expanse book spoilers #leviathan falls

[phantomoftheorpheum]

CHRISJEN AVASARALA | the once and future queen

#theexpanseedit #chrisjenavasaralaedit #avasaralaedit #the expanse #chrisjen avasarala #avasarala #mine #my edit #we interrupt your regularly schedule programming to bring you a set i made because i love her #i miss this show so much #so.... can we adapt the final three books or? #the expanse spoilers

[shiroikabocha]

I have a thought about Filip and Naomi from The Expanse, but involves such a HUGE spoiler I'm gonna hide it under a cut. Don't open unless you've finished the books AND the short stories (or if you're just generally spoiler-agnostic)

GOOD ON THE WRITERS for never reuniting Filip and Naomi! It's painful and unsatisfying, but it works so well-- it underscores everything that Naomi says about how the universe never lets you know whether you did the right thing, you never get to know if your efforts led to positive change or not, you never get to know how your words affected someone else. You just have to do your best and live with the not knowing. It hurts to know that Naomi lived the rest of her life assuming that her son was dead (and that she was instrumental in his death), when we, the readers, know that she did save him! That her memory guided him through the rest of his life!!

And given the end of Leviathan Falls, that theme has even more resonance--humanity has been fractured, spread out across space and time. The hundreds of pockets of human civilization that have been divided from one another likely won't reunite for generations, if ever. You don't get to know if they remember you. You don't get to know if they're doing okay. You just have to do your best, say your goodbyes, and accept that their stories will continue--and that you will never read them.

also oh my gawwwd putting Filip and Nami on the same planet, but neither of them knows the history/family of the other, is SUCH a good storytelling choice! The Sins of Our Fathers is a perfect capstone on a series whose greatest strength, IMO, is putting lots of nuanced, fully-realized characters with intractable differences of opinion in the same room and making them solve problems together.

#the expanse #the expanse spoilers #naomi nagata #I would tag Filip too but the correct way to tag his full name is itself a spoiler #love the show but love the books even more

[satanicspeaks]

What I want to know about The Expanse world is how is data storage being managed? If there is that many people across our solar system (and beyond) then where is all the data being stored and how?

This also applies to other sci-fi media. Currently we are so used to places hosting data that it’s become an after thought (until AO3 goes down or someone remembers they don’t actually own a copy of the e-book they bought on kindle).

In The Expanse there are terminals, similar to phones but can do a lot more, where anyone can log in to a terminal with their identifier and then it has all their messages and things they need. So instead of the phone number system we have it’s more like logging in to a universal Facebook. That raises some security issues but not the point here.

By making it a Facebook type system then the person also doesn’t own their own data. It’s not solely stored on their device. There are tech in that world where data is only stored on one thing, like our USB’s, but that’s not the standard because there’s a network. For there to be a network there must be a place to connect it all to.

So, given what happens in book 6 (no spoilers here dw) I reckon it’s stored in the belt, somewhere in vacuum/space, on Luna, or on several of the moons. Reasoning is that reduces a lot of natural heat data servers would have to deal with, reduces natural environment problems. It would absolutely be several locations, sole locations are a serious liability, and also with how much emphasis the series puts on light delay data/communications from one to another that would cause bigger issues.

As I type this I just realised: each station/location would need to have some level of a local copy. There were times that characters quickly set up a new terminal within a minute, and functionally waiting long periods is just bad business.

This likely isn’t something the author considered for the series, because killing or taking data servers hostage would be a way to fuck everyone over. Hence strengthening to the idea that data storage is in *a lot* of locations, making it hard to do a full take over.

There is also some programming elements that make me ‘hmmm’, especially season 1 of the Tv series where a sole person is trying to crack complicated encryption on a time crunch. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hobby programmer at most, my area is UX, so I don’t know if that’s truely effective. But from how over stated the complexity is it would make more sense to have several people on it (buuut of course story wise it’s cooler if one person can crack the really complicated Martian encryption).

I do wish the TV series showed Naomi as a programmer too, not just electrical and systems engineer. Maybe it’ll pop up later, I can see why they don’t with wanting a more visual way to show what she’s doing, but it feels like it understates her skills and what she can actually do.

Ty for reading my ramble if you made it this far. There’s practically no fandom for this series so mutuals can just second hand enjoy this

#the expanse #leviathan wakes #James s.a Corey #naomi nagata #james holden #amos burton #alex kamal #aw fuck as I was looking Alex’s last name up I got spoilers. damn #satanic speaks #tag: the expanse #tag: books #tag: tv series

[meeeeeeese]

Well this doesn't sound terrifying at all.

[REDACTED] seems to be some kind of cognitohazard infection... thing? One that might be sentient given it can become aware of things. Guess it shows how lucky Tyria may be in the grand scheme of things

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #SotO spoilers #not really but the book is from the expansion so... #desperately want to know what [REDACTED] is but I doubt the wizards would tell since its dangerous just to know about it

[furiousgardener]

Hey, sorry your boyfriend got consumed by a an intelligent alien tool. yeah, he was reduced to his core traits and repurposed to suit its needs. no, his purpose is still to find missing things. yeah, it reaches out and it reaches out and it reaches out and it reaches out

#the expanse #josephus miller #the expanse book 3 spoilers

[loremastering]

BABYGIRL HAS ARRIVED

#lotro #the black book of mordor #<-- blacklist if you dont want to see spoilers if you havent done this epic quest/expansion/regions

[cocksuki2]

heaven by mieko kawakami poses such an intricate question about bullying and about human free will. it addresses the complexities of adolescence and the complexities of social (and occasionally physical) cruelty through such a sensitive but unflinching lens that it is physically unnerving. 

the main character, a bullied 14 year old boy called “eyes” by his classmates on account of his lazy eye, meets kojima, a bullied 14 year old girl in the same class. 

kojima, attempting to find meaning in her suffering, befriends “eyes” (whose name we never learn in the novel) and searches for the reason and purpose behind the bullying. she explains to the protagonist that there’s meaning in “letting it happen”, that there’s meaning in his eye being lazy, and that there is meaning in her dirty appearance (which she does to feel closer to the time she spent poor and with her dad). she poses their experiences at the hands of their classmates as a form of resistance and as something that makes them strong, rather than just a cruelty done to them by others. 

her philosophy is essentially that of “everything has meaning”.

on the other hand, “eyes” has an encounter with momose, one of his bullies. momose, however, differs from the others in the sense that he always seems indifferent to the bullying and rarely ever takes the lead when “eyes” is being tormented. during their encounter, the protagonist questions momose as to why they do it and momose simply responds with “because we want to”. it’s a simple enough answer and he details to “eyes” that nothing really has meaning, that people are free to do what they want, and that the concept of doing “good” and “bad” doesn’t matter anyway. they have a lengthy discussion in which a victim confronts a perpetrator and receives answers for his treatment which completely rival the meaning kojima had been searching for through the previous half of the book. 

momose details that it’s not because of his lazy eye that he gets bullied, but by a series of coincidences that ultimately led to where they are, with “eyes” being victim and momose’s friend group being perpetrators. not because the protagonist is different but simply because they want to and they can. 

momose’s philosophy, however cruel, is that “nothing has meaning”. 

the book poses these two opposite philosophies as valid explanations for kojima and the protagonist’s experiences, juxtaposing them as the viewpoint of both victim and perpetrator. while kojima searches for meaning in their suffering, momose offers that there is none. while kojima states that their complacency and kindness is their way of fighting, momose poses that the only way to escape is to do the same thing back. 

meanwhile, “eyes” is caught between these two conflicting philosophies, one in which everything has meaning and cruelty has just as much weight as kindness, and another in which neither kindness nor cruelty have any meaning and we are simply choosing to do what we want, when we want to. both, however cruel or not they may seem, are valid explanations. neither is discredited and neither is posed as the correct answer. 

the novel poses these philosophies really startlingly. reading momose’s conversation with “eyes” after watching kojima (and the protagonist) struggle to find solace in meaning, is both jarring and somehow sensible. that’s not to say momose is right, nor to say that kojima is. the novel simply poses these two philosophies as equally factual and equally realistic. 

do bad things happen to good people because it means something or are we simply at the mercy of our own whims and the whims of others? does doing good have meaning? does doing bad have meaning? or is everything, the cruel and the kind, equally as inconsequential? is kojima right because she believes in a greater meaning for their experiences or is momose right in his belief that because nothing matters, people are free to do whatever they want, including “eyes” and kojima? 

both are equally as valid in the story, carrying a similar weight with the protagonist. it’s a really heartbreaking look at bullying from both perspectives, without a real acknowledgement of which philosophy is right and which is wrong. while the actions may be right and wrong, there is no right way to think about them except through our own personal interpretations. 

it makes the ending of the book, in which “eyes” has a surgery done to fix his lazy eye, against kojima’s (who insists that him being the way he is has meaning and suffered a mental breakdown at the climax of the story) adamant protests, all the more meaningful. 

upon losing kojima as a friend and suffering a traumatic experience—upon the ending of his first real friendship and his seemingly single point of “real” human connection (if that sort of trauma bond can be considered so)—he removes the bandage from his eyes and marvels at the beauty of the world, now containing depth. 

“everything i could see was beautiful. i cried and cried, standing there, surrounded by that beauty, even though i wasn’t standing anywhere. i could hear the sound of my own tears. everything was beautiful. not that there was anyone to share it with, anyone to tell. just the beauty.” 

he is freed from the thing he once considered a shackle and is now indifferent to for the first time, but never acknowledges the good or the bad. he is alone, standing in the street, seeing the beauty of the world. without a friend, without peers, without anyone. there’s no right or wrong. there’s no good or bad. just the beauty. 

#i could go on forever #i read this book once #and have been listening to the audiobook (which i have complaints about but i listened to it on my long drive yesterday) #and this story never fails to strike me down #it never fails to make me endlessly emotional #especially as someone who used to be bullied #there's a lot of beauty and peace in the ending #but there's also a really heavy sadness.. one of accepting the world we're born into for what it is #i'll never get over this story #cal.analysis #book.heaven #cal.gen #heaven spoilers #and this isn't even scratching the surface of him being nameless and only known to us by the name his bullies use for him #this doesn't cover the denail of his humanity and the exaggeration of kojima's #nor does it cover the depth of difference between kojima's existence as dirty (a choice she consciously makes) and 'eyes' existence as born- #with a lazy eye #nor does it cover the EXPANSE and LACK of human understanding in their relationship #or what it means to befriend someone simply because you are terrified of the life you live #this book is so multifaceted im going to go insane #i WILL be reblogging this on my main blog

[rocicrew]

Fuck it, Clarissa thought. Some things you take to your grave.

#the expanse #naomi nagata #clarissa mao #the expanse book spoilers #the expanse spoilers #spoilers #the expanse books #expanse spoilers #expanse book spoilers #persepolis rising spoilers #mine : art. #i tagged every combo of spoiler warnings i could think of bc obv #if anyone needs me i'm going to go sob now #i rlly should have taken that comic elective class #i couldn't decide on hair for naomi so it's a mix of dom's texture + the book ponytail #but the gray temples >>>>> #i had to include them

[battlestarbones]

goddddddd expanse books 7-9 hurt me sooooo bad every time I think about them or read snippets from them!!! they contain some of my fave plot bits (Amos alien resurrection!! Teresa!!) but also the lowest lows (Bobbie and Peaches!! Naomi and Holden being separated for years and never really getting back what they had before the End because of his PTSD!!) and just AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

#the expanse #the expanse spoilers #the expanse book spoilers #like BIG SPOILERS y'all #corey really took my poor roci family and put them through a meat grinder and only 2.5 of them survived!! #giving amos 0.5 points bc he's still standing but he did also die for real first #amos alien resurrection genuinely one of my favorite plot points in anything ever because it's So Amos #BORN TO BE THE LAST MAN STANDING jfc!!!!

[souldagger]

Tiamat’s Wrath / Leviathan Falls, Naomi’s POV

#im so normal about this. #the expanse #expanse book spoilers #leviathan falls

[penstrokes]

SPOILERS for a book from 2019 but killing both Bobbie and Amos in the span of seven chapters is actually evil.

#tiamat's wrath #the expanse spoilers #the expanse book series #finally found time to read the last three books #tiamat's wrath spoilers

[hauntedobservationobservation]

The Butcher of Anderson Station, by James S. A. Corey:

What is it about?: This is a short story that narrates an event in the past of a secondary character that appears in Leviathan Wakes, first book in the Expanse series. According to Goodreads, this would be the 1.5 book in the series and so, I intend to read the series in the order it appears to be recommended.

What I liked: I have to admit that what I liked was its brevity and the coherence it had with the writing style of the first novel. Not much else.

What I didn’t like: I just didn’t care much for either the protagonist of this story nor the plot. From the beginning I guessed where it would go and it did not surprise nor it disappointed me. Meh.

In conclusion: I feel like this was rather forgettable. Like sure some people would have found it interesting to see this character’s past but it made for such a lackluster experience that I don’t feel like it was worth it. I rate it two stars, I suppose.

#The Butcher of Anderson Station #James S. A. Corey #the expanse spoilers #book review #bookblr #book blog #bookworm #book #just an opinion #pls don't hurt me #am just a little guy