#too like the lightning

[atiglain]

tumblr in the TI universe

🏛  togasupreme Follow

please stop judging masons based on suit cut, especially if you’re not a mason. Some of us can’t afford to change out our suits every year, some of us like to express ourselves, and also it's genuinely rude!

🧶🔁 humanistacrochet  Follow

yeah i agree with this. if im going to judge a mason it'll be for shitty political opinions lol

🏺🔁 catullusmasonicus  Follow

op looks like this btw

🧶🔁 humanistacrochet  

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🌿  cousininthesheets Follow

okay how do you pronounce VADL (Vivien Ancelet Don’t Look) -> 

Vee-Ae-Dee-Elle (wrong)     ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 1%

Vaddle (correct) 🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 2.3%

other? (tags)          🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️ 96.7%

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🧗‍♂️   greythelaws Follow

okay the problem with cookie is that theyre like a terrible person, but also really funny. like so so so so so funny i cant look away. i think they should probably get their head blown off (simulated, not real, VADL) but also i kind of want them to stay in politics forever

💜🔁  masonidloveto  Follow

hey op

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💫cleopatrautopian  Follow

i wish people had better slurs for us tbh “astroturd” is so lame are you in middle school? lol. moonman is okay but lacks punch. 

👩‍💻🔁upunk  Follow

Ive heard “mooncel” before but i have no idea where the suffix originated from. 

💫🔁 cleopatrautopian 

I like mooncel... maybe moonfucker would work as well? we should workshop this. 

🌏🔁 postsfromuranus Follow

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🪓  hobbesian   Follow

people love to say apollo mojave was so cool and awesome but we hooked up at campus and the dick was mediocre tbh..

🌟🔁 protectthegreat  Follow

me when i spread misinformation on the internet

🪓🔁hobbesian  

????? lmao I’m sorry did you take their dick?? you want to submit a competing complaint? write a counterclaim on Snopes.com? want to sit in their room on alexandria campus (not air conditioned) listen to them drone on (spit flying from mouth on several occasions) (beer breath) and take some dick that is, at best, a 6/10? be my fucking guest. 

🏺🔁catullusmasonicus  Follow

this is like poetry to me

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Anonymous asked:

I'm against OS on ideological grounds but i kind of wish they would take you out tbh...

🌕  lalunadeutopia Follow

this website’s hate mail game is insane.

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Anonymous asked:

its so funny that you’re getting hate for that apollo mojave post when all that you spread was the truth

🪓  hobbesian Follow

nah it wasnt even i lied i didnt fuck them💀 

#misinformation indeed

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#terra ignota #too like the lightning #lmao #Heavily inspired by that otehr post of this nature about dogs. I used their formatting thank you op

[haldora]

More TI fanart! I've wanted to paint a scene like this at Madame's since I first read the books in like 2020, but it's only now that I feel like I've gained the skills and confidence to pull it off! Had to learn quite a bit about 3-D modelling in CSP to get the perspective at least somewhat right and I was pleased with how much body language I could get into the models. As always, being meticulous with groundwork will save you time during the painting process, but god, this was materials rendering on hardmode. Detail shots below the cut!

#terra ignota #too like the lightning #fanart

[acatnamedloki]

Why Mycroft Canner is crying (and is the most sopping wet cat character of all time)

In the book 'The Will to Battle' Mycroft spends half the book crying so in order to recover from my insane Book Hangover I decided to write a list of all the reasons Mycroft is crying in this book (some of them are even valid!!)

If you haven't read Ada Palmer's 'Terra Ignotia' series, this list contains extremely out of context and vague spoilers and not a lot of plot information so give it a read and see if he's a character you'll like (and then read the series and go insane with me)

Chapter 2

Someone said they trust him

He's not exactly crying but he is sitting on a bench, hugging his knees and trying to ignore his hallucinations while people are debating the future of the human race (pure wet cat behaviour)

Chapter 3

He saw the Mediterranean sea

Now he's in Crete and the sea smells salty

He was told he couldn't join a meeting (to be fair, he just did a bunch of traveling to get to the meeting)

Chapter 7

He saw a pretty boy

Recovers for a bit, has a whole ass conversation then starts crying again for the same reason (also because the pretty boy is looking all sad and vulnerable)

Someone was kind to the pretty boy (he at least tried to weep silently here)

He found out someone cares about him enough to try and track him (OK but this bit is crazy because Mycroft was just beat up, is bleeding, kidnapped, has a collar of knives around his throat, tied up, electrocuted, pushed to the ground and having a heart attack. He is totally fine with this. But then starts sobbing out of GRATITUDE because he found out someone kinda sorta cares about him!!!!?)

Ok NOW he's finally crying because he's scared (he described it as "strange" that he was crying and "tinged my eyes with salt". Good job Mycroft! Way to under-react to the situation)

Chapter 8 (still kidnapped and just been double-stabbed)

Someone threatened to kill a 17 year old boy who Mycroft believes is god

Someone asked where Bridger was (ok this bit is actually sad I started crying too)

Someone tried to start WWIII and Mycroft had a mini freak out

He saw an old building covered in graffiti

He got told off because he didn't try to kill his kidnappers (Mycroft actually tried to protect??? the original kidnappers - this is kind of a nesting doll kidnapping situation)

Chapter 11

A really old document got stolen

Caesar (his sort of president/sort of master) is wearing a new suit (its noted that he is sobbing for like 3 pages here)

Chapter 12

Pride, relief and grief (an odd mix but ok)

Chapter 13

He was hallucinating and (understandably) freaked out. Then started crying when someone asked if he was ok.

Chapter 14

Theres like a super intense argument happening between Caesar and god

Caesar put a really harsh punishment on some people who deserved it and Mycroft had a full on existential crisis because he believes he deserved it too (like he passed out and started sobbing because he deserves worse? than being a slave?)

Chapter 19

The scary space people decided to join a war (not crying because a giant lion is sitting on him, happy because at least its muting his sobs)

Chapter 21

He saw some fireworks

#ada palmer #too like the lightning #Will to battle #Mycroft Canner #sopping wet cat behaviour #terra ignota

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #Too Like the Lightning #Terra Ignota #Ada Palmer #poll #result: no

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#too like the lightning #ada palmer #science fiction #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[the-world-annealing]

A thought I commonly see in analyses of Terra Ignota is, loosely paraphrased: "Why would a third of the world population join up with the quasifascist rome larpers when there's a hive that made pokemon real."

Now of course, we're all on the Gay Sex And Pokemon website, there's a bias here and we might be wrong about what the average person is like, but even so the point still stands! What is it about the Masons that attracts people to them over all six to nine alternatives, especially given how little they actually offer except nice architecture and absolutist power structures?

Well, recall how a fact of Terra Ignota's world, one we run into time and time again, is: "Having everyone stop talking about gender and religion did not actually prevent discrimination or end oppression or otherwise solve any problems". Mycroft applies he/him to masons wherever possible, they're led by an emperor-even-when-female, they wear suits, they're powerful, they draw their symbology from supremely patriarchal times and places. It's clear that Masons are gendered more than any hive except the cousins, and one of the few organizations (the only?) to be gendered masculine.

(I think it's relevant to remark how blacklaws could have been presented as masculine tooth-and-claw survivalists, but instead we get chagatai and madame and dominic as the most prominent examples, which don't read very traditionally-masculine to us)

The cousins are explicitly identified as a sort of aggregate of feminine people, but they certainly aren't the sum total of them. And that makes sense; all the stereotypical feminine traits (caring for others, playing diplomat, cooking) are still relevant in the world that Terra Ignota presents; if you care deeply about Performing Feminine Roles you don't have to join the cousins, you can just be a mom friend or the one at the bash who doesn't work and focuses on raising the kids.

But if you care deeply about Performing Masculine Roles, you're a lot more limited in your options! Society is safe and peaceful, physical labor is increasingly rare, and at any rate nobody will depend on your labor to survive; you aren't 'working hard to put food on the table' because the food literally grows on trees!

The most 'masculine' career path remaining is probably policing (and I think it's relevant that the most prominent cop in the story gets gendered male!) but that's hardly an option for everyone.

So everyone who feels like a man, who watches fragmented bits of pop culture and half-forgotten references and constructs this ideal of masculinity out of it, who might meet the definition for gender dysphoria depending on how you look at it, who the text implies is made vulnerable by these unfulfilled desires... yeah, I think such a person would join the Masons in a heartbeat, because the Masons represent one of the few outlets for masculine urges (them and madame's roleplay scenarios). And if that describes a significant fraction of the population, it becomes absolutely unsurprising to see a 33% mason plurality at the start of the series.

#terra ignota #too like the lightning #cw gender

[andmaybegayer]

having archaic sex with my gender differentiated wife

#terra ignota #too like the lightning #books

[avanity-project]

J.E.D.D just looks at you and says: “Observe, capitalism is just Agar.io with extra steps"

#terra ignota #ada palmer #too like the lightning

[rainbowd00dles]

I finally finished the piece I was working on for the book Too Like The Lightning by Travis Beaudoin ! I highly recommend this book for lots of happy feelings, and a little bit of age gap spice 🔥

#too like the lightning #travis beaudoin #coley brandt #andrew madigan #myart #book art #bookart #book characters #age gap romance #gay romance book #mlm book

[chaotic-history]

Found an interesting article by the author abt the way gender is (and isn't) talked about in Too Like The Lightning

#terra ignota #too like the lightning #<- third time starting that book; hopefully also my first time finishing it

[atiglain]

Huxley be upon ye

#terra ignota #my art #Huxley mojave #too like the lightning #artists on tumblr #perhaps the stars #illustration #art commisions

[low-shear-velocity-province]

I've only just started reading Too Like the Lightning but it is already shaping up to be one of the books of all time.

#i haven't read anything this dense and meaty in quite a while #so I'm extra excited that there are three more books in the series after this one #terra ignota #too like the lightning #books

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

BREAKING: New study finds manatees have no genetic relation to any other creature on the planet. Previously sampled tissues discovered to have been part of an external 'shell' that masks its nature. COMING UP: Amazing video captures large whirlpool near Dauphin Island, Alabama

What do you think about my theory?

#too like the lightning #zukriuchen

[beholdingslut]

Dude Too Like the Lightning is so great, you’re in for a (long winded) treat

i’m enjoying it so far but long winded is thee descriptor of all time. i also love how all the chapters start off and seem as though they’re being narrated from third person and then it gets revealed it’s actually first and mycroft is just in the corner like 🧍 hey

#too like the lightning #ask

[di-girls-dem-sugar]

Reblog this poll so all 8 people on ignotablr will find it 🙏

#shut up kayla #terra ignota #ada palmer #too like the lightning #the will to battle #seven surrenders #perhaps the stars #jedd mason #j.e.d.d. mason

[andmaybegayer]

just started Too Like the Lightning and, is it ever explained what the Great African Reserve is? Explanations for all of Africa apparently being so completely beneath the notice of the Hives I can think of are kind of weird and uninteresting for Terra Ignota.

#terra ignota #too like the lightning