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Canaan House yearning! Request for @paprikahoernchen for helping out a few weeks ago. I wanted to include some simple colors because the idea was really, really cute. -> Patreon for tips, support, or just some nsfw art ♥
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The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
She is caught suddenly about the chest, remembering Ursa. How she had made the new coat look like something rare and lovely, the way a bird wears its feathers. She doesn't know that Maren stitched two small runes into her sleeve, the ones Diinna once taught her meant protection from harm, and care. It pleases her to think of it now, like messages scrawled in invisible ink, worn against Ursa's pale wrist, the smooth passages of her veins green as meltwater.
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The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Today's sapphic book of the day is The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave!
Summary: "Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa are pushed together and are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1620 witch trials, The Mercies is a feminist story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization."
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formulating a more complex and in-depth review of the mercies by kiran millwood hargrave but all i have to say right now is that i was deeply drawn in by the physicality of this book. the people, the landscape, the weather: all of it is intrinsically connected to the body and the sensory experience of living in a body. the scenes where people touch one another are so vivid that it feels like they're touching you. christianity play a massive role in this book, but the mcs feel so disconnected from it that we do too, absorbed in the physical encounters between people and their environment so that we are fully distanced from the spiritual but not the abusive people perpetuating it. the weather and the sea act as autonomous beings that can touch and strike and hurt and feed. having a body becomes an intentional and raw act of connection
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I've seen people online complaining that Alexander Skarsgard isn't good casting as Murderbot. I'll agree, he's not exactly suited for how Murderbot (the very flawed narrator) expresses itself, but Alexander Skarsgard is EXACTLY what an evil future corp would think a Security Unit should look like.
Murderbot's outsides do not match what it feels inside, that's a repeated part of the books. It's a corporate killing machine slowly finding it's humanity and building community. This makes the guy who is stereotyped as 'Manly Viking Warrior' fantastic casting.
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Thinking about how The Murderbot Diaries is a character that is completly and fully character driven to the point where the very writing and book format is revolved around it.
The first book is short, concise. It skips a bunch of scenes over the course of many weeks. It focuses purely on what Murderbot thinks is important and worth focusing on. Thats why the majority of the book is dedicated to its thought process, its complaints, or it's fear. It skips over "meaningful" scenes because it doesn't find them important. Like most of the conversations, like it helping Volescu. It doesn't care. It does care when it feels uncomfortable and wants to be left alone. It does care when its scared and something big might happen. It does care about Mensah which is why the few scenes that are more meaningful are with Mensah and then back to narration.
The books get longer and longer as they go on, showing how as Murderbots journey continues so does its ability to care. More intimate moments, more admitting to us that it's afraid, it doesn't want this, it does want this. It begins to describe and pay attention more and more to whats going on around it and it grows to decide what it wants and it's all so beautifully conveyed through writing.
Even The Company was such a clever and subtle way of telling us something. Because everything in the books centers on how Murderbot thinks. Murderbot would never aknowledge its feelings towards The Company and therefore we never knew of it until someone pointed it out. And that too is development because now Murderbot cares enough to let us know. To let itself know. It still shuts down, draws away in its own thoughts. But each book gets longer and longer with less time between them because Murderbot is slowly learning to pay attention, and interact, and aknowledge the present moment. Its learning to care
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