book talk goes here right?

Yesterday I read A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, a full nine months or more after reading Long Way to a Small Angry Planet; I enjoyed the first one although there was some stuff that was a bit weird. Again, enjoyed ACACO but found some stuff weird.

I really like Chambers' brand of 'cozy' sci-fi - it's a big cold galaxy out there but characters choose each other and choose to prioritise each other. Sidra is wonderful and I empathise deeply with her struggle to be her own person in an existence that was chosen and defined by others, and her complicated feelings about what she can expect from others and what they can expect from her.

Spoilers from hereon out.

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On the other hand, I love Tak and I love Aeluons.

hmm sooo.

I've managed to accumulate a non-zero number of people who play tabletop rpgs on here, I think.

So, question - what game/s are you playing at the moment? What's your favourite character you've ever played?

For me, I... made a whole post about this a while back, so I won't bore you with what games. In terms of favourite, I don't know, Quae is making a convincing bid, but I'm gonna go with Kehurie Tanok Lumina, my lightbringer; ze was a hero in a world that sorely needed them, a lover, a fighter, an idealist haunted by the evil ze had been and done, who stood up against impossible odds and won - but in the doing lost everything. Kehurie, it turned out, could save everything except the people close to zir. Zir relationship was beautiful but deeply, deeply star-crossed.