Always bring a book on our- or rather /your/ adventures! @aptshadow.bsky.social

I am going on an adventure

@seanferrick.bsky.social in Reed's defense Lightning Snow is a thing, it's rare but I've seen it first hand where it's snowing and lightning with thunder is going on but yeah tactically assuming it's just the weather is a bit odd, depending on the colour of weapon fire and tone of thunder.

@aptshadow.bsky.social starting Service Model!

@aptshadow.bsky.social Children of Memory in the beginning: We're going on an adventure with our crew! Children of Memory in the end: Holy shit this is devastating. I feel so bad for Miranda.

@aptshadow.bsky.social Mel Hudson is absolutely amazing in her narration. (I cheesily read along with the physical novel to the audiobook)

@aptshadow.bsky.social also your Corvids give people an existential crisis because what if we all aren't just parroting what we heard somewhere else but applying it to the appropriate situation? What differentiates clever parroting to true sentient intelligence?

@aptshadow.bsky.social I don't see why not unless it's a chromosomal thing but does your Corvid pairbonds allow for Same Sex pair bonds?

@aptshadow.bsky.social there's literally sentient slime mold out there but your Corvids has to be the most "alien" of the group.

#ChildrenOfMemory @aptshadow.bsky.social Portia when she sees the crew having trouble.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I'd probably would "lend"?? or allow the Nodan Entity to have a copy of me but they'd probably get existential crisis, Theseus Ship dread, and "Are Star Trek transporters death fax machines?" dread. x.x

@aptshadow.bsky.social the Nodan Entity is like what if Star Trek Trill Symbionts, the Borg Nanoprobes, and the Stargate Replicators had a sentient love child.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I absolutely adore how The Nodan Entity recognizes the error of their ways and how they're trying to move on. It's rather refreshing that they seem to know that the absence of a "no" does not constitute consent. Seems to get the idea of consent better than lots of humans even.

@seanferrick.bsky.social In your retro Ups & Downs From Star Trek 1.3* - Where No Man Has Gone Before I feel you might've missed a recent Temporal Observation. Captain Batiel's Galaxy Eyes clearly feels like a Gary/Elizabeth call back? call forward?

@aptshadow.bsky.social I don't know about the rest but I can practically perfectly see Denise Gough playing Avrana Kern in any live action version of your novels.

Looking like a Snack

@lincodega.com @iwtvwriters.bsky.social you know if y'all are looking for a Bianca Solderini hit me up 😘

@aptshadow.bsky.social I know Earth was poisoned and all but why did no one in the terraforming program think about re-terraforming Earth? Is nuclear fallout (I'm assuming that's the poison) unable to be removed?

@aptshadow.bsky.social soo do we get to see these-of-me/we/us in Children of Memory?

@aptshadow.bsky.social So are the Portiids names inherited from their parents?

@aptshadow.bsky.social I wonder if the Octopi think it's sad or debilitating that non-cephalopodes don't wear their hearts on their sleeves. They look at Humans and go "You really keep your feelings all inside? And non of your kin truly knows them?" Such a lonely, sad, mute life"

Respect to those who got here first.

@aptshadow.bsky.social #ChildrenOfTime Plot twist he actually always connects them

@aptshadow.bsky.social (these-of-(we)-of-these) feels like the the love child between Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Star Trek's Borg. Thanks I Hate It. Parts of me is really struggling to not apply an anthropomorphized label of evil on them but the others are screaming napalm the these. NOPE

@aptshadow.bsky.social I did not expect a Lortisse horror show #ChildrenOfRuin.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I wonder how Hummingbird or Snake society would evolve

@aptshadow.bsky.social A rather large and gorgeous Araneus Diadematus I saw at my fave eating spot in our County. Hard to take a picture of them!

@aptshadow.bsky.social Portia getting the zoomies coming out of the freezers is adorable. "Are we there yet??" skitter-skitter-zoom

@aptshadow.bsky.social I'm early into Ruin but I love Fabian and Meshner together.

@aptshadow.bsky.social Was Helena the name you chose because it literally sounds like a blend of Holston and Lain, H'lain... Helena?

@aptshadow.bsky.social Is Senkovi autistic? He kinda feels that way.

@aptshadow.bsky.social Weaponized Empathy? Yes please.

@aptshadow.bsky.social the beautiful web I think an ambitious Araneus (not exactly sure) made. They made a web quite high in between the tree of my house and almost one house length into the next tree over. Almost like they're trying a space program.

@aptshadow.bsky.social Nearly finished Children of Time, I love it so much, the Portias are my fave.

@seanferrick.bsky.social and err did they bait Spirk in that bar scene while Ortegas watches?

@seanferrick.bsky.social OMGF I THOUGHT THE SAME THING ABOUT THE LEVIATHAN STRUCTURES on that planet!! Like "that looks like it could panini press those people so easily if only one thing goes wrong with the gravity stuff. holding them sections apart"

@seanferrick.bsky.social did not bank on Captain Batal becoming Star Trek Leeloominaï Lekatariba-Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat de Sebat but here we are!

@seanferrick.bsky.social now that was a good ep of Trek!

@robertdmcneill.bsky.social I really miss Resident Alien

What are you going to do? Save your money? For the future?! https://store.theonion.com/products/plan-to-be-more-positive-headline-t-shirt?variant=39601425023045

@seanferrick.bsky.social I kinda want a whole Many Adventures through the Ages of Pelia series, every new lore tidbit we learn about her makes her long life seem real fascinating.

@seanferrick.bsky.social like how in the frack does Vulcan DNA make you racist? Especially with how Tuvok for an example is not??

AGT Contestant Rick Rolling us in our year of the lord 2025. Nice.

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social am I off base if I say that I don't interpret Area X as evil or villainous but just antagonistic to people? That as an organism or machine or biomachine Area X can't have human morality applied to it?

@scalzi.com am I completely off base when I say that Redshirts also has a horror story element in it?

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social soo were Grace and Gloria dating or just friends? It felt like they were girlfriends even if Grace had a family of her own.

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I nearly cried reading Acceptance because of how seemingly beautiful the Biologist became in her transformation is that odd? Like a florescent star whale even with many eyes seems stunning.

Watching any Alien or even Predator film just makes you wonder how Weyland Yutani ever lasted this long with all the real dubious and silly decisions they make. Sure bring the uncontrollable bioweapon back home, it will go right this time!