the ghost of tegel airport

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nick/nikvo/arbaro • they (english) / ri (esperanto) • seattle • queer/bi • mariners/jags/toffees • mid-30s

"Antarctica" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"Acceptance" by Jeff VanderMeer
Fry from Futurama inside a burning building about to drink from a pitcher of coffee
"The Courts of Chaos" by Roger Zelazny
"He heard Gerald Delouvrier, back in the TIDAL labs, urge him _not_ to focus. _What you do, it is opposite of the concentration, but we will learn to direct it._"
A bag of Lay's All Dressed potato chips
"[...]It said something about the corporate culture of DatAmerica that Laney has never been able to discover whether or not TIDAL was an acronym, or (even remotely) what TIDAL was about. He'd spent his time skimming vast floes of undifferentiated data, looking for 'nodal points' he'd been trained to recognize[...]"
"Idoru" by William Gibson
Pathfinder from The Price is Right
"...Grove of the Unicorn then and exhumed Caine. At that time, we actually caught a brief glimpse of the legendary unicorm (sic) of Amber."
"The Hand of Oberon" by Roger Zelazny
"Arkhangelsk" by Elizabeth Bonesteel
nice king from adventure time
One night they were listening to a country station out of Georgia and "Me and Jesus'll Whup Your Heathen Ass" came on, this hardshell Pentecostal Metal thing about abortion and ayatollahs and
"Downtown San Francisco was really something. With everything hemmed in by hills, built up and down other hills, it gave Russell a sense of, well, he wasn't sure. _Being_ somewhere. Somewhere in particular. Not that he was sure he _liked_ being there. Maybe it just felt so much the opposite of L.A. and the feeling like you were cut loose in a grid of light that just spilled out to the edge of everything. Up here he felt like he'd come in from somewhere, these old buildings all around and close together, nothing more modern than that one big spikey one with the truss-thing on it (and he knew that one was old, too). Cool damp air, steam billowing from the grates in the pavement. People on the streets, too, and not just the usual kind; people with jobs and clothes. Kind of like Knoxville, he tried to tell himself, but it wouldn't stick. Another strange place."
Far side cartoon with a judge talking to a cow in a courtroom. Caption: Look, we know _how_ you did it — _how_ is no longer the question. What we now want to know is _why_... Why now, brown cow?
Kato :3
Big exit sign on a train platform where the little exit guy is kicking a soccer ball
"Virtual Light" by William Gibson
"Sign of the Unicorn" by Roger Zelazny. There's also a cat in the picture
Me, sitting in a convention center, wearing a zebra stripe judge shirt
Such terrible things we've had to learn. Subtext, connotations, figures of speech.
"Children of Memory" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" meme
The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin
Crudely drawn map of the US states
The moose, petting a dog
kato
"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke
Cylinder of Cobalt 60 with the inscriptions "DANGER RADIATION" and "DROP AND RUN"
"A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers
Subseĝa kato
"The Guns of Avalon" by Roger Zelazny
parcel mistress from homestuck
"The Postman" by David Brin
kato
"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers
kato :3
Astrotruckers by Mikael Niemi
"It was a reference to one of their teachers at Princeton who had gone so far as to print up a wallet card for people to keep in front of them during conversations like this one. One side of the card was solid red, with no words or images, and was meant to be displayed outward as a nonverbal signal that you disagreed and that you weren't going to be drawn into a fake argument. The other side, facing the user, was a list of little reminders as to what was really going on: 1. Speech is aggression 2. Every utterance has a winner and a loser 3. Curiosity is feigned 4. Lying is performative 5. Stupidity is power
"Fall, or, Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson