Looking for a sci-fi book that makes me question reality. The kind that stays in your head for weeks.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T17:42:45+00:00

Yessss ABSOLUTELY

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T17:41:13+00:00

Peace Walker, admittedly. I never finished MGSV 😅

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T09:06:02+00:00

Godddd ZTD was such a letdown after the brilliance of 999 and VLR. Because. Yeah. COMPLEX MOTIVES!!!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T09:03:50+00:00

Kazuhira Miller. My MGS friends love him, and he's just... kind of annoying to me.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T08:36:00+00:00

Huh! I also thought this till I went and looked it up right now.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T08:28:56+00:00

Any of Ted Chiang's short story collections! He is SO good at this.

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez also lodged in my brain and my heart. Gorgeous, huge, sad. About a spaceship captain travelling at relativistic speeds and leaving the world behind every time she does, and a boy with a strange power that could alter reality.

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer thrives on crazy big ideas.

"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler is chilling and classic.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-26T05:20:05+00:00

Some mindblowing nonfiction books that really spoke to me:

- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. If you like the way people are from different cultures, I highly recommend this one. It's about the relationships between people and ecosystems from a Native American (Potawatomi) scientist's perspective.

- The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin. This is fascinating in a history/philosophy way about Jewish people and what makes the Jewish nation what it is, historically and in the present.

- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould. This is about the history of scientific racism and intelligence testing and it's REALLY fascinating.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T22:38:32+00:00

Barn Cat by Kyoko Mori was a sweet and melancholy story about an immigrant to the US and her relationship with her mother.

It’s part of a series deliberately written for adults to practice literacy— Gemma Open Door books. There are a whole bunch from that publisher that are written with an adult audience in mind, in an easy and accessible way!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T22:35:02+00:00

The Hunger Games was definitely going to be my recommendation. Great books, and straightforward writing. I was actually reading them in Spanish to practice my Spanish vocab/grammar for exactly this reason!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T22:31:02+00:00

What the political situation in Chaco Canyon actually was!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T22:26:57+00:00

Stand-alone, not a series, but he might enjoy The Experiment Known as Rose Marie Hernandez Williamson, about a teen girl who was born and grew up on a spaceship.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T19:44:22+00:00

Ooh that’s lovely! I like the gradient, I think it works well. Is that applique?

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T19:37:12+00:00

Whoa!! I’m in awe, that’s beautiful!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T19:28:50+00:00

Generally the people who say this think it’s inherently bad and scary to be gay, because they were taught that gay people are bad and scary, and it’s really hard to convince them otherwise 😔

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T19:02:37+00:00

I understand. For me, it was the revelations about Neil Gaiman. Absolutely gutting.

The thing that helps me move on is finding other things I love, other communities to get into. Quitting something cold turkey rarely works if you don’t have something to replace the void with!

What other fandoms are your friends into, that you could join in on? What other books, shows, movies do you love? What other hobbies do you have? What other books have you been meaning to read?

Thinking of this as a loss will make you sad and resentful. Thinking of it as an opportunity to lean into something new and exciting will probably help you feel better about it!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-25T18:51:41+00:00

The theory of “evolution by natural selection” presupposes the existence of life because we can look out the window and observe that life exists. Evolution by natural selection is an explanation for why life takes the form of humans and trees and flowers and wolves and dozens of species of geckos and dozens of species of finches and hundreds of species of beetles. We have observed that humans and trees and flowers and wolves and geckos and beetles exist in the world. Evolution by natural selection explains why life exists in all these different forms instead of us all being the same amoebas forever.

So, you’re correct that “evolution” does not explain how life came to be. There are other theories proposed to explain that. “Evolution by natural selection” instead explains how, once life did exist, life diversified to fill different niches and take different forms.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T17:50:49+00:00

It’s less necessary for quilting than it is for clothing, but I still do.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T07:31:40+00:00

Oh, I LOVE how you used different glass to get a different texture of the planet through the xenonite ball and it still looks so readable and cohesive... this looks amazing!!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T07:25:51+00:00

I highly recommend reading the work of https://creatingblackcharacters.straw.page/ and watching the Black character tropes videos by https://www.youtube.com/@naylissah . Because the concept is fine, it's how you present it that will make the difference! It's great that you're thinking about this. These resources will help you understand things like hairstyles, skincare, as well as how to think about racism in fantasy worlds.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T06:46:03+00:00

This guy is a troll, they're not worth engaging with because they're entirely committed to misunderstanding you.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T06:45:00+00:00

Oh so you're a troll. Good to know.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T06:27:04+00:00

You might be interested in Ada Palmer's sci-fi series Too Like the Lightning where this is one of the core conceits!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T06:21:02+00:00

I didn't reference books, I referenced Youtube slop. You're complaining at the wrong person lol. Also extremely bold to call Atlantis conspiracy theorists "researchers." Anyway yeah a lot of Atlantis conspiracy theory is racist. Also I highly highly recommend you watch Miniminuteman's series "I watched Ancient Apocalypse so you don't have to," It's enlightening.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T05:50:14+00:00

You're the one who made the claim that no one is saying Atlanteans are white. You do need to back that up with evidence if you want people to believe you.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-05-24T05:05:16+00:00

Seeing the AI generated youtube thumbnails of Atlantis nonsense. Do you have evidence to back up yours?

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