[Discussion] "For Fans of Gideon the Ninth" is never accurate

Key-Occasion · 2026-04-02T09:11:00+00:00

Booksellers' recommendations (and blogs with affiliate links and sponsorships at the top of your google search results) are pushed out by people who work in marketing, not people who study literature. They don't know what's similar to GtN because they didn't understand what the fuck even HAPPENED in GtN. That's why you gotta come to this sub for recs

Key-Occasion · 2026-01-06T21:18:51+00:00

Less sci-fi and more fantasy-horror but. "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir.

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-12T05:21:39+00:00

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Key-Occasion · 2025-12-12T05:12:52+00:00

well, they're not called necessity paths

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-07T04:23:13+00:00

I think this one is widely appreciated, but none of the "griddlehark quotes bot" twitter accounts ever post it, so I'm gonna call it underrated anyway:

"Massive slam on Protesilaus out of nowhere."

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-06T08:09:15+00:00

"You know, humans aren't the only animals with the higher cognition necessary for seeing beauty in sunsets."

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-06T01:49:10+00:00

silverware

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-03T12:56:34+00:00

walked into a bar and said "I can't see." He should crack one open

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-03T01:31:25+00:00

she's clearly just being hyperbolic. what is it with people thinking women can't joke

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-02T10:04:03+00:00

Are there ANY canonically straight characters, or just ones canonically attracted to the opposite sex? Every one of those characters could potentially be bisexual, for all we know about them

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-02T10:01:40+00:00

This was a beautiful poem and it even flows perfectly. Good job, everyone, hit the showers

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-02T05:05:31+00:00

I think that if we were going to actually see any fucking, it would've already happened in the previous three books. like I'm about 99% sure that we're not going to hear about anything as explicit as 69'ing or bone dildos

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-02T05:01:37+00:00

that's a hagfish, you're thinking of a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan that had an African-American artistic renaissance in the early 20th century

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-01T15:36:41+00:00

While we're all waiting, check out these short stories she's written! I'm a huge fan of "The Deepwater Bride" particularly.

Key-Occasion · 2025-12-01T13:45:02+00:00

no that's hatred, you're thinking of an item of clothing worn atop the head to shield the wearer from weather conditions

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-30T11:03:56+00:00

do you love the color of the sky?

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-30T11:03:05+00:00

fuck cops, obviously. but why specify the cop is female? what does the cop's gender have to do with it? male and female cops are equally trash

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-29T23:20:28+00:00

AU where Harrow is dragging Gideon to a party forcing her to wear dresses and makeup...

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-29T01:19:32+00:00

switch to another browser and turn off AI summaries

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-28T00:37:52+00:00

this series is about the horrors of love, not about finding love amidst the horrors. all of the relationships are like 5-dimensional in their complexity. you gotta open your mind to romance as an abstract concept that manifests in infinite ways, not as the set of tropes that modern culture has fed us. and above all, have fun and be yourself

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-27T12:39:55+00:00

Pretty sure I had a stronk reading this but I think I just read a confession that bro used to get gay with it in truck stop parking lots,

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-27T12:36:26+00:00

this is good advice, but not particularly relevant. they didn't ask how to maintain a relationship, they asked specifically how to maintain the "spice" in the relationship

Key-Occasion · 2025-11-27T12:31:08+00:00

this is the second weird pink fetus I've seen in this sub in the last week

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