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Ria
is 71% done
Seventy-two letters: again a slog but at least it became steadily more interesting as it went on. The time period it was seemingly written in and the region with the lowww bar for its politics i just dont enjoy reading even if its accurate or a snark at/critique of it through scifi. The analogies for the fear of machines taking ppls jobs and government-controlled reproduction were cool but not sth i'd keep pondering.
— 14 hours, 55 min ago
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Ria
is 48% done
Just being cynical and disbelieving of how good it is when i wonder if id enjoy the story of your life as much if i were a physicist
— Mar 06, 2026 11:56PM
Ria
is 47% done
About halfway into the story of your life, around where louise has a breakthrough with the refraction of light's path's teleology, literally every page is interesting and i even have to stop myself from reading ahead to catch the ends of her sentences (how apt) and omg i wish i could buy this short story on its own for display and rereading bc it is perfect and i do not care for the other stories yet
— Mar 06, 2026 12:43PM
Ria
is 39% done
Ugh the story of your life is so perfect, trying to enjoy the journey (ive watched the film so am extra excited at things) but already wanting to know the existence of more books on linguistics.... more linguistics AND scifi time would be too big of an ask i imagine but ugh it is perfect
— Mar 02, 2026 10:28PM
Ria
is 34% done
Like i wanna know a reason beyond the superficial reaction of oh what an asshole he plans for divorce after she hits a crisis and i think the author could maybe give that? Even tho prev 2 short stories both had disappointing and then meh endings ngl. (2/2)
— Feb 08, 2026 12:21AM
Ria
is 34% done
Also just to add but carl's last thought was just do interesting to me. About this being an empathy that separated them rather than united them...... did he mean he feels deeply unromantic toward ppl who had gone through concrete suicidal ideation as well? Earlier renee worries abt her attempt becoming a part of ppls judgment of her. I want to know what carl means and why he immediately decides to abort it all. (1/2)
— Feb 08, 2026 12:20AM
Ria
is 34% done
could read more of such consequences for renee as opposed to the story stopping there. (2/2)
— Feb 07, 2026 11:45PM
Ria
is 34% done
At least the stories successively get better for me... i am not a huge fan of true (not ya-esque) academia as a setting after rl exp and a core belief getting violated, while interesting, felt a lot less interesting than the husband coming to decide to leave her... it is morally reprehensible and he admits that yet he is so sure of that decision while/because renee is feeling so lost. It is awful and i wish i (1/2)
— Feb 07, 2026 11:44PM
Ria
is 29% done
I really appreciate that every story uses a different writing format. Almost like they all originated from prompts. It's cool.
— Feb 07, 2026 12:06AM
Ria
is 27% done
it's a mercy that they both seemed to be a similar appearance and other demographics bc oh, the optics of killing the opposing ideology then. smart ig.. idk i just also call doubt over them both picking specialties and leaving lacunae as he himself says in other knowledge areas when before he had been yammering in favour of a holistic approach of it all,, mb its just too hard to write about people way more 'evolved'.
— Feb 05, 2026 09:26PM
Ria
is 27% done
do have to say respect to the save humanity guy for using a mercy in his death strike by letting the death of the gain more and more knowledge guy be by understanding too much and overloading his systems. but yeah: eh. (2/2)
— Feb 05, 2026 09:21PM
