mahit dzmare and samuel vimes
Sep. 19th, 2024 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
follypersistthe thing is, a memory called empire is the type of good where i frequently just... pick a chapter and start reading from there. it's like The Fifth Elephant good, i wish this book had been around when i was a teen.
rushed-appointment diplomat sent to an uncanny history-obsessed empire, solves a mystery while defanging a fascist movement and resolving a succession crisis (enabling the new, cunning ruler to have enough immediate legitimacy to centralize power). it's just... vimes is a superhero from a competing, culturally dominant empire, while mahit is... a lesbian poet who will never have respect no matter how she is loved. i think both stories accomplish something transgressive, all things considered; t5e, in 1999, has way more to say about gender, while amce in 2019 actually has queer characters who have messy romantic entanglements, but has more to say about abuses of power by law enforcement. it's funny how the two reflect each other so well
ansible storytelling: stories, fiction, and fables who critically rest on the idea that messages, ideas, and communication can move faster than people can, through natural, technological, or supernatural means.
rushed-appointment diplomat sent to an uncanny history-obsessed empire, solves a mystery while defanging a fascist movement and resolving a succession crisis (enabling the new, cunning ruler to have enough immediate legitimacy to centralize power). it's just... vimes is a superhero from a competing, culturally dominant empire, while mahit is... a lesbian poet who will never have respect no matter how she is loved. i think both stories accomplish something transgressive, all things considered; t5e, in 1999, has way more to say about gender, while amce in 2019 actually has queer characters who have messy romantic entanglements, but has more to say about abuses of power by law enforcement. it's funny how the two reflect each other so well
ansible storytelling: stories, fiction, and fables who critically rest on the idea that messages, ideas, and communication can move faster than people can, through natural, technological, or supernatural means.
