Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named “Kern’s World”, where the plan is to release monkeys 
infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern’s World hoping to find paradise.
also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good
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massive volcel violation posting
thought #1: “holy shit just 8 months HRT has made my ass look incredible”
thought #2: “holy shit just imagine how fucking stunning it will look after about 2 years HRT”
Things are finally going in the right direction
Do you think people can tell I’m a bottom when I leave the house?
my real estate deadnamed me in their inspection notice
in an act of unimaginable malice from the gods to make a human existence a cruel joke, they made the world’s horniest trans woman with a curse to be perpetually single
What I am doing now is not working. I’m going to try and get on diy. I still don’t think I can be independent before changes are noticeable but another year without E (or however much time) isn’t going to change that. May as well try it and see if it helps.
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thoughts of suicide
I’ve been feeling hopeless and like I’m going to have to kill myself anyway. It doesn’t really matter if I start a timer on moving/coming out. Worst comes to worst I’ll have to come out and they’ll be disappointed in me or whatever. I can’t get out of this by myself so maybe E will help. If not
there really are not that many more options. At least I can die knowing what E feels like. If these mythical mental changes are real or hype.we lost our best friend today and… we arent sure if we made the right choice or not by leaving them
not sure how we are going to recover from this
I don’t feel like my face has changed since I started e about 6 months ago. Simultaneously, I’m finally seeing a version of my face in the mirror that I like consistently. Not sure what to make of that.
(CW: joking misogyny) TTRPG adventures:
I’ve been grappled and have too little strength to break free on my own, so I shout out to the party wizard to cast Twitch, a spell that causes any target to drop whatever item they’re holding
Me: “Can you target the bird man grappling me so I can break free?”
Wizard: “Sorry, Twitch only works to drop objects”
Me: (playing a character who is a trans woman) “fucking transphobic magic doesn’t recognize me as a woman”
I probably need sleep meds to sleep properly, maybe. And I guess hypothetically also being told to sleep like as if I’m not a grown ass 28 y.o. woman uh… well no one ever accused me of being functional.
Waking up in the middle of the night and it’s hard to sleep because (hungy), but then the resulting headache will naturally make me want to stay in bed rather than make food later (happened yesterday also didn’t make food since would have to wash dishes and idk)… Why is life like this? I’ll uh eat properly today and do life stuff though yeah, today’s the day
Someone just called me a nerd and I don’t think I can mentally recover from that
scented candles, cute clothes, and decorations are not “treats”. anything marketed to men is though. if you disagree with this you’re misogynistic. unironically
How are you all using these emojis? Do you have just have like a folder of them you share or something? I don’t see an emoji icon in my app.
Been looking at my itchio bundles and found some coding game, it’s a small sample of a larger game but think I’m getting the basics of coding down maybe
