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Here's another photo of the queen herself: another photo of Tinker the spider

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I upvoted because this is awesome, but I'm horrified by spiders.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yay, spiders!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you haven’t read the Children of Time series, I HIGHLY recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seconded. I finished Children of Memory a month ago or so. Cried like a baby.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a brilliant writer, the Children of Time series is my favourite of his. It's almost 4 in the morning so I can't brain well enough to put it into words. Just the deftness with which he explores different concepts, while at the same time having fantastic characterisation, and a gripping storyline is really impressive.

He's also very much not a case of MenWritingWomen, there are no ladies breasting boobily down staircases in his books.