yoooo perdido street station is one of my favorite books too. that just made me happy while i was scrolling my dash, and i wanted to share the smile <333
i love it so much!!! i’m glad there are other people who enjoy it too
i love it so much!!! i’m glad there are other people who enjoy it too
space whales, dismissed by most as tall tales invented by
superstitious old spacefarers who spent too long off-planet, a product
of the tedium of space travel and inhaling too much recycled air, but
still looked for by wide-eyed ensigns on their first expedition into
deep space, and conspiracy theorists encouraged by recordings of strange
and unidentified sounds, picked up by scientific research ships on
their quest for further knowledge of the final frontier
star-people,
said to conceal themselves amongst the gas-cloud nebulas, whose
enchanting song has succeeded in turning sane men mad, abandoning
protocol to steer their ships into deadly asteroid fields, or forsake
civilisation in favor of the cold, unforgiving depths of uncharted space
space
wyrms; great leviathans of the stars, growing to monstrous sizes in the
zero-gravity atmosphere, devouring unsuspecting vessels that make the
fatal mistake of crossing their path. some say they eat space whales.
If you had five billion you could hop from job to job, calling entitled customers idiots all across your city, putting the fear of You into every shithead in town until people become afraid to be rude to servers and cashiers, lest you emerge from the back room like some kind of manners-enforcing specter