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[Essay] Oryx and Crake: As Prescient as The Handmaid's Tale by asstarnut
Fandoms: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
01 Feb 2026
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Margaret Atwood's 2003 sci-fi/apocalypse novel Oryx and Crake often feels like a disfavored child living in the shadow of its nearly two-decades-older, televised, and widely celebrated sister, The Handmaid's Tale, which gained popularity as a sort of cautionary tale against women of her class (mostly white, Western, straight, able-bodied, and middle-class) remaining uncritical of the rapidly changing world around them. Though not written from a woman's point of view, the tragedies depicted in Oryx and Crake are nonetheless rooted in a society similarly perverted by patriarchy and capitalism, the effects of which mirror the real-life loneliness epidemic seen among today's young people, especially today's uncritical and lonely young men.
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[Essay] Tyrion's Villainy and the Examples of his Siblings by asstarnut
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
23 May 2025
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A hit piece on Tyrion Lannister, viewed through the lens of his infinitely cooler siblings. Tagged for source material; CCW
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[Essay] Clan of the Cave Bear, Read as Science Fiction by asstarnut
Fandoms: Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel
31 Jan 2025
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What's the difference between Dune by Frank Herbert and Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel?
One portrays a reckoning with forbidden primordial knowledge that forever alters the course of humanity. The other takes place in the future.
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[Essay] Disability and Power in A Song of Ice and Fire by asstarnut
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
24 Jan 2025
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A wide-scope overview of the role of disability in ASOIAF. Tagged for source material; CCW
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five people who didn’t believe Ned Stark for one second about Jon’s paternity and one who did by janie_tangerine
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
26 Jul 2016
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in which Jon actually does look like a Targaryen but Ned still insists it's his bastard son. Good thing the one person who should believe it, in fact, does.
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Bookmarked by asstarnut
12 Apr 2025
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The Photographer by discoeffect
Fandoms: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4
10 Feb 2026
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A freelance photographer comes to terms with her troubled past as a slave in Caesar's Legion.
Mostly takes place during FNV.
Bookmarked by asstarnut
24 Jul 2024
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17 years has passed since the Reaper war and the galactic civilisations have slowly recovered from war. In the silence of peace a new enemy has risen and its up to a team of 7 Spectres to save the galaxy from its most deadly enemy...Itself.
Bookmarked by asstarnut
06 Jan 2023
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Critical Mission Failure by JodieHolmes233
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, mass - Fandom
01 May 2026
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This is a new series that will follow Shepard on an endless path of Bad Ends for the Commander after failing her missions or pissing off the wrong people. Each chapter will explore a new enemy that Shepard has faced in the past, showing what they would do to our Commander if they got their hands on her.
Each Chapter will have it's own story tags at the beginning as each chapter will be different.
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- English
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- 118,048
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- 16/?
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Bookmarked by asstarnut
06 Jan 2023
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Far From Any Road by discoeffect
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Sep 2023
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Quinn and Rarvan, her batarian bodyguard, parted with bittersweet feelings on Camala. Rarvan’s past catches up with him and Quinn contends with new life as a competitive racer on Omega. Could the galaxy’s erupting politics keep them apart or will they find a way to be together?
Series
- Part 2 of Eternal Lids Apart
Bookmarked by asstarnut
21 Aug 2022