Okay yes so in summary, that whole podcast was worth waiting the time it took me to finish reading the trilogy (it's a great trilogy, just, reading makes me tired but I got there in the end).

Oh here's the podcast link BTW.

https://www.calendricalrot.com/episode-7-the-fifth-season

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Calendrical Rot: Episode 7 - The Fifth Season

get comfy in your wire chairs it's a new episode Shonalika and Adam talk about N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season and the rest of the books in the Broken Earth trilogy.  Strong spoilers from the very beginning, and also for the Machineries of Empire and Imperial Radch books. we thought/talked about this series even more after the podcast was over, here are some additional notes from Shona: Schaffa forgetting most of who he is and consequently becoming a ‘better’ person is a lot less interesting/compelling than the same resulting from introspection and deliberate change, making him more of a plot device than a character in the second and third books than the first the Guardians being vampires is unnecessary imo the story doesn’t benefit particularly from them being very old, very strong, or literally parasitic. orogeny-negating magic is more than enough to make them top of the social hierarchy and the parasitic relationship is obvious already. an additional vampire metaphor is putting a hat on a hat the bit where they think there’s an informant in Castrima really got me because the stone eaters can literally hide in the walls On the line that made my brain shortcircuit (‘LAY THE BOY DOWN GENTLY IN THE WIRE CHAIR’): Behaving as if the genteel manner in which structural oppression is carried out overrides the harm of the oppression itself is a major feature of oppressive systems. If Scaffa is genuinely convinced this is the only way to do things, then by doing so politely he can genuinely consider himself loving and kind without cognitive dissonance. I’ve witnessed/experienced real white people exerting and excusing structural power with very similar behaviours and logic. The line appears unhinged not because Shaffa’s relationship to his actions is unusual, but because most of us couldn’t imagine justifying this particular form of oppression in our current social context. The only differential is the exact social permissions On further reflection I think it might be one of the most brilliant lines in the series and I’m pissed I didn’t formulate these thoughts properly while we were recording  // 

listening to @shonalika 's podcast about The Fifth Season and trying to not think about the nickname "super sex lad" for Innon while drinking my breakfast milk

(sorry I don't know who Adam is or if they're on here also)

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Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway on bsky: 5 copies of #TheFifthSeason #TheBrokenEarth book 1, by #NKJemisin, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3mi4lbcefas25

Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!

Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1) by @nkjemisin.bsky.social, which I *have* and *have read* and you WILL need a unicorn chaser afterwards. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one.

Bluesky Social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mailkid/115645591648713594

(3/3)

"The alternative is to demand the impossible. It isn't right, they whisper, weep, shout; what has been done to them is not right. They are not inferior. They do not deserve it. And so it is the society that must change. There can be peace this way, too, but not before conflict."

- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky, p. 311f.

#TheStoneSky #NKJemisin #TheBrokenEarth #TheBrokenEarthTrilogy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mailkid/115645585429161372

(2/3)

"Some accept their fate. Swallow their pride, forget the real truth, embrace the falsehood for all they're worth - because, they decide, they cannot be worth much. If a whole society has dedicated itself to their subjugation, after all, then surely they deserve it? Even if they don't, fighting back is too painful, too impossible. At least this way there is peace, of a sort. Fleetingly."

- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky, p. 311f.

#TheStoneSky #NKJemisin #TheBrokenEarth

(1/3)

"None of us got here overnight. There are stages to the process of being betrayed by our society. One is jolted from a place of complacency by the discovery of difference, by hypocrisy, by inexplicable or incongrous ill treatment. What follows is a time of confusion - unlearning what one thought to be the truth. Immersing oneself in the new truth. And then a decision must be made."

- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky, p. 311f.

#TheStoneSky #NKJemisin #TheBrokenEarth

Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of newly-minted SFWA Grandmaster @nkjemisin.bsky.social's THE FIFTH SEASON (THE BROKEN EARTH BOOK 1), which I *have* and *have read* and *have given out before*. It's an intense tour de force. #KindleBookGiveaway

Bluesky Social

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 6 copies of N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1), over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lljwfknlj22q

#KindleBookGiveaway #NKJemisin #TheFifthSeason #TheBrokenEarth

Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1), which I have and have read and holy fuck does it have an ending and maybe prepare a kitten chaser for afterwards. #KindleBookGiveaway

Bluesky Social

Book 6 is "The Stone Sky" by N.K. Jemisin, third book in the Broken Earth trilogy.

Edit: finished 5th February.

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Book 5 is "The Obelisk Gate" by N.K. Jemisin, book 2 in the Broken Earth trilogy.

I read book 1 last year, and got 2&3 for Christmas.

Edit: finished 2nd February.

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