asakiyume: (definitely definitely)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2013-12-31 07:49 pm

more live-draw-blogging Ancillary Justice

It's not really spoilers because it won't mean anything if you haven't read the book, but all the same, maaaaaybe you don't want to click through if you haven't read it. It's just one name, contextless, but still.



Lt. Skaaiat

(when I say I think of Anwar Sadat, I only mean that visually the name makes me think that. In fact I don't think of the character as being even remotely Sadat-like.)



[identity profile] wuweibaby.livejournal.com 2014-01-01 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it is; isn't it all of ours'? :P

[identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com 2014-01-01 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
I've pretty sure I'm ageing backwards inside. I was born an old soul and I'm just getting younger and younger.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-01-01 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know the song by the Byrds, "My Back Pages"? It has the chorus, "Oh but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now."

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-01-01 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
For the longest time I felt that my internal mental age was about 12--then it went up to about 25 and stayed there. Sometimes I'll concede that I do have some ways of thinking about things and looking at things that are different from what they were then, but...