transientpetersen:

nostalgebraist:

Now whenever I use the word “ratio” in a scientific context I involuntarily think of Ratio Tile, it’s kinda weird

It’s fun to see Ratio Tile in Floornight after Backstroke of the West. I’ll always remember my first.

I hope that this sometimes happens in the reverse direction, too

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Now whenever I use the word “ratio” in a scientific context I involuntarily think of Ratio Tile, it’s kinda weird

nonternary:

My dearest [,,,,] Angelica

You are in fact the second person to make this joke, which makes me very happy

umblrgumblr:

Floornight update: holy fucking fuck I love this book.

:)

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segfaultvicta:

sigafoos:

segfaultvicta:

<my friend, reading Floornight> *gets to Ratio’s first chapter* [SEGFAULTVICTA] I FOUND YOU!

<me> …well I must be doing SOMETHING right with my life

Not entirely sure what this is but I think I’m ready to give you free reign on content I consume?

Gwahaha I’ve -really- done something right with my life, then! Better not screw this up. :P UH Floornight is… kinda hard to describe (as is almost everything else I’ve ever liked this much), although if you’ve ever watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, “NGE but better in every possible way” is a good but flippant description

IF YOU HAVEN’T, then… “souls are real, you can do science on them, there’s an undersea science place that does science and also fights soul monsters!! that want to destroy humanity!! but that’s all actually backdrop for shit starting to get weird around chapter 6-8 and NEVER STOPPING.” That doesn’t do it justice at all, but doing it justice would involve having to explain the contours of its weirdness, which would both spoil things if I tried and also be impossible. Maybe “Borges, but more anime”.

My entire aesthetic is 50% “overwrought sincerity that can roll right into bathos and I don’t even care”, which is why I like, say, RTD’s Doctor Who or The Planets Suite, and 50% “novelty / metafictional weirdness / WTFs-per-minute”, which is why I like a lot of postmodern fiction and weird-ass anime (and then a seekrit hidden factor for “actually seriously engages with interesting ideas from ethics or philosophy or science, or really, interesting ideas at all, and is then /consistent/ about applying those ideas, at least in a mythological sense”, so, Brandon Sanderson, the best parts of HPMOR, many examples from SF which elude me, but also Floornight)

Every so often something comes up that IS BOTH, like Homestuck or Undertale or Floornight or *tries to come up with an example that -wasn’t- written by someone involved in MSPA or MSPA fandom, flails for a minute* actually this is probably why I like Neal Stephenson when he’s on his game, too. And i KNOW I had other examples of this, because I was explaining this all to my mom the other day right after I finished Floornight and it literally caused me to run a stack trace on my aesthetic sense so I could figure out why it and The Northern Caves (the author’s other work) had hit so many buttons for me.

There are a few caveats, mostly caused by the author writing things as he thought of them - reading archivally, the name of one character can seem like it was constructed as a transphobic pun, but I’m /really/ confident from the story as a whole and author’s commentary that this was honestly unintentional. There’s other stuff that of course I can’t remember despite having binge-read the entire floornight tag on his blog literally yesterday, only the one thing really jumped out at me, and I at least wound up really appreciating the existence of that character’s arc because I’ll roll around with my paws in the air at any and all non-insulting trans-adjacent representation in fiction even if it’s a weird and noncentral scifi-shenanigans case. (also see: not queerbaiting, which nostalgebraist is really good about. The Northern Caves contains an instance of preposterously hot raging homoerotic subtext AND THEN SPOILER ALERT IT PAYS OFF AT THE END OF THE STORY omg omg omg)

Floornight can be found here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2372021/chapters/5238359 I don’t actually have a strong enough bead on your aesthetics to know if it would be Your Jam like it was My Jam, it’s definitely weird and interesting, give it until chapter… 8, I think?, is when it really takes off. I hope you like it, I like being sufficiently correct with my mental models of my friends that I consistently recommend stuff that they like!

Oh man this kind of reader response warms my heart so much – thank you!!

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