Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named “Kern’s World”, where the plan is to release monkeys le-monke infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern’s World hoping to find paradise.

also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good

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  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i’ll add you to the list!

    the list as it stands:

    Yukiko (1/13 - 1/19)
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  • bolshevikLovelace [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago
    i hate microsoft if you didn't know cw: dysphoria

    me: searching Microsoft Teams for a message.
    Teams: includes “[deadname] (You) - message” in the results, despite my name being changed in the system and legally for 3 months.

    yes, thank you microsoft for giving us pronoun flairs, that only me and like one enby in the company even use lol, but could you not deadname me? you are valued at 3.16 trillion USD and you can’t amend (or can’t be fucked amending) my name within a system you have almost complete control of. sometimes i see my deadname email flicker before being replaced with my new one and i can understand why they might have my old email but why are you storing my deadname??? is my legal name just a display name?? lea-dysphoric

    i’m soooo fucking glad microsoft successfully abused their market power to eradicate slack and make us use this steaming pile of bland corpo dogshit. i throw up a little everytime i hear that fucking teams ping, i reaaaally want to quit just because of our dependence on this repugnant company

    i know this comes off a bit trivial, i’m privileged to have an office job. but it gives off the same vibe as my birth certificate having “previously known as [deadname]”, both constant reminders that i’ll never be just me but me who used to be someone else and that shit sucks

    • shallot [undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      42 minutes ago

      As janky as slack can be on occasion, and as much as I’d prefer zero electron apps whatsoever, I’m really glad my team still uses slack. Teams(new)(new)(final)(new) is so much worse. Down with MS.

      E: salesforce too, of course. Just that their UX is slightly less openly terrible.

    • ozmathewitch [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      on my med bottle it says to take either or but to do it that way each time. i prefer to take them on an empty stomach. i think if you want to switch from empty stomach to w/food you would be ok. there have been days where i have taken w/ and w/o food and worst i felt was a bit o nausea which idek if it was from that but ymmv

  • Thallo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    6 hours ago

    I just finished My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness after it’s been sitting in my library for half a year

    Aaaaaaah, I love queer people so much ❤️

    I love our fucked up weird little lives~

    I want to huuuug you ✨

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago
    mental health, social isolation sad shit, avpd probably

    I really gotta get my shit together mentally and get over my “what if it doesn’t go well” woe is me bullshit and reach out to my old best friend who might be the (platonic?) love of my life or soulmate or something

    I miss this person so fucking much and have for years now and at some point when shit got really bad for me when covid got serious here, I just completely shut down and isolated and retreated inward mentally and have just started tiptoeing back to being “myself” but I’ve thought of this friend pretty much constantly since then and I know reconnecting with them would be like, the single best thing I could do for myself but it’s still so scary and daunting after all this time

    I thought by now I’d finally be, like, me, fully, and could reconnect as a better version of the person they loved, but I feel more weird and fucked up and unhappy with myself now than I did when we were super close irl and part of what’s been preventing me from reaching back out is that feeling of shame

    I wish I could be better at the very least so they could feel better about me instead of being concerned or upset at what a mess I am

    Idk sorry I’m really emotional tonight

    catgirl-cry catgirl-flop

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    9 hours ago
    sad, misgendering, deadnaming, family shit

    call one relative I’m out to on the phone to catch up and vent because she was concerned and knows I’ve been struggling lately

    deadnamed and misgendered like 6 times and talked over repeatedly

    I don’t know why I bothered tbh

    She’s “the good one” and the rest of the family would probably be worse if I ever bother to come out to them

    I think the best idea is to just work on myself and my transition and maybe someday show up to something like nothing happened and act like they’re weird for not recognizing me and then act really confused when they try calling me my deadname

    At least I have cats

  • khizuo [ze/zir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    13 hours ago

    transition goals: to get to the point where i can have long hair again without someone immediately misgendering me

  • Yukiko [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    12·
    13 hours ago
    CW: Extreme depression, dysphoria

    My brain is screaming out in agony tonight. I was watching GDQ and a lot of donations started to come in about how trans folks families were so accepting and supportive. What a stark difference between them and myself where I lost literally everyone except for my mother. I even lost my fucking husband. It’s so painful. I’m so happy others had it better than me, but gods it’s killing me on the inside and I just want to cry. It hurts so much. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t trans and this is one of those moments. I fucking hate everything right now.

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago
    really funny imo but genital mention, kinda dysphoria related

    Lmao YouTube thinks I’m in the sales demographic for “yoni eggs” data-laughing

    Like sorry bud, I don’t think I’m in the market for magic woo woo pussy rocks for several reasons but uh thanks for thinking I’m a woman, algorithm?