When it wasn’t confined properly to epics and songs, empire claimed by acclamation was a brutal process that cared not at all for the places and peoples who had to succumb to make that acclamation plausible. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM
When it wasn’t confined properly to epics and songs, empire claimed by acclamation was a brutal process that cared not at all for the places and peoples who had to succumb to make that acclamation plausible. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
How we slip sideways, like a closing eye, and are invisible! To think as a person, with the singing fractal swarm of we, and see. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:06 PM
How we slip sideways, like a closing eye, and are invisible! To think as a person, with the singing fractal swarm of we, and see. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
One of them is asking. One of them thinks this is a rhetorical question: there’s continuity of memory, and that makes a self. A self is whoever remembers being that self. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM
One of them is asking. One of them thinks this is a rhetorical question: there’s continuity of memory, and that makes a self. A self is whoever remembers being that self. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
In the soft hands of a child even a map of the stars can withstand forces that pull and crack. Gravity persists.
Continuity persists: uncalloused fingers walk orbital paths, but I am drowning in a sea of flowers; in violet foam, in the fog of war— #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Continuity persists: uncalloused fingers walk orbital paths, but I am drowning in a sea of flowers; in violet foam, in the fog of war— #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM
In the soft hands of a child even a map of the stars can withstand forces that pull and crack. Gravity persists.
Continuity persists: uncalloused fingers walk orbital paths, but I am drowning in a sea of flowers; in violet foam, in the fog of war— #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Continuity persists: uncalloused fingers walk orbital paths, but I am drowning in a sea of flowers; in violet foam, in the fog of war— #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Released, my tongue will speak visions.
Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Released, my tongue will speak visions.
Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
How our eyeshine glowed in the dirt-home, the blood-home! How we closed them and were invisible, dark-scavengers, secret-hunters! How our starflyers glow in the void-home, the light-home of us! #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
How our eyeshine glowed in the dirt-home, the blood-home! How we closed them and were invisible, dark-scavengers, secret-hunters! How our starflyers glow in the void-home, the light-home of us! #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Y'all said this was like the Locked Tomb Series. When I read the first book I was like: what? Now that I finished the second book, I kinda get it. Overall, I really enjoyed the second book a lot more #amemorycalledempire #adesolationcalledpeace #thelockedtomb #scifibookd #booksky
January 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Y'all said this was like the Locked Tomb Series. When I read the first book I was like: what? Now that I finished the second book, I kinda get it. Overall, I really enjoyed the second book a lot more #amemorycalledempire #adesolationcalledpeace #thelockedtomb #scifibookd #booksky
What, my dear, is worth preserving? Your joy in work? Mine in discovery? #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:59 PM
What, my dear, is worth preserving? Your joy in work? Mine in discovery? #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Small funerals bloomed like fungi after rain. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Small funerals bloomed like fungi after rain. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Encomia upon encomia. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Encomia upon encomia. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
TO think—not language. To not think language. To think, we, and not have a tongue-sound or cry for its crystalline depths.
To have discarded tongue-sounds where they are unsuitable. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
To have discarded tongue-sounds where they are unsuitable. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:50 PM
TO think—not language. To not think language. To think, we, and not have a tongue-sound or cry for its crystalline depths.
To have discarded tongue-sounds where they are unsuitable. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
To have discarded tongue-sounds where they are unsuitable. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
It had never been the shape of the world for her, only the shape that distorted the world out of true, the warp of heavy mass pulling at the fabric of space. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:00 PM
It had never been the shape of the world for her, only the shape that distorted the world out of true, the warp of heavy mass pulling at the fabric of space. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
I wouldn't have called it before #andor season 2, but I want Tony Gilroy to adapt #amemorycalledempire.
April 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I wouldn't have called it before #andor season 2, but I want Tony Gilroy to adapt #amemorycalledempire.
I carry exile in my heart. I will never be free of it. I will always be measuring the distance between myself and a person who remained in the heart of the world; between the person I would have been had I stayed and the person I have become. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
I carry exile in my heart. I will never be free of it. I will always be measuring the distance between myself and a person who remained in the heart of the world; between the person I would have been had I stayed and the person I have become. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
February 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Trying to see who we are. What is left of us. Who we might be now. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Trying to see who we are. What is left of us. Who we might be now. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
And she was a radiant blaze flooding all of the void. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
And she was a radiant blaze flooding all of the void. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
She thought it should probably have made her feel happy, instead of abruptly unreal. Disconnected—depersonalized. Like she was happening to someone else. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:51 PM
She thought it should probably have made her feel happy, instead of abruptly unreal. Disconnected—depersonalized. Like she was happening to someone else. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
She catches all the light in the room and bends it around herself. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:00 PM
She catches all the light in the room and bends it around herself. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:54 PM
There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
To look outward from every fusion-heart star. To see the pattern these stars make in our eyes reflecting the pattern of our eyes in the dark on the old planet. How our eyeshine glowed in the dirt-home, the blood-home! #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
To look outward from every fusion-heart star. To see the pattern these stars make in our eyes reflecting the pattern of our eyes in the dark on the old planet. How our eyeshine glowed in the dirt-home, the blood-home! #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
A thousand starpoints strong released, we shall speak visions uneclipsed. I am a spear in the hands of the sun. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
A thousand starpoints strong released, we shall speak visions uneclipsed. I am a spear in the hands of the sun. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
To think as a person and not as a wantful voice, not as a blank-eyed hungering beast, not as a child thinks, with only its own self and the cries of its mouth for company. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
December 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
To think as a person and not as a wantful voice, not as a blank-eyed hungering beast, not as a child thinks, with only its own self and the cries of its mouth for company. #AMemoryCalledEmpire #ArkadyMartine
Emperor Six Direction of the Teixcalaanli Empire.
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Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and the male concubines that you promoted to viziers are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace
September 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Emperor Six Direction of the Teixcalaanli Empire.
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