[ SECRET POST #2879 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2879 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #411.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[nayance]

Not sure if it counts, but I haven't watched past the S2E1 of American Horror Story. I have medical-related trauma and I wasn't really in the mood to watch something that explicit, and haven't got back into it yet.

There's this scene in Warchild where the main character realizes that he's probably never going to see his best friend again - he's in this position that's the stereotypical torn-between-two-worlds situation where he was raised (by a human) on an alien planet and was currently infiltrating humans as a spy. When he's to be taken back, his best friend offers to go along, and he says no, you don't belong here, just go.

And it's in this moment that he realizes that he's never going to get everything he wants: All of his relationships he made while infiltrating were under false pretenses, even with people he genuinely cared for, and the sense of belonging he momentarily felt wasn't his for those reasons. And it hurt so bad to watch him realize just how much he lost, and how stuck he was and would always be. I had to put the book down and finish the next day.

[kaijinscendre]

Is that Warchild by Karin Lowachee? It sounds interesting!

[nayance]

Indeed it is. I haven't read it in almost four years now, but it was brilliant. I completely and absolutely recommend it, even if it just seems the slightest bit interesting.

(And even if you're not a fan of sci-fi, it's primarily character focused. This, I sometimes feel, is a bit of a flaw, because while the worldbuilding is good, I think it could be better tapped into. But that's neither here nor there, I still recommend it.)