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stuebinm commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

For some reason, whenever I read the name Thirty Larkspur, I assume he is a women and get confused about the pronouns in the following few sentences

dunno why, his seems to be the only teixcalaanli name that feels this intuitively 'gendered' to me

jana replied to stuebinm's status

@stuebinm To me the name reads like a dish /o\

stuebinm replied to jana's status

@jana actually i'd never looked up what kind of flower a larkspur is, but apparently they're poisionous if ingested (and skin-irritating if touched), so i'm not sure i'd try that dish 🙈

fits him, though, i think.

@jana actually i'd never looked up what kind of flower a larkspur is, but apparently they're poisionous if ingested (and skin-irritating if touched), so i'm not sure i'd try that dish 🙈

fits him, though, i think.