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more of them because i cannot get enough
So The Archive Undying is one of my favourite books of the year (and I've read some truly spectacular books) for many reasons. One of them is the descriptions of food in it. I was wondering if you could talk a bit more about the spices that Sunai uses and the teas they drink, so I can feed my obsession with the book in more ways?
OHOHOHO 1) thank you, 2) i also am a complete nut about good food descriptions in fiction so here, for your indulgence, some answers to your questions + some extra notes:
Sunai's nomadic existence means he will squirrel away whatever he can get his hands on, but for that curry in the first chapters I was imagining a spice mix that he whipped up at some point when he had access to a full kitchen to snitch from. That curry still kind of sucks because he doesn't have much to build it from. What he WANTS is veg, protein, and aromatics, and all he has is maybe some dried veg (if we're being generous) + maaaybe some dried soup base + some coriander and cumin and chili and the dregs of a mix to pull together with water and pour over rice. DISAPPOINTING.
Tea is v popular in part because it's kind of a luxury -- all agriculture in non-AI cities has to make the most of whatever space is considered safe enough to actually cultivate en masse, and you're generally going to prioritize sustenance over tea. So as a consequence there's a ton of variety in tea, bc you get people growing all sorts of personal projects (tea plants, herbs) as well as foraging in the wilds (if they can get away with it).
Khuon Mo's cuisine is fruit and seafood-forward; chili is popular but used more as an accent than a fundamental flavor; favored starch is rice; edible flowers for formal occasions/rituals (funerals, marriage, coming-of-age, etc.).
Veyadi absolutely would have just bitten straight into that onion if Sunai hadn't stopped him.
the archive undying is a scientific experiment following the question of "how many people / entities can fit into sunai's head?"
first go at sketching characters of The Archive Undying, which is a book you should read
what probably happened that night they met when sunai was too drunk to remember anything
[the archive undying spoilers]
do you think sunai effectively utilized girl power by eating his evil ex boyfriend who killed him and trapping him in an eternal cycle of agony?
i love memes ok
I think Veyadi should be allowed to kill Ruhi I think it'd make him feel better and also would make me feel better
some more The Archive Undying sketches! someday i'll be brave enough to do book scenes.
get microwaved you prick
Sunai chicken saga
how much will it take for you all to read the archive undying. what must i sacrifice so you will read it and draw fanart of sunai and veyadi
It’s one of trauma’s funny tricks. It lurks in the wings until you’ve proven your strength by carrying everybody else through the performance, and just when you’re about to take your final bow—bam! Kicks you right off the stage.
— The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon
"AI symbiote deeply respectful of its hosts autonomy and thus, though wishing he desired differently, doing everything it can to arrange the world to enable his martyr complex, profoundly annoyed by this presumptuous asshole who keeps stopping him from getting himself killed" is actually an amazing character concept
The factoid "The average person in Ghamor makes 3 life-alteringly bad decisions a day" is actually just a statistical error. The average person makes 0 life-alteringly bad decisions daily. Sunai, who is a salvage-rat on the run from everything and cannot be killed, makes 10,000 life-alteringly bad decisions a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
This meme is about chapters 30/31 specifically
Sovereign and Third Scrap (this time in color) from the Archive Undying.
Been real busy with work and school lately, but I wanted to document the progress of what will be my semester-long project for my comics class 💜
I maybe didn't prepare a story ahead of time and need to do at least 10 pages, so I decided to adapt the first chaper of The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon (@/emcandon)!
I also haven't had a dedicated drawing area set up in forever, so it's kind of nostalgic to be drawing like this. Anyways! This is my first take on Sunai (MC) and Veyadi; I don't have a ton of time to work on their designs so I don't get to tweak them to death and back, but they're close enough to my mental image for now. Some earlier sketches and illegible thumbnails beneath the cut!
Do I need to become a one person fandom for The Archive Undying? Is anyone else here can anyone hear me?? The Archive Undying?!!?!!!!! Sunai? Sunai anyone? Veyadi??? Hello???
whens your bf is off to build a doom device with someone who wants him dead so you got to cuddle the chicken for moral support
I, and I, and I--
"I'm here. I am alive, and I am with you, and I will continue to be- until you are dead, and I go too."
he’s got rejection sensitivity
I'm convinced any negative reviewers/DNFs of The Archive Undying are mainly fantasy readers rather than sci-fi. I see people on goodreads complaining about there not being enough worldbuilding or explanations of what things are, that's just sci-fi! In the best sci-fi media we ride on vibes! Lack of exposition is a feature, not a flaw! We learn on a need-to-know basis, and this book is doing a really good job at that; when it's important, you'll find out what it is/how it works in a subtle, non-intrusive way. Until then, it's about people, and emotions, and scary robots with people (and probably emotions) inside, and you're just along for the ride.
I'm only 20% in and it's already so good, I can see this being a comfort book I reread multiple times. I can't wait to see where this series goes, what gets revealed in this book, and what we'll be left to speculate on until the next.
Songs of Origin was crazy /pos
anybody like ratskewer!
anybody like ratskewer!
You guys fw ratskewer??
It's officially been one (1) year since the creation of RATSKEWER, here is him and his (il)legal guardian
