Gethenians Going Into Kemmer

drawn while listening to the bbc radio adaptation

reading The Matter of Seggri rn and I thought back to the night when I couldn't fall asleep bc of the insect-like inhabitants of Rocannon...

the Hainish were something else fr

as Merriment put it:

My ancestors must have really had fun playing with these people's chromosomes.

BOY the ancient Hainish messed with so many human planets’ genetics.

i'm trying to give actual shape to the blurry Estraven from my head

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ok guys what is the verdict on genly's name when pronounced by gethenians?

alveolar tap r or rhotic r? hard g or soft g? or something else?

for that matter is the syllabic stress like EStraven or esTRAven because i totally thought it was the second until i saw people make estrogen jokes

i literally just started listening to justb like three days ago but oh em gee this is so huge🥺

should I do a TLHOD reread where I read the original and the Hungarian translation simultaneously? (and tbh The Dispossessed too, I haven't finished the Hungarian edition yet)

this album may still not be available on spotify in the year 2025 but at least that means i continue to be gifted the pleasure of reading the youtube comments. here are the top three that i believe capture its entire essence. you don’t need to know anything more

CALL ME BABY EXO, 2015