Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named “Kern’s World”, where the plan is to release monkeys 
infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern’s World hoping to find paradise.
also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good
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Aghhhhghghhghgghg just sent a text asking someone on a date. Hhhhhhgggggggg I’m not good at this
my cool nails1 year of HRT, let’s fucking goooo!!!
Might write a bit about it later, but the short and sweet is that estrogen fucking rocks and idk how I ever lived without it
I tried speed dating and this is about how it went:
Them: Says some presumably interesting anecdote about themselves but I can’t hear them
Me: “WHAT?”
repeat for two hours
Witch hazel remains great for my skin and makes me feel like a witch
I’m booking an appointment and the only gender neutral honorific is Dr. So fuck it, if you have to call me something, call me Doctor Moss. Doc Moss is acceptable.
Unironically wish I could put in Comrade instead of Mr or Miss or whatever
buying the cheapest men’s shaving gel instead of the same thing in a pink box and double the price from the woman’s aisle
Met an autistic trans girl who programs for a railway company
alcohol
Fucked up rn but felt kinda weird about “ze/hir” lately despite them being rad asf pronouns imho
Think I’m still mostly a “they/them” but being a “she/her” trans femme on occasion mite b cool
You know, just to cement the “lol definitely not a guy” feeling home
Or fuck, could I possibly be a binary trans woman instead of a weird enby that I’ve been living as for like a decade now???
Fuck idk
Idk maybe refer to me with she/her for awhile and I’m seeing if that’s actually right or not, sorry
Like I came out gender wise as a trans woman initially a long time ago, then felt more comfortable being nonbinary, and I guess now I’ve kinda done full circle?
I dunno
I’m queer
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and my junk is small
Finally gonna go to my GP today and ask for a referal to a transgender clinic. I’m so excited/nervous I couldn’t even sleep.
very mild injury mention
rediscovering the joy of model making (accidentally knifing myself when my hand slips while struggling to do a conversion i thought was gonna be fun and easy)
don’t worry the glue on my fingers sealed the cut up immediately -_-;
lmfao rest in piss anita bryant
spoiler drug
THIS DRUNK KNOWS HOW TO REMEMBER TO USE SPOILER TAGS. WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE
GIVE ME 10 PUSHUPS
Lord help me quit TikTok. I’m so tired of the weird prescriptivism that invades queer discourse there. And what happened to the trans prime directive? Every single video with someone saying eggy shit is full of comments just telling that person they’re trans and to start hormones. And it understandably freaks people out. It’s the same 3 egg jokes over and over and the person gets absolutely no support because people are too busy making inside jokes. Not to mention everyone jumping straight to the person being not only trans, but binary trans.
