thursday reads and things
Jul. 17th, 2025 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isisI really did intend to post yesterday, but I didn't get to it. Well, it's Thursday!
What I recently finished reading:
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison, the third book in the Cemeteries of Amalo sub-series of The Goblin Emperor books. I had gone into it with mixed feelings; not that I strongly cared about but I enjoyed it, overall. I liked the low-ish stakes plot, and the DRAGONS, and the fairly mild author's message of what makes a person a person, and the importance of basic rights and the rule of law, which, let's face it, is a relevant message these days.
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, stand-alone SF. Again, a lot of people whose reviews I follow didn't like it, but I did; Tchaikovsky is hit and miss for me, but this was a hit. A biologist who is also a political dissident on an extremely authoritarian Earth is exiled as prison labor on a planet with native life that is very weird and apparently hostile. This is basically another exploration of Tchaikovsky's Theme, which is at core, I think, "How can we see the Other as a Person? How do we overcome the instinct to be closed and tribal, and instead practice empathy, leading to discussion and exchange?" There are echos of the Children of Time series, in particular Children of Ruin (the second book), I think. There is also the strong contrast between a culture which gives lip service to the importance of individuality, but demands conformity, and a culture which emphasizes the communal and the good of the community. And of course, the importance of resistance, of holding to one's core beliefs even in the face of a terrible horrible authoritarian government.
I mostly enjoyed the style except for a few references which seemed a little too grounded in 21st century reality for this future in which humans are mining multiple far-flung planets. The structure and pacing worked well for me. Warning for a terrible horrible authoritarian government that doesn't give a shit about human lives other than their own, and body horror, and an ending which may strike some people as not entirely happy, but which satisfied me.sovay, it's very different from Elder Race but if these themes appeal I think you'll like it.
"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by Martha Wells, a Murderbot short story, in which Murderbot doesn't explicitly appear, but ART | Perihelion has recently met it for the first time. It's from Iris's point of view, on a mission with the rest of the crew, and really the mission is just a framing device McGuffin for "Peri has changed because it met someone?!?", and I agree withrunpunkrun's take that there are way too many words devoted to them walking around on this mission which turns out to be not really relevant, compared to the actual point of the story. Still, it's nice to have a bit about Murderbot from not Murderbot's POV.
What I'm reading now:
Just started on the seventh and last Shardlake book by CJ Sansom, Tombland.
What I recently finished watching:
Murderbot! I enjoyed it! I (mostly) appreciate, or at least understand, the changes they made in adaptation. (Not sure why it's not enough for Pin-Lee to be Space Lawyer, but also must be Badass Fighter? And the Arada/Pin-Lee/Ratthi thing didn't seem to have any reason for being and just felt a bit cringe.) I really loved the ending, and Gurathin's whole general arc, and SANCTUARY MOOOOON, and Mensah is chef's kiss perfect.
Speaking of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot vidded it! Okay, it was really![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
pollyrepeat, but: RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid]!!!
What I'm watching now:
Arcane, because B watched the first episode during the winter, riding the stationary bike, and decided I might like to watch it with him, so moved on to something else so we could watch it together. Not very far into it yet.
What I recently listened to:
The third episode of S3 of The Strange Case of Starship Iris, which, I really liked this one!
What I recently finished reading:
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison, the third book in the Cemeteries of Amalo sub-series of The Goblin Emperor books. I had gone into it with mixed feelings; not that I strongly cared about
spoiler
the Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior ship, but I had heard that the way it was sunk was awkward and issueficcy and felt like "I was going to write this relationship in but it felt pointless after all the fanfiction", and - yeah, it wasAlien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, stand-alone SF. Again, a lot of people whose reviews I follow didn't like it, but I did; Tchaikovsky is hit and miss for me, but this was a hit. A biologist who is also a political dissident on an extremely authoritarian Earth is exiled as prison labor on a planet with native life that is very weird and apparently hostile. This is basically another exploration of Tchaikovsky's Theme, which is at core, I think, "How can we see the Other as a Person? How do we overcome the instinct to be closed and tribal, and instead practice empathy, leading to discussion and exchange?" There are echos of the Children of Time series, in particular Children of Ruin (the second book), I think. There is also the strong contrast between a culture which gives lip service to the importance of individuality, but demands conformity, and a culture which emphasizes the communal and the good of the community. And of course, the importance of resistance, of holding to one's core beliefs even in the face of a terrible horrible authoritarian government.
I mostly enjoyed the style except for a few references which seemed a little too grounded in 21st century reality for this future in which humans are mining multiple far-flung planets. The structure and pacing worked well for me. Warning for a terrible horrible authoritarian government that doesn't give a shit about human lives other than their own, and body horror, and an ending which may strike some people as not entirely happy, but which satisfied me.
sovay, it's very different from Elder Race but if these themes appeal I think you'll like it."Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by Martha Wells, a Murderbot short story, in which Murderbot doesn't explicitly appear, but ART | Perihelion has recently met it for the first time. It's from Iris's point of view, on a mission with the rest of the crew, and really the mission is just a framing device McGuffin for "Peri has changed because it met someone?!?", and I agree with
runpunkrun's take that there are way too many words devoted to them walking around on this mission which turns out to be not really relevant, compared to the actual point of the story. Still, it's nice to have a bit about Murderbot from not Murderbot's POV.What I'm reading now:
Just started on the seventh and last Shardlake book by CJ Sansom, Tombland.
What I recently finished watching:
Murderbot! I enjoyed it! I (mostly) appreciate, or at least understand, the changes they made in adaptation. (Not sure why it's not enough for Pin-Lee to be Space Lawyer, but also must be Badass Fighter? And the Arada/Pin-Lee/Ratthi thing didn't seem to have any reason for being and just felt a bit cringe.) I really loved the ending, and Gurathin's whole general arc, and SANCTUARY MOOOOON, and Mensah is chef's kiss perfect.
Speaking of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot vidded it! Okay, it was really
What I'm watching now:
Arcane, because B watched the first episode during the winter, riding the stationary bike, and decided I might like to watch it with him, so moved on to something else so we could watch it together. Not very far into it yet.
What I recently listened to:
The third episode of S3 of The Strange Case of Starship Iris, which, I really liked this one!
Friday @ 10:35 am
Jul. 18th, 2025 10:35 amalisxAnyway. On a related note, this morning while trying to find out if I can take my crossbody bag with the three small spikes on it through the airport, I discovered spiked collars and cuffs are illegal in Canada???
Persecution!
Wednesday @ 9:49 am
Jul. 16th, 2025 09:49 amalisxShout-out to the one person I saw next to the security gates here at the airport wearing Tripp pants. True bravery right there.
Thursday @ 12:36 pm
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:36 pmalisxOh gods it’s “going through old home movies” time at Aunt’s house and I have been far too trained by far too many horror movies to expect this will end well . . .
Rec: RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid], by pollyrepeat
Jul. 17th, 2025 09:31 amrunpunkrunI was like, can I make this work for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fancake's "Working Together" theme? And I decided I could not.
So I'm going to slap it in here for now because it's too good not to share immediately:
RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid] (30 words) by pollyrepeat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot Diaries), Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming, Embedded Video
Summary:
No spoilers for Murderbot, and all the spoilers, I guess, for The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
fancake's "Working Together" theme? And I decided I could not.So I'm going to slap it in here for now because it's too good not to share immediately:
RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid] (30 words) by pollyrepeat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot Diaries), Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming, Embedded Video
Summary:
A vid or fanvid is a video edit, often set to music, produced by fans, known as "vidders."
No spoilers for Murderbot, and all the spoilers, I guess, for The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy, by Martha Wells
Jul. 17th, 2025 07:34 amrunpunkrunPerihelion's people notice it's been acting strangely since it returned from its last solo mission. A short story set after Artificial Condition.
My favorite thing about this series is Murderbot and ART and their favorite humans. My least favorite thing is all the descriptions of walking around. This has both. I would have liked it a lot better if it had spent half as much time describing the path they took through the spaceport facility and twice as much time exploring Iris and Peri's relationship because that's the important stuff, right? I wanted to learn more about their relationship and the ways Peri changed after meeting Murderbot and what Iris thinks about those changes. Here I was thinking ART was always like this, but it seems Murderbot might have had more of an effect on ART then it could have known.
Instead: Transit schedules. :(
Read it for free at Reactor.
My favorite thing about this series is Murderbot and ART and their favorite humans. My least favorite thing is all the descriptions of walking around. This has both. I would have liked it a lot better if it had spent half as much time describing the path they took through the spaceport facility and twice as much time exploring Iris and Peri's relationship because that's the important stuff, right? I wanted to learn more about their relationship and the ways Peri changed after meeting Murderbot and what Iris thinks about those changes. Here I was thinking ART was always like this, but it seems Murderbot might have had more of an effect on ART then it could have known.
Instead: Transit schedules. :(
Read it for free at Reactor.
Cui bono?
Jul. 17th, 2025 05:36 pmalisxSomewhere along the line the idea took hold that every part of public life needs to be efficient, an efficiency exclusively expressed in terms of whether or not it makes money. “Makes money for who, exactly?” is a question that is never asked. If some government service doesn’t make money, the notion goes, then it shouldn’t exist. It should be shut down or given to somebody else who can make money with it. “Who exactly will give that person the money they make from it, and why should that person get more money for something we’ve already paid for?” are questions that are not explored, in case you haven’t noticed.
A.R. Moxon on .
When I was a kid, I remember my parents being super angry for exactly this reason over things like the privatisation of what we now call Telstra (a formerly nationalised telecommunications provider), Qantas (an airline), Medibank (a health insurer), the Commonwealth Bank, and others. The governments at the time explicitly sold the privatisation on the lines that you, citizen, would now be able to “profit” from the organisations by becoming a shareholder. What was never mentioned was the fact that, as nationalised companies, all individual citizens already owned and profited from these companies . . . but did so equally. And this is the real shell game here. Because for a nationalised service, every citizen effectively owns one equal share in said service. But a private service? Well. If you’re extremely rich, you can buy a whole pile of shares, while most other people get zero. And that’s how this game works, right? Money makes more money. And if you don’t have the cash to buy in in the first place? Well. Unlucky for you, hey.
Community Thursday
Jul. 17th, 2025 08:18 amvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
Commented on common_nature.
Posted and commented on bnha_fans (final season later this year!)
Posting and commenting on getyourwordsout.
Dr Stone chit-chat on anime_manga.
Book chit-chat on booknook.
Signal boost:
- The sunflower_auction is returning. It's a online fanworks auction designed to raise money for nonprofit organisations that help the people of Ukraine fight back against Russia's invasion. Creator sign-ups will start next week. I expect I will participate again.
Monkey Island community
Jul. 16th, 2025 02:46 pmarcanetriviaOh, uh, did I mention I made a community for monkeyisland? I was a little surprised there wasn't a now-dead one hanging around from Ye Aulden Days of Dreamwidth of 2009-2010, since there was a fair amount of buzz in the fandom at that time about the release of Tales of Monkey Island and the special editions of Secret and Revenge. I actually had to submit a support ticket to be able to create it because the names monkeyisland, monkey_island, and all the variations with the underscore in silly spots (m_onkeyisland, etc.) were "reserved for administrative use" -- which turned out to mean "specifically blocked as account names because of some kind of prior problem with spambots"? I dunno who bothers to use the word "monkey" or "island" in such things, but whatever. (Maybe they meant those dang ugly-ape NFTs?) I don't know how long the block had been in effect although I would be surprised if it went as far back as ~2010.
Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate asweareloonies, where there were never more members than I could count on one hand, I was the only person who ever posted, and I spent a lot of time updating recs lists for no one, but for now I'm rowing the boat myself, as it were.
eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):
There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)
monkeyisland? I was a little surprised there wasn't a now-dead one hanging around from Ye Aulden Days of Dreamwidth of 2009-2010, since there was a fair amount of buzz in the fandom at that time about the release of Tales of Monkey Island and the special editions of Secret and Revenge. I actually had to submit a support ticket to be able to create it because the names monkeyisland, monkey_island, and all the variations with the underscore in silly spots (m_onkeyisland, etc.) were "reserved for administrative use" -- which turned out to mean "specifically blocked as account names because of some kind of prior problem with spambots"? I dunno who bothers to use the word "monkey" or "island" in such things, but whatever. (Maybe they meant those dang ugly-ape NFTs?) I don't know how long the block had been in effect although I would be surprised if it went as far back as ~2010. Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate as
weareloonies, where there were never more members than I could count on one hand, I was the only person who ever posted, and I spent a lot of time updating recs lists for no one, but for now I'm rowing the boat myself, as it were.eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):
There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)
UPDATE: Tempestuous Tours + news
Jul. 16th, 2025 05:33 pmduskpetersonBLOG FICTION
Tempestuous Tours (Crossing Worlds: A Visitor's Guide to the Three Lands #2). A whirlwind tour of the sites in the Three Lands that are most steeped in history, culture, and the occasional pickpocket. ¶ Latest installments:
- The Royal Sanctuary: Historical background.
- The Royal Sanctuary: Jackalfire Grove.
- The Royal Sanctuary: The corridor.
- The Royal Sanctuary: The altar.
NEWS
About a millisecond before I was about to release my next ebook, a medical crisis occurred in my family (though not to me or my companion). It's the sort of crisis that involves dozens of members of a support team, professional and nonprofessional. I'm one of the two people coordinating all that. I'll continue posting blog fiction here whenever I can, but expect my presence here to be light for a while.
More pinch hits
Jul. 16th, 2025 07:19 pmvriddyAnd the last 3 pinch hits I wrote during my hurt/comfort/and/more binge were finally revealed, haha. Not unexpectedly, with the way delays worked out and all, the first one I wrote back in April was the last one to reveal last week! All caught up now.
Forwhumpex:
Sensory overload | Boku no Hero Academia | Hawks & Miruko | 1.8k words | rated T
Summary: Overtraining already hypersensitive feathers is bound to have long-term consequences. Hawks is utterly miserable, utterly on his own... and has been lying to himself for so long now, he kind of forgot the truth.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Fordiegetic_exchange (I didn't know that word before participating btw! What a cool concept for an exchange!):
Totally fictional | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 800 words | rated T
Summary: In universe, someone is passionately writing a heartfelt, if somewhat unsympathetic, fanfic about Hawks.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Forhurtcomfortex:
A game at which two can play | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 3.8k words | rated T
Summary: Members of the Creature Rejection Clan have infiltrated the PLF. To root them out, Toga comes up with the great plan of having Dabi and Hawks lure them out by being more obvious about their relationship in public. A PLF lieutenant debasing themselves with a heteromorph? Surely the CRC traitors will show their hand and target Hawks. What could possibly go wrong?
And thus Hawks ends up working an undercover mission for the PLF while technically already undercover at the PLF. Never a dull moment in his life.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
For
whumpex:Sensory overload | Boku no Hero Academia | Hawks & Miruko | 1.8k words | rated T
Summary: Overtraining already hypersensitive feathers is bound to have long-term consequences. Hawks is utterly miserable, utterly on his own... and has been lying to himself for so long now, he kind of forgot the truth.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
For
diegetic_exchange (I didn't know that word before participating btw! What a cool concept for an exchange!):Totally fictional | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 800 words | rated T
Summary: In universe, someone is passionately writing a heartfelt, if somewhat unsympathetic, fanfic about Hawks.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
For
hurtcomfortex:A game at which two can play | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 3.8k words | rated T
Summary: Members of the Creature Rejection Clan have infiltrated the PLF. To root them out, Toga comes up with the great plan of having Dabi and Hawks lure them out by being more obvious about their relationship in public. A PLF lieutenant debasing themselves with a heteromorph? Surely the CRC traitors will show their hand and target Hawks. What could possibly go wrong?
And thus Hawks ends up working an undercover mission for the PLF while technically already undercover at the PLF. Never a dull moment in his life.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Miles Vorkosigan alternate careers
Jul. 16th, 2025 08:46 amlannamichaelsIt's not exactly a secret that I hate Miles Vorkosigan being in the military, so for RL reasons I was thinking hmm could Miles instead become a doctor, and then followed up immediately with "absolutely he could not" and in fact I could not think of any position in a hospital that he would be suited for, but then I realized I was overthinking this.
Miles would be a great plumber. It's perfect for him. No boss, just clients, and he can pick the interesting jobs. It's bounded but also a place for creativity. He has to find out what the problem is and fix it. Because of his size, he may even be a better choice for certain jobs than other plumbers. He can pick his hours by picking the clients and the jobs, and then hyperfocus on a problem until it's over. If he wants, he can pack his schedule, or he can relax it. But he's not answering to anyone and people are grateful for his help because it's a problem they can't fix themselves, and it's also necessary: everyone will at some point require the assistance of a plumber.
The only problem is that there's no wonderful recognition and pride from his peers, unless we can get him to value the opinions of other plumbers, and then he can just brag about all the impossible disasters he fixed before breakfast. The sense of accomplishment is built-in, as in the sense of being valuable and needed.
And I feel like even Miles Vorkosigan would not find a way to commit treason whilst doing it.
Hello, world!
Jul. 16th, 2025 11:36 pmalisxFirst and foremost, working with technology and writing code gives us control over our own environments in a world where the society we’re embedded in heavily limits that.
Iris Meredith on .
[Fic] He writes, and having writ....
Jul. 15th, 2025 11:24 pmgraycardinalI am disastrously late, as usual, in catching myself up on fic postings. That being the case, you're about to get three things at once: my unsent_letters_exchange fic, my holmestice fic, and a just-posted amnesty story for intoabar (the story is up on AO3, but the corresponding entry is in the mod queue on the DW comm).
First, for Unsent Letters, a series of journal entries that turned out to be rather more of a comedy than I expected going in.
Written By The Winners
Fandoms: Power Rangers Time Force
Rating: all ages
Category: F/M
Warnings: none
Words: ~3200
Relationship: Lucas Kendall/Nadira
Characters: Lucas Kendall, Nadira, Ransik
Additional Tags: epistolary, poetry, haiku, limericks
If the poem had really been written to Lucas' car, then none of what had happened made any sense. Unless....
Piece by piece, Nadira unravels the tangle of mixed signals and unintended consequences.
Next, the Holmestice story, which, while not precisely comical, allowed me to indulge my fondness for (seriously obscure) Gilbert & Sullivan....
The Affair of the Statutory Duel
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD); The Grand Duke (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Rating: all ages
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~2600
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Rudolph (Grand Duke)
Additional Tags: secret history, royal intrigue, Great Hiatus
Either the following material is an out-and-out forgery...or just possibly, Gilbert and Sullivan owe the central plot device of their last operetta to none other than Sherlock Holmes.
(Which is to say, the story to which this summary is attached raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers.)
And just tonight, a stupendously late (we won't even mention the year I put in the original request) intoabar tale, in which I attempt to explain how legendary Power Ranger Tommy Oliver survived the volcanic explosion and complete destruction of a remote tropical island.
Where You Need to Be
Fandoms: Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Gargoyles
Rating: all ages
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~2800
Characters: Tommy Oliver, Katharine (Gargoyles), Ophelia (Gargoyles)
Additional Tags: crossover, interstitial
Death by drowning, Tommy Oliver reflected, was totally unfair.
I'd always wondered how Tommy survived the aftermath of Dino Island blowing up (as we see in an early episode of Dino Thunder). And then the dice-rollers at the Ficathon That Goes Into A Bar handed me the answer....
Two non-fiction books
Jul. 15th, 2025 08:03 pmlannamichaels- Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell (2023): lirazel posted about the audiobook version of this, which got me to put this on my list, but alas my library only has access to the print version; I feel that the audiobook version is probably superior. There were several parts in the book that were a slog to get through the paragraph, that would be perfectly fine if you were listening to a patented David Mitchell Rant about the subject. In fact, imagining them in David Mitchell's voice is how I got through them. ( Read more... )
- Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share (2021): A bookified version of a Instagram account I never followed, a copy of which I read at someone's house who was using as a bookmark something that indicated they had gotten it as a gift when it came out and never got past the first fifth of the book. This book would have been fine if it had not decided it was going to fight the one star reviews, and instead just showed the artwork and mentioned how great the park was. As it was, it positioned itself as an argument between the one star reviewers and the author, and the one star reviewers won.( Read more... )
Your children working in their factories, forever.
Jul. 16th, 2025 05:36 amalisxBut here’s what this future, being pitched by the plain language and plain actions of this administration, is. It is very sad and very small. It lacks imagination. It lacks dynamism. Men will not be allowed in women’s spaces and women will not be allowed in men’s spaces. Women will be tradwives and will be paid $5,000 have babies. Those babies will not have parents who can afford to buy them 30 dolls, they will have two dolls instead, and they will like it. The boys will not have any dolls, though. The rich and powerful will stockpile supplies because they know the impacts of their policies. You will not buy breakfast at McDonald’s as a treat. Your friends will be AI chatbots. Your therapist will be a chatbot. You will pay massive tariffs to try food from other countries. You will work in the factory. You will not own the factory. They will own the factory. You will die at the factory. Your kids will learn about AI at the technical college, and then they will work in the factory. Your kids will not own the factory. Their kids will own the factory. Their kids will go on Fox News and tell you that they have created good jobs, patriotic jobs. American jobs, not Chinese jobs. Jobs that your kids and their kids and their kids’ kids can work at until they die. Your kids will repair the air conditioning. Your kids will screw in the screws. Your children’s children will move the robot arms, like their father and grandfather did before them.
On the .