Basic premise is an anarchist movement on alien planet got very powerful, and eventually struck a deal with the governments of the planet. Send us to the moon. We will eek out a life on the moon, removed from you and your economic system. The main planet is primarily capitalist, with one Soviet Union analog Nation. There’s a balancing act between act, no one can admit the anarchists are successful, none of the anarchists can admit that the planet has a significantly higher standard of living. The MC is the first person to visit the planet in (iirc) a century. The moon is a desert, mostly barren, very hard life, but made bearable by their collectivist system and mutual aid, the planet is a paradise ecologically, and for the MC, made unbearable by their system.
Spoiler below. My spoiler tags don’t work. Upside down text instead. Read on at your own risk, I’ll keep the spoilers to a minimum/about the same level as the above:
¿llǝɥ uᴉ ǝᴉp noʎ uǝɥʍ oƃ noʎ op ǝɹǝɥM ˙ǝɹǝɥ ǝᴉp oʇ ʇuɐʍ ʇou op I ˙llǝɥ sᴉ sᴉɥ┴
For anyone interested it’s also part of a larger sci fi universe that a lot of the author’s other works take place in. Basically lots of humanoid species that have made their own societies and histories are all descended from the same forerunner species a la Halo lore.
I still haven’t managed to get around to any of the others. I started rocannons world, I think it’s called, but I didn’t get far into it before life got in the way.
The Left Hand of Darkness. Takes place an inordinate amount of time after Dispossessed, but was written before it. Really cool exploration into gender in a complex androgynous society where a monarchist nation is in conflict with an authoritarian-communist nation, told from the perspective of a Terran (Earthling).
I purposefully made my example not function to demonstrate how it’s constructed. If done without the quotation marks, and the ::: spoiler is on its own line, it should work and show up in your app.
Spoiler Test! (Click me)
Ultra sneaksies textings be here >.>
Here’s what it looks like before posting on my end:
Ahh, that explains it. Eternity was my preferred app as well, but the developer unfortunately abandoned it a year ago, and it hasn’t received an update since, making it incompatible with newer versions of Lemmy.
You may want to switch to a different app that’s actively developed. I personally switched to Summit since it has some of the best mod tools in an app, but there’s a lot of other good ones too, like Blorp or Voyager.
Oh that blows! I didn’t realize. I’ve been putting off looking into others, I really like this one. It’s infinity equivalent was my preferred reddit app, too.
fuuuck what book is this again?
The dispossessed.
Genuinely incredibly read.
Basic premise is an anarchist movement on alien planet got very powerful, and eventually struck a deal with the governments of the planet. Send us to the moon. We will eek out a life on the moon, removed from you and your economic system. The main planet is primarily capitalist, with one Soviet Union analog Nation. There’s a balancing act between act, no one can admit the anarchists are successful, none of the anarchists can admit that the planet has a significantly higher standard of living. The MC is the first person to visit the planet in (iirc) a century. The moon is a desert, mostly barren, very hard life, but made bearable by their collectivist system and mutual aid, the planet is a paradise ecologically, and for the MC, made unbearable by their system.
Spoiler below. My spoiler tags don’t work. Upside down text instead. Read on at your own risk, I’ll keep the spoilers to a minimum/about the same level as the above:
¿llǝɥ uᴉ ǝᴉp noʎ uǝɥʍ oƃ noʎ op ǝɹǝɥM ˙ǝɹǝɥ ǝᴉp oʇ ʇuɐʍ ʇou op I ˙llǝɥ sᴉ sᴉɥ┴
:pɐǝɹ ɹǝʌǝ ǝʌ,I sǝuᴉl lnɟɹǝʍod ʇsoɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuo sɹǝʌᴉlǝp pu∀ ˙llǝɥ sᴉ ʇǝuɐld sᴉɥʇ ʇɐɥʇ ɹǝɥ sllǝʇ puɐ 'uo ƃuᴉoƃ s,ʇɐɥʍ oʇ sɐ ɹopɐssɐqɯɐ ǝɥʇ oʇ ɥɔǝǝds sᴉɥ sǝʌᴉƃ ǝH ˙spuɐɥ (ʇsᴉlɐʇᴉdɐɔ) ƃuoɹʍ ǝɥʇ oʇuᴉ llɐɟ oʇ ɥɔɹɐǝsǝɹ ɔᴉɟᴉʇuǝᴉɔs sᴉɥ ɹoɟ puɐ 'ǝɟᴉl sᴉɥ ɹoɟ pᴉɐɹɟɐ sᴉ ǝɥ 'oʇuᴉ ʇǝƃ ʇ,uoʍ I suosɐǝɹ ʎɹǝlᴉods ʎɹǝʌ ɹoℲ ˙ʎssɐqɯǝ uɐɹɹǝʇ/ɥʇɹɐǝ ǝɥʇ uᴉ ɯnlʎsɐ ƃuᴉɯᴉɐlɔ ʎlǝʌᴉʇɔǝɟɟǝ ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uᴉɐɯ ǝɥʇ sɐɥ sᴉɥʇ ǝɹoɟǝq ʇsnɾ ʇᴉq ǝɥʇ
For anyone interested it’s also part of a larger sci fi universe that a lot of the author’s other works take place in. Basically lots of humanoid species that have made their own societies and histories are all descended from the same forerunner species a la Halo lore.
I still haven’t managed to get around to any of the others. I started rocannons world, I think it’s called, but I didn’t get far into it before life got in the way.
Which do you suggest to go with next?
The Left Hand of Darkness. Takes place an inordinate amount of time after Dispossessed, but was written before it. Really cool exploration into gender in a complex androgynous society where a monarchist nation is in conflict with an authoritarian-communist nation, told from the perspective of a Terran (Earthling).
Alright, that’s next on my list!
To do a spoiler tag write “::: spoiler This Is My Spoiler Title” on its own line (don’t include the quotation marks)
Then put the text you want to hide below it, separated by white space (enter key pressed twice).
Then end the spoiler with another 3 colons, again separated by white space.
:::
And it should work :)
For some reason, the spoiler tags just don’t work on my end. Either the normal colon based ones, or the >! Style. I don’t know why.
I purposefully made my example not function to demonstrate how it’s constructed. If done without the quotation marks, and the ::: spoiler is on its own line, it should work and show up in your app.
Spoiler Test! (Click me)
Ultra sneaksies textings be here >.>
Here’s what it looks like before posting on my end:
Second verse, same as the first. I use eternity, and the spoilers just straight up don’t work for me :/
Ahh, that explains it. Eternity was my preferred app as well, but the developer unfortunately abandoned it a year ago, and it hasn’t received an update since, making it incompatible with newer versions of Lemmy.
You may want to switch to a different app that’s actively developed. I personally switched to Summit since it has some of the best mod tools in an app, but there’s a lot of other good ones too, like Blorp or Voyager.
Oh that blows! I didn’t realize. I’ve been putting off looking into others, I really like this one. It’s infinity equivalent was my preferred reddit app, too.
You can read it here: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
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