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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Met an autistic trans girl who programs for a railway company
my cool nailsQuite frankly, I’m a woman because I said so.
1 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
you are metrosexual because you wear skinny jeans and wash daily
i am metrosexual because i appreciate the eroticism of trains
Aghhhhghghhghgghg just sent a text asking someone on a date. Hhhhhhgggggggg I’m not good at this
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
Boobs are growing again. Also probably more important than size for me is that they’re getting a lot rounder and less awkwardly shaped
Death to the reactionary egg prime directive! Long live the revolutionary zone of proximal transgender development!
what’s up ladies? today I’m single yet completely and utterly unprepared to mingle
Can you stop calling me out
I’m calling myself out and you’re getting caught in the crossfire
i thought i was really gonna miss having gargantuan pockets when i moved to more femme clothing, but honestly i love having a silly little handbag so much.
Ugh I hope I never tire of people telling me they love my outfit
My fuckin bottom surgery application was rejected because I faxed it the same day as my doctors did his half 🙄. And it took a few months for them to reject me, now I’ll just have to do it again I guess
CW: Extreme depression, dysphoria
My brain is screaming out in agony tonight. I was watching GDQ and a lot of donations started to come in about how trans folks families were so accepting and supportive. What a stark difference between them and myself where I lost literally everyone except for my mother. I even lost my fucking husband. It’s so painful. I’m so happy others had it better than me, but gods it’s killing me on the inside and I just want to cry. It hurts so much. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t trans and this is one of those moments. I fucking hate everything right now.
