Stories (some short, others not) in alternate universes adjacent to the original Resonant story.
REGICIDE
Jon and Rhaegar are born as Maegor and Rhaena’s sons. Rhaena Targaryen and her infant twin daughters are captured shortly after her husband’s death. At Visenya’s urging, Maegor weds her and she gives birth to another set of twins…
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AEMON’S SONS
The twins are born as Aemon and Jocelyn’s sons, right around the time of Daemon’s birth, and Jaehaerys heaves a sigh of relief at the succession being secured.
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REGNAL
The twins are conceived the night 17-year-old Daemon consummates his marriage to Rhea Royce, setting off a chain of events that leads to Jaehaerys putting Daemon in the succession above Viserys due to prophecy.
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REVERBERATE
Resonant!Daemon wakes up back in the Stepstones almost nine years ago, just after the twins’ conception. He speed-runs his victory and beelines for Runestone, where he confronts Rhea about Elys’s pregnancy and she agrees to pretend that the babe is her own.
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REVERBERATE B TRACK
AU of Reverberate in which Daenerys is born as Jon and Rhaegar’s younger sister.
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REGRET
After Elys and Corwyn Redfort die of Spring Fever, Ser Willam discovers the two-year-old twins’ true parentage, and honor demands that he divulge the truth to Daemon Targaryen, to potentially disastrous consequences for House Royce.
RESCUE
Ser Thoren succeeds in "rescuing" the twins from the Gates of the Moon in Resonant, chapter 5. Rhea still dies and claims them as hers, but without the Volantis kidnapping catalyst, so they've lived peacefully with Daemon in King's Landing for the past two moons, ignorant of the lurking threat.
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RESTORATION
Two years in Resonant’s future, Daemon and the ten-year-old twins are transported, along with their dragons, to canon AGOT a week after the Stark children get their direwolves. Jon and Rhaegar end up in Winterfell, while Daemon shows up in the Vale, and Robert Baratheon is on his way north to ask Ned to be his Hand...
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REVERSAL
Resonant, except Jon and Rhaegar wake up as girls instead.
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REVERSAL B TRACK
AU of Reversal in which only Rhaegar wakes up as a girl.
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KNIGHT OF STARS
Arthur Dayne follows Rhaegar through the door at Summerhall, waking up as the Sword of Morning in an era where Dorne is at war with the Iron Throne. None of which matters to Arthur once he hears that a Princesguard tourney is being held in King’s Landing…
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RHAELLA (RECLAMATION)
Unwilling to accept her son’s disappearance, Rhaella follows him through the door at Summerhall and wakes up as twenty-year-old Rhaella Durolis in Pentos, bastard daughter of Dyano Durolis—and Saera Targaryen.
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VETERAN
This time both Jon and Rhaegar are fourteen when they wake up as seven-year-olds in the Vale. Meanwhile, nineteen-year-old Jon wakes up as their older brother, raised for the past sixteen years in Volantis, who busts out upon hearing of plans to kidnap his younger brothers. (It’s complicated.)
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GHOST
Ghost is reborn in the Resonant ‘verse.
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LAENA
Daemon marries Laena as requested by Viserys in Resonant, chapter 22.
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TRIDENT
Daemon and Caraxes somehow time travel to the Riverlands during the Battle of the Trident.
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there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.
Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.
Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:
(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)
Anyway, in brief:
Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances
He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election
He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion
His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.
the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.
and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.
I've seen some people saying he would have to give up his title but it would seem that is no longer the case as of 1999; so, no, he can keep his ceremonial bin if he wishes.
Important to note also that Count Binface is the alter ego of comedian & political satirist Jon Harvey who seems to be an intelligent individual with reasonable politics. As I said no real downside.
Is Tumblr aware of Count Binface, current hope for our nation?
Let me explain:
Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.
Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.
Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.
He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.
Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.
To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.
Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.
But. There is another option.
COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.
Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.
Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.
But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.
Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.
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I cannot stop thinking about the fact that Vulcan and Erid are both in the 40 Eridani system and how things might go if they exist in the same universe. Like, what if the Vulcans noticed and intercepted the Hail Mary when it entered their system? Come, walk with me...
(Longish read, spoilers for Project Hail Mary under the cut)
The events of PHM start in the late 2010s or early 2020s and have Grace and Rocky getting to 40 Eridani in the late 2030s. Vulcan's first contact with Earth takes place in Star Trek canon in April 2063, and by that point they had been quietly monitoring Earth for some time. They definitely knew a LOT about humans by the 2030s - physiology and disease conditions, human languages, Terran technology, probably a general grasp of Earth geopolitics and cultures too. They would have known about the Petrova line in our system and may have even known about PHM to some extent.
Generally speaking, though, Vulcans are arrogant dicks about pre-warp cultures in a "white man's burden" kind of way, and they do not interfere with pre-warp civilizations, even technologically advanced ones facing a world-ending crisis. They wouldn't have gotten involved with Stratt et al. or tried to help us in any way, even though Earth and Vulcan were dealing with the exact same crisis. They would detect us launching the Hail Mary, make note of it, and set some kind of unmanned probe or attach a device to the hull to track it and see where it's headed.
However, I don't think any Vulcans monitoring Earth would believe we'd have even a slight chance of pulling off a manned interstellar mission with the resources we had available, even with cutting edge Earth tech powered by astrophage fuel. Hell, they might have even tracked Grace all the way to Tau Ceti but assumed the ship and remaining crew was lost during the fishing trip, like if their sensors were destroyed or detached when Grace was trying to pull the ship out of the atmosphere.
As for Erid, Vulcan may not have even noticed the Eridians. They're pre-spaceflight right up until they launch Blip-A, don't use light- or radio-based communication, are silicon-based and subterranean, and live on a planet completely inhospitable for carbon-based life. As far as the Vulcans know, Erid is a barren planet in their home system with an intensely hot, high-pressure ammonia-based atmosphere that can't support any form of life as they know it.
For that matter, even Blip-A could have gone mostly unnoticed when it was launched. Eridian tech is made out of xenonite, an exotic material they either a) have never seen or thought possible, as with Grace, or b) have possibly seen before but don't know how to synthesize or use. Rocky's ship would most likely appear on their scanners as a big pocket of xenon gas surrounding some chunks of rocky material and a quantity of astrophage, which exits a barren planet's atmosphere and then leaves their system. They'd for sure want to study it and would likely send an exploratory mission to investigate and track it - to them, it looks like a barren planet in their system just ejected a plume of astrophage, planetary atmosphere, xenon gas, and rocky debris, so logically they're going to follow up on it.
Once they get a visual on it and see it's a construction clearly made by some kind of sentient life, though, non-interference principles kick in. Their scanners won't pick up any life signs or breathable atmosphere on board, so it will look like it's an unmanned probe propelling itself somewhere. This, of course, would be its own mystery for the Vulcans and they will still keep tracking and studying it. Nonetheless, it still wouldn't point to there being life on board or native life on Erid, since the Vulcans otherwise wouldn't learn about silicon-based life until the crew of the USS Enterprise discovers it in the 23rd Century, and thus wouldn't think to look for it.
With all that said, I'm imagining the Vulcans' absolute shock when their sensors pick up something entering their system, only to discover it's that same primitive Earth spaceship they started tracking almost 20 years earlier, the one they thought was lost at Tau Ceti. It's battered all to hell but still working - not only that, it's got A HUMAN LIFE SIGN ON BOARD. It can't be hailed so they tractor it in, and inside they find one human scientist, alive and mostly lucid but also very unwell, who goes bug-eyed when he sees them. He goes to speak but can't get his words past his astonished stammering. He shakily holds out an odd-looking Earth device, and finally manages to get out,
"Grace. *points at self*
Friend Rocky. *points to the enclosure behind him*
Taumeba. *points to a door across the room*
Translator."
He hands them the device and flashes a delirious, wide-eyed grin before hitting them with the LLAP 🖖🏼 and collapsing. After the Vulcans rush Grace to medical and get him examined, stabilized, nourished, and rested, they are able to debrief them via Grace and Rocky's homebrew English-Eridian translator and the English-Vulcan translator they've developed during their years surveying Earth.
The Vulcan Science Academy is buzzing with excitement (in their subdued Vulcan way) once the findings are published, and they all find themselves marveling at the extremely improbable story of Dr. Ryland Grace, Earth scientist, who:
survived 18 continuous years in space against all odds with no other humans on board (including extended time in an unsupervised medically-induced coma, and multiple dangerous spacewalks) on a ship they believed to have likely been destroyed years ago.
never trained for space flight before he was shanghaied into space and then lost his pilot and engineer before he even woke up.
successfully collected biological samples from another planet in a risky upper-atmosphere maneuver that nearly killed him, and then used them to develop a cure for the astrophage that's also killing Vulcan's star (in a small lab on his ship and with only the resources he had available).
had no means of rapid communication with Earth, zero chance of rescue if anything went wrong, and had initially understood he was going to die in space whether or not his mission was a success.
was the first human in Earth's history to make first contact with a sentient alien species of any kind.
learns to communicate with said alien, and, when they discover their common goal, immediately starts working together as a team to complete their mission, forming a profoundly deep friendship in the process.
might have actually made it back to Earth after all, had he not sacrificed his chance at going home by going back to rescue the alien friend he made and make sure he gets home with his batch of the astrophage cure, saving both Sol and 40 Eridani.
And his friend 🎶🎵Rocky 🎶🎵:
Who comes from a neighboring planet in Vulcan's system that they always thought to be completely uninhabitable and devoid of life
Who belongs to a technologically advanced race of silicon-based lifeforms, which they had never seen before and thought was theoretical at best
Whose species learned to synthesize a previously-unknown metallic alloy of a noble gas into an extremely versatile building material and can spin filaments of this material into objects manually like a Terran spider spinning a web.
Whose species has no innate or learned concept of relativity, no concept of light and radiation and no sense of sight, and navigates using a highly developed form of echolocation...
...and, despite all of that, achieved interstellar travel, in a ship so alien to the Vulcans that they first mistook it for a giant pocket of gas and then tracked it for years believing it was unmanned and constructed by another space-faring civilization.
like Grace, was the first member of HIS species to make first contact with a sentient alien species and immediately befriends him.
Engineered an entire system so he and his new friend could work and live together despite their drastically different atmospheric needs.
Risked his life by leaving his atmosphere bubble to save his friend's life at Tau Ceti, severely injuring himself in the process.
Gives Grace some of his fuel to get back to Earth because he loves him and cannot bear the thought of him dying in space, knowing that doing so will add another six years until he finally gets home to his people and his mate.
Grace still takes all the time he wants to decide what he's going to do with the rest of his life. Vulcan, having warp technology and faster-than-light travel, develops a plan to seek out and inoculate affected stars with Taumeba. The science academy acknowledges that they owe their existence to members of two species who successfully traveled to distant stars without FTL travel, leading them to rethink their approach to encounters with pre-warp civilizations.
Grace has a standing invite to study, research, and teach at the science academy. Sometimes he does, and he'll be the first to admit that it's still a trip to know that Vulcans exist and they actually do the 🖖🏼 thing in real life.
Ultimately though, Erid, along with Rocky and Adrian and all their pebbles, becomes his real home.
You know what else orbits 40 Eridani A in fiction?
Vulcan.
So im just picturing the pre-Starfleet Vulcans knowing damn well about the Petrova line, and trying to logic out the problem years into the future for how best to solve it (bc I guarantee you not one of them thought "lets just build a big fuck off ship and travel to Tau Ceti to figure it out that would be improbable to weild significant results") and/or they might have thought they'll still get a decent amount of warmth from 40 Eridani B and C.
And while theyre hemming and hawing and logicking out the problem, their blind rock people neighbors do the exact thing theyre debating about doing. And one of them is just like "Do we know if they know about relativity? Or radiation?"
"Idk we dont really talk to them... surely they must if theyre space faring."
"Uh. Someone should maybe keep an eye on them. Just in case..."
Cannot get the concept of Eridian Opera out of my head.
It’s the closest thing to show biz on Erid. The orchestra and actors are the stars and divas of culture. Of course someone writes an opra about Rocky meeting the alien Grace and saving the stars together.
The casting call to play Rocky would be so cut throat. And Rocky can’t really give any opinion on who to pick since he’s been out of the pop culture loop for 50 years. (A fact the writers use in writing the script. Purposely giving Rocky dated Eridian slang.)
As for Graces actor, the theater’s master puppeteer becomes invested in making as accurate a puppet as possible to play their alien. In the end they would create a puppet where, instead of stuffing, it is filled with sacks and tubes full of fluid. Including an air pump to churn it and a constant beating of what would be a human heart. The puppeteer tries to capture just how horrifyingly alien Grace is in the best way for Eridians, through sound design.
And that’s just the puppet for the actors to interact with. For the audience, I could see the orchestra Amplifying the sounds of the human body during scenes like when Grace hugs Rocky. Or used for laughs when Rocky points out how flawed the human body is as he describes it to the audience.
Actual Rocky being a puppeteer nerd as a pebble. So when the theater gets approval to send the Opera stars to meet Rocky and Grace during the press tour, Rocky straight up pushes past the glamorous opera divas to meet the puppeteer instead.
Rocky is excited to share with them the fact that so much his and Grace earliest communication was through puppet shows.
The first act , puppet tradition, costuming, more puppetry, the Final Act
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OMG! Pretender is the first show I remember watching! I loved that show. I always felt cheated about their relationship, even at the ripe old age of six. (I could even tell you the episode)
STILL MAD ABOUT IT!
I haven't rewatched, so I have no idea how the show holds up, but Miss Parker remains a formative female character for me. A woman fueled by an endless well of rage... and she was so valid for that, tbh. Incredible that she was able to love right alongside it. She deserved every cigarette and that man's unending devotion and we were all cheated.
Anyway, The Pretender was a fun show and Miss Parker is a character of all time. Worth watching for her alone!
Just started rewatching for the first time (I bought the dvds years ago) and it's been 30 years and the pacing and tech is just wild an they don't even make shows like this anymore and it is such comfort watching because I'm all like oh I remember this! And is that Baby Anakin Sywalker and the boy from 6th Sense? And the flashbacks and Jarod's discovery of the week (ice cream, Curious George, Monopoly and of course PEZ!) It got a bit kooky later on but the first 2 -3 seasons were just good fun!
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