Unexpected Incoherency

so this is the way the world ends..not with a twist but with a shout..

the most powerful universes are sense8 and pacific rim. i'm sorry, but if your characters aren't thrown together due to circumstance and forced to know and love each other intimately before combining powers and saving the world then what's the point

That last bit is after a scene where Moriarty (who is an ARTIST) has made a 8ft tall portrait of Joan – been on your mind HA Joan lives there rent free

the most powerful universes are sense8 and pacific rim. i'm sorry, but if your characters aren't thrown together due to circumstance and forced to know and love each other intimately before combining powers and saving the world then what's the point

People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

I love this fucking book

there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying

I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.” And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”

the fact none of these posts have even MENTIONED potatoes is a crime

That’s a good point, about 50% of this book is about potato farming.

obviously people who are smarter and more knowledgeable than me have been over this shoutouttoarrow'swife but also. yayyy I think it's so fun to sit down and tear into innocuous details. like Yeah they said shortbread bc they thought it was evocative of scottish rurality (let's talk about that later) and Yeah they said cocoa grows in seheron because its Exotic and Far-Off and Yeah they made antiva have Coffee Culture (and forgot that thing they said about cocoa) because coffee culture is cute and metropolitan and its like. no you don't have to think through the full implications of everything you put in your fantasy setting but just be aware. someone will. and they will draw conclusions<3

Do we think there's something here to not only the cozy fantasy wish fulfillment of a white neoliberal Canadian response to COVID and lockdown, but also the way the fandom was deeply invested in coffeeshop AUs in circa 2019-2020 that left a lasting impression on the devs who are entirely too plugged into online fandom spaces?

WE ABSOLUTELY DO THINK THAT. like I definitely see a connection between the desire to make datv a Cosy Feelgood game and the total lack of interest in interrogating ANY of the mechanisms of empire set up in previous games, and the intense exposure of the devs to the evolving fandom culture on tumblr and twitter and bluesky. like not only chasing the zeitgeist Vibe Of The Moment (coffeeshops, l&l, found family trope) but also a total confident belief that the trope in itself is enough. like Yeah your coffeeshop au fanfic probably doesn't need to interrogate the imperialism inherent to coffee culture in the western world (or does it....?) but if you're making a professed Gritty dark fantasy which makes commentary on ideas of Empire and Cultural Exploitation then....yeah? absolutely you need to think about the implication. starts tearing up. the implication??!!

Ryland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.

Conversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.

And together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.

whats yalls ultimate fave character. like years have passed, interests have come and gone, yet theyre still here. mines ellie williams