Take Things Apart and Put 'em Back Together Better

It's not like the plan was for Gaal to live forever.

And this Hari is the one who is supposed to know everything, while that Hari is the one who's supposed to be the intermittent control group. ("Fuck! I'm the left hand!")

Gaal was supposed to be on Terminus ... presumably just long enough to get them in an informed way to and through the First Crisis—without actually being told what the hell it was going to be—until Hari stepped out and glad-handed his way to a peace treaty.

But that means that "The Plan Where Gaal Has a Daughter" is in fact the original plan, so Salvor (under a different name) was going to exist, whether or not Hari bothered to know about Gaal and Raych preparing for that in specific. But since he also didn't know about the whole mental powers thing, it was still going to be an unanticipated variable—just one contained to Terminus, maybe juicing the odds.

So yeah, hypothetically all of the original data is in the Radiant, and Gaal would have plenty of time to poke around in it while Mari Hardin and Lewis Pirenne and company did their thing. And it's likely that Gaal would have taught her daughter and the capacity would have carried on in some way, but I doubt that the Invictus being the original predictive test makes itself obvious in the Radiant's dataset. After all, the Foundation isn't supposed to be maneuvering the plan.

So it's not that we're now on "The Plan Where Gaal Has a Daughter," so much as "The Plan Where Gaal and Her Daughter are Alive Centuries Later and There's No Second Foundation."

"When [Lawrence of Arabia] was in production, screenwriter Michael Wilson was not paying much attention to Lawrence's sexuality. Wilson was more concerned with the theme of colonialism versus nationalism, and Lawrence's scholastic pursuits. This clearly displeased Lean, who wanted to paint more of a controversial character study, albeit on a large canvas, than Wilson had so far achieved. As far as one can judge from Wilson's notes, Lean had two overriding concerns - Lawrence's sexual make-up, and the scene that he would film in Petra. As far as the former is concerned, Wilson noted that Lean had, revealingly, compared the Lawrence-Ali relationship to Brief Encounter, his 1945 film about an unconsummated love affair starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson." - Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930 – 1971 by Stephen Bourne

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Holy crap, Aydah Mensah is Jack O'Neill. The first human that demonstrated any serious likelihood of providing the real opportunity that a jailbroken Jaffa, who had just been biding his time, was looking for.

how i want bathtubs to work:

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH YAAYYYY

to fight my artblock i decided to redraw some gerard p donelan comics as ds9. but once i started i could not stop....

so heres all deep space 9 of them. lol. again the poses and captions are lifted straight from his comics all i did was put space guys on there! please enjoy

On the one hand it makes sense because space is the place where you can get the timescales to meaningfully do this. Species that arose and went extinct long before humanity even existed - yeah you can imagine those in space. The speculative appeal is strong. On the other hand, this is not how archaeology works anywhere on Earth. There are always people there no matter where you're digging, and USUALLY they will have some connection to the stuff being dug up. The actual on-the-ground politics of that relationship are very different where you go in the world, but anywhere there used to be people there still are people. And that is almost never true in sci-fi archaeology. And obviously sci-fi allows us to speculate, but it's the pattern you see again and again. No one's interested in speculating an alien archaeological site where those aliens' descendants or anyone related to them are still around in any meaningful capacity. In sci-fi, descendant communities just do not exist. Everybody Died. This place now belongs to no one anymore, except the archaeologists.

"Here's me at Kitty Pryde's fourteenth birthday party

And here's her at my fifth birthday party that year"

"Awwwww"

"And here's me at her fifteenth birthday party

And here's her at my fifth birthday party that year"

"Wait what"

"And here's me at Kitty Pryde's eighteenth birthday party

She came to my fifth birthday party that year!"