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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

Sci-fi shows nowadays are dramatic and realistic. Give me the artistic lighting, give me awkward fight scenes, let aliens wear drag queen level eyeshadows, convince me that the same decoration in every episode is a different planet, make a whole Alice in Wonderland subplot just because you found a big bunny costume in the garage, let the space pirates wear pirate costumes, dress the dog in the secondhand unicorn costume and say it’s an alien species, give me the most angsty episode I’ve seen right after the episode about some moving mama rock, give me the bROMANCE, give me HONOR, LOYALTY, DIGNITY, and some cool unrealistic but beautiful spaceships, give me flip phones as the coolest device ever, give me dramatic zoom-ins, give me thoughtful stares in the distance with dramatic music. Then we’ll talk.

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I made a uquiz to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are, take it to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are.

I love reading the responses people are writing for the final question. There are so many “I love you"s in here. It’s giving me some kind of emotion.

As the uquiz keeps spreading, I keep thinking about what the win condition is. On day one of the quiz, I was so sure the win condition was to send a message telling others not to trust THOM, that THOM was responsible for their demise.

But I’ve read so few messages from people blaming THOM. In fact, and I wish there was a way to quantify this without spending hours and hours, so many more people are asking THOM to be set free. Sending messages of love.

So I’m revising my idea of what the win condition is.

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Space opera characters love to go "real name, real name, fake name". It's a technique loved by TV writers like Gene Roddenberry, J. Michael Straczynski, and Zebarra of Proxima Centauri

The last big example of this was when season 1 of Disco did it & unfortunately made one of the real names Elon Musk & I hope that doesn't scare away space opera writers from doing Real Name Real Name Fake Name. Just. Try to make sure the Real Names are dead or retired first

ok so hear me out

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

I love sci fi world building that discombobulates u and at the smallest minute detail of what u bring into the text as preconceptions maybe u think humans still exist because the text keeps mentioning human history but the text never stated a human present maybe u fell for too many mind blowing lore drops at the casualest of mentions and just when you're finally prepared to catch one it goes nah that's actually just a red herring mere coincidence moving on here's the actual lore drop to punch u in the face i love seeing earthly creatures put in fantastical evolutionary situations and see how the text builds up on it especially if it's specifically individualistic natures that the text specifically tells u not to universalize going yeah this species grows up to mix and match so no two individuals should ever be expected to be the same except for these core characteristics because ukno what can of worms that opens it opens up creative inspiration doors meaning original characters meaning i can make my OWN space whale with a garden or a troll with mutant blood coloring or an allogene from my home country inspired nation or a web slinging vigilante it can be my blorbo it can be me it can be whatever i wanna be in this specific situation with very small parameters to keep in mind like there are so many spider species to choose from as inspiration there are so many countries and weapon styles to mix and match there are so many weird internet cringe i can troll THERE'S INFINITE GARDEN COMBOS--

Tldr i love it when futuristic world building is written with so much love and detail and thought with the smallest universal parameters that it opens up original content without needing to adhere to too much canon

i do get why people critique star trek for having not very 'alien' aliens but i also think it's based on a kinda narrow understanding of what makes an interesting alien character. two lil thoughts. a) trek, as a tv show reliant on mostly practical effects, is not going to be able to do what, say, animation can do with character design. every medium has strengths and weaknesses and it seems a lil silly to not take that into account b) more importantly, i'm less interested in characters that LOOK alien than characters who FEEL alien, that is, who have points of view and experiences that are fundamentally different from humans. odo and jadzia, for example, look a lot less alien than, say, hemmer from snw, and i do like hemmer, but except for his rarely-mentioned psychic abilities, what makes his experience of the world different from any of the human characters? meanwhile, odo and jadzia come from species with different understandings of individuality and consciousness, who can experience things their human counterparts can't (and vice versa in odo's case), and this constantly influences their storylines, choices, and perspectives on the world. even in tos, you have one-off aliens like the horta and medusans that are about as far from humans as you can get on a '60s tv budget. the prophets, even as they sometimes appear as humans, are never really 'humanized' (except maybe a tiny bit at the very end) tl;dr i don't really care if trek aliens are visually alien so much as if they're conceptually alien, and I think you can do that even when your alien is just a human with funky ears or whatever!

science fiction as a genre was invented specifically to show lesbians some greasy sweaty women in tank tops fixing machinery

I keep thinking about the not-things (and the midnight entity, the scherzo creature, the solitract, etc.), and how they all, in their own ways, specialize in mimicking people. Copying voices and faces and thoughts and mannerisms is ubiquitous for creatures that live in the fringes of spacetime. Which makes sense; how else is a kinless creature from an empty place supposed to learn and evolve if not by latching on and copying the first tangible thing they encounter? What's a better way to escape into that wider universe than looking like the people there, encouraging them to bring you back to their world? Integrating into our universe is functionally their equivalent to leaving the nest and learning how to fly, whether that be malicious or harmless, conscious or instinctual. So, on that note: Consider the Doctor, another being found on the fringes of the universe. Consider how they imprint on people after regeneration ("like a chick hatching from an egg", to quote a deleted line from the Christmas Invasion). The way one time lord in the audios regenerates into a bird after spending years on a bird planet, and the Doctor, after spending so much time on earth, has been described as half human. Consider the way the child Tecteun found just happened to look Gallifreyan, the way this is directly paralleled with the Qurunx, a creature that takes on a form that "we instinctively want to protect, as a defence". Consider this:

The Time Lords view regeneration as a conduit for immortality, but what if the actual purpose, the naturally evolved trait that would matter to a lonely creature from outside the universe, is mimicry?

space battles shouldn't be star wars style dogfights. they should be like 16th century naval engagements on steroids -- huge starships circling each other in the void for days and weeks. the distances are so vast that you'll never even lay eyes on the enemy ship; they're just a blip on a radar, a variable in the firing solution calculations. battles aren't short bursts of incredible violence, they're weeks of slow-burning tension as soldiers get up and go about their duties, acutely aware that they could be blown to smithereens at any time if the negotiations happening lightyears away go awry. the minute the captain gets a go order, the missiles fly, and you will never even see the face of the person that kills you.

Another Torment Nexus moment

I really can’t describe how much movies like treasure planet and books like on a sunbeam and the long way to a small, angry planet mean to me. Just— the feeling of space being so, so big, so big that you as a person absolutely do not matter in the grand scheme of things. It’s so accurate to how I feel about the world, so reassuring. Like— you don’t matter, but also you do. You can’t ruin anything in the grand scheme of things, the universe won’t fall apart no matter how much you mess up, and it is so big and crushing around you in the belly of a space ship: one thing goes wrong and then you are dead and no one will ever find you, and yet, in the belly of that space ship, you are warm and safe in the arms of people who you *have* to trust, or else you are all dead. And then there are these hubs of humanity in the cold void of space: the trade cities and ports, places that humans carve out for themselves in an effort to make a place where we fit.

science fiction was invented so lesbians would have something to talk about with their fathers

like literally if i didn’t want to see some weird nonsense i wouldn’t be consuming scifi

“ohh this episode is about meeting a bunch of dinosaurs who developed space travel and left earth to go live on the other side of the galaxy isn’t that crazy?! isn’t that silly?!” sure yeah maybe a little but by focusing on that but you’re missing the narrative reason for it which is to provide a starting point to explore religious authoritarianism and the production of scientific knowledge

just a spoonful of [nonsense] helps the [critical thinking about uncomfortable social and structural problems that are such a fundamental part of the background radiation of our lives that we can't see them] go down

Dear sci-fi people:

A conflict which is entirely confined to one galaxy and only fought by powers from that galaxy, over control of that galaxy, is not intergalactic

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