#Alien 2023-2024

[kingdomcomicscenter-blog]

[shittybundaskenyer]

stranded enemy soldiers during the first contact war au has me in a chokehold. rest is on ao3 because it's a bit spicy :))

[cozylittleartblog]

bug doodles so i can say i drew something

[darkenergyslivers]

alien: romulus poster by @creepyduckdesign (tumblr inactive) via their ig

[figureskatingcostumes]

Starr Andrews in a costume by Lisa McKinnon for her short program to Alien Superstar by Beyoncé, at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo.

(Photos by Wilma Alberti and Robin Ritoss)

[dailyparanormalphenomena]

Tennessee Rep. to hold a hearing on 7/26 on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) [Source: Twitter]

[deanfreakingwinchester]

Still can’t believe we got a rare Gerard sighting last week, so I was feeling inspired to draw a Hesitant Alien throwback.

[feliciadraws]

It’s 2024 why is it January 2024 I feel like it’s still October it should still be October

[grobyna]

This is my last Google notes drawing, this is the end of the series as of now! What started as doodles when I was bored ended up getting some pretty decent attention and taught me some things about art!

This drawing I drew today in about 2 minutes, to end the series with a little alien guy! 💚👽🛸

《 Recent art 》

[kingdomcomicscenter-blog]

[stephenixnexus]

Hey Manu and Terry how did you end up in jail? 🤣🤣🤣(this for Barbie movie reference)

[gaia-lapis-77]

I guess I am move in with aliens. IDK

[apexious]

WE CHEERED

Okay I know that most people here don't follow the canon about Wanderlust being 27 and Sara being 20.

Well..

Idk how this change later when she left her Job as the loremaster of JD but the vídeo was before her departure (or I think so) so Yeah that ages aren't canon(but I Want to know how they saw Sara being 20 and Wanderlust being 27) (more with Wanderlust, for months I was doing maths and more with the Night Swan event) (maths weren't mathing with the ages and the canon events)

[jayblanc]

Chinese Censorship of the 2023 Hugo Award Nominations

Back before the 2023 Hugo Nominations were conducted, I noted that the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China. I suspected this would result in arbitrarily applied censorship to control the ballot. I am sad and unsurprised to discover I was correct.

The 2023 Hugo Nomination vote data has been published (https://www.thehugoawards.org/2024/01/2023-nominating-and-final-ballot-statistics-published/), and includes notation where nominations were excluded from the ballot. Those with normal reasons, such as being in the wrong category or not being published in 2022 are identified with their reasons for exclusion. This time there are a number of nominations that are merely marked at "Not eligible".

Here is the list of those nominations, that would otherwise have been placed on the final 2023 Hugo Award Ballot.

Babel - R.F. Kuang - Best Novel: Very likely excluded for referencing student revolution, and the use of language and translation as coercive tools of oppression. Color the World - Congyun "Mu Ming" Hu - Best Novellette : A story about perception of, aid of, and discrimination against disability. Congyun Hu has left China and now lives in New York. Fogong Temple Padoga - Hai Ya - Best Story : Either there is something in the original Chinese that was not translated, there's a taboo subject that elides my reading, or this otherwise innocent looking near future tale of cultural building restoration was written by the wrong person. The Art of Ghost of Tsushima: Dark Horse and Sucker Punch Games - Best Related Work : The video game Ghost of Tsushima was subject to directed social exclusion for it's depiction of the Mongol invasion of Japan. Sandman, Amazon Studios: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long and Short) - A diverse and divergent cast, includes subject matter and social issues that are currently taboo in China. Paul Weimer - Fan Writer: Publicly Critical of holding a Worldcon in China. Xiran Jay Zhao - Astounding Award: Qualifying work "Iron Widow" is reimagined story of Chinese Empress Wu during a fantasy/mechanical alien invasion.

This raises a lot of questions as to if this basically taints the process, and what can be done about it.

[lucy-sky]

@giftober 2024 | Day #29: "Doors" (and Kyle Gallner)

Alien Code (2017), dir. Michael G. Cooney Losers Take All (2013), dir. Alex Steyermark Mother, May I? (2023), dir. Laurence Vannicelli Smile (2022), dir. Parker Finn What Comes Around (2022), dir. Amy Redford

[rb19]

Alien superstar.

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