#Weird Orbits

[ixylle-d-from-the-stars]

Deathworlders everywhere but in Space

This is sitting in my brain because I haven't seen anyone else do this, but take a second to think about this: There are other deathworlders in space, terrifying ones, huge monster orc things. They are massive and nightmarish and impossibly strong. So thats why humans stand out. Thats how we survive. Human's are terrifying because we aren't built for one biome, one climate or even one planet. We aren't necessarily the strongest or fastest or scariest looking, but we're built to survive fucking everything. What if other deathworlder's are almost always only made to survive in one climate? (similar to some of the most deadly predators on earth currently) All the other deathworlders are terrifying, yes, but the second they step off their planet they're weak. Massive aliens of hulking muscle but their planet's gravity is a lot lower than the standard, so they barely meet the average strength bar whenever they go outside their gravity zone. Aliens that have venomous spikes all over their body and look gnarly as shit but their venom has practically no effect on 99% of discovered intergalactic species. Deathworlders whose planet is the nether from minecraft IRl, but they can't survive in any other temperature for any amount of time because their body just can't handle the cold and regulate their temperate (or, vice versa for tundra species). Aquatic species that are kraken-like nightmares, giant sirens and deadly squid-like beings. But they can't leave their home at all, because theres a very specific chemical makeup of their water that isn't currently found within their life-span distance travel. Deathworlders that genuinely can barely survive off planet and are frail compared to even the most docile prey species whenever they have to travel. Their called deathworlders because going to their planet is certain death, but if they leave they'll be meeting death just as quickly. And then along come humans, and everyones like, oh, another deathworlder, nothing to worry abou- wait. These guys dont seem to loose any of their natural strength off planet... and their fast and strong... and- AND THEY CAN SURVIVE IN PRACTICALLY ANY CLIMATE IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE??? HELLO? Oh and of course their predators. Of course most of their planet is completely uninhabitable for most of us. Mhm, yep. thats fair. Totally Basically, deathworlders are a thing, the more common 'terrifying alien monster' type, but their harmless because they can't survive like everyone else. They can't thrive like humans can. It scares the shit out of everyone for a wholeeeeee while, after all, no one ever expected a deathworlder that doesn't die.

[robo-dino-puppy]

"follow."

[kaiserouo]

nom nom nom

[calware]

sorry for complaining about the banana thing so much it's just that as someone who otherwise enjoys going into the comments of contemporary art videos on youtube this is a daily struggle for me

[fred-the-dinosaur-draws]

I don't know what this one is. But it seems like Javelin wouldn't blow anything up so that's good.

[mcytegg]

btw a third mysterious orbital strike shot mightve been found yesterday on chiefs stream. i think. im pretty sure theres been two jabshots and one nuke shot found, making it 3 shots from an unknown source.

[vinnigami]

October 15 2023

i finally had the time to fight demifiend. WHY CAN HE DO ANY OF THAT. WHAT THE HELL

[nellasbookplanet]

The three tiers of queer sff:

Broke: what is worldbuilding? Made in a lab to be as blandly inoffensive as possible. Time to randomly namedrope terms like 'nonbinary' and 'ace' while doing zero work actually incorporating them into the world or characters and have someone give a speech about how valid they are. Lines like 'I'm too ace for this' while never exploring the concept of asexuality or aromanticism and still having very central romance plotlines is common. I hate it here learn how to write realistic dialogue and fully realized characters I'm begging.

Woke: more ore less typical sci-fi and fantasy but It’s Queer Now. Might include in-universe queerphobia to be struggled against or may have queer identities be fully normalized. Can be done bad or well depending on the skill of the writer. A good way to explore our contemporary ideas of gender and sexuality or to have a bit of a power fantasy with lesbian princesses and trans knights. There will probably be a bisexual love triangle.

Bespoke: what is a gender. What is monogamy. What is polyamory. What is romance. What is platonic. Time to show you the most fucked up uncategorizable relationship you’ve ever seen. There may be weird ass metaphorical sex

[anxiouslowercase]

sas rh: let eoin survive the fall au » the astronomer philosopher, the earth and the moon

[puppppppppy]

object permanence so bad I have to reread old messages for my brain to go ‘oh yeahhhh I care them’

[agnesandhilda]

yaoi-ass dialogue notwithstanding it's interesting how episode nagi flips the striker/midfielder dynamic (where the midfielder is specifically subordinate to the striker, and all non-striker roles have connotations of impotency and I do mean that in every sense of the word) that blue lock has established so far. reo passes to nagi yes which is generally treated as a failure of proper (masculine) egotism in the main story but he flat-out makes nagi call him boss and nagi's just down for that. episode nagi does nothing to challenge this reading. nagi is the active player here but he's still serving reo

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE RAVEN TOWER by Ann Leckie.

I'm still in the Hamlet frame of mind after THE DEATH I GAVE HIM, so we're keeping that going! This one came highly recommended by a Trusted Friend (beloved). Apparently it does some Weird and Neat Shit with POV, which is also exactly up my alley.

Featuring my Pass the Honey cardigan moonlighting as a background!

[butterpuffed]

HI!!! I haven’t posted pmatga in a while!!!

I decided to remake a few ref sheets, like wizard pac ( orbit ), tabes ( now terry ) and Mable ( based off of @/30-fucking-boiled-potatoes ‘s valenpac berry! )

- Orbit now has awful legs and uses the staff as a cane

- Terry was moved from taffyko ( emikos candy store ) to enakos butchery :3

- Mable is still incredibly stupid and uses his wings to stim/relieve pent up energy

AND LASTLY

A teeny perspective text / screenshot redraw

Don’t look at me like that mr Aquintas

Weenie

[skydigiblogs]

ykw i just realized i haven't actually posted about the shit i liked about ghost game and i was thinking about like.

gammamon and gulusgammamon's relationship today???

the resolution of that whole thing really made me and my system happy, because one of us was literally in the middle of writing an essay about how no one ever does the "superpowered evil side" trope right, yeah?

ghost game is literally the only time i think they've ever done it alright from a system's perspective

mostly because while yeah, that whole conflict comes to a head at the climax of the series, it also doesn't end in some annoying shit where either gammamon Learns To Control His Evil Side (functionally destroying gulus) or Finds A Better Higher Power (technically he does as siriusmon but), he just goes DUDE YOU NEED TO CHILL and gulus grumpily obliges after getting the shit kicked out of him.

i'm pretty sure i've seen a few systems right more in-depth posts about this here on tumblr but like... yeah...

gammamon system my beloved

[butchnavi]

that feeling when a book is relatable in such a weirdly hyperspecific way with respect to something that's so disturbingly prudent to my life and I thought no one understood will always be my favourite thing about reading

[funeralprocessor]

Ngl ever since I read the Imperial Radch books my desire to be a mech pilot has largely been supplanted by the need to be a ship AI