#aeryn talks

[grimaom]

more or less

[opikiquu]

oc stuff HOORAY!

blood/gore under the cut

ignore me being insane to oren for like the 100th time. it wont happen again. i got it all out of my system i promise 🩵

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

Claudia Black and Ben Browder being captains of their own ship since 1999.

ComicCon 2009 Wintercon 2019 Wintercon 2023

[autisticslp]

The most unrealistic part of Farscape is that Aeryn shaves

[hetchdrive]

Sorry to post about Farscape only to talk about whatever the hell is going on with Scorpius-that-lives-in-John's-brain but what. Oh my god. You expect me to just be normal about that? John's voice of self-preservation which he himself deliberates on calling his guardian angel is an evil guy who tortured him? And also he's a genetic mistake who is only allowed to continue existing in this militaristic culture because he's developed a specialized skillset and made himself useful? Huh? You expect me to be normal about this weird little freak of a man who shouldn't exist and who put himself inside someone else's head so he could continue to subconsciously interrogate him? But then that version of him protects John (so that the real Scorpius can someday collect the information he's been collecting from John's brain) from certain death and from somebody else torturing him??? Hello??? Can anyone hear me??? Is there anybody out there who can help me--

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

is Farscape the sort of thing that takes a few episodes to find its groove? should i be patient if we're not besties right away?

(i'm prone to snap judgements and don't want to make a mistake here)

Ahhhh so Farscape can be a WILDLY interesting study in complete contradictions. I agree with everything Cat Valente says is brilliant about it in this thread and this very long and detailed essay about why you should watch Farscape and yet also I will sit there fast-forwarding great chunks of season one especially because the quality control from episode to episode is so wildly variable. When I say variable, I mean some episodes feel embarrassingly amateur at times, especially after twenty something years of higher budget, vaguely more evolved TV SF. Occasionally it doesn't know what show it's trying to be, or what show it was the previous episode. It has a terrible weakness for bad puns in episode titles. It can be trite. It can feel weirdly childish, for a show that is frequently about aliens fucking. It's really really very silly on occasion and I have a particularly very low tolerance for second hand embarrassment. Farscape can be frequently embarrassing, but the fact I'm still flailing about it after twenty something years despite that is kind of significant.

Because when it's good, it's so incredibly fucking high quality excellent. It's got all the chemistry, all the high stakes heists and the high melodrama sacrifice, all the dealing with grief and trauma and how do you deal with a legacy of repeated genocide and fascism. Everyone is a space criminal on a stolen sentient prison ship. What the fuck even is the greater good. How do you deal with being a parent. Most of the cast are emoting through inch thick layers of foam latex and the other half are wearing fetish gear (OR THEY'RE PUPPETS. OR CGI ORGANIC SENTIENT SPACESHIPS), but they're really fucking good at said emoting and it's still heartbreaking. It's been twenty years and I will still start crying if I so much as hear the season three version of the theme tune (oh god the theme song evolution).

The silly episodes throughout season one are even weirder because it does pretty much find its feet straightaway with the pilot ep - it's snappy and emotional and charming and clever, and yes the tropes are there but the tropes didn't have quite the same level of tired significance back in 1999? I watched that first ep and was cackling over how fucking fantastic it was. It was such a refreshing change in 1999 that it sailed me through any of the occasionally dodgy stuff that followed.

It's also very very... Aussie, which to me covers a lot of the humour and the sheer demented glee of what the creators wanted to run with? The cast has chemistry, in spades, and the characters flirt and fuck (and... one of them is a hot blue zen plant priestess who orgasms in bright light. Obviously.) and everything is just a little bit.. extra. It has an episode where everyone is a loony tunes cartoon. It has an episode inspired by A Clockwork Orange. It has small stabby robots. It's squelchy and makes fart jokes ALL THE TIME (mostly because one of the main puppets is a former emperor who farts helium and okay yep it's pretty funny. The other puppet is wise and kind and troubled and possibly complicit in war crimes. This fucking show I can't even).

...I'm just going to apologise for this essay, and say probably go read the Cat Valente thing because it includes much more key whether you should in fact watch Farscape information such as:

“They’re all gonna be Australian or Kiwi! Except for one guy! It’s basically gonna be a tour of Sydney’s underground club scene, even for the smallest parts! And I mean that, everyone is going to be wearing leather BDSM gear 24/7, even the heroes. I’M TELLIN’ YA WE GOT MAGDA SZUBANSKI! THIS THING IS GOLD! Literally, the whole color palette is like really gold. With most of a Crayola box taped on top of it. SPACE IS AUSTRALIAN NOW. ALL OF IT. DEAL WITH IT.”

there will be an almost unbelievable amount of goo involved. Like if there is a Goo Department, and anyone is left over after Nickelodeon’s job fair last week, we need all the goo.”

“Because of all the sex and violence that just barely doesn’t cross the decency lines we’re still kind of feeling out right now?”

“That, too. But mostly because we need all the makeup and then after we’re done turning regular humans a TON of nutbar colors, everything else is going to be just…dripping. All the time. Just drenched in slime. Good slime, bad slime, it will constantly be hard to say. But it’s like Coco Chanel always said, before you leave the house, look in the mirror and upend a bucket of colorful sludge over your head.”

[endlesslyxmused]

OOC ;;

While smth really good happened this morning, some of my conditions have reared their head and are making focus hard <3 Send asks for today, I may not do many replies ~

[radiantaerynsvn]

constantly wishing i was more eloquent and a better writer so i can give the proper words to my feelings about aeryn sun but i wouldn't know where to start and where to end, i just love her so bad and she makes my heart hurt in both the best and worst way. she really is The character, my best girl, beautifully complex and haunting and with the best character growth i've possibly ever seen, no one's doing it like her.

[eye-of-yelough]

Aeryn going from being his foster father’s pet monster to his god-father’s pet monster to Gortash’s pet monster. send post

[aerynwrites]

Happy life rant below

I might not be feeling in the Christmas mood this year but overall I’m feeling really good about life.

Like for the first time in such a long time I genuinely content with how things are. I got a job I was hoping to get as I’m going back to school to do something I’m excited to study and make a career of. I have an amazing group of friends both online and offline.

I play trivia every week with some friends and have a D&D club I’m a part of. I’m finally pretty secure financially and now that I’m living with my parents again I’m not suffering from the loneliness I was when I was living alone without all of the above things.

Idk.

I was bummed about not being in the Christmas spirit but I think maybe it’s because it’s not the one happy time I’m looking forward too anymore bc everyday has been happy.

[stabknives]

Putting on the 35MM musical exhibition just to feel something (bad)

This doesn't do Mama Let Me In any justice. It's so fucking haunting. The simplicity of the lyrics + the haunting delivery of the singers pleading with their mother in a way that could be seen as earnest OR threatening. I'm insane.

Can't even talk about Leave Luanne. Don't fucking look at me.

[grimaom]

farscape + christmas

“well, merry frelling christmas.”

[truedairship]

Til The Blood Runs Clear. Not a big fan of the alpha male play in the beginning and oh Furlow how I hate you for what you will do you sleazy bastard. But still a good ep imo. The Zhaan and Rygel scenes are amazing.

Also Crichtons sad face when he tells D’Argo they’ll never be friends. Such a cheesy line but together it’s both hilarious and fitting.

But. But but but. The point of this. Aeryn not accepting help when blind is giving me a lot of feels and I am in desperate need of fanfics about the time before her sight is restored. (So far I’ve found one on Terra Firma). If anyone knows any other ones pretty please with cherry on top can you tell me?

[monocaelia]

i have to do my massive final project due in two weeks but... it's more fun to work on the lore of my ocs instead lol

[autisticslp]

Something that always strikes me about Farscape every time I watch it is how physical everyone is with each other. Especially John and Aeryn, of course — they have zero personal space from day one — but everyone else as well. They’re always touching/holding/kissing each other. My touch-starved ship of prisoners, soldiers, and John

[jauffrejam]

my elder scrolls self-insert: good at magic, but doesnt have very good control over it. destruction mage. alcoholic. wood elf. hair styled in a gayass fashion. gayass fashion sense. five feet tall. no boobs

my dnd (+hypothetical bg3 but i dont own that) self-insert: bad at magic, and doesn't have very good control over it. wild magic sorcerer. shroom-eater. wood elf. hair styled in a gayass fashion. gayass fashion sense. five feet tall. no boobs