#alien broadcast

[shakingparadigm]

Considering the new information revealed about Guardian Urak, all of this suddenly makes sense. It also makes everything worse.

Part of the reason why Urak is so prideful of Till is because he's the only human who survived everything done to him and made it far enough to win (almost).

Till is Urak's magnum opus, just as Luka is Heperu's magnum opus. It's essentially a competition between someone who was born to win and someone who loses himself trying.

[st4rstudent]

little green things spotted

[cyber-corp]

...i will show you a long list of everyone who recieved my deep space broadcast

dude, aliens??????

[rainy-day-wizard]

ok i'm watching sdol and is that the fucking office??? like? the show??? i've never watched the office but i think that's what this is?

i don't know if this counts as spoilers or not im just confused why the office is here

[pinejay]

cheng xin's failure to press the button doesn't represent the inherent weakness in caring about others. imo it's to demonstrate that the dark forest deterrence was doomed from the start. the whole concept is like, the dark forest only exists because every creature in the forest chooses to treat others as the enemy to be destroyed as the price of your personal survival. the entire universe had to be rebooted bc all civilizations chose to destroy each other until all dimensions were flattened to nothing. it's simply an unsustainable mode of living. humanity vs trisolarans mutual destruction scenario was just a micro problem inside the macro problem. u can't prevent total annihilation by threatening total annihilation bc eventually something will cause your tenuous peace to break down and u will totally annihilate each other.

[empress-of-snark]

Rewatching season two of Resident Alien because I never actually finished it and season three is coming up soon (hopefully), and… remember back in the day when kids shows had to do those awkward PSA episodes about drugs or alcohol that always felt unnatural and shoe-horned in?

That’s what the ‘Girls Night’ episode feels like. Like they were paid to do an episode about feminism and had to make the message as obvious as possible by having each female character rant about the patriarchy for the entire forty-five minute runtime. Exhausting, honestly.

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1971, Captain Jet Morgan and the team that first journied to the moon had now set their sites on Mars and this time with a whole fleet. After many perils on the way, on Mars they learned of a Martian plot to invade Earth. (Journey into Space/The Red Planet, Radio Play)

[akiymgc]

[phoenixfuckinghaze]

My sister introduced me to the nightvale podcast tonight and I had the strong complusion to make this aesthetic collage situation.

[nancywheeeler]

your cosmic call sign

pairings: steve/eddie, steve & the party; background relationships: dustin/suzie, mike/eleven, lucas/max   chapter count: 4/6   rating: t   summary: Steve looks up at the sky and sees stars. Eddie looks up at the sky and sees alien spaceships. It’s going to start with a graveyard shift, a midnight radio hour, and Dustin Henderson. It’s going to end New Year’s Eve, 1985—one way or another.    read on ao3.

“You’ve really been holding out on me, commander.”

At some point, Steve had pulled his legs into his chest. He rests his forehead against his knee, hiding his face from the light. “Sorry.”

“Don’t apologize,” he says. “Just—Jesus Christ, Steve.”

Funny enough, Steve toyed with the idea of dragging himself to church in the aftermath of that night, on the off chance his experience had been an act of God. But he learned soon enough acts of God are just what insurance agents call earthquake damage or flash floods. Not disappearing acts.

“I swear, even then I didn’t think it was aliens,” Steve says in his own defense. He can’t have Ground Control thinking he has been lying by omission and evasion for their entire correspondence, even if it sometimes seems like Ground Control is in a state of constant redaction.

“What did you think it was?” he asks, incredulous. “An atomic bomb?”

[v4mp1res3verywhere]

He just like me fr (talks about aliens on the ham radio)

[istherewifiinhell]

heres the 03 arc. something happens/someone shows up. its infuriating. something/someone else. happens/shows up. and is more infuriating. you feel better about the former....

[official-balls-posts]

certified balls post!

[mariocki]

Thirty Minute Theatre: Not Counting the Savages (BBC, 1972)

"I didn't look round, of course, but when I went round to tidy the other side of the grave, I... became aware of a man standing up against the wire fence. At first I thought that he'd caught his handkerchief or something white on it, and then I realised what it was."

"What?"

"He was exposing himself. Exposing himself to me."

"Well, you've seen one before."

"But I was... I was terribly upset. You can't know how distressed I was! I still am."

"Why? You're an old woman. Why should you be upset? It was play-acting. You're an old woman."

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1972, the doomed mission to Mars fleet returned to the moon and explained about their encounter with the Martians and the Martian plan to invade Earth. After proper debriefing they returned to Mars to counter attack, but not before Martians had begun to infiltrate the moon base and even condition some on Earth. ("Journey into Space: World in Peril", Radio Play)