#aliens and perspective

[lc710v]

necronomicon!!

[khickuwa]

the mark you leave behind.

[asoftepiloguemylove]

BUT WHO COULD LOVE ME? I AM OUT OF MY MIND // IVAN & TILL

pinterest // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Anne Sexton Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, "The Papa and Mama Dance" // Fall Out Boy Hum Hallelujah // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden // Florence + the Machine Grace // Elliot Wake Black Iris // The National Daughters of the Soho Riots // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Mitski I Guess // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Writer in the Dark // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye // Chris Abani Dog Woman // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Warsan Shire Souvenir, "Our Men Do Not Belong to Us" // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night

[shakingparadigm]

[poorlydrawninstarsandtime]

[HEY STARDUST, CHECK THIS SHIT OUT~!]

[id in alt]

[smilysstuff]

Lavernius Tucker your my everything

[maudiemoods]

SHIP SHIP SHIP!!

IT'S LIKE MINE!! except mine looks like a dusty mini van because it is!! It's got doors that slide like a mini van! The front windshield also opens!

I can't color for shit! So idk what the interior looks like but it's supposed to be super cozy!

[ri-afan]

Thought posed:

Danny does the college stuff and interning for stuff at Wayne Enterprises while living in Gotham, but he doesn’t catch the Bats attention because he simultaneously is both Just Normal Enough while the Bats are Slightly Out Of Step of normal long enough that things with Danny don’t catch their attention. (Gotham as a whole is a huge ‘well this might as well happen’ place and after however many years…the threshold is a bit off for weirdness. Pair that up with normal Batdrama and role-code-switching and minor things are likely going to be subconsciously overlooked if not clocked as Dangerous.)

(Does Danny know the Bats’ IDs? … He would deny it if asked. Not his circus business though. He does think it’s smart that they at least try to cover their faces, unlike when he played the hero. He meets Clark before Superman and feels like he’s on the Office or something.)

Danny moves on with the astro-stuff (whether an astronaut, an astrophysicist, or whatever else) in another city and catches the attention of another hero as Not Normal, What’s Up With That Guy?? (two parts coincidence, one part Danny’s willingness to trust for the better, one part Uncanny) and they track his history to Gotham/WE and decide to ask the Batclan if they knew anything.

They find out nothing really is wrong with Danny (…the JLD was not called or conferred with, unfortunately for all) but it does spark the reeducation refresher of the Gotham Clan for Human Weirdness (that also educated the rest in just how messed up Gotham can be).

[hive-sight]

Concerns 1

Sentients. This one has news. Upon encountering Raxor in the halls of the ship, this one inquired into their change in disposition. What could crush the spirit of this one’s companion so?

Raxor’s response… It is worrying.

--- TRANSCIPTION BEGINNING ---

RAXOR:        The Terrans… they do not enjoy war.

ELYSIA:        That is good, yes? Too many of the new races seem to revel-

RAXOR:        No.

ELYSIA:        No?

RAXOR:        They are a war race. Their history and evolution are paved in the ashes and blood of their enemies. Yet they do not revel. The Skellesian Bloodmites revel. Their weapons are made to draw out battle and prolong suffering. Barbed rods for the rending of flesh. Heated blades to ensure the enemy stays standing no matter how much is chopped off.

                      The Stol’oon of Grumha revel. Their cowardly tactics involve slowly terraforming the planets of surface-bound races while they are defenseless to stop them. Slowly cooking as the atmosphere of the only home they have known becomes their crematorium.

                      The Terrans? They do not revel in war. They hate war.

ELYSIA:       This one does not understand. The race was molded by war, yet hates it? Do they hate what it has made them? Are they a drink that hates the shape its container has forced upon it?

RAXOR:       They hate the acts. This one asks Elysia to consider, if one despised an action but the action was needed, what would they do?

ELYSIA:       This one does have experience with this. This one dislikes having to configure variables in simulations. This one wrote a script to automatically program variables if given a planetary identification code.

RAXOR:        Why?

ELYSIA:        To get it done as quickly… and…

RAXOR:        Yes.

ELYSIA:        By the Queen. Have the Terrans… streamlined… war?

--- TRANSCRIPTION ENDING ---

This was not the end of the discussion, Raxor proceeded to request a cancellation of the mission. They claim that the Queen would not have allowed the mission had she known.

Unfortunately for Raxor, after more than the expected number of delays, the ship has already entered the Sol System.

On this, the Terran Date of May 21st of 2030, or XD 4682C 4A 2L, and with an uncertain future, this is Elysia of Xyloptha, signing off.

[cadaverette]

it really gets to me that the most elementary feminist takes are met with so much more vitriol by self-described progressives than they were just 10 years ago

[lotus-pear]

i love causing discourse so i want EVERYONE who sees this to comment which bsd character has the best character design and WHY. i want to see some analysis in the tags or simply why u think ur blorbo is on top in terms of fashion taste

[crustyfloor]

The way Till looked genuinely pissed off because of Ivan but he’s not mean about it. Just thinking. The fact that he didn’t just say fuck off right then and there when Ivan asked him for a kiss, but he instead worked around it, as if after realizing Ivan was actually serious he said this as an attempt to pacify Ivan. because even though we get the irony here, it does look like Till trying to ‘let him down easy.’

Even his internal dialogue is harsh, but he doesn’t voice it.

And when Ivan starts whining and getting in his space again, Till doesn’t bother pressing it and just lets Ivan sulk, as if he’s simply handling a pouty child. Like he’s used to it and just letting it be, it doesn’t mean he liked it but Till really wasn’t trying to hurt Ivan.

(even more unsurprising how no punches were thrown, again. Till can only be provoked into acting that way, had this been Ivan’s perspective I’m sure this situation would have looked a lot more narrow-minded)

[jesncin]

I’m curious since the two of you are such big Martian Manhunter fans, what was y’all’s first exposure to the character and what got you so interested in him?

OOH YEA MY MARTIAN ORIGIN STORY TIME!!

So we both grew up with the DCAU's version of J'onn- Carl Lumbly did such an endearing performance as the character that I always look back on Martian Manhunter fondly. But it wasn't until we were assigned in class to reimagine DC characters as if we were hired by DC that we really started liking the character. We were tasked with making a Justice League short comic, with rebooted designs and origin stories. The story naturally gravitated to being about Batman and Martian Manhunter.

When reimagining J'onn, we looked at his origin and were surprised to learn he had a twin brother! Reading Ma'alefa'ak's backstory our response was "oh, so he's a disabled martian?" and changed the Martians' backstory to be about the two of them escaping Mars together. That only got to show up in one panel in the Justice League comic, but long after the assignment was done we kept thinking about that origin story. We read up on more Martian Manhunter comics and were frustrated that something that felt like such an obvious way to improve both characters hadn't been done before.

Years later as I'm wrapping up my graphic novel projects I ended up back on tumblr after the many twidder-apocalypses and was touched to find people still asking about our version of J'onn in our asks. It reignited our dormant fixation to what you see now! We finally got to draw the Sons of Mars origin story, and now it's sprawled into this whole jl remix AU. Drawing all this stuff is such a nice break from the capitalism grind of work and just lets me go loose haha. Much of my love for Martian Manhunter is his untapped potential! How to write J'onn in a way that stands out from Superman, Batman and the Justice League, acknowledge and play into the unique aspects of his character, all that jazz. It's become the Professional Comic Artist's version of playing with action figures.

[cherriko-art]

Ok more alnst rambles.

I think my favorite interpretation of both Sua and Ivan's deaths is that their self-sacrifice was less about saving their loved ones than it was that they themselves could not live without Mizi/Till. Like this belief that yes, we're choosing our loved ones over our own lives, but also with the belief that Mizi/Till would be able to live past their (Sua/Ivan) deaths.

But for both Sua and Ivan, they could not find any reason to live if Mizi/Till were to die instead in their rounds. Both are absolutely obsessed with their partners - their entire reason for living revolves around Mizi/Till, bc for both Sua and Ivan, their lives were empty husks until they met them.

Ivan calls Sua out for being a self-sacrificing idiot, calling her selfish bc it'll only leave Mizi traumatized over her death. According to him, her choosing to die was not out of love for Mizi, it was a purely selfish choice bc Sua cannot live without Mizi. But in the end, Ivan is the exact same.

So dying for their loved ones? Easy. But ask them to live with their loved ones' deaths? Over their dead bodies.

[shakingparadigm]

with all this ivan content out I'm still left wondering how TILL views ivan and their relationship. he's known ivan for so long, does he see through his facade or does he just believe that ivan's changed a lot from the blank, stoic kid he was before? does he know about ivan's feelings? at least a little bit suspicious? does he know about the little things ivan does just to catch his attention or is he completely unaware? does he view him as a friend? begrudging acquaintance? does he feel like something changed between them? does he feel annoyed at ivan for being the perfect pet while he's constantly being beat down for not conforming? are his feelings for ivan good in intent but bad in execution? does he hold a bit of malice towards him? is he guilty over the meteor incident? i need his side

[i-am-trans-gwender]

From the perspective of an alien doing it with a human, the human would be the monster and the alien would be the monster fucker.