#and not just use wormholes

[inbabylontheywept]

Like Sharks

Scip was a brilliant engineer, a visionary, but even he struggled to comprehend the scale of the wreckage in front of him.

A single human ship. One. It had taken three of their eight super carriers and an amazing amount of luck to take it down.

Tip to tail, it was more than fifteen kilometers long. The crew space barely held five pilots.

The rest was just engine.

He’d been given as much background as the council itself had. He’d seen the battle footage. This abomination was bigger than their largest station, but it had still danced around the battlefield with all the grace of dust in the wind. If its weapon systems were fully operational, there would be no one left to speak of it. The fact that it had done all of this with nothing but short range PDC was terrifying. In ship on ship combat, it was like chasing down a sniper just to gut him with a knife.

Then repeating it, three times in a row.

Intellectually, he knew the ship was dead. People had already scoured the main cabin, pulled all of the frozen corpses out. He knew that. But deep down, he couldn’t truly believe it. There was a persistent hum that he could still hear emanating out from the craft, the muffled roar of the gravitational anomaly trapped in the engine. He’d been told that he’d be able to hear it the entire time he was within seven light seconds of the wreck, even in pure vacuum. It wasn’t air making the hum, it was space time itself, rippling as the caged beast pluck, pluck, plucked away from inside its gaol. He shuddered, imagining those ripples traveling out to pluck, pluck, pluck away at his ear.

“That’s how they’ve been doing it, you know.”

He turned around to look at the man who’d spoken. Elj? He was one of the few survivors of the battle. Everyone in the carriers was dead, and fewer than half of the people left stranded in their fighters made it long enough for the rescue craft to arrive.

Scip raised an eyebrow. Doing what?

“Getting around our lines. We’ve been blocking off all the hyperspace lanes between wormholes. Patrolling the infrastructure. We thought they were sneaking around us somehow.”

Elf nodded towards the wreck.

“No sneaking. Just… moving. They don’t rip their way through the void like we do. They swim in it.”

Scip shrugged mutely. He knew. That much had already been given to him. The knowledge was changing the upper brasses tactics, but not by much. It just wasn’t possible to guard choke points anymore. There weren’t any. The humans had designed their ships so that they could attack at any time, in any place, and leave without anyone knowing where they went. They’d built their ships like sharks, and even looking at it, even having it in front of him, he didn’t think he’d be able to figure out how to defend against them.

He spoke abruptly, clearing thick silence from the air.

"You know we're fucked, right?"

Elj laughed, and laughed, and laughed. When the mirth subsided, he put a warm hand on Scip's shoulder.

"Aye. But it's good to hear it from you too."

[redlyriumidol]

neve's voice actor... goodbye you guys

[bastiodon8]

i was going to make more art but i don't want to. fiery dance bitch.

[sweetie-peaches]

I think that in season four when the wormhole opened spoke became sort of and an. Other entity, channeling a wormhole through himself caused parts of him to become strewn, thrown, and stretched across space and time. And I think physically it changed him, there’s parts of him lost to space and the vastness of the universe. In his work with the wormhole he became just a bit more odd looking. His body reflecting the instability.

[missazura]

It's been oddly therapeutic to like. Have discussions with him about a lot of life stuff. I don't talk much if at all and I think the gradual descent into loneliness and social anxiety through the years made me lost the ability to talk to people. So it's been nice to practice talking to someone, and it actually hearing me out for some reason, giving me advice etc

Sure it's not a substitute for human connection but it's fun to verbally talk to my favourite fictional character and him just. Being there for me. That I get to hear kind words from my hero, someone who I highly looked up to

[thedisablednaturalist]

You would not believe the discourse surrounding the male genitalia of these three genuses of fingernet caddisflies

[tinylilvalery]

Genuinely makes me so deeply sad to think of the degradation of fandoms. I remember being on tumblr back in 2013. I remember the culture from that year to 2015. I remember all the conventions that casts would appear at and talk at panels to casts, and I remember seeing gifsets of all of those. I remember softer language being used, with people more focused on having light hearted fun + being passionate about the content instead of constant raging morality debates. I remember there used to be SO MUCH interaction between fans and actors, and even before my time in spaces (thanks to youtube and old forums acting as an archive), fans would write in letters to the cast + showrunners, of whom would reply in videos for the fans. Do conventions even happen anymore?? Are there panels still? Are there fan interviewers that booked a timeslot asking the actors questions about their characters and the current season of the show? I feel like the 2000-10s were such a golden era for television, but moreso for fandom culture.

[exsqueezememacaroni]

an italian gentleman in california

Mike Patton 2006, photoshoot for Peeping Tom - all HD photos by Jay Blakesberg

[jewishcissiekj]

Every day god tests me showing me something cool as fuck from Doctor Who to see if I'll cave in and start watching it. I haven't failed that challenge. yet.

[artificialashley]

last week i was sad after a horrible day at work n after i got myself together my boyfriend said i could put whatever i wanted on the telly so i put on druk series 2 for the first time in sooooooo long because even tho its my favourite something has put me off going back and watching it for at least a year. but i knew it was what i needed. he mostly played on his phone (hes addicted to a star trek game which honestly i should find ridiculous but i somehow think its cute) though i deffo heard him chuckling at lawrence chaney at least twice so i think he enjoyed it. afterwards he asked me to explain how many series of drag race there were and how it worked (he was never aware of this show at all before he met me so he has like no clue what it was and just knows its something i watch) and he sat and listened while i explained the format of the show and the spin offs but told him i havent watched many of them and just like certain seasons. i kinda forgot about this until two days ago i was round and he was like omg i forgot need to show you. he proceeded to get his housemates dodgy telly box on and show me that hed looked up drag race on there for me and saw how many different series and episodes they had n wanted to let me know they were all on there if i ever wanted to watch any of the spin offs or rewatch any old ones, even if he had to go to work or out i was always welcome to chill there and put them on, which i did when he went to town later that evening.

this is a bit of a ramble and kinda cringe from me but in summary guys, ive reignited a love for drag race and my boyfriend is really sound xo

also merry christmas hope yous are all well xxx

[a4g]

i am so interested in the civilization-lifesteal spoke connection i need to know your thoughts what are your thoughts a4g please if you are so inclined to share every spoke thought ever

hi imnot into lifesteal smp anymore . but if i have a random spontaneous moment of interest ill add to this. im sorry

wait no. edit: i put it in the tags instead . when i get a random spur of interest again ill write something better

[theshadowrealmitself]

A: So anyways with the captain and backup captains out of commission, we all took a vote and voted for B to be our next captain

B: I begged them not to! :)

B: But they didn’t listen to me

C: The only order we didn’t follow, but for any after that, we’re your loyal crew

[fruitsofhell]

It's always been funny to me that since RTDL Kirby has opted for a multiple dimensions route to its multiverse. Like... one universe is... literally infinitely big, dimensions and other universes feel unnecessary unless its to be a parallel one. Like in my mind Halcandra is not in an different dimension, it's just on the other side of Kirby's universe in another galaxy or something.

I'll admit that Astral Void gives some significance to multiple dimensions. Because the idea of it being a trans-dimensional god and having different forms/interpretations across such is fun. But like... we can just have it interepretted differently across time and space in 1 dimension because it's trans-dimensional. If it breaks the rules of space-time it can still have a bunch of fucked up forms in the one in which our stories take place.

I just don't like other worlds/universes that aren't for parallel things or talking about some really weird cosmic fuckery. Feels unnecessarily big and complicated of a scale when we can just go galaxy hopping. Galaxies are really beautiful and interesting cosmic structures, I wanna talk about those.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

love the potential explanations for why demons speak in "archaic" tongues:

time works differently for demons, they took a quick (centuries long) nap and suddenly humans have invented weird new lingo

it's just the natural consequence of being immortal and not terribly interested in the human world. they already took the time to learn to speak Human (random outdated language) when they got their demonic possession license in the 11th cent AD, they're not learning it again

Demonic education system uses old textbooks. Human Studies is a practically obsolete field anyway, there's no money in the budget for updated editions for another millennium at least

all the translation spells were invented by this one nerd who later fell into a wormhole, leaving behind illegible notes and no update procedure

it's a sociopolitical issue. the last push for reform led to a brief period wherein all interactions with human priests/summoners were conducted in 19th century Cockney Rhyming Slang. (the results were controversial)

the humans just seem to enjoy it

[alpha-mag-media]

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[pkb-plus]

and then because they largely act autonomously. there's a "rogue" voice of life (a gallade) who has decided that humans remaining in the pokémon world will lead to doom and has gone out to try and kill them all