#but i feel kinda intrigued and horrified that in each universe there's someone who become judge jury executioner whether humans get to live

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Planet destroyers 🌎💥

The pink girl is Alma, 80's friend who's also a planetary investigator who decides whether humans get to live . I think it'd be really bad if these three meet 😬

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Send 🎰 for me to put our muses into a random list generator then post the first five as potential ships!

Vivian and Historia

This is an interesting match-up! Historia and Vivian would likely meet after Historia has re-established herself as the heir to her father’s corporation ( in her modern verse ) as she’s nineteen then, and thus more confident. She has a regal sort of bearing, which would be an interesting contrast to Vivian, yet she’s sweet and after becoming accustomed to Vivian’s sense of humor, would find it funny. Perhaps Historia would be a bit too demure for Vivian’s taste, and too short, haha, although she certainly has it within her to be commanding when she discerns the need arises. Perhaps Vivian finds a job at the company after she graduates, or Historia and Vivian have classes together at university and meet that way. Historia has a higher rate of attraction to women, so it’s quite possible that she might feel that way towards Vivian. Whether they ended up dating or just being friends, I can’t get over the idea of her inviting Vivian to some gala, and they both end up ditching and change into pants and hang out in the large garden in the back of the venue. Because they would.

Vivian and Hiyori

I could see this being a thing. Hiyori is weird, Vivian is weird...I think they’d get each other. They both had terrible family situations that molded them to have negative outlooks on life and themselves, but being able to see someone who also dealt with abuse through a different lens and still find them worth loving, might change how they view themselves? They also enjoy a lot of the same things: coffee, reading, writing, food. I 100% guarantee that he’ll want to read her fanfiction, even the smutty ones, haha. I think they could easily meet in university, where they either have classes together or they tend to sit near each other in the library and have unspoken conversations using only facial cues about the annoying people coming and going before they even introduce themselves to each other. Once they become closer, if she attended his swimming competitions, he’d be very impressed. No one else comes to watch him, so it would mean a lot. They could easily end up being that cute couple that has casual dates where Hiyori takes Vivian to his favorite cafes that he’s found and listens to her talk about her fandom stuff. 

Vivian and Mello

I’d hate to subject Vivian to a relationship with Mello, haha. Not because he’s completely terrible, but just because of what he does for a living and that nasty superiority complex. That being said, who doesn’t love a bad boy? And Vivian is kinda his type. If they met in his canon verse and developed any sort of relationship, he’d likely attempt to keep her as far away from the dangerous aspects of his chosen career as possible. They’d be most likely to strike up an acquaintanceship after Mello has to be on bed-rest for a while and his scar has just finished healing, since that’s one of the times in his life he’s been almost normal, maybe, or can at least pretend to be. They’re both writers, which I love, and they’d be able to share that connection that writers can only have with other writers. And I can’t promise that he wouldn’t recite Shakespeare to her to show off. That being said, Mello’s extremely defensive and has a habit of pushing people away. Whether Vivian would try to pursue a friendship/relationship with him, regardless, would be an important factor in whether they could work in a long-term romance. 

Vivian and Kuroo

Vivian likes tall guys, and I think Kuroo is the tallest muse I write, haha. List Randomizer knows. Anyway, despite his intimidating appearance, he has a large sense of humor, which he and Vivian would definitely have in common. They could be ridiculous with each other and both enjoy it. They’re both really passionate about the things they love, and might be able to appreciate that in one another. Kuroo’s an introvert, but he isn’t shy. When he goes to college, he studies chemistry, so maybe he and Vivian end up as lab partners if she has to take a science course. He’d be intrigued by her fanfiction, even if he doesn’t totally get it, but he doesn’t have to. It’s important to her, so that’s what matters. They also have huge appetites, so little chance of either party being horrified by them stuffing themselves, either. Kuroo has always kind of liked the idea of being in a relationship, but has never had a serious one. He’d be a little wary, but open to it, just the same. Kuroo likes to mess with people and push their buttons, but when he’s serious, he’s serious. He’s very confident and generally a dominant personality, so there’d be no pressure on Vivian to initiate anything, as he would have no difficulty in doing so and making his intentions quite evident. He doesn’t mind taking on the role of the pursuer in a relationship, or in the start of one.

Vivian and Potya

My second tallest muse! That’s kind of amazing, omg. They’d probably clash, at least initially; Potya is a fashion designer, and Vivian doesn’t like dressing up or makeup. He can’t fathom people who don’t put much stock in their appearance. But maybe that could be refreshing to him, in a way, at some point? It’d be interesting, to say the least. Potya loves TV shows, so I could see Vivian getting him into her favorite anime at some point. Watch him “return the favor” by suggesting they watch Project Runway Russia. I can’t even. If nothing else at first, he’d find Vivian interesting, and he likes interesting people ( even if they can’t appreciate clothing the way he thinks they should, haha ). He’s also a terrible flirt, and he likes to say scandalous things to see how someone will react. I’m sorry, Vivian. But also, he wouldn’t judge her for her fascination with hentai and writing smut, because he even though he isn’t into manga, he could probably see the appeal. They’d be a very mismatched couple and we’d need to plot for them to work, probably, but opposites attract and all that jazz. It could lead to something great.

if you’re interested in pursuing any of these, feel free to message me!

[just-another-tortured-poet]

My crappy Literature teacher or why I don’t give a single F.

Okay, so a little heads up first. For those of you who do not like long rants and lots of venting – you might want to skip this. For the ones that are intrigued – here it goes but it’s long.

*Might contain Harry Potter references!

So, here begins my extremely angry rant:

This is a story featuring a presentation about the monuments of Ancient Greece, another about the Greek mythology in the arts and a crappy teacher. Hope you find it interesting! :)

We'll need the names of three of my classmates. We’ll name them  Narcissa, Bella and Lilly. And of course there's also the crappy Literature teacher – we’ll name her Mrs. Umbridge.

First I’ll start off by telling you guys about the schedule. We have classes with Umbridge twice a week: two hours on Tuesday and one on Friday.

So, last week the teacher says: "I want two teams of two people each to make presentations about the Greek mythology in the arts and about the monuments of Ancient Greece.".

So Narcissa and Bella were picked to do the presentation about the myths featured in the arts. And me and Lilly had to make the one about the monuments. These tasks were given on Tuesday last week (3rd of October).

Fast forward to the evening of Friday (the 6th of October) when I got sick. For two days and a half I had a fever and couldn't get out of bed (believe me this is relevant).

Originally the presentations were for Tuesday (the 10th of October), but I was still ill and didn't go to school. However, I was feeling a lot better on Wednesday. So when i woke up I started working on the presentation. I wrote about Athens, the Acropolis, the Parthenon and Sparta and made the Powerpoint presentation with the pictures and everything.

Over the next two days I wrote about Alexandria, the Library of Alexandria and about the lighthouse of Alexandria. Lilly wrote about Theba, Ephesus, Pergam and the mausoleum in Halicarnas.

 Also the other two girls had done their presentation while i was sick and, as I found out from Lilly, it was only five minutes long. And sure enough I'm thinking "We're putting so much effort into this! We're gonna crush them!" and I start working even harder and feel even more motivated than I already was.

So anyway, Friday the 13th comes, Lilly and I are ready to present our work, that had taken us THREE WHOLE DAYS, we have overcome the technical problems and everything is ready.

The first two hours on Friday we had Informatics. Literature was our third class. So we walk into the classroom, both overwhelmed and anxious because the teacher is awful and scary, and over the ten-minute break we set my laptop up, connect it to the projector – you know, all the technical stuff..

And then the bell rings. The teacher walks in and Lilly and I are already on the board, ready to start. Then the teacher gives us a nasty, poisonous look and says "Sit down, first we have to do some work". We do so and it's finally our turn to talk.  And please, note that until the end of the class there were 25 minutes left (this is also important).

So before we start two girls from another class get called in by the teacher to listen to us and see "how they should have done their presentation". Lilly starts by greeting everyone and introducing the topic. Then I read what I had written about Athens, the Acropolis and the Parthenon. Just as I was about to continue about Sparta,  it happened. The teacher interrupted me with the words "Okay, that's enough! You should have made your presentation much shorter! This is not the way you should have done it! Why didn't you tell us about every pebble in Athens?! Your classmates are bored and don’t want to listen to you anymore!".And that was said with the nastiest tone EVER. Now, I wasn’t really looking at my classmates because I’m usually horrified of speaking in front of an audience bigger than 10 people… But I couldn’t help myself but think “Are my classmates bored, or are you?”. The presentation wasn't even that long! It was 15 slides – this is totally appropriate! Plus, I did my part of the project under my mother's guidance, as the woman does a sh** load of presentations, because she's a professor in university. So she f***ing knows how it’s done!

So the crappy teacher makes us pass on to something else. We had a lot more things we'd written about, and we read about two sentences about each, as she was rudely interrupting us and making us go faster. Then she told us to sit down. And I could already feel the tears in my eyes and I was trying super hard not to cry and to not have a mental breakdown in front of the whole class. Meanwhile Umbridge was explaining to us that it should've been shorter, that we should've presented it in FIVE minutes etc.

But the thing is she had given us this plan with all those cultural monuments and she didn't tell us to pick just one! Or even just two! She told us to "make a presentation about the most famous monuments of Ancient Greece" – in general. And that's exactly what we did! First of all, it is impossible to present all that in only five minutes. Second of all, she didn't specify she wanted it to be five minutes long. I AM NOT A BLOODY MIND READER OR PSYCHIC OR SOMETHING!!! GET YOUR SH** TOGETHER MRS. UMBRIDGE!!!

Then she proceeded to humiliate me and Lilly, saying we didn't follow her instructions properly and was asking the class to confirm she had, in fact, specified about the bloody five minutes. Everyone said "Yes", because she was already really mad with us and the others didn't want to make it worse. And do have in mind that I was legitimately tearing up at this point. So the teacher asked me "Why are you reacting in such a manner, Antonia? Why are you so upset? That happens when you don't follow my instructions properly. You've no right to be upset!". So naturally I said that I'm not upset, but my trembling voice gave me away. So Mrs. Umbridge says "Yes, you are upset. You're crying." in front the whole class. Like I wasn’t humiliated enough already! While she was talking I managed to take a deep breath and answer "Nope. I'm fine".

As I said, when we started with the presentation  we had about 25 minutes left ‘til the end of the class. With Lilly we wouldn't have taken more than 15-20 minutes tops. In reality we were up in front of the class for less than 10 minutes. Then Mrs. Umbridge spent around 15 minutes being disappointed form us for “disobeying” her. Did she realize that for those 15 minutes we could’ve finished with our bloody presentation?!?

So anyway, finally she turned to Narcissa and Bella and tells them "Lilly and Antonia were better during their presentation than you." And Narcissa said she knew that. Then Mrs. Umbridge said "Nevertheless, I'm going to give you girls A's and Lilly and Antonia get only pluses." Now, I don’t mean to be rude but… What the actual f**k?!? I don't have any problems with Narcissa,  nor with Bella, but they’re both kinda lazy and careless when it comes to such things. And I knew that their presentation was very badly put together. And after the class with the monster, they admitted that they had worked on it for about only 30 minutes and had only four sentences. Again, what the f**k??? Lilly and I are busting our a**es for THREE FULL DAYS to put our “lecture” together properly and we only get pluses?!? While the girls with the sloppy lecture get A’s??? PISS OFF!!! This is not okay. Also, have in mind that this teacher is so terrifying that we were both legitimately trembling!  I hate classes with her. I love Literature as a subject, but I am genuinely terrified of her. Just like Neville was terrified of Snape. That woman is my boggart… AND THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!

Mrs. Umbridge is the reason why I want to become a teacher one day – so I can be one of those really cool teachers who communicate normally with the kids. I wand to be a teacher to make sure that there isn’t even one kid who’s afraid of a teacher!

By the way, do you realize what else this horrible woman did? As my mom later said, the teacher offended everyone. Me and Lilly, because, first of all she was constantly interrupting us. Second of all, she tried to explain to us that things should be done sloppy and at the last moment. Then she offended the whole class, by explaining to us how they all “got bored”, and finally -  Bella and Narcissa by telling them that their presentation basically… sucked. This is not how you treat kids. It's not okay. Just because you have some power over a group of people, even if it consists of children, you are allowed to torment them.

When you get a little bit of power over someone and treat them awfully, dominate them and act as if they’re lower forms of life than you, that speaks volumes about you as a person. It shows how pathetic you actually are! And, for people like Mrs. Umbridge, who feel the need to show their power over CHILDREN  (I can not stress this enough) and make them afraid to go into class – I’ve no words to describe them.  This woman is also an awful teacher – just like Umbridge herself. She makes a plan for each lesson, dictates a few things that we should write down on the sheet of paper and makes us study it. She literally once said “I do not want you to have your own opinions when it comes to literature. When you think on your own you make mistakes. That’s why you’ll be studying by the plans I give and dictate to you!”. I really hate to reapeat myself but… What the actual f**k???

Another time me and my BFF went up to Mrs. Umbridge to ask her why she hadn’t put Poseidon next to all the other major Gods (we are studying Greek mythology) and she says “Poseidon is a minor God just like the Oceanides and  Triton”. HELLO, HAVE YOU EVEN READ THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY?!? It is specifically said that Poseidon is equal with his brothers Zeus and Hades – they are the Big Three Gods (I’m getting off topic again, sorry). Of course I could say that people like that are a part of the school system that wants to literally produce identical people who aren’t able to think outside of the box, don’t have any imagination and are, overall, identical etc. etc., but I feel like this is a totally different topic.

Anyway, I had a bit of a lyrical deviation here. Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes. Mrs. Umbridge gave Bella and Narcissa A’s. At that point there were like 10-fifteen minutes left until the end of this bloody Hell. So she proceeded with giving us back the tests we had done week and a half before all that (maybe a bit irrelevant, but oh well). And I was still fighting with the need to burst out crying, by the way.

Anyway, after the class my mom came to school to take my laptop home ‘cause it was heavy and stuff. Now imagine me walking down the street to the spot where my mum had parked her car and crying my eyes out, because I finally had the opportunity to.. Pathetic, right? Though I wasn’t crying because I was sad or upset or something – I was angry and I was feeling sort of… victimized? I was angry because I had worked so hard for literally days, just to be told that, and those are Mrs. Umbridge’s exact words “Quantity doesn’t necessarily equal quality. You should learn to accept criticism!” Excuse me? We had quantity but we also definitely had quality! The fact that you were in a crappy mood or had a bad day or whatever, or you were determined to make our day a living Hell and didn’t want to bloody listen to us, doesn’t mean that we did not have quality! For God’s sake, you didn’t even listen to half of the things we said! Given that, how can you form an opinion?!? Besides, I am able to take criticism. Just as long it’s not pointless and it’s constructive. Key word – constructive. But in this case the criticism was anything but constructive! I was f***ing pissed off because I had worked really hard and my bloody effort was not appreciated! THAT is what pissed me off!

Mrs. Umbridge has also been been very unfair with my BFF.

My friend Luna and a classmate of hers, Lizzie, had to do the presentation about the mythology fetured in the arts. Naturally they presented sculptures and paintings by well-known painters. And of course they had also put tons of effort into finding the pictures and thinking of what exactly to say. And what did Mrs. Umbridge tell them? That they should have presented modern art inspired by the Greek mythology. WTF??? I WANNA THROW THAT WOMAN IN TARTARUS SO BAD!!

So yeah. Basically this is the story of how, after another nervous breakdown because of this shitty teacher, I decided to not give a f*** anymore.Besides, even though the whole rant was really angry, I think I actually managed to get the best out of this whole thing. I mean, I genuinely had a good time making the project and learning new things! :)

Hmmm... Maybe I used the word “presentation” too many times and I had a few “lyrical” deviations – sorry ‘bout that. XD I realize that probably nobody gives a damn about all that but I just needed to vent and rant, I guess. :)

P. S.: To whoever read this ‘til the end – thanks and sorry if I bored you to death. But I warned in the beginning that it was gonna be long. Also, if you have similar experiences – feel free to share your story!

Also… if you need to vent or just want to talk to someone  – you can message me anytime! :)))

P. S. 2: By the way, I sincerely hope the next story I share is gonna be a lot more amusing and a lot less angry! :)))

[happymeishappylife]

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of all Time

I’ve absolutely loved getting to read these. I’ve been slowly catching up on classic literature, but as a sci-fi fan, I know I’ve been more than a little lacking in actually reading the classics of the genre. In order to fully dissect my thoughts on this book, I’ll have to review each tale since they all had unique plots and situations that really captured my interest.

Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson – As the first novella, I found this a nice way to ease into this journey. Set on a research station on Jupiter we learn of Earth’s future scientists playing with an idea on how telepathically link their thoughts and souls with actual living beings in order to explore the world below which human’s can’t since it would kill them instantly. What we learn along with the rest of the scientists however, is this program of using Joviens to link to could be so much more than a projection as the only linked man on the base discovers that he prefers to stay inside this centaur man’s body rather than his disabled one on the base. And why shouldn’t he prefer to be Joe? To get a second chance at living a life on a planet we could only dream of being on. What I liked was that the head scientist sent from Earth to correct the problem of the short circuiting K-tubes ends up being the champion to let this man do this as a way of letting this man control his own fate. Rating 7/10

Who Goes There? By John W. Campbell, Jr. – I’m not if this was the first that it was explored of alien’s taking over and shapeshifting into people to create paranoia and panic among friends and colleagues. Because that is a pretty overwritten and over explored idea, the story didn’t hold up as much for me. It was entertaining of course, but it became pretty clear that due to the paranoia of these men in this remote Antarctic base that many were going to die and kill each other in order to root out who the monster was. So while some of the details were new, this wasn’t a new idea. It was still enjoyable but not as much as some of the others. Rating: 6/10

Nerves by Lester del Rey – I think because now in 2019, atomic scientific research and catastrophe is not only a realistic idea but a historical occurrence, I felt this was hard to classify as true science fiction though because the novel was written in the 1940s where that was only just getting starting I’ll give it a pass. Still the actual story of this failed nuclear experiment told through the eyes of the head Doctor trying to save people from radioactive death was interesting because of how much medical information was put into the book to combat what they were dealing with. Although because of that we got a picture I really didn’t want to see let alone believe was a real procedure of actually opening someone’s chest up and holding onto an actual human heart to pump blood into the body manually. That’s the part of medicine and doctor’s works I get squeamish about. Rating: 6/10

Universe by Robert A. Heinlein – Loved this one because while it could very well have been a novel in so rich a world, I thought it was well presented in a novella to cover so much history of the story and the timeline of the characters. It takes place on a spaceship that had since drifted off course and been floating around for centuries where now two ancestry clans of humans existed. The normal, highly religious ones who could not grasp where they actually were as they lived towards the bottom of this giant ship and the mutis, mutated humans with oddities like having two heads who knew but didn’t really care much to do anything about it. It perfectly sets the stage for Hovan to fall into the hands of this two-headed muti Joe-Jim and learn about the true meaning behind his life and organize a resistance to reignite the spaceship and fly among the stars. Rating: 9/10

The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth – Overall my least favorite just because there was absolutely no character to root for since the whole premise was based on a future where humans fell into laziness and stopped thinking critically, thus allowing a smart overload to essentially become a new age Hitler (who was referenced as a role model) and destroy much of the world population considered inferior. I think the other part about this story was how much parallel could be drawn from it and into today’s political climate which is what good sci-fi should do, but was not a good read because of it. Rating: 1/10

Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore – I found this one the most intriguing. Beautifully told through the eyes of Oliver Wilson, we see the same weirdness unfolding among his strange new tenants who don’t appear to be from the same Earth we know. And while they are indeed not foreigners in the sense of being from a country they originally claim to be, the interesting weaving and foreshadowing of them proving to be a time travelling tourist group was fascinating but also horrifying since their aim was to watch cataclysmic events at different points of Earth’s history. Much like Oliver, the reader gets trapped into the euphoric and learns of their true backstory a little too late which end in tragedy for him. But overall the story telling and the settings of these exotic characters made the read very intriguing throughout the story. Rating: 7/10

…And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell – Easily, this was my favorite story of the whole thing. It’s probably because it did a masterful job at bringing to light a really powerful and relevant discussion about freedom and letting people control you, through the use of humor and lightheartedness the entire story. We get brought into the story by an Earth ship with an Ambassador of the Terra regime. It’s filled with military personal and an Ambassador whose sole duty is to bring this planet under control. But what they soon find is the locals don’t want to and won’t give into them and its simply because they have learned that having freedom to say “I won’t!” is the most valuable form a control and individual may have. And the slowly by slowly all the lower ranking military men decide “I won’t” and leave their superior officers and Earth Ambassador completely confused and lost. Rating 10/10

The Ballad of Lost C’Mell by Cordwainer Smith – This story I felt needed to be fleshed out and extended. Like it made it very clear from the get go that C’Mell’s romantic feelings were never realized, thus a ballad was created, but the interaction between her and her intended suitor is so rushed and short that you just don’t feel it. Plus I hate the way C’Mell is described and sexualized as a human-cat organism. It’s actually rather creepy and disgusting. However, play out a longer story with real levels of attraction and it might not have come across that way. Rating: 2/10.

Baby is Three by Theodore Sturgeon – What a ride this story is! It’s starts that way too as we meet Gerard who confesses to a psychiatrist he’s murdered someone and then from there we learn of this crazy, kinda sad, and finally really bizarre life he’s led. Plus then we learn about this woman who was abused mentally and physically and its heartbreaking. But the storytelling was actually widely fascinating and I loved the mechanic of switching between what happened to Gerard throughout his life and his quips with the doctor to tell this tale. Rating: 8/10

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells – The oldest and most well known of the bunch. I had never read this until now, but can see how it is treasured. Told in that perfect Victorian London way of sitting around and swapping stories, we learn about this innovative Time Traveler and his adventures into the far future, his observations, and his conclusions. It’s a fascinating tale and the thing that struck me was since this was written in 1895, how cool to know that there was someone so fixed on time travel and in that way was an innovator themselves. The actual adventure ended up being heartbreaking, but like any time traveler, once you do it, you can’t stop. I wonder if we’ll ever see the Time Traveler again. Rating 10/10

With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson – To end with this novel was a sad and depressing, but yet something of a semi-caution to our present day. The ultimate fear that the robots will take over the world, but in this tale instead of violence, they do it by over pleasing and over helping the world. So many people out their now have that idea and while I agree we should move technology forward it can be frightening. Although, I wonder if these fears really truly are felt by all. I mean the frustrations were that people couldn’t do their passions because either they were dangerous or they weren’t as good as the humanoids, but what if you passion was reading? A robot doing everything else and you just get to read all day? I wonder how this story would work in todays time. Rating: 8/10