#draomi

[thiswildernessismyhome]

None of us came here without a past. Not you, not me. Not her.

Ankawala as requested by @5an-junipero

[rocicrew]

naomi has one (1) type literally

[terapsina]

A comprehensive list of ALL my favorite WLW ships. PART 4 (because I have more than 10 of them)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

(canon gets a 🍪, clowned myself into thinking it'd be canon gets a 🤡, didn't actually think it'd be canon but adored them anyway gets a 🍑, happy ending gets a 🌺, they destroyed me ending gets a 😿, bummer ending gets a 💔, cancellations are a plague on this planet get a 🪦).

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31. Nico and Karolina - Runaways - 🍪🌺

32. Catra and Adora - She-Ra - 🍪🌺

33. Eve and Villanelle - Killing Eve - 🍪😿💔

34. Camina and Naomi - The Expanse - 🤡💔

35. Maze and Eve - Lucifer - 🍪🌺

36. Joan and Jamie - Elementary - 🍑

37. Sterling and April - Teenage Bounty Hunters - 🍪💔🪦

38. Harley and Ivy - Harley Quinn - 🍪🌺

39. Moiraine and Siuan - Wheel of Time - 🍪 😿...currently.

40. Spencer and Ashley - South of Nowhere - 🍪🌺

[brotherconstant]

Naomi with the steel chair elevator

Are you okay? Eh, I'll live.

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round Two (Bracket 2)

[doolallymagpie]

don't ask me why "the fight" gives me draolden vibes, just don't, i don't know, except for, y'know, now our time has come, if we ever had a chance, we will stand against the fire for as long as we can stand, if we make it through the night, if we live to see the dawn, we will search beneath the ashes for the will to carry on

[semaamagokyuzuolmayan]

Basilisk misin? Gözlerine bakınca sürekli ölüyor gibi oluyorum da...

[camimi-drummer]

It has come to my attention that Drummer's primary flirting mode is to crush her lovers through physical sport.

See also: Drummer beating Maya Castillo 11 matches to 1 in wrestling

THE EXPANSE - ‘Static’, 2.03

[thiswildernessismyhome]

He killed a woman I loved.

[rocicrew]

more shippy doodles : the girls edition

[julie-andromeda-mao]

thinking about when camina drummer says “don’t go too fast out there”

[talesfrommedinastation]

Here for the crossover where Camina and Naomi get married and adopted one of the clones from Star Wars.

Did we need this? No.

Did we want this? Probably.

dominique said gay rights

[romilly-jay]

Thoughts About The "Thoughts About The Expanse" Panel

***spoilers, natch***

This was one of the sessions I actively wanted to go to but Managing Worldcon Life got in the way. (If I've reconstructed correctly - never certain!- this session was on the same day as the big Worldcon philharmonic concert and immediately before it? If that's right - in theory, it should have been possible to do both, one straight after the other, BUT in reality, this hour got eaten up in queueing time.

So, delighted to find it in the replays and an early priority to listen to - and very glad I did, if mainly to feel the waves of joy and affection rising as I was reminded how VERY MUCH I loved this show*.

*Yes, I know that The Expanse is also an impressive series of novels and novellas as well, but I have mostly - not read these. Yet. They are firmly IN my TBR but as with Worldcon, life has so far Intervened.

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Right, I'd written the bits above and below the === then got called away [dinner awaits no blogging, dahlings] and then... forgot to return - so the middle segment was NEARLY just the following:

Some of the panel content here.

But - hurrah - started on the next blog and wanted to link it to what that clever Caroline Mersey said about it, only to discover that... she said nothing (as reported here). Oops and - corrected.

In fact almost all of the next part is CM's pitch for why The Expanse is the greatest TV SF series of the 21st century // worldcon Aug 2024

Her pitch revolved around the treatment of sexuality and gender:

This show is the most progressive recent SFF show, particularly in the way it queers gender and sexuality in ways we rarely see on TV.

The power is how it normalises and embeds its treatment. It has poly relationships – almost unheard of in commercial productions. Holden’s family of origin. It’s not just about the tax breaks. Drummer’s crew of space pirates. More complex than a traditional love triangle (tho Draomi is a canon relationship YAY.) This is a show that consistently queers and interrogates expected gender roles. Bobby Draper: not sexualised, not all-powerful, seeks help. Peaches: classic tale of angry superhero on a revenge trip who earns her redemption. Drummer: uber-competent but also with brittle edges.

The exception to the excellence is Julie Mao – the fetishised object of a middle aged white guy’s obsession. CM comments that book one was pretty standard male-oriented SF – very blokey, testosterone-fuelled – but complimented the two writers for how they responded to receiving that feedback, gender flipping certain characters from book two onwards and allowing the story to unfold as it did.

CM's summary of what she loves about the show is made with reference to the final three episodes of S5:

The story around Naomi’s resilience – her desperate determination to save the Roci from Inaros’s trap – we don’t breathe until she does again – amazing engineering ingenuity – while she’s trying to send a signal and break the trap. We have Amos and Peaches and their hugely daring escape from Earth. Avasarala’s coup. Drummer’s torn loyalties – but we’ve also got: how you best deal with your sex pest cast member by writing them out in a way that respects the character but conclusively rules out a return. Those episodes exemplify the most striking and my favourite things about the series.

There was really only one point I *really* wanted to grab from the rest of the session and I *believe* it was lawyer Wes Rist who made it:

Noting the benefit to the quality of the story - its complexity, its ambiguity, the kinks away from expected narratives - that they had several “goes” at it. The role playing game. The books (and novellas filling out the world between the main stories). And then the show.

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Finishing up by I'm listing out the panel members, incl their varied backgrounds, along with a sort-of-summary of what they said about themselves. To me, this is synecdochal (??) of the identity and value-set of the series and the quality of its appeal i.e. appeals to and relevant to, well, lots of people but almost certainly including:

people who are interested in politics and/or international relations and/or Marxism and/or debating between different philosophies;

people who like hard science and realistic space battles - slash - pouring of liquids in zero G;

people who want to imagine human futures across and within the solar system and the social - slash - economic - slash - politics impacts and implications involved in becoming a bi-planetary species and/or a multi-space location capitalist construct; and

people who want to imagine alternative gendered futures.

[Also, people who think about the Roman empire alot. Perhaps daily.]

These, then, are the panellists:

Sven von Vittorelli is a conservation biologist from Germany, who told the room that his day job is often filled with frustration, with the sense of coming up against the boundaries of what's possible, and so chooses to enrich his life through engaging with science fiction.

[Writing - he's working on the first novel in a hard SF series, which appealed to me immediately because it namechecks Shackleton in the title, Shackleton Ridge. And as a fan - he won me over again by naming Firefly and Battlestar Galactica as series he loved on the way to becoming a fan of The Expanse.]

Wes Rist is an international human rights lawyer whose day job involves working on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - clearly, seriously heavy, and also, deeply relevant to the political context, themes and developments of The Expanse series.

[He clarified, of course, that his views expressed here, are personal - he's working in some capacity for the US government but not speaking for his employer HERE.]

Bob Hranek has a tech background, initially for the US Airforce (5 yrs), then for the US min of defence (35 years) focused on aerospace systems - he pointed out that any views expressed were his own and not those of his employer (prompting the same from WR).

He joked that given his background he would generally, in the context of The Expanse, be expected to be representing [Evil! Tech! And Weapons! Giant!] Protogen.

Caroline Mersey is a cos player and book nerd and organises lots of book events in her spare time, including the 'Super Relaxed Fantasy Bookclub' - every second Tuesday in London. [Must attempt to go...]

And the panel moderator, Michael Pea, is senior writer at Friends of Comic Con and self-declared *uberfan* of The Expanse.

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round One (Bracket 2)

[doolallymagpie]

oh no i'm foreshadowing stuff for drummer that makes me sad

[talesfrommedinastation]

The fact that there's more Bobbie/Chrisjen smut on AO3 then Naomi/Camina smut does me a great concern.