#find the farscape stuff

[phantoms-world-and-more]

An idea came to me reading a fic where Danny was a kryptonian. What if Amity Park instead of being a city in the USA on Earth was once a city on Krypton (in what would be a kryptonian version of early 21st century or at least about 100 years before the planet blew up). Basically almost everything that happened in cannon DP happened and everything is mostly the same but with a more alien then earth tone to it.

After Phantom Planet Danny's parents except him being part ghost, the government overturn the Ecto Acts, and he able to finish high school and goes on to college after which he is happily welcomed to for work for KASA (Krypton Aeronautics and Space Administration). He becomes an Astronautical engineer. Danny is in his early thirties when he is testing out a new experimental space ship engine for KASA. While doing a flight test Danny's ship losses signal and no one can find it (kind of what happened in the show Farscape).

100s of years go by Krypton explodes baby Kal-El is sent to Earth where he grows up to be Superman. The JL suddenly get a signal/warning about some alien tech on the edge of the solar system. They send one of the Green Lanterns to take a look, where they report a spaceship dead in space. They don't expect any life forms but surprise because of his ghost half Danny was in a sort of suspended animation. He is brought back and wakes up in the Watch Tower.

Just Random ideas...

Kryptonite is the crystalized form of ectoplasm because of this Danny is not effected by it.

Danny's kryptonian name is Daniel Fen-Ton

The phantom zone projector was originally called the Fen-Ton zone projector or is was based off a Fen-Ton gadget.

Years after Danny disappears Krypton starts turning on ghost again, so the town of Amity, which now has a symbiotic relationship with ghost, vote to pull the whole town into the Ghost Zone. So it is not blown up like the rest of the planet though Danny does not know this in the beginning.

Danny has an easier time learning to use Earth technology then he does the Kryptonian technology in Superman's Fortress.

Danny also has slightly easier time when getting the regular Kryptonian power set due to the yellow sun because he went through something similar when getting his ghost powers.

Danny adopts Connor almost immediately. Maybe during Danny's time there was laws about cloning and clone rights on Krypton. Also while Connor is not a replacement he sort of fills in the void of losing Ellie.

While Superman has no idea who Danny is, Kara/Supergirl has a faint idea because he was briefly mentioned in her Krytonian History class. Also she is happy to have someone who can natively speak the kyrptonian language even if it has older vocabulary. Don't get her wrong its great to speak it with Kal-El but he learned it later in life.

Holly char this is amazing!

How many people will have a stroke when they see Danny casually pick up a piece of kryptonite? Batman? His normal Kryptonian contingency plan won't work. Luthor? There's a version of superman IMMUNE to Kryptonite. Clark? What the hell do you mean you can touch kryptonite

I think after Danny explains everything about his past and species so many people are going to just...give up. Hahaha a stronger version of superman who isn't effected by kryptonite, goodbye world

Connor will be ecstatic, Danny will do ALL the dad stuff, teaching him their language, proper training, engineering lessons and you bet he's going to use jazz's psychiatrist stuff on this kid

Danny's probably going to get mega-depressed, all his hard work breaking the racism against ghosts only for that to come back a few years after he left? And he can't even fix it again because their world went bye-bye

Also- here me out

Co-pilot Valerie

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I love all the early hints in Farscape that Zhaan is a plant. Even though we don’t find out until one of the last eps of the first season, there were some throwaway comments or little details that suggested it. Like I don’t remember when it was, but someone pierced her wrist and instead of blood this weird white stuff came out. At that point the thought process of the audience is “oh she’s an alien so her blood is a different color.” When actually, it was sap. And then that time when she had to deform her hand and pull it through handcuffs, John later asked her how her hand was and she said something like “the fibers are healing.” And then the time where she said “there is no bacteria in my body.” And then the big one was when they were near the planet with the solar flares and she was having “photogasms” 😂 but we still don’t know she’s a plant at that time.

[your-a-wanker-number-nine]

In case anyone missed it (I can't really seem to find much hype about it on Tumblr), BOOM studios has a kick-starter going on for Farscape comics to celebrate the 25th anniversary. There is some pretty cool stuff for it (archived comics and a brand new book with new content, also a stretch goal which I hope is reached for a signed poster from Gigi Edgley). To the 10 people on my dash who still care about this show, please go check it out :D

[karasbroken]

Look, I have to be who I am, and what I am is obnoxiously shipping these two forever. So have more romantic mush about John/Aeryn. I'll plumb the depths of YouTube for weird Farscape stuff another week.

The editor of this schmoopfest is @schmackproductions on YouTube, and yes, the song Makes You Beautiful is by One Direction.

But we're going to ignore that and look at our pretty pretty pretty Peacekeeper through the adoring eyes of just about everyone and we're going to like it! Because come on, this woman is gorgeous, something she probably doesn't know, and would find irrelevant if she did. But everyone else in the galaxy is aware and this video is the propaganda.

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

I really, really wish older sci-fi was more discussed in online spaces. It feels like (with rare, notable exceptions) sci-fi discussion focuses on Star Wars, (New) Star Trek and Marvel. Like, yeah, those have their moments, but where are the discussions of the post-9/11 paranoia of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Farscape's use of Aeryn Sun to explore the idea of letting go of your past sins to find happiness in your present, of Slider's masterful use of its premise, of Babylon 5's laserfocus on serialized storytelling?

When I'm not shitposting about Farscape or liveblogging reading The Wheel of Time, I try to use this blog to do that, but I wish there was more of that kind of discussion.

If y'all know of any blogs that do that kind of stuff, or places on here I can go to get that kind of analysis and discussion, let me know.

[dangermousie]

Tagged by @tavina-writes

1. why did you choose your url?

This nick and my icon is all the way from Farscape forums back in early 00s. I picked it because I enjoyed the Dangermouse cartoons.

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

I made dangermousie2 in the event the main one gets banned or there is some other issue, but I don't use it. I am old enough that I started when people didn't have theme/sideblogs and that's how I roll.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

2011? 2012? I am a LiveJournal refugee who first got an account when LJ started being unreliable but only switched in a meaningful way when I got into Spartacus and all the fun fandom was here.

4. do you have a queue tag?

Nope. Impulse control and planning, what's that?

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

I first got LJ back in 2005 (I think) because a cousin got me into it; I was posting about things like books and Bollywood and Star Wars then. And then here I am all these years later.

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

Fits my user name. A very kind person made it for me back on long defunct Farscape boards back in 2003/2004.

7. why did you choose your header?

I don't have anything there, it's whatever tumblr gave me.

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

I have NO idea how to find it out tbh. But it might be:

9. how many mutuals do you have?

No idea how to check.

10. how many followers do you have?

6581

11. how many people do you follow?

2565

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

Nope

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

Way way way too often.

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

Yes. I am a lot less likely to do so now but when I was younger and more impulsive, oh yes.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

You say that, I will not reblog and will likely block you to boot.

16. do you like tag games?

Sometimes.

17. do you like ask games

Sometimes.

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

I have no idea. Thankfully we are largely past the era of BNFs and I am glad for that.

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

I am waaaay too old for that question. No.

20. what is the last song you listened to?

ТІК & Ірина Білик - Не цілуй

21. what are you currently watching?

I have a pinned post about that but a bunch. My faves out of the airing stuff I am watching are Love in the Desert, Black Out and Iron Family.

22. sweet/ savoury/ spicy?

I have no spice tolerance so the other two.

23. what is your current relationship status?

Married. To a man who is OK with listening me describe Wu Chang Jie to him in excruciating detail so def a keeper.

24. what is your current obsession?

Lust in the Dust (iykyk), Cass Morris' Aven Cycle, coffee.

25. what are nine albums/ songs you've been listening to lately?

no idea, it changes.

Tagging @aysekira @silviakundera @renewedmotionforjudgment @fake-married-my-dead-fiance and anyone else who wants to

[dangerously-human]

Answer the Questions and Tag 5 Fanfic Authors

I was tagged by @youareiron-andyouarestrong and @menina89 for a fanfic writer tag game, which was quite fun to do!

1 . How did you get into writing fanfiction? A lot of the very early stories I wrote down were continuations of books I read. In one of my summer journals my mom would have us keep in elementary school, I found a story extending The Littles with characters who were welcoming a new baby. See, kidfic was my favorite even when I myself was a kid! Of course, it was only much later that I heard of the concept of fanfiction, in high school. Shortly thereafter, I booked it to the school library during lunch or a free period and banged out a Supernatural wee!chesters sickfic. Created an FFN account and, as they say, the rest is history.

2. How many fandoms have you written in? Counting just what I've posted to AO3 (so not all the stuff from early childhood), and not double counting adaptations as separate fandoms, 19 so far. Not telling which, but that will be increasing to 20 in the near future...

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction? That story I told above was from when I was 6 or 7, if you want to count that. Otherwise, somewhere around 15.

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction? Usually I'd say I read more, but it's been about even lately, particularly as I've been writing mostly for Lockwood & Co - I'm really, really picky with what I'm comfortable reading in that fandom. Lately, though, I've been reading more for other fandoms (particularly Dune and Little Women, and making a small dent in a large backlog of reading for some of my earlier fandoms, like Stargate Atlantis, Farscape, and Fringe).

5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer? Writing conflict. It's still not something I find easy, but it's something I find rewarding, so I've been working at it. And I think I've come a long way so far.

6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project? When I was writing my Those Binary Stars 'verse for Endeavour, I did frequent, if light, research to keep things as historically accurate as possible. Stuff like when were whiteboards invented, when did Scrabble enter the mainstream, when did people start using car seats with children and what were they like earlier on...

7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work? When somebody picks up on symbolism I infused into a fic, that's so exciting. Sometimes it's something I didn't fully notice as I was writing, which is a bonus! It's also a delight to hear specific lines that worked for a reader, or hear that everyone is in character (this is especially vindicating for minor and/or complicated characters).

8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about? Probably my more explicitly religious fic? It doesn't feel super fringe most of the time, given my writing circle, but in the grand scheme, I recognize that it is.

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write? Anything with significant plot, especially if I have to account for the passage of time. I also find major AUs impossible. Minor canon divergence, sure, especially if deviating from a particular moment in canon. Changing the setting or foundational truths about canon? Terrifying.

10. What is the easiest type? Some drabbles practically write themselves. As indicated above, I am a canon-compliant girlie. Post-canon is where it's at, although I also like magnifying a moment in canon to peel apart the layers and dive deep into the emotion. This works especially well for angstier work, which, perhaps contrary to appearances, I often find flows more easily than fluff for me.

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When? I mostly use Scrivener, on my couch at home in the evening, laptop propped on a pillow on my lap, horizontal to varying degrees. One day my back will hate me for this. I also do a lot of preliminary writing prep in the notes app on my phone, wherever I am (on the train, in bed, in a meeting at work, etc).

12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day? I've got three rather ambitious AUs in progress, which I'd love to write but I think I'd have to break them apart a bit into things I could do in stages, perhaps a series of oneshots posted out of order, like Restore the Years has turned into (but with more overarching plot). In order of increasing difficulty/plottiness: Lockwood & Co office menace Skull AU, Fringe S4 fix-it AU, Endeavour spy AU.

13. What made you choose your username? I started as visionsofmangos on FFN (and later, AO3), which was my attempt to follow John Green's idea to just throw together a couple words that sounded sort of pretty and poetic in combination but didn't inherently mean anything. (I don't even especially like mangoes, and usually spell that word with the E.) This is because I had something to post and no idea what to call myself and I was in a rush, and also because I very intentionally did not want to use the same username as I used for Tumblr - I would share my early fanfiction with my sister and some IRL friends, but my Tumblr existence was separate. (Even now, although I have my Tumblr linked from my AO3 profile, I'm more comfortable with the reverse - my Tumblr peeps are welcome to my fanfic, but I'm a little nervous about fanfic people coming to find me in a wizard hat eating mayonnaise out of the jar at midnight on this here blog, or however the post goes.) I eventually chose human_dreamer_etcetera for my "everywhere except Tumblr" username, which I used a lot as a self-description prior to that and quite like for its more meaningful poeticism.

Zero-pressure tagging @astridcontramundum, @karasbroken, @insidethekaleidoscope, @paranorahjones, and @hiddenvioletsgrow!

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

is Farscape the sort of thing that takes a few episodes to find its groove? should i be patient if we're not besties right away?

(i'm prone to snap judgements and don't want to make a mistake here)

Ahhhh so Farscape can be a WILDLY interesting study in complete contradictions. I agree with everything Cat Valente says is brilliant about it in this thread and this very long and detailed essay about why you should watch Farscape and yet also I will sit there fast-forwarding great chunks of season one especially because the quality control from episode to episode is so wildly variable. When I say variable, I mean some episodes feel embarrassingly amateur at times, especially after twenty something years of higher budget, vaguely more evolved TV SF. Occasionally it doesn't know what show it's trying to be, or what show it was the previous episode. It has a terrible weakness for bad puns in episode titles. It can be trite. It can feel weirdly childish, for a show that is frequently about aliens fucking. It's really really very silly on occasion and I have a particularly very low tolerance for second hand embarrassment. Farscape can be frequently embarrassing, but the fact I'm still flailing about it after twenty something years despite that is kind of significant.

Because when it's good, it's so incredibly fucking high quality excellent. It's got all the chemistry, all the high stakes heists and the high melodrama sacrifice, all the dealing with grief and trauma and how do you deal with a legacy of repeated genocide and fascism. Everyone is a space criminal on a stolen sentient prison ship. What the fuck even is the greater good. How do you deal with being a parent. Most of the cast are emoting through inch thick layers of foam latex and the other half are wearing fetish gear (OR THEY'RE PUPPETS. OR CGI ORGANIC SENTIENT SPACESHIPS), but they're really fucking good at said emoting and it's still heartbreaking. It's been twenty years and I will still start crying if I so much as hear the season three version of the theme tune (oh god the theme song evolution).

The silly episodes throughout season one are even weirder because it does pretty much find its feet straightaway with the pilot ep - it's snappy and emotional and charming and clever, and yes the tropes are there but the tropes didn't have quite the same level of tired significance back in 1999? I watched that first ep and was cackling over how fucking fantastic it was. It was such a refreshing change in 1999 that it sailed me through any of the occasionally dodgy stuff that followed.

It's also very very... Aussie, which to me covers a lot of the humour and the sheer demented glee of what the creators wanted to run with? The cast has chemistry, in spades, and the characters flirt and fuck (and... one of them is a hot blue zen plant priestess who orgasms in bright light. Obviously.) and everything is just a little bit.. extra. It has an episode where everyone is a loony tunes cartoon. It has an episode inspired by A Clockwork Orange. It has small stabby robots. It's squelchy and makes fart jokes ALL THE TIME (mostly because one of the main puppets is a former emperor who farts helium and okay yep it's pretty funny. The other puppet is wise and kind and troubled and possibly complicit in war crimes. This fucking show I can't even).

...I'm just going to apologise for this essay, and say probably go read the Cat Valente thing because it includes much more key whether you should in fact watch Farscape information such as:

“They’re all gonna be Australian or Kiwi! Except for one guy! It’s basically gonna be a tour of Sydney’s underground club scene, even for the smallest parts! And I mean that, everyone is going to be wearing leather BDSM gear 24/7, even the heroes. I’M TELLIN’ YA WE GOT MAGDA SZUBANSKI! THIS THING IS GOLD! Literally, the whole color palette is like really gold. With most of a Crayola box taped on top of it. SPACE IS AUSTRALIAN NOW. ALL OF IT. DEAL WITH IT.”

there will be an almost unbelievable amount of goo involved. Like if there is a Goo Department, and anyone is left over after Nickelodeon’s job fair last week, we need all the goo.”

“Because of all the sex and violence that just barely doesn’t cross the decency lines we’re still kind of feeling out right now?”

“That, too. But mostly because we need all the makeup and then after we’re done turning regular humans a TON of nutbar colors, everything else is going to be just…dripping. All the time. Just drenched in slime. Good slime, bad slime, it will constantly be hard to say. But it’s like Coco Chanel always said, before you leave the house, look in the mirror and upend a bucket of colorful sludge over your head.”

[thealmightyemprex]

Sci Fi Month : The Cold Equations

First film of Sci Fi Month this year and we are doing a Sci Fi Channel original movie ,technically my second time reviewing one on this blog if we count Dog Soldiers ,but that one was a movie bought by the channel .Now for those who arent familiar with the Sci Fi channel or Syfy as its oknown now (For the record I am one of many people who despise the name and I will stubbornly call it the Sci Fi Channel ),started as a haven for Speculative Fiction fans showcasing classic Sci Fi/Fantasy /Horror TV and movies .Nowadays it is associated with some of the most beloved SF TV like Farscape ,Stargate SG1 ,The Expanse and the reboot of Battlestar Galactica .......But its also more infamously known for its TV movies,,,,,,Most of which are bad (Also for stuff like wrestling that has nothing to do with SF but thats a whole can of worms ).Now to be fair not all the Sci Fi Channel original movies are bad some like Dog Soldiers and the Bruce Campbell directed Man With a Screaming Brain are pretty darn great .How does this film Cold Equations shake out ? Wel lets find out

In this 1996 TV Movie ,a pilot John Barton(Bill Campbell ) goes on a mission to deliver medical supplies when he finds a stowaway Lee (Poppy Montgomery ),who hitched a ride to see her brother....Unknowingly endangering the mission by doing this,and Barton is given orders from his supperiors.....Dump the girl into space

So apparently this film is based on a short story ,that has been adapted a few times (Most notably in the 1980's Twilight Zone ).....Now I am curious how a shorter run time treats this tale cause it does feel a bit stretched for 90 minutes .I do like the film though ,its basically a two person play (There are other characters,namely Daniel Roebuck as Bartons buddy but the focus are Barton and Lee ) and I gotta say Bill Campbell and Popy Montgomery give good performances ,in that they aid in the way the film tricks you.See Barton starts out cold and mission first and Lee starts off kind of obnoxious ....But as the story goes the characters shift and the actors really pull off the change.Without spoiling it......This is a tragedy ,like a gut wrenching one.This is the story about the value of life and how sometime...YOu cant save everyone

Now I wont lie,if you are inspired to watch this (You can its on youtube ),and you dont like it......I get it .Pacing is wonky ,Lee can be a bit overbearing and .....It aint an upper .But I think the two lead performances and the underlying story make it work

Hidden gem to me and an example of a good Sci Fi Channel movie

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @the-blue-fairie @princesssarisa @minimumheadroom @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @countesspetofi

[borninwinter81]

About me

I thought I should make a pinned post which is slightly more in depth than my bio concerning general interests as I seem to have gained a few followers, and in case any of them have a wish to know!  This is not definitive and will likely get added to over time when I have the thought “how could I possibly have forgotten X”.

Music:          Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad/Casualties of Cool Ulver Alcest Agalloch Gojira Cattle Decapitation It’s a safe bet that I’ll probably enjoy anything which could be labelled post-punk or goth, particularly if it originates in the 80s or 90s. Ditto for 90s metal (reminds me of my teen years!) Most classic rock from the 70s or 80s (my parents brought me up on this) Industrial and aggrotech. Classical music, including opera 1950s and 60s rock and roll Many genres of extreme metal, like black metal, death metal, funeral doom, goregrind etc.

Recently a friend has been getting into Black Metal having never listened to it before, and it's been causing me to rediscover my love of that genre as well as find a few new artists that I've never heard before 😁

Authors:  Edgar Allan Poe (also fits under poets) Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Stephen King Joe Hill JRR Tolkien Robin Hobb Brian Lumley Clive Barker Way too many more to count – I read A LOT

Poets: William Blake (see my Good Omens/Blake posts here and here) Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Milton Christina Rosetti Walt Whitman

Shakespeare plays (having a literature degree, I feel like I should know more Shakespeare, nonetheless the ones I am familiar with I absolutely love): Hamlet (loved it since the Mel Gibson version, and I have seen many since!) Macbeth Richard II (not only because of David Tennant, but also Fiona Shaw, hers was the first version I saw of it). A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Movies:  12 Monkeys Bladerunner Subspecies movie series Nightbreed (Cabal Cut for preference!) Dredd (2012) Only Lovers Left Alive Pan’s Labyrinth (honestly anything by Del Toro really, but this one especially!) Donnie Darko Franklyn The Green Mile Dark City One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Schindler's List Mad Max: Fury Road (the others too, but this is my favourite) Again, loads more than I’m not listing, I love movies

TV Shows: Good Omens The Sandman Star Trek (all versions, but particularly TNG and DS9) Farscape Blake's 7 Classic Dr Who (I do like the new stuff, but pre-Eccleston will always be my favourite, it's probably a nostalgia thing) Spartacus Black Sails Sharpe Robin of Sherwood

General interests:            Charity shops/thrift store shopping Sewing Crochet General DIY/crafting as the mood takes me, particularly customising items that I buy at charity shops Pencil sketching (relearning to do this, I used to be pretty good when in school!) Tattoos/piercings

[dvandom]

Isekai commonalities

After giving a fair amount of thought to the matter, I think there's three main points that separate isekai from similar story types such as voyages of exploration.

The setting is substantially different from what the protagonist(s) are used to. Not merely a difference in culture, there's differences in how the world is assumed to work (magic, higher technology, psi, nonhuman sapients, etc).

The protagonist(s) arrives in a manner that is unusual and/or unintentional. They may be able to find their way back later for sequels, or even open up regular transport, although that changes the nature of the story if they do so.

The protagonist(s) brings one or more assets that are rare or absent in the world where they find themselves. This could be as simple is a fresh outlook on the situation which lets them find solutions the locals wouldn't think of, or something more overt like magical powers gained during the journey or enough knowledge to introduce technology to a low-tech world.

The rest is negotiable. The protagonist may remain in their own body, may be reborn in the local equivalent (such as Flynn in Tron), or be reborn as an entirely new person/monster/vending machine. It could be one-way (especially if they didn't so much take the bus as get run over by one), the story could end with returning home, or there could even be repeated visits during the course of which the protagonist has to decide how to split their time or if they should settle down in just one (Dorothy and Oz).

Point 3 does exclude some older stories that might be considered proto-isekai, such as Rip Van Winkle (1. The Future, 2. Magical Sleep) who doesn't really bring anything to the party IIRC. Fairy ring stories do hit all three points because mortals have flaws and virtues that the fair folk lack.

This whole line of thought was kicked off by someone else realizing that Big Trouble in Little China was an isekai, and I think it hits all three of my points, although #3 is a bit oblique.

Chinatown is not just culturally foreign to Jack Burton, there's the whole, "Oh yeah, there's actual magic here," thing.

Jack really just blunders into the whole thing. He didn't mean to get mixed up in Lo Pan's low plans or even spend a lot of time in Little China.

What does he bring? A fool's own luck and an outsider's arrogance, which end up breaking so many carefully laid plans through stupid good fortune. He does the thing the plan never anticipated because no one would be so STUPID.

Of course, Jack doesn't reincarnate, or even really change a whole lot thanks to his experience. He returns to his normal life on the road at the end (albeit with the promise of more weirdness in his near future). And frankly no one would believe his story.

Isekai can be further subdivided into categories alluded to above.

Odyssey: The goal is to get home, even if they never do. (Odyssey itself, Star Trek Voyager, Farscape, Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, etc.)

Just Visiting: Getting home may be a secondary goal, but there's something they want to do while in the other world, and are given reason to believe they can get home reasonably easily any time they really want. (A lot of the fairy ring stuff, Randolph Carter's dream quests, Tron.)

That Time I Got Reincarnated: For whatever reason, going home is not an option. Either literal reincarnation following death, a voluntary exile, or something else. The key point is that the story focuses on what to do now in this other world, because it's home now. (Star Trek Discovery they know they can't go home, all of the Truck-kun stories in modern Japanese-flavored isekai.)

First Contact: All of the isekai points are hit, but eventually the story progresses to the point that the two worlds become more connected and it stops being an isekai to travel between them. The 1980s Transformers cartoon started off as an isekai for the Cybertronians, but by the third season Earth has diplomatic relations with Cybertron and travel between the worlds is fairly normal if still uncommon and expensive.

[radiofreemultiverse]

DC Trivia 2 | Grand Trivia 142

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[karasbroken]

Kinktober is over, so I'm taking a break from the E-Rating tag for today's recommendation. Instead I'm calling on my Farscape mutuals to help me encourage a new writer!

You rarepair folks might like this one! A lovely member of the Farscape Discord I belong to was recently infected by a discussion we had about the great energy, comedic and otherwise, between Jool and Crais. The result was a three chapter fic (their first!) where... at least I'm pretty sure, they're going to annoy each other into bed.

For the "won't read incomplete" people, it's all written, the author is just planning to post a chapter a week. For the "um, Jool/Crais? What? No!" people, come on, aren't you a little curious? It makes more sense than Aeryn/Crais and we hate-read that, right? (Right? Not just me?) And this story is set in that rarely explored post-Fractures period, so everyone is on edge and angsting, which you know I love.

Go check out chapter 1, and leave a kudo or a comment for the writer if you're so moved. While you're there take a spin through the fandom tag! There's a few new or returning writers making fun (and spicy) stuff for us.

What Was Found by 18music18

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Rating: T, No Archive Warnings Apply

Words: 3,671  | Chapters: 1/3

Tags: Bialar Crais / Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis, Enemies to Lovers

Summary: In a routine supply run all hezmana breaks loose and the crew find themselves split and unable to reunite. Trapped alone in an abandon warehouse, Crais and Jool drive each other up the wall... until the point at which they don't?

“An order? Who are you to give me orders?” Jool’s voice was indignant. Some days Crais missed his time as Captain. While he appreciated his freedom from the shackles of the Peacekeepers, he missed the intolerance of insubordination, something that was far too common in his life at this point.

“Clearly you are incapable of making wise decisions on your own and in this situation-”. Crais was interrupted by the sound of an explosion. The market shook with the force and after a heartbeat of confusion, all hezmana broke loose. Suddenly people were swarming around them, screaming, chaos. Crais felt the crowd push towards him and shot his hand out, clamping it around Jool’s upper arm...

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

Man, the 90s and 2000s were the Wild fuckin West of TV sci-fi and fantasy, where the most batshit insane idea you've ever heard got at least a season to fuck around. The X-Files, Sliders, Quantum Leap, Farscape, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda/Earth Final Conflict, The Dresden Files adaptation, the Battlestar Galactica reboot franchise - not all of them were good, but holy shit did they exist and am I glad they did.

To be a bit more somber, I think that that's something we lost when we started to see the emergence (or, in the case of Star Trek, the re-emergence) of mega-franchises that dominate science fiction and fantasy. Sure, stuff like that is still out there, but it feels rare and rarer to find it.

That's it, really. I just had that thought and I figured it might be worth sharing. It'd be cool if you could recommend the weirdest stuff y'all are fans of since I'm always on the lookout for new, weird stuff.

[dangermousie]

Farscape rewatch - The Locket, 2x16

I am probably in the minority of being both a rabid John x Aeryn shipper and not being fond of this episode. It’s probably my least favorite ep this season except for Dream a Little Dream. Not sure why that is - perhaps because everything gets reset at the end of this episode in a way that it does not come to bear later. If it did not happen, nothing would change for anyone (with possible exception of Zhaan and Stark and even for them, it might just delay their relationship mildly at most.) But me being me, it does not mean I don’t have a ton to say. On the contrary.

It’s a bit ironic but in an ep known as a big John x Aeryn shipper episode, what brings me the most joy is the start of Zhaan x Stark, one of my favorite secondary OTPs in any shows. 

How could I not adore them? A former anarchist-assassin priestess who is also a wise earth mother type and supremely sensual being and over the edge of insanity and tortured by Scorpius for years, former Banik slave who helps the dying over to the next world? Who just work together perfectly? And it ends tragically? So so SO sold. Plus, Paul Goddard's voice makes me so weak in the knees I have no legs left.

It's funny because everyone loves Zhaan (how could you not?) but I remember Stark being such a polarizing character when the show aired. I confess to loving him. He is off the edge and off-kilter, but it makes perfect sense: even on Farscape, where it’s a tough competition, Stark wins the suckiest life award. I mean, he was in Aurora Chair dozens of times and we saw what it made of Crichton in a not nearly as many spins. And yet he still has compassion - he had it with Crichton in the chair, he searched the Moyans out to give D’Argo news of his son, and look at him be so kind to Aeryn:

And he is surprisingly together until he gets dispersed. And then he is much more off-kilter, and when he feels 10,000 of his people dying, killed by Scorpius, it doesn't help.

Whenever he gets any stability (as with Zhaan. He is quite normal with her) it gets yanked away. OMG, the bit in S&L when she basically tells him there is nothing he can do about her dying and just help her cross over and says he is an expert on dying, and he replies 'I am an expert on dying. I am just not an expert on you dying.'  Ohhhhhh...

And I still think that in a lot of ways, Zhaan/Stark is a mirror of John/Aeryn. With the woman the crazy guy's source of stability. Stark goes catatonic-mumbly when Zhaan dies which is a John thing to do. He sort of displaces onto Aeryn because Zhaan died for her.  He goes looking for Zhaan even though she is dead. These are all a John sort of thing to do. Only he doesn't have the happiness of having Zhaan back.  In some ways, Stark is John, complete with a dark streak (the way that he leaves Grunchlick frozen is rough justice but it's very dark) and passionate hate of the use of the helpless and hopeless love. Only years later and messed up a lot lot lot more than John (I still remember John telling Stark “she is my Zhaan” about Aeryn and it clicks for Stark, because of course it does.)

I love that he gets peace at the very end. One of my favorite things is that he is finally free of all the horror. And I am an optimist. Maybe one day he will find Zhaan  again. It's Farscape, anything can happen.

Oh, and I do love how alien the two of them can get:

(Those two clearly had a good time, heh.) 

OK, moving on to the non Zhaan x Stark stuff. This little moment is pretty awesome:

Indeed.

A moment that struck me is this one:

I think it strikes me so hard because this is such a constant for John. Aeryn comes back ancient and John has no idea what caused it or if it would do this to him or what danger he’d go into but it does not matter. She is in danger and that’s the sole thing that matters. Aging does not scare a man who went down to the Gammak Base in s1 to save her, saw his life  turn into neverending horror  as a result and that past experience and still does not let it give him even a moment of pause. John remains the same throughout - Aeryn’s safety trumps anything for him. It’s one constant no matter what else changes in him - in s4 he goes to the Scarran stronghold strapping a literal nuke to himself to rescue her. He has no stops when it comes to her and he never will.

The thing with the titular locket btw - I found it so interesting not that old Aeryn had John’s portrait in it and referred to it as the love of her life (not surprising) but that John ultimately did not want to look and see who it was because a man who was brave enough to walk into an enemy stronghold, to fight the Universe even, was not brave enough to look in case it was someone else. And how Farscape for him to find out only after her death (and once again, Farscape uses any opportunity to twist the knife; they make them old in giant part just to have her die in his arms, I swear.)

One bit of amusingness for me tho is Harvey’s frustration about being stuck in the middle of nowhere with crotchety old Crichton and nothing he could do about it.

But ulitmately everything gets undone and it ends on a surprisngly gentle note for this show. 

PS We begin to see the cracks in D’Argo x Chiana. It was a relationship that always made sense to me, in good days and bad - they were never compatible in some ways and I do think that their narrative really went through whether feelings and a hell of a sexual attraction is enough for them. (The thing with Jothee really was Chiana self-sabotaging in the most spectacular way because she was worried she was in too deep and because it was her subconscious telling her to pull the bandaid off before D’Argo did. Better leave than to be left. She really had enormous issues, like the rest of them, and nothing was ever magically easy.)

[nyalisa-landale]

I think my main problem with dawntrail's writing is that none of the characters have ever read a science fiction novel in their entire lives, because science fiction hasn't been invented yet on etheirys, so obviously they can't tell what's going on from a mile away even though I, the player, can. (more of me thinking through this, spoilers for the whole damn msq):

the problem is that my main wol is "me if I got isekaied into the game a year after I started playing it", and I have read several science fiction novels in my entire life, in addition to having been raised on a steady diet of farscape, stargate: sg1, and star trek: enterprise supplemented by tng and tos. so she's got plenty of "educated guesses", to borrow a phrase from the msq, about where all this is going.

but the story has to constantly repeat itself because gamers can't fucking read and a chunk of the playerbase still thinks garlemald was the good guys and a lot of the audience probably wasn't raised on the early sci-fi channel's offerings or the japanese equivalent (which I suspect is a steady diet of gundam). and the wol has never been written as one of the educated adults in the room; that's what we have the nerd squad for. and the wol waits around for them to do all the smart people stuff, except sometimes for a dialogue choice where one option is to prove you've been following the conversation just fine and the other is to ask alphinaud to explain in little words.

the game's always kind of been like this, and I like it just fine, but then you combine it with all the little stuff like how when the group splits up to do stuff, we're always paired with lamaty'i and never anyone else, with the Singular exception of shaaloani, which is also the most attention the story pays to erenville for its entirety even though his home was destroyed and his mom's fucking dead and now only lives in the matrix (I have not yet been to the matrix but I do know that it's zone 6, and I'm not hopeful of erenville getting the focus he should there). and krile! she was supposed to be a big player here, we literally learn about her past and where she came from, and she gets like five lines of dialogue per zone and all of them are super generic.* what's she thinking? how does she feel about all this? idk, maybe we'd find out if the story ever let us hang out with anyone other than lamaty'i!

and to be clear: I like lamaty'i! you can tell because I consistently only refer to her as lamaty'i instead of wuk lamat! I wanna take her on a world tour, ostensibly for Diplomacy but mostly because I think she'd have a great time and it would be super fun!

but like, I would like to be able to check in with all my other friends, too! and I know she's Extremely Orange Cat Coded but I'm pretty sure she, at the very least, should be like. checking in with erenville, her childhood friend???? the story keeps telling us they're friends, but it feels more like they're two kids whose parents were friends and who were therefore forced into each other's company a lot, but not like actual friends. like we know erenville was a fussy kid so him being really snarky kind of tracks, but when you combine it with lamaty'i's general lack of... idk, care? checking in? I mean, nobody's really checking in with erenville and seeing how he's handling things, and maybe it's because the scions just generally don't really know him very well but they do know he's pretty private and therefore think giving him space is best, and that if he's struggling he'll reach out. but lamaty'i and him are supposed to be actual friends, and until about three years ago when he left for sharlayan they seem to have been spending a lot of time together, even if it was just because erenville's mom dumped him at the palace so she could go run off and have adventures (cahciua doesn't seem to have been a very good mom tbh, but maybe zone 6 will change my opinion). like. lamaty'i should know erenville well enough to feel comfortable actually checking in on him and making sure he's all right. but she just. doesn't do that. which leaves the lingering impression that they're not actually friends.

(part of this is that nobody ever fucking touches anyone in this game. it's super super rare - see me yelling about somebody finally fucking hugging gulool ja earlier. I get that they don't like to rig anyone physically interacting with the wol, because they could be anywhere between lalafell and roegadyn or hrothgar-sized and that's fucking awkward and a pain in the ass, but lamaty'i reads as a super physical person and even her just bumping shoulders with erenville once or twice and like. having one singular moment with erenville where she's like "I'm here for you" and gives him a reassuring bicep squeeze would go a long fucking way to establishing them as people who actually like each other.)

* literally nothing about the story so far would change if krile had been like some random orphan from the isle of val and just. found an old letter to her grandpa from gulool ja ja containing the earring and decided to go see what all that was about. if the two lalas from alexandria had just smuggled out the key and the earring, instead of those AND their baby. hell, she doesn't even have to be galuf's adopted granddaughter, she's just The Only Person Who Survived Val Disappearing so she's in charge of the students now! here's this letter to our organization's founder from across the globe, let's go see what that's all about! but she is his adopted granddaughter, and also g'raha's foster sister, another relationship that dawntrail has seemingly entirely forgotten about. although I suppose it doesn't matter, since krile sure doesn't seem to have any kind of emotions or even really reactions to learning about her original parents or where she came from, so what would she need reassurance from her literal older brother for? (unrelated I hate hate hate that krile's one of the youngest scions even though she's so extremely older sister coded. she's only older than the twins and maybe tataru? it just doesn't make sense to me.)

SO ANYWAY I think my ultimate conclusion for alisa being so blasé about plot developments and probably being stoned the whole msq because goddammit she's on vacation, is that aside from zoraal ja thinking he's zenos and definitely not being zenos, alisa has correctly identified sphene's entire deal as being shadowbringers writ small, and sphene's definitely not emet-selch, so alisa can just kinda hang out and let lamaty'i prove her mettle and only jump in if she asks to use a lifeline. this is a problem to be solved by having eight warm bodies to throw at it, not a problem that actually Requires the warrior of light. I almost even wanna take off her serious title since she's not taking this very seriously, but I know it's going to become relevant later because I couldn't stop clicking on spoilers lol