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Ok we need to take about spaceships. I love sci-fi, and I love the CONCEPT of spaceships as much as the next guy, but we need to start being creative. A spaceship can be literally ANYTHING, so why can we only imagine them as giant hunks of metal? Our present is getting in the way of our imagination!!! Like look at these ships
They’re all gorgeous right! But also they’re all different archetypes of the same model. Let’s think big!!!!
Anyways this post was an excuse to post my favorite spaceship from all time, the Black Moon Clan’s ship from the second season of Sailor Moon:
LIKE????? Of COURSE a space ship can be a giant fucking crystal!!!!
LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!! LOOK HOW FOREBODING IT LOOKS DESCENDING ONTO HUMANITY FROM THE CLOUDS!!!
I’ve seen/read so much sci-fi, and yet not ONE of the space ships has this much creativity and uniqueness in design. And the interior too! (Ignore the crucified sailors they got better)
I’m so upset that I haven’t seen anything else play with the sci-fi genre w/ respect to spaceships as much as Sailor Moon did in 1993, which was literally 30 yrs ago 🙄
Hopefully we’ll have more open minds in the future
#Black Moon Spaceship from Sailor Moon my Beloved#I will hug and kiss all of your spikes#I’d do that any day before giving respect to the scraps of metal sci-fi sells to us as spaceships anyways😔#anyways if anyone has any more unique spaceships pls lmk or add them like feel free#my niche nerd ass topic of the day#spaceships#scifi#sci fi#sailor moon#sailor moon r#black moon clan#who asked?#sm#I feel like in general#sailor moon doesn’t get enough credit for its sci fi#like the black moon stuff and future crystal Tokyo#the mad scientist witch coven bringing about the apocalypse in S#and then stars with the galaxy wide war of sailors#like this was such good scifi!!!!#anyways I digress#sailor moon meta
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GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).
#mass effect#mass effect fanart#garrus vakarian#mass effect garrus#castis vakarian#solana vakarian#turians#alien#palaven#artists on tumblr#illustration#art#scifi#video games#milkyart#garrus retro#I want to make more of these so I'm giving it a tag#headcanons go as such:#turians have a downy coat from birth to toddler age after which actual feathers develop - which molt during puberty.#they're the color of the plates since feathers are modified scales! so for the vakarian siblings they're silvery.#child garrus playing spectre - solana already annoyed by it back then. but hey at least he's using sources for his make believe? nerd#first time castis takes him shooting it's a live target. have fun kid I hope this won't awaken anything in you or do irreparable damage#castis voice: I didn't raise him like this!#well buddy someone did.#also - hard to see but the leaves and tree trunks have a metallic sheen :-)#god this took SO LONG ive never done something quite like this before! also wanted to do landscape for once.#social media is so hostile to this format but I think 3 images is a good workaround#will make a detail post later on... the faces are probably getting fried by tumblr :(#oh I gave castis the comic markings. they look way better and imo make more sense. and we don’t talk about me:a here
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The Tingler (1959) -- dir. William Castle
#vincent price#the tingler#william castle#scifi horror#scifi#science fiction#classic movies#classic horror#this movie is so bonkers but its so good#highly recommend#i wanna crawl on vinny like that#work my way up... if u know what i mean#fuck hes hot#so sexy#bicon#bisexual#horror#old horror movies#vintage#hnnng#movie#actor#handsome#gif#gifs made by me#gif set#gifs#my gifs
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Day 8 - The birth
Tip jar
#neomorph#xenomorph#alien#xenomorphs#alien covenant#aliens#alien 1979#alien fanart#alien franchise#hr giger#giger#gore#horror#scifi#monster#teratophillia#terato#artists on tumblr#art#inktober#inktober 2024#inktober challenge#illustration#digital art#fanart#my art#fucking weird fetus yay#if it makes others uncomfortable then i drew good#like i want to be able to also scare with my art
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was trying to find inspiration / concept art of robits and androids and maybe body horror w wires and shit but i kept finding exclusively just Robot Girl Art with the rcdart captain america body proportions
these are the same picture. also just a bunch of AI bloat clogging up my search results lol
#dies. lays down and fucking dies#nobody ever needs to draw this body type ever again. it's so overplayed#it's ok i did eventually find some actually good art that's been helping me get my cogs turning!!!!!!!#i always do Nature stuff i'd like to try robots and machinery or at least. try it out a little. scifi stuff.#sergle.txt#everyone stop RELYING ON THIS BODY TYPE FOR CHARACTER DESIGNS... can we do something else i'm bored#i tried this already like a week ago and felt so much disappointment seeing that exact image that i closed the tab and gave up#whatever the opposite of artistic inspiration is...
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every time i see that "star wars would be so good if it was good" post i write another Threadspace chapter
#scifi drama with lots of lesbians and actual politics happening in it. but also laser swords. stealing the like 4 cool aspects of star wars#and putting them in a good story
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My Favorite Detail in Farscape is [Spoilers!]
Ok for real spoilers for the entire show including Peacekeeper Wars, so I'll put a gif here and you all agree to scroll on past if you don't want spoilers for a show that ended in 2004.
Ok, so for everyone still here, my all-time favorite detail in Farscape is one that I didn't catch until my second watch-through, and I don't think it's common knowledge in the fandom. (Edit: apparently it's more commonly known about then I realized! Obviously this is because Farscape fans are keen-eyed and insightful and starved for content lol). It's certainly never mentioned or pointed out in the show itself. But it's just so perfect that I get giddy everytime I think about it.
So after Crichton gets twinned, in "Thanks for Sharing," Crichton A gets injured in the bar explosion on that planet that puts lobsters on your head. He is left with a cut above his left eyebrow, and the resulting scar can be used to tell the two Crichtons apart for the rest of season 3 (Crichton A is the one on Talyn with Aeryn).
Wound in "Thanks for Sharing"
Scar visible on Crichton A
No scar on Crichton B aboard Moya.
(Also frell me it's hard getting clear pics / gifs for this show somebody get on that)
Anyway, the scar/injury is never really addressed after that first episode, it's just a super-subtle costuming detail that shows the two Crichtons are now living separate lives. Crichton A then dies after finally achieving everything he ever wanted, Aeryn is heartbroken, drama ensues. The question is raised and discussed often, with much angst: which Crichton was the real one? Did Aeryn fall in love with the original or the copy?
Of course, Crichton B eventually accepts that they were both "him" and yet both individuals too, and Aeryn eventually says "There is no longer any difference in my mind." So it's resolved, mostly.
BUT.
2.5 seasons later, at the end of "The Peacekeeper Wars" Crichton B finally activates the wormhole weapon. After Einstein unlocks the knowledge for him, he returns to Moya bloody and hurt. And for the rest of the movie, he has a wound, and then a scar--a small cut above his left eyebrow.
It's never mentioned. It happens right near the end, when obviously a lot of other things are going on. It's really, super easy to miss. But I think it's amazing. They both really were the real Crichton. And even when they split and began leading separate lives--their destiny was still the same. The timelines reunited, kinda, or two separate possible outcomes synced up. It's such a beautiful, perfect bow to wrap up one of the most emotionally powerful arcs in the show. I just love it. Farscape really is in a league of its own.
#farscape#john crichton#aeryn sun#Deep media analysis#long post#scifi#You guys this show is so frelling good#Nothing else like it#I still can't watch S3 without crying#Props to the makeup team idk whose idea it was but they did a good job
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - 1x02
#mlomedit#monarchlegacyofmonstersedit#monarch: legacy of monsters#monarch legacy of monsters#cate randa#may olowe-hewitt#not sure if that's her last name but a random article said so#anna sawai#kiersey clemons#monarch legacy of monsters 1x02#monarch legacy of monsters spoilers#cate x may#femslash related stuff#but subtext#reporting for shipping any two women interacting duty#I feel like this isn't impossible right?#given apple actually is quite good with queerness but especially their scifi#and it's kiersey clemons#also I don't care for kentaro#>_>#I have my ship picked out in each timeline
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Riot Kings, page 196
first // prev // next
#you tell em babygirl 👏#riotkings#LOVE the part where im rewriting my script as i come to the page and just hoping it all lines up askdhsjd#the fun (horrible) part about webcomics is that they're SO hard to edit once it's come out so it's like. wow. good luck me#hope that plot line pans out lolol#196#comic#scifi
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gem's ability to completely stop scar in his tracks when he's talking about star wars by just asking (seemingly) innocuous questions is incredible
#hey scar is star wars like basically just a romcom?#girl who has never seen a movie vs guy who has seen all the movies#geminitay#goodtimeswithscar#gtws#hermitcraft#see my opinion on star wars is it isn't really my thing#except for rogue one. which is just a really good film#i'm generally not a huge scifi fan either its kinda a hit or miss for me
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the gridlock episode of dw confidential where they were explaining how much excessive effort they put into tryna make a kitten say "mama" THAT is it. thats what scifi is all about. give me the lunacy
#doctor who#gridlock#not saying that to make good scifi u have to spend hours tryna make a cat meow in a certain way for one joke but yes you do#they were like we NEED this cat to say mama#for the immersion
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Hi Bel! If YOU could make an expansion, what would you theme it around?
I've been thinking about this ask for 2 days and I still don't know, there are so many things I would want to go into it. It's impossible for me to choose. Possibly my biggest interest is exploring the universe in some way and uncovering its history.
Instead, I am asking all of YOU what would you theme an expansion around. Put it in the tags.
#destiny 2#ask#one of the things i would like is more on the vex and especially VOLANTIS. LET ME GO THERE#i would make an entire expansion about this 100%#i thought also maybe some of the more niche lore stuff like the aphelion but i actually don't want it. i want it to be a mystery forever#like i won't be mad if it happens but i prefer some stuff to remain strange and unknowable. not everything needs an explanation#same thing with exploring the universe. i would like some stuff explored but not all#some of it has to stay forever out of reach#otherwise the setting ends up feeling too small. good scifi knows when to stop. destiny has been really good with it so far
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Day 5: Sci-Fi 👽
@sanusoweek
Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 3 || Day 4 || Day 5 || Day 6 || Day 7
#usopp acting like the boss when he's the new recruit is so canon for me#sassy usopp#suit usopp#sanji didn't know how good usopp would look#sanuso scifi au#sanuso men in black#sanuso week#sanuso#sanji x usopp#usopp x sanji#usopp fanart#op fanart
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I tried to watch Star Trek The Motion Picture again. I figure it's been about a decade. Maybe I'll like it this time. Nope. Still boring. It looks great. I wish the other five original crew films had such a budget. But, man, it's so dull.
The Spirk is strong and it's great. It's not even my primary ship but I can't deny it. Jim achingly in love with Spock and wanting him to feel what they once had again. And of course the sick bay scene and 'this simple feeling.' All of that is A+
Also McKirk. 'I need you, Bones. Badly.' Okay, Kirk, don't play hard to get or anything.
Sadly, there's like an hour and 50 minutes of nothing surrounding it.
#star trek tmp#tos#james t kirk#spock#leonard mccoy#spirk#mckirk#i'm sorry if you like it#i guess i'm just not a good scifi fan#i'm just a fan of these characters
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Human space has always been large. Generations ago when ftl was first invented humans used it to create far off colonies, but then those colonies created colonies, and so on and so fourth, until nobody even knew where human space ends.
You were on an exploratory mission, and your ship ended up flung way further and faster out into the universe than you thought you could go, and ended up way past what you wanted to explore. You were lucky to still be in human space, but the culture was entirely unknown.
The first system you went to was filled with humans wearing hoods and masks, and clothing that covered their entire bodies. When they met you they made you wear the same clothing as them, and you quickly learned that in the local cluster of planets any skin being shown was completely taboo, even the smallest inch on any part of the body. The closest they had to revealing clothing were tighter fitting garments, and more humanoid masks. They started helping you repair your ship, but it would take a few years.
And while you were there it seemed strange at first. You felt sad for the mask wearers, knowing that people would never know the appearance of their closest freinds, their siblings, their parents. Even eating was strange, being done with the same privacy as a shower would be on your planet. It felt as if the masked people had lost some element of humanity.
As time went on, and as you got used to wearing their clothing it stopped feeling that way though. You had close freinds on those planets now, and you found it weird to want to see their faces, it would be weird to, perhaps it was better with them choosing how they looked. And soon the idea of someone having an exposed face seemed weird, at least it was when you left. Part of you wished they hadn't fixed your ship, you had a life there. But they did, and you left.
When you got to your ship again you spent months avoiding pirates and androids before getting to your next safe planet. When you got there the people looked strange, most of them had prosthetic body parts, many of them looking so cut up that they didnt even look human. You learned that it was the custom there in those local systems, to slowly remove body parts as people aged, until they completely lacked biological forms, and were purely mechanical beings.
The custom was horrifying to you for your first few weeks there. And you knew it would be awhile since your ship needed fuel. People celebrated their first amputation, discarded limbs would be preserved like baby teeth, and it was all so casual a mutilation. You knew a young woman there who would talk so cheerfully about how they were going to remove the bottom part of her face, and how excited she was. You couldn't bare to look at anyone.
But as months became years, and you had a job as a professor of far off cultures, you began to understand. Not agree but understand. They could live forever, and never be disabled by old age. Children could visit their great great grandparents. And soon the amputations that disgusted you became commonplace enough to ignore. You even agreed to have a broken arm replaced, as so few doctors knew how to mend one. But you left, and you wept as you left, for all the people you'd never see again.
It took you awhile to find a habitable planet again. You were lonely for a time. And when you found one again it was like a drowning person finding water. The people in the new planet you found looked strange, they were hairless and androgynous, many of them either underweight or chubby, or somehow both, and all with a softness to them. Pretty soon you found out that their civilization reproduced using machines, and removed their children's testicles or ovaries as soon as possible, never letting them go through puberty.
Even having seen many worlds these people disturbed you. Their bodies were so broken looking, being so obviously incomplete to you. They thought of you as an oddity but they didn't even know what was taken from them. None of them had or desired sex, their genitals remaining childlike and useless, and because of that they were naïve to any hint of sexuality, they'd shadow publicly, and it was normal for friends to kiss and cuddle naked. It felt as if they had lost so much of what made someone human, and like you had no way of telling them.
But as time went on it too became normal. Even though you told yourself it wasn't. Sex seemed weird and useless when nobody had it, and bodies seemed normal when they were the only kind around. You thought they were missing something at first but they just weren't, they were as human as you, they could still live full lives. And in time it was all ok. After spending years there you ended up with a wife there, and though you never were allowed to have sex you loved eachother. But you eventually left, you had to, even though your wife wept as you said goodbye, it was in your nature to leave after years as it was in their nature to castrate children.
You've come to your next planet now, and they seemed to be serving human flesh alongside all the normal meats like pig and cow. It's disturbing to your right now but your sure it'll all be normal in time. Everything is normal in time.
#196#worldbuilding#writing#my worldbuilding#my writing#scifi writing#scifi worldbuilding#scifi#sci fi writing#sci fi worldbuilding#sci fi#science fiction writing#science fiction worldbuilding#science fiction#science fantasy#short fiction#short stories#short story#flash fiction#original fiction#original story#cyborgs#futurism#human civilization#social commentary#sci fi and fantasy#space exploration#spaceship#I dont know if your supposed to agree with the explorer at the beginning or at the end these cultures shouldn’t be demonized#but its also probably not a good idea to accept everything as normal nomatter what it is as long as society likes it
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i used to be of the opinion that actors (particularly in scifi/fantasy media) tend to give better and more memorable performances when they understand the story and genre and feel somewhat passionately about it. and then i remembered Catherine Tate giving some of the best performances on Doctor Who, helping to make one of the most memorable characters, and she still doesn't really know what a Dalek is. and that really makes me rethink my former opinion.
#to be clear this is not a dig at catherine tate at all shes brilliant#and its SHOCKING that donna is pretty much her only non-comedy role because shes an outrageously good actress#and has so much range#doctor who#new who#catherine tate#my posts#idk i feel like ive seen certain actors say their performances fell short because its not their genre or whatever#and ive never acted so i feel like i cant weigh in that much but also ive seen plenty of good performances from people who dont “get” scifi
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