#saving this for future reference bc i wanna examine this trope more and i really do think its become a podcast trope
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loving the fact that "anti establishment morally righteous queer spaceship family" is quickly becoming a trope in podcasts
#theres already sub types of characterization without making the characters too similar and i love that so much#theres the wlw emotionally mature captain who is not without her flaws and is a great leader (buddy/minkowski/lovelace/tripathi)#a loud sarcastic cynical anti establishment bisexual (eiffel/juno/arcady/jacobi to some extent)#the protag whos smart but kinda really doubts themselves and newly joined the crew and is fitting in--kinda juno/peter/violet/lovelace agai#the functional gay (maxwell/the dwarvian on the rumour whos name idk how to spell/jet and rita too)#the soft one that everyone feels like they have to protect (rita and brian and the 2 scientists on lovelace's hepheastus)#in functional also the australian engine guy from lovelace's crew#anyway my point has been made#admintalks#x#saving this for future reference bc i wanna examine this trope more and i really do think its become a podcast trope#i haven't even touched eos 10 in this trope yet but the new doc (forgot his name) is the protag the hardcore wlw nurse is in#is in juno/arcady category i guess? but also functional gay#and the hypochondriac prince is like rita whom everyone wants to protect#im gonna shut up now#also for reference the podcasts im talking about: the strange case of starship iris#eos 10#the penumbra podcast#and wolf 359#for future reference i have some other space themed podcasts saved that i will analyse wrt to this later#like ars paradoxica and diary of a space archivist#and girl in space#those are the ones i can rmb rn#mine
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