#spacecapades?

[johnandrasjaqobis]

🔮 - Is there a magic system? Explain how it works, 👀 - A piece of lore you’ve been waiting for an excuse to share, for wip(s) of your choice, tell meeee

THANK U FRIEND (wip ask game)

🔮 - No magic system to speak of in either of space things, just a lot of much more advanced tech. The closest things would probably be spacecapades having FTL travel (at least in one system) and discverse having the ability to just upload A Whole Person into a new body

👀 - for spacecapades,, tbh i never remember what lore I've shared around here and what I've just ranted about to my discord friends but. One of their main specializations in tech is minimal loss failsafes. If one part of the underground settlements gets breached, it just fully seals itself from the rest. All large stations have similar measures, as do the dome cities though those are a bit tougher given their size.

and for discverse. it's kinda specific to my boy but there is a glitch with the discs that can do the aforementioned Upload a Whole Person (not the only possible glitch but one of the rarer ones); generally new body means entirely fresh slate, at least depending on the state of said new body. but sometimes someone (Jordan) can have lingering phantom pains from whatever trauma killed them the last time. If he got shot in the shoulder the new shoulder will still hurt for a few days. Most people who have that glitch don't even notice it because they aren't in a line of work that involves frequent violent deaths, so there hasn't been much research on it. Jordan just grits his teeth and deals.

[midnightwinterhawk]

10/10 would read this space fic

Belated title ask: "Always One Foot On the Ground"

SPACE AU.

There are two kinds of people in the galaxy: those who grew up on planets & space stations, with gravity, and those who grew up on spaceships, with none. (No one ever figured out the tech to make gravity work on ships.) If you grew up without gravity, you can’t spend longer than a few days in gravity because something something biology, organ disintegration, lungs closing up, idk. Folks from planets can spend as much time as they like in no gravity without ill effects.

Clint grew up in space, on a ship with evil circus-types, and then in the SHIELD spaceforce.

Bucky grew up on a moon called Brooklyn, then was kidnapped by evil space Nazis and made to do evil space crimes on their evil spaceship. By the time Steve rescues him, his brain has heavily associated no gravity and being tortured, so he refuses to ever go without gravity again, even for short hops between planets. He settles on the major central planet where SHIELD is based and does planet-based missions for them.

And then he meets Clint. IDK, they both work for SHIELD and there’s a mission that needs a planet-sider and a space-floater, so they work together, kick ass, go to a bar to celebrate, go a bit too far, fuck like bunnies. And then Clint has to go back to space for his health, and Bucky is all sad, but stoic.

They see each other a few other times, and end up fucking for most of them. They exchange the space equivalent of phone numbers and go nuts on Space WhatsApp and Space Skype, getting closer and closer while both clinging to denial that it’s just friendship and fuckbuddying. When they meet up, Clint starts pushing how long he stays in gravity, despite the ill effects on his health.

And then Clint gets captured by space bad guys on a mission and disappears. The Avengers immediately get ready to go after him in the space quinjet that Bucky never goes on, because he stays planet-side all the time, no exceptions, stop asking, Stevie.

Except, this time, it’s Clint. And he has to face facts, he feels a lot more for Clint than just friendship, how can he leave him to be space tortured and not try and rescue him?

So he turns up for the mission, glaring at everyone, goes into space, has minor panic attacks about the lack of gravity and all that, but when they catch up with the ship that captured Clint, all that gets swept away by his determination to get him back.

He fucks up the space bad guys, rescues Clint, and gives him the best classic end-of-movie smooch that he can manage with no gravity. Clint is fairly pleased by the whole thing. Declarations of love are made.

They head back to the main planet where SHIELD is and where Bucky has been living, and Clint comes down for as long as he can before the gravity starts to hurt him. When it’s time for him to go back, Bucky doesn’t want to let him go.

So he goes with him. After all, why does he need one foot on the ground when being with Clint makes him feel like he’s flying?

They live space happily ever after.

[drink-up-dreamers]

An assortment of first-pass thoughts on season four of The Expanse, in no particular order:

I was prepared not to like it. Platform switches are not often the harbinger of good TV. I ultimately felt ambivalent about it. There are parts that I enjoyed (Miller/Protomolecule, the schisms within the OPA as it started to come into its own as a unified power, the tense peace between the UN and OPA). But mostly, it watched like six episodes stretched into ten.

I am mostly interested in the OPA, but here it felt very thin, like it consisted of Drummer and Ashford, occasionally some other random pirates from Central Casting, and Inaros. I wanted meetings and yelling and communication. I wanted negotiation and people struggling to overcome an entire lifetime of conditioning and socialization in order to embrace a new way forward, with all the stumbling that entails. I do love Drummer’s ability to think and adapt, even though she disappears in the last few episodes.

I appreciated the little glimpses into society on Earth and Mars, which were hinted at but not explored in earlier seasons.

That said, literally everything that happened on Mars could have been cut.

I loved Elvi! She’s smart and thoughtful, saved everyone’s ass, and has just had some sort of weird god-eye experience. I wish she’d had it before the end of the season so we could see the effects, but no luck. Maybe I’ll have to muscle my way through one of the books to find out.

Chrisjen’s plot was terrible. She was isolated with no one to talk to, her husband was recast as an advisor who only vaguely cares about her, and her plot consisted mostly of doing things she didn’t want to do to keep a position she didn’t ask to have. She essentially served as a recipient of information sent to Earth, and had no effect on the course of the season after sending Holden. She could have not been in the season at all, and nothing substantive would have changed.

I didn’t worry about consequences in this season. Problems cropped up (the Barbapiccola losing altitude, the shockwave/tsunami, etc.) and then were solved quickly, or with a minimum of adjustment needed. Maybe Plan A didn’t work, but Plan B did. The Belters didn’t lose their ore. The “good guys” and “bad guys” were really clear. Maybe a few Belters and RCE people died, but it’s not like we knew any of them. Obviously Ashford was going to die, so it was anticlimactic.

Murtry wasn’t frightening. Obviously he was going to lose. There is a good way to do his character, but this isn’t it. I wanted George Hearst from season 3 of Deadwood, and instead I got some guy from Blackwater.

The pacing was all over the map.

It felt like a first draft. The last scene of the last episode should have been the last scene of, like, episode 8. Do something interesting late in the season, not at the absolute end.

Everything inside the structure was so...sci-fi. The neurotoxin-emitting slugs. The blindness. The magical solution to the blindness via anti-cancer meds that of course they could synthesize easily. The lack of conflict or panic. The fact that once again, no one important died by accident or suddenly.

Basically this all boils down to: Not enough mystery or intrigue. Too much action-adventure sci-fi.

All this said, I did enjoy parts of it, and I didn’t hate it. If there’s more, I’ll watch it - I’m already so invested. But if this were the first season, I don’t know if I’d watch more.

[lewonald]

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[1979semifinalist]

Oh wow, Remy's supportive speech FLOORED ME. Such strange, happy noises escaped me involuntarily and I am so excited for their party!

Thank you! Yeah, I really love this issue and I’m so glad people are responding to it. I think it brings a lot of things to a close nicely while pushing Gambit and Rogue forward and opening up more threads. They got a lot of craziness headed their way...hang onto your butts! ;D

[novossamples]

Listen/purchase: DukeDOMO - Spacecapades by LOUDHOUSE

[michiopa]

“Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.”

@johnandrasjaqobis tagged me because she’s an ass

uhhhh I’m horrible at actually finishing or publishing fics so here goes

1) Tell Me When You Run (Fallout 4, various ships)

So only chapter 1 is published but I have a lot of stuff written and listen, my railroad survivor, Emma, is a mess. She too secretive and falls in love too easily but she’s trying. It’s going to feature all three of Emma’s romantic relationships (which involves polyamory) as well as a generous side helping of Nick/Deacon because I love them.

2) Kiss or Slap (original fic)

A fun lil snapshot of mine and Sarah’s original characters from her spacecapades universe. The characters are all co-workers on a retreat and they play kiss or slap.

3) 15 Messages (Marvel, Steve/Maria)

What is probably the most depressing thing I’ve ever written? I certainly think so at least. A series of voicemails left on Maria Hill’s phone after she dies. 

4) Lies (Helix, Sergio/Anana)

lmao the other super angsty thing i wrote because even tho I love Sergio and Anana to pieces they must suffer. Also this was me trying to cope with the not great season 2 canon.

5) Wood and Wildfire (ASOIAF, Rickon/Shireen)

probably my favorite asoiaf thing that i’ve written. it shows its age being one of my very first fics but i still like it.

to tag others let’s go with @draganchitsa @dresupi @jonnmurphy and any other writers that happen to follow me!

[seanmeverett]

Get Superhuman Abilities with Biohacking

How people are already implanting tech into their bodies to do things nobody else can

I. Setting the Stage

Unpacking our Superhuman Augmentation thesis, there are two alternative approaches. The first is that we try to mimic ourselves in machines. We build software and robotics that look, feel, and act biologic in nature. The other side of that is changing our own bodies by implanting machinery. We put metal and plastic in our knees and our hips. We put pacemakers in our heart.

For thousands of years, human beings have been augmenting their own bodies. We pierce our ears, paint our faces, and even rip into our flesh to make things bigger (boobs and butts) or smaller (bellies).

We, as a society moved from fat as an aphrodisiac when everyone was poor and emaciated in the middle ages to athletic as an aphrodisiac when everyone is lazy and fat in the current ages.

Humans tend to flip-flop on what’s fashionable as the years go on. But lately we seem to be obsessed with a different kind of augmentation. Disney, Marvel, and Lucasfilms are all profiting from stories of humans with super abilities.

This dude can fly, this dude is super smart, this gal has a laser lasso, and this little green guy has a plasma sword.

We’re obsessed with our phones because they make us feel superhuman. We’re obsessed with lifehacking because we’re trying to make more money, get smarter faster, or become hashtag Instagram models.

Incidentally, it’s also why our population is obsessed with Artificial Intelligence and Augmented or Virtual Reality. Because it lets us live inside a world where we can be superhuman. Like the Holodeck on Star Trek, we all want to get beamed up.

The AirPods improve our hearing while the AR Goggles improve our sight.

But some altruistic individuals have begun moving some of this outer-body technology soft exoskeleton superpowers back inside their bodies.

II. Defining Biohacking

Colloquially referred to as Grinding, it takes the hacker mindset beyond mechanical software and hardware and aims it squarely at their biology. In its most simple terms, you hack your body to get better performance. It sounds weird until you read the two examples I’m about to give you, that you’re likely already doing.

Coffee: You drink it in the morning or the afternoon to “wake up” and feel more productive. You just hacked your biology.

Music: You listen to it while working out to get amped up, during Christmas to get in the spirit, or in a car after work to destress. In every case, you’re hacking your biology. Incidentally, Music as a Control Mechanism is another of our theses.

I bet you never realized you were so cutting edge. This concept is becoming more mainstream as we speak. Remember the Apple Watch’s new Breath mode? That’s also biohacking.

If you take the breathing concept to its logical conclusion, you’ll get into the meditation space. There’s plenty of scientific evidence to back up the positive mental and health benefits of meditation, which we won’t get into here, but rest assured that reducing the constant distraction and interruption caused by obsessively checking our phones is a good thing.

But that’s not so much what this research is about. Where we really need to head is to the place where we’re physically modifying our bodies for superhuman abilities.

For that, we need to delve into the dark corners of the internet.

III. Leveling Up Your Biohack

It’s not for the faint of heart. The first example we’ll share with you is one you may have come across already, originating from a site called Science for the Masses. This is where they lay out procedures and scientific research for modifying their own biological systems.

In this first example, the founder of the site, named Gabriel Licina, attempts to “shine his eyes” like our too fast, too furious friend, Vin Diesel.

The Chronicles of Riddick’s “shine job”

This was nearly two years ago, when they used a cancer treatment chemical, Chlorin e6, dropped into the eyes. The retina absorbs it and aids in the ability for low levels of light to be detected, and therefore let people see better at night.

You can read more about the exact night vision biohacking procedure on their website. Interestingly enough, the experiment worked that night. They used a control subject who hadn’t had his eyes shined to compare and contrast what could and couldn’t be seen. Some people hid behind some trees and the shined eye guy saw them while the control person did not.

Not the most unbiased and large sampled scientific experiment ever made, but it shows the potential, and sets a precedent.

Gabriel Licina attempting to get night vision eyes, just like our superhero movie friends.

What starts as a cool concept in a movie, ultimately turns into a product. Tech will always change, but humans never will.

Another example is to inject an RFID chip into your hand to have a door just open when you get to it, authenticating you as a secure entrant, which would replace a keyring full of keys. Also log into your computer with your hand. You might have noticed the Apple Watch copied this friction removal along with the latest Mac OS.

IV. Where This Is Headed

There’s an idea at the end of the above video for an NFC chip embedded in your ring finger that will let you share your contact details. Imagine shaking hands with someone new and automatically exchanging contact information as well.

There’s extra-sensory perception like implanting magnets or a compass that lets you feel which direction is north.

The AirPods we put into our ear are using vibrations along our jaw line to send audio vibrations back and forth between the machine and the human. Eventually, as the video alludes to, this will be inside the body, not external pods you stick in and out of your ear.

What’s interesting with the Apple Watch and the AirPods was that both of these products were predicted with Biohacking as Superhuman Augmentation.

We’ve talked previously about infrared vision from contact lenses and about mind-controlled, self-organizing microbots. As these bots become nan0-sized and move into the bloodstream you get things like self-optimizing health where they attack cancer as its growing or deliver nutrients you’re not getting enough of all in hopes of obtaining perfect health.

As we move on to exploration of new worlds where the atmosphere is made entirely of methane or carbon monoxide, we will need to modify ourselves so we thrive in that environment instead of having to wear suits. That’s just about de-risking our ability to live on that planet. If you biology is modified to use Methane as Oxygen, then you don’t have to worry about poking a hole in your space suit. You just go outside and breathe in the warm, pungent smell.

And, taken to its ultimate extreme, what if we evolve ourselves beyond the need to eat food. Sounds silly until you realize plants use photosynthesis to create energy from sunlight and water. Hydrogen and stars are plentiful in the cosmos. That’s a much more efficient food source than having to continually grow crops and animals as we quickly hop from planet to planet and star to star.

Here’s to our future spacecapades.

— Sean

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[johnandrasjaqobis]

@unbearable-lightness-of-ink inspired me with minimal context wip memes so sorry for what's about to happen

there will probably be more please show me memes of your wips this is extremely entertaining

[johnandrasjaqobis]

On one of the richest planets, root vegetables are considered a delicacy because the dissolved lead in nearly all of the water supply makes them a crop that can't be reasonably grown in bulk. It's a sign of status to serve your guests potato chips.

[johnandrasjaqobis]

additional spacecapades memes

[johnandrasjaqobis]

Water, Earth, Fire, Air, for the ask because I keep hearing the intro in my head and it's on you now to save the world

Swear I didn't forget about this!! it has simply been a few days since I've actually pulled out the laptop, thank you for the ask friend!!!

Water: How did you start writing? warriors cat fanfiction. I didn't know fanfiction was the term for it at the time, I was like 9 and writing little stories about cats on the portable keyboards we were supposed to be doing typing lessons on. Went straight from that into roleplay on the neopets message boards, the most prestigious training grounds

Earth: What do you think is the foundation of your WIP? excellent question and one i am. wracking my brain for an answer for fjdskl If we mean like. the core theme or whatnot. I think discverse is a lot of autonomy, very ship of theseus sorts of questions (if your entire consciousness is boiled down to what's essentially lines of code in a little disc, what if someone slides an extra line of code in there, are the results of that real, are they you?) and spacecapades. hm. a lot of human stubbornness, to settle where every law of nature says we shouldn't, to defend what little homes we've scraped out of the rocks, to protect what's ours, and every one of these against rather ridiculous odds. You tell people "you can't do that" and there's always a group of them that will dig their heels in and do it out of spite.

Fire: What’s a scene that you are dying to write? any of them at all at this point I think in spacecapades the scene of finding Donny after All That Time is gonna be really fun, who needs context for that. for discverse...honestly I don't know if the plot would ever actually lead to the clone factory on/in the one moon but boy I think anything in that place would be super creepy and delightful

Air: What’s the easiest part of writing for you? Dialogue babeyyy I love me some dialogue!! So much of the random ideas I get during my shifts at work are just chunks of dialogue that I then have to find context for

[johnandrasjaqobis]

YOU KNOW I'M GOING FOR MURPHY, pretty please? 😊 Love that man.

01. Full name: Murphy Locke (there's a number with that name technically but it'd take way too much effort to figure out how far down the line he is by now)

02. Best friend: He's definitely close with his team but tbh his younger brother Isaac is probably his best friend

03. Sexuality: Bisexual

04. Favorite color: Very dark green

05. Relationship status: Currently single, been married and divorced twice

06. Ideal mate: Someone who doesn't worry excessively. Well-read, ideally does not want to live anywhere with too open of a sky, and can at least tolerate the people Murphy's in charge of because they end up around...a lot.

07. Turn-ons: Good self-confidence and a sense of humor. He wouldn't acknowledge it but a little bit of a grey morality (Haskan)

08. Favorite food: Fish, partially just for the novelty; it was very tough to come by fresh growing up

09. Crushes: He might still have a bit of a thing for a certain Governor Haskan on Nathos. Very professionally of course.

10. Favorite music: Orchestral -- he plays violin himself

11. Biggest fear: Losing his family, especially if it seems like he could have done something

12. Biggest fantasy: some peace and goddamn quiet (says the man working for the bureau) -- but really as much as he loves his job, he's got big dreams of a quiet retirement somewhere with fresh air and enough trees to block out most of the sky

13. Bad habits: Murphy's prone to get tunnel vision with some cases. He also gets uh. a little irrational sometimes when the Troys get involved (it takes a subpoena to get him into court because he absolutely will not be anywhere near Troy 1 unless legally required to).

14. Biggest regret: Probably not keeping in closer contact with Isaac when Zakon started messing with communications; he feels like he could've seen something coming a lot earlier if he had

15. Best kept secrets: He really tries to keep his exes on the down-low, and it works for almost everyone that. doesn't work with him directly. tbh the fact that he plays violin is probably the best kept secret even though he doesn't make a real effort to keep it that way

16. Last thought: Probably something quiet. (Hopefully.) Something about his family or just. completely benign.

17. Worst romantic experience: His two ex-husbands kind of tie but for extremely different reasons

18. Biggest insecurity: He's got this subconscious idea that he can. somehow Fix Things. Like. Nearly everything. And when stuff like a literal system-wide war comes up and he cannot fix it, there's more internal stress (otherwise unrelated to said stuff) than he'd like to admit.

19. Weapon of choice: Stun baton babey

20. Role Model: tbh his mom is probably one of the main ones, but Murphy definitely looks up to a lot of different people for different things

[johnandrasjaqobis]

Well if that’s the case. I do think about your space family a lot and wondering how they’re going. Give me a fun tidbit of canon that you’ve recently come up with!

space kids yes I continue to love them even if I have been,,, fairly absent from that ‘verse lately

as far as new canon hm. I don’t even know if I’ve talked about the ship Jarek ends up with, so that feels new enough

Zakon’s got their ridiculous technology in general, but their cracking FTL travel is probably the biggest accomplishment. Their ships are top notch, from the engines to the medical bays, and at one point well. My kids kinda manage to steal one.

It’s mostly thanks to Jarek and Thomas (who I don’t even know if I’ve talked about before, Zakon native, been in Aradin for quite a while, he’s great no one knows how old he is) with Jarek’s decent intuition with tech and Thomas knowing enough of the basics of how Zakon does things, including being able to get the gist of the instruction manual even if he’s very out of practice with that language. Together they manage to form one fairly competent pilot and that ship is just immediately Jarek’s baby.

To the extent his boyfriend/future husband frequently jokes that it’s the only real competition he’s got.

It gets them out of a lot of scrapes, especially once they figure out how the FTL jumps work. The med bay keeps Carly stable enough to get her to Nathos when she ends up like, half crushed under a building. The same med bay has the equipment that can do a “close enough for now” treatment for the two boys who need them pretty consistently after being very heavily doused in radiation.

The ship doesn’t really have a name when they get it -- or at least not one they can find, the system only shows a serial designation and there wasn’t a captain around to ask when they took it.

Jarek names it the Irving after Thomas, because y’know, Jarek might be the one keeping it (it is absolutely his ship) but it was a team effort to get it off the ground the first time.

[johnandrasjaqobis]

Find-the-Word tag

@elizabethsyson tagged me in things and sometimes I remember to do them (and like to pretend I’m a much more consistent writer than I actually am)

plus I like this game

 I got given silent, sun, breath/breathe, and fear/afraid. And as per usual I will use spacecapades since it is my one actual original thing

(literally the second paragraph of the entire thing for the first word nice)

In Jarek’s experience, shopping centers were never supposed to be this eerie.

Since this kind rarely had any sort of set hours of operation — or, rather, they just never actually closed — the only time they were really silent was in the lull between the finished construction and the actual opening.

And, apparently, in the middle of a bomb threat.

***

There was a short pause. Haskan’s eyes had narrowed for a moment, and then she laughed sharply.

“Always the same, huh, Murph?” she said. “Can’t shake that even with that badge of yours.” She sat back down with a sigh. “I don’t know anything right now. We get plenty of complaints, plenty of vague threats. That’s just government around here. I’ll have a look back through some of the more...specific ones. Ask around. If I find something, I can let you know. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but sun take them, I do not appreciate someone blowing up my tunnels.”

***

Jarek was already getting out of breath from the walk, his shoulders weighed down by the slightly higher gravity. That didn’t seem like something people would get used to quickly, but it wasn’t like he had any personal experience with it before now.

***

The startled voices behind him didn’t register as much more than noise, and the sound of warning from one of the men holding rifles wasn’t anything important.

Isobel’s voice cut through it all like a razor:

“Stop.”

Donny felt his breath catch as he froze. He blinked rapidly, trying to focus while the all-too-familiar fear set in. There hadn’t been an episode in ages, he had been on his meds, he’d been dealing with it, and one damn word might bring that all crashing down around him.

SO for whoever wants to do the thing (be it original stuff or fanfic or whatever I love it all I will give uhhhh Hurt, near, run/running, and water

and my nemesis, tagging people (pls do it if you want to even if I don’t think to tag you, I love dumb writing games like this) @michiopa @keycchan @flannelshirtandjeans @genocidershodan @galtori @deprofundisclamoadte @absentlyabbie

[johnandrasjaqobis]

how to know you’re in a johnandrasjaqobis novel

I’m pretty sure ?? I got tagged by @elizabethsyson with this at some point, probably forever ago, but I’m gonna do it regardless because I haven’t thought about my original stuff in a long time and it seems fun

SO a few ways to know you might be in one of my novels:

There are many options for where you might be but none of them are Earth

Getting around space is not nearly as hard as it is currently but also not nearly as easy as various Big Space Things make it seem

There are probably a lot of questions about identity and autonomy

and maybe some brainwashing

(definitely some brainwashing)

At least one government is Super Sketchy

Somehow at least a certain group of people have figured out how to live Far Longer than the average human lifespan

where are the straight people ??? we just don’t know

everyone has their own nuanced relationship with everyone else and it’s very difficult to keep track of but also results in all different kinds of weird friendships and all types of love and occasional absolute hatred

everyone scoffs. so much. constantly.

SURE THAT WORKS I’m sure there’s more but I’m also laughing at the patterns I’ve suddenly picked up on between Spacecapades and the Discverse stuff

I will tag @michiopa @genocidershodan @flannelshirtandjeans @keycchan uhhh that is all I can think of off the top of my head because it is almost 3am and I need to use the sleep but as always consider yourself tagged if u wanna do the thing, I’d love to see it!