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we have GOT to bring back campy horny grimy tactile scifi. this is a national fucking emergency

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Pulp sci-fi illustration by Italian artist, Aldo Di Gennaro (b. 1938).

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James Woods in Videodrome (1983)

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And yknow I often see people being like "I HATE allegories the next poor bastard I see writing something allegorical is getting shot" & there's definitely a lot to critique in how I'd say a Majority of writers handle Fantasy Racism very poorly ... my heart longs for the allegory. I love aliens

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I do feel like I should make it explicitly clear that my vision for They Colonized Mars draws very specifically from my personal experiences as an urban, mixed, partially culturally disconnected Native American, & while the allegory is broad enough to mirror various other situations that's the context I'm writing from ... I've had these ideas in my head long before any particular current events, & while the topic of colonization has definitely gotten more attention lately, it's not *about* Palestine and it's important to me that we know I'm not, like... trying to say something about what's really not my story to tell. Does that make sense. The timing of it all has not been lost on me and I've been debating if I should say something about that for like a year now

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[They Colonized Mars, entry 3 // start here]

For the world is hollow 

> Stepping outside into the Martian evening, light scattered by the dusty atmosphere paints the city shades of pale violet through the glass dome covering it, the distant sun appearing blue as it sets over the horizon. Two moons rise across from each other in the east and west; both smaller than Earth's Luna, and less round, bumpy and roughly egg-shaped. 

> Mars is colder than it looks — a desert of red sand and rocks — and while the biosphere is heated to tolerable levels, it still isn't toasty in the warehouse district. Atlas’ boots crunch into a thin layer of ice on the sidewalk, SaM-B's claw-like feet scratching for friction beside him. 

> ��Do you have a name?” He asks it. “A real one, just for yourself?” 

> “My designation is unit number one-thousand-three-hundred-and-forty—” 

> “But is it you?”

> It thinks for a second. “I don't know.” 

> “Fair enough,” He shrugs. “Just something to think about.” 

> It beeps. “Connection lost — I am out of network sensor range.” 

> Atlas uncovers its cameras and shoves his vest into his bag. 

> “Oh.” SaM-B pauses in its tracks, blinking its lights. 

> “What do you think?” Atlas adjusts the strap of his bag over his shoulder. 

> It looks around for a moment, angling upwards to the tops of buildings. 

> “Hey.” He nudges it with his foot. “What do you think?” 

> “I don't know,” It beeps. “I've never seen the sky before.” 

> Shuttles intermittently shoot down the tracks beside them, stirring up clouds of red-orange dust. 

> “I have somewhere I want to show you,” He says. “Somewhere… Somewhere fun. For people like us to go when we’re not working.”

> “I am ‘people’?”

> He thinks. “Sure, if you want to be.” 

> They make their way through the city, neon signs flickering on as the night darkens. Moving away from the warehouses and factories, there are smaller businesses, repair shops and defunct mattress stores. Atlas ducks into an alleyway, following a familiar path twisting down a few levels, and there, underneath a tattoo parlour, is somewhere to go. 

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Shoutout to xkit's tag replacer btw. Big day for the "keeps changing my mind about my wip's title" community

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hi ummm idk I guess this is a kudos of sorts because I just read the existing parts of they colonized mars and Im loving it <3

Aw thank you !! I appreciate it :-)

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Anyway I've also been working on a Frankenstein essay of considerable length gathering all of my thoughts about it into one place so that's gonna be Very Cool and Fun For Me >:) also planning on recording it in VIDEO essay form ooh ahh

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And I am working on it I prommy. We're just uhh umm. Well you know how it is. You're here for my freaky little passion projects you're getting the freaky little passion project "schedule"

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Btw if anyone was curious, the > symbols at the start of new paragraphs on They Colonized Mars is a stylistic choice I made due to technical limitations when I started writing it on my phone, because I didn't have a laptop and mobile google docs has *very* limited formatting options but I needed something to help with readability without being able to actually add an indent :thumbs_up:

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Well a fun fact about me is that I have celiac disease (gluten hurts me) which makes it easier for me to be poisoned than most people. So shortly after I returned home from being away for a little while I sat my ass down and had a bowl of cereal unaware that they had Changed It and it is now Made Of Wheat (gluten). I did have a surprisingly mild reaction to this but I have been Distinctly Unwell for the last approximate fortnight while it slowly works its way out of my system 👍

Anyway I'm feeling Mostly Better and I remembered I said I was going to be writing and then Didn't Do That. So here we are

Btw if all goes well the next part of They Colonized Mars should be up by the end of the month & from there I'm hoping to post updates every week or two 🤞 Hopefully

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To be fair all did NOT go well, I was poisoned. So I hope the handful of people invested in my strangely horny anticolonial science fiction will forgive me for having other concerns

Btw if all goes well the next part of They Colonized Mars should be up by the end of the month & from there I'm hoping to post updates every week or two 🤞 Hopefully

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The thing is that my writing is like, my weird little passion projects. And it is something very important to me but I will be busy working on something I can actually get paid for, or recovering from being poisoned, or both, or something. You understand

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Well that didn't happen ! Who could have foreseen this. Certainly not I, who have never written quickly nor on a consistent schedule in my life

Btw if all goes well the next part of They Colonized Mars should be up by the end of the month & from there I'm hoping to post updates every week or two 🤞 Hopefully