#Sci Fi Month

[thealmightyemprex]

Sci FI Month:Why X Men the Animated series is awesome

So I binged the entierty of X Men the Animated Series and I intended to make an epic review with episode reccomendations,annnnnd it ended up too long ,so instead I am going to go over reasons why this show is Great and has an enduring legacy

1.X Men in general as a franchise has tons of characters to choose from and I think it is so wise of the show that they limit it to 9 core characters,while some fan favorites get really good guest appearences like Nightcrawler

2.The Characterization and relationships are top notch ,every character gets a spot light and each character has layers ,with each character having their own demons.Even Professor X who couldve just been the mentor figure gets fleshed out to where you understand why he does what he does .Oh if you wanna know who my fave characters are:Storm,Wolverine ,Gambit, and Beast

3.The villains are varied ,from the anti villainous Magneto ,to the brutish Juggernaut ,to the bigoted Graydon Creed ,to the sadistic Sabretooth,to the complicated Mystique ,to the cold Mr Sinister to (My favorite ) the bombastic Apoclaypse

4.As a comic adaptation I think its fun that the show doesnt limit itself to one period of X Men but pays tribute to 30 years of comics:The designs are Jim Lee inspired,they pay tribute to Lee and Kirby,the stories pull a lot from Chris Clairmount ,and several episodes were written by comic legend Len Wein

5.The show doesnt have the biggest budget but with its shading ,strong character designs and editing it still holds up rather decently

6.Voice acting is all around solid,Cal Dodd,Lenore Zahn,George Buza and John Colicos are the go to voices for Wolverine,Rogue,Beast and Apocalypse to me

7.The series is serialized with a conitinuity,which while common with modern cartoons,was kind of a new thing back then.We can thank this show for changing how action cartoons were done.Also each season has a distinct feel with the first three having story arcs(The Sentinels in season one,Magneto and Xavier trapped in the Savage Land in season 2 , andDealing with the aliens known as the Shiar Empire in season 3 )

8.The writing does not talk down to kids,in fact the writing for the show is very good not shying away from the fact this is a show about prejudice

9.I think the show has good momentum getting better and better up to Season 4 ,which is the best season of the show .Now Season 5 does feel like it is running on fumes,but it still has great episodes and contiains one of the greatest animated series finales ever "Graduation Day "

10.And of course.....The theme song is kickass

If you want me to explain my feelings more just ask me,I am more then willing to ramble about this amazing cartoon.I plan to do my top 10 favorite episodes,villains,and multi parters

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @piterelizabethdevries

@amalthea9 @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa

@angelixgutz @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @filmcityworld1 @countesspetofi

#x men the animated series #Sci fi month #Youtube

[signourneybooks]

Previously on #SciFiMonth | Sci-Fi Books I Discovered Through #SciFiMonth

Previously on #SciFiMonth | Sci-Fi Books I Discovered Through #SciFiMonth

Like during Wyrd and Wonder the Sci Fi Month Crew has decided to top list posts for the 10th year anniversary. Top Ten is a long list though and I don’t know if I will always be able to reach that amounth. But hey it is more about the topic, am I right? Yesterday I shared the books I read since Sci Fi Month 2021. Today I’m sharing a few books I discovered because of Sci Fi Month. Lets see how…

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#sci fi month #sci-fi books #sci-fi month #sci-fi month 2022 #scifimonth

[silverskye13]

Broke out the watercolors to do my little post cards and I'm,,,, enjoying myself immensely

#spazzcat doodles #astronaut #space #space walk #sci-fi #doing my silly little post card send that happens once every few months #i used to make my own envelopes too but i kept getting into fights with the post office #so now i just use normal letters XD

[leadoodles]

Just saw dune PT 2 and I can't help but see Macbeth parallels.

Someone is told by a coven of witches that he is the subject of a prophecy in which he will rise to power. At first he is reluctant about it but a woman close to him, who herself is connected to the witches and supernatural convinces him to follow through and work toward achieving the prophecy. By the end of the show he has become an insane dictator, manipulating and killing without thought to keep his throne.

There are also heavy. Themes of how genders gain power, with women gaining it though manipulation and men through conquest.

#dune #paul atreides #dune part two #dune 2 #dune part 2 #macbeth #shakespeare #william shakespeare #i can't stop thinking about this #i think I'm going to go through a sci fi phase too #these thoughts may also be the result of 3 months of studying Macbeth for GCSE

[assorteda]

Clown Art Month 2023 | Day 23 : Sci-fi

Astronaut clown meets Alien Clown ‼️

#clown month 2023 #clowncore #alien #sci fi art #cute art #bright colors #eye strain #clown art tag #my art

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Notes on food, fish, and translation errors.

Hán and Ankiusk are good friends, but during the time that they’re getting their medical certifications they’re both still learning the Galactic Standardized language. That combined with Ankiusk’s lack of a jaw to make the click (!) letter, there are a lot of communication issues.

And I mean… what do you call an alien animal in an alien language so that a third alien can relate it to yet another alien animal. Language may be evil but comparative xenobiology is even more so.

#I very nearly didn’t finish this. #I started it months ago #hated it. wound up abandoning it #picked it up again. still months ago. redid everything and liked it quite a bit more #but ended up leaving it again #THEN I picked it up a third time. did the reference sheets for my human characters. and was finally able to finish the lineart. #I don’t even know when I actually started it #my program says I made it prior to the preventative and repetitive care notes. #So it’d be sometime in August/September. Jesus Christ. #damn #sci-fi #spec bio #speculative biology #xenobiology #worldbuilding #little bird worldbuilding #my art #oc: hán huì qún #oc: ankiusk #medical textbook images to get tormented by #long post #comic

[arcadialedger]

Jewish SF/F books for Jewish Heritage Month

I highly recommend you check out these novels! This is just the tip of the iceberg.

#jewish #fantasy #judaism #books #novels #sci fi #jewish heritage #jewish american heritage month #sff books #jewish folklore #jewish books #jewish mythology #jewish fiction #the arcadia ledger

[astrocorvus]

Snake person couple (snouple) ink drawing!

this was my very first All Tomorrows fan art. I completely forgot about it!

#this has been hidden away in my sketchbook for many months #it’s a little crappy but whatever #my artwork #all tomorrows #spec evo #sci fi #art #snake people #snake person #pen and ink #snerson #artists on tumblr

[decepti-thots]

it is a phenomenally unlikely theory, but if it turns out that the delay in announcing the Transformers comics license is because Skybound got it and have chosen to reveal it as a twist in a non-transformers comic they're releasing, that would genuinely be very funny i admit, and i would forgive them all the months of confusion immediately.

#context: Void Rivals is a highly anticipated ongoing from them starting next month #there is some kind of spoiler they have hyped and kept under wraps #the spoiler seemingly relates to it being some shared universe thing #since it's sci fi and robots and a Big War people are theorizing #(it's probably just Invincible.)

[marlynnofmany]

Where Wormholes Come From

As much as I was enjoying my Engine Rings™ cheesy snacks — and that was a great deal, since I’d just discovered them on a human-run space station — it wasn’t so much of a distraction that I didn’t notice worried voices as I walked past the cockpit.

I paused in the doorway to see Wio in her chair, tentacles adjusting the controls with nervous speed while Kavlae stood and pointed at one of the displays. I had no idea what that screen showed. But the two pilots sure seemed to, and it didn’t look good.

“Are you sure it’s organic?” Wio was asking.

“It has to be!” Kavlae said, head frills flaring. “I’ve never seen this kind of reading on anything else. Not even new technology.”

Wio muttered something unintelligible, tapping buttons and turning dials. She didn’t react when I folded my bag of crunchy snacks and shoved it in a pocket.

I leaned into the room. “Is something wrong?”

Kavlae looked up at that, the picture of blue-skinned concern. “Possibly,” she admitted. “Dangerous, at any rate. I was making a final sweep for the end of my shift, and I think I’ve found a fresh wormhole.”

I waited for more information, but didn’t get any. “Why is that bad?”

“Because it clearly wasn’t made with any technology I’ve seen,” Kavlae said with a melodramatic sweep of a hand. “There are organic traces and rough edges. This is fresh.”

Before I could repeat my question, Wio chimed in. “And a fresh wormhole might mean the worm is still around, among other things.”

“Uh,” I said. Apparently my Earth-bound education about space travel had missed a key point. “I did not know wormholes are made by actual worms. I thought people built them? Or they just happen?”

“People do build them,” Wio said. She finished messing with the controls and twisted her tentacles around each other. “And the way they ‘just happen’ is because of the space worms. Which we don’t want to get anywhere near.”

Kavlae waved me forward. “You’ve got good color vision, right? See if anything long and wiggly shows up on these scans. It’ll be subtle; they’re probably in deep.”

I stepped up to the row of small screens under the main one, full of questions. “Deep in what, hyperspace? Why do we want to avoid them? Are they predatory? Or territorial, or easily startled?” The main screen just showed the usual stars, but the little ones were a riot of charts and diagrams. Kavlae pointed at the one that was an incomprehensible swirl of yellow and green.

“Yes, hyperspace,” Wio said.

“They’re not predatory,” Kavlae said with certainty.

“Well, how do we know?” Wio countered.

“There have been studies!” Kavlae said. “They eat the fabric of space-time itself, not spaceships.”

“What about the chewy center of those spaceships?” Wio retorted.

“There have been studies,” Kavlae insisted.

Part of the green image did look a little wormy. I wondered whether I should interrupt, not sure if I was imagining it, then I remembered Eggskin the medic’s offhand comment on how good human eyesight was in picking out shades of green — just like edible vs non-edible plants back home. Maybe the two pilots really couldn’t see something that I could.

“Is that—” I started.

“Anyways, it’s not the space worms you need to worry about,” Wio spoke over me. “It’s the space moles that follow.”

The universe has perfect timing, because that was the moment a clear green line appeared on the chart, straight as an arrow and moving fast.

Kavlae squeaked, pointing at the screen.

Wio made a popping noise that I recognized as a swear word, and pressed several buttons at once.

A snakelike shape the color of starlight erupted into sight on the main screen, glowing as it curled back down a brand new wormhole, right in front of our ship. Which stopped in its tracks, all three of us yelling in surprise.

But that was nothing compared to the enormous black shape that clawed its way out of the starfield in hot pursuit. It was a different shade of black from the void of space, but I couldn’t say which. All I made out in that adrenaline-filled moment was claws, teeth, and terrifyingly large.

We screamed in three different octaves as the ripples in space hit the ship, rocking it even with the artificial gravity. I heard something crash down the hall. Other people were yelling. They didn’t matter.

The space mole really was going after the worm, not us — it plowed back down into the surface of reality, digging in a way that shouldn’t have been possible. And it was so, so fast.

The mole disappeared with one last kick of a barely-seen foot or tail or something else. The starfield rippled and shook like the surface of a pond. I realized I was clutching the back of Wio’s chair. Alarms were going off on the console.

After a moment in which nothing else jumped out at us, I managed to convince my fingers to let go. Kavlae collapsed into her own chair. The little screen was calm yellow. Without a word, Wio changed our course to somewhere presumably safer.

Running footsteps sounded in the hall, leading to a traffic jam of concern in the doorway: all tentacles and frills and very wide eyes. A calm but stern voice cut through the chatter. The crowd parted to let Captain Sunlight through, every inch the levelheaded and unflappable role model who wasn’t about to let some turbulence and screaming rattle her. She was wiping what looked like orange soup off one yellow-scaled hand. But she did it with dignity.

“What happened?” she asked.

I answered first. “Space worm and a space mole.”

“Really,” the captain said while the hallway exploded into conversation.

“They almost hit us!” Kavlae exclaimed, waving arms and frills from where she sat slumped in her chair.

“Any damage?” Captain Sunlight asked.

“Nope,” Wio said, with surprising cheer. “And I have better news.” She manipulated the controls some more, then sat back as a framed image appeared in the middle of the main screen. “I got a recording.”

Everyone exclaimed about that while the captured footage played. I was torn between watching it again because it was amazing, and watching the little yellow screen for more hints of green. I tried to do both.

“Well done,” Captain Sunlight said. “I know just the scientists to give first shot at that recording. And knowing them, this may end up in a very lucrative bidding war. You just make sure you get us to our destination safely!”

“Absolutely, Captain!” Wio said with a twirl of a tentacle. “I will keep a close eye on all the readouts.”

“I’ll help,” I volunteered, eyeing a suspicious green tinge that was probably nothing.

“I will take a nap,” Kavlae declared. “Then come back early.”

Wio waved her toward the crowded doorway. “Take your time! You need some rest after that. Don’t worry; we’ll scream if there’s anything important.”

“I’ll remind you that we do have an intercom,” said the captain drily.

I replied, “Screaming’s faster.”

Wio said at the same time, “We’ll scream over the intercom if there’s anything important.”

Captain Sunlight huffed in amusement. “Of course you will. Right! Everyone else, go check the ship for damaged items. Mur, help Mimi in the engine room. Paint, go with Eggskin; medbay first, then kitchen.” She rattled off more assignments to make sure all the important rooms were looked into. Then she ushered everyone on their way, and headed back to whatever she’d been doing. Probably cleaning up spilled soup.

With a glance at Wio, I took Kavlae’s chair, hands folded carefully in my lap. The snacks in my pocket crinkled. I left them there — I wasn’t about to make a mess in the cockpit, nor would I touch a single thing.

But that yellow-and-green swirl, oh I would be watching that very carefully.

~~~

The ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book. More to come!

#I did something similar in another story #but that one's going in a print anthology not here #so if you see something familiar in a few months #in a book I contributed to #no you didn't #it's entirely fresh and original and I don't repeat myself #even when it's a really cool idea #ANYWAY #my writing #The Token Human #humans are weird #haso #hfy #eiad #sci-fi #wormholes #space worms #space moles

[themollyjay]

Celebrate Pride Month With Sapphic Sci-Fi & Fanatasy By Molly J. Bragg

https://desertpalmpress.com/molly-j-bragg/ https://amazon.com/author/mollyjbragg https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mollyjbragg

#pride 2023 #pride #pride month #lesfic #lesbian books #sapphic books #trans books #queer books #lgbtq+ books #lgbt books #sci-fi #fantasy #superhero #trans author

[thealmightyemprex]

Which Star Trek show should I review an episode of vote

Star Trek TOS The Changeling

Star Trek TNG We'll Always have Paris

Star Trek the ANimated Series -How Sharper then A SErpents Tooth

Star Trek Enterprise Broken Bow

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

#star trek #Sci Fi Month

[roususu]

Today is the 2nd anniversary of Finding Wonderland since launched on Webtoon! 🎉

And it's been a little over a year since it ended on its 53rd episode. It was a long and fun ride that I hope enjoyed as much as we did 💖

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Also, I'm glad its anniversary is in pride month, so the great moment that if you want to read a webtoon with queer and POC characters, this is the call 🌈✨

Plus, if you wanna ask me something about Finding Wonderland my Q&A are open!

#finding wonderland #webtoon #anniversary #missing this gang so much #pride month #fantasy #sci fi #if were up to me I'd make a liltte extra comic of them

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Short video for #InternationalWomensDay (look make it a month why only a day), Dune 2 month, and how one woman's contribution goes overlooked in how influential she was to Herbert creating Dune.

This is a primer about a little novel called, The Sabres of Paradise, and the research and writing Lesley Blanch did that Herbert free inspiration from to create his legendary SF epic!

#writers life #writing advice #novels #novel writing #scifi #sci fi and fantasy #scifi books #fantasy books #dune part two #dune movie #dune 2 #dune #dune part 2 #dune part one #dune part 1 #timothy chalamet #lesley blanch #Sabres of Paradise #women's day #international women's day #international women's month #recognize women #women's contributions #female writers #women writers #creative writing #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #writerscommunity #writers and writing

[figitorynonsense]

erp heres uh some pride bots

they look a little wonky since i havent drawn em in a deca-cycle 🥲🥲🥲🥲

enjoy tho

#pride month #gay #transformers #tf rescue bots #rescue bots #transformers rescue bots #tranformers #chase rescue bots #tfrb #chase #tfrb chase #rescue bots heatwave #heatwave #heatwave rescue bots #rb heatwave #heatwave x quickshadow #trans #transgender #mmmm i love me the gayest robots known to sci-fi

[lakecountylibrary]

It's my favorite time of year! Time to make my annual blog post about the best queer books I read in the last 12 months!

I've been doing this since 2017 so here, go back and see some trends: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Now, you may look at the covers of this year's batch and think... Four out of five of those are... kind of intense looking. Are you okay. And the answer is no, but are any of us? These books will help! Probably!

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (lesbian, gay, bisexual, poly characters)

Ok so this book comes with like. All of the trigger warnings. Government sanctioned homophobia, racism, eugenics, graphic depictions of violence... read this one when you're feeling strong. It's a fantasy novel about characters who fight against those things in a world colonized by a profit-driven (and often, too familiar) empire. Brilliantly written, but steel your heart.

Twelve Percent Dread by @emilyscartoons (nonbinary characters)

Let's lighten up a bit, shall we? This one's a graphic novel that, as promised on the back cover, is fast paced and action-packed. Follow the adventures of Katie and Nas as they navigate jobs, adulthood, and the whims of one eccentric tech CEO who's going to change the world, one way or another.

The World We Make by @nkjemisin (ace, gay, lesbian, trans characters)

This one's a sequel, so sorry (not sorry) you're going to have to read The City We Became first. You'll love it, and you'll love this sequel. It's about New York manifested in human avatars, and it's about home and the power of being where you belong. The characters deal with some very real, familiar problems - and then they STOMP ON THEM WITH AWESOME GIANT CITY POWERS. Very satisfying read, highly recommend.

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (wlw characters & general gender shenanigans)

This one's the third in the series, also not sorry about this one, start with Gideon the Ninth. It's sci fi! It's necromancy! God is there and he's depressed. It's really hard to describe.

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (bisexual, lesbian characters)

A novella for when you are short on time or attention span and want a Sleeping Beauty remix told by an author who knows her folklore. Definitely have the second novella in the series, A Mirror Mended, on hand for when you finish - you'll want more.

See more of Robin's recs

#lgbtq reads #pride month #book recommendations #book recs #the world we make #nk jemisin #nona the ninth #tamsyn muir #the traitor baru cormorant #seth dickinson #twelve percent dread #emily mcgovern #a spindle splintered #alix e. harrow #fairy tales #fairy tale retelling #fantasy #sci fi #LCPL recs #robin's recs