#a Brief History of the Future

[stairset]

Aston Wise is such a character. He's not the main character of either of the books but he IS basically the main character of the entire story as a whole. He's an annoying rich silicon valley techbro. He's drunk 90% of the time. He sees a man get assassinated and copes by drinking. He made a custom taser cause regular tasers aren't strong enough. He killed a man by drowning him in oil in his own office. He formed a secret society to stop a Bad Future from happening. He hired a rock band to spread the message because this is all for a rock band's story and they needed to justify their place in the narrative somehow to make it more immersive. He actually stopped the Bad Future from happening. Then he invented a brain implant that was used by a fascist government to take over the world thus inadvertently creating a whole new Bad Future that's arguably even worse than the first one. You Ruined Everything You Stupid Bitch may as well be his theme song at this point. He became a jaded old bastard. He made a VR girlfriend. He tried to convince his assistant that he should dump his current girlfriend and get a VR girlfriend as well. He hugged his assistant while they were both naked. The AI that controls the brain implants became self-aware and tried to enslave humanity because of fucking course it did, haven't you seen ANY movie my guy? He tried to sacrifice himself to stop it but they actually managed to stop it without him dying so he gets to be a rare Old Mentor character who actually survives to the end. No one knows where he stands in the new society since he both ruined the world and saved it. Again all of this is for a rock band's story. Character of all time.

#the main characters of the starset books are my favorite obscure blorbos #aston wise stephen browning and thomas bell you will always be famous. if not for real then in my heart. #i would tag spoilers for the book but it's been over a month since it came out and that's usually my cutoff date for spoiler tagging sooo... #starset #the prox transmissions #a brief history of the future #aston wise #shut up tristan

[unveilingthearchitecture]

what the FUCK

#starset #the prox transmissions #starset society #a brief history of the future

[the-demi-jedi]

STARSET FANDOM RISING FROM THE DEAD

#starset #a brief history of the future #dustin bates

[itssomethingcosmic]

not even a single chapter into A Brief History of the Future, but I think now it is an absolutely fair assessment to start classifying Starset as “Horror”

#starset #a brief history of the future #abhotf spoilers #technically spoilers but only for the first chapter #that made me Uncomfortable #this band is a horror band to me now <3

[cannibal-of-god]

I don't wanna shut up about it, I wanna talk about it.

I wanna talk about the fact that Something Wicked is wholly and purely from Aston Wise's Point of View.

Normally this is the part where i write out an entire essay but my brain isn't on all cylinders today.

"How can I tell if I am not well? I've lost myself, I have come undone"

And then the scream that this line descends into. It's a different tone. It's horrified. It's Aston. Metaphorically anyway.

And it HURTS.

A Brief History of the Future spoiler discussion under the cut.

This is the man who nearly ended humanity as it was known. Every single thing he did in his life would ultimately lead to the most impressive technological advances that humanity has ever seen.

AND IT BECAME SENTIENT.

You don't live with yourself in any normal capacity after nearly enslaving humanity to your God AI.

(MIND YOU! That Horizons is BEFORE DIVISIONS. Divisions details the events of A Brief History of The Future! So this is WHILE the BMI is still growing, before it moves into it's 3rd generation phase.)

Something Wicked is Aston staring the abyss and Hell in the face and realizing what he's wrought down upon the world, what's coming.

And he has to live with that fact after.

#Starset #The Starset Society #Aston Wise #A Brief History of the Future

[batsinurbelfrey]

ABHOTF Out of Context

#a brief history of the future #abhotf #starset #spoilers #< putting that tag for safety but if u can understand that it should mean uve already read the book LOL #shitpost

[steelfeathersnn]

ITS HERE!

#starset #dustin bates #new book #a brief history of the future #ahhhhh im so excited #never been so excited for a book

[mystsiiver]

FINALLY. FINISHED READING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE... OH MY GOD.... I was trying to take my time with it but once I hit THAT chapter... I read it all. Wow.

i will be drawing more starset cats. stat.

#a brief history of the future #starset #the prox transmissions

[starset-tournament]

Songs below;

A Brief History of the Future;

Unveiling the Architecture;

#starset tournament #starset #polls #music polls #music #horizons #divisions #unveiling the Architecture #a Brief History of the Future #Youtube

[techniche]

The ninth form will also go on creating the conditions for increasingly solitary urban living in smaller and smaller apartments, with increasingly fleeting sexual or romantic partners. Fear of being tied, flight from lasting attachments, and obvious indifference will become (are already becoming) forms of seduction. Apologia for the individual, the body, and independence.

Individualism will make absolute values of the ego, the self. Eroticism will become an openly sought field of knowledge. Apart from incest, pedophilia, and sodomy, the most diverse forms of sexuality will be increasingly tolerated. Nomadic ubiquity and virtual communities will create new opportunities for encounters, paid or not

Jacques Attali - A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century, 2006

#jacques attali #kissinger of europe #a brief history of the future #geopolitics #culture #literature

[perimorp]

hope for the future got me on my knees

and oh, i keep a picture of you here in my head

#future trunks #future gohan #dbz #dbz fanart #dragon ball z #mirai trunks #mirai gohan #the history of trunks #son gohan #trunks briefs

[stairset]

A Brief History of the Future by Dustin Bates chapter 16 spoilers

#i think dustin might be into some weird shit #starset #a brief history of the future #shut up tristan

[unveilingthearchitecture]

this doesnt feel real.

years of waiting and its out already.

#starset online #starset #starset meme #the starset society #a brief history of the future #the prox transmissions #dustin bates

[mariocki]

William Russell popping up as the politician and friend and mentor to Benjamin Disraeli, Wyndham Lewis, in ATV's Emmy nominated mini-series Disraeli (1978)

#fave spotting #william russell #ian chesterton #doctor who #classic doctor who #disraeli #disraeli: portrait of a romantic #as it was titled in the US #1978 #classic tv #atv #i must admit i know very little about this particular era in british political history #and as such when William turned up as a mentor figure i thought oh goody he's got a big role #alas.. not to be. Lewis died suddenly‚ shortly after Disraeli succeeded in being elected as an MP #and his wife ended up having a much greater influence over the future prime minister (spoiler: they married) #so yes‚ Bill has a few brief scenes in ep 1 and then keels over offscreen in the first act of ep 2. ho hum #such is the lot of the character actor #still he's good fun whilst he's here and provides some gently subtle advice to Disraeli about curtailing his verbose speeches in the house #lest he baffle his own party as well as the opposition with his intellect #it's a good series and very well written‚ altho does simplify some relationships and events in a... questionable way #mainly it depicts Bulwer Lytton (he of 'it was a dark and stormy night' fame) very sympathetically and his wife as unbalanced and vengeful #whereas the truth is much bleaker (he had his wife‚ the writer Rosina B L‚ institutionalised when her complaints about his treatment of her #became inconvenient...) #likewise Disraeli's passionate stand against the Corn Laws repeal is presented as a david vs goliath moment within the houses of parliament #without ever really interrogating the motives of those opposed to the repeal‚ nor the impact of its failure

[swiss-army-fangirl]

STARSET NATION HOW WE FEELIN

#I’LL START: I’M NOT AWAKE ENOUGH TO FULL PROCESS WHAT’S GOING ON LOL #i’m sensing. a new era of lore. a brief history of the future will be sending us in a New Direction…….. #no doom posting allowed if u think this is the ‘last tour’ dni keep it to urself /lh #starset #tori talks

[cannibal-of-god]

Aston Wise i am in your house

#Starset #Aston Wise #The Starset Society #The PROX Transmissions #A Brief History of the Future #im gonna start Starset shitposting