#escape from earth

[futurebird]

At first, I thought it was a prank, one in very poor taste, but a prank nonetheless. An out of date ship arriving from the direction of no known solar system? A waif of a girl in 21st century clothing? The thing that convinced me was her demeanor. Her... excessive deference. Her bizarre expectations.

"If you are the police, where is your uniform?" She asked, and she was very serious. I explained that what I did was a little like some of the things that police used to do-- I guess when she asked the computer for "the police" it sent her to me. I investigate violations of the galactic treaty on the rights of living, thinking beings. I refer these violations to the Librarians.

It is against the galactic treaty on the rights of living, thinking beings to:

1 Keep a person in ignorance of the wider worlds of humanity.

2 Hide technology that could save lives or ease suffering.

3 Lie to people about the year or time period.

4 Attempt to "recreate" people from history who have left no instructions for rebirth.

None of this stopped the Old Earth Collective. They had made a whole planet. And it was supposed to be a copy of the Earth in the year 2016. Of course to work in secret they couldn't use any of the known planets. So, they set up on a rouge planet instead! Gave it a little artificial sun for light, but used mostly geothermal for heat. The landmasses and buildings were all modeled after the old Earth-- but instead of a deep blue sky at night with the Milkyway cutting a diagonal stream of stars across the sky, the night sky there was mostly black with only distant stars. Instead of two moons there was only one. They just couldn't get it exactly the same working with a rouge planet so many light years from all the other worlds. But, even in their ignorance, the people wondered "where is everyone?" they called this "The Fermi Paradox" -- How are we going to tell a whole world of people that they have been lied to about everything?

#story #escape from earth #fiction #2016 #crime fiction

[ittakestwopod]

#it takes two #podcast #Youtube #escape series #escape from earth #escape from america #kurt russell #film

[pandadrake]

Miles: “Back at it again at Spider-Society!”

Miguel: *Angry cat SFX*

Who would win? Buff depressed man without Spider-sense vs. Teenager who self-actualizes by pitching himself off the tallest structure he can climb.

Decided to add another gif to the "floppy little funko pop/younger sibling energy Miles Morales" series.

The background is just a blurred up section of official concept art by Patrick O’Keefe.

Drawn in Procreate.

#One day Miles will launch himself to the Earth from space and escape Samsara #Miguel does not deserve to make phone calls in peace #my art #miles morales #miguel o'hara #across the spiderverse #spider man 2099 #spiderman #spider man #spider verse #animation #atsv miguel #spider man atsv #ultimate spider man #spider man across the spider verse #spiderman atsv #atsv #atsv fanart #spiderverse fanart #animated gif #fan animation #procreate #spiderverse

[hikkokoro]

Sun got replaced(only for a week tho)

Just a fun what if episode

What if Evil sun needed more info, so he went to the SAMS og dimension and went undercover as Sun, while the real sun is stuck in a closet somewhere in the pizzaplex.

#i also think this could be a good opportunity to show that sun can be independent #by him saving himself and escape from the closet alone #then goes princess cadance style to confront Evil Sun #idk just a fun random thought #sun and moon show #daycare attendant fnaf #fnaf security breach #dca fandom #sun fnaf #sams #evil sun #sundrop #earth sams #earth laes

[ronon-dex]

'night' has absolutely everything. tom and harry acting out their own version of doctor who. janeway finally revealing her depression at the circumstances of voyager now that she has no distractions. neelix suffering panic attacks from the emptiness of starless space, the same thing he feared in 'mortal coil', when he realised heaven may not exist after all. chakotay considering, for the very first time since he stepped aboard janeway's vessel, actual mutiny - if it saves the endlessly guilty and self-sacrificial captain. a grand civilisation decimating a smaller, less known one because they assume no-one will miss it except its people. this advanced civilisation's refusal of environmentally sound waste disposal because it's not financially profitable for a select few. the entire crew staring down janeway and point blank refusing to allow her to sacrifice herself for them. even harry and tom, who worship her, even chakotay, who would do anything for her, even tuvok, her best friend, even seven, who would challenge her on damn near everything else. tom and seven having inside jokes. voyager riding a shockwave through a wormhole JUST like the aos crew escaped a black hole in the 2009 movie.

the bridge crew's faces when they saw stars for the first time in months.

#st voy #star trek: voyager #star trek #st #voyager #kathryn janeway #tuvok #chakotay #tom paris #harry kim #seven of nine #b'elanna torres #neelix #emh #ngl the captain proton bit already shot this ep up in my opinion #but the janeway chakotay and neelix stuff was so good #the way chakotay is constantly clinging to janeway and then clinging to a life raft in turn #the way this ep made voyager so claustrophobic. and then gave tom a silly little escape from that bc tom is extremely claustrophobic #and then seven who specifically knows the extent of tom's fear decided to indulge him in his escape and helped him find the fun in it #the malon as earth superpowers dumping in developing countries #2 years of night as a concept. you're travelling through endless blank darkness in a tin can #and you have your best friends/family with you but you can barely move a muscle #janeway who has relied on catastrophe after disaster to keep from dwelling on her mistakes #sleeping in darkness and waking up in darkness and finding the guilt gets heavier every time #guys hold on I'm going to write an unpublishable fic rn #THIS SHOW MAKES ME CRAZZYYY I WANT TO EAT IT #5x01 #LOVING THE EMO ENERGY WE'RE BRINGING TO S5. LET'S FCKN GOOOOO

[elbiotipo]

The great irony with so many libertarians in science-fiction and space interest communities is how life in space, fundamentally, promotes cooperation and a strong state. You need strong state investments and research to build the infrastructure necessary for space exploration (where do you think SpaceX's money comes from?), and big organized societies with perspectives for the future rather than short term profit to maintain them, much like any big scale technological project or research (which is why anarchism of any kind couldn't sustain large-scale scientific research)

Once you get and live in space, you have to survive in the most hostile enviroment to human life. To do this, not only you need to rely on others and all the people supporting you back on Earth, but also you need to manage your resources to support each other; you can't hoard air or water, you can't go 'OUT OF MY PROPERTYYYYY' when the whole habitat you live in needs to be managed for the good of all. you can't disobey regulations or turn back on your community when they are the ones literally keeping you alive. If anything, space communities are places for strong states rather than rugged individualism.

also, you know. Sputnik. Laika. Gagarin. Tereshkova. I could go on.

#cosas mias #the thing is Heinlein (the blueprint) saw space as an extension of Usamerican Manifest Destiny #as in there are several of his novels that are like 'we will go to better planets and live like in the Old West Frontier' #'oh and they will have even MORE land and breathable air than Earth so we will escape that stupid State' #Heinlein was a great writer in many aspects but his ideology seeps in from every part of his work as well as many other authors #and whatever the fuck Frank Herbert was on

[sunforgrace]

he sat there on the ground and cried. for cas. cas told him he loved him was taken away and he buried his head in his hands and wept

#AND THEN THEY TRIED TO PRETEND LIKE IT WAS FINE? and after the widower arc #it wasn’t even as nearly fucked then this time all their friends got thanos snapped and we don’t even get canon confirmation that they were #brought back. even with covid not even a vo or offhand mention or reference #jack is god and in every drop of rain or whatever. #sure yeah whatever they beat the final boss and got over the protagonist angst of it all but the world was still the same it just wasn’t a #chuck story which only ramped up to being The Big Problem in the season 14 finale. #cas was stabbed by an angel blade and dean broke while wrapping his body for the funeral pyre. ALONE. and was. not doing well #and you tell me it’s whatever after he sat there in that dungeon refused to answer sam’s calls and cried during the complete and total end #of the world. that he just bounced back from that and died and drove around heaven for decades in a few minutes and smiled while americana #electric guitar played on some bridge #cas helped oh that’s nice I guess smile now I have GOT to go drive my car around. because I did not get enough of that in my time on earth. #unlike my time with cas which I am satisfied with and in no need of closure. perhaps a conversation. looking upon him to see him alive and #well. healing some of that trauma of the last time I saw him. a reunion hug maybe even which has become tradition. CUT THE CAMERAS deadass #he’s going for the face touch. no this we cannot possibly have time for we have to play carry on wayward son twice #sorry. it has been three years. sorry. it’s just so funny buddy your ass did NOT escape the hamster wheel

[zzoupz]

I saw that thing you reposted on twitter defending people who make sexual content of minor characters, did you not realise that's what it was about or was it on purpose? I don't care much I just personally am not comfortable following people like that and want to curate my online experience

I agree with the line "What people like in fiction does not reflect their morals" specifically. I'm also uncomfortable with that kind of stuff but I also don't think we should equate their morals or god forbid criminal record from just what they like in fiction and focus on. yknow. things people actually do in real life instead

#idk maybe im biased from hearing about these kind of things being escapism for a lot of folks #or a way for some to not hurt people *irl* #and seen some people that likes the most fluff vanilla stuff being the worst human beings on earth #do whatever you want though. curate your online experience n all yeah

[pathetic-gamer]

WAIT WAIT WAIT CONSIDER THIS: TOM AND BARBARA AS ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, ALAN AND ALICE AS A DOOMED RETELLING

#alan wake #like this is fully what they already are - not in a 'someone make this content' way. they just Are #alan wake 2 #alice wake #tom zane #barbara jagger #barbara dies in a tragedy and tom is overcome with grief and through art and song (film/poetry) moves heaven and earth to bring #her back from the darkness - only to discover the dark place did not grant him his love again merely a shade of her #and so in that same roiling grief he destroyed himself - cast himself back into hell #the dark place took Alice so Alan followed her into hell - but despite Thomas's guidance he could not save both himself and Alice #and so he did the impossible and trapped himself in exchange for her freedom #Alan was taken by the dark place and so Alice followed him into hell once more #and she - knowing he could not afford to look back if he was ever to escape - tricked him into thinking she was already lost #sacrificing herself to lead him back to the light #and now the cycle is broken. alan cannot follow her into hell again - at least not in the same way as before #but in breaking the cycle he has declared himself the master of two worlds - is this hubris? has he doomed himself again with those words? #or does he hold the reins now? will he be able to reach into the underworld and free her? have they trancended myth itsel #*itself? #anyway. I'm a genius (jk)

[mice-rats-daily]

Today's mouse (sort of) is Doc from Escape from Planet Earth (2013)!

#mouse #close enough to a mouse #doc #escape from planet earth

[itspileofgoodthings]

also I had a breakthrough today that I had in fact overthought a Specific Problem to Death and that I had created a monster in my own mind and that’s why it felt like I was being eaten alive every time I tried to solve it.

#not to put too fine a point on it but that’s what happened with the whole is Maria going to become a nun question tbh #and I needed a counselor to say to me objectively and yet also crucially without any knowledge of me or my past: #you have overthought this and now you’re terrified of it #anyway it’s so obvious but it came home to me today. slowly. #like it was just like. Oh. You did it again #you’re terrified of this because you have thought of every possibility and every outcome and every twist and turn and shadow—- #until it has become a bloated demon in your mind that is totally separated from reality #while made up of real facts and details! and tbh I know it’s a common problem #but the anxiety chokehold I can put myself in is something that is so impressive and so disturbing #I can render myself absolutely helpless through the meanderings of my own thoughts #and what makes it worse—immeasurably worse—is that I get OUT of problems through careful thought and analysis #I’m programmed that way #so I can’t escape it by the usual means. I have to back away from the monster and see it and NAME it and then it can die away. #and only THEN can I apply my usual ways of going about things. I don’t know it just all clicked today #these past few days have just been bringing it all to a fever pitch for me #anyway I guess it’s also important to me that I still be allowed to be analytical about it!!! I have to use my brain!!!!!!! #in my desperation I have tried to shut it off to feel only with my heart. To try to catch the whisper of God’s voice in the wind #but tbh I am meant to use the gifts I have! But only in the right context #and that’s only after the demon has been killed or more accurately —deflated #my counselor has been so good about this tbh. she’s so matter of fact and blunt and salt of the earth and also she sees how my mind works #and wants me to be able to use it!! #so I’m just going to tell her that I did the bad thing with this other problem and can she help me find a way forward #ANYWAY THE MONSTERS TURNED OUT TO BE JUST TREES

[trekkele]

role swap that isnt a origin swap ft gothams baby alien princess and her batdad

#something about me is that if i can have bruce and kori interact in any way i will take it #look at me and tell me he wouldn’t lose his mind over giving kori a safe and stable home #that is an baby refugee who was sold into slavery by her own family and then proceeded to escape with nothing but her wits and her teeth #A BABY #koriand'r #bruce wayne #gotham knows shes something else but will cut a bitch who says something about it #she crash landed on earth and the JL stood around arguing while bruce offered her a lollipop #and she imprinted #dick rolls into gotham as an angry 16 year old and falls head over heels #Bruce agrees to train him because Kori asked so it must be important #kori adores her little brother jason #doodles from the discord

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

thinking about sam and mary. the parallels between young mary and sam, both desperate to escape from their families and hunting towards a 'normal' life (neither of them escape in the end). their respective partners, intended as a way out, end up reenacting a history of violence running through their family tree. jess dies like sam's mother, pinned to the ceiling in flames. john becomes samuel in mary's absence - the very hunter patriarch mary was running from. sam named after samuel her father - the same father who kisses her while possessed by a demon. a kiss that comes to fruition when said demon feeds his blood to a baby sam at the crib; a violation she 'allowed' for, that she is unable to stop, that destroys her in the end. azazel as the ghost of incest and csa haunting the campbell family line. when sam gets resurrected without a soul, it's grandpa he partners and hunts with (what is the price of a grandson, but an expendable cost in service of protecting a daughter you've failed?)

mary as the ghost haunting sam's family, the absence eating away at his brother and father. sam as the ghost of mary's destruction; she haunts her husband and other son through him. sam as a site of formative trauma for both john and dean, the catalyst for another cycle of patriarchal violence; from john to dean, from dean to sam. by protecting him, they revisit that trauma in circles. they can't save her, but they can protect sam. sam feels dirtywrong, long before he learns of his blood, because what is a ghost if not an evil to be hunted, trauma to be exorcised by flame?

the demon blood from mary's deal as sam's unbreakable cage. her blood curse forever marking him as abnormal, as prey to both hunters and demons alike.

she asks him, after her resurrection, didn't you get out? when he tells her - my family hunts, it's what we do - she grieves for him, for herself. mary is the question to which sam is the answer.

#can we truly escape our families? no #not enough sam and mary analysis out there and im barely scratching the surface of anything #picking apart spn from the lens of family horror provides some of the richest readings u can draw from the show #this is why despite all its flaws and one of the most rancid fandoms on earth #spn has well and truly possessed my brain #sam and mary #my meta #j.txt

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

#I just took a nap and had the most depressing dream I've had in ages #the first half was like #There was this apocalypse where if you got contaminated by this thing that was like everywhere you would get chased by #These zombies until they caught you and made you one of them #I was trying to keep my mom safe #eventually we ended up in space on a space station with like 10 other people cause that was the only way to escape #so we were stuck watching earth die from the cold isolated void #AND THEN something happened where something was contaminated and that sent a signal to the zombies on earth #And they were smart enough to like try and come after us #but then that was like the “bad ending” and it rewound #but no matter how hard I tried to get a “good ending” something always would go wrong #Like half the group would break off and leave in a little shuttle and vanish #we landed on another planet and wandered around there trying to figure food at one point #It was all just hopeless and terrifying #And I'm drawing parallels to my real life as to why I had this dream in the first place

[helluvapurf]

13

forgot i was still doing this ask meme for a sec my bad lol

13. worst blorboficiation

Do you mean in terms of canon portrayals, or fandom-wise? Hmmm... if we're just talking canon here, then... weeeeell- >>

-Now before anyone freaks out, no I don't "hate" Stolas... at most I'm honestly just kinda... "neutral"-feeling whenever he pops up on screen these days 🤷‍♀️

Concept-wise, I do like the idea of Stolas being this seemingly aged, powerful figure among the Ars Goetia... struggling to balance his twisted desires with his family/royalty responsibilities. Often getting lost in his own head to focus on anyone but his personal joy/fantasies-

...but at the same time, not too far gone that he can't reel it back in-time to eventually realize his mistakes, and try to do whatever he can to fix it (no matter how successful or not those attempts be-):

It was unique, compelling and overall made Stolas an entertaining character from the initial HB pilot to the end of S1. Making me super intrigued of how this crooked, broken bird could eventually grow and learn from all that happened into S2...

...aaaaand then "The Circus" & onwards just... idk, decided to do away with all that to make Stolas more like an innocent, pure-natured soul all along... who never meant to come off like a selfish jerk 'cause he's just soooo lonely & sad, having the sweetest of intentions all along~ 🥺🥺

and its like... usually I don't mind giving sympathetic/tragic backstories to explain why they behave the way they do in the present-day... but with how S2's been framing things with Stolas atm, any and all mistakes he's pulled in the past has become the fault of other people's doing?

Stolas & Stella having a cold, loveless marriage that ended in him getting caught cheating (+Stella hiring a hit on him because of said cheating)? ...Well then clearly thats all Stella's fault for being a raging harpy from birth, so bitch got what she deserved when he dumped her ass, haha~

Stolas having a demeaning, belittling view on Imps (even around Blitz a few times in S1)? ...Well then that clearly was just the fault of his eeeevil dad Paimon, pushing the idea in his son's head from his kid years (who was so pure at heart enough that he wanted to bow to Blitz, when they met, awww~).

Stolas not being the most attentive father to Octavia, ignoring her feelings over & over? ...Well then clearly thats all on Via for not being grateful for the big, noble sacrifices Stolas put into loving her (esp as she apparently only exists to be a “precautionary heir” from his toxic marriage), and the fact that he's trying should be enough to forgive all his faults as the best dad ever~

Stolas being a pushy creep towards Blitz during their S1 dynamic, stepping over boundaries despite Blitz's clear discomfort? ...Well then that's clearly all on Blitz for being the one who put the moves on Stolas first, who was just a flustered bean from the start wanting to reconnect with his old buddy & gained true feelings overtime... why can't Blitz see how much Stolas loooooves him~? :ccc

...Aaaaand yeah, idk about yall but ehhhhh- I just couldn't really get into that angle the more I watched S2 :/. Not to say that Stolas’ last couple appearances were bad, per-say ('cause I did find his sassiness to Striker while kidnapped + his reading-enthusiasm with Ozzie's contract pretty funny)... buuut to make a long story short:

Shady, morally gray Stolas who needs to work on himself >>>>> Sad baby boi Stolas who did nothing wrong ever

#helluva boss #(kinda?) helluva boss critical #ask meme reblog #ask game #(*didn't mean to get too lengthy over here but uhhh... i had alot of thoughts gljkjk*) #(*also didn’t have room to mention this but… whaaaat happened to Stolas’ cool demon powers in S2 l i k e-*) #(*dude goes from being able to raise hell to save I.M.P. from the human agents to just-*) #(*…weakly throwing a -water bottle- to stop a studio hassling Blitz on earth… b r u h 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️*) #(*I mean at -least- Striker had that heavenly rope to explain Stolas not being able to escape capture but still gjgkgk*) #(*just let Stolas be a badass again already I miss that side of him 😭😭*)

[greenlaut]

old ocs 👍 (late night ramblings in the tags)

#old ocs from a story that idk if i ever want to revive tbh #mainly bcs it was a scifi + highschool coming of age story where an alien got stranded on earth #funny thing is sebastian (greaser leather guy) isnt even a major character in it. he was barely a fleshed out bully npc who bothered declan #but idk years went past. lores grew. somehow they end up together #the lore is that declan was seb's gf. and then he ran from his terrible fostercare and ended up being adopted into a spy family #he transitioned and got to start anew. when the family took in the stranded alien they went to declans former hometown to stay low #so he went back to his old school met his old friends but now as a stranger #seb initially hates declan for being astounding in every classes n being a star student #unsure yet how they reconciliate. but seb will end up figuring out declan was his ex #and they'll figure out neither of them ever stopped loving the other #(seb was the one who gave declan the courage to escape. declan was seb's ray of sunshine) #i made them mainly during chem labs when i was in highschool. hence why the story grew so out of hand now lmao #declan majored in chemistry for the same reason too skjfdkjsd #oc: declan #oc: sebastian #my art #notepad