#specifically in sci fi

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Anyway I think the twist being the main character was what they despised all along fucks actually

#random thoughts #specifically in sci fi #what does 'robots don't deserve rights because they aren't human' become when you discover you yourself are a robot #not specifically this trope but i was thinking about the 'the little girl was a robot this whole time' twist in dbh and how it sucked #which is mainly because the whole relationship between the girl and her robot guardian was so heartfelt #was BECAUSE the girl was human and the robot was a robot #a child choosing her wires and bolts nanny over her flesh and blood dad because only one of them was family to her #also the twist tries to justify her dad's abuse of her like 'well obviously she's not REALLY his kid' #'you have to think about what he's going through' yeah shut up #also the twist doesn't really work when robots are already basically identical to humans #you could take any character in that game and go 'they were secretly a robot' and yeah sure ig #there's nothing DISPROVING it #now fallout 4. is also bad but let me think about the fallout 4 in my brain 4 a sec #i love the idea of a synth main character who doesn't know she's a synth #especially if she's bffs with valentine like. the contrast #between flesh and blood and nuts and bolts #also the idea of ss being nick's main advocate for his personhood BEFORE realizing she's also a synth #nick 🤝 nora: is this trauma mine or does it belong to me version 1.0 #nora replaying that memory of when her husband got shot like 'was that when i was me or did that memory belong to the original nora' #'or was it even a memory at all??? was it planted by the institute???' #and like there is no way of confirming you're a synth except post mortem #so she just has to like connect all the dots herself with no actual physical confirmation of what she believes is true #the institute was destroyed. any paperwork documenting who she actually is is lost to time immemorial. #and shaun isn't above making synths of. i almost said dead people #god shaun is really dead isn't he. that little boy is a ghost. #anyway back to the original topic #best twist is when there's a visible distinction between humans and robots AND it's known in the narrative #that more sophisticated forms of bots are being tested but not yet produced on a global scale #also if the main character either lacks empathy for robots or whose relationship with a robot character isn't built on the idea of #'look at us transcending social norms by being a human and a robot and being friends'

[difty-dift]

#that which could not be included: #scarecrow #sci-fi (aliens‚ robots‚ mad scientists. my mind seems to separate sci-fi and horror as concepts so it just lumps these all together lol) #pirate apparently #the headless horseman. just a smidge to specific and singular #generic 'monster' that isn't an alien but is physically weird as if it were #technically haunted dolls but veering a bit less ''conventional'' #i wouldn't count folklore like Medusa or the minotaur cause then this list would be endless. plus feels weird to level those as 'spooky' #I'm thinking too much now I'm done lol #Halloween

[antianakin]

It's really depressing that the only real Jedi centric and Jedi positive show in existence is written for preschoolers, while many of the more "adult" shows are edgy and about morally ambiguous or straight-up evil characters. As if lessons about being kind and selfless are somehow not important or relevant to adults just as much if not more than they are to children.

It feels like characters who are unambiguously good are seen as only enjoyable by the very young and adult viewers will only actually appreciate characters who are cruel and selfish (and the requisite "tragic backstory" that always goes with it to help excuse their cruel and selfish choices).

It's just really sad and disappointing.

#star wars #listen i love andor #i really do #but i'm seeing a pattern of shows aimed at older audiences always always ALWAYS having moral ambiguity as a central theme #the good ones like andor always keep in mind that these people are doing awful things #they're not necessarily heroes even tho they're on the right side #the bad ones like ahsoka and acolyte find ways to send the message that being selfish is actually the right thing to do sometimes #i'm just so tired of the jedi getting relegated to the side because no one can see nuance in unambiguously good people #like at best they are just not there at all #at worst they are turned into the villains specifically for refusing to stop practicing their culture even in the face of persecution #give me my adult jedi show #GIVE ME THE REVA SPIN-OFF I DESERVE #STOP GIVING ME THIS JEDI CRITICAL BULLSHIT #IT'S ALL HORRIFICALLY BAD #I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD YOUR CGI IS THE STORY IS NO LONGER STAR WARS IF YOU HATE THE JEDI #GO MAKE YOUR OWN SCI FI IF YOU CAN'T RESPECT THE JEDI

[fictionadventurer]

Have I mentioned lately that creating AUs is the most fun thing ever? You get to take a story you love and then mash it against another type of story you love and fit all their pieces together like they're a jigsaw puzzle. You get to find all the unexpected points of similarity where the stories fit together really well, and see the places where their differences change and make commentary on the original stories/genres in really interesting ways.

And then once you fit the pieces together, you get to look at the new world you've made and see how these characters in this specific world have different conflicts and explore new themes, and you get to play with another level of puzzles as you figure out what this means for this story.

It's the most fun ever. It's my favorite game.

#random thought of the day #adventures in writing #this goes for both fairy tale retellings and for aus of specific shows/novels #this last week was a week for aus #between the north and south sci fi au coming up again #making up a northanger abbey fantasy au #coming up with a new angle for retelling maid maleen #and having tons of new insight in how to rework a story that's a retelling of cinderella and three different austen novels #plus looking back on the powers and prejudice au #this is just such a great game #the moment when the pieces click into place in a way that makes both elements make sense #there's nothing quite as satisfying #to some extent this applies to plotting original fiction #but it's a different feeling when you're making an au of something #because you don't just get to work with malleable clay #you have specific pre-formed pieces #so you get the challenge of figuring out how to fit them together without damaging either one too much #and when you find the way they fit together it makes you appreciate both stories in a new way #plus it makes you feel clever for making the connection #astounding superb wondrous past time

[aquamonstra]

I think it says a lot about the sad state of Hollywood that none of the live action nutrek series have had the balls to set their stories after Voyager, and I think it's because they're too big of fucking cowards to address the issues of the rights and autonomy behind artificial intelligence set in motion in both Voyager and TNG.

Like I get it there's a bunch of interesting stuff that happened between present day and TOS but FUCK THAT SHIT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER VOYAGER!?!?!?!?!?!?

#im sure people are going to come at me telling me there are books and games but i am SPECIFICALLY TALKING LIVE ACTION HERE #I WANT THE HUMAN REALIZED FUTURE #THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF STAR TREK #IS MAKING A STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL SCI FI FUTURE THAT WE CAN SEE OURSELVES IN #THAT FEELS SO REAL AND TANGIBLE AND RELATABLE THAT WE FEEL INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN #THAT WAS GENES VISION #WE NEED MORE OF THAT #who do i have to fight to get put in charge of a new live action trek series and DO THIS SHIT RIGHT #star trek #star trek voyager

[prince-liest]

I’m reading Witch King by Martha Wells, and now that I have read more than one (1) series by this author, I have been suddenly brained with a two-by-four sharpied over with “realizing that I really enjoy novels by Martha Wells because they live in the specific niche created by the intersection of casually and thoroughly queer casts and non-romance storylines”

I am as ever a sucker for non-human main characters struggling with their very human feelings, which is why I jumped on Witch King the moment I saw “the author of Murderbot wrote another book with a main character that’s non-human,” but I live in this dichotomy where I can really enjoy reading queer romances but I don’t really identify with non-ace characters (which is not actually something I figured out how to differentiate until I was Last Week Years Old). so there are lots of books out there that I enjoy reading but it’s comparatively rare for me to read something that feels like it was written For Me and Martha Wells does that very well

anyway, give me more ace it-pronouns human-spliced robot main characters and people-eating demons who consider rank over gender when finding new bodies to inhabit

#text posts #martha wells #witch king #personal #her castes and universes are also very culturally and ethnically diverse but I've had ace-ness on the mind lately #so it was relevant to my ongoing thoughts #I never really read books that are advertised as specific types of diversity representation #especially with queer books what I like to read is books that are very queer but aren't ABOUT being queer #so I tend to steer clear when people are like read this the mc is a nonbinary lesbian witch without even really saying what the plot is #but martha wells writes books that are queer and brown and INFLUENCED by being queer and brown but #the characters still get to have their stories be ABOUT whatever fun sci fi fantasy shenanigans are ongoing #((inb4: this is my preference not an overal value judgment)) #((I just want to read the same books I read when I was a little kid and have them just ALSO be lovingly diverse)) #((and I only really read SFF)) #in other news I was trying to figure out how to name my flavor of ace #and then I looked up the difference between demi and gray #and I realized gray is what I am looking for #very very dark gray

[sysig]

He was a human pirate, which you wouldn’t think you’d have to specify and yet (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #ZEX #The Captain #This isn't even a sci-fi pirate adventure anymore this is just straight up human pirates lol #How many layers deep can we go until it's unrecognizable! Next up is Pirate AU!Helix! (Kidding. For now) Lol #There is something funny about it all to me as well considering how in-line it fits with the research I was doing for a Vargas fic concept #All these bodice-rippers coming home to roost lol ♪ #Which is also interesting 'cause I hadn't thought about this particular fic from that perspective before but it also fits! It works well! #Yet another angle to approach it from on a reread haha ♫ #ANYway lol - human!Pirate!SCII specifically finally lol #I do love just how openly attracted the Captain is to ZEX as a human haha - his attraction/disgust to VUX-ZEX is wonderful of course #It's just so silly and cute how honest he is when ZEX is in a body that he's aesthetically attracted to haha #And ZEX recognizing and utilizing that! But it still not quite tipping him over to being completely sold on the whole kidnapping thing lol #''I don't understand it! I look beautiful and I /know/ he's attracted to me! What could be stopping him from sleeping with me???" lol #Keep trying ZEX I'm sure you'll get it at some point haha #Finishing off with an idea of ZEX having to deal with a hostile and still not quite trusting the Captain not to run away #Or risk him getting hurt! ZEX can handle this! Let him protect you! #But the Captain also wants to help! And/or escape y'know whatever's most convenient haha #He's proud <3 And he does have an affinity with ZEX at this point - he knows he can be useful! But that's not what's most important to ZEX #Also being scolded and blushing a bit hehe ♪ Given just a bit of pause to be told by such a pretty face to ''Behave'' ♫ #I do really like ZEX with the coat and braids hehe <3 Handsome

[unrelatabledude]

i have a robot detective au and its making me hauve covid. have factory mode himeru and detective rinne

#rinhime #pax art #enstars #rinne amagi #himeru #himeruposting #ensemble stars #ensemble stars!! #niki and kohaku r also robots i will. try draw them #crazy b #crazy:b #im rlly obsessed with a jelly plastic look so its all soft sci fi future tech #rinne is still a bg idol fan. it was going to be a specific group on that CD but. well. sketching

[commsroom]

actually my favorite thing ever is when people draw eiffel with a regular open coffee mug and the coffee is half-floating out. like officially there’s no gravity on the hephaestus, but in spirit i think that’s the truer representation of wolf 359’s approach to science. it works however it works. it’s incredibly dumb. i love it. no notes.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #i love that sometimes they try to explain it like #the script specifying that the sound of eiffel 'collapsing' is actually #his body slamming into the console. but #it's such soft sci fi it doesn't matter. it works how it works. #whatever's funniest or the easiest to communicate via sound effects or the most expedient for the plot. that's how it works #LOVE this specific fanart choice because it implies they have regular mugs and presumably like a regular coffee pot #that he was able to pour the coffee out of and into the mug in the first place #perfect to me every time that's Wolf 359 Science. keep doing this always and forever.

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

i love flesh curtains era rick because i swear it's like they said "what, you think we can't make this guy any sexier? fuck you" *punk rockifies your mad scientist*

#been looking at the flesh curtains rick tag because im drawing him and christ #it's like this man was designed specifically for me #here's a little secret #i dont even like sci fi #flesh curtains rick is like a million times more like my regular type than his current day back to the future lookin ass #but regardless of my usual total lack of interest in sci fi back to the future rick is the guy i fell in love with #so finding out he used to be a rockstar was like holy fuck take me now #rick and morty #rick sanchez #flesh curtains rick #the flesh curtains #old man brainrot

[starleska]

inspired by @deadpuppetboi's killer redesign of the Toymaker's original outfit (removing the problematic elements and capitalising on the literal 'celestial' theme), i wanted to say!!! if you are looking for a similarly bonkers reality-bending entity who wears kickass robes for inspiration, look no further than Q from Star Trek 👀

#Q's look here is a great example of how to do regal imposing dress on a sci-fi reality-bender without being culturally appropriative #given that lots of the Toymaker's canon appearances up until NPH have included Michael Gough's original outfit i'd love to see an update #one which removes the racism and makes the outfit more specific to the character #while i do love the new iconic 1920s Toymaker outfit i think he could look excellent in some gorgeous astronomical regalia!! #plus this is just a plug for Q in general. if you love the Toymaker you'll love Q dfgdsfgh #the toymaker #Q #the celestial toymaker #doctor who #star trek #star trek: the next generation #tng #john de lancie #starleskatalks

[ohno-the-sun]

Ya know sometimes it’s funny to me

I’m like why do I always write the boys as humans and specifically recently mermaids, why not write them as robots?

And then I look at my backlog of human bio and fish anatomy stuff and I’m like-

Yeah okay I could world-build for hours using this

And on the other hand I am completely in the dark about most programming and robotics things

#this is specific to Luca au #like it’s so funny I have soooooo much random worldbuilding for Luca au #but only like 10% will make it into the fic #like y’all don’t need to know the boys dna is all sorts of fucked up #or how the disguise magic works through a mechanism of heterochromatin formation on specific points #or that the way the transformation works is by a change in shh and wnt signaling along the spinal chord #along with differential expression of hox genes #which btw is total sci-fi #could never happen #or the exact way their digestive system works #or how the cartilage in the jaw breaks down into two main bones allowing for larger bite #or how their reproductive system works #or their entire family lineage from 500 years back #or how their writing system works #well actually that last one might come back #Luca au #I’ve put toooooo much thought into this #lol

[aroaessidhe]

my new sci-fi dagger design with some sci-fi books on my shelf!

#bookmarks #most of these are just some kind of sci-fi not specifically glowy-cybernetic-dagger-scifi but shh #actually i stole murderbot off my flatmates shelf. but you know.

[junipershouse]

big huge alien sophant species

the secondchildren are a deeply enigmatic species of plasma-based energy creatures. their existence is colonial, and their bodies consist of thousands of different conciousnesses acting as a singular entity. these bodies often exist in a state of energetic flux, but by sharing strong memetic energy, each component of a secondchild can carry memories and experiences for an incredibly long time. for this reason, they're largely seen as functionally immortal. secondchildren are known for their high latent will energy, their advanced useage of will-energy technology, and their incredibly elusive and nonsensical nature. much of the will=energy technology used in my setting was developed by secondchildren.

the e-kuri are an incredibly hardy species living on a massive cold moon. the pressure on this moon is so immense that their carbon outer shell has flakings of pure diamond in it. and because of this, they are known for their incredible strength and speed in lower pressure environments. on-moon, they're grazers feeding off of small creatures which live in little holes, using their long tongues and fanlike limbs to disturb potential prey. societally, they have little interest in astrotravel and largely mind their own business - they're not very social. a long time ago, it was posed that their incredible strength could be used as a sort of biological generator if harnessed, but the morality of this idea was very questionable. their underside is soft and fluffy.

the fleu are an incredibly rare species of deep-sea creatures living under the thick ice ocean of a starless planet. their numbers are in the thousands, and they take an incredibly long time to reach maturity. very little is known about them due to this. any attempts at contact has largely been met with aggression, but its generally agreed on that fleu have complicated and intricate technology, even if the purpose and form of such technology largely remains a mystery.

the large blue form of a secret senmin is actually a sort of external flying lung, their "true body" is the colorful protusion at the top there. the lung is used to float freely through the thick atmosphere of the several large gas giants they call home. they communicate through rapid electric color changing and quivering of the various "limbs" of this body. they're known for being intelligent, curious, and very social, and they've figured out a way to store enough food and energy to traverse small sections of atmosphereless space without use of large ships.

magma lovers live in magma, as their names suggest. their bodies are protected by a thick glass layer over a metallic shell. even less is known about them due to the hostility of their living conditions to other types of life. it's known that they live in some sort of structured society, though.

oo3o and onri-semphimin are similar in that the largest political institutions of both species are ICDCI members, and therefore they're pretty common to see in multi-species living areas. o-s'es are semiaquatic, while oo3os are entirely aquatic, living near the surface. oo3o are a largely asocial species with communities largely just consisting of a few individuals, and they're talented builders. they've developed all sorts of "airwalking" suits to travel onto land and isolate themselves further. meanwhile, o-s'es are very social and live in extremely large colonies. They're adepts at terraforming.

e-bupp are metal worms that live in a sort of puddinglike-texture "oceans" on the same moon that e-kuri originate from. these strange oceans are actually the focus of much of the biodiversity on this moon, and e-bupp have taken on a sort of parental role towards the younger (in species terms) and less technologically adept e-kuri. e-bupp attempted astral travel, but the logistics of it made it more trouble than it was worth.

#speculative biology #sci fi #xenobiology #alien species #worldbuilding #oc #oo3o tag #onri-semphimin tag #sadum tag #hey sorry for the lack of art lately... ive been burnt out a bit due to college #ive been writing about my funny aliens a lot tho. i just havent been drawing #ikd why i decided to draw all these guys cus theyre almost all too big to actually appear in my story :( #the spacecraft where most of the plot takes place is too big for them... fader and a few oo3os are actually the biggest species onboard #so only the ones who actually show up in the story are getting tags... sorry :P #well secondchildren are mentioned regularly but theyre too busy being weird realitybending plasma colonies to actually appear #these descriptions are really barebones btw #i could say a lot more. about oo3o specifically. but ill save that for when i draw one of their airwalker suits ;P

[t4tmetalsonic]

you. individual with masters degree on astrophysics. what are your thoughts on Christopher Nolan's hit film Interstellar

I liked it!! I'm always a slut for sci fi movies that have slow wide shots of space and futuristic/alien looking planets and ships (Blade Runner, Arrival and Dune come to mind as well).

The visuals of the black hole were incredible, the fact they created new CGI software just to get the physics behind it right too?? Good shit. Did you know 3 scientific papers were published as a result of this CGI bc it revealed new things abt black holes irl? We love to see it!!

I actually liked the ending too. We have no clue how it would be like inside a black hole so yeah why couldn't it take you back in time? And inside a bookshelf? Sure it was weird but like, that's the point!!

I alsoo rlly like that the effects were actually done FIRST and they filmed with the effects behind the actors rather than using green screens and adding them after. The TV show 1899 does something similar and I feel it's more effective with the lighting and looks more natural.

Overall, 8/10! I liked it a lot, the music is gorgeous (very important to me) and I would recommend it to others :]

#my 4th year project was actually about black holes but only using the basic schwarzschild and kerr models #the one in interstellar would have been a kerr black hole (rotating) but it also had an accretion disc #i was ignoring those existed skjhgdkfjg #also i love learning abt how they filmed movies and tv shows i find that so interesting #like the sandscreens and infra red cameras in dune. v cool #i just loooove sci fi movies tbh there should be more of them. in general #but like the specific ones i enjoy LOL #ANYWAY. THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!! #fenn.post

[thesleepysystem]

watches a new show

starts acting + thinking like that character, no longer feel like myself, feel very dissociated, entire perception of myself switches to be of that character, memory loss, confusion, ect

is this autistic "acting like a character cause i really really like them", delusional attachment "i am this character and you cannot convince me otherwise bitch", or has it always just been DID ?

#me: watches umbrella academy #brain: klaus and five fictive time !!!!! #-travis #also on the whole d/a thing #realizing a year later that it wasnt a delusional attachment (a type of delusion where you believe you are a specific character / person) #but actually a fictive #is crazy like. #where is he now. where is kokichi now. are you still there. hello. #but yeah started watching umbrella academy like 2 days ago #amazing show #10/10 its alot like the loki show but wayy more queer LMAO #and what the fuck we have a loki fictive too #what is it with my brain and developing fictives from time travel sci-fi magic fuckery shows. #actually did #did #did alter #did osdd #did system #did host #actually plural #dissociative identity disorder #plural #plural system #plurality #plural community #sysblr