#the illustrated man

[lisamarie-vee]

#ray bradbury #book cover #1950s #the illustrated man

[science70]

Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger, The Illustrated Man (USA, 1969 dir: Jack Smight).

#science fiction #film #Claire Bloom #Rod Steiger #The Illustrated Man #Ray Bradbury #USA #1969

[ayoooo3]

The Illustrated Man (Wolfstar)

It was magic, inked into skin and turned loose into the world. It wasn’t a thing Remus learned how to do, no one trained him to tell stories through art, it was just there in his blood, scratching at his brain to be let out. He wasn’t sure how it worked really, just that it did, that it always had. His mother had called it a gift, something passed down from her mother and then to Remus. The shop front was nothing special, just a simple brick facade with a tattoo sign blinking in the window. Even Remus himself didn’t look like he was anything but a regular tattoo artist- quiet, unassuming and a phenomenal artist.

But the shop was anything but ordinary, everyone that walked in could feel it, the undercurrent of magic circling the space. There was no flash on the walls, and you couldn’t design your own tattoo, you just make the appointment and when you come in Remus knows what you need. And when you leave, your tattoo will tell a story, it will shift and change as you make choices throughout your life. They tell your future, kind of. They show what could be, until they eventually settle into their permanent form. They’re laced with a magic that even Remus doesn’t totally understand.

It’s into Remus’ shop that Sirius and Regulus walk, finally escaping their family and wanting something to mark the moment. They’ve heard whispers of Remus’ tattoos, everyone has, and they want to feel it for themselves. Sirius in particular is grasping for anything he can to find a place in this world, to see his part in something bigger. He wants to know that whatever scars have been left behind by his parents won’t be the only story written across his body.

Regulus gets a tattoo on his chest. It’s quick and painless, and when he looks at it in the mirror he sees vines and flowers twisting across the expanse of skin, flowers closed tightly in colorful buds. Regulus thinks he sees them twitching, petals struggling to open, to turn their faces to the sun, but the longer he looks the more he thinks he might be imagining it, doubt creeping into the edges of his mind, and the flowers stay shut.

Sirius lays down on the table and bares his neck for the man above him, his eyes taking in the way Remus looks at him, faint scars crossing his face, soft gaze tracing across Sirius’ skin, fingers gently mapping out a path. Remus leans in, his voice drifting across Sirius as he sings softly while he works, and Sirius is immediately gone for him. He wants those hands on his skin for the rest of his life, wants to hear that voice for eternity.

Remus pauses half way through… fingers softly dabbing away the blood with a cloth. Murmuring under his breath as he stares. For the first time ever he’s watching one of his tattoos shift in front of his eyes. The stars he had been working on twisting and reshaping as he gently rests his hands on Sirius’ neck. It’s not even complete yet, but it’s already blurring around the edges, reforming into something new. When he leans back in and starts again his breath catches, because after a decade of tattooing, he’s seeing his own story emerge in front of him, inextricably intertwined with the boy in front of him.

#fanfic #wolfstar #remus lupin #sirius black #remus x sirius #tattoo artist Remus #the illustrated man #tattoos #Remus is magic #Sirius is gone for Remus immediately #all Regulus can do is watch it happen #let’s be honest #we’re all in love with Remus Lupin #probably even Reggie #Remus tattoos love into Sirius #idiots in love #they end up together in every world

[skrifores]

I do not know if I’m using tumblr correctly but I wrote a thing and it would make me happy if people read it. It is an OFMD Illustrated Man AU, 18k, Ed/Stede, rated E.

#our flag means death #our flag means death fic #ofmd fanfic #ed/stede #gentlebeard #gentlebeard fic #scififantasy #alternate universe #edward teach #stede bonnet #the illustrated man

[russolaw]

Why are these the kids' names

#the illustrated man

[rawwithlove]

"I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand."

-Ray Bradbury

#ray bradbury #the illustrated man #no particular night or morning

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.

#polls #science fiction #sf polls #childhood's end #arthur clarke #arthur c. clarke #cat's cradle #kurt vonnegut #animal farm #george orwell #starship troopers #robert heinlein #robert a. heinlein #the illustrated man #ray bradbury #journey to the center of the earth #jules verne #the time machine #h.g. wells #foundation #isaac asimov #do androids dream of electric sheep #philip k. dick

[pygartheangel]

#rod steiger #claire bloom #the illustrated man #movie poster #ray bradbury

[cinematic-literature]

Black Mirror S06E03 (Beyond the Sea)

Book title: The Illustrated Man (1951) by Ray Bradbury

#black mirror #black mirror season 6 #beyond the sea #american literature #the illustrated man #ray bradbury

[bonerdonorxxx44]

Happy Birthday Sir Bradbury!

Ray Douglas Bradbury

Born: August 22, 1920 - Died: June 5, 2012

#ray bradbury #farenheit 451 #the illustrated man #the martian chronicles #author

[smalltownfae]

#I obviously don't read much scifi #scifi books #my polls #klara and the sun #frankenstein #thg #flowers for algernon #iron widow #1984 #the left hand of darkness #the illustrated man #the broken earth trilogy #octavia e. butler

[lisamarie-vee]

#rod steiger #the illustrated man #film #film poster #1960’s #ray bradbury

[horrororman]

#Horror films that were released on March 26th...

The Illustrated Man 1969(US).

#scifi #fantasy

The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine 1974(Italy).

Hear No Evil 1993(US).

#thriller #mystery

Scream of the Banshee 2011(US).

#horror #horror movies #horror movie #scifi #science fiction #thriller #The Illustrated Man #The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine #Hear No Evil #Scream of the Banshee

[albertserra]

“I never saw anything like that. T-that’s the most fantastic thing I ever saw.”

The Illustrated Man (1969) dir. Jack Smight // Madagascar Skin (1995) dir. Chris Newby

#liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike. come ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN #the illustrated man #madagascar skin #jack smight #chris newby #gay subtext #gs* #parallels* #m* #rod steiger #rs* #bernard hill #john hannah #robert drivas

[leatraspecalingo]

Books on TV: Black Mirror Season 6 and Ray Bradbury

Today, we have Netflix' Black Mirror. In the 1950s, they had Ray Bradbury.

The remarkable similarity is in their themes of near-future dystopia and the use of media and technology to make commentaries on relevant social issues. Some even say Black Mirror is just Bradbury for non-readers.

This Image is from Think Story’s Youtube Video on the Ending of Black Mirror S06E03.

I find it engaging when books are shown on TV or film not as mere props but as instruments to create some kind of a foreshadow of events. You could just imagine my joy seeing The Illustrated Man in the latest season of Black Mirror. It was in the third episode called 'Beyond the Sea,' where they dropped Easter eggs by including different novels within the story. 

In 'Beyond the Sea,' astronauts Cliff and David are in space to complete a six-year mission. They each have "robot look-alikes" or replicas on Earth that allow them to continue their life with their wives and families back home while they were away.

In The Illustrated Man, there's a short story that's nearly the same. It's called "Marionettes, Inc." One of the characters is Braling, a married man for ten years who wants to escape being a husband. Instead, he wants to seek pleasure and go on a trip. His friend, Smith, who's also married, plans to go with him. Good news for them, there's a company called Marionettes that creates robot replicas. That means they can pursue their plans while the robots stay at home pretending to be them.

All four characters from both "Beyond the Sea" and "Marionettes, Inc." are presented with a choice of whether or not to allow technology to meddle in their lives, especially for something as important as their marriages. One can already assume this will not end very well, but not because technology is in itself evil, because we know it's not.

All to say that both Black Mirror and the works of Ray Bradbury are a reflection of our present more than our future, including how our own humanity plays out in the face of modern technology and how it can adversely affect not only our psyche, but even our personal relationships.

And if we ever feel bothered while watching Black Mirror or reading Bradbury —  and certainly we will be —  it just shows how these authors and creators have done their job well.

[twofoursixohjuan]

the weird little line between fantasy and science fiction is so fascinating to me. like, the other day I saw Gideon the Ninth on a Top 100 Sci-fi Novels list. that has actual fucking necromancers, but because it's set on multiple planets it's science fiction. similarly, Out Of The Silent Planet has all the archetypes of a fantasy allegory but with spaceships instead of magic carpets. The Illustrated Man uses a guy with magic tattoos to tell a bunch of Definitely Sci-Fi stories about space travel.

and how about "in-universe there's science but it's never explained and so basically indistinguishable from magic" soft sci-fi like This Is How You Lose The Time War?

science fiction, generally, relies on the One Big Assumption and then extrapolates from there, so where does realistic fantasy like, say, the later Grishaverse fit in, if your assumption is "some people can manipulate matter"? superhero shit runs the entire gamut from "this is plausible" to "A Wizard Did It", often in the same issue, so is that fantasy or science fiction?

and what of Star Wars?

so interesting!

#science fiction #fantasy #classification is weird #there's less a line and more...a swamp #gideon the ninth #out of the silent planet #the illustrated man #this is how you lose the time war #grishaverse #superheroes #star wars #so weird