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puppetmaster13u · 4 months

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Prompt 131

Okay, so first of all Dan would like to say it’s not his fault. Ellie was the one to bring some unknown object into the speeder and Jazz was the one driving. Or had Sam been driving- didn’t matter! It wasn’t his fault, he wasn’t the one shooting at them, he wasn’t the one to break whatever, he was not the one to open a stupid portal, and so it wasn’t his fault!

So why is he now like, five years old, and why is the speeder crashed in some sort of corn field. Why is everyone- except for Jazz whose now like six- also like three at most?! And- oh fuck the door just opened and… okay that’s a kid. Like, nine at most.

A kid and an adult, who he hadn’t noticed at first so again, it’s not his fault if he hissed at them and tried to hide his not-siblings behind him. It’s also not fair they’re apparently stuck to ghost speak for who knows how long, but at least they can understand the people.

“Martha, get some blankets, it’s happened again!”

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #What is up with the Kents cornfield that a spaceship with alien children has crashed there twice #Clark: Omg am I an older brother now?? What does an older brother do??#He's going to be so excited when the kids start flying too #Clark: I have eight whole siblings now!#The Kents will end up the most experienced couple in raising superpowered children #Clark: This is Jazz and Dan and Tucker and Danny and Sam and Valerie and Ellie and I love them #The Kents now have two ships hidden on their property lol #and a green glowing dog of some sort that came with one group #the phamily actually get to be kids and don't Have to be vigilantes or are parentified or anything and it's... actually kind of nice #It's peaceful #Ellie definitely doesn't hide the fact she's a clone #They're very limited when re-learning how to talk human language again #so they say some rather concerning things without giving any context for it #not that it isn't concerning even with context anyway lol #Ma and Pa kent nearly cry when they hesitantly ask if their names can be kent too #Clark cries when he goes to metropolis because the kids all cling and try to get him to stay

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mango-sideburns · 9 months

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My fav thing about TAZ is that any aspect out of context sounds fucking bonkers.

Like, in the balance finale there's a scene in which Garfield (who is very specifically never described visually bc most people imagine him as like. The Lasagna Cat. Who in this universe is the most powerful warlock in the realm and also has a hobby of cloning people, which is great for the one character that got forced into haunting a mannequin) is summoned by an alien spaceship that runs on the power of friendship so he could beat up some flashing balls. In D&D.

And that was just. Such a normal scene in the narrative. No one blinked an eye. I would like to bow down to Griffins clear unmatched talent for making me feel such big emotions over ridiculous shit like a goddamned umbrella or a regular ass pair of jeans or the idea of a taco recipe.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz #i have. so many drafts of this post decontexualizing so many different scenes.#merle killing a room of autism creature looking things by asking them to tell the truth which then summons god #also merle retiring from his retirement to run fantasy margaritaville under the title Earl Merle #magnus the mannequin telling taako and merle to find the baby voidfish bc the big voidfish sung at him real hard bc in the century he #just now remembered (bc hes a mannequin not a human boy)#he gifted an alien jellyfish with dozens of shitty wooden ducks. he forgot that century bc his friend fed the jellyfishs baby a book #the gnome version of Teddy Rucksbin turns out to be the universes most competent spaceship pilot. hes also a talented opera singer #a man named Barry Bluejeans is dead and uses his ghost haunting powers to gift the three heroes badges that they cant see #right before theyre shuttled off in a cannonball to save a space lab full of kitschy elevators thats snowing pink tourmaline #barry also uses his ghost powers to hold hands with magnus and make random shapes in midair like a dresser when theyre trapped in a #fantasy version of The Dating Game hosted by ghost Jesse and James Rocket who steal bodyparts if you lose their game.#or like in campaign how a dude who wiped out in the first three seconds of ninja warrior convinces a human wifi router #who owns a bible theme park to take the apparent King of America to the white house on their hovercraft to be trued for treason #after he announced his intent to take over the country in a televised debate with an inuit goddess who is sometimes trapped in the body #of an HR worker all Donald Blake/Thor style #anyways. this show is ridiculous and i love it So Much

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noa748 · 8 months

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Was just out walking my dog in the rain and stumbled on the TARDIS, nbd. Unfortunately, I was not invited on any adventures across time and space (rude).

#doctor don’t you know how much fanfic I have written preparing for this???#i love that these people just have a random police call box in their yard lol #doctor who #tardis #that’s a weird spot to park your spaceship #dude my dog is even named Kosmo we were meant for space adventures!!!

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pitske · 3 months

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JASPER MY BOI!!

#i finally digitalized this!!#omg I love how this turned out :]#the sketch was from last April but I somehow never did anything with it #i actually plan to work on some more of the sketches from that sketchbook #pitskederdoenerhaendler #pitske’s art #this dude ‚Jasper ‚ is one of the two protagonists from my story Galacticall #the Story is about Rudolph ‚a retired postman ‚ who reluctantly had to leave the earth due to it becoming unbearable for humans to live on #and having to leave his deceased wife’s grave behind #as time passes on the spacecraft his loneliness only grows so as he feels himself getting older he decides to deliver one last letter #a love letter to his wife #so he steals a small spaceship and crashlands on earth #which has ‚as he soon discovers‚ changed drastically in about 80 years which for them were a mere 8 (plus/ minus the sped up evolution)#he now tries his best to navigate the new environments and geography avoiding carnivorous giant bugs like prehistoric insects #along the way to find his hometown and wife‘s grave he meets Jasper (not his real name but it is what Rudy calls him #due to the language barrier)#there‘s more to it and I honestly suck at summaries but expect some art of Rudy soon enough #original character #ocs #oc art #digital art #mllte #my love letter to earth

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khruschevshoe · 3 months

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My Hot-Take/Controversial Ranking of Doctor Who Seasons (excluding specials bc my special order is really unhinged)

3 > 1 > 10 > 4 > 5 > 8 > 11 > 12 > 9 > 7b > 2 > 6 > 13 = 7a

Disclaimer: I have favorite episodes that come from every single season on this list, including 7a. For example, even though Season 6 is low on the list, the God Complex, Almost People/Rebel Flesh, and Impossible Astronaut are some of my favorite of the show. I do really love the Power of Three. These are based on season arc/average feeling per episode/rewatchability on a subjective level.

#doctor who #listen seasons 1 and three are basically perfect television for me #season 10 is one of the most fun of the show and bill is my second favorite companion and I love the twelve/missy arc #season 4 is full of banger after banger and journey's end slaps it just doesn't quite hit for me personally like seasons 1 3 and 10 do #season 5 has some episodes i don't like (victory of the daleks for example) but the fairytale vibes/beast below/amy's choice/big bang SLAP #Season 8 has some great episodes/good arc but i just really don't vibe with how cruel the Doctor is sometimes/Danny deserved better #Season 11 (other than fucking kerblam) i really enjoy! it has some weak writing in places but i love graham&ryan's arc & the smaller vibes #Season 12 is objectively better than season 11 but has weaker character arcs and some weaker episodes so eh #season 9 has one of the best finales in the show/some fun two-parters (i adore under the lake/before the flood) but the arcs feel off #7b is...fun & i like a lot of the episodes but i don't like the name/day/time of the doctor & it drags it down + clara's not fleshed out #season 2 is so good in places (cybermen 2-parter/school reunion/new earth) but has so many weak episodes & not as much character developmen #season 6...I love some episodes but I DESPISE the pregnancy arc/let's kill hitler/wedding of river song & how little agency Amy & river hav #season 13 is just...FINE. I enjoy some of the side characters (vinder bel karvanista) but the flux itself felt weirdly...boring? no emotion #(Jodie was SO GOOD in this season though btw)#and season 7a...asylum of the daleks dinosaurs on a spaceship & angels take manhattan are on my least favorite episodes list. like bottom 1 #and I'm sorry but a town called mercy and power of three can't save that #amy and rory should have left with the god complex/christmas special and popped back like martha did in season 4 #i said what i said #wow i really went off in the tags on this one #meta #rankings

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elbiotipo · 1 year

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that is one of the backstories I'm thinking about for my ancient shark character in my space opera universe. She couldn't wait until her next videogame was out (in 10 years) so she went into suspended animation, as you do.

She woke up 150.000 years later as the last one of her civilization.

#cosas mias #it's a little bit stupid but this is the universe with space texans and spaceships named after les luthiers #the thing here and this is key: all her civilization was... how do you translate? 'al pedo'#like it was the kind of civilization where spending centuries gaming was seen as completely reasonable

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forter-from-meteos · 8 months

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average day on the ISS Diclops

#the perspective looks weird because araza is big (that's the firime's name)#i don't have too much faith in my art skills but goddamn it “not what i asked” was in my head for weeks #let's get the tags out of the way #meteos #art #digital art #geolyte #firim #florias #oc: phlox #oc: finn #ok here we go #floriasian phlox (he/him): tortured by petal premonitions of the deaths of individuals around him.#wants to get himself downloaded to wiral so he never dies.#he is very normal (lie)#geolyte finn (she/her): ditched her shitty office job to fuck around in a spaceship. official captain #has precognitive dreams. has done tests to confirm this. is absolutely convinced of it.#she is very normal (somewhat true)#firime araza (he/she): runs the ship's magma engine. one of the two on the ship who actually knows what he's doing #genuinely concerned about finn and her leadership. practically the captain with how much she does for the ship #she is very normal (truth)#and the two currently unnamed boggobians #one of whom is a licensed therapist (she/it)#and the other is essentially a med student (they/them)#and as a final note: how the fuck do floriasians walk. like how am i supposed to depict that

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zarvasace · 1 year

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The Four Swords spaceship AU fic is taking cues from the manga storyline (mostly just for the cool drama parts) and I've reached the Vio-betrays-everyone-in-quick-succession parts. I can only hope these scenes are as heart-wrenching for you to read as they are for me to write :')

Having laser guns instead of swords was fun to figure out for the duel with Green

#fsa spaceship au #my writing #i want to go back through in a bit and expand some stuff #give it more... you know... sci-fi oomph #dumb technobabble and things named space for no reason #heck yeah #i dont know how good i am with Emotions #theyre really dramatic in my head #i hope im conveying it all right

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kaythefloppa · 2 years

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This is a pointless headcanon, but since I was a kid, I always HC'ed that the hummingbird chick from Creature Roundup is one of Spaceship's chicks seen near the end of To Touch a Hummingbird. Probs the left one(?)

Ik the resemblance isn't a huge match, but I suspended my disbelief enough to believe that it was her, only slightly older (old enough to fly at least, but not fully grown).

Bonus: I headcanon her name to be 'Flower Flyer' named after the game you had to play in order to free her from Zach's cage (the alternative title of the game is "Hummingbird Hover," since that would be what appeared in the browser text, but I prefer Flower Flyer).

Like, I said, a pointless HC, but it's my pointless HC. 🥰🥰

#wild kratts #wild kratts headcanons #pbs kids #flower flyer #wild kratts flower flyer #this show is responsible for my hummingbird obsession istg #yes i do indeed have legitimate headcanons on suspended games based on a decade-old pbs show it's normal /hj /lh #zach varmitech #also anyone else still a bit weirded out at how Spaceship's mate and chicks were never named in the episode?

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unsat-and-strange · 3 months

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huh whod have thought signing a contract ive literally regretted for years and doing a job i actually hate would come in useful for a fanfic of all things

#ehehehe look at me using my 2+ years of nuclear navy know-how to figure out how a spaceship would reasonably work #protective features included! in a place where losing fuel will leave you stranded in a vacuum of course there will be alarms-#for rapidly lowering levels in your fuel tanks! if losing electrical power can leave you without life support of course theres a battery!#im thinking way too hard about this. world building is fun though! tbi vanaheim is a gas giant with floating island cities #Lyfs ship is a raven-class long range shuttle and yes i have sketched out designs for it (its pretty)#but i still dont have a name for the fic. woe is me.#ebb rambles #upcoming fic!

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leaflnthewind · 8 months

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Please gimme the other fic, I need it to live. The one where they are in a collapsed building, forced to confront their feelings.

Friend I promise you I just spend two hours looking for the fic but I could not find it. Sadly clex is an old fandom because of SV and a lot of their fics are just tagged with the ship tag by the SS_archive, I did try looking in my bookmarks + the authors I've read the most but couldn't find it.

(They weren't exactly forced to confront their feelings it was more like Lex trapped them both in a building to force Clark to reveal he's Superman, but they do confront their feelings even though Lex is kinda operating things from his phone - the level of oxygen, the sounds, etc - until Lex gets fed up and say he put bombs all over Metropolis and would be a shame if they went off without Superman around which do force Clark to reveal he's Superman and then later they do a little more confronting in the Luthor penthouse. At least this is what I remember reading)

The other fic is this one https://archiveofourown.org/works/43562515 which I'm pretty sure I mentioned in a fic rec list a few weeks ago and it does have them both trapped in a collapsed building forced to confront their feelings and all

#asks #sorry anon this is the best i can give you #if you don't care about being confused sv has an episode in s6 named nemesis that is literally they trapped in a collapsed building #and they spend the time fighting and crying about how the other did they wrong #also there's a few other fics that they aren't trapped in a building but they are trapped in a car #or in a hotel bc of a snowstorm #or in a spaceship #i didn't know if those could fit this #also they are p much all sv related and idk if you have ever watched sv so im sorry

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tempestuouscleric · 9 months

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I gotta learn to draw, I just woke up and my new d&d character is rotating in my head

#her name is cybele she's an astral elf divination wizard #she's an obnoxious academic who got shoved onto a spaceship bc her department wanted to get rid of her #and now she's stuck with three idiots and her academic rival in a sci-fi horror situation <3 #love her. she's awful. she'll tell you how you're going to die #oc things

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verstarppen · 1 month

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summary; there's little time between fast cars and spaceships, but you make it work

pairing; lando norris x fem! star wars actress! reader [ no faceclaim ]

a/n; if i see ONE more "but at what cost" comment i will explode you with my mind

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kingmag9 I scrolled so fast I legit thought this is a lando.jpg post

darthjadusdefender are the rumours true, then?

princepercival please respect their privacy and leave the conversation out of her comment section

shae_vizla_2 So no KOTOR movie set pics? :(

vettelover no lando either...

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landonorris it’s race weekend time 🖤🧡

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angelricciardo oscar: 🧍‍♂️

sugarussell pr team working overtime

cherryhamilton Oscar is an unpaid employee actually

astongoatin day 4785 since our last y/n photo on this account

inchidentlover Where's Waldo modern reboot

dannyavocado so close! your wife is actually missing ♡ please find her

codelh44 everyone else moved on, i stayed with the fact that they took out the -l/n -norris off their twitter names

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yndeathtrooper the only spa weekend that matters

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sunnysainz now why is the only photo of lando with his back to the camera...

tyrescreamer divorce babe DIVORCE

holidaykimi OSCAR LOOKS SO GOOD

alfajuliet i threw my phone across the room i can't take it anymore

generalkenobi3 so no kotor? at all??

papayasalad did you yell "OBJECTION" at least once during the carlos slander i need to know

carlossainz55 ... yndeathtrooper obviously

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landonorris as dom toretto said

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yukinator22 oh we're COOKED y'all

albogeant your guys' shoulders must be aching from reaching that far, clearly she's taking the photo

simplyclerc THAT'S WHAT IM SAYINGGGG SHE EVEN LIKED THE POST mcmango ok but why wouldn't she be in the picture like????

super_max A GOOD CAPTAIN FALLS WITH THE SHIP

shadownorris oh okay im just gonna go play my mitski daily mix for the fourth time in a roll that's fine

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kellypiquet Girls Night 😊

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bottaswiththefur aaa the outfit matching the luggage is so cute

lionkingseb lando search party

rock4rrari max???

g3org3zilla i read this in the tone of the seagulls from nemo

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#🌟ln4 galaxy far far away #lando norris x reader #f1 #f1 x reader #f1 imagine #f1 instagram au #f1 social media au #f1 smau #instagram au #lando norris #lando norris au #lando norris imagine

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physalian · 2 months

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What No One Tells You About Writing Fantasy

Every author has their preferred genres. I love fantasy and sci-fi, but began with historical fiction. I hated all the research that historical fiction demands and thought, if I build my own world, no research required.

Boy, was I wrong.

So to anyone dipping their toe into fantasy/sci-fi, here’s seven things I wish I knew about the genres before I committed to writing for them.

1. You still have to research. Everything.

If you want any of your fantasy battle sequences, or your space ships, or your droids and robots, or your fictional government and fictional politics to read at all believable.

In sci-fi, you research astronomy, robotics, politics, political science, history, engineering, anthropology. In fantasy, you have to research historical battle tactics, geography, real-world mythology, folklore, and fairytales, and much of it overlaps with science fiction.

I say you *have to* assuming you want your work to be original and unique and stand out from the crowd. Fanfic writers put in the research for a 30k word smut fic, you can and will have to research for your original work.

2. Naming everything gets exhausting

I hate coming up with new names, especially when I write worlds and places divorced from Earthly customs and can’t rely on Earthly naming conventions. You have to name all your characters, all your towns, villages, cities, realms, kingdoms, planets, galaxies, star systems.

You have to name your rebel faction, your imperial government, significant battles. Your spaceships, your fantasy companies and organizations, your magic system, made-up MacGuffins, androids, computer programs. The list goes on and on and on.

And you have to do it all without it sounding and reading ridiculous and unpronounceable, or racist. Your fantasy realms have to have believable naming patterns. It. Gets. Exhausting.

3. It will never read like you’re watching a movie

Do you know how fast movies can cut between scenes? Movies can balance five plotlines at once all converging with rapid edits, without losing their audience. Sometimes single lines of dialogue, or single wordless shots are all a scene gets before it cuts. If you try to replicate that by head-hopping around, you will make a mess.

It’s perfectly fine to write like you’re watching a movie, but you can’t rely on visual tricks to get your point across when all you have is text on a page – like slow mo, lens flares, epically lit cinematic shots, or the aforementioned rapid edits.

It doesn’t have to, nor should it, look like a movie. Books existed long before film, so don’t let yourself get caught up in how ~cinematic~ it may or may not look.

4. Your space opera will be compared to Star Wars and Star Trek

And your fairy epic will be compared to Tinkerbell, your vampires to Twilight, your zombies to The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, World War Z. Your wizards and witches and any whisper of a fantasy school for fantasy children will be compared to Harry Potter. Your high fantasy adventure will be compared to Lord of the Rings.

You can’t avoid it, but you can avoid doing it to yourself. When people ask about your book, let them say “oh, you mean like Star Wars” to which you then can say, kind of, except XYZ happens in my book. These IPs will never fade from the public consciousness, not while you exist to read this post, at least, but Harry Potter isn’t the only urban fantasy out there. Lord of the Rings isn’t the only high fantasy. Star Wars isn’t the only space opera.

Yours will be on the shelves right next to them, soon enough, and who knows? You might dethrone them.

5. Your world-building is an iceberg, and your book is the tip

I don’t pay for any of those programs that help you organize your book and mythos. I write exclusively on Apple Notes, MS Word, and Google Suite (and all are free to me). I have folders on Apple Notes with more words inside them than the books they’re written for.

If you try to cram an entire college textbook’s worth of content into your novel, you will have left zero room for actual story. The same goes for all the research you did, all the hours slaving away for just a few details and strings of dialogue.

There’s a balance, no matter how dense your story is. If you really want to include all those extra details, slap some appendices at the end. Commission some maps.

6. The gatekeeping for fantasy and sci-fi is still very real

Pen names and pseudonyms exist for a reason. A female author writing fantasy that isn’t just a backdrop for romance? You have a harder battle ahead of you than your male counterparts, at least in the US. And even then, your female protagonist will be scrutinized and torn apart.

She’ll either be too girly or not girly enough, too sexy, or not sexy enough. She’ll be called a Mary Sue, a radical feminist mouthpiece, some woke propaganda. Every action she takes will be criticized as unrealistic and if she has fans who are girls, they will be mocked, too.

If you have queer characters, characters of color, they won’t be good enough, they won’t please everyone, and someone will still call you a bigot. A lot of someones will still call you a bigot.

Do your due diligence and hire your army of sensitivity readers and listen to them, but you cannot please everyone, so might as well write to please yourself. You’re the one who will have to read it a thousand times until it’s published.

7. Your “original” idea has been done before, and that’s okay

Stories have been told since before language evolved. The sum of the parts of your novel may be original, but even then, it’s colored by the media you’ve consumed. And that’s okay!

How many Cinderella stories are there? How many high fantasies? How many books about werewolves and witches and vampires? Gods and goddesses and celestial beings? Fairies and dragons and trolls? Aliens, robots, alien robots? Romeo and Juliette? Superheroes and mutants?

Zombies may be the avenue through which you tell your story, but it’s not *just* about zombies, is it? It’s about the characters who battle them, the endurance of the human spirit, or the end of an era, the death of a nation. So don’t get discouraged, everyone before you and everyone after will have written someone on the backs of what came before and it still feels new.

#writing advice #writing resources #writing tips #writing tools #writing a book #fantasy #scifi #writeblr

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unpretty · 1 year

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the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

#original #we're doing a rewatch because i bought the bluray boxed set of the complete series

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shcmook · 5 months

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THE STAR BEAST

Is about the RTD era. It’s set in dimly lit London streets. The Doctor avoids going to UNIT directly. Queer identity is at the center of it. The Metacrisis DoctorDonna comes back. He meets a woman named Rose. The plot is moved by strange unexplained coincidences. The Shadow Proclamation is invoked. There’s a big obvious spaceship crash that wasn’t an accident like in Aliens of London. There’s alien law enforcement hunting a real villain like smith and Jones. The Doctor is separated from Donna by a clear barrier like he is from Wilf in end of time. But instead of losing her, he gets her back. She remembers him. Journey’s End is undone.

WILD BLUE YONDER

Is about the Chibnall era. We’re separated from the TARDIS like in Ghost Monument, facing creatures beyond our universe like in It takes you away, Can you Hear me? And Flux. We’re on a spaceship nearly outside of the universe, failing to get as far as Tecteun wanted to go. We’re reminded the Doctor isn’t from this universe. Of the destruction of the Flux that the Doctor failed to stop. And the Doctor refuses to let Donna in, to tell her how badly this is affecting him, just like 13 didn’t let Yaz in. He even almost chooses the wrong Donna near the end. In a different way, 13 also didn’t choose Yaz.

We’re scratching the surface of the Doctor’s trauma but the Flux isn’t the real problem. She’d been keeping her companions out since before that. Why? What happened to the doctor in between Donna and the flux?

THE GIGGLE

Is about the Moffat era. There’s great emphasis on how old the Doctor is, that is the same old Doctor we met in the 60s. We’re reminded how the Doctor lost Amy, Clara and Bill, and the Doctor’s focus is on protecting Donna and Mel over the actual planetary stakes. Time is rewritten. There’s a too-good-to-be-true happy ending. There’s a lot going on.

The Doctor hasn’t stopped moving since losing Bill. Really, he hasn’t stopped since long before then. But the Bi-generation gives him a way to stop without depriving the universe of the Doctor. Amy, Bill, and Clara didn’t just die. They got second chances at life, with their own chosen companions (Rory, Heather and Me) . And at the end of his short journey, 14 gets that same fate. He dies, but finally gets a happy, restful life. Meanwhile 15, already feeling the benefits of his past self’s rest, journeys on.

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