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Invasion (2023) | Season 2, Episodes 5 “A Voice From the Other Side” and 6 “Pressure Points” | Favorite scenes

don't go out after dark

Every teenage girl has:

a) a society telling her constantly that the only thing she should be interested in is love and BOYSSSS!

b) a frustrated lust for violence

And the societal role of YA fantasy/sci-fi fiction is to act like it's just conforming to the former, while in reality appealing pretty transparently to the latter.

Hey hi hello, would you happen to have any spooky scary sci-fi book recs? I’m in desperate need of some

i can't think of many, but! def try these:

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (woman takes on a solo cave expedition job, but it turns out to be more than she bargained for, and her only contact with the surface world may not be entirely trustworthy. psychological horror)

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (years ago, a ship filming a mockumentary about mermaids was found drifting, its crew gone; now a new expedition sets out to find out what happened. monster horror)

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann (scientist is recruited by the AI gods to find her heretical former mentor, who's been toying with the laws of physics/reality itself. cosmic horror)

and consider checking out these (i didn't vibe w them that much, but maybe you will!)

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes (a small crew accidentally comes across a famous luxury cruise liner spaceship that disappeared decades ago)

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (scientific mission isolated on an unexplored planet - more thriller than horror, but with a strong creep factor)

oh and! if you're willing to try books abt viruses/diseases - ik not everyone's in the mood for those these days - consider:

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (a plane lands - with everyone onboard mysteriously dead. not exactly sci-fi, but a cool modern semi-scientific take on vampire mythos)

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Critchton (a space probe falls to earth in middle-of-nowhere, Arizona - bringing something with it. Very hard scifi - def not for everyone - but with some v solid creeps, imo, esp in the beginning)

Frogma Friday 29

Tup what the actual hell is your problem?

--- Psst @st4rry3y3dtr4v3l3r made a very cute Frogma fanart that I think everyone should look at!

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I keep wanting to find some media that is just...about a Haunted Age Of Sail Boat. Hell I will take a Haunted Contemporary Boat. I have such an itch that's NOT BEING SCRATCHED. That's why I work on my comic all the time cos it's scratching the itch as a Haunted Whaling Ship Story. But I wanna consume someone ELSE'S boat ghost story too.

Is this gonna push me to watch ghost ship tonight? Haven't seen that since I was a teen. I remember it being mediocre and it's not what I want but.

odbdbsjdabdbsbfbdhfjdh i didnt realize we were now describing books with a straight romance as having a ‘queer romance’ im going to kill myself

so my best friend and i like putting characters into silly situations. we take characters from a story that we both enjoy and plop them into a different plot or world and figure out how that changes everything.

i have also been reading my best friend tgcf almost nightly for the past few months. (she's enjoying it quite a bit :) ) we just caught up to where the official printed english translation ended, which was the very end of Book 4.

yesterday, i asked her what the tgcf characters would look like in the star wars universe, bc she's also watching the clone wars right now. we decided hua cheng would probs be a mob boss and xie lian would be an ex-jedi who was kicked out of the order for some reason. i made some joke about bai wuxiang being the emperor, because he's obviously the sith lord trying to coax xie lian onto his side.

after a few jokes, she said "i don't think he'd be the emperor, though. bai wuxiang doesn't seem like the kind of person to hide himself like that. yes to the sith lord part, but i think he's too prideful to hide like that."

i have never been more grateful for having a passable poker face. holy shit. too prideful to hide indeed.

FUCK gregory and his little bear friend too

I think if you call a minor character a name that literally (and I mean literally) translates to 'white supremacy', it's a problem. It's a bigger problem when this character's addition to the plot is inconsequential to the point where it's confusing as to why he even got a name. It's a much bigger problem when the name is derived from a non-white culture that exists in the real world inferring that the culture must also exist in the fantasy world yet nothing about that culture is ever mentioned beyond the name. So in conclusion I think it's a massive world breaking issue to have a minor character called Apex Shiro without any kind of racial critique alongside its use. And honestly it's pretty funny that the author chose that particular non-english word for an alternative word for whiteness given a white supremacist would likely not use a Japanese name gksjjgjs

i am so far gone in the ender's game brainrot. that like. i can't think anymore.

i guess i've always loved the series but now it's just hitting me. especially speaker for the dead. ender, who felt unworthy, dirty, and unlovable found people who adored him (miro and olhado specifically). this really scratches that found family itch. as someone who's on the aro/ace spectrum and hcs ender to also be on the aro/ace spectrum (i hc him as demiromantic sex positive asexual) for him to find that kind of love and appreciation? and understanding when for so long the only other person who understood him in the whole hundred worlds was valentine? idk. amazing. wonderful. i haven't heard much about novhinia on here and i think she's also such an interesting character. she is so deeply scarred by the fates of the people who loved her before that she has a hard time letting ender love her. and eventually, she lets him in. i just love this book and these characters so so so much. they've become such a big part of my life.

the outer worlds writers really sat down to come up with dlc plot concepts and landed on ‘what if agatha christie wrote that futurama episode about the slurm factory?’ and at last proved to us all that you don’t need to be able to afford cocaine on your salary to come up with insane but also absolutely incredible story ideas.

Just saw a commercial celebrating a new type of news coverage run completely on AI and I can honestly say with authority that this is a phenomenon George Orwell didn't even encounter in his worst nightmares

just need you guys to know how much i love this thing's flat ass

being in a server for latine authors is so funny because despite all our differences at the end of the day we all share the same hobby: bochinchando en el (metafórico) (cibernetico) balcón con un café en la mano.