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- 50s sci-fi: ROCKETS AND ROBOTS YAAAY
- 60s sci-fi: the other planets are full of hot babes and killer monsters
- 70s sci-fi: what if WE'RE THE REAL ALIENS MAN
- 80s sci-fi: everything is cool and chrome allllllright
- 90s sci-fi: the future is DARK and EDGY and EVERYONE'S WEARING A TRENCHCOAT
- 00s sci-fi: robots are people too
- sci-fi now: yeah it pretty much looks like an apple store and the apocalypse probably happened
Are you a vampire person or a werewolf person? Are you a latte person or a cappuccino person? Horror or scifi? Denim Jacket or Leather jacket? Spring person or fall person?
I am so proud of John Boyega becoming the face of sci-fi. I am so happy seeing a nerdy black boy take over a genre he loves and I am so happy that he is so unapologetically black while doing so. I am so excited to know that millions of black children will grow up with John’s face in some of the most well known sci-fi movies, that they will see someone that looks like them in a lead role. I am so happy.
Which ever month you were born in, will determine the type of anime you would live in.
January = Hentai
Febuary = Yuri
March = Sports
April = Horror
May = Supernatural
June = Harem
July = Yaoi
August = Sci-fi
September = Shoujo
October = Ecchi
November = Slice of life
December = Musical
Anonymous asked:
I'm writing a story, and I want to kill almost every character in it. How can I properly kill off most of my characters without it being too cliche or expected?
nimblesnotebook answered:
1) Vary the Deaths
If you’re writing sci-fi, don’t kill all your characters with a laser gun. If you’re writing high fantasy, don’t kill them all with arrows and swords. If you’re writing contemporary, don’t kill them all with big accidents and tragedies.
You must vary the deaths if you want to keep them fresh and unexpected. Kill someone quietly. Kill someone in a major accent. Kill someone just when the reader is going to think they’re going to escape a tense and dangerous situation. Kill someone in an otherwise safe situation.
Don’t let living characters always have control over the corpse. Have one character’s body be completely destroyed. Let another look almost unharmed. Let some characters be buried. Let others be thrown overboard. Let others go missing. Let others be left outside for the bugs and animals. Let your characters find the decomposing body of a character they, and the reader, believed to be alive.
Variation also refers to how long it takes a character to die. Let some die instantly. Let some suffer for a few minutes or a few hours or a few days.
Let some characters die alone. Let others be with friends. Let others be with enemies. Kill a lot of characters in one section and only one in another. Put two deaths close to each other and then let the reader go through three more chapters without seeing a death. Don’t let the deaths be evenly spaced. They will become predictable.
2) No One Comes Back
Do not bring anyone back from the dead.
3) Make It Heartfelt
I just realized that I grew up during a time where the crazy frog was a thing. Like that was an actual thing that happened, that blue fucking piece of shit frog took the world by storm and it even had a tiny dick and all it did was sing annoying songs while racing around sci-fi towns in a distant future on an invisible motorbike. I can’t believe this. How did that happen. Who LET that happen.
It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
HOLY SHIT THEY EAT CAPSAICIN FOR FUN
YOU GUYS I HEARD A HUMAN ONCE ATE AN AIRPLANE.
A HUMAN CAN KEEP FIGHTING FOR HOURS EVEN AFTER YOU SHOOT IT
humans are a proud warrior race with a pantheon of bloody gods: Ram-Bo, Schwarzenegger, etc.
REMOVING A LIMB WILL NOT FATALLY INCAPACITATE HUMANS: ALWAYS DESTROY THE HEAD.
WARNING: HUMANS CAN DETECT YOU EVEN AT NIGHT BY TRACKING VIBRATIONS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE
WARNING: HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE AT A RATE OF 1 PER SPACEYEAR. DESTROY INFESTATIONS IMMEDIATELY
THE HUMAN MOUTH HAS OVER THIRTY OUTCROPS OF BONE AND POWERFUL JAW MUSCLES.
HUMAN BITES CAN BE FATALLY INFECTIOUS EVEN TO OTHER HUMANS
WARNING: HUMANS CAN AND WILL USE IMPROVISED WEAPONS. SEE CLASSIFIED DATA LABELED J. CHAN.
HUMANS CAN PROJECT BIOWEAPONS FROM ALMOST EVERY ORIFICE ON THEIR BODY. DO NOT INHALE
OH GOD THE HUMANS FIGURED OUT DOOR HANDLES OH GOD OH GOD
More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.
(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)
Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:
- Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.
- Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury that’s not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isn’t necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.
- We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results aren’t pretty - humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits - but they’re highly functional.
- Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves - and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.
In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.
Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.
We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.
And by god, we will eat anything.
- We use borderline toxic peppers to season our food.
- We expose ourselves to potentially lethal solar radiation in the pursuit of darkening our skin.
- We risk hearing loss for the opportunity to see our favorite musicians live.
- We have a game where two people get into an enclosed area and hit each other until time runs out/one of them pass out
- We willingly jump out of planes with only a flimsy piece of cloth to prevent us from splattering against the ground.
- Our response to natural disasters is to just rebuild our buildings in the exact same places.
- We climb mountains and risk freezing to death for bragging rights
- We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them.
- On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet.
Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain’t got shit on us
We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain function… AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!
On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DON’T GIVE A FUCK.
Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.
Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.
Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.
The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.
Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.
We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.
Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.
They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”
#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own right—you are dealing with a legion each time you approach them #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their health #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardous—even though it causes #massive disruption to the body’s homeostasis #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this) #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own body’s degeneration #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under them #and they are not satisfied with that #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challenge
I am speechless
I want to open a queer bookstore every book has queer protagonists
there’s fantasy and sci fi and literary sections just like a regular bookstore but all the characters are queer
except there, in the corner, is the Straight Literature section. Which is like. Fifteen copies of the notebook.
i don’t want to read lgbtq fiction i want to read genre fiction with lgbtq protags
alright friends i was thinking about this earlier and so i put together a list of some good genre fiction with lgbt main characters:
LESBIAN
- the abyss surrounds us by emily skrutskie (sci fi/dystopian, woc protag)
- ascension by jacqueline koyanagi (sci fi/space opera, disabled woc protag)
- serenity rose by aaron alexovich (paranormal graphic novel)
- everything leads to you by nina lacour (contemporary, but not “about” lgbt issues/coming out/anything like that)
- afterworlds by scott westerfeld (contemporary/paranormal, woc protag)
- beauty queens by libba bray (not sure on the genre; not sure how good this is, haven’t read it myself)
- sword of the guardian by merry shannon (fantasy; warning for attempted rape scene)
- huntress by malinda lo (fantasy, woc protag)
- the dark wife by sarah diemer (fantasy)
- seven by jennifer diemer (fantasy/fairy tale retelling)
- bleeding earth by kaitlin ward (horror/fantasy; haven’t read this either, not sure how it is)
GAY
- proxy by alex london (dystopian, moc protag)
- more than this by patrick ness (dystopian i guess? not sure how to describe the genre tbh)
- the star host by ft lukens (sci fi, haven’t read)
- hero by perry moore (superhero)
BISEXUAL
- god’s war by kameron hurley (post-apocalyptic/sci fi, bi woc protag)
- coda by emma trevayne (dystopian, bi guy protag)
- adaptation by malinda lo (sci fi, bi girl protag)
- beauty queens by libba bray (see above, major bi characters)
- ash by malinda lo (fantasy/fairy tale retelling, bi girl protag)
- the young elites by marie lu (fantasy, lots of bi characters all around)
- the scorpion rules by erin bow (dystopian, bi girl protag, haven’t read but i hear it’s awesome)
TRANS
- beauty queens by libba bray (see above, major trans woman characters (i think))
- the left hand of darkness by ursula k le guin (fantasy; haven’t read this either, not sure how it is)
- love in the time of global warming by libba bray (dystopian; haven’t read this one either yikes)
that’s all i’ve got right now! i’m a lesbian so the lesbian section has the most books in it lol, but if anyone else wants to add some more books for gbt people (especially trans because Yikes that section is small), that would be awesome!
hello i volunteer as tribute
GAY
- swordspoint by ellen kushner (fantasy; assassins! mostly just one assassin)
- one for sorrow by christopher barzak (haven’t read; paranormal; bad ending)
- i haven’t read these and i refuse to take responsibility for their quality, but they’re all fantasy: dragon slayer, fire dragon, luck in the shadows, kastor chronicles
TRANS
- the errant prince by sasha l. miller (haven’t read; also gay; fantasy, with knights and everything)
- to summon nightmares by j.k. pendragon (haven’t read; also gay; modern fantasy)
- nevada by imogen binnie (haven’t read; also lesbian; road trip is a genre, right?)
- bc it’s hard to find trans books at all: here is a goodreads list of trans ya fic & non-fic, one of trans books by trans authors, and one of books about gay trans men. these are just lists i came across while looking around.
that is all i have off the top of my goodreads list that u haven’t already listed
i only have one rec but it’s fucking massive and super worth it: the god eaters (read for free here, you can also buy it in paperback form in various spots online if you’re committed) is possibly the best standalone fantasy book i’ve read in ages and it’s super super gay (also super super triggery so hmu if you need warnings).
oh and as someone who has read the kastor chronicles i can definitely vouch for quality. that shit is choice. (both of these are by the same author btw lol)
ETA: NO. 6. NO. FUCKING 6. also fucking massive, also super triggery, also feel free to hit me up for details, but you can read the english translation FOR FREE here.
Some o'my all-time faves that are missing here:
- Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey (SF near-future dystopia with mutants, female protagonists)
- the Middle Kingdoms books by Diane Duane (epic fantasy but the books aren’t epic length, everyone is poly-ish [that’s not the queer bit that’s just a content note], starts off with two guys who are like totes in love & adds a few more until it culminates in a giant poly wedding, just roll with it, roll with it) (STILL NOT FINISHED but the lack of a fourth book isn’t too dire) (there is a genderqueer character in these but they are an alien, basically; I am not genderqueer so I don’t know if genderqueer people would enjoy this portrayal or not)
- the Elemental Logic books by Laurie Marks (fantasy, lesbians!!!)
- Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold (SF, a little dated now probably but I still find it charming, dude protagonists)
- N.K. Jemisin: The Inheritance Trilogy (She just won a Hugo for Fifth Season.
- R. S. Belcher: Golgotha (Weird west with multiple LGBTQ characters.
- Queers Destroy Science Fiction and Queers Destroy Fantasy
- Chris Morarity: The Spin Series
- Brit Mandelo (editor): Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Science Fiction
- Jaym Gates and Erica Holtz (editors): Broken Time Blues
- Villarreal: Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction
I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned -
Gay
- The Still (by David Feintuch) fantasy, bratty prince has love affair with his mentor/babysitter. This also has a sequel.
- Luck in the Shadows (by Lynn Flewelling) fantasy, young apprentice falls for his dashing spy/thief master. First novel in a series.
Lesbian
The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock, urban fantasy, lesbian Muslim protagonist. Middle book in a trilogy (the whole trilogy is excellent).
Bi and non-binary
Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold, fantasy. Pro-sex, pro-sex work, pro-polyamory, and the series also includes nb characters in plot-critical roles. Babylon runs a brothel, and also does a little bodyguard work on the side. There’s a sequel. Gaie’s work is really excellent so check out her other work as well.