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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

song scrapbook

Avatar: The Last Airbender
- If They Call It Healing (Azula, post-canon)
- Many Roads (Zuko and the Gaang, Book 1)

Leverage
- Gravity (Eliot, OT3)

Murderbot Diaries
- rogue boogie (Murderbot, Artificial Condition & Rogue Protocol)

Ocean’s Echo
- Making Trouble (Tennal, Ch. 1-3)

The Wicked + The Divine
- Loose Ends (Marian, Ch. 16)

Winter’s Orbit
- A song for Jainan

To the monster under my bed:
- Big Hearts

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chimaerakitten
cowboymkb

one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for any True Artificial Intelligence™ if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically artificial intelligence?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"

MULTIPLE guns or something like that anyways murderbot the murderbot diaries
sungodsevenoclock
official-kircheis

image

This but unironically, pastorialism suuuuuckssss

centrally-unplanned

Notice the zero humans in this photo, which is because this is not territory amendable to human habitation at any scale sans technology! Thank you factory gods for letting us exist at all.

sungodsevenoclock

Hello? This meme was obviously made for and by cows!

note to self to get an actual physical copy of governing the commons but yea it's not technology by itself it's the erm false rationalization? false optimization? the one that discounts poetry for fear or laziness gods my terminology is rusty as all hells
naomisalman
xenosaurus

One of my favorite tricks for designing alien species/cultures is to take a real animal with an interesting lifecycle and think about what that biology would translate to if they had human intelligence

xenosaurus

Example: silk moths as a base species

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

Between mating seasons, their culture is extremely food-oriented, because everyone is growing and silkworms eat nigh constantly. They spend most of their lives outdoors but sleep and shelter from bad weather in large family dwellings made from wood and the remains of the silk cocoons of prior generations.

xenosaurus

everyone is really vibing with the silkworm aliens I see

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