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New Stargate Series Cancelled by Amazon

The new “Stargate” TV series has been axed at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.

The show was first announced with a series order in November 2025. It hailed from writer, executive producer, and showrunner Martin Gero, who was a writer on “Stargate SG-1” and “Stargate: Atlantis” early in his career.

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase.

[source: Variety, June 2, 2026]

blew-up-a-sun

Darren from GateWorld just covered a couple additional details provided by Deadline and engaged in some educated speculation about why @amazon dropped the whole project so late into production (they'd already started casting and planned to begin filming this September) and were unwilling to attempt reworking Gero's greenlit script.

The TLDR is that both the @primevideo execs and business strategy have changed in the last 3-4 months, and a fan-forward Stargate project doesn't align with the new vision for the platform.

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Save the New Stargate Series: Let Martin Gero Build the Future of the Franchise!

Here's the petition link for anyone who wants to sign. We've averaged an impressive 1,000 signatures per hour since it went online thus far, but let's keep the ball rolling folks.

I don't expect it'll do much, but it sure is cathartic to watch the complaints pile up together, and you never know I guess 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

blew-up-a-sun

Apologies—that rate was based on my misinterpretation of the change.org mobile interface, but the petition is gaining an exciting amount of momentum this morning. The signature count has jumped from 7k to more than 12.5k in the few hours since I posted the link here.

Please share the petition on as many platforms and with as many people as possible: fans, friends, family, anyone who cares about sci-fi and fandom. International visibility will be crucial over the next couple of days if we want to make a point.

Whether or not this petition is successful in saving the new show, now is the time to make as much noise as possible if we want to save the Stargate franchise. Hold Prime Video accountable for their execs' egregious dismissal of the dedicated fan base on which the franchise's financial value and potential longevity ultimately depend.

Here's the message I've used to reach out to my friends and family. Feel free to borrow if it makes it sharing easier!

Amazon just cancelled the new Stargate show bc it was too fan-forward... They obviously don't care about fan backlash, but we can do nought but try, so here's the petition to reverse the cancellation if you care to help: https://c.org/H2CPzWpP2k

#SaveStargate and #LetGeroBuildTheGate are the official hashtags for the petition.

#SaveStargate #justice for Gero's Stargate #Stargate for the fans #SG4 #Stargate #amazon #amazon prime video #let Stargate be Stargate #petition #LetGeroBuildTheGate

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New Stargate Series Cancelled by Amazon

The new “Stargate” TV series has been axed at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.

The show was first announced with a series order in November 2025. It hailed from writer, executive producer, and showrunner Martin Gero, who was a writer on “Stargate SG-1” and “Stargate: Atlantis” early in his career.

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase.

[source: Variety, June 2, 2026]

blew-up-a-sun

Darren from GateWorld just covered a couple additional details provided by Deadline and engaged in some educated speculation about why @amazon dropped the whole project so late into production (they'd already started casting and planned to begin filming this September) and were unwilling to attempt reworking Gero's greenlit script.

The TLDR is that both the @primevideo execs and business strategy have changed in the last 3-4 months, and a fan-forward Stargate project doesn't align with the new vision for the platform.

blew-up-a-sun

Save the New Stargate Series: Let Martin Gero Build the Future of the Franchise!

Here's the petition link for anyone who wants to sign. We've averaged an impressive 1,000 signatures per hour since it went online thus far, but let's keep the ball rolling folks.

I don't expect it'll do much, but it sure is cathartic to watch the complaints pile up together, and you never know I guess 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

blew-up-a-sun

Apologies—that rate was based on my misinterpretation of the change.org mobile interface, but the petition is gaining an exciting amount of momentum this morning. The signature count has jumped from 7k to more than 12.5k in the few hours since I posted the link here.

Please share the petition on as many platforms and with as many people as possible: fans, friends, family, anyone who cares about sci-fi and fandom. International visibility will be crucial over the next couple of days if we want to make a point.

Whether or not this petition is successful in saving the new show, now is the time to make as much noise as possible if we want to save the Stargate franchise. Hold Prime Video accountable for their execs' egregious dismissal of the dedicated fan base on which the franchise's financial value and potential longevity ultimately depend.

Here's the message I've used to reach out to my friends and family. Feel free to borrow if it makes it sharing easier!

Amazon just cancelled the new Stargate show bc it was too fan-forward... They obviously don't care about fan backlash, but we can do nought but try, so here's the petition to reverse the cancellation if you care to help: https://c.org/H2CPzWpP2k

#SaveStargate and #LetGeroBuildTheGate are the official hashtags for the petition.

#SaveStargate #justice for Gero's Stargate #Stargate for the fans #SG4 #Stargate #amazon #amazon prime video #let Stargate be Stargate #petition #LetGeroBuildTheGate

blew-up-a-sun

New Stargate Series Cancelled by Amazon

The new “Stargate” TV series has been axed at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.

The show was first announced with a series order in November 2025. It hailed from writer, executive producer, and showrunner Martin Gero, who was a writer on “Stargate SG-1” and “Stargate: Atlantis” early in his career.

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase.

[source: Variety, June 2, 2026]

blew-up-a-sun

Darren from GateWorld just covered a couple additional details provided by Deadline and engaged in some educated speculation about why @amazon dropped the whole project so late into production (they'd already started casting and planned to begin filming this September) and were unwilling to attempt reworking Gero's greenlit script.

The TLDR is that both the @primevideo execs and business strategy have changed in the last 3-4 months, and a fan-forward Stargate project doesn't align with the new vision for the platform.

blew-up-a-sun

Save the New Stargate Series: Let Martin Gero Build the Future of the Franchise!

Here's the petition link for anyone who wants to sign. We've averaged an impressive 1,000 signatures per hour since it went online thus far, but let's keep the ball rolling folks.

I don't expect it'll do much, but it sure is cathartic to watch the complaints pile up together, and you never know I guess 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

#justice for Gero's Stargate #Stargate for the fans #SG4 #Stargate #amazon #amazon prime video #let Stargate be Stargate #petition

tony-tony-chopp3r

Chopper is like a little bug to me

#tony tony chopper #nico robin #one piece #op fanart

spaceexp

Artemis II flight plan

#Artemis II

cripple-punk-dad

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

fandomshatefatpeople

Sharing for accessibility

catgirlwheels

Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

wishuponastarion

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

mylordshesacactus

Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a respondibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

thejollywriter

wow okay i’m crying now

girlwithakiwi

“And even as he watched the rescue unfolding that morning, he would have understood that for the living, everything which could have been done had been done: not a single survivor was lost or injured being brought aboard the Carpathia. For those who had gone down with the Titanic, save for reverencing their memory at the service later that day, there was nothing more that he or anyone could do. Rostron’s duty now was as he always saw it: to the living.”

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

I looked up a bit about this because the post is so movingly written that when I read it aloud to my husband and mother they both wept like babies, and something else really struck me about this story.

So Carpathia was not a top-end luxury liner. Her reputation was for being Jolly Comfortable - she was very broad in her proportions, and not super-duper fast, and the result was that she didn’t rock so much on the waves and you couldn’t particularly hear/feel the engines. She was solid and dependable, and lots of people liked using her, but she therefore occupied a lesser niche than Titanic or Olympian or whatever - and crucially, as a result of that, she only had one radio operator on board. This means she only had radio ops for a certain window in the day, unlike Titanic, which had 24 hour radio ops.

So on that night, when Titanic went down, Carpathia’s wireless operator - one Harold Cottam - clocked off his shift at midnight, and went to bed. While he was getting ready for bed, though, he left the transmitter on for the hell of it, and therefore picked up a transmission from Cape Race in Newfoundland, the closest transmitting tower sending messages to the ships. They told him that they had a backlog of private traffic for Titanic that wasn’t getting through. So, even though his shift was over, and it was now 11 minutes past bloody midnight, and he just wanted to go to bed, Harold Cottam decided that nonetheless, he’d be helpful, and let the Titanic know they had messages waiting.

And that’s how he received the Titanic’s distress signal. In spite of no longer being on shift to receive it, and therefore in order to send Carpathia galloping to Titanic’s rescue, and thus saving 705 people.

All because Harold Cottam decided one night to be kind.

I dunno. That’s just really stuck with me.

armouredescort

Cottam also ended up staying awake for something like 48 hours straight trying to send survivors messages and a list of survivors home, but due to Carpathia’s limited radio frequency range and with no other ships to act as a relay, this was rather patchy. However, he tried his damn best to make sure the survivor’s messages got home, and was also bombarded with incoming messages of bribes to spill the details of the disaster to the press.

Rostrum had ordered that no messages to the press be sent out of respect to the survivors, for they would have their privacy destroyed as soon as they reached New York. Cottam respected this order, even under extreme duress of fatigue, stress, and the knowledge that in some cases the bribes were almost three times his annual salary.

He eventually went to bed but not before working with one of the rescued Titanic’s radio operators, Harold Bride, to transmit as many messages as possible. Bride was injured (his feet had been crushed in a lifeboat) and had just passed the body of the second of Titanic’s radio operators aboard (Jack Phillips), so neither of them were really in the best shape to keep working, but they did.

In the face of extreme adversity, both men refused to do anything but their duty (and exceeding their duty) not just because Rostrum had ordered it, but because it was the right thing to do. They could have profited considerably from the disaster and they refused for the dignity of the survivors.

duckbunny

This is hopepunk. This is what we can be, what we are, when instinct takes over. This is what we are when we choose to care about each other. We’re not profit machines or units of production or lone fierce wolves in a bitter wilderness. We are people, and we care about people.

This is human nature. Don’t give up on it.

deadcatwithaflamethrower

Hopepunk is best punk.

saint-batrick

this always leaves me sobbing. fuck.

petermorwood

I wrote a post a couple of years ago, wondering why there hadn’t been a documentary or docu-drama about the ‘Carpathia’ rescue run.

There are probably sound reasons why not, one of which is probably that getting yet another ‘Titanic’ project greenlit is far easier - name recognition, pre-sold property, multiple conspiracy theories to play with (all discredited, but when did that stop the “History” Channel?)

Here are a couple of stories about ‘Carpathia’:

As @mylordshesacactus has already said, her boilers and engines were rated for no more than 14 knots and, when she managed 17.5 for the only time in her life it’s said (I hate the phrase but I have to use it) that the Chief Engineer hung his hat over the main pressure gauge so no-one - including himself - could see how far its needle was into the red.

Captain Rostron, a religious man, was seen on several occasions standing privately on the exposed bridge wing with his own hat raised and his mouth moving in silent prayer, and when daylight revealed the extent of the ice-field his ship had passed without harm, he only said “There must have been another Hand on the wheel than mine…”

There’s another problem-of-sorts about a screenplay set aboard ‘Carpathia’ - an astonishing lack of that easy dramatic tool, conflict. Captain Rostron decided he was going to the ‘Titanic’s assistance, and that was that. AFAIK not a single passenger or crewman - not one - questioned the wisdom of his decision either then or afterwards, even when…

…‘Carpathia’ headed at more than full speed, in the dark, through dangerous waters where an iceberg had apparently just sunk an “unsinkable” ship.

It’s easier to write - and sell - a story about pride, arrogance, stupidity, rich against poor and lives lost through hubris, than it is to write one about people who rallied round and did the right thing at the right time, not for reward but because it was the right thing to do.

Here’s Rostron and his officers…

…the ‘Carpathia’ stewards and cabin crew….

…some of her passengers…

…and some of the people they helped.

joasakura

I will always reblog one of the few posts to GUARANTEE leaving me in an ugly sobbing heartfelt mess.

Godspeed Carpathia and your crew, your memories live on.

#Carpathia

lizverse

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUFFY!!!

#op #monkey d. luffy #strawhat luffy #join my crew #nakama #happy birthday luffy #children's day

ravenhairedwaywanderer

#omfg #daredevil #the punisher #karen page #daredevil born again #spoilers

poon-nropay

hi here's my boy Franky from One Piece.

#op #franky #op fanart

themetalhiro

emergency food

#op #op fanart #comic #emergency food #tony tony chopper #vinsmoke sanji #roronoa zoro #straw hat luffy

fluffyartbl0g

OMG JUST UNCOVERED: SHORT SEGMENT OF THE ANIMATION MEME I THOUGHT I HAD LOST FOREVER T O T!!!

theviolettulip

SO GOOD SO PRETTY SO ACCURATE!!!

#op #op fanart #op fanvid #straw hats

So uh... How bout that chapter?

Robin better finally drop some poneglyph exposition this arc ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙

FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD, Oda!

#op #op chapter 1138 #op spoilers #nico robin #void century #elbaf #elbaf spoilers #fan translation #tcb scans

thirtysixsavefiles

few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

the-space-narwhal

thehappyfangirl

Someone mentioned on another tumblr post about how nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder.

Write your story. Write it again. And again.

sashaforthewin

Okay but do you understand the TREASURE TROVE of reading a fic you enjoy and then looking at the author's page and discovering they have written multiple just like it?! That is the ultimate score!