Mayor of Defiance @mayorofdefiance - Tumblr Blog

Defiance (2013 - 2015) I was born into the world that came after. After the vessels that carried my people were destroyed. After the Arkfalls began. After the Terraformers changed his planet forever. The earth he once knew is gone. Dead as the star system my people left behind.

#doc yewll #irisa nolan #joshua nolan #stahma tarr #datak tarr #tommy lasalle #alak tarr #berlin rainer #amanda rosewater #kenya rosewater

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Irisa Nolan | Defiance 3x01

#irisa nolan #3x01

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DEFIANCE (2013–2015) 2.06 ∙ This Woman's Work

#stahma tarr #amanda rosewater #2x06

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Fanwork creators self rec! When you get this, reply with your five favorite fics/art/podfics/etc. that you've made, then pass on to others. Let’s spread the self-love 🌼

Thank you for this, Winter. <3 I've been trying to think of what my favorites are; hopefully I picked some good ones!

Possibilities - Some Supergirl and Brainy! This one still makes me smile when I read it, and the wonderful @padawanton made some art for this that just makes it so special to me. This one is also works as a sequel to Hope, which I am very proud of, too.

One Last Moment - My first time writing in the MCU, and I think my first time writing at all in quite some time back when I'd written it. The release of Winter Soldier inspired a lot of feelings in me, and got me flexing my creative muscles, so this little ficlet about Steve and Bucky has a special place in my heart.

Socks - An exploration of grief set in the world of Defiance. I was really proud of this one, even thought it's probably not been read my many; I watched the show long after it aired. But my heart is in these words.

The Gift - It's some Kara and Clark fluff that I forever love, and it's canon in my heart, haha. I just think this one feels like warmth.

Nothingness - Get in losers, we're exploring grief again. Wandavision got my mind working, and the 8th episode got me writing. It's just a little ficlet, but once again my heart is in every word.

#fanfiction #alak tarr #Christie mccawley #irisa nolan

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#niles pottinger

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Okay, stopping with the Defiance spam but I'm still so salty that show never did bigger numbers on tumblr. I know it's been ten years since season 1 but still. It's so bisexual! It's a post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi-Western with Shakespearean vibes. Everyone has a tragic backstory. Nearly everyone is a war criminal. There's humour and tragedy. Sex workers are respected. The costumes are fantastic. The set design is fantastic. The music is fantastic. The conlangs are fantastic and really integrated into the show, including the music!! The last ep I watched had a cover of "What's Up" but half of it was in an alien language!

Sure the group marriage was just a side bit but it's established canon that those exist and are normal! Vincent van Gogh from that one Doctor Who episode is in this and he's just one of many excellent actors doing a fantastic job! There's so many complex and amazing female characters!!

Is the cgi occasionally a bit old-fashioned? Sure. There's a few make-up glitches in the pilot episode but who cares? We're still watching the original series of Star Trek.

I just don't understand why it never got more recognition on tumblr.

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The way Nolan immediately bonds with T’evgin as #girldads will never not be adorable

#joshua nolan #nolan x t'evgin #t'evgin

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Stahma Tarr | Defiance 3x04

#stahma tarr #3x04

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Was your Firish writing system used anywhere in Elemental? Most appearances of the written language seem to use an English cipher.

If you mean did the glyphs we created ever appear, yes, they did; we saw them all over the place. Now, were they ever used to write anything specific, as opposed to just being used for decoration in random ways? That I don't know. We did send them a list of some things spelled out correctly, but I don't know if they used them. It would've been nice to do some of the things that were in focus (like an open and closed sign), but we never had any communication with the art department.

You have to understand: It's a rare thing to get to even do a writing system. On many shows/films (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World, Emerald City, Paper Girls) production finds the very notion of a language having a unique writing system somewhat comical. Others (The Shannara Chronicles, Raya and the Last Dragon, Halo) find the notion that the language creator(s) would create the writing system used in the show amusing. We weren't hired to create a writing system for Elemental. We told them we could do it and they said no. We did it anyway. And after they saw it, they decided they liked it and would use it. That doesn't happen often!

So yeah, the fact that they didn't use the writing system to spell things out accurately? Not a big deal. You think everything in the background of Defiance was spelled correctly? There were dozens of pill bottles in Doc Yewll's office with over 200 words of text on them each. That was just gibberish done in the Indogene font, because, frankly, no matter how much you zoom in on those Doc Yewll scenes, you will never be able to read that writing (nor will you be able to see that what filled the pill bottles were things like oyster crackers).

(I still don't get why the art department insisted on using this script vertically. I created a script where every character is a hexagon, meaning that every single character and every single line could interlock perfectly. And then they stack them?!)

#languages