Raptorific

everybody knows me, my name dan

[ariadnelives]

READ ARIADNE'S ANGELS TODAY!

What is it? - "Ariadne's Angels" is a serialized science fiction series about a crew of space marines and pirates fighting both space-fascism and earth-fascism, in the grand tradition of "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy." They're very fun, very gay, and just the right amount of political. They're also entirely free to read online, and always will be!

Who wrote them? - Hi, I'm Dan! You may remember me from such hit tumblr posts as "Batman: Do The Butts Match?" and "Among Us - How is red sus? This is McCarthyism!" I'm often found on tumblr at raptorific and factsinallcaps, but this blog, @ariadnelives is my blog for all things related to this series!

Why should you read them? - You may be a fan of jokes! You may be a fan of action-packed scifi violence! You may be a fan of LGBT+ romance! Maybe your cup of tea is fun hypothetical technologies! It's possible you are a big fan of diverse ensemble casts with rounded, dimensional characters! Maybe you, like me, have a lot of unresolved anger towards the Bush Administration! Or, possibly, you just plain want something to read! What it boils down to is that these are incredibly fun and emotional adventure novels.

Where can I read them? - The most convenient place to find them all in one place is on Archive Of Our Own, but if you subscribe to this very blog you'll get all the updates, including illustrations, artwork, and discussion!

Is it cool if I ask you questions about them? - I encourage it!

Are there gonna be more books? - Yes! Watch this space, an anthology and a full new serialized novel run are in the pipe, five by five, for release within the year

[godlessondheimite]

i cannot describe how funny i find this

[godlessondheimite]

same energy as “jeffrey epstein? the financier?”

[artofdoubt]

METRIC — Who Would You Be for Me

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underrated gay homer moment

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Was lucky enough to see the incomparable Miss Grit at Johnny Brenda's this weekend! I saw them open for Metric a few years back and just fell in love with their music, went home and bandcamped their entire discography. I knew I'd have to see them now because I'm sure that soon they'll get so big it'll be impossible to get tickets!

I told them all this when I pulled them aside after the show for a photo, of course! Just an incredibly sweet person, they were very understanding when I accidentally hit "lock phone" instead of "take photo" three times in a row, complimented my concert outfit, and gave me a big hug. A real class act, in addition to an insane level of musical skill! If you haven't given them a listen, no time like the present, there's only so much time to Like Them Before It Was Cool!

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Fun fact!

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I miss Doctor Who, and being excited about Doctor Who :(

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like it's possible that they'll resolve... whatever the hell they're trying to do here with Billie Piper, and they'll bring on a new showrunner and a new actor and maybe it'll be fine again someday

but the fact remains that RTD decided to not only fumble having Ncuti Gatwa on his show, but actually managed to stick me in a full year and a half of actively dreading the very thought of "my favorite show comes back" in service of generating a clickbaity "oooooh what's gonna happennn? you gotta watch to find out!" news cycle around the finale

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Like it's now been over a year since the last episode of the show, and over six months until the alleged next one (closer to a year, if recent rumors are to be believed). I was already disappointed about the terrible season 15 plotline, about them wasting multiple of the series' most iconic villains, about them stringing Gatwa along until he had no choice but to abruptly depart the series instead of putting his career on hold while waiting to see if the network would renew them for another season two or three years down the line

but the reality is that "WHY is Billie Piper there?!" is simply not an interesting enough question to warrant leaving us on a cliffhanger for close to two years with no new information except RTD's smug, hamfisted ass periodically steepling his fingers and going "you'll know all the intricacies of my grand plan soon enough :3"

[raptorific]

I miss Doctor Who, and being excited about Doctor Who :(

[raptorific]

like it's possible that they'll resolve... whatever the hell they're trying to do here with Billie Piper, and they'll bring on a new showrunner and a new actor and maybe it'll be fine again someday

but the fact remains that RTD decided to not only fumble having Ncuti Gatwa on his show, but actually managed to stick me in a full year and a half of actively dreading the very thought of "my favorite show comes back" in service of generating a clickbaity "oooooh what's gonna happennn? you gotta watch to find out!" news cycle around the finale

[raptorific]

I miss Doctor Who, and being excited about Doctor Who :(

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Was lucky enough to see the incomparable Miss Grit at Johnny Brenda's this weekend! I saw them open for Metric a few years back and just fell in love with their music, went home and bandcamped their entire discography. I knew I'd have to see them now because I'm sure that soon they'll get so big it'll be impossible to get tickets!

I told them all this when I pulled them aside after the show for a photo, of course! Just an incredibly sweet person, they were very understanding when I accidentally hit "lock phone" instead of "take photo" three times in a row, complimented my concert outfit, and gave me a big hug. A real class act, in addition to an insane level of musical skill! If you haven't given them a listen, no time like the present, there's only so much time to Like Them Before It Was Cool!

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"what if the creators made a secret good finale but the studio buried it and released an intentionally bad finale instead, and if we lobby hard enough they'll release the real finale" is always the most insane fandom conspiracy theory but like. Let me tell you. LET ME TELL YOU. It was true one (1) time, and that's the only time it'll ever be true, and being on the internet when the Secret Good Finale actually dropped, and was actually good, and everybody but me and my friends had to eat crow? Legitimately felt like being King Of The World. I understand why every other fandom is always chasing that high but unfortunately Zack Snyder's Justice League will never happen again

[ariadnelives]

“Leave me.”

“Out of the question. You've survived worse than this.”

“Two minutes... No use in us both dying.”

“Don't be a drama queen. I just got you back, and I'm not leaving you here.”

[huggingtentacles]

I like robots with big fat titties but if you make one you have to explain their purpose within the machine. You gotta give me a good reason for them to be there. Because if it's just decorative then like. Why make her a robot at all

[charl0ttan]

is it good if this is the best praise you could have used for your movie commercial

[shrimpbackshin]

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