The Steorrma

An upcoming audio drama following Captain Moira Davies, and what happens when folktales aren't just stories.

[steorrmapod]

Come all you pretty fair maids, whoever you may be

Whose love is one upon those ships that sail the black so deep

They’re up aloft in storm and gale, you can do naught but mourn

The Steorrma came and made them theirs, never to return

Steorrma is an upcoming audio drama following Captain Moira Davies, on her ship The Gay and Wild Romp. After a run-in with a wrecked ship belonging to the space capitalists of JASCorp, and picking up the only survivor, she starts to realize that maybe there's something to be learned in the folktales she'd long since stopped believing in.

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This is a debut production, with a team of one person (that's me!), stemming from my love of traditional/folk songs, my love for audio dramas, and thinking really hard about Space Mermaids. I'm definitely gonna be learning as I go here, but give me a follow and maybe we can learn together!

[iriscasefiles]

please help spread the word!

[iriscasefiles]

oh hey, I almost forgot—

to celebrate the upcoming season, we put the theme song on spotify and itunes!

[steorrmapod]

Genuinely so touched that somehow 20 people are interested in this podcast when I've really just been vague posting about space mermaids and sapphics in space--

[steorrmapod]

Things in my Gays in Space podcast that just make sense!

Inconsistent pronouns for just about everyone. Everyone's gender is a little queer! (This is definitely intentional and not because I simply kept losing track of things while writing-)

An off-screen possible love interest with a conveniently gender neutral name

sapphic pining

Filking songs to make them both spacey and queer

The Evils of Space Capitalism

[steorrmapod]

Actually I could never be in charge of casting anything that involves people besides myself, I'm doing a silly little fan cast of an absolutely imaginary audio adaptation of one of my favorite book series and I can't even settle on who I'd want and this isn't even real 😭😭😭

[miamaimania]

Journey into the Surreal: Virgil Finlay’s Illustration for ‘Famous Fantastic Mysteries’, 1943

[remnantglow]

LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older queer science fiction book I've managed to track down, consisting of just over 200 titles with LGBT characters/themes & by LGBT authors, spanning over a century (1880-2000) 🚀

The database can be filtered by representation, subgenre, whether the book is currently in print, and more; additionally, it includes my own ratings & brief thoughts on the ones i have read, if anyone needs a suggestion on places to start! (or feel free to shoot me an ask for a more personalized recommendation)

[macmanx]

Full URL, in case the tinyurl dies.

And, the archive, in case that dies:

[yuumei-art]

Stellarium Dress

My original plan was to paint a planetarium dress with the Solar System as the main focus, but I got so carried away with making the dress go woooosh that the composition no longer works for a Solar System lol. I'm still happy with how this one turned out, and I still get to paint the actual planetarium dress later ahahaha The full hours long video recording, HD image, and PSD file will be DMed on my Patreon on March 3rd

[the-wolf-and-moon]

The Pleiades

[astronotmovie]

The view ain’t all that bad. Apollo 9 astronaut David Scott takes it all in in this epic photograph by crewmate Rusty Schweickart, March 1969. The 10-day mission commanded by James McDivitt saw the first crewed flight of the Lunar Module.

[4mtns]

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter.

[emofuck-inspace]

Wake up babe, new Jupiter pic just dropped

[pythiart23]

[heylsgowt]

[kisses-of-stars]

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[zegalba]

northern lights photographed from space

[maureen2musings]

In this video, take a flight through millions of galaxies mapped using coordinate data from DESI.

Credit: Fiske Planetarium, CU Boulder and DESI collaboration

astrohumanist

[yuumei-art]

Planetarium Dress

Finally got to paint this idea I had after failing the last time. My friends on Discord suggested a music dress so I might take a stab at that next :D Timelapse below. The full hours long video recording, HD image, and PSD file will be DMed on my Patreon.com/Yuumei on March 5th

[madcat-world]

From Yuumei

[nemfrog]

Approaching the moon. Blue Ribbon Comics. 1939.

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