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The Expanse Hypeweek Day 02: Martians

ROBERTA "BOBBIE" DRAPER

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The Expanse Season 4 HypeWeek

Season 4 is right around the corner! We are hosting a hype week leading up to the season's premiere. We hope fans will participate and that their enthusiasm will encourage people to check out this amazing show we fought so hard to save. 

The event will occur in the week leading up to the Premiere on Dec 13th 2019

We have different prompts for each day pulled from book titles, themes, and factions. Fans can participate by creating gifs, edits, fanfic and fanart, metas and everything in between. 

Here are the prompts :

12-07-2019 - DAY o1: Earthers // Wake

12-08-2019 - DAY o2: Martians // War 

12-09-2019 - DAY o3: Belters // Gate

12-10-2019 - DAY o4: Games // Churn 

12-11-2019 - DAY o5: Found Family // Ashes 

12-12-2019 - DAY o6: Endings // Wrath

12-13-2019 - DAY o7: Beginnings //  Rising

Send us a message if you have any questions concerning the week itself, the prompts, etc.

We’ll follow the tags #ExpanseEvents and #ExpanseHypeweek, and we’ll be reblogging your creations. Have fun and get hype Screaming Firehawks!

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Drummer’s rise to leadership, or why she’s got what it takes and Ashford doesn’t

During my current pre-season 4 hype rewatch I noticed something in S3 ep. 11 (Fallen World), specifically during those scenes where Drummer and Ashford are stuck between those pieces of machinery. Drummer has been assertive before that, she’s really not one of those leaders who just goes with the flow, but since the moment he came on board, Ashford has also tried to undercut her at every turn, and in the most public way possible. What he says is not always wrong or unjustified, but it’s pretty obvious that he does not respect Drummer’s authority either as a person or as the captain, and that he possibly has a problem with authority in general. Anyway, every time there was a potentially critical situation on the Behemoth, Drummer was there to deal with it, Ashford was there to manipulate her into doing what he thought was right, and they had an audience that Ashford knew to use to his advantage.

But in Fallen World, there is no audience - it’s just the two of them, and the way they act tells us a lot about their personalities. Throughout those scenes, it’s Drummer who takes charge, comes up with options to get them out of their predicament and - most demonstratively - directs Ashford as to where to move the mech arm to grab the floating hand terminal. Ashford, on the other hand, doesn’t come up with any ideas, but uses the opportunity to have another one of his “teaching moments”. They bond in the end, which is nice and all, but my point is that in a situation where it’s just Drummer and Ashford and a serious problem, Drummer is the one who tries to find a solution and does what she has to in order to fix it, including crushing her own body to get at least one of them out of this. She’s assertive, imaginative, cool under pressure, just the way she’s always been when confronted with a difficult situation. Ashford, on the other hand, seems to pretty much lose all of his leadership abilities and problem solving skills and acquiesces to Drummer taking the lead. While Drummer does know how to work with an audience, as illustrated by her epic speech a few episodes earlier, Ashford relies on it because he doesn’t know what to do if he can’t see his reflection in the eyes of others. I don’t think Ashford is a bad captain, necessarily, when he’s only responsible for himself and a handful of crewmembers, and confronted with the “ordinary” problems of life as a pirate. But his affinity for the performative makes him make rash decisions that appear to be more for the sake of his image or his legend than for the sake of fixing the actual problem.

This difference between the two becomes even more obvious when Ashford wants to destroy the Ring and Drummer helps Naomi and Holden to prevent that. Drummer (and company) actually engages with the problem based on what she knows, and yes, it’s vague and a little rambly and hard to believe, but she keeps an open mind about possible solutions and then makes a decision based on what she thinks is most likely to work - or has the least negative consequences if it doesn’t, at least. Ashford, on the other hand, is performing again, for the people on his ship and in the ring space as well as for an imagined audience in the solar system. He likes the idea of becoming a martyr and making up for past wrongs (and having everybody know about it), and he likes it so much that he can’t think past it and entertain other ideas. Maybe he would have, if Drummer, Holden or Naomi had gotten a hold of him before he started preparations for destroying the ring, but once he’s committed to that decision, he can’t back down again in front of his audience. He is, in theory, capable of admitting to past mistakes, like when he admits to Drummer that he shouldn’t have called her out as publicly as he did for wanting to space the drug dealer, but, again, that’s when they’re alone. Once he has told other people about his plans and gotten enamored with the idea of martyrdom himself, he does not see a way out for him anymore. This is completely different from Drummer, who (mostly) does try to keep her options open, and most importantly does not perform instead of act. I said it before and I stand by it that Drummer, at this point of the show and of her personal journey, is not quite ready to step up as a leader of the entire Belt yet, but she definitely has what it takes to do it soon, and her actions in the second half of s3 proves that.

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You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,

And unafraid of toil. 

[rikerssexblouse]

A Very Lucky Man

Summary: There are some things one learns to tolerate

Pairings: Chrisjen/Arjun, Chrisjen/others (including implied Chrisjen/Michael Iturbi, Chrisjen/Cotyar Ghazi)

Notes: I wanted to finish and post this today for hype week, but I’m holding off till after I’ve seen season four, so I can use anything we learn about Chrisjen and her family to expand the story. HOWEVER I thought the intro would be a fun teaser, as well as an exploration of Earth and Chrisjen and Chrisjen’s position. 

The history of the human race is one of constant change. From scattered tribes gathering berries, to the first small agricultural towns, to cities, the industrial revolution, the technological revolution, and the colonization of space, humans have pushed ceaselessly forward. In the last two hundred years, humans have spread across the solar system, colonizing Mars, and the Belt, the Jovian moons. Humans survived on the edge, pushing into places long assumed utterly inhospitable.I can’t wait to see more of these characters!!!

But just as humans have pushed to the edges of the solar system while dreaming of recreating the Earth they had left behind, some things don’t really change.

Mumbai was still overcrowded, and humid as fuck. And powerful people still got to play by different rules.

Chrisjen Avasarala looked out over the bay from the comfort of her climate controlled office and smiled. The voice of her aide coming in over the intercom pulled her gaze and made her frown. “Madame Governor? Your husband is on the line.”

Chrisjen cleared her throat. “Tell him I’m in a meeting. I’ll call him back when I’m finished. And next time when I tell you not to interrupt me, don’t fucking interrupt me!”

“Yes ma’am,” her aide replied, contrite but unperturbed. The voice of one well accustomed to Chrisjen’s manner.  

The intercom now mercifully silent, Chrisjen’s attention shifted again, gazing fondly at the head between her thighs and biting her lip. She ran her fingers through his hair, perfectly manicured nails scraping against his scalp. Hands clutched at her thighs, shoving the folds of her dress higher.

“Chrisjen… “ he whispered.

Her fingers tugged on his hair, pushing him back against her cunt. “Don’t stop,” she hissed.

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Expanse Hype Week - DAY o1: Earthers // Wake

AMOS BURTON

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Expanse Hype Week - DAY o1: Earthers // Wake

We stan a boss bitch.

[tinykings]

Errinwright looking at Avasarala, or a study in vague annoyance at but eventual affection for your UN girlfriend.