#ontologicalsynaesthesia

[specialagentartemis]

Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme: the Time Trap series by Sean Dalton >:)

They are IMMENSELY ENTERTAINING to ME SPECIFICALLY and I have a blast reading them!

I love every time Leon appears on the page. The whole concept of Leon is so ridiculous but also so evocative and thought-provoking. He didn’t ask to be created through Time Clone Nonsense! He’s never known Noel’s future and has no connection to it nor feels any duty to preserve it! He wants to create a world he can belong in without being erased by Noel fixing the timeline! Can you blame him! The added pathos of 1) he can feel Noel’s pain 2) he is an imperfect copy, angsty because he can’t taste food, it tastes like nothing to him, is catnip to me. Also he’s psychic for no evident reason.

The fact that he’s also kind of ineffective at being Evil, mostly making trouble for himself and occasionally Noel and no one else, and Noel constantly has to rescue them both, is also endearing. Leon you are an angsty clone fuckup and I love you.

(And to actually praise something the book was trying to do, I enjoy the whump a lot. Noel gets the absolute shit kicked out of him on a regular basis and it is described in loving painful detail without being gory.)

[specialagentartemis]

Top 5 pieces of pottery!

Heck YEAH! There are so many excellent pots in the world.

This delightful Tonto Polychrome bowl from Gila Pueblo, eastern Arizona, late 1300s. It’s everybody’s favorite at the museum for a reason.

2. Late Minoan Marine Style pottery, and specifically the famous octopus flask (Palaikastro, Crete, 1500s BCE). I love how there was a whole stylistic movement to just paint sea creatures on fancy pots at this point in time.

3. This particular Mesa Verde mug, southern Colorado, 1200s. There are a LOT of mugs from the 1100s-1200s in the style, but I like the swirly pattern on this one. A friend of mine has a replica of it. I drank tea out of it when I was dog-sitting for her.

4. The Chaco Canyon cylinder jar collection from Pueblo Bonito, Central New Mexico, 900s-1000s. Makes the top five for their archaeological interest—chocolate residue was found on the inside, showing that chocolate was imported up from Mexico to New Mexico and the people in Chaco Canyon were drinking chocolate out of these jars probably in a similar ritual manner to how Maya people were doing it at the same time down in Mexico. After the 1100s cylinder jars fell out of fashion and chocolate was drunk from mugs instead. (Similar to the one above.)

5. Brithawon’s shit-ass kylikes (Pylos, Greece, 1200s BCE). Love this guy.

also special shout-out to a new love, the Hellenistic Greek eyebrow fish plates.

hmm maybe I should do a part 2 with modern/art pottery also... there are also some excellent pots that are not hundreds of years old

[specialagentartemis]

Major Kira for the headcanon ask game!

Aw yeah I love her <3

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Realistic: Kira introduced the idea, and worked alongside Sisko, to negotiate Space NAGPRA to make the Cardassians return looted sacred Bajoran artifacts like the other Orbs.

While it may not be realistic it is hilarious: After meeting Commandant Mirror!Kira, Kira realized that she would, in fact... be really down for selfcest. She's considered exploring this desire in the holosuite, except for the fact that she would never, ever let Quark know about this.

Heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends: There are ways in which Kira was actually happier during her time in the Resistance, during the occupation. It hurts her to admit, but the clarity, the drive, the purity of her anger and the purity of her comradeship with other Bajorans, made it... simple, in a way. She feels awful for missing it, but sometimes, she does miss it. Things were clear, things made sense, she had a goal and the goal was righteous. Now? Now she has to not rebel but govern. Now other Bajorans are her enemies. Now the Kai is her enemy. Now sometimes she has to make decisions that are detrimental to other Bajorans. She hates that she misses the time under Cardassian rule because like, of course she doesn't... but she misses the feeling of simplicity and clarity that rebelling against it gave her. She is terrified of becoming the kind of leadership she would have rebelled against.

Unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own: KIRA/MILES/KEIKO OT3 POLYCULE REAL

[specialagentartemis]

For the ask game: Zenon, Proto Zoa, and Margie from Zenon Girl of the 21st Century, option 6

Haha oh man excellent

go clothes shopping with: ZENON. Hands down her fashion taste is impeccable and I want to have some of her style.

go to ikea with: Margie, because she’d probably mock my clothes choices or call me fat for buying snacks, but would be hilarious to judge the IKEA set room decor with.

go grocery shopping with: Proto Zoa, because I feel like he would encourage me to buy Proto Zoa branded snacks and that’s the kind of enabling I need.

[specialagentartemis]

ontologicalsynaesthesia replied to your post: I like the Gunnerkrigg Court fandom, they’re...

The Seed Bismuth puts out Gay Waves that influence the brain waves of humans and non-humans alike and increase exponentially over time. Eventually everyone will be gay. It’s part of Coyote’s secret master plan

The Seed Bismuth is funky and rainbow... I think you’re onto something here

[kosmm]

For the DE ask game: Pain Threshold and Savoir Faire!

pain threshold: which part emotionally devastated you the most?

I'm gonna have to pick 2 lol

Failing the check with the Hardie Boys and getting Kim's gun

Failing that one check with Ruby

aw man... I put my controller down and stared off into the distance for quite some time after both of these scenes. They were rough. I had to come back to the game later.

savoir faire: whats your favourite in-game clothing item? bonus, share your best outfit.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE!! Haha! Perhaps I am a little basic but I love the insane mesh tank top + robe combo. Absolutely unhinged. Pair that with the silk scarf and beanie and you've got a whole-ass look. No pants necessary. fashion. (I'll have to post a picture of him later he looks ridiculous haha)

[specialagentartemis]

@ontologicalsynaesthesia said:

I feel like there were a lot of genderless AIs in sf lit of the 70s or so like in the Culture series maybe? But it sure does seem like everyone has been gendering their robots for at least the last 30 years

Yeah, for all that it’s supposedly such a thing, it feels hard to think of many prominent AI characters who aren’t gendered.  (I’ve still never read the Culture series...)  But for real, Breq and Murderbot are the only ones I’m coming up with, and Breq comes from a culture where no one, humans included, have a gender anyway.

Is it the idea that if you’re treating an AI like a full-fledged person and not “just” a robot, gender comes part and parcel with personhood?  You’d think you’d see more pushback in recent years on that.

Is it because Data was played by Brent Spiner and was thus *obviously* a man and no one on TNG was allowed the imagination to be queer because it was 80s/90s tv and run by Rick Berman, and Data just set the template for AI personhood in sci-fi for the next three decades?

Is it because of Siri and Alexa?

(I find the same thing with aromanticism.  Where are all these aromantic robots that you (general you) insist exist.  Again, Murderbot and Breq are the only ones coming to mind!  And the personhood thing is absolutely a big part of why)

[specialagentartemis]

@ontologicalsynaesthesia said: Perhaps relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vffl7NWmso

(regarding a Going Postal musical)

Ahahaha I had no idea this existed but it’s a Delight and is exactly what Going Postal and also The Greatest Showman should be