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Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)
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Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)
I like the rock.
As a general rule of fantasy and sci-fi naming, the closer to the back half of the alphabet the average letter in their name is, the eviller they are. A name that doesn't contain any consonants north of R is poison frog colouration. If it uses Y as a vowel in a non-terminal position you're basically fucked.
Janet Elizabeth Aulisio
How I’d introduce a Deaf tech character in an action/sci-fi film.
Our heroes stop outside the big swoosh workshop door.
The introductory hero hands our pov protagonist a pair of earplugs.
“Why would I need those?”
“Trust me.”
Door opens, light and an INCREDIBLY LOUD recording of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge Overture sweeps over our heroes. (Open to suggestions)
They step inside, the pov newbie clutching their ears.
Panning shot of workshop and inventions.
Our first intro to our Deaf techie is their sock-clad feet tapping in time.
Medium shot from the back of our Deafie dancing wildly.
Intro hero walks over and pulls the plug.
Silence.
Deaf techie turns around and sees visitors.
POV hero: “you know, you’ll go deaf if you’re not careful.”
Deaf techie [in sign]: too late. What you want?”
I wonder how aliens will react to our communal grooming instinct? Like when you see something stuck to your homie’s clothes/skin/hair and it’s driving you nuts and you just gotta be like “hold still, lemme get that for you real quick.”
One time when I was a kid, I had a science teacher with a snake as a class pet, and said snake was almost done shedding. There was one little bit of dried skin stuck to its face and I was like, “would it hurt him if I pulled that off?” And the teacher said, “yes it actually could, it’s probably still attached to living skin if it hasn’t come off yet” and I was like “oh, sorry,” and he said, “that’s okay, you were just wanting to do the primate thing.” And damn, that’s such an accurate descriptor.
Anyways I hope aliens don’t mind me/my descendants having the urge to pluck stuff off of them. If they ask, we’ll have to tell them it’s a trait we evolved to survive ticks.
Fist my bump ✨
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