The Strange Case Of Starship Iris Appreciation Post

The Strange Case of Starship Iris appreciation post

Everyone loves a good fictional podcast about queers in space. And Starship Iris does a wonderful job at including various sexual orientations and gender identities in a way that is both very casual and also addresses the difficulites and misconceptions those characters face because of their identies. It's very clearly a queer podcast made by queer people, and made with love and care and careful consideration. One other thing I really liked was how they treated alien linguistics and culture, especially in the relationship between the alien and the human. Because as someone who is a billingual immigrant and is in a relationship where we each have entirely different native languages and cultural backgrounds, that just felt so real. Like, obviously the characters mostly talk in English for the sake of the listener being able to actually understand what's happening. Some media will just give non-native english speaking characters an accent and grammar mistakes, but here there's so many details and care that went into this The little moments of "how do you say X?" Words that can be translated in multiple ways depending on context. The non-native speaker pointing out words/sayings that logically don't make a whole lot of sense that the native speaker would never really think about. The sayings that don't translate well. One language having pronouns that don't really exist in the other. Having an entire conversation in one language and then slipping back into another language to say important stuff like I love you. Certain letters like J's having many different distinct sounds that all sound about the same to a non-native. Missing a home that no longer exists. Wanting to celebrate holidays that people around you have never heard of. Like, it's a made up language and a made up culture. But the creators made it feel very real. And not to spoil anything, but the line "How come we can't even know how long?" at the end of season 2 made me cry actual tears.

Anna and John's friendship means the world to me.

Anna is immediately starstuck by Rose and her intelligence (be still my heart) and we like to joke that she nearly proposes to Margaret (can I hug you). Because she loves scientists. And she is especially excited to meet other female scientists.

Meanwhile Samuel's just Rose's brother who helps haul bricks. Pretty much the only thing she says to him is to thank him for hauling bricks. Until the satellite launch. Because he's the one who first realizes she was on her father's ship. Which I think is interesting. She mostly talks to herself/to John about what happened. Which makes sense, since John is her best friend. But I do think it would be interesting to explore the theme of legacy and struggling to live up to the expectations of deceased parents, with Samuel and Anna. Just based on Samuel's parts in Through the Glass.

Also I loved Urania Propetia, but it would also be interesting to see interactions between just Anna and Rose, or just Anna and Margaret. Because I can see Rose easily matching Anna's high energy, whereas Margaret's a bit more reserved but just as intense about wanting to know more. Rose is along for the adventure, for the scientific discovery. Margaret's searching for meaning.

And they also both have their own things with family and legacy. Rose wanting to be more than this, and Margaret wanting to find what's been lost.

Anyways, all this to say I have a lot of feelings about Anna and would love to see her return and interact with everyone.

anna for the ask game thing

i love her!!! one of my favorite Pulp characters, for sure.

I ship her and Sia! but that's not a surprise, you know me :p. her and Margaret is also something I've been considering, but I like their bond as friends, so I don't ship them all that much. still neat though.

her and John mean the world to me. um maybe this is cheating, but I've been writing her interacting with Kal lately. and I really like how fucked up that dynamic is.

not sure if I really have unpopular opinions! pulp is really small.

hm... I wish we'd gotten to see her dynamic with Samuel! we know her dynamic with John, Margaret, and Rose, but not so much with Samuel! I would've liked to see that. and her and Benjamin should talk. it would be good for him. and her and Sia should kiss. at some point.

LIB DICE!!!

I was thinking about how in The Summoning, the Lords say "Gamble it on the roll of a dice"

And then i started thinking that there are 6 Lords in Black if you count Webby, so you could make a 6 sided die, each side symbolising each of the Lords, and gamble away your soul or something

So I did. Personally, I think its really cool

(Lmk if you want close ups of all the sides individually)

Absolutely incredible!

“And Hades and Persephone

They took each other’s hands

And brother, you know what they did?

They danced”

I am once again positively ill about Spytown /pos

Lovely au by @dxppercxdxver

Curt’s suit inspired by the talented @szollibisz

Art by Alai Ganuza

My friends are hilarious

@nabwastaken mentioned that this photo would be a good meme so I made a few quick ones, lol. all pulp musicals themed, of course.