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Was listening to ‘The Strange Case of Starship Iris’ earlier today. Got to the part where Violet starts coughing. Started yelling at my computer “WhAt arE YoU DoINg yOu StUPiD WomAn GeT SoME rESt dOn’T cOuGH iN ThEiR FaCes YoU’rE CoNtaGiOus!”
I think the pandemic is starting to get to me.
Just my two favourite girlfriends making chia seed pets <3
CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT HRESH’VATHAM
I find my myself thinking of them more than the actual storyline
CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT HRESH’VATHAM
I find my myself thinking of them more than the actual storyline
CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT HRESH’VATHAM
I find my myself thinking of them more than the actual storyline
CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT HRESH’VATHAM
I find my myself thinking of them more than the actual storyline
I love them
some quick character sketches from The Strange Case of Starship Iris, @iriscasefiles. I am obsessed with this “gays on a spaceship” scifi audiodrama podcast, y’all.
you should check it out because it’s got:
a ragtag found family of criminals undermining a corrupt intergalactic government!
heists! ciphers and secret codes! double agents!
alien linguistics as a plot device!
a useless lesbian! (good with guns, bad with feelings!)
a queer trans Jewish nerd wanted by several mafias!
a stunt pilot who composes battle poetry while defying the laws of physics!
multiple nonbinary characters! bi rep! poly rep! (grey) ace rep! it’s so gay you guys
baby goats!
sea shanties!
I love every single one of these idiots, thanks to the whole team at Procyon for this kickass story. I’m currently listening to it for the 8th time in 2 months 😅
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.