The Expanse - Tumblr Posts
One of the things that will always warm my heart is the genuine emotion that occurs between a sailor and a ship. I love it when it is depicted in any form of media.
Things like:
- The song Eight Bells by the Jolly Rogers
- the Millennium Falcon and all her pilots and captains
- the Black Pearl and both Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa. They always return to her in the series
- the crew of the Rocinante from the Expanse among others.
Hello! This is a Toy I got from - Lootcrate!
From the Scyfi/Amazon Show called The Expanse!
I added special effects! all is painted using - Procreate! Only the Ship is a Toy.
I hope you like it I love the show!
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🏳️🌈get to know the members of @gay!🏳️🌈 ↳ favourite canon character by treena ⋆ camina drummer
i never loved you because you were fighters. i loved you because you were builders. i wanted us to build something together.
"When life has not treated you with kindness, doing the right thing anyway always takes strength… when you can even tell what the right thing is. I love you, Timothy, but I’m not righteous. I can’t teach you to be that. Maybe you and I… can imagine a version of me that is good and kind and wise. I’ll pretend to be her. You can pretend to love me enough to listen. Maybe that’s enough for people like us." --Lydia to young Amos, The Expanse, 5x02
One just can't draw Ashford without drawing Drummer too, Sasa Ke ?
Am I sad af that they didn't get a happy ending just raising space goats on a quiet planet? Yes yes I am! But also I do live for the drama so.... They deserved to drink that bottle together T-T
re: that *chef kiss* PERFECT Franken-Drummer post and tumblr not being all over The Expanse, I know right?? it’s such an amazing show with so many delightful, complicated characters yet it’s so unfairly slept on! maybe because S1 takes awhile to get going and ppl give up? idk but it makes me sad that I have so few ppl to squeal about Drummer and Amos and Bobbie and Christjen and Ashford and Naomi (ad infinitum) with 😭🚀😭
WHY ARE PEOPLE NOT OBSESSED WITH THE EXPANSE HELLO!?!?! there's literally so much to love about it oh my god. you're right, it DOES take a second to get going but once it does!!!
for those of you who have not read or seen The Expanse series (I myself have yet to read the books), let me tell you why you'll love it:
political space drama with incredibly distinct cultures and phenomenal world building, if you're a details girlie (gn), you're gonna go nuts
the found family vibes!!??! are off!?!? the charts!?!? (minor spoilers for the first few episodes) four people are thrown into a situation in which they accidentally become the most important people/fugitives in the whole galaxy and most of them DO NOT trust each other, what could possible go wrong, and even better, what could possibly go RIGHT
Christjen Avasarala. you are not ready for her. most powerful mover-shaker on earth with the most incredible outfits you've ever seen, refined elegance with the filthiest mouth, plus she's got a classic "whatever those two have going on is so gay it veers into something else entirely" with her younger protective knight lady, Bobbie
Bobbie. the "not to be a lesbian but oh my god" post is made for her. we meet her in the show for the first time when she arm wrestles a robot and WINS. you will be begging for her to step on you with her mech suit
speaking of women I want to step on me Camina Drummer. angry revolutionary pirate queen of my heart. do you miss the unique agony of 2000/10s queerbaiting but want it to be not baiting somehow? this show does that, idk how else to explain it. the most agonizing sapphic pining you've ever seen but it's textual and also not painful because its gay. don't worry, Camina fucks, just not the girl she wants most (also spoilers, but this is not a bury your gays show don't worry)
Jim Holden is literally just Some Guy who becomes the special fantasy chosen one because he simply cannot stop Getting Involved. nosiest bitch in the universe, I love him.
imagine you're a girl who leaves your shitty ex and gets a normal industrial job on a spaceship, only to have a six foot, two hundred pound killer dressed as a mechanic imprint on you like a baby duck, and its unclear whether he wants to fuck you or call you a little sister but he definitely WILL kill for you and will do literally anything you say and then you both end up caught up in a weird galactic war by mistake and there's this other guy with a captain america level moral compass and he's cute and you're into him except your shitty ex is still out there with the biggest secret you have and meanwhile your best female friend is the coolest person you've ever met but you don't think you can be what she needs and you're holding your family together, you're holding the universe together and all you want is justice for your people but unfortunately you've gone and fallen in love with the accidental most important man in the galaxy. well, every day Naomi Nagata wakes up
Praxideke Meng. botanist of my heart. literally tames the rabid guard dog that no one else could. gentle and able to stay gentle because of said dog. which brings me to...
Amos Burton. I saved him for last because he is my guy. he is THAT guy. canonically aromantic pansexual king. are you into guard dog characters? do you find yourself drawn to the "sorry my love language is acts of service and all I'm good at is killing people" characters? amos burton is like seventeen tumblr posts come to life. previously mentioned enormous killer dressed as a mechanic, former heels wearing "I didn't always work in space" sex worker who is always rolling into brothels and being like "you guys unionized?", gives a shit about basically no one in the universe except his crew and every single child in the galaxy, accidental comedian because he cannot stop saying weird shit, not a nice or good person but a loyal one, and one who is always trying to relearn the empathy that was carved out of him as a young person. every time he goes homicidal to protect one of his chosen people (crew + any and every child), an angel gets its wings.
fin.
Book criticism of “The Expanse” series
So, I read books, and I like to write about my impressions. Here is, what I’ve written in a public facebook post this morning about the expanse:
Public book criticism time! 🙂 Today: “The Expanse” (novel series) or “Leviathan Wakes”, “Caliban’s War” and “Abaddon’s Gate” by James S. A. Corey (which is an author’s duo consisting of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) – also now a SyFy series “The Expanse”.
It’s hard to describe the plot without major spoilers, so I just say it’s set a couple of centuries into the future, humanity has settlements all over the solar system, on Mars and Jupiter’s moons, there are major physical and political differences between the 3 fractions (people from Earth, Mars and the “belt”), growing up in low gravity leads to people having long extremities, being dressed up in space suits to communicate by gestures (nodding with the hands instead of the head for example), and everyone distrusting everyone from somewhere else. Some very disturbing events happen in this setting which is already full of tension, so the story spans over three books to describe where all of this leads to.
Disturbing is a good attribute in my opinion, especially for the first book (“Leviathan wakes”) – some of the elements described were haunting me a bit later, again, I don’t want to spoil anything but let’s say, it’s been graphic enough for me (OK, I don’t watch too many horror movies anyway so your mileage may vary). I am very fond of “near future” science-fiction, this is a genre which works without much “deus ex” technology and provides enough present-time technological elements so you can identify easily with the world built by the authors. It’s also the case here, they still have LED technology and are very fond of their handsets. The books describe some of the causalities of living off-earth quite detailed, someone should make a word count of “gravity well”. 😉
It’s one of those “each chapter is told from someone else’s perspective” kind of books, so you get “internal monologue” from different characters. I don’t know if I’m really too fond of this, but I guess it’s a good way to push the story forward and also makes TV adaption easier (hat tip to GRRM). Speaking of GRRM, the writers are members of a New Mexico author’s association where GRRM also is participating, in one of the interviews they value the imput they got from this group during the creative process. Overall, I liked reading “The Expanse” series very much, I stumbled upon it at Fefe’s blog and haven’t been disappointed. It’s one of the books you can’t put out of hand easily because the story is proceeding fast-paced and you get to like the characters. I didn’t need the graphic horror elements, but on the other hand they were adding up to the drama of the situation. It has enough politics, technology and psychology to build a well-round world and vivid characters, each book of the series presents different aspects and thus doesn’t repeat itself.
Read it, if you like science-fiction, space ships and have a faible for the military or political culture of the United States of America (knowledge of which doesn’t hurt to see where they’re coming from).
Book criticism of “The Expanse” series was originally published on sebrem's musings
“The stars are better off without us”
Thanks to Thomas Jane for the perfect Joe Miller.
Today I watched a two-part episode of Stargate called The Fourth Horseman. It was so terrifyingly close to modern 2020 and COVID-19 that I almost cried. The worst part about sci-fi is that sometimes it actually can predict the future. Kind of like how the the Expanse covers a lot of politics that our modern world is heading into.