SPACESHIP!

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Hatboy

Day 18. 67 pages, 30,983 words.

This one is also a bit of a lazy post, but it made me smile and started my week off the right way.

Let’s write some sci-fi.

FFoM (x4)

About Hatboy

I’m not often driven to introspection or reflection, but the question does come up sometimes. The big question. So big, there’s just no containing it within the puny boundaries of a single set of punctuationary bookends. Who are these mysterious and unsung heroes of obscurity and shadow? What is their origin story? Do they have a prequel trilogy? What are their secret identities? What are their public identities, for that matter? What are their powers? Their abilities? Their haunted pasts and troubled futures? Their modus operandi? Where do they live anyway, and when? What do they do for a living? Do they really have these fantastical adventures, or is it a dazzlingly intellectual and overwrought metaphor? Or is it perhaps a smug and post-modern sort of metaphor? Is it a plain stupid metaphor, hedged around with thick wads of plausible deniability, a soap bubble of illusory plot dependent upon readers who don’t dare question it for fear of looking foolish? A flight of fancy, having dozed off in front of the television during an episode of something suitably spaceship-oriented? Do they have a quest, a handler, a mission statement, a department-level development objective in five stages? I am Hatboy. https://hatboy.blog/2013/12/17/metalude-who-are-creepy-and-hatboy/

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10 Responses to SPACESHIP!

dreameling says:

January 25, 2016 at 5:32 am

I love starships.

I love scifi.

Great kick-off for the week.

Thanks, man.

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- stchucky says:
  
  January 25, 2016 at 5:55 am
  
  Bonus Easter Egg:
  
  Tom Paris was the pilot (the backup pilot, after the first died) of the USS Voyager. The pilot of the Astro Tramp 400 was Tippy Ghee, a non-referential character … but the secondary pilot was Arlin San Genevieve. Why?
  
  Because San Genevieve is the Patron Saint of the city of Paris.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve
  
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  - dreameling says:
    
    January 25, 2016 at 6:33 am
    
    Levels upon layers.
- stchucky says:
  
  January 25, 2016 at 11:23 am
  
  This video inspired me so hard, I now have a Nicki Minaj song on my iPod.
  
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  - dreameling says:
    
    January 25, 2016 at 8:11 pm
    
    That was Nicki Minaj??
    
    I…
    
    I guess I simply have to accept that… I like Nicki Minaj.
    
    Crap.
  - stchucky says:
    
    January 26, 2016 at 3:34 am
    
    Just go with it, man. Let it happen.
  - dreameling says:
    
    January 26, 2016 at 5:18 am
    
    I think I’ll just let that video wash over me again.
    
    (Seeing as how we discovered water droplets leaking from behind the switchboard (sähkökaappi) last night and are now out of power in parts of the house, I need the boost.)
  - stchucky says:
    
    January 26, 2016 at 5:47 am
    
    Ugh, that sucks. I think I’ll watch the video again too.
    
    Hey, when exactly are Deadpool tickets coming on sale anyway? Come on, Finnkino. Get with the program!
  - dreameling says:
    
    January 26, 2016 at 6:07 am
    
    Beats me. The premiere is on Feb 12, so I would guess by Feb 9 at the latest (as a rule, the preceding Tuesday for movies that open on a Friday). Sadly, this ain’t an event like Star Wars where you get to prebook months in advance.
- aaronthepatriot says:
  
  January 28, 2016 at 2:57 pm
  
  Sweet Jesus, that’s one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. And now I want to re-watch so much shit now! Highest on the list, “AMELIA POND! Get your coat!”
  
  Almost as good as your video:
  
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