Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
So I woke up today (Feb. 20, 2015, 7:14 AM here on my side of the world) to a glorious Twitter rant from one of my favourite authors about how one can’t say the “hard” sciences are more important than the “soft” sciences, and why neglecting things like history and anthropology is really lazy writing.
The humans bent life. Shaped it. Re-ordered it in their image. This, they knew. The dim memories of their ancestry had that as global lore. They made food tastier. They made buildings larger. They made craft that could fly to the stars. They made their pets and loved animals smarter.
And that was why those who came to the fore after the humans left remember them. We were made to help them perform certain tasks. We were able to preserve their buildings. We were able to keep most of their artefacts. We were able to remember… what they gave us.
The more we discovered, the more we learned. The more we learned, the more cause we had for concern. For all the miracles the makers had wrought, they sought the stars without us. We had failed some kind of test. Or they thought they had failed.
Okay but to build on my previous space ideas - there is no good reason why aliens from different planets would all be similar sizes. Imagine 6″ tall aliens being in the general vicinity of lots of other alien worlds but never bothering to get spaceflight together to meet them bc they’d just get stepped on
But they still GalaxySkype with them all the time and do friendly knowledge transfers, and the Smols are very friendly and happy to upload info on all the unique flora on their homeworld
And some Larges discover that the Smols are having problems because there’s not much of some certain element on their planet and they’re running out and… “a lot” to them is so little, the Larges offer to send over like a storage pod’s worth and the Smols are like “:OOO WE CANNOT AFFORD”
The Larges would be like “no no it is okay, it is not much to us. It can maybe be written off on our Space Taxes? Do not worry about it”
And the Larges insist on sending the storage pod to a large flat area like half a day’s travel outside of the nearest Smol city because they are so worried that if they did their landing calculations wrong they will incite a small quake that will cause tiny buildings to topple
The Smols trek out and are overjoyed at the enormous metal box full of conveniently-small bars of metal. They empty it out and transform it into a multi-level museum dedicated to interplanetary unity and their special friends the Larges. They take and send pictures of tiny Smols in school groups wandering through the halls and learning about the nice space giants that made their prosthetic tentacles possible
A little background information: Its an australian show (abc in australia, sundance in the US) based on Aboriginal myth about the societal integration of “sub-humans” called hairymenhairymen, who are defined by having entirely hair-covered bodies and sharp fingernails, and the focus is on 2 aboriginal brothers dealing with the events that unfold
So anyways:
-It VERY accurately portrays racism, xenophobia, slavery and police brutality without resorting to being “trauma porn”
-Most of the main cast is Aboriginal or mixed race
-Its a fantasy show with women who have body hair
-Recurring character who (I think) is trans (they’re clearly dfab and shown with ace bandages around their chest)
-Many of the hairymen speak in Gumbaynggir, an actual Aboriginal language
-The practical effects are done by the oscar-winning team who did the work for The Lord of the Rings trilogy
In conclusion: PLEASE watch this!!!
