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Unironically that's not an F-worthy essay. My high school teacher's would've given it a C at least.

also this guy has an IMDb page lmao https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10281885/

how is it mario day and no one posted the essay

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Almost a decade ago, someone asked me what I thought was the most "sci-fi" technology that already exists in society. For a long long time my answer to this question was contact lenses. Magic little gel hemispheres that are relatively cheap and manufactured with so much precision that they bend light in exactly the right way to allow someone to see clearly. That's insane. (The history of contact lenses is super interesting too, they're both insanely old and super new depending on how you look at it. The very first idea that resembled modern day contact lenses was proposed by mfing DA VINCI in 1508, but modern silicone hydrogel lenses were only invented in 1998.)

And that might still be my answer in some contexts. But from a more aesthetic/philosophical standpoint I think the answer has got to be street lights.

Now the technology of "large lightbulb on a stick" doesn't exactly scream sci-fi, but the purpose and infrastructure around them absolutely do. The single most constant ecological feature of this planet is the night-day cycle. Long before the first microorganisms, even before WATER was present on this planet, the earth rotated during its orbit around the sun. The cycle of day-night-day-night has never been broken in 4.5 BILLION years.

Until now. 

Ours is the first society to say "yeah we'll pass" when confronted with the mandatory darkness of night. A society so constant and unyielding, so full of momentum, that we decided we don't need the sun to light our paths anymore. We'll do it ourselves. Our society must grow, must expand, and before we eventually expand upwards and outwards into the solar system, into "3D darkness", we had to expand into 4D darkness, expand not our usable physical area but our usable temporal area. We claim the night as OUR time, say that these are hours that we WILL use, and we will MAKE them usable, natural order be damned.

If that isn't sci-fi, I don't know what is. ​

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Chulls & their Handler --- turned a photo study into a piece of fanart, as a treat. have some crabs! 🦀

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I never shared my Mistborn animatic here so I may as well post it now👍

reproduced/used under license from Dragonsteel, LLC.

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man i hate it when i find quality advice on this site

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

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Everyone always talks about "You Cannot Have My Pain," and with good reason, but I think this is my favourite Dalinar moment

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This is the painting lightsong saw

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shoves a family sized bag of Doritos in my safepouch

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Hatsune Miku is an honorspren

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Kelsier: Oh, right. The eleventh metal. The metal for The Lord Ruler, the metal chosen especially to kill The Lord Ruler, The Lord Ruler's metal.

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Look at this goofy fucker pretending to be a writer. GET OUTTA HERE

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happy birthday future me

lmao imagine being old sucks to suck

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i hate heterochromia as a character design choice so much

it's overdone to SHIT and adds no depth to a character

it is maybe the single most common feature among amateur OCs and it is tragic

im definitely being crotchety and annoying

mr meany complainypants over here

but i just actually hate it im sorry