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I really appreciate how this trilogy is motivating me to make more conceptually ambitious art and also resist instant gratification but also I will still complain a little bit about the process (it will be worth it)

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Can they introduce a Three Body Problem themed stationery line where they use Zhang Beihai's quote "For particularly important things, it’s always more reassuring to write them down like this" as the tagline

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I really need to do a full reread of this trilogy but paying extra attention to the little details because the painting imagery is really cool:

"In Morovich and Guan’s eyes, Blue Space was a magnificent, immense painting that had just been unrolled."

"In other words, the Solar System will turn into a painting with no thickness."

Then everything about Yun Tianming's fairytale too!!

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I think Reiko/Verenskaya(Vera) would be so funny because it messes with both Ike and James Hunter haha?? Also, it's really cute too because Reiko was shown to wish Merry Christmas to Gravity despite being pursued whereas Vera was more sympathetic to Blue Space which would make for a fun conversation

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I need to make a series where Chu Yan takes up a notetaking practice to follow after Zhang Beihai and records journal entries about Blue Space and Gravity that's episodic in nature and covers isolated conversations or the setting itself

I have ideas already but the tone changes would go from:

Everyone avoiding the psych corps

Morovich talking to Chu Yan about how they are metaphorically burying their mother Earth and he asks Chu Yan if he'd think he'd make a good father. Which, Chu Yan momentarily thinks about his own lack of childhood under crisis and says "No, I don't think so."

Park Ui-gun and Devon bar fight

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Really appreciate Mr. Ken Liu's work and I should really check out his original fiction, but he's done really good work in compiling translated fiction into anthologies and I just started Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide which is also translated by Ken Liu

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The use of stationery in space is actually really interesting (to me) and I knew some of the basics like the Fisher Space Pen, but the details are really sparking some stationery-related Beihai thoughts

Links to sources I'm looking at:

NASA Spinoff Article

National Air and Space Museum link to a mechanical pencil used

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I will share the story on how I got introduced to something that curses me now. Back in the good old days of my high-school years, when I had more time to watch things, I enjoyed donghua quite a bit. The Minecraft adaptation (it was when it was officialized and either the Luo Ji or Zhang Beihai season was released) was briefly mentioned in English language donghua spaces for its absurdity and high ratings despite its visual appearance. Turned out it was based on a book and I got it when my teenage brain was not at a point where it could fully comprehend the novels, but they would soon act as a sleeper agent when it resurfaced in my head when the English-language adaptation started making its way to my news. I was heavily fixated on James Bond at the time and Elliot Carver's actor (Mr. Jonathan Pryce) was apparently in this adaptation, so that is how I knew about the Netflix show even though I don't even have Netflix + don't really keep up with contemporary TV. It all spiraled from there.

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Working on a quadriptych (coloring 1/4 of the whole collection right now) and I think at this point I should just make Blue Space and Gravity my OCs. However, the thing is extrapolation is the fun part because the question of "how can I make my characterizations grounded in the context of the novels so they actually feel like expansions instead of me completely making stuff up" is a fun one to answer

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Wait I'm the first guy (hopefully not the only person at some point) in the Joseph Morovich tag

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Captain Joseph Morovich of Gravity

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Pretend to be a triumphalist and pick up a pencil and that notebook! Avert one of the manifestations of defeatism being passive waiting and get to work yourself (Zhang)! Technology worship is one way defeatism can form (Zhang)! Reduce your screentime!!!

Works Cited:

Zhang, Beihai. Space Force Work Meeting, Crisis Era. Address.

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Probably will start numbering my Blue Space and Gravity (which includes ChuZhang) art from now on for fun and I am always really amused by the progression of how an artist draws characters (Plus it might be fun to track over time how much I've drawn these randoms!)

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One of my goals is to completely fool people who followed me on main who know nothing about this trilogy and make them think that Blue Space and Gravity play some sort of major role. (Little do they know)

It is also something that allows me to continue being unhinged and be less shy. (Long live Blue Space and Gravity)

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Before I go to sleep, I'd like to point out that the musical imagery with the group vote coincides with the whole thing with Singer later. I always notice new connections in these books:

The gravitational wave broadcast began. Everyone present felt a strong tremor. The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string. This instrument of death played for only twelve seconds before stopping, and then everything was silent.

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If you catch me doodling potential Morovich designs on the margins of my notes tomorrow during lecture, then no you did not.

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ChuZhang Spy AU: Resolute Faith

I will not be doing anything substantial, probably just random art here and there. Though, I'm having a lot of fun with the idea! Tentative premise below the cut and this might be reworked a bit over time:

The premise is that Zhang Beihai receives orders to apprehend Chu Yan and retrieve highly classified documents after the latter escaped with them. Due to Beihai's "resolute faith" in the organization, he was entrusted with this task. (Beihai absolutely does not have resolute faith in the organization)

Chu Yan used to work (in fact, raised for this job at a young age) for the same spy organization as Zhang Beihai and showed no signs of dissent before, which makes his defection a surprise. The organization can't discern a proper motive yet, but does believe that he will broadcast the documents' contents.

About the contents: The documents refer to the equivalent of the mental seal from the trilogy and had the outward presentation for ideological training (instilling faith). This had the secret purpose to "poison" people to become incredibly skeptical of their leaders and destroy their own organizations inside out. Chu Yan himself isn't "poisoned" by this nor is he planning on using the material, but having the documents in his hands poses a grave risk regardless.

There's also more matters like the cover-up for Zhang Beihai killing scientists on a past mission turned out to correspond to the development of the mental seal. (Reworked some elements of the novel to make this idea fit)

At first, it seems like a clash between someone who lost all faith in the organization and someone who has absolute faith in his cause. However, it turns out that Beihai has shared similar skepticism in accordance with his actions towards the end of The Dark Forest! (This time, instead of Chu Yan following after Zhang Beihai, it's Zhang Beihai following after Chu Yan)

I just wanted to combine both of my interests in spy fiction and this trilogy! I feel like spy fiction suited a lot of the novels' themes too!