My new favorite thing: Red Son is dating MK and Mei and everybody knows about it… except for Red Son.
In case you don’t read the asks I get, this is inspired by the asks I have been getting related to Macaque dating Red Son’s parents, except none of them told Red Son, so he assumes they are just friends, even when he happens upon them getting up to some much more than friends activities… so instead of realizing his parents are romantically involved with Macaque, he just learns some very incorrect lessons about what friends get up to together. 👀💦
on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere
when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course
the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources
flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother
questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth
i know we like to clown on tim for the rr cowl but we should also not forget that the initial reason behind wearing it was to protect the massive fucking burns he got after getting caught in a warehouse explosion where two kids died
a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.
it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.