Before I started watching Star Trek Discovery, the number one thing I heard people dunking on was the spore drive, and the mycelium network.
Before I ever knew anything about Discovery, I had watched a lot of documentaries on, and read a fare bit of fungi related materials. Within the material appeared the real Paul Stamets (mycologist), and I was very interested in everything I was seeing. More specifically the science of it all, while the medical properties of such is wait and see.
Needless to say, when the spore drive and the mycelium network showed up in Star Trek, I thought it was one of the coolest things Star Trek has ever done. I still do.
I don’t give a shit what anyone else has to say about it, it’s an amazing piece of science fiction to me. And I won’t defend it, because there is no need to defend harmless fiction you enjoy.
You’re fine with subspace, but think the mycelium network in space is unrealistic? Make it make sense.
[ID: A digital illustration of Caduceus Clay from Critical Role. He is wearing his outfit from Echoes of the Solstice. He stands facing three quarters to the right, holding his staff and looking forward with a smile. End description.]
Lately I’ve been thinking about something Taliesin Jaffe said during his between the sheets episode:
Taliesin: “Life is long and strange, and I keep saying yes to things.”
Interviewer: “But you seem happy with those choices.”
Taliesin: “They’re choices. Choices are way better than not choosing. Not making choices just means that you’re at the whims of circumstance.”
And this in turn reminded me about something I read in a book when I was young. When you’re in a boat on a river, you need to go faster than the current around you if you wanna be able to steer it.
I’ve been so passive in my life, so afraid of making choices, that I’m just being swept along the current, crashing into rocks at the whims of circumstance. And I’m done with it, I want to start steering my own boat.
*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.
Brennan gets lower/working class anger on such a visceral level and Sean Finnerty was a perfect example of that.
I mean he brings a sort of working-class-anger to a lot of dimension 20 (shoutout to the halfling family in fantasy high I don’t feel like looking up your names but you were so real), but Sean had the working-class-deep-seated-rage thing that I as a poor person really fucking loved.
what the fuck is going on this year. january through june didnt happen. july is a distant memory. august and september were the longest months of my life. october ended in 5 seconds. why is november here already this isn’t right
It’s the season erosion from the climate crisis, combined with a hyperindividualistic and stress-bound society. It warps your sense of time.
