#beltalowda

[redshift-art]

I no longer felt connected to my previous profile picture, so I made a new one

#the expanse #camina drummer #beltalowda #cara gee #the expanse fanart

[fandomibatrix]

Camina Drummer, S06E05

Something about Drummer makes you want to commit to her..fiercely

#drummer'sangerisreallyimportanttome #polyambelterfam #drummerembodiestragedy #the expanse #scifiedit #tvedit #beltalowda #belters #cara gee #ankawala #badass #camina drummer #theexpanseedit #polycule #scifiseries #space thoughts #rage and love #spacequeer #space crew #space family #blorbo

[talesfrommedinastation]

“He would have liked you, you know.”

“Who?”

“Their papa. Aki Drummer.”

“He was a physician, yes?”

“Oh, more than that. He was a quiet man who picked every word he said carefully. If you weren’t assured in your abilities, he’d know within seconds.”

- Timon Chapelle and Tech, Wanted and Needed Part 3, Far Past the Ring

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Happy Tech Tuesday/Bad Batch eve!

I'm working on a million different things right now, but @perfectlywingedcrusade gave me a brain bug of an idea for a quick piece and I couldn't say no.

Dr. Aki Drummer (father of Drs. Tanke and Sjael Drummer, uncle of Camina Drummer) was a Belter obstetrician of Native American (Ojibwe -Marten Clan) origin.

Drummer was killed by the Protomolecule while serving in a free hospital on Eros, the first position he took after retirement. He appears through the Protomolecule in Medina Station.

Self-assured but humble, patriotic but inclusive, Drummer was focused, confident, and kind.

Not unlike a certain clone we all know and love.

Tagging our Tech/Expanse fans (who know that if Tech met the disembodied specter of a dead doctor in space he'd just go 'FASCINATING' and then start yammering on about nanotechnologies. Aki would just nod.)

@queenjiru @wrenkenstein @warsamongthestars @eyecandyeoz @eelfuneral @rocicrew @that-salmonberry-punk @thecoffeelorian @yeehawgeek @ilikemymendarkandfictional @isthereanechoinhere96 @askwenjing @autistic-artistech @amalthiaph @sometimes-i-talk-a-lot @dukeoftheblackstar @deoxd @deezlees @freesia-writes @just-shower-thoughts @littlefeatherr @constant-brain-fog @commander-sunshine @vivaislenska @drafthorsemath @blitzink @clownery-and-fuckery @nahoney22 @notavalidusername @nika6q @moosethren @marymunchkiin @merkitty49

#tbb #thebadbatch #the expanse #cloneforce99 #the bad batch #theexpanse #belter #starwarsfanfiction #fanfiction #tech tbb #tech the bad batch #tech clone force 99 #tech lives #star wars crossover #tech #oc and canon #oc art #oc the expanse #belter oc #beltalowda #indigenous character

[octoberdiariesx]

people who love The Expanse, what are other Sci-fi shows that you love?

#the expanse #scifi #science fiction #tv series #naomi nagata #camina drummer #amos burton #james holden #chrisjen avasarala #bobbie draper #beltalowda

[iainjclark]

Oil paints on cold-pressed watercolour block. Camina Drummer from The Expanse, portrayed by Cara Gee.

#the expanse #expanse on prime #cara gee #drummer #camina drummer #belter #the belt #beltalowda #fan art #traditional art #the expanse fan art #james s a corey #oils #oil painting #oil paint #portrait #spaceship #smile #women of sf

[babolat85]

#the expanse #marco inaros #belter #beltalowda #memes #sci-fi #Amazon prime #spoilers

[thevisibilityarchives]

The Expanse [TV Series] (2015-2022)

Network(s): SyFy, Amazon

Creators: James S.A. Corey

BIPOC

Summary: 200+ years in the future, humanity has ventured into the far reaches of the solar system, colonizing the Milky Way and spreading the political turmoil of Earth among the generations to come. A fragile peace exists among the three factions that arise, a peace that cannot last when something greater emerges that threatens them all, changing the course of humanity for all time to come. 

Full review: For every generation, there is a defining sci-fi television show that captivates audiences, tapping into visions of the near future while simultaneously managing to address modern sociopolitical themes and changing mores. 

Can The Expanse be ranked as one of those shows, among the likes of Star Trek, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica? Undoubtedly, it’s a question deserving of consideration and debate.

In a time before streaming, the impact would be more obvious thanks to ever-present television ratings data, fights over family television screens, and demands for network advertising time. But when a show exists solely within the realm of the digital sphere, on a streaming service like Amazon Prime, there’s a bit more nuance to consider when judging its success and audience impact. 

Conceived by authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham under the pen name James S.A. Corey, The Expanse originally aired on the SyFy network in 2015, a high-budgeted adaptation of their book series that was well-received by critics and audiences alike until its early demise (due to said budget) at the end of its second season. With a bit of luck, the show was picked up by Amazon Prime studios, given the Jeff Bezos Budget, the TV-MA stamp of adultification freedom, and was renewed, allowing it to take off for the remaining four seasons which concluded in 2022. 

The series retains the core features beloved by sci-fi fans, the formula complicit in defining those generational sci-fi hits: space exploration, the imaginativeness of the near future, the role of politics, and perhaps a central and often missed detail – its diversity and multiculturalism. 

There is a sharp division between the science fiction and fantasy crowds when it comes to multicultural representation. Often, the two genres are clumped together, their metadata schema combined as one – sci-fi/fantasy. Yet within these two genres, the approach to racial and cultural diversity could not be more different. 

This reaction has never been more pronounced than in the past year, during the airing of Prime’s Rings of Power and HBO’s House of the Dragon. Both shows cast actors of color into roles wherein the networks, as well as actors themselves, received criticisms, not for their performances, but simply for the color of their skin.

Commenting upon reactions to Stephen Toussaint, who portrays Corlys Velaryon in House of the Dragon the LA Times reported

“Toussaint is just the latest actor of color to address the racism he faced just for being cast in a major property. Others include Moses Ingram of Disney+ series “Obi-Wan,” and Kelly Marie Tran and John Boyega who dealt with similar online abuse over their roles in the newer “Star Wars” films.”

The vitriol has extended beyond just message board gripes, with actors and fans of color alike receiving flooded inbox messages and even in-person harassment over their simple existence in various fandoms as people of color. 

There is something of an irony here. For fantasy, which is rooted mostly in imagination (with some inspiration from real-life events) seemingly has set up a world where all manner of monsters, magic, and scenarios can be envisioned: and yet a black elf, a brown knight, or an Asian queen magician cannot. Whereas sci-fi, often depicted within the confines of near-future scenarios, has historically been more flexible, even to the point of breaking immense taboos like The Kiss Seen Around the World on Star Trek, only a year after interracial marriage became legal in the United States. 

This emphasis on multiculturalism, combined with the glory of high-stakes drama, the exploration of the final frontier, and the imaginings of what technology still can be creates a formula that appeals across multiple generations still today, a tapestry of impossibility, variability, and sensibility. 

Over the course of six seasons, what begins as a hard-boiled detective seeking to return a trillionaire’s daughter who has joined up with a group of anarchists in the far-flung reaches of the solar system unfolds into a whirlwind of high-stakes political machinations, doomsday scenarios, and interpersonal drama. 

Keeping in touch with an examination of what upward trends of the future tell us, the lives of those depicted onscreen are flush with different types of diversity. Multiracialism is prominent in certain parts of the solar system, Creole dialects are a natural development. Polyamory, new ways of eating, body types,  and religious ideologies emerge. Unlike other media which often falls out of date quickly when looking at the way trends have aligned with the passage of time, The Expanse follows what thus-far seems to be a natural trajectory of what our path looks like (assuming we are still alive by then). Its actors range from Caucasian-American to Iranian, Samoan, Ojibwe, Cambodian, Black, multiracial, Jamaican, and ethnicities far and wide. 

The show is heavily rooted (and its source material, by extension) in the very definition of what multiculturalism is and can be, and a prime example of a thoughtful and true representation of all television sci-fi has given us and shows us is possible: a world in living color in which reality is possible, and no one can tell us otherwise. 

You can find hard copies of seasons 1-4 of The Expanse at major retailers, your local library,  some copies of seasons 5 and 6 via online sellers like eBay and stream it on its home, Amazon Prime here.

Citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_and_Uhura%27s_kiss

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-08-22/dragons-being-more-plausible-than-a-rich-black-guy-irks-house-of-the-dragon-star

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/loving-v-virginia

#thevisibilityarchives #tva #the expanse #tv series #sci fi show #diversity #bipoc #multiculturism #sci fi #beltalowda #representation #multicultural

[allez-argeiphontes]

Did I mishear or did Greef Karga just refer to to people who work the asteroid belt as “belters”???

#the expanse #Star Wars #beltalowda

[thecoffeelorian]

"The belters are mining the asteroids--"

BELTAHS?!

BELTALOWDA, BOSMANG?!

#the mandalorian #the mandalorian spoilers #the expanse #beltalowda #ayyyeee

[redshift-art]

Naomi Nagata from The Expanse

#naomi nagata #the expanse belter #the expanse fanart #the expanse #beltalowda #scifi character #scifi art #digital art #dominique tipper #clip studio paint

[left-hand-of-dorkness]

turned a kopeng into a belta for his birthday

#i made him #the expanse #belter #beltalowda

[talesfrommedinastation]

The Knight is Crowned King

“I am saying it is time to put aside the trooper, the CT number, the clone who served under a sergeant in a Republic that no longer exists. It is time for you to become the captain that we– your people –need you to be.”

Tech stood up straight. “Then, if that is the case, Camina, I have a request.”

“Say it.”

“Get me a tattoo gun. Now.”

-Camina Drummer and Tech, Far Past the Ring

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I really can’t thank @cloned-eyes enough for this wonderful piece that they did. She she taki taki!

It is Camina Drummer giving Tech the infamous 'collar' tattoo of The Belt in her presidential office, LDS mural still behind her.

For me, this culminates the spirit of Far Past the Ring, especially for canon characters Camina Drummer and Tech.

The story was initially conceived as a fun little romp for Clone Force 99, where Tech would meet a Belter engineer, they’d chat, maybe have a short romance, and move on with their lives.

This was February 2023.

But after Plan 99 aired a month later…well, we all went a little nuts. I did, too. Blame the Wellbutrin.

Also, blame me taking folklore classes at Berkeley as an undergrad. I decided the short story was going to become something bigger, and Tech was taking center stage.

On that note, I was so angry for Tech.

I was angry for all of his potential as a character, thrown down the mountain on Eriadu.

So, I decided to whip out the ol’ English 251 notes I had from years ago, and chart out Tech’s own Hero’s Journey, through the world of The Expanse meeting the world of Star Wars.

But I did not want Tech merely limping off into the sun into a simple, happy ending. No.

I wanted him to face challenges, fight, win alliances, and be received as the goddamned hero that he is.

To quote Campbell himself from The Hero with a Thousand Faces:

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”

And who better to bestow this mighty power and crown unto Tech then Camina motherfuckin’ Drummer.

If you haven’t seen The Expanse, know that Camina Drummer goes through the Hero’s Journey of Hero’s Journeys herself. She rose from an orphan working the docks on Ceres, to a foot soldier for Anderson Dawes, a director under Fred Johnson, the first commanding officer of the largest vessel in human history (The OPAS Behemoth, later Medina Station), and then, the first president of the Transport Union, arguably the most powerful person in the universe.

It isn't an easy journey: she's shot, beaten, breaks her spine, loses the love of her life, watches loved ones get murdered in front of her, and is abandoned by those who professed to love her.

But Camina Drummer never gives up. She fights to the end to make things right. Girlfriend is rewarded....and now she passes that onto Tech.

After all, Camina’s people, the Belters, adorn themselves through tattoos. They live their lives in space, in the vacuum, where jewelry can be lost, damaged or hurt the owner. So they tattoo.

Years ago, cheap suits were supplied by Inners for Belters under their governance. They demanded Belters to work and extract resources from the Kuiper Belt and other outer planets in order to make them rich. The helmet connections ot the suit would often burn the wearer's neck, as seen below on Anderson Dawes.

In many ways, it is also a symbol of the yoke of slavery, of a chain around one’s neck.

Although younger Belters now wear better vacsuits, they still wear the tattoos to remind them of what their ancestors went through, seen on Naomi Nagata below.

A symbol of pain is now a symbol of what Belters are fighting for–freedom. Which they earn.

So, by getting that tattoo, done by Camina Drummer, the hero and president of the Belt, is our Tech getting crowned.

It’s right after Camina makes him their Chief Systems Engineer as well as a commander. He bled and fought for his chosen people, and he is rewarded as such.

It's him saying I'm here, I'm one of you, and your leader is the one putting it on me.

Oh, and in true fairy tale hero’s journey mode, Tech also gets a beautiful Belter ‘princess’...Sjael Drummer, Camina’s cousin.

Once again, something that originally wasn’t in the cards last year, but I wanted a full Hero’s Journey and I was damned if Tech wasn’t going to get it!

Tagging those that have commented and enjoyed the story: @eyecandyeoz @perfectlywingedcrusade @megmca @skellymom @cdblake1565 @thecoffeelorian @supremechancellorrex @that-salmonberry-punk @autistic-artistech @deezlees @littlefeatherr @nahoney22 @freesia-writes @eelfuneral @yeehawgeek @isthereanechoinhere96 @sued134

#tbb #cloneforce99 #thebadbatch #the bad batch #the expanse #theexpanse #belter #fanfiction #starwarsfanfiction #tech #tbb tech #tech tuesday #clone trooper tech #camina drummer #beltalowda #belter tattoo #tech the bad batch

[basemondo]

Oye, beltalowda!

#digital art #fanart #basemondo #pinup #the expanse #beltalowda

[inkandguns]

Yeah I didn’t expect to be back at FedEx ground for a full week..

But here I am blasting Macho Man and chugging a sugar free Red Bull at 0430.

#reinvigorated with a love of the game #oye beltalowda #get some

[zmediaoutlet]

Please... carrotfricker context... I beg thee

oh fam, I wish I had more context to give you. Carrotfricker's that person who did the cool collage art, although in retrospect the gimmick on all of the pieces was the same -- but hey, way to do the thing you had the idea for, thanks for the art, etc.

Unfortunately, they then caught The Jesus or something and Jesus told them to delete their blog because, idk, what if the devil got in them via interesting collage edits. Specifically,

To be honest it looks like parody to me, lol. I hope someone out there is the User Formerly Known As Carrotfucker and they're now doing something insane like vampireposting, like that person who was inexplicably popular for while.

If they really are born again or whatever... dude, idk. I know times are tough out there and we're in the godawful 20s again but surely there's a better choice you can make than The Lord, right? Try edibles, or cross-stitch, or The Expanse. The Expanse has Camina Drummer. She's way better than the Bible.

#oye beltalowda #save yourself from saving yourself #answers

[wanderingguest]

+ @factionfcrged ( starter call ) muse : Anna Howard Sweet but Psycho by Ava Max

"Don't sugar coat it..."

#factionfcrged #( v. fo beltalowda ) #( .belter verse ) #( c. anna howard ) #(stuck this one in her belter verse) #( .ic interactions )