#scifi western

[breathingxspace]

Our fourth and final season begins Friday, February 2, 2024. Visit http://breathingspace.lawofnames.com for more.

#breathing space #breathingxspace #audio drama #scifi western #new season #we cannot even express how much amazing content we've got to share

[hanbluestuff]

fooling around with jacks outfit design and weapon choices trying to make a scifi western be more western is hard without feeling like im removing the scifi part lmao i liked the giant axe i sketch him in but outside of making the axe also a shotgun i think somehow it doesnt work with his character idk what im talking about LMAO

#artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #my art #my oc art #oc stuff #rabbit boy #scifi character #scifi western #sketch page #sketches #sketch #art #art tag #my characters #drawing #my oc stuff #oc drawing #oc #my ocs #oc art #original character

[scout985]

first midterm done

#my art #scifi #science fiction #visual development #enviornment #environment art #concept Art #narrative art #illustration #digital illustration #artists on tumblr #art #aliens #scifi western #scifiart #sci fi and fantasy

[malawario]

A character I created for a comic I am making ^^. There is definitely a lot of Cowboy Bebop inspiration as well as some clothing inspiration from Justice(from Afro Samurai). Trying to come up with some suitable names and all of them come from songs lol. Anyways, I will probably be posting a lot more as this Sci-Fi Western project fully kicks off. Thanks for reading all of my ramblings lol.

#malmoment #Scifi western #Western #scifi #scifiart #retro scifi #alien oc #alien #oc #oc art #original art #original character #beginner artist #comic art #mini comic #wip #work in progress

[formlessvoidbeast]

The Widow’s House

Fandom: Original Work

Pairing: Female Gunslinger/Capable Widow Who Patches Her Up After A Fight Sometimes

Rating: Explicit

Length: 2,200 words - COMPLETE

Tags: SciFi Western, First Aid, Medical Procedures, digging shrapnel out of wounds, Sex while injured, Tender Sex, thigh grinding, Fingering, Oral Sex, Hurt/Comfort, Sass and Teasing, mild d/s dynamics, Bittersweet, Complete

Summary:

“Evenin', ma'am.” Sammy reached up to touch the brim of her hat with her left hand, since her right arm was bundled into a rough bandage. Her eyes and jaw were tight with pain she couldn't quite hide. “Could I bother you to—”

“You get your sorry ass into this house right now, Sammy,” Adelaide interrupted. She could smell the blood, even if she couldn't see it.

Author Notes:

I entered a smut-themed fic exchange, and wrote this quick femslash jaunt.

Enjoy!

[Read on AO3]

#femslash #fanfic #the widow's house #scifi western #this fic is a lemon

[tauman942]

Okay, let me honest here, I wrote this. If you like space/scifi westerns like Firefly, and Cowboy Bebop, you might like this. That is if you like Jack Palance type western movies.

#cold open stories #six for one #riodan o'duffy #wh40k fan fiction #wh40k rogue trader #wh40k farsight enclaves #wh40k tau #space western #scifi western #n.y.a.b.x.t.t.

[midstpodcast]

We're delighted to announce a new series of tales from the MIDST Cosmos with our friends at Dark Horse Comics, coming August 2024! 🧡

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#midst #midst podcast #third person #critical role #dark horse comics #comics #graphic novels #miniseries #scifi #fantasy #western #podcast #podcasting #audio drama #fiction podcast

[thatanimescreencapguy]

Scavengers Reign Episode 11

#scavengers reign #western animation #scifi #animation #series

[alpaca-clouds]

The History of Cyberpunk

Or why every other SciFi Genre is called [something]punk

You know what? Let's do this. Because I have seen the discussion on whether or not Solarpunk is "punk" over the last few days and... people really gotta learn their history.

The first time a genre took the "punk" name was Cyberpunk. And for context we gotta talk a bit about the history of the Cyberpunk genre.

While some books that we in hindsight call "Cyberpunk" were released as early as the 1960s, the start of Cyberpunk as a genre got its start in the late 70s and early 80s.

The term was invented by Bruce Bethke, who published a short story in 1983 with the name "Cyberpunk". His idea was to juxtapose the term "punk" for both the mentality and the punk protagonists in his short story with the term cyber, short for the cybernetics they were wearing. And while the cybernetics have become a main stay in the genre, the punk attitudes are not always carried through...

Well, the title Bethke invented stuck, though. When 1984 Neuromancer was published, one of the most influencial works in the early days of the genre, he called it "a Cyberpunk novel" in the marketing. And from there... Well, the genre was suddenly named like that.

The 80s were definitely the decade that had the most influence on the genre, given that a lot of the big novels and graphic novels of the genre were released here.

A big influence was, no doubt, that 1982 the Blade Runner movie had released and had inspired quite a few writers and artists. (And yes, this makes Blade Runner a movie that released not only before the term Cyberpunk was coined, but also before the genre had a chance to define itself.)

Given that the genre was defined in the 80s, there are a lot of 80s anxiety kept within it about the rise of the Japanese economy, that are these days rarely questioned within the western Cyberpunk movement.

When the genre was coined and developed, Japan was the fastest growing economy in the world, being so influencial that they got to buy out several things in America. Something that kinda jerked white people in the US a lot. This is, why Cyberpunk originally depicted not only a capitalist hellscape - but specifically a capitalist hellscape were everything was bought out by Japanese companies, with many of those early antagonists being Japanese companies. And yeah... there was a lot of both anti-japanese racism, but also cultural appropriation of Japanese things in early Cyberpunk, at time surviving to this day. (But that is a story for another day.)

The general sense that Western Cyberpunk had, was always the idea of: We have a capitalist hellscape where the world is slowly dying and people are exploited with no end, while we have those kinda punky protagonists, who stand outside of the society and try to work against it. This being where the punk comes from.

Now, I could talk for length about how a lot of that punky attitude has been lost in more modern Cyberpunk media, but that, too, is a story for another day.

So, let me just talk about what happened then.

The term Cyberpunk really is darn catchy, right? So just when that name took hold, writer K.W. Jeter retroactively called his 1979 novel Morlock Night "steampunk". And guess what: This stuck, too. Though while the 80s Cyberpunk still stuck to the punk attitude, a lot of Steampunk did not. While for certain there is quite a bit of Steampunk that has kinda punky characters go against the quasi Victorian society of steampunk books (something most common in the air pirate novels I have read), a lot of other stories are more focused on a general sense of adventure.

But never the less... The genre names stuck and gave a nice baseline for naming other genre. We got Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Nanopunk, Arcanepunk, Dustpunk, Silkpunk and of course also Solarpunk and Lunarpunk.

And for the most part... The "punk" names mostly communicate: "It is SciFi with this kinda aesthetic/twist going on". Which is just how it turned out.

Funnily enough Solarpunk is for once a genre that brings back the punk, as it tends to include a lot of the ideals aspired to by the Punk counter culture of the 1970s: Anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-consumerism, anti-classism, anti-racism, anti-colonialism and so on. Though other than with Cyberpunk and the real world punk movement, Solarpunk for the most part imagines a place, where those things are culture instead of counter culture.

I personally find it kinda sad, how for the most part Cyberpunk kinda lost a lot of the counter-cultural, revolutionary mindset. And how fucking defeatist the genre often is.

But again, it is a story for another day. Just as the story of Japanese Cyberpunk is.

#cyberpunk #solarpunk #steampunk #cyberpunk history #western cyberpunk #science fiction #scifi #william gibson #neuromancer #genre history #punk

[gameraboy2]

"The Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, cover by Bob Walters, 1998

#dinosaur #1998 #1990s #bob walters #vintage #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art #art #illustration #painting #cowboy #western

[breathingxspace]

#breathing space #scifi western #season four starts Friday!

[hanbluestuff]

Vior's party trick it aint all that special when he asks for help putting the arm back on

#artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #my art #my oc art #oc stuff #scifi character #scifi western #sketch page #sketches #sketch #art #art tag #my characters #drawing #my oc stuff #oc drawing #oc #my ocs #oc art #original character #lizard boy

[hybbart]

That guy from Trigun (?? I think??) And your Tango should swap outfits I feel like having never watched it and only learning about it from my dash they have a similar vibe please correct me if I'm wrong

I was JUST telling someone the other day that Trigun Stampede's Vash is so Ranchers. He's the same category of cringefail cowboy.

Also yes, Trigun Stampede is a new Trigun series. Highly recommend it, the animation Goes Off. (It's very exhausting to watch back to back though, each episode feels like 3 with how much goes down)

#tango tek #fanart #scifi #western #character #ask art #art #doodle #colour #Hybbart

[rcrisdraws]

Something something 90's western sci-fi anime inspired cowboys.

#arthur morgan #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #sebastian castellanos #red dead redemption #rdr tag #rdr fanart #the evil within #psycho break #cyberpunk #scifi #western #cowboy #cowboycore #yes this is bc i watched trigun if there's a demand for it gonna show people the sticker designs i made for it-

[putting-rick-in-places]

Take him OUT of those jars and put that poor man in a warm pot of soup so he can simmer pleasantly

This is EXACTLY what he needed. Burger from Carl’s Jr, brandless beer, and some nice warm soup <3

[edit: I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS WESTERN BACON NOW WHEN I MADE THIS AIDJFJDJSK]

#rick and morty #rick in places #rick sanchez #morty smith #rick and morty memes #scifi #situations #wubba lubba dub dub #rick and morty fanart #rick fucker #soup #tomato soup #soup is life #rnm #rnm meme #rnm edit #carls jr #western bacon now #late night western #rick and morty edit #rick quest #r&m #edit

[souldagger]

I've been writing my own sci-fi universe on and off after new Trek disappointed me, and has continued to disappoint me. If I had to sum it up it would be Star Trek but more overtly communist and also military sci-fi. I've mainly been inspired by things I've read/played/watched, which has mainly been made by white or western creators, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for sci-fi made by POC creators to broaden my horizons.

omg of course!!! (with the caveat that unfortunately non-Western scifi specifically is a bit of a blindspot for me, so most of these will be Western authors of colour)

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (& i recommend reading the complete trilogy - imo it works best read together as one whole)

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color ed. by Nisi Shawl

How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young

And 2 that i personally haven't read yet but i think NEED to be mentioned, especially if we're talking space stories:

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (also military scifi!)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

also, short story anthologies!!! if you're looking for new authors or want to explore works from a specific culture/place, they're a great way to do that. here's a couple from my own reading list for this year:

Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba

Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction

Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction

& finally, i don't really watch a lot of tv/movies, but i do wanna wholeheartedly recommend:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer (free on youtube and an absolutely top tier example of afrofuturism)

Nope

They Cloned Tyrone

#this got WAY longer than i intended and it's still far from comprehensive #but. bolding the ones that i consider the BIGGEST must-reads/watches <3 #if u wanna do some more exploring on ur own in terms of non-western sf: #i've noticed there's quite a lot of translated Chinese and South Korean SF in particular #or you could look up africanfuturism (which is a separate thing from afrofuturism!) and works that use that label #also: the tv adaptation of 3 Body Problem (aka probably the most iconic piece of Chinese scifi) is coming out in a couple weeks #so that might be worth keeping an eye out for! it's netflix though so idk how good/faithful it'll be 😐 #i hope this is helpful and not too much info!