#the space merchants

[adastra-sf]

First use of "Greenhouse Effect" in SF

A scan of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's "Gravy Planet" from Galaxy magazine's August 1952 issue.

The story grew into the brilliant anti-capitalist novel, The Space Merchants.

#greenhouse effect #Gravy Planet #The Space Merchants #science fiction #Frederik Pohl #CM Kornbluth #my screencaps

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Space Merchants | Author: Frederik Pohl / C.M. Kornbluth | Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2011)

#books #The Space Merchants #Frederik Pohl #C.M. Kornbluth

[rabosa-al-forn]

The Merchant

P3

Note: I was hesitant about the language I should use for this comic and I finally decided to post it in both English and Spanish.

#the merchant #page 3 #comic #comic page #art #anthro #furry #scifi #space

[boydykedevo]

Listening to the new outre space. Cats mentioned

#this is the only way to express the emotions I am feeling apologies #when Travis said Grizabella I had a vision of a future where they run out of cartoon cats and name merchants after jellicles… #icarus is talking #taz outre space #taz

[ninakoll]

when i was proofreading the pdf i picked out a couple of fun panels that i wanted to redraw too:D might do more eventually! i missss... physical ink washes...!! but i support womens wrongs and that includes everything maria had going on. + thank you everyone who expressed joy about the comic pdf and read the comic back in the day, you make me so happy!!! ;_; <3 <3 <3

#adalsysla #the theatrical melodrama of looking into a blank space as you monologue about some dumb scar you got #she really was like 'im a merchant' but had no idea what the cargo was i think

[landfilloftrash]

wow my mental state is normal huh. anyways (hurls these into the abyss)

#my art #graphite scribbles #Les Mis #Les Misérables #Jean Valjean #Cosette #ft. Skyrim #J’Harla Blackmane #Elora Blackmane #ft. Resident Evil #The Merchant RE4 #If you can’t tell it’s been a hell space in my brain lately #also; I AM IN FACT WORKING ON MY FANFIC I SWEAR TO GODS #I PROMISE #rea rambles in the tags #rea's trash

[chaosbloot]

This is an NPC in my dnd campaign, his name is plock. He's a ship merchant that the characters buy a ship off of (a spelljammering ship).

I'm tired of coloring so im showing the progress coloring, don't know if I'll finish it though.

And one of the characters married him for some reason?! I don't know why, they are a bard so, I guess?

#artwork #artists on tumblr #dnd #magic #fantasy #dnd 5e #NPC #spelljammer #ilistration #penguin #ship #ship merchant #ok i think ive put enough tags on this now #dohwar #his name is plock #one of my players (a hadozee bard) married him for some reason!? #idk #it is now canon that he is pansexual (both of them where male) #i am tired of coloring this #havent even colored his beak yet and i dont know think im goona color his giant space hamster

[ghostypetrainer]

so what happens after giratina leaves ingo's body, anyway? it must have been a pretty big surprise to everyone, huh

Well, the thing is, it isn't.

When it happens the only one around is Akari. They don't tell anyone. There's a lot of reasons for this, ranging from Kamado's earlier distrust of Akari making it so that she can't completely trust him with this information, even if he is trying to make amends... but mostly because there's no reason to. She defeated Giratina. Ingo deserves his privacy.

All she tells anyone is that they were attacked by wild Pokemon, and they knocked Ingo out. No one needs to know more than that. If people notice that Ingo is a bit... different after that, well. That kind of thing has been known to happen.

Ingo, for his part, once he recovers, goes back to the life Giratina established- almost. Giratina didn't exactly live anywhere, so Akari invites him to live with her. He's hesitant to take her offer at first, but since there's not a lot of other good alternatives, he does take her up on it eventually.

#asks #giratina possession au #thankfully Ingo also has a knack for being a merchant #they still can't go home until Akari completes her pokedex. she's doing a speedrun from this point on #which is MUCH easier now that time space distortions aren't opening up literally on top of her nearly every time she leaves the village #and all the ghost pokemon of Hisui aren't trying to kill her anymore

[fuzzydreamin]

oh cool dice for sure, PLEASE tell me about your current hyperfixation(s)

The hyperfixation is fallout. Just always fallout in general, but more specifically 4 than any other game.

For a while I have been pondering how the Prydwen would appear / be laid out in a more realistic sense. It had to carry over 600 people after all, and all of their power armour, and all those vertibirds -they could only have so many flying at a time right.

That's not something regular dirigibles do, as they mostly just have as many people as they need to function - maybe some additional fancy pantses who want a sweet arial view. They aren't used for moving armies IRL.

So like... thinking of a realistic mechanical drawing of the Prydwen with all of the extra space and rooms it should have to move all that. Not to mention larger medbay (barely one patient can fit in there and with no privacy at all) and also larger scribe storage for all their documents.

That's what I'm nerding about specifically.

#do I even NEED to think about any of this? will it really be all that relevant to my fic outside of mentioning larger/more spaces? #no #but I like ships #old piratey/merchant ships and blimps specifically #USS Constitution and Prydwen are on my mind often enough #and I like taking the things ingame and going “this should be bigger... what if it was” and then thinking thinking thinking #My socks rn are actually just grey #but I DO have a lot of fun socks with patterns. also I love knee/thigh-high socks #i'm a “socks must be on feet” kind of person. bare feet feels weird

[evilkitten3]

there should be a star wars game where you play as Just Some Guy. no magic space knight powers, no criminal career, no tragic backstory, nothing. you are just Some Guy and then shit starts happening

#the litter box #shitpost #star wars #best star wars game idea ever: you are a merchant on alderaan selling. idk carpets or something #you never leave the planet or even interact much with the star wars world as a creative concept #you are just a tired dude trying to sell some product before going home to your space wife #press x to ignore customer talking loudly about politics #you have several choices that affect your relationship with your customers #but absolutely nothing you do affects the fact that at the end of the game the planet fucking explodes #your character doesn't even know it's going to happen #and you never get a date for when the game takes place it starts a completely random amount of time away from doomsday #you simply have a limited amount of time on this not-earth and have to make the best of it #i'm a genius

[beantothemax]

Hikari, I’m his most serious voice ever, telling the party that no, they cannot kill the merchant Octopuff they just found. That’s his son now. Parsquishio. Partitio you wouldn’t dare harm our son would you?

So now they just have a merchant Octupuff trailing after them because Hikari keeps feeding it. Partitio also gets roped into feeding it. Because what kind of parent would he be if he let their son starve?

Parsquishio is the best fed most pampered Octopuff that ever lived.

PARSQUISHIO,,,,,,,,,,,, I am goin to CRY that is ADORABLE

I have seen lots of hikari art where he has a octopuff and I’m glad that we as a fanbase have just accepted this as fact. hikari’s got a lil octopuff son and I am all for it.

parsquishio and his two dads who love him very much.

#asks #octopuffs were the best things they added in 8path 2 #ALSO!!! ALSO I WNAT TO LET YOU ALL KNOW #that there’s an accessory you can get called an octopuff pot #that increases your chances of encountering an octopuff #and according to the merchant’s manuscript #THEY INCREASE YOUR ENCOUNTER RATE WITH THEM BECAUSE OCTOPUFFS LIKE SMALL DARK SPACES #SO YOU JUST PUT THIS POT ON THE GROUND AND AN OCTOPUFF WILL JUST… CRAWL INTO IT #anyways hikari carries parsquishio around in a lil octopuff pot everywhere #and parsquishio loves it

[southern-friedfemme]

Roommate and I have been doing Rennfest shopping and I’m hoping my outfit ends up making me feel princessy without feeling dysphoric, which is a thin line lately.

#hyperfeminine styles immediately make me insecure/feel like shit #i’m not pretty like that & growing up i was forced super hard into that box #but the dresses are so pretty #i think i found a happy medium that also involves leggings my beloved #i should get my dog a matching cape for his harness lol #he has plague doctor patches tho #i think if i come up with a character for myself as a merchant when we buy a table space i’ll get him a cute matching set to work in

[bowl-of-ravioli]

already posted these on my main, but also going to post them here!

These are the most current designs for all of the ravios so far! we’ll definitely get around to giving them individual reference sheets but here’s what we’ve got so far ^^

#LoR #lots of ravios #LoZ au #ooc #ref!sheets #LoR Tunnel #LoR Unity #LoR Space #LoR Luster #LoR Battles #LoR Glade #LoR Merchant #LoR Noble #LoR Storm #💚

[thats-a-morray]

this is my OC Miriam Tsetey. She looks like badass but she literally just works in tech. (I made this drawing in 2019)

#she does UI for some space merchants #and she is also helping with a restorative justice project that her smart friends are working on #i do not know how she got the big scar #it very well could've been that bonked her head real bad on some steps when she was 20 #artists on tumblr #illustration #graphite #mine #love is stored in the ocs #sci fi #afro futurism

[texasthrillbilly]

Time's up, William.

#lost in space #the time merchant #sci fi and fantasy #dr. zachary smith #will robinson #billy mumy #jonathan harris

[szkin-art]

[Old Art] A Senior Administrator of the Orbital Guild, the international military organization tasked with the governance of the Human Sphere's stellar colonies under the Parity Treaty.

Candidates for the Guild’s vast bureaucratic machine are primarily selected by competitive examinations known as ‘the Civil’, held annually in every city/station with a Guild office. The prospective civil servants are graded both by their local colony chapter and the Guild’s central examination commission.

Highly promising candidates are fast tracked to 'the Central’, an advanced examination track with various specializations that determines placements in the Guild’s senior institutions, diplomatic corps and military, while mid-ranking examinees may opt for less prestigious positions in their home Colony.

#old art #but new lore lol #my art #NewCycle #scifi worldbuilding #fantasy art #basically what if the Titans but they were aristocratic merchant space bureaucrats #with sick hats #digital art #character design