#u.f.o.s.

[starrspice]

LAST LINE CHALLENGE

RULES:

In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like).

Tagged By @suokumi thank you Suo!

Last Line:

So how were you supposed to deal with a rather grouchy alien whose social behaviors was probably very different then your human ones?

Last Drawing: A character concept for my oc story I've been slowly building for years (U.F.O.S.)

No pressure tags :

@paper-lilypie @spaciebabie @robinette-green

#i dont like tagging a bunch of people ajfbajdjfb #makes me nervous QwQ #last line challenge #stranded au #one day I'll finish the next chapter #one day... #oc #cinder oc #u.f.o.s. #vincent oc #character concept #this was fun #i havent written in forever so that line is old #maybe my next off day ill dig back into it

[demonfox38]

I am here to disturb you with the headcanons only a small population would make, vis-à-vis "Lupin the Third" characters trying to fuck "Castlevania"'s Alucard.

Lupin the Third would try to fuck Alucard. It would not work out for him. The best he can manage is annoying the dhampir into constructing death traps for the thief to work his way out of. But, hell. He's up at least a Jewel Sword, Joseph's Cloak, and the entirety of Juste's room. At least, what survived in the 1999 incarnation of Dracula's Castle. That has to be worth something, right?

Jigen Daisuke would not want anything to do with Alucard. He's got sense. He knows not to fuck around with vampires or vampire spawn—especially, not Dracula's spawn. You'll find him either smoking outside of a dungeon or hanging out with fellow human Castlevania geezers (specifically, Julius and Hammer.) He may be impressed with Soma using a gun. He may try to teach him out to use it even better. He also wants one of those infinity rounds that the kid managed to get for his pistols. Like, an eternal speed loader.

Goemon Ishikawa XIII would formally request to fuck Alucard. Like, those challenge letters he sends out for duels, but for copulation. Wires got crossed during combat, alright? Alucard's just too pretty for his own good. Whether or not the event goes down is up to Alucard himself. Frankly, that's not going to be something he'll engage in if Soma or Mina are around. The dhampir has his morals, after all. But, hey. When's the last time he got laid, anyway? 1875?

Fujiko Mine would fuck Dracula first. At least, if it would get her gold/gems/property/power. It wouldn't work out for her, but the gal aims high. Imagine her disappointment when she finds out what eventually happens to Dracula, though. Hooray for redemption arcs or whatever, but that's still a lot of assets to lose.

Koichi Zenigata has a professional relationship with Alucard, thank you very much. He uses his current monikers and everything. Do they work together a lot? No. But, when something goes sideways in Romania, or if some illicit materials from Dracula's Castle turns up in a black market, who do you think the ICPO is going to have on speed-dial?

#lupin the third #castlevania #these are the kinds of headcanons designed to bring down U.F.O.s #strange thoughts but man when they hit--

[collapsedsquid]

But for all Mr. Lewis’s political idealism, there was also something undeniably invigorating about conspiracy culture. This was a scene free from the stifling hegemony of sensible mainstream thought, a place where writers, filmmakers and artists could explore whatever ideas or theories interested them, however weird or improper. This radical commitment to resisting censorship in all its forms sometimes led to decisions that, from the perspective of 2023, look like dangerous naïveté at best: Reading countercultural material from the 1990s can feel like navigating a political minefield, where musings about the North American “mothman” and experimental poetry sit side-by-side with Holocaust denial. Conspiracy culture was tolerant of banned or stigmatized ideas in a way many of our interviewees said they found liberating, but this tolerance always had a dangerous edge. Still, Mr. Lewis looks back nostalgically on days when there seemed to be more respect and camaraderie. The aftermath of Sept. 11 and the war on terror presented, he said, a threat to citizens that the conspiracy-friendly left and right could unite over. Now the rift between the two was deep and vicious. He felt as if the ideas that had first attracted him to conspiratorial thought had been “weaponized,” pointing people away from legitimate abuses of power and toward other citizens — the grieving parents of Sandy Hook, for example — and at times involved real-world violence. When I asked Mr. Lewis when he first heard of QAnon, he told me a story about a family member who’d sent him a video that began with what he saw as a fairly unobjectionable narrative of government abuses of power. “I’m nodding my head, I’m agreeing,” he said. Then it got to the satanic pedophile networks. The conspiracy culture that Mr. Lewis knew had celebrated the unusual and found beauty in the bizarre. He had friends who considered themselves pagans, friends who participated in occult rituals. “The vast majority of them are not blood-drinking lunatics!” he told me. Some of his friends were no longer comfortable talking about their beliefs for fear of becoming targets. Others we interviewed told us similar stories: about a scene that had once felt niche, vibrant and underground but had transformed into something almost unrecognizable. Greg Bishop, a friend of Mr. Lewis’s and editor of the 1990s zine The Excluded Middle, which covered U.F.O.s, conspiracy theories and psychedelia, among other things, told me that as the topics he’d covered had become more mainstream, he’d watched the vitriol and division increase. “You’d see somebody at a convention who was frothing at the mouth or whatever, figuratively, and that’s changed into something that’s basically a part of the culture now.” Joseph E. Green, an author and parapolitical researcher, described how in the past, at conferences he attended on conspiracy topics, “there’s always a couple of guys in there who will tell you after they get familiar with you that the Jews run the world.” Mr. Green had no interest in such ideas, nor did he think they ran much risk of going mainstream. But somewhere along the way, conspiracy spaces on the internet had become “a haven” for the “lunatic fringe” of the right wing, which in turn spilled back into the real world.

It used to be more fun man

[vomitnest]

[eurekavalley]

The show squirms most when it is closest to the fetal position. Stencilled across the stormy sky at the beginning of each “X-File” episode are the words “the truth is out there.” But the show is much more of an inward journey than even the hunkered-down “Twilight Zone” was. The truth is that the general population shows less interest in studying the sky for answers than it did in the early days of the space race. The fascination with U.F.O.s has flagged as the focus has shifted to alien abduction, which is more of a psychological event. Even the starship voyages on “Star Trek” look nostalgic now—rides on a riverboat. As the world becomes more wired, a giant cranium webbed with computer lines, it becomes too enmeshed in its own mental processes to extend an eye into the universe. Constant self-monitoring can lead to sick thought, hypochondria. “The X-Files” is the product of yuppie morbidity, a creeping sense of personal mortality. (The sense of mortality in “The Twilight Zone” was the prospect of mass annihilation—We’re all gonna die!) It tries to cheat the big sleep by prying open so many doors into the beyond. Where middlebrow culture has begun to ponder angels again, pop culture courts immortality through soul migration or in hologram images or through the rejuvenation of cells or conversion into electrical charges. Nobody on “The X-Files” is ever dead dead. People die with a shudder, their souls removed like luggage, to be rerouted elsewhere. Perhaps the afterlife will be part of the information superhighway, a hub in cyberspace. What’s erotic about the show is its slow progression from reverie to revelation, stopping just short of rapture. It wants to swoon, but swooning would mean shutting its eyes, and there’s so much to see. 

-April 18, 1994

#txf30 #the x files #the new yorker #the x-files

[tedwillisart]

Paintings from the U.F.O.s, [unintentionally facetious objects] series., 5/’22.

 top down...Five Clouds and Clouds 5 Ways, acrylic and paint stick on canvas, 5/’22 each.

https://www.instagram.com/williswillkillus/

http://www.tedwillisart.com

[manticoremedusaminotaur]

Last time I was in the Mojave at night I saw one of these U.F.O.s skimming low across the desert. It was awe inspiring to see, could not sleep the rest of the night.

#UFO

[inittowinit]

“Month by month, pants got puffier, growing higher rises and sprouting more and more pleats. Hemlines that once severely tapered now expanded, hovering like U.F.O.s above shoes or pooling atop them like swirls of soft-serve ice cream.”

Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?

[antonio-velardo]

Antonio Velardo shares: U.F.O.s Remain a Mystery to Lawmakers After Classified Briefing by Kayla Guo and Julian E. Barnes

By Kayla Guo and Julian E. Barnes Members of the House went into a confidential briefing hoping for answers about what the government knows about alien life. They emerged with more questions. Published: January 12, 2024 at 06:14PM from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/UrSbYWs via IFTTT

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#antonio velardo #IFTTT #NYT

[starrspice]

Oh? What's that? You wanted more of my silly ocs?

No? Well too bad!

All the poses are from refs by MellonSoup

#my art #my ocs #my original characters #ocs #oc stuff #oc art #oc #pose reference #U.F.O.S. #Ango oc #Zai oc #Gidget oc #mars oc #space ocs #digital art #sketches #ocs sketches

[jaybe11]

STRANGE U.F.O.S ARE INVADING OUR SKIES...WHAT IS GOING ON?

#youtube

[romanlightman001]

Charlie's Angels | The Angels Investigate U.F.O.s | Classic TV Rewind

#youtube

[vomitnest]

[fastidious-farce]

What if U.F.O.s are grey because the human eyes cannot perceive the alien colours?

[recklessfuture001]

This is a #IWSG Post about U.F.O.s

As you’ve probably heard by now, the U.S. Congress recently held hearings about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (U.A.P.s), which are more commonly known as Unidentified Flying Objects (U.F.O.s).  There was some… let’s say “interesting” testimony in that hearing.  Now I don’t know if anyone will find this IWSG post relatable, even a little bit, but U.F.O.s make me feel deeply insecure about my…

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[manticoremedusaminotaur]

14 April 1561 U.F.O.s over a Medieval German city in the early morning.

1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg - Wikipedia

#ufo