Please take a moment to appreciate that the first sci fi heroes Fry thinks of are all women.
this was specifically to take the piss out of the show’s male fans btw
EVERY show should take the piss out of their male fans.
sci-fi
The women of Mad Max.
New film Mad Max: Fury Road revolves not around Max, but around Charlize Theron’s character, a “war rig” truck driver named Furiosa who’s on a mission to free five women who from the clutches of a warlord.
“When George [Miller] told me he wanted to create a female Road Warrior who can stand next to this very iconic character as his equal, I believed him and he didn’t let me down,” Theron says in the film’s production notes. “The material allowed for two characters who don’t fall for each other, or even become friends, because there is no room for relationships in this place.”
Octavia Estelle Butler (1947 – 2006)
Octavia Butler was an American science fiction writer. A multiple-recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship which is nicknamed the “Genius Grant”
Octavia E. Butler, often referred to as the “grand dame of science fiction,” was born in Pasadena, California on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena Community College, and also attended California State University in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles.
During 1969 and 1970, she studied at the Screenwriter’s Guild Open Door Program and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop, where she took a class with science fiction master Harlan Ellison (who later became her mentor), and which led to Butler selling her first science fiction stories. (X)
“Who am I? I am a forty-seven-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. I am also comfortably asocial—a hermit…. A pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.”
Octavia E. Butler, reading the self-penned description of herself included in Parable of the Sower during a 1994 interview with Jelani Cobb. (X)
To learn more octaviabutler.org
“To survive,
Know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.” (X)
Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) // Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
.”Remember where you are – this is Thunderdome, and death is listening, and will take the first man that screams.”
forever my lady
if you like dystopias, check out: the world we already live in
StandardLuc Besson demanded that most of the action shots in the film take place in broad daylight, as he was reportedly tired of the dark spaceship corridors and dimly lit planets common in science fiction films, and wanted a brighter “cheerfully crazy” look as opposed to a gloomy realistic one. Jean Paul Gaultier designed every one of the 900 costumes worn by extras in the film’s Fhloston Paradise scenes, and checked each costume every morning. His designs, described as “intellectually transgressive”, were said to challenge sexuality and gender norms. A single jacket he designed for the film cost $5,000. [x]The Fifth Element (1997) dir. Luc Besson
costume design by Jean Paul Gaultier
production design by Dan Weil
This movie is my heart and soul. I need the flight attendants’ outfit and all of Ruby Rod’s wardrobe please & thank you.
you don’t create n e w w o r l d s to give them
all the same l i m i t s as the old ones
I did some of these (a few of which were retweeted) and got a bunch of ‘gater pouting – they were clearly camping the tag just so they could piss and moan at people who don’t appear in their G A M E R G A T E tag searches. One of them took the opportunity to start spouting his conspiracy theories about how Aaron Diaz is a stalker.
Thanks for the validation, you shit-magicians.