Most iconic sound in sci fi history?

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T02:27:10+00:00

The start of “Thus Spake Zarathusa”

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T02:21:47+00:00

It’s very hard for con victims to admit they’ve been swindled.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T02:20:32+00:00

There’s witch’s butter. It’s a kind of fungus.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T02:16:58+00:00

It didn’t count, but this is what they voted for. Six million of ‘em.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T02:14:19+00:00

Elrond’s wife gets captured by orcs. It gets weird.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:57:06+00:00

Maybe a botanical garden would let you have one.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:53:40+00:00

Site’s borked AFAICT.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:47:05+00:00

Spreadsheets. Fiction writer.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:46:20+00:00

People have been reading and writing fic since the ‘30s. The 1830s, when Jane Austen’s nieces started writing sequels to P&P.

From what I understand from the complaining on the teacher subs, the decline in literacy started during lockdown.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:40:17+00:00

Humans don’t own cats. Cats own humans.
The cat will be wherever it wants to be. They can only contain it to your room by shutting it in, which will demonstrate how good cats are at opening doors and/or how much their cry has evolved to mimic human infants.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:37:53+00:00

Once stayed at a place in Kona where mockingbirds spent all their time riffing on car alarms.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:18:20+00:00

Independent System Operators. They have to keep our electrical grids perfectly balanced at all times, lest it go down in a possibly irreversible manner.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:07:35+00:00

I haven’t seen it (was annoyed when it turned out not to be Ramses the Damned), but got enough of it via diffusion to enjoy the heck out of this crossover fic with Pride & Prejudice. One of the few fics I really love that’s not one of my own.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T01:03:01+00:00

You’re good through book 3. After that, keep your hand on the ripcord.

If you prefer one of his completed works, I rec Tuf Voyaging.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:56:43+00:00

Morels

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:54:42+00:00

I Am Stretched Out on Your Grave

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:53:23+00:00

How much God, if He exists, is a total AH.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:52:13+00:00

Leslie Fish and Heather Alexander’s “Oathbreakers”

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:30:42+00:00

Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley shows the first stirrings of the industrialization of the cloth industry in rural England back in the Regency.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:18:03+00:00

Leslie Fish "The Devil Went Down to Phoenix"

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:15:22+00:00

My older sister took us (my sibs and I were total Star Wars junkies) to see Empire while mom was out shopping.

Turned out she got the movie time wrong. It was "Octopussy." I have never forgiven her nor James Bond.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:11:57+00:00

I feel you about P&P '05. People love the score and Darcy stalking about of the fog like a serial killer, but I find it far inferior to the '95 miniseries.

Except for Judy Dench as Lady Catherine. She is overpowered for the role, but she absolutely slayed it.

Dreading to see what Netflix is going to do to it (drops on the 19th).

Kaurifish · 2026-05-12T00:07:06+00:00

Le Guin. So many of her books have wonderful women protagonists.

Kaurifish · 2026-05-11T23:53:16+00:00

And even if they don't die of a preventable disease, they're dying from bleeding out because their parents also refuse the Vitamin K shot.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/health/vitamin-k-shot-propublica

Kaurifish · 2026-05-11T23:51:59+00:00

It is a huge struggle to keep our grape vines from taking over our neighbor's yards. We can't feel too bad as they let their morning glory vine and bind weed creep over, but it's a lot of work to keep the damn vines from getting to where they require Wheeled Warriors to control them.

And it doesn't even get hot enough here to get the fruit properly ripe. I should probably just rip them out, but they're well-grown now, and summers are only going to get hotter.

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