Juliette Knows Exactly What She’s Doing, Doesn’t She? Between This And That Old Picture Of Her Where

Bane/Bad Sean Connery Impression: “Oi am Rehpublic Schity’s rehkoning.”

Daily Kuvira #132

You know I had to.

Fun fact: in the early stages of production for “The Pegasus”, the script initially called for the titular Pegasus to be a new ship design that was essentially a Ambassador-era take on the Miranda/Nebula-class hull profile. However, budget and time constraints led the TNG team to go with an Oberth instead. All that exists of this original Pegasus is an quick sketch Rick Sternbach did, and it’s neat to see it come to life in a roundabout fashion through this model.

Apollo-class for Star Trek Bridge Commmander

Dream big, Madiha. In the meantime, take a look at an old Charles Stross called Missile Gap. Something very strange happens to the Earth in the early 1970s and the Soviet Union builds ekranoplans to explore its new neighborhood. He also has an older story called A Colder War, which has no ekranoplans, but the Great Old Ones are weaponized by the superpowers during the Cold War and Oliver North becomes the death of worlds.

someday im gonna write a battle where ekranoplans are the key to victory

RULES: answer 30 questions and tag 10 blogs you are contractually obligated to know

@coppermarigolds​ tagged me for this a few days back, so here we go!

Nicknames: My dad used to call me “Booder” (”Büder”?) when I was a little kid, but I haven’t heard that in years. I suppose either a contraction of my first name or my middle name could be used as nicknames, but I’m a stickler for my full first name. Gender/pronouns: He/him.

Star sign: Taurus.

Height: About 5′ 8″, or 173 cm.

Time: 1904h.

Birthday: April 24th. Favorite bands: mind.in.a.box, VNV Nation, Nine Inch Nails.

Favorite solo artist: Moby.

Song stuck in your head: “Hell March 2″ by Frank Klepacki. Kicks as much ass in 2018 as it did in 2000.

Last movie you watched?: The Prophecy, a weird movie about a second war in Heaven from 1995 that spawned a bunch of crummy direct-to-DVD sequels. It’s not very good, but it’s worth it to see Christopher Walken ham it up as the Archangel Gabriel along with Viggo Mortensen as the malevolently prissy Father of Lies himself.

Last show?: I actually don’t remember, it’s been that long since I’ve watched a series.

Why did you create your blog?: I wanted to get in contact with someone on Tumblr and find a way to keep track of all the nice pictures/meta I found.

What do you post?: I’m more about collecting than creating on this platform, so I really only post the occasional reblog.

Last thing you googled?: “Cryostasis digital download.” Still no longer available. I fortunately bought it on DVD when it was still in stores, but it kinda sucks to not have a backup option. :(

Other blogs: I spend most of my time on a more traditional blog, but since it’s in my real name I won’t be linking it here. I am thinking about starting up some other tumblrs in the near future just to organize all my likes into something easier to sort.

AO3: “karakhan,” with only one story (for the moment).

Do you get asks?: Nope.

How did you get the idea for your URL?: There’s a Ukrainian horror shooter called Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason set on a haunted Soviet icebreaker that I like to play this time of year. My URL is a combination of the protagonist’s last name, meteorologist Alexander Nesterov, and the year the game takes place, 1981 (or 1969...it’s complicated).

I follow: 99 tumblrs and 28-30 blogs.

Followers:  1 person and 3 invisible pornography robots. :p

Average hours of sleep: Between 6 and 11, which really isn’t very good.

Lucky number: 4.

Instruments: Back in middle and high school, I moved from the French horn to the clarinet, and then to the piano, and for the longest time I was working on the bagpipes. Unlike my siblings, I eventually drifted away from music entirely, and in retrospect I wish I had taken drama instead.

What are you wearing?: Ratty blue sweatsuit.

Dream job: Seriously, a novelist who can support himself through writing. Less seriously, revolutionary autocrat who is both worshiped and feared by all. ;)

Dream trip: Oh, so many. There’s the trip to Moscow, because it’s Moscow. There’s the trip to Minsk, just to see a place that looks a little more like the old Soviet Union. And finally, there are trips to see the tundra and the desert which don’t have set destinations, though the desert will probably be

Favorite food: A tossup between ribs and burgers, with deviled eggs wedged in there somewhere. I have very proletarian tastes.

Significant other?: I wish.

Last book I read: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, because it was Christmas.

Top 3 fictional universes: I’ve always found the strange totalitarian world George Orwell built for Nineteen Eighty-Four to be fascinating on an intellectual level, even though I’d never want to live there. On a more optimistic note, I also love the TNG-era Star Trek universe and the world of The Legend of Korra, even if my opinions and ideas about that one differ wildly from Bryke’s. :p

Once again, I will forgo from tagging because, as I’ve said, I don’t know anyone here.

I’m not going to say it again: #bertie wooster deserves to win first place.

He likes his boxes.

He sat in this container like this for 20 minutes.

Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

The unnamed battlefield medic who shows up to evac downed units also made her debut in Skies of Arcadia as Fina, though according to her ingame bio she’s actually three people in VC1: the triplets Fina, Mina, and Gina Sellers.

Watching you play Valkyria Chronicles I saw some familiar faces - Vyse and Aika are main characters from Skies of Arcadia. Vyse is kind of a tool but Aika's my homegirl. In said game they fight against the Empress of Valua, and I noticed there's also a city called Valua mentioned in passing during your video.

Oh I thought I’d seen those characters somewhere! I think one of the main dudes behind ValCro had a hand in Skies of Arcadia (it was also published by Sega too if I remember correctly). That’s a neat little thing. Thank you!

Oh my god @wyattsalazar, I was just bouncing through deviantArt and I found this amazing piece by glucosefiction. I don’t know if you commissioned this or it was just fanart but I had to show it to you. Consider it a belated birthday present of a kind. ;)