(04-16-2018, 10:11 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(01-28-2018, 10:01 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: It would be a bit difficult to dovetail the two.  Jupiter Ascending is a film that came out a couple years back, starring Mila Kunis as Jupiter Jones, a poorish girl from Chicago who gets caught up in extraterrestrial politics when it turns out she's genetically identical to the recently-deceased matriarch of the galaxy's most powerful business dynasty -- and thus, by the rules of their society, her reincarnation.  However, the business that they're in is seeding habitable worlds with humanity, letting them fill up the planet, and then basically rendering the entire population of each world down to extract an eternal-youth drug used by the galactic elites.  Earth, as it turns out, is one of these "farm" worlds.  Wikipedia has an article, but it's not as good as watching the film.

I seem to recall that I suggested Sailor Jupiter Ascending in a "Crossovers That Must Not Be" thread, so it's not the first time it's been mentioned on the forums.

I know this is months old, but... I just came across the perfect description of Jupiter Ascending on Tumblr:

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Quote:Here is my feeling about this movie: it is your garbage. It is garbage for you. “Is this how straight dudes feel at the movies all the time????” I hissed SEVERAL times during this movie. “Like someone carefully noted down your early pubescent fantasies and then threw 100 MILLION DOLLARS at them?” 

Top marks go to evil space royal Eddie Redmayne, whose breathy ennui is offset by bouts of mummy’s boy shrieking, all delivered with a “petite-mort” look on his face that suggests he is being fellated by eternity itself.

Someone on tumblr described it as the novel all girls wrote when they were 14 and frothing with a mix of swelling hormones and fading Disney fantasies, which I have to say is accurate to the point of pain. I mean, gorgeous Russian toilet scrubber finds out she is actually a space princess when a werewolf space marine rescues her from death at the hands of Greys? Pardon me, werewolf ANGEL space marine with a Sad because his wings are gone. And then everything is Alexander McQueen dresses and melodrama and bees, for some reason, and Eddie Redmayne doing his best heroin-addicted Voldemort impression.

The plot is this: the Wachowskis were given an extraordinary amount of money to make whatever the hell they wanted, and what they wanted to make is exactly what we all, secretly, deep down, want to make: the big-screen adaptation of that Stargate fanfic you wrote when you were fourteen that really went off the rails and began to inhabit its own universe, complete with original characters, wolf-men, and bees. That’s Jupiter Ascending.

watching this movie, even at home, was exactly like hallucinating one of my own early-teenage fantasies

I’m actually currently imagining a Jupiter Ascending AU fic for Voltron because they’re basically gathering quintessence. Jupiter Ascending is the perfect visual fanfic - just plug in your favorite series and go.

(04-17-2018, 06:45 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: That was hilarious, Bob. Thanks for sharing.

Quote:"My father's dead," I told Gabriela, "and he left me a mercenary unit."

Gabriela cracked open one of her eyes. The other remained tightly shut. "What."

"My father's dead, and he left me a mercenary unit."

"You're saying words," Gabriela said, "but these words do not make sense."

"Well," I replied, sitting down at the edge of the bed, "I just got a comm. My father passed away. There's a will and things. I've inherited the unit, apparently."

"Okay," Gabriela began, drawing out the syllables. "Okay. You're using different words. But they're still not making sense."

"My father, my gene-donor, my sire, the person who spawned me, has passed beyond this mortal coil into the arms of… "

Gabriela held a hand up. "Stop. No. Stop. More words ain't helping. Your father, he left you a merc unit?"

I nodded. "Basically, yeah. I mean, there's fine print, but yeah."

"We're… I need to be clear here," Gabriela asked, "we're talking an actual unit, right? 'Mechs and machines that aren't 'Mechs, not just a green infantry squad with one rifle between them?"

"BattleMechs, fighters, vehicles, artillery, droppers, a jumper," I said, listing the highlights. "Though, uh, not many people. It's more hardware and an empty org chart. Technically speaking the unit hasn't really been a thing for a couple centuries."

(05-23-2018, 11:21 AM)ECSNorway Wrote: An interesting Danmachi SI finds a bored tech worker dropped into the body of a fox-girl in Orario:

I Am A Girl In The Dungeon?

Fun little story.

(05-26-2018, 03:29 AM)LilFluff Wrote: Going to recommend a Battletech SI/CYOA fic over on Spacebattles, False Prophets. On 1 January 3015 a phone call wakes up a woman who remembers two lives, one as a person born in the 20th century and one as the illegitimate daughter of a minor Free Worlds League noble. A daughter whose teenage rebellion was to run off and join ComStar, eventually being recruited into the ComGuards. Only to be woken early one morning, after graduation from ComGuard training but before receiving an assignment, by a Terran lawyer's office calling on behalf of a FWL lawyer's office to let her know her father has died and left her a shell of a mercenary company in his will...

(05-26-2018, 03:29 AM)LilFluff Wrote: Going to recommend a Battletech SI/CYOA fic over on Spacebattles, False Prophets.

(05-26-2018, 04:53 AM)Matrix Dragon Wrote: Hehehe, Acyl's an old regular on these forums. In fact, he was inspired by another fanfic with a similar concept, written by Valles... Tell The World That We Tried.

(06-21-2018, 11:59 PM)Norgarth Wrote: erm, ECS?  Take a gander at the recommendation just before yours... 8P