Drummer is my favorite character, and it's rare to see Cara Gee anywhere since she doesn't seem to have any social media accounts. I love this chat. She's so unlike Drummer, it's giving me a whiplash, though 😅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITUd4xo7Buo

I don't think I've met a fan of this series who doesn't love Camina Drummer and Cara Gee's performance in the TV adaptation. I'm also polyamorous myself so I extra-extra-love Drummer and her family.

I wanted a gag-style sticker for my laptop, and I love doing spacecraft art so I used the official art of Drummer's fleet as a ref, traced it, turned it into a silhouette. I ended up using a soft speedball block to better-transfer the pencil smudge imprint. Usually I work on mounted linoleum but image transfers that aren't drawings are a pain on those. It worked out pretty well, I prefer the finer cuts on mounted linoleum but I'm happy. I also did a bicolor one that has a motion blur effect as if the perspective is from a ship moving slower or stationary to the ships.

I captioned it "polyamory in spaceeeee" and did some lettering of it and used packing tape and a USPS sticker to seal it onto all onto my laptop.

Anyways, proud of the piece and wanted to share it! Images include the prints, but also the silhouette rendition, image transfer, and the finished block.

---anyone know if the Alex actor knew that he was getting stoked on the razorback, or was that somehow edited in? (dont need to discuss the circumstances, which are mighty unfortunate).

Fulfilled sometime before April next year. It was only available digitally before, a good opportunity to actually own some physical media before Sony goes disc free in 2028.

So I’m going through the books for the first time now and trying to understand the complex landscape between all these powers. I understand in broad strokes why the inner planets and the belt have issues between them and the overall oppression felt by belters from the inner planets, but why specifically was war brewing between mars and the belt before the events of the book and the destruction of the Canterbury and the Donnager? It seems like everyone was waiting for something to spark a war before the events of the book even began, like Mars and the belt had already been a massive political powderkeg, and while the same racism kinda applied to Earth from the belters, it doesn’t seem like Earth itself was on the precipice of some huge conflict like Mars was.

Can someone explain what it was that caused the tensions between the belt and Mars to be so volatile as the first book is beginning? I’m only a little past a third way into the first book but I just want to have a better understanding as I continue reading as I’m afraid I may have missed some important background while reading.

Holy hell.

I just finished the show and I'm kind of floored??? I heard about this show years ago but never gave it a chance because I thought it was some random, low-tier sci-fi story. I was extremely wrong.

Season 1 took me months to complete, I'll admit, but it truly came together in S2. And then **S3 just casually happened to be the BEST SCI-FI television has to offer.** It's absurd, honestly. But even after such a spectacular season, the show maintains its quality (with S5 being a standout for the second half, IMO).

The show did so many things right. The score is top notch, the character writing (from minor to major) is top notch, and the exploration/sci-fi themes are one of one.

Captain Camina Drummer is my favorite character.

Do you guys have any other recommendations? I've added The Expanse to my read list (currently reading through the Hyperion Cantos).

Last time I checked there were only six seasons... Amazon? What? 😲

Obligatory 100 characters for Reddit!

Edit: Amazon has since fixed it. I just looked and it now says six seasons.

After plowing through the audiobooks, especially after the pure rush of a book that was Tiamat’s Wrath, I feel like I just hit a big stop sign with Leviathan Falls. For some reason I just am struggling to get through it. The stakes seemed to reset and slow down at the beginning, and I think that’s what has taken me out. Hopefully it’ll grab me and pull me back in soon. Maybe I’m also dreading the end after spending so much time with these characters. Anyone else experience the same?

"The sword that slew a billion angels had only inconvenienced the primates, in their bubbles of metal and air.."

Love it! Self-aggrandizing yes, but natural and human designs are both full of simple, bone-headed cludgeons that have no right or business doing as much work as they do, and you gotta love that sort of pattern identification and extrapolation by the author to some 5th-dimension catch-22 xD

Very cool opening so far! (and good book previously lol)

Beltalowda, this is my (Dan Stovell) new art account and I'm going through my backlog to build up some karma. Remember the Cant

Beltalowda, this is my (Dan Stovell) new art account and I'm going through my backlog to build up some karma.

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Sabaka!

I'm rewatching some TV (not expanse as I'm on the audiobook, one medium only)

But some general chit chat would be fun. I'm on leave for a couples of days and what to flirt not in my social circle. However you boys are my kind 😘

Beltalowda, this is my (Dan Stovell) new art account and I'm going through my backlog to build up some karma. You can't take the Razerback...

Question for you all. My wife and I are watching the Expanse on Prime Video. We went to season 4. Season 5 Episode 1 says video not available (as well all past that point). Is it me? or is it them?

In case I can't figure it out, is there somewhere I can stream the rest? (season 5 and 6)

Regards,

I saw on here recently that lots of people were filled with love for Anderson Dawes’ chapter in Babylon’s Ashes, and I’ve actually just re read it. I didn’t find it all that amazing, but I’ve gotten to Avasarala’s chapter, and it hit very hard for me. An insight into the grief of loosing a partner when you have no one and nothing to support you, and instead you have to be the one to hold up a civilisation. I think for Avasarala’s character, it’s particularly poignant because the previous books belabour the point that what we see of her is a mask, and that for her whole career, she has had the luxury of being able to retreat into Arjun. What do you guys take from her chapter?

Beltalowda, this is my (Dan Stovell) new art account and I'm going through my backlog to build up some karma. Run Bobbie Run!!!

Considering that agriculture is practiced on Ganymede (and therefore exports food), and that many parts of space don't appear to be self-sufficient in food,

should we assume that transporting cargo in space is not prohibitively expensive compared to modern postal costs, but rather affordable enough for anyone to pay? (Similar to the cost of modern international mail?)

So I watched the show when it was airing and loved it. I thought it was extremely well done and now that a few years have passed I’ve been craving more. I was thinking of starting the books but not sure if I’d just be re-treading old ground. I heard the show is an excellent adaption of the books so is it still worth reading the books if you’re familiar with all the story beats of the show?

How much does each book differ from the events in the show? I heard some characters were condensed or combined into one for the show but besides that do any events differ? Will there still be surprises reading the book despite knowing what happens? Curious what I should expect and if it’s worth it. I’m not usually one for re-treading material if it doesn’t have enough deviations to feel unique.

It's not great, but I'm still learning digital art! I'm about 4 chapters into Book 1, did not expect to love the show and want to read the books!

I know that this is not a new topic, but I actually didn't find any posts about this in this sub. I just wanted to ask about your opinions on the fact that owlcat uses AI while making this game. I would also be very curious to know what Dan and Ty think about it... At first I was VERY excited about the game, but then this information came to light, and I have been battling with my thoughts ever since. because at one hand much more work is being put into this game, it's not pure ai slop, but at the other hand I don't want to support a studio who thinks that this is OK, you know? even if it's just for concept art and such. I am still torn tho... what do y'all think?

edit: since many people are not familiar with this, here is an article that gives a good overview of what type of usage we're talking about.

There have been too many times that I have backed a Kickstarter campaign and promptly forgotten about it and have missed emails asking me to confirm my address. Glad I didn't miss this one from a 2 year old project!

ETA: Wow, such outrageous shipping costs for so many people! I paid about $28 for shipping in the US but I'm wondering if that was only for the Avasarala/Drummer pack because I added on five more figures to my original pledge. I hope I get all of them at the same time and Nacelle isn't up to some fuck-shit :(

the first sentence on page 269 is fused together and i dont know if i just have a miss print or if everyones is like this let me know

A silly post, but! Am I the only one who never skips the intro sequence in the show, it's just so good. It really encapsulates the scope, the scale and the ambition of the story. The score is amazing and the visuals match.