posted October 30, 2015 10:59 AM            

Or maybe I'll be wit the Doctor and travel to each Era 👀

what a fun life that would be haha

posted November 24, 2015 03:35 PM            

My Virgo venus loves all the classy stuff and intricate fashions back in the 19th century.

posted November 25, 2015 10:27 PM            

Music wise I am stuck in the late 60's-90's
the best music! I love classic rock, and new wave understated bands. Music makes me feel like I should of been a young person in the 70's and 80's

Fashion: I like living in these times for fashion.
Though I would love an excuse to dress like I am from the Victorian Area so romantic!
I find the 60's dresses, hair, and make up sexy
70's has the best naturally down to earth looks.
90's some of my favortie fashion icons, Fran Dresher and the spice girls, and then the grunge.

posted November 26, 2015 08:59 PM            

Internet, raves, LSD, art, travel is easier, esoteric wisdom available at fingertips, we aren't bound by tradition, religion like other generations... now is dope

posted November 28, 2015 11:02 AM            

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Originally posted by HadesFish:
PJ - in your dream/reality is your cousin male or female?

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Male. As kids we both lived at our grandmother's at times, which meant we sometimes lived together (even when he wasn't there, his parent's house was in sight and on the same farm), and he's something like an older brother to me (in both the good and bad ways). I dream of him a lot even as an adult.

posted November 28, 2015 08:00 PM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
Male. As kids we both lived at our grandmother's at times, which meant we sometimes lived together (even when he wasn't there, his parent's house was in sight and on the same farm), and he's something like an older brother to me (in both the good and bad ways). I dream of him a lot even as an adult.

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That's awesome! I reside very far from where I was born and I have a cousin who I feel would be a brother to me, and I wish I could dream of him. Our lives throughout the years have been similar in struggle also. We also grew up around our grandparents farm!
I've always felt that cousins are like siblings. Pretty neat you guys get to travel together, even in a dream!

posted November 28, 2015 09:47 PM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
I would want to be in an intergalactic era, assuming we ever are. And if I could navigate time by going sideways (as opposed to forward or backward)...it's probably my Sag stellium (moon-Mars-Uranus-Neptune) at work, and one reason I write scifi is because I'm unsatisfied with a lot of scifi that already exists, and what I imagine (and imagine how humans would adapt) can be haunting to my imagination (influenced by Neptune).

But I had an interesting dream many years ago of an alien invasion. I had a son in this dream (he frequently showed up in my dreams back then as either a son or little brother), and I took him and my cousin in a time machine as Earth was lost. As our journey ended and the machine was kaput, we got out to find it was 1983 (the year in which I'd turn 1 year old, perhaps I didn't want to risk going before then?), and perhaps it was my Sag seeing the bright side of things, but I saw an eatery and said, "Glam metal!" I went inside to see if I could find anything on their music box not even caring about what we left behind (and what we could easily live to see again).

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That is so awesome. I love space and its entire aesthetic. Gosh, now I'm gonna daydream so hard. I can already feel my mind floating. <3

posted November 28, 2015 11:54 PM            

I vaguely recall seeing the old War of the Worlds...but didn't find it memorable, and I recall finding parts of it exasperating.

I also saw MST3K as they showcased Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (I see that it came out in 1964...worth watching only if for the laughs! And preferably set to MST3K.) Still better than Dracula 3000.

Then there's Lost In Space...I only watch those for the laughs (and wasn't surprised that sometimes the actors slowed down production by uncontrolled laughter at the plots, some of them getting in trouble for it). I think my favorite (to laugh at) is where aliens are hippies (and make Will and Penny go on "dance breaks" and have Dr. Smith play the aging hippie), but I still haven't seen the infamous Great Vegetable Rebellion episode. Back when I looked on the LISW, even the fans were being sarcastic about the plots (among other aspects). (That said, when I saw the first few eps of season 1, it stuck close to the movie that came out into the 90s, more than I'd have thought possible, though of course the 90s was both more cynical in some ways and more enlightened in others than the original.)

And ah, Star Trek...especially TOS. I consider that Science Fable more than SciFi, and in that light it can be fun. Sometimes it even veered into outright myth, like when the Enterprise was caught in space by the giant hand of Adonis, and even blowing up his temple diluting the power to affect the ship I can note such vulnerabilities are common in myth (such as the death of Balder). And the "death" or "disempowerment" of Adonis reminds me of the tale of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in that a woman brought him down for another leader and he changed into an eagle flying away heartbroken. (Btw, you can see a well done essay comparing the Borg to Revelations here. And I just recently saw this on how Star Trek is the "first Matrix" referred to by Agent Smith in The Matrix!)

Even so, those shows don't fill my need to actually explore strange worlds and how humans would adapt to them (including socially and politically as well as criminally). They're more simple tropes and archetypes ("the ice world" and the "jungle world" for example, and all too often the ETs are just "humans in funny costumes" when one can find more exotic cultures right here on Earth, often allow for unaided interbreeding between species even when one is a mammal and the other a lizard, and ignores countless factors that would make them truly unearthly).

I've read more scifi books from back then, and with the notable exception of Isaac Asimov (and also Frank Herbert in the 60s), I generally found them poor...and yet realizing they didn't have computers but did have deadlines, I can also sympathize with them. I'm so glad that I can easily edit the stories I write as I write them rather than relying on a typewriter! Each time I think of something else to factor in they become that much more interesting, tease the mind and/or inspire goosebumps, and believable (at least to me and my beta readers anyway, and with certain artistic license, of course--but carefully thought about in how such novelties and such came about and how it would affect humanity and other species).

posted November 29, 2015 12:35 AM            

The four things would be: