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So… You wanna explore the Universe.

If you are reading this guide, then you and any potential peers want to leave the comfort and security of your warm mother star and expand into the cold, dark, and unforgivable void. A mistake, really, but I am not here to stop you; I am here to lay out some basic rules that you puny mortals must abide by.

1. Don’t ask questions you are not prepared to know the answer to.
2. There’s always bigger.
3. Never cross the Elder Gods.
4. Always remember rule 1.
5. Fusion based energy is your best friend. If you are still using fossil fuels then your species sucks. Period.
6. Speaking of fossil fuels, chemical based rockets suck. Try using space bending warp drives or quantum bridges. Light speed sucks, too.
7. It’s not a bad idea for your species to be genocidal xenophobic maniacs to everything but yourselves. Just make sure you have the firepower to back it up.
8. I highly recommend total unity within your species. If you are too busy fighting amongst yourselves, what are you going to do when Needledorp arrives?
9. Fear Needledorp.
10. Always remember rule 9.
11. If you find a desolate, rocky planet with the only inhabitant named “Frank”, avoid that planet at all costs. I don’t care if it’s rich in resources, just avoid it.
12. Some black holes are alive. They are aggressive. Do not pet the black holes.
13. It’s just like that, sometimes.
14. Make sure nothing is following you.
15. If you have an individual with psychic powers, expect them to go insane once they leave the confines of your mother star. Lock them up in a closet with a few markers and check up on them every once in a while. If they star my screaming about an entity named “Carol”, shoot them out the airlock. They will be the distraction.
16. Remember rule 1.
17. You are immortal until proven otherwise.
18. Any extraterrestrial rocks may have anomalous properties. Proceed with caution, or you may get space zombies or something.
19. Remember rule 13.
20. Make sure nothing is following you.
21. Violence may be an answer to a dispute with an extraterrestrial entity. Copulation is a last resort (control your thirst).
22. If bullets don’t work, punches will.
23. Remember rule 17.
24. Your objective: survive.
25. Babies are not food, they are weapons.
26. There are cheat codes.
27. Don’t ask about the cheat codes. Remember rule 1.
28. If the void is staring at you. Make it uncomfortable.
29. Avoid Frank. The anomalous one.
30. Remember rules 1, 2, and 3.

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A toddler hands you a toy phone, ushering that you should answer it. Not wanting to upset the kid, you answer the ‘call’, but an unexpected voice speaks on the other end.

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1. Memorize your route. Your map can and will lie.
   
2. Take the safest roads.
   
3. Mountain passes shift between our world and another - do not leave your car when you are crossing a mountain pass.
   
4. If you see something you believe to be a bear, do not photograph it.
   
5. The snow does strange things to our eyes.
   
6. Borders shift.
   
7. Do not speak to anyone you meet further than a kilometer from the nearest building.
   
8. Not everything that appears to be human is.
   
9. You may eat at rest stops but leave as soon as possible. If there are no other guests there, leave immediately.
   
10. Don’t listen to birdsongs for too long - they will start to tell you things you’d rather not hear.
    
11. There are no shortcuts.
    
12. Something is looking at you, but it is indifferent to your existence.
    
13. The things beneath the soil would rather stay undisturbed. Don’t dig.
    
14. Bring a mirror and a clear head.
    
15. Leave all religious items at home. They will make a scent trail.
    
16. There is a reason we fear wolves, but it isn’t the one you think.
    
17. Do not touch scissors on the ground. Ever.
    
18. The wind will bite you. Cover up.
    
19. The longer you spend in the woods, the stranger the air gets.
    
20. Stay calm.
    
21. Never approach old houses.
    
22. If there is mist on the ground, do not be afraid.
    
23. Windmills are further away than they seem.
    
24. Don’t look into lakes.
    
25. Some farms don’t always exist. Don’t worry if you can’t find it on your return trip.
    
26. Don’t drink slow-running river water. If you do, there will invariably be a dead animal upstream.
    
27. Bridges are sacred places. Do not disrespect them.
    
28. Avoid wetlands.
    
29. There are no children out here, only false ones.
    
30. If you suddenly get lost, stay very still.
    

At first I didnt realize whom posted this and just thought this was all real advice

I thought this was real advice and the whole time was thinking this would be amazing for a story

This is real advice! If you ever find yourself in northern Europe, you will be glad you reblogged or saved this post! 

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1. The ship should be treated with kindness.
   
2. Not all waters are good.
   
3. Don’t look deeper than you absolutely have to.
   
4. A sudden shallow means something is beneath you.
   
5. Never sail alone at night.
   
6. There are things best left unseen.
   
7. Whales are wise. Do not anger them.
   
8. You are very, very small.
   
9. There may be eyes in the fog. Don’t make contact.
   
10. Some ships sail under no flag. They are not real. Not anymore.
    
11. Occasionally, you will get a distress transmission from the Atlantic. Don’t answer it.
    
12. The sound of motors in the fog is never, ever, a good sign.
    
13. Some lighthouses move. Don’t depend on them.
    
14. Make as little sound as possible whenever your chest feels strange.
    
15. It is entirely possible to lose time at sea. Do not worry. You will remember eventually.
    
16. If the water goes murky, leave the top deck.
    
17. There may be blood in the water. Don’t look.
    
18. If you startle at nothing, it was not nothing.
    
19. There are some kinds of fog your lights won’t shine through. When you encounter it, take a different route.
    
20. Some fjords are not for human travel.
    
21. The singing is most likely not sirens. Pray that is is not.
    
22. Never dive and expect nothing strange to happen.
    
23. If something feels off, check your ropes.
    
24. If someone shouts to you in the dark, do not reply.
    
25. Sometimes curious things knock on the hull. They will usually leave.
    
26. Nothing is ever entirely as it seems.
    
27. Moonlight on the ocean has a hypnotic effect. Don’t stare.
    
28. There will always be something watching from the coast.
    
29. When the sky turns strange colours, close your eyes. It is best not to see.
    
30. If your compass does not work, let yourself drift on the current. Something wants you gone.
    

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You are at constant war with your rival. The feud between you two is nothing short of legendary and it has lasted longer than there has been life on this planet. For every push he makes, you stand firm, forever at war. The very mention of you makes your nemesis quiver. He is Poseidon, god of the ocean. You are the Sand Guardian, Guardian of the Sand.

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Adulting is soup and I am a fork

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one of my favorite tropes is when a character is talking in the foreground and something happens in the background that directly contradicts what they’re saying

foreground: character is talking about how they pride themselves on being a good parent

background: character’s 3 year old son starts a car and speeds off

Originally posted by mansplainedmarxist

also

This will never get old.

Originally posted by chiekuchiki

Kinda works

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Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

Originally posted by newyorkbellco

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

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