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**Alice** @alisurrealist@pixelfed.social · Mar 23

Alice @alisurrealist@pixelfed.social

"Uma fusão entre humano e natureza. O rosto emerge entre galhos retorcidos, alguns ainda vivos, outros secos pelo tempo. O olhar fixo e os lábios entreabertos carregam uma ambiguidade: surpresa, melancolia ou transformação? O fundo azul profundo contrasta com os tons avermelhados na base, criando uma atmosfera de serenidade e inquietação. Um instante capturado de um mundo próprio.

Arte por mim.

Descrição feita por IA.

#ArteSurrealista #Surrealismo #ExpressãoVisual #ArteEEmoção #Metamorfose #NaturezaHumana #Criatividade #Pintura #Transformação #SonhoEVerdade #Psicodelia #ArteVisionária #Misticismo #RealidadeAlternativa #Subconsciente #FantasiaSombria #ConexãoComANatureza #InspiraçãoVisual #MundosParalelos"
"A fusion between human and nature. The face emerges from among twisted branches, some still alive, others dried by time. The fixed gaze and the parted lips carry an ambiguity: surprise, melancholy or transformation? The deep blue background contrasts with the reddish tones at the base, creating an atmosphere of serenity and restlessness. A captured moment from a world of its own.

Art by me.

Description made by AI.

#SurrealistArt #Surrealism #VisualExpression #ArtANDEmotion #Metamorphosis #HumanNature #Creativity #Painting #Transformation #DreamANDTruth #Psychedelia #VisionaryArt #Mysticism #AlternativeReality #Subconscious #DarkFantasy #ConnectionWithNature #VisualInspiration #ParallelWorlds"

**Mark A. Rayner** @markarayner@mas.to · May 7, 2024

May 7, 2024

Mark A. Rayner @markarayner@mas.to

This would have been good to have in 2016.

#humor #humour #book

**J❀y** @lurkjay@mastodon.social · Mar 22, 2024

Mar 22, 2024

J❀y @lurkjay@mastodon.social

The Family Trade by Charles Stross (2004)

Text instead of screenshots: https://cohost.org/lurkjay/post/5219165-the-family-trade-by

The post room was a concrete-lined subbasement, with pigeonholes sized to accommodate the big wheeled aluminum suitcases that the family used for “mail.” Roland picked a clipboard from the wall and read through it. “Hmm. Just two cases to FedEx today and that’s it.”

“Suitcases.” She looked at them dubiously, imagining all sorts of illegal contraband.

“Yes. Help me. Take that one. Yes, the handle locks into place as the wheels come out.”

Struggling slightly, Miriam tugged the big suitcase out of the post room and into the stark cargo elevator next to it. Roland hit the button for the basement, and they lurched upward.

“What’s in these things?” she asked after a moment. “Tell me if it’s none of my business.” I’m not sure I want to know, she thought, unable to avoid a flashback to the meeting in Joe’s office, the threats on her phone.

“Oh, it’s perfectly legal,” Roland assured her. “This is all stuff that is cheap enough in Gruinmarkt and Soffmarkt or the other kingdoms of the coast and wants shipping to the Outer Kingdom—that would be California and Oregon—on this side. On the other side, there are no railroads or airports and cargo has to go by mule train across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Which are full of nomad tribes, so it takes months and is pretty risky. We bring our goods across to this side, heavily padded, and ship them by FedEx.

The most valuable items in here are the sealed letters sent by the family post—we charge several times their weight in gold in return for a postal service that crosses the continent in a week. We also move intelligence. Our western Clan members—the Wu family, formerly known as Arnesen, and braided with the eastern families—exchange information with us. By coordinating our efforts, we can protect our traditional shipping on the other side from large bandit tribes like the Apache. It also helps us exert political leverage beyond our numbers. For example, if the Emperor Outside dies and there is a succession struggle, we can loan the Wu family funds with which to ensure a favorable outcome and do so long before news would otherwise reach us across the continental divide.”

Miriam’s eyes were nearly bulging as she tried to make sense of this. “You mean there’s no *telegraph*?” she asked.

“We *are* the telegraph,” he told her. “As for the rest of what’s in these suitcases, it’s mostly stuff that only comes from the east and is expensive in the west. Like, for example, diamonds from India. They’re expensive enough in the Gruinmarkt and almost impossible to get in the Outer Kingdom—it’s much cheaper to ship them across the Boreal Ocean by barque than the western ocean by junk, especially since the Mongols refuse to trade with the east. Or penicillin. The ability to guarantee that a prince’s wife will not die of childbed fever is worth more than any amount of precious stones.”

“And going the other way…”

“More messages. More diplomatic intelligence. Spices and garnets and rubies and gold from the Outer Kingdom’s mines.”

Miriam nodded. The elevator doors opened onto the underground garage, and she followed him out into the concrete maze.

Several vehicles were parked there, including a long black Mercedes limousine—and her own slightly battered Saturn. Roland headed for the Merc. “Once we’ve fitted your car with some extras, you can use it—if you want,” he said. “But you can use any of the other cars here, too.”

Miriam shook her head, taking in a sleek Jaguar coupe parked behind a concrete column. “I’m not sure about that,” she murmured. What would it do for my independence? she wondered, watching as Roland opened the Mercedes’s trunk and lifted the suitcases into it. The two-million-dollar card in her purse was much more intoxicating than the wine last night, but didn’t feel as real. I’ll have to try it, she realized. But what if I get addicted?

The Mercedes was huge, black, and carried almost a ton of armor built into its smoothly gleaming bodywork. Miriam only realized this when she tried to open the passenger side door—it was heavy, and as it swung open she saw that the window was almost two inches thick and had a faint greenish tint. She sat down, pulled her seatbelt on, and tugged the door shut. It thudded into position as solidly as a bank vault.

“You’re serious about being attacked,” she said soberly.

“I don’t want to alarm you,” said Roland, “but the contents of those two suitcases are worth the equivalent of twenty million dollars each on the other side. And there are several hundred active family members that we know of—and possibly ones we don’t in hidden cells established by their family elders to gain a competitive edge over their rivals in the Clan. You’re unusual in that you’re a hidden one who was never intended to be hidden. The families in camera could raid us, and unless we took precautions we’d be sitting ducks. A young man like Vincenze—” he shrugged—“maybe a bit more mature. Waiting on a street corner. Can set off a bomb or walk up behind someone and shoot him, then just vanish into thin air. Unless there’s a doppelgänger on the other side or maybe a hill where over here there’s a cleared area, there’s no way of stopping that.”

“Twenty million.”

“At a very approximate exchange rate,” Roland offered, starting the engine. Bright daylight appeared from an electrically operated door at the top of the exit ramp. He put the Mercedes in gear and gently slid forward. “We’re fairly safe, though. This car has been customized by the same people that made Eduard Shevardnadze’s car. The President of the Republic of Georgia.”

“Should that mean something?” asked Miriam.

“Two RPG-7s, an antitank mine, and eighty rounds from a heavy machine gun. The passengers survived.”

#reading #fiction #books

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**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@c.im · Feb 27, 2024

Feb 27, 2024

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@c.im

@commander_la_freak @emeralddawn45

That's a new way to explain it, “frame rate”.

Most #scifi that touches on #ParallelWorlds and #TimeTravel use some sort of vibration or frequency. Even in the 90s Japanese #anime entitled #SerialExperimentsLain, it used the Schumann resonance to explain its plot. And of course in #Marvel and #DC they do the same.

But, yeah, I'm not sure either about it. Is there a way to find out which author/writer first thought of this idea? Or, was it based on a real-life theory that scifi authors picked-up independently? Or, was it Star Trek that created this approach?

(And again, that frame rate approach is great. ^_^)

**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@c.im · Feb 1, 2024

Feb 1, 2024

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@c.im

In #ToEveryYouIveLovedBefore (#僕が愛したすべての君へ) #anime #film, it posited that there are small “parallel shifts” that we don't notice. Say, you placed your keys on top of a drawer, the next moment it's not there; then it's back.

But I do notice it! :p

I've also been calling it “parallel shift” since I became aware of my own shifts in the 90s!

I even did experiments to somehow influence my shifts, or to force it. Little success. I mean, like 1 out of 10 attempts. ;)

#movies #ParallelWorld #ParallelTravel #Multiverse #ParallelWorlds #scifi #fiction #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics #MultipleWorlds @anime@chirp.social @anime@a.gup.pe

**Magpie Bridge** @Magpieboy@libretooth.gr · Jan 31, 2024

Jan 31, 2024

Magpie Bridge @Magpieboy@libretooth.gr

#parallelworlds #poem

https://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/02/decoupage-for-mind.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity

**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@c.im · May 23, 2023

May 23, 2023

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@c.im

The most common denominator in isekai (parallel worlds) and time travel scifi is: “each reality is vibrating in a unique frequency”.

It has been around since the 90s, from Japanese anime to Western live-action TV series.

How did it start? Who first used it? I have no idea. Maybe it started from DC or Marvel comics, or even earlier than that.

Nonetheless, it was the simplest idea (I think) to answer the question: “How can we detect if someone is from a different world/reality?”

And it actually works.

And maybe, just maybe, if alternate realities do exist, we do vibrate in different frequencies.

---

These are some of the fictional works that I remember (or I'm misremembering) which used this ‘theory’.

* Dual! Parallel World Trouble / Tenchi Muyo universe
* Serial Experiments Lain
* Star Trek
* Sliders
* Fringe
* The Flash

What else? Do you remember any?

#scifi #ScienceFiction #isekai (#ParallelWorld / #ParallelWorlds) #TimeTravel #Multiverse #Omniverse #Panverse #Kolverse

#DualParallelWorldTrouble / #TenchiMuyo universe #SerialExperimentsLain #StarTrek #Sliders #Fringe #TheFlash

@tv@chirp.social @tv@a.gup.pe

**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@pixelfed.social · May 20, 2023

May 20, 2023

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@pixelfed.social

Season 04 Episode 11 of Fringe featured the meeting of the two Agent Astrid Farnsworth, one an autistic and the other neurotypical.

This episode aired on 2012-02-04 and entitled “Making Angels”.

The autistic Agent Astrid Farnsworth came from the “Amber World” (the parallel world), and the NT Astrid is from the “Prime World” (our world basically).

The character is, I would say “basic” as far as portrayal of an autistic person. Some would say it's a stereotype. But I like her nonetheless because it was not exaggerated, and the focus was not on her autism instead it was about her many skills.

And in this episode, we saw through her that autistic people are humans too. That we have our own struggles, we do cry and feel emotions (contrary to the claims that we lack it), and we just want to live like everyone else.

---

The autistic Astrid was introduced in season 2 (2009–2010). The actress, Jasika Nicole, was praised for her performance of both the neurotypical and the autistic Agent Astrid.

How about you, what do you think of her character? How was the performance (specifically with autistic Astrid)?

#Fringe #Autistic #Autism #AutismSpectrum #Neurotypical #SciFi #TV #ScienceFiction #Isekai #ParallelWorlds #ParallelWorld #Autistics #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyAutistics

@youronlyone@c.im @youronlyone@calckey.social @youronlyone@zotum.net @youronlyone@hashi.icu

A screengrab of a Fringe episode showing neurotypical Agent Astrid Farnsworth from the Prime World.

A screengrab from a Fringe episode showing autistic Agent Astrid Farnsworth from the Amber World.

A screengrab from a Fringe episode showing the first meeting of autistic Agent Astrid Farnsworth, from the Amber World, and neurotypical Agent Astrid Farnsworth, from the Prime World.

In the background are Doctor Walter Bishop and FBI Detective Olivia Dunham.

A screengrab from a Fringe episode showing autistic Agent Astrid Farnsworth, from the Amber World, and neurotypical Agent Astrid Farnsworth, from the Prime World, saying their goodbyes.

In the background is an unnamed FBI security escort, and the Olivia Dunham from the Amber World.

**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@c.im · May 20, 2023

May 20, 2023

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@c.im

Season 04 Episode 11 of Fringe featured the meeting of the two Agent Astrid Farnsworth, one an autistic and the other neurotypical.

This episode aired on 2012-02-04 and entitled “Making Angels”.

The autistic Agent Astrid Farnsworth came from the “Amber World” (the parallel world), and the NT Astrid is from the “Prime World” (our world basically).

The character is, I would say “basic” as far as portrayal of an autistic person. Some would say it's a stereotype. But I like her nonetheless because it was not exaggerated, and the focus was not on her autism instead it was about her many skills.

And in this episode, we saw through her that autistic people are humans too. That we have our own struggles, we do cry and feel emotions (contrary to the claims that we lack it), and we just want to live like everyone else.

---

The autistic Astrid was introduced in season 2 (2009–2010). The actress, Jasika Nicole, was praised for her performance of both the neurotypical and the autistic Agent Astrid.

How about you, what do you think of her character? How was the performance (specifically with autistic Astrid)?

#Fringe #Autistic #Autism #AutismSpectrum #Neurotypical #SciFi #TV #ScienceFiction #Isekai #ParallelWorlds #ParallelWorld #Autistics #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyAutistics

@actuallyautistic @autistics
@tv@chirp.social @tv@a.gup.pe

**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@c.im · May 19, 2023

May 19, 2023

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@c.im

“He was digging for #mastodon bones…” ~Sam Weiss, #Fringe s03e21 “The Last Sam Weiss”.

Aired on: 2011-04-30

#TV #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Isekai #ParallelWorlds #ParallelWorld

@scifi @tv@chirp.social @tv@a.gup.pe @sciencefiction

A screengrab of a scene from Fringe season 3 episode 21 where Sam Weiss said, “He was digging for mastodon bones…”

**Liminal Fiction** @liminalfiction@mastodon.otherworldsink.com · May 14, 2023

May 14, 2023

Liminal Fiction @liminalfiction@mastodon.otherworldsink.com

How is it that in many parallel worlds stories, all the same people are there but with different relationships? That always bugs the heck outta me.

series of parallel Earths in space - deposit photos

#Reader #Readers #Discussion

**Yuki (스노 雪亮)** @youronlyone@calckey.social · May 4, 2023

May 4, 2023

Yuki (스노 雪亮) @youronlyone@calckey.social

We are seriously lacking new live-action TV series and movies related to isekai (parallel world).

I've watched every English title in every listicle I can find through search. I'm currently going through the remaining Korean titles I still have in my watchlist.

Parallel world, or isekai, doesn't have to be science fiction, it can be fantasy. I guess it's easier to write time travel stories? While I love time travel―especially if its time travel is complex—parallel world stories are more interesting.

More!

PS When it comes to books, we have plenty. But there are times when I just want watch.

#isekai #ParallelWorld #LiveAction #TV #movies #films #ParallelWorlds #scifi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy

@tv@chirp.social @tv@a.gup.pe @movies@chirp.social @movies@a.gup.pe

**Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한** @youronlyone@c.im · Mar 22, 2023

Mar 22, 2023

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 @youronlyone@c.im

I asked ChatGPT on 2023-03-23 to write a story about an open-source machine that can travel through space, time, parallel worlds, and the multiverse. I also asked it to dedicate its work to the Public Domain through Creative Commons Public Dedication (CC0 / CCzero), and it did.

Here is the story dedicated to the Public Domain.

See…
1: https://write.as/yuki/the-open-source-portal-adventures-across-the-multiverse

2: https://fediverse.blog/~/WhenSnowFalls/The%20Open-Source%20Portal:%20Adventures%20Across%20the%20Multiverse

… for the story.

Screenshots of the ChatGPT session, as well as the Public Domain dedication, can be found here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/544297505707795557

Yuki's HævenThe Open-Source Portal: Adventures Across the MultiverseA public domain story written by the ChatGPT AI. I asked ChatGPT on 2023-03-23 to write a story about an open-source machine that can travel through space, time, parallel worlds, and the mul...

#PublicDomain #CC0 #CCzero

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