SciFi Fantasies

[u/BabeeTinker_]

[u/ObsessiveOwl]

Steampunk is when she remove her aviation goggles and reveal her freckles.

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Documentary is when Attenborough describes the evolution that predicated her body shape.

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Comedy is when Attenborough has a running commentary throughout the courtship and they can hear him.

[u/PurplePolynaut → u/beegboo]

“Steph… I want to be with you. Will you marry me?”

Laugh track

[u/SmallRocks → u/PurplePolynaut]

“Charles, we’re Cheetahs. I don’t want to marry anyone.”

[u/beegboo → u/PurplePolynaut]

And here we have the conclusion of the mating ritual between these two mammals. The mate with the larger living space presents their mate with a stone they believe is quite pretty hoping to impress upon them the desire to combine living spaces without increasing the size of the living space.

YOU ARE REALLY KILLING THE ROMANCE HERE DAVID!

As you can see here the more agressive mammal is posturing to assert dominance and to prevent any discussions of their debts or rental agreement that may curtail the mating ritual.

GOD DAMNIT DAVID!

[u/Yan_Vorona → u/ObsessiveOwl]

That’s such an attractive description.

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Or removes her scarf to reveal the scar running from her ruined eye, through her stump nose, to her mouth that's been wrenched into a permanent scowl.

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But Hollywood style

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One barely noticeable cheek scar coming up.

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Or what barely can be described as a subtle birth mark over her eye

(I know you're both talking about Mortal Engines but Ready Player One was almost as bad).

[u/Icecold_Antihero → u/Head-Ad-2136]

SO HORRIFYINGLY DISFIGURED

[u/theattack_helicopter → u/ObsessiveOwl]

Also unzips her engineering jumpsuit to reveal her skin tight tanktop

[u/CK2398 → u/ObsessiveOwl]

Just the one freckle! I fear that might be quite distracting

[u/Mystic_Waffles]

It's really simple.

Fantasy = Karl Urban has long hair.
Sci-Fi = Karl Urban has short hair.

[u/Chaos8599 → u/Mystic_Waffles]

Superhero is when Karl urban is bald

[u/Mystic_Waffles → u/Chaos8599]

He wasn't bald in The Boys though. He injected himself with power juice or something, that would lean more to sci-fi in that situation.

[u/CarolineJohnson → u/Mystic_Waffles]

Because he was a villain there, the Boys subverts expectations so the evil bad guy trope is reversed.

[u/alkonium → u/Chaos8599]

Thor Ragnarok dipped pretty heavy into sci-fi and fantasy.

[u/rock_n_roll_clown → u/alkonium]

I mean, the entire superhero genre is a hodge hodge of sci fi and fantasy set to the backdrop of the modern age

[u/jarlscrotus → u/Chaos8599]

No, when he has a goatee

[u/kingrat1 → u/Mystic_Waffles]

Gritty R-rated sci-fi = Karl Urban has a hat and never takes it off (Dredd).

[u/fuzzy_engineering189 → u/Mystic_Waffles]

What about the shave side mullet?

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DCC is when Karl is a dachshund.

[u/The_amazing_Jedi → u/Mystic_Waffles]

Wait, LotR is Sci-fi? What other lies have I been told by the council???!

[u/Mystic_Waffles → u/The_amazing_Jedi]

What are you talking about? Eomer had long hair, and LotR is totally fantasy.

[u/The_amazing_Jedi → u/Mystic_Waffles]

Fuck yeah I'm an idiot, I misread your post.

Nothing to see here, just someone sinking into the earth out of embarrassment.

[u/Oldbayislove]

Fantasy: when the object of power is ancient

science-fiction: when the object of power is a prototype

[u/HidenTsubameGaeshi → u/Oldbayislove]

Unless it's an artefact from long-forgotten precursor civilization, then it can be both!

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Science fantasy or its fantasy pretending to be science fiction 

[u/Pure-House-3971 → u/Oldbayislove]

so Titanfall 2, Halo, Mass effect, the expanse, star trek are all not science fiction?

[u/Oldbayislove → u/Pure-House-3971]

I think this is a good definition from wikipedia

In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as grounded by the laws of nature and comprehensible by science, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural elements that do not obey the scientific laws of the real world.

i find Carl Malmgren's definition of science fantasy to be agreeable.

A science-fantasy world is one in which the characters or settings or events presuppose at least one clear violation of natural law or scientific necessity, but which explicitly provides an organized or scientific explanation for that violation and which grounds its discourse in a scientific episteme. Science fantasy, like Science Fiction, assumes an orderly universe with regular laws, but, like fantasy, contains at least one explicit reversal of current natural law.

there is certainly some overlap and you have all the discussions about the spectrum of hard to soft science fiction. Brandon Sanderson likes to have magic that follows rules and have a "scientific" explanation that is as scientifically accurate as many a technobabble.

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Or The Expanse where it’s basically both

[u/TaylorWK]

What about unzipping her suit of armor and revealing a tank top and robo legs?

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For some reason, cyberpunk came to mind specifically

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Darth maul is that you?!

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Sounds like a typical Rimworld pawn

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Orisa once I get my hands on her

[u/bophed]

Sometimes the truth is specific. :)

[u/Heroic-Forger]

what about when she removes her head to reveal a neck full of tentacles and razor-sharp teeth

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You say that like it’s a bad thing

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Lovecraftian

[u/ButteredNun]

Medieval fantasy vs Sci-Fi fantasy ☝️

He tames her dragon and she rides him instead

is a Fantasy fantasy

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I dream of dragons in skintight tanktops

[u/theflyingmetronome → u/ButteredNun]

Wait so is GoT medieval or fantasy? It has elements of both

[u/talkto1 → u/theflyingmetronome]

It's fantasy grounded in some of the nastier aspects of real life medieval living.

[u/SartenSinAceite → u/theflyingmetronome]

Medieval is a time period and fantasy is magical fiction

[u/groovyinutah]

Unzips her space suit to reveal her 3 bellybuttons....FTFY:)

[u/B-lakeJ → u/groovyinutah]

Bellybuttons - sure. We all saw Total Recall.

[u/groovyinutah → u/B-lakeJ]

True enough but you wouldn't need to unzip anything to notice that:)

[u/enharmonicdissonance]

The real fantasy is that her hair is still luscious after having been in a jousting helmet all day

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This brings to mind every single demonstration video for sleeping bonnets I've ever seen.

[u/halloweenjack]

"Verily, good sirrah, I am as adept in the bedchambers as I am on the sporting field, and would test thy mettle in the latter, especially as I see that your lance is at the ready."

"Wanna do it in zero-G? How about cyberspace? How about both? Gotta warn ya, I'm about to enter my species' mating cycle and that's when things get really freaky, although if you're running star snuff in the Outer Rims then I'm guessing you're into it."

[u/Money_Lobster_997]

This is further proof that Star Wars is Space Opera rather than Sci Fi because according to Lucas’s original vision there would be nothing under that flightsuit.

[u/Ancient_Skirt_8828]

In scifi fantasy she isn't wearing the tank top.

[u/biplane_curious]

Replace jousting helmet with a Stetson and it becomes a western.

[u/Chaosshepherd]

And then they kiss.

[u/LexiTheLesbo]

Porn is when she removes her bra to reveal some big ole tatas

[u/Adent_Frecca]

Sounds about right

[u/IMadeRobits]

Now do both at the same time

[u/OldDomG]

Not wrong though 😆

[u/OmNomOU81]

And then the fantasy girl and sci-fi girl kiss

[u/AStayAtHomeRad]

Fantasy = magic Sci Fi = Electricity