If all you have is an idea, then a little encouragement is all you will need. So if there’s something going on (or did go on) in the world of SF, fantasy and horror in Australia that you’d like to share, please let us know. Gillian Pollack has been exploring early Aust SF through the works of Linebarger and Shute. This year’s highlights include Lachlan Walter’s ‘Dissecting SF’ series, time travel, flying cars and interviews with Shane Abbess, the Spierig Brothers, John Scalzi, Peter Hamilton and Thoraiya Dyer. Preference is given to non-fiction where some visuals are included. These include humorous pieces, serious articles and interviews. The Editors are interested in non-fiction between 5 words of interest to readers and writers of SF, fantasy and horror. Aurealis is published 10 times a year from February to November. and Dirk antagonizes him by escalating things and making it weird.Submissions are now open for non-fiction contributions for Aurealis in 2016. it's basically that interaction between Caliborn qnd Dirk where Caliborn is asking for "filthy smut" of like. if Cal is making Bro be obsessed with puppets, then "fine, but I will make it weirdly pornographic to spite you" seems like a very in character response. hell, I would even say that the reason for smuppets existing is perhaps because that's kind of how Dirk and Caliborn intersect. Caliborn is literally Jigsaw, complete with "I want to play a game" and the red spirals on the cheeks. all of it has so much more to do with Caliborn's traits and behavior. the puppets, and Saw shit, and even the implicit heteronormativity, hyper masculinity, and ultra violent behavior that was encouraged by Bro. after Gamzee had gotten his hands on Cal. bring cal." note was referenced in the note that Gamzee left for Terezi before she confronted Vriska. we see a bunch of weird puppets, and Saw-like notes left for Dave. we don't see Bro with an interest in cartoons, or building robots, or all of Dirk's stuff that he actually talks about with other people. Dirk doesn't have that much in common with Bro. Roxy and her drinking and hacking, Jane with her baking and pranking, Jake with his adventures and technology. if you compare the alpha kids and their interests to their guardian counterparts in the beta universe, it's pretty one-to-one. and the aesthetic backdrop of Dave's home makes a grim suggestion about who might be prevailing in that war. they really are like siblings in my eyes, and a brother/sister (respectively) is exactly what they both need.Īs it stands, Dave's upbringing was the result of a silent war for control that was going on in his household, without Dave even necessarily knowing about it. they're sympathetic to that, in their own dumb teenagery way. but they also know enough not to make each other feel threatened by the degradation of their defenses. they see each other's walls, and pick at them a little because they want to know what's behind all that defense. and knowing each other is good for Rose and Dave. she mimics the enigmatic qualities that she sees in Mom, because Rose wants to understand her. he mimics the "bro culture" that his Bro values, because he's trying to live up to him. and it results in the personas they show us in the beginning of the comic. in both cases, they feel like they are being rejected, implicitly, by their guardians. this makes Rose feel like she has no value, and she cannot get Mom's attention because nothing she does is enough. meanwhile, Rose feels like her Mom doesn't expect much of anything from her, doesn't understand her, and barely gives her the time of day. this makes Dave feel like his actual identity is irrelevant, and discardable. Dave feels like his Bro expects him to be something that he legitimately doesn't want to be, aka, some sort of legendary hero. Dave Strider and Rose Lalonde both have issues with their parental figures that make them into defensive people overall.
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