mariner

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astronomer, sci fi/dark fiction author @ https://ko-fi.com/marinerwrites repost heavy, sometimes post film/tv stills he/him 🏳️‍🌈

A warm, dimly lit scene featuring a man slumped in a chair by a fireplace. He is framed by a partially-opened door. Behind him, stacks of books tower to the edge of the doorway. The man appears completely lost within himself and the dancing light of the fire, giving the scene a sad, haunting mood.
A mustachioed character is seen framed by firelit embers. The scene is warm but, thanks to the character's pensive expression, also has a strangely mysterious and foreboding mood.
A dark, gloomy scene of a Venetian canal at dusk. Three gondolas glide through the glassy water, illuminated just barely by lanterns at the fronts of the boats. They are passing under a dark bridge; the rest of the scene is unlit, and no detail can be made out.
A scene featuring two men standing in a largely empty white room. The floor is highly reflective. One man sits in an ornate chair, looking out the panoramic floor-to-ceiling window. The other man stands with his arms behind his back, as if awaiting orders or perhaps pondering the view as well. To the right is a black grand piano. Outside the window is a scenic lake with mountains rolling into the distance, small waterfalls pouring off their faces. The scene is calm and thoughtful, carefully composed to emphasize the smallness of both characters.
A frame featuring a man in a green shirt. On both of his temples is a wire, lit up in equidistant segments, implying a transfer of some kind is happening. Behind and to the right of the man, a computer screen is lit up in blue, with orange buttons below the screen. The man's face is covered in shiny sweat, as whatever transfer is occurring seems to be taking a massive toll on him. The rest of the frame is a dark background.
A dark frame featuring a prismatic view of three characters. In the center of the frame is a young woman with red hair and an afraid expression. Around her are slices of the scene around her, as if viewed through a kaleidoscope. To her left and right are two other indistinct characters, each holding flashlights. The characters and flashlight beams are also split in a kaleidoscopic effect. The overall mood of the scene is tense and uncertain, as the perspective is from that of an alien entity---the characters looking at it, it looking back at them.
In the off-white interior of a spaceship, a group is gathered around a central circular table. The air is dim and hazy, tinged slightly yellow from the ring light above the table. The mood seems quiet and tense, as if the ice between the characters has not yet been broken. There is hardly any space left on the table amidst the characters' food and possessions. Above the central ring light, three blue television screens display static. There are no windows, giving the scene a distinctly claustrophobic and intimate feeling.
A crashed, horseshoe-shaped ship rests on the surface of a planet. The scene is misty, dark, and overwhelmingly foreboding, as the ship looks distinctly inhuman in origin. The scene is illuminated from the left in a soft cyan light; to the left, the twin "arms" of the ship almost disappear into the darkness of the night.
a spaceship approaches a derelict space station, which is floating in the middle distance. far above, golden-orange rings circle the planet. the planet is just visible below; thick clouds prevent any clear view of the surface.