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Things We Saw Today: Twitter Explains the Difference Between Sci-Fi and Fantasy the Only Way It Knows How: With Memes

Hope this helps.

Vivian Kane

Published: Sep 26, 2022 05:48 pm

Twitter has gotten into the age-old discussion of what constitutes the line between sci-fi and fantasy. If you’ve ever found yourself not quite clear on which is which, have no fear, a new meme is here:

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Lemme clear it up for you. Sci-fi is when your currency is called credits, and fantasy is when it's called coin.
— ?? ??????? – AVC out NOW???? (@dcgrodz) September 23, 2022

Let me clear it up for you. Sci fi is when you have a sword made of light because the author believes that’s possible, and fantasy is when you have a sword made of light because the author believes that’s impossible. Hope this helps.
— Joe Sondow (@JoeSondow) September 25, 2022

Scifi is when the organization is based on a geek's misconceptions about the Navy.

Fantasy is when the organization is based on a geek's misconceptions about European feudalism.
— @[email protected] (@Judd_of_Kryos) September 25, 2022

sci fi is when your boyfriend looks like this / fantasy is when your boyfriend looks like this pic.twitter.com/U8DDHiPzWP
— Ron Chan (@RonDanChan) September 25, 2022

No, no. Fantasy is when you really want to fuck an elf, and sci-fi is when you really want to fuck a robot. Hope this helps.
— Jessica Ritchey (jmritchey.bsky.social) (@Ruby_Stevens) September 21, 2022

scifi is when the dive bar is a cantina, fantasy is when the dive bar is a tavern
— klaudia (@kaludiasays) September 23, 2022

Fantasy is when there's an entire chapter dedicated to describing food, sci-fi is when there's an entire chapter dedicated to describing transportation.
— Carly Lane-Perry (@carlylane) September 23, 2022

sci-fi is when you have this pedro pascal; fantasy is when you have that pedro pascal pic.twitter.com/BNrEXp8OBt
— Ly ? (@spoiler4you) September 25, 2022

Let me end this debate forever: fantasy is when Christopher Lee looks like this and sci-fi is when Christopher Lee looks like this pic.twitter.com/6JKvJcbOdl
— Anthony (@edgewalker81) September 23, 2022

Of course, the best memes are the ones that cut extremely (and accurately) deep:

Fantasy is when you pretend Black ppl didn't exist in the past and sci-fi is when you pretend Black people won't exist in the future
— adrianne⁷ GOT HIT BY A TRUCK? (@writersrepublic) September 24, 2022

Fantasy is when Black people are told they’re historically inaccurate, sci-fi is when Black people are told “it’s woke garbage” they exist
— ✨DEI With Attitude Austin✨ (@sailorsctaustin) September 24, 2022

Lemme clear it up for you. Sci-fi is when disabilities signal societal collapse, and fantasy is when they signal moral failure.
— The Tweedy Mutant (@the_tweedy) September 23, 2022

Fantasy is when you colonize ancient Asian culture and Sci-Fi is when you colonize futuristic Asian culture pic.twitter.com/pDsGsVe55y
— Kat Cho? (@KatCho) September 24, 2022

Hope this helps!

NASA is going to deliberately crash a spacecraft into a non-hazardous asteroid tonight. Rude. (via Space.com)
According to his own diaries, Alan Rickman almost quit the franchise that shall not be named multiple times. (via AV Club)
We don’t limit bi visibility to just one day; here are 10 sci-fi and fantasy books with bisexual protagonists. (via The Portalist)
The cast of The Last of Us is STACKED. (via Pajiba)

That was the night that the skeletons came to liiiife pic.twitter.com/AHJL57Wuqz
— ????? ??????? ?? (@EmmaTolkin) September 25, 2022

Italy is on track to install its first far-right-led government since WWII. (via HuffPost)
And in other (maybe slightly less important) foreign politics news, there is apparently a version of Doom that lets you “kill Margaret Thatcher” and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn got to play it. (via Indy 100)

Good job getting through Monday!

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Vivian Kane

Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.