Content Warnings: death and grief, horror themes, excessive but mild obscene language.Our last episode of the Strike Era has us reading "SCP-6001: Avalon" by T Rutherford! We talk about queer phenomenology, pacifism, the incarceration mindset, grief, and epistolary works. We also talk about unifying works of fan fiction, the joy of cats, and explicit vision statements.A glossary to the story for those unfamiliar with the SCP Wiki: https://beforethefuture.space/scp-6001-avalon-glossary/For images discussed in this episode, visit the episode page on our website.The SAG-AFTRA strike was a success! With our next episode, we'll be covering the film Star Trek: First Contact, available on Paramount+ or wherever you find films in your future utopia that has eliminated money. That episode was recorded before "Binti."Please give us a five-star review on iTunes! You can send us asks at https://cohost.org/beforethefuturecame or hail us at [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the show!Works Cited:Ahmed, S. (2020). Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Duke University Press.Asimov, I. (1942, April). Time pussy. Astounding Science Fiction, 29(2), 113.Brown, P. (2016). The Wild Robot. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.Harman, G. (2018). Object-Oriented Ontology: A new theory of everything. Pelican.Holmes, R. L. (2016). Pacifism: A philosophy of nonviolence. Bloomsbury Publishing.Okorafor, N. (2015). Binti. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.Rosenblatt, L. (1938). Literature as Exploration. D. Appleton-Century.Straczynski, J.M. (Writer & Producer). (1993-1998). Babylon 5 [TV Series]. Babylonian Productions, Inc., Synthetic Worlds, Ltd., Warner Bros. Television.Before the Future Came is edited by Lucy Arnold, transcribed by Melissa Avery-Weir, and webmavened by Gregory Avery-Weir.Our theme is “Let’s Pretend” by Josh Woodward, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.