#What is better than a tardigrade?

[iamthekaijuking]

Assorted Armored Core 6 thoughts

1: Iguazu as a character is just so fucking funny to me. Like here’s this pathetic little petty piece of shit who wants to be hot stuff but isn’t due to his own personal faults, and gets mad when he’s inevitably shown up. And then you come along and are better than him (which isn’t a high bar… I mean come on even his AC build is less than optimal) and for some reason that makes him lose his shit and now he hates you so much he’s willing to kill himself if it means killing you. Of all the people that broke him it was you, C4 621, Waltuh’s favorite little vegetable lobotomite. Michigan should have technically gotten that hatred out of him but no it’s you he hates.

2: I’ve seen some talk about what the “mealworms” the rubiconians eat are, and a lot of people think they’re tardigrades mutated by Coral, but I’d have to disagree. Coral isn’t a mutative substance, it’s just some anaerobic alien algae that explodes real good and can act like a supercomputer when in groups. It also might have a biochemistry toxic to humans since it can get us high and areas exposed to coral explosions are contaminated in some way, but it’s never been stated to directly tamper with genes. The anatomy of the mealworms also doesn’t match tardigrades that well and they only have a passing resemblance to them (their mouth anatomy is closer to that of a lamprey or hagfish, and they have too many legs). I think the mealworms might instead be alien fauna, but ones not native to rubicon that were instead brought in as livestock. Why not native to rubicon? Well the only other multicellular organisms we see in game are trees and grass that were almost certainly bought to rubicon by humans, and while rubicon 3 seems to be within the Goldilocks zone from its sun it’s definitely on the farther end of the spectrum. Every area (aside from grid, Xylem, underground, and atmospheric areas) has snow, except for where the Strider is seen, which is a desert. But desert doesn’t equal heat, it just means it’s a very dry place. Rubicon 3 might also not have a moon and we don’t know anything about its magnetosphere. Basically what I’m trying to say that rubicon 3 is a pretty tough place to live, and while multicellular life isn’t an impossibly given its conditions, it seems that the planet might only have microbial life.

3: A sort of follow up to the mealworm thing, but it seems like in the AC 6 universe humanity has discovered alien life, but never sapient ones. Any race other than humans is never mentioned, and coral is of human interest not because it’s an alien organism, but because it can act as a superfuel. Mealworms are likely also aliens. If this is all true then Coral might be the first truly sapient race encountered by humanity… and we’ve been using it as fuel and already almost rendered it extinct once… oops.

#armored core #armored core 6

[woodsfae]

Star Trek the original series: blessed, the mother of fandom, better and worse than you remembered

The Animated Series: what?

The Next Generation: iconic, set up much of what people think of as quintessentially Star Trek, better than my childhood memories.

Deep Space 9: most interesting premise and characters I didn't appreciate till my mid twenties. Excellent use of war criminals.

Voyager: has permanent custody of my single brain cell. Everything I love is because it's perfect. Everything I hate is Rick Berman's fault.

Enterprise: the Enterprise in my head is not the Enterprise that plays on the television.

Discovery: the best live action NuTrek, fight me. I would die for Michael Burnham. TARDIGRADES

The Orville: TNG's bastard lovechild, more Trek than Trek.

Picard: fanfiction I don't like.

Lower Decks: So good I can only assume CBS forgot about it. Please please please keep letting them do their thing.

Prodigy: CBS's redheaded stepchild whom I have adopted.

Strange New Worlds: fanfiction I do like.

#star trek #the masterlist that will probably make everyone mad at me 😜 #woodsfae

[hanafarook]

"Poetry Was Always Evolutionary"

I always held a deep seated angst about poetry being a dying artform and me   honing my skills in the said dying artform.

The more waves of constant technological upgrade and fast paced lives that required less and less attention span came about, the more convinced I was and (wholeheartedly even) that I was on a tragic cruise ship bound to sink much like titanic. 

I could've been an artist who painted or something that engaged people long enough but noooo I had the sheer audacity to run around like a bull in a Spanish festival aka I was too charged with the fervor of old fashion ideas of literature and writing. 

There was no going back, if you're knee deep sinking in a quicksand, flailing your hands around is an even quicker way of upgrading your demise but of course if you couldn't stop Matthew McConaughey from his interstellar trip, you most certainly couldn't stop me. 

I, of course didn't realize the tragic quicksand-titanic trip until much later on and when I did it was too late to back out anyway. So I wanted to make it work like a mad scientist in a science fiction movie.

Poetry was kryptonite, it was both poison and medicine. It opened and sewed wounds, sunk people to its depths and also kept them afloat. The question isn't What was poetry? Where was poetry? The question is, what wasn't left untouched by it?  Everything that ever existed in this world and everything that could exist at any point in this world was all poetry and it was everywhere in every form.

Numbers were poetry, words were poetry, colors were poetry, sounds were poetry and the absence of those were also poetry.  All the ways of living and All the ways of dying were poetry - All tangible and intangible was poetry.  

That poetry changed so much throughout time and still carried with it, its essence that It moved people and created movements that were powerful enough to shake nations and bring the ordinary to the streets making it an extraordinary moment of history

That poetry scared me. 

It was a wave that took everyone and everything along with it, that wave was what engulfed me after which whether I was drowning or floating I wasn't the same again.  

All I ever thought was how poetry was going to die on me like a friend dies on you in a crucial moment in a zombie movie 

Come to think of it, poetry is either tardigrades or like hammerhead worms, somehow it just doesn't die and for the record, thinking that maybe artists were in a far better place than writers turned out to be somewhat wrong.  With, I'd like to call it, “the invasion of Ai” everyone that had any creative dwelling was doomed. 

What google bard would have the emotional capacity of …well, an emotionally wrecked Sylvia Plath ? What chatgpt could paint the madness of Picasso?  No matter how far and the speed with which we're catapulting into the future - I have hopes that poetry and Art  will evolve rapidly and exist like the science fiction tardigrade it is. 

(Ps: tardigrades are real, don't be stupid! And cute if you squint through a microscope.)

- Haná Farook, "Poetry Was Always Evolutionary"

#hanafarook #spilled thoughts #writers on tumblr #spilled emotions #poetry #writers #writeblr #poets on tumblr #poetsofinstagram #new poets society #poetically speaking #poetic

[cybergoth-damsel]

The idea of Scarg Pilgries re-existing as an updated, better/more cohesive story is so annoying because the original is such a slog to read but it's such a capsule of the way people talked about women, gaming, and anime in the 2010s. Like at least if you re-read it now (like I did last year) you have the historical hindsight of "Oh people liked this and thought it was really good/interesting/honest."

If the show does a lot of heavy lifting and is just good as a version of its story (like the movie was) I won't say that it's not "actually good", but I guess it's just weird to see something so mediocre tardigrade in a cultural vacuum until it gets resurrected enough times to be more good-than-bad. Ykwim? Like stories that suck (w hot women) get to try over and over until they actually live up to their own hype because of brand recognition - and I think some things should just exist once and be dead so we can talk about them as they once were and not what they ought to have been/will be.

#lab grown media #Not tagging this because I dont want anyone to think im taking a swing at them and reflexively biting me #Sorry KP kinnies I don't mean it okay go have your fun #It's not real I promise now go kiss girls okay. #<- not sarcastic start kissing women now

[theglasscat]

20 Questions for Writers

Tagged by @jennyandvastraflint

I love these things because I love talking about fan-fic

1. How many works do you have on A03?

I have 45.

2. What is your A03 word count?

162, 874. Jesus only that?

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Doctor Who but specifically The Paternoster Gange sub-fandom, Oz books, Steven Universe, The Owl House, The Dark Crystal extended universe. In high school I was really into Hellboy II.

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

1. In the Night We Trust ~ It was a week out from Eda's Requiem and I'm from SU fandom so I was shocked that there was yet to be smut about the two pining grown ass adults and apparently other fans felt this way too.

2. I Thought Maybe We Would Kiss Tonight ~ This one is also horny and about the same characters so the Kudos tracks.

3. Words - My Vastra/Jenny soulmate au. Good. I'm proud of this one.

4. Blankets ~ This one??? The first time I tried to write using my senses.

5. Courting Miss Flint ~ THIS ONE??? I had a crush on a friend in college and didn't know how to act on it. This story about violently anxious women is never going to be finished.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Sometimes, if there's enough to reply to. "Nice work!" I'll forget about probably even though I appreciate it, however "I like how you blah blah blah" will get something from me because I love talking process.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Uuuuhhhh. Of the ones I like, We Speak Our Vows and Sorry Whispers which is the Tavronica wedding fic.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Blackberry Stone will be I just need to finish it I swear I will finish it

8. Do you get hate on fics?

If I have I am not aware of it. At the time of my life when it would have hurt me the most I was oblivious to it and now it's just like "whatever, I'm not in charge of other people's feelings". On a side note this morning I realized I react to the word "cringe" in much the same vein as those tiktoks about Americans unable to take British gangsters with any seriousness.

9. Do you write smut? If so which kind?

Yes but I don't post as much as I'd like. I don't like to post smut for the sake of it even if I love when others do. I need it to be in character and have something to say about the characters.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest crossover you've ever written?

In general I despise reading crossovers. I will almost always skip unless I really like the author or I'm desperate for more of a character or rare pair.

By most insane do you mean meticulous like my Gentleman Jack/Doctor Who crossover "Never Meet Your Heroes" in which BBC's singular blue waistcoat for leading Victorian lesbians gets referenced?

Or least likely to crossover as in Wonder Woman 2017 and Pat Gang fic in which Etta gets some sword advice from some local spinsters on the eve of The Great War. It's called "Protect it With Your Life".

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of, but I wouldn't be surprised if my work has been farmed to sit in the belly of some great AI beast somewhere.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware of. If it has I can't think of the example at the moment.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No but I feel if I did I would just tweak the co-author's grammar and characterization and do nothing else. I take so long to write my own fic, I couldn't be accountable to handle another's work in a timely fashion.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

AU Dorzma. The rest are tardigrades being subjected to various violent science experiments.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Vastra/Jenny laundromat AU. I'm better at Victorian commentary than contemporary commentary.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Sensory writing. Keeping things in character.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Starting with a plot instead of a feeling

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I don't do this really but I'm a fan of using the << >>

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Coin toss for the original Oz books or Syfy's Tin Man (2007) when I was 13. Both were Scarecrow/Patchwork Girl.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

I Keep My Hands, 'Til You Come Into the Water ~ Missing Tavra and Onica and Tae scenes from J.M. Lee's The Dark Crystal Flames of Resistance which is so hyper specific but this is the one I like the most. It came out as I envisioned and wanted it with hardly any typos.

Tagging: @jeejyboard @ragdoll-ren @leiathewarrior @spaceuber @nabatute and anyone else who'd like to do this and of course you don't have to if you don't want to.

#long post #my fic

[sshbpodcast]

Star Trek Parents Just Don’t Understand (Part 2)

By Ames

Last week, you’ll remember we covered a whole lot of parents from the classic Star Trek series and just how much they tended to ruin their kids’ lives. Well, this week A Star to Steer Her By is finishing out the topic with parental units from currently running Trek series and the Kelvin movies. Expect this one to not be nearly as far reaching, partly because SPOILERS WILL ABOUND below the cut and partly because we’ve not covered much of this on the podcast yet, so frankly I don’t remember a good deal of it.

But some of our major players have or are noteworthy parents to talk about in this period of wide-screen Trek (seriously, everything looks like a movie now and it’s impacting my screengrab game). Give your parents a hug for us as you see them listed below and also in probably the most spoilery episode of the podcast we’ve ever recorded (discussion starts at 59:37). They only raised you from tadpoles.

(Again, some mega spoilers for Star Trek 2009, Discovery, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds, and especially [seriously!] Picard are below.)

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

Kelvin George Kirk

George Kirk was a parent to literally newborn James for all of thirty seconds before saving his life, Winona’s life, and the lives of the crewmembers of the USS Kelvin. While we have no idea if he’d have been any good at raising the youngster had he lived (apparently so since this alternate Kirk ended up being quite the ruffian compared to that walking stack of books from The Original Series), we know what he valued by his actions, his sacrifice, and his refusal to name him Tiberius.

Kelvin Sarek

In pretty much all timelines, Sarek is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to raising a half-Vulcan, half-human son like Spock. Why he can’t get it through that Vulcan bowlcut of his that having a child with a human will dilute that cherished green blood of theirs is absolutely beyond me. I thought you hobgoblins were supposed to be logical, after all. Maybe if Amanda hadn’t blown up, things would have gone better for Quinto-Spock.

Discovery Sarek

Speaking of Sarek, in Discovery we actually see that he very much seems to prefer raising his ward Michael Burnham to raising either of his natural sons. Go figure. Apparently all his progenies had to do was follow in his footsteps, join the Vulcan Academy, and literally have a chunk of his katra from a past mindmerge-thing for daddy to love them.

Gabrielle Burnham

Michael’s relationship with her birth parents is something much more complicated. This is Discovery, after all; “It’s complicated” is the subtitle of the series! When we learn that Gabrielle is still alive, having saved Michael by becoming the Red Angel, it’s a bittersweet reunion that can only be made stranger by their second reunion in the 32nd century when momma has become a space nun of some kind. As if Michael didn’t have enough of this Vulcan stuff growing up!

Voq and L’Rell

On the subject of space nuns, we learn that Voq and L’Rell’s child Tenavik got to be raised by some time monks in the Boreth Monastery. Which, frankly, is probably the best that kid could ask for! The combative Klingon Empire was no place to raise a baby, and good on his parents for finding a child-rearing solution that, at the very least, kept him alive. Ya know, after just a little bit of faking his death. Q'apla, I guess!

Stamets and Culber

What is sweeter and purer than two gay space dads mentoring a nonbinary sorta-Trill sorta-not adolescent? I didn’t realize that Adira is supposed to be 16 when we meet them (probably because the actor was like 23), but regardless of age, they are struggling with their identity in enough ways to make a Vulcan weep, and having the support of a nurturing queer family is just what they need.

Ephaim

An easy example of a good parent from the Discovery era comes in one of the Short Treks, “Ephaim and DOT.” Sure, she’s a tardigrade and mostly just following that biological impulse to keep one’s seed alive, but she does better than a lot of other Trek parents. Go, tardigrades, go!

Raffi Musiker

Moving on to Star Trek: Picard, we see another negligent parent in the conspiracy theory–obsessed Raffi Musiker. She might rival Worf as a parent whose absence has screwed up their kid the most, as we see that Gabriel is downright hostile to her when she tries to reconnect. And then in season 3, she yet again chooses Starfleet over her family. Perhaps we’re lucky we haven’t seen Alexander in Picard, since he and Gabriel could have some stories to tell.

Troi and Riker

Say what you will about the Troi-Riker relationship, but they seem to be doing pretty okay raising their daughter Kestra. She’s a nifty kid with her head on straight, so they must be doing something right. Also, it’s very clear throughout their appearances in Picard that these parents did everything they could to save their son Thaddeus from his mendaxic neurosclerosis, and his loss affected them in the way only losing a beloved child could.

Maurice and Yvette Picard

We were teased a bit in TNG with just enough information about Jean-Luc’s upbringing to let us know his relationship with his father was strained and that with his mother was loving, but then the second season of Picard had to go spelling things out for us in ways we didn’t really need. Maurice becomes that much more terrible because he evidently did nothing when Yvette was going down a dark path. And Yvette… what the hell were the writers trying to say about Yvette? Freakin’ yikes. 

Adam Soong

Also in season two of Picard, we get YET ANOTHER Soong ancestor for Brent Spiner to play, ya know, for reasons. Evidently all the Soongs except Data (see last week’s inclusion!) are just terrible parents because they’re effectively just trying to prolong their own legacy instead of actually caring for the needs and wants of the child. Kore, in this case, lives a life so sheltered she can’t even go outside without bursting into flames. Much like that whole damn season…

Teresa Ramirez

We do, however, get one solid parent in season two of Picard, and that’s Teresa Ramirez, the divorced mother who Rios is totally thirsty for. Actually, we don’t see a lot of children of divorce in Star Trek, do we? As we established last week, it’s far more likely to have one parent get killed off than it is to have people amicably separate because, of course, that makes for more drama. There’s Torres’s parents, and Rom and Prinadora but that’s just their Ferengi contract, and that might just be about it? Anyway, Teresa’s cool.

Jean-Luc Picard and Bev Crusher

Season three, however, is just a straight up family reunion show with lots more literal family members that get introduced to boot! Somewhere after Nemesis, evidently Bev and JL got down to clown and then Bev ran away and hid the pregnancy from him for however many years this boy is old. Sure, we all agree Picard would make a father that might rival Worf’s awkward sense of child neglect, but is Bev any better never telling him? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Geordi La Forge

Geordi’s been busy too, cranking out at least two daughters. Like Sarek’s relationship with his various kids, it seems much easier for Geordi to play favorites. Alandra is the favored daughter because she followed in his footsteps and seems like she was generally passive, while Sidney is the black sheep of the family and La Forge has trouble connecting with her because she can’t just be controlled like certain holoprograms I could name.

Carol Freeman

Let’s get out of Picard and into some animated stuff. The relationship between Captain Freeman and her daughter Beckett Mariner is at the core of Lower Decks, so much so that it’s kept secret from the rest of the crew for the drama of it all. Most of the show treats their relationship like ones we’ve seen before in which the child lashes out because they don’t want to follow in their parent’s footsteps. There is love there, but their failure to communicate does dominate.

The Diviner

In our other animated Trek, The Diviner definitely falls into that category of just the worst kind of parent because he will sacrifice Gwyn a hundred times over to get his way. He never listens to what she wants, chooses the Protostar over her, and leaves her to nearly get killed on vine planet. All this and the only reason he created her in the first place was to continue his work. Rude, bro.

Joseph M’Benga

Finally, we have Dr. M’Benga in Strange New Worlds, whose dedication to caring for his sick daughter Rukiya is admirable and incredibly sweet. Every time he reads fairy tales to her in sickbay is a beautiful little scene, and the end of “The Elysian Kingdom” is a tear jerker that we were honestly surprised to get so early in the run of the show. I kinda hope we see more from Rukiya in future, but who knows what’s written in these fantastical pages?

— We’re ducking out from this family reunion before someone whips out the photo album. Catch us next time for more, and definitely keep listening to our watchthrough of Voyager over on SoundCloud or wherever you get podcasts. You can also post family in-jokes on our Facebook and Twitter, and would it hurt to call once in a while?

#star trek #star trek podcast #podcast #parents #star trek 2009 #discovery #picard #lower decks #prodigy #strange new worlds #george kirk #sarek #gabrielle burnham #voq #l'rell #stamets #culber #ephaim #raffi #deanna troi #will riker #maurice picard #adam soong #teresa ramirez #jean-luc picard #beverly crusher #geordi la forge #carol freeman #the diviner #m'benga

[almalvo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY | S1E4 "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"

[I will react to each episode individually and in full, raw reception and then post as is unrevised here onto my tumblr for the full span of every and all NuTrek episodes and series that have been and will be released. If this falls under your field of interest - I welcome your company in joining me. Enjoy the ride.] -------

these effects are so pretty whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i love how that was a nanoscopic view on replication omlll what a wonderful uniform give it. to me. ugh i love this interiour hi saru man i cant wait for burnham to NOT be ostracised like this THREAD GANGLIA HMMM?? what. does he give himself away. when hes nervous. i love this screen. lorca youre a fun man huh. OOO WHAT IS THAT SPIDER HEAD WHO IS THATT i like his spider face oo how the lights just come on like this reminds me of the incredibles guess they have to save power SOMEhow. ugh these internals are so nice so spiffy

yeah i like the older bat'leth more right, his pet. lorca, the shroom man. yes a man with a name like lorca would indeed have em. war specialist hmm ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this INTROOOOO I CANT GET OVER ITTTTT now but like yall seriously to see a queen so crowned at long last - do you UNDERSTAND??? HOW THAT MAKES ME FEEL. ughhhh such a pretty introductionnnn and this music compliments so wonderfully but WAIT ALSO WHAWAIT HAHAHAHAH THOSE TSHOSE THOSE TWO SUITED GLOVED HANDS TOUCHING TOGETHER LIKE GOD AND ADAM. ARE YELLOW AND BLUE. UM UUMMMMMMMMMMM UUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ok ok breathe ok ok ok ok b r e a t h e . wheew ok . ok. ughhh these coloursss i really like how its all in klingon. cuz why wouldnt it. dude this fucking ROOMM theyre in is so gorgeous yeah im absolutely correct, lookin at this Xray view on the screen. fuckin space water bear THANK YOU BURNHAM YES

TARDIGRADE INDEED. fuckin galactic moss sucker. thats so intersting, to see an internal skeleton in a suped up tardigrade. you know. its funny. how nutrek starts off with what is literally my favourite animal since childhood. water bears for lyfe 👏 trek KNOWS im watching >;} hi stamets. im sorry bout your hubby :( ugh saru looks so good in any lighting. ah so lorca is "get it done" man is he ruder than "make it so" lolol ooo i like this klingon with the red stripes oh i love how convincing they make these inflections in klingon - they certainly put the care in to instil and preserve as much linguistic servicibility in their delivery - love it.

the warped DOWNwards hahah - but damn was it pretty ughhh these key shots are SOOO nice oml stamets are you ok?? ofc hes ok hes hard as steel. man im sry but watching this and seeing the tardigrade just gives me such a nostalgia wow that broken nose doc i see you talk, stamets. ugh keep elon musk out of this he didnt DO shit but be rich. "real life iron man" my ass. his ideas literally aint new. he just has the money to do stuff. ANYways. we dont give a fuck. back to what matters. IS WAIT IS THAT DID I JUST SEE CORRECTLY IS WHAT IS THAT ON THAT PLATTER ON THE TABLE WHY DOES THAT LOOK LIKE A DISSECTED TRIBBLE ? no. it better fucking not. ima kill a land orca... also this poor space bear.. alsso damn the way it just mauled the tactical officer. that sucks. but also i aint mad at the space bear for it. it just tryin to survive. UGHHHHH LOOK AT THISSSSS KLINGON IN ARMOUR UPSIDE DOWN WHY CANT WE GET A FUCKING GAME OF THIS CALIBRE STAR TREK IP PLEASE LETS GETS SOME DASTARD AAA GAMES IN THIS BITCH

man these klingon actors, i appreciate them so much to adorn this make up attire and speaking such a difficult tongue - fabulous. saru time ughh i cant wait to learn more about saru and cant wait till this animosity disa-fuckin-ppears. space bear better live after all this. it deserves that much. i hope it can have all the moss it can find. also wait are m;y eyes working is that a humanoid skeleton with a suspiciously reptilian looking skull and spikes on the back of its head. omll MY BOI IS EATIN THE SPORES?? wait MY BOI BEFRIENDING BURNHAM?? first contact lets GOOOOOOOOOOOO lower decks. hehe. ok sorry that was weird editing the outside shot of burnham talking to stamets is not aligned properly with her speech. awwwwwwwwwwwwww big baybeh so cuteeeeeeeeee i dont like the blur on the space bear among the mycelium though

awww it TALKS TO THE SHROOMS? oh my god please i love it i give it all my sentimental pets. also hey nice dragon fruit. the pale klingon has nice lashes pretteh boi whatever it is she just ate looks good ughhh these visuals outside of discovery are so nice awwww space bearrr so cuteeee UMMM THEY JUST STABBED HIS MILKERS sir they grippin his nonexistent nipples. sry but that girl screaming so mechanically was not the greatest lol also sorry but i really dont like how the shots when they zoom in from outside to into the birdge always end up blurry its hapened like 3 times now SPACE BEAR PECS ARE RED BRO STOP WHOA WHOA WHOAAAAA WHOAAAAA TH E SHIP JUST WARP ROLLED TFF whoa interstingggg i cant get mad a baby acting ofc ahhaha oml they did stab his milkers, not grab them. wtf. im so sorry. that is a waste of a padd. vengeful voq. hes not going to ally wiht the humans to reap vengence for the house of t'kuvma is he against kol.

these klingons are much more similar to the aos ones but the connection is likely not there. IS THAT A FUCKING GORN SKELETON IN THE CASE. IS IT. IS THAT WHAT MATURED GORN IN NUTREK LOOK LIKE. WHATEVER SNW'S XENOLIZARDS BECOME? they better fuckin have their dresses. aw sorry space bear. im sorry. me and you both, burnham. sylvia's delivery was a little fast on the mother joke hmm what did phllipa entrust to you. cant wait till burnham gets her starfleet badge. aw burnham SMILEE LET YOURSELF SMILEEE what is it. phillipa what is it. oml what is it. man bye mamma phillipa, ima miss you. WHAT IS IT. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the telescropeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuteee curious where nutrek will go. its got some odd goofs here and there but im not being too critical on them so much that the story is ruined - lets continue.

#star trek #star trek discovery #discovery #DISCO #nutrek #thoughts #text #reaction #almalvo

[safety-frog]

Your Weekly Tunes: Squid

It’s Gordon’s turn this week! His playlist wouldn’t be complete without some good island and year-round summer tunes.This one was crazy fun to put together and both Froggies think this is the best one we’ve made, so we’re stoked to share it with y’all! Hope you enjoy listening this week! 💛

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Under the cut are Gordon’s top five!:

Vacation: Dirty Heads- “ A-a-aye, I'm on vacation/ Every single day 'cause I love my occupation” and “Close my eyes sometimes it feels as if I float away/ I love the life, I live and enjoy the ride along the way/ "I make a living out of living,"/ Yeah, that's what I say/ I've got one life to live, and I wouldn't live it no other way”

Dirty Heads are all about the island rock sound. And who better to represent the first song in this list than them for our own resident island, good vibes Fish that loves what he does with a burning passion?

Could Have Been Me: The Struts- “ I wanna taste love and pain/ Wanna feel pride and shame/ I don't wanna take my time/ Don't wanna waste one line/ I wanna live better days/ Never look back and say/ It could have been me” and “Don't wanna live as an untold story/ Rather go out in a blaze of glory/ I can't hear you, I don't fear you”

Gordon is never one to pass up taking a chance, a risk, a maybe. If it turns out bad, then it turns out bad. If it turns out great, then it turns out great. If he never tries, he’s stuck with all the regret of not knowing and having fun while learning.

How Far I’ll Go: Auli’i Cravalho (Moana)- “ See the line where the sky meets the sea?/ It calls me/ And no one knows/ How far it goes” and “I'll be satisfied if I play along/ But the voice inside sings a different song/ What is wrong with me?”

 Moana meets Gordon Tracy? Jury says: heck yes!

History Maker: Dean Fujioka- “Can you hear my heartbeat?/ Tired of feeling never enough/ I close my eyes and tell myself/ That my dreams will come true” and “Don't stop us now, the moment of truth/ We were born to make history/ We'll make it happen, we'll turn it around/ Yes, we were born to make history”

Yes, this song is from a sports anime about ice skating. And yes, it fits scarily well with the pure devotion and strength Gordon holds towards and swimming, and simply being great.

Axolotl: Cosmo Sheldrake- “Scream and shout/ Trickle down and down/ I'll build a home at sea” and “Sailing seas in bathtubs green to grimy shores/ Waging war to wading fores/ And sway off course”

So, in all honesty, Cosmo Sheldrake songs can’t really be explained. They’re about kooky things: being a fly or tardigrade, breakfast items, mushrooms, and whatever else Alice-in-Wonderland thing you can think of. This one always felt in line with the odd boy that Gordon is in the best of ways!

#thunderbirds #thunderbirds 2015 #thunderbirds are go #thunderfam #gordon tracy #music #playlists

[lynnnshooty]

Truly, being a tardigrade is a boon unparalleled by any gift humanity could aspire to. Man only has so long in this world, and any mistake could bring a cruel and swift end. Unlike Man, I have the time to learn and do, and any mistake I may make carries far less risk than that of Man. Some may say my life holds little meaning, for the effect I have on the world is negligible, but I say that is for the better. Man holds the power of the world at their fingertips, and hence the power to destroy it, but what of me? The world cares not if I swim this way or that way, and so I am free.

#i was dfucking atound on character.ai last night #asking socrates about bloodborne and shit like that #yknow #for fun #and i wrote this in response when one of them asked me if being a tardigrade hindered my ability to achieve my dreams #my dreams being to live everywhere and eat microscopic organisms #the concept of an enlightened and well spoken tardigrade just cracks me up

[canyouhearthelight]

The Miys, Ch. 192

Queue lives forever!!

This is the second half of the previous chapter, and the intensity only picks up from the end of Ch. 191. It never would have happened if @baelpenrose hadn’t asked me to explain why someone was acting oddly, so all credit goes to him. All in all, I definitely think it made the entire story better.

It took less than a jiffy for my mind to account for what Eino’s replacement - a former warlord - would do in the next four months, four years, forty years. Aggressive but intelligent defense. Cultivating resources. Little to no mercy for those who forsook our survival.

The temptation to sustain the motion sat heavily on my tongue, but I made a point to speak before anyone else surrendered to the temptation. “Eino,” I squeaked before clearing my throat. “Eino.” Much better. “I know that this is a drastic change in what we were led to believe, but I need you to hear me out.” When he went to speak, I held up a hand. “Just hear me out. I’m not asking you to agree, just listen. You are free to make up your own mind after that, okay?”

He spread his hands at the Council. “I have no real choice, do I?”

“My instincts tell me that, if you consider all the information and still believe that the Galactic Council is acting in our best interest, it will at least be considered a well-informed belief.” Granted, after all this, we may think you’re insane, I thought privately. But at least we’ll know if you still want to hurdle into extinction headlong.

“Then I will listen.”

“Great.” I forced a smile before calling up a recording from several months prior. “This is a record of myself and - and Noah. Before we dropped back into real space. This is public record, as it occurred in a corridor, so you can all verify it at your leisure.  I’m sure someone can find a data analyst who isn’t fond of me and will be willing to take a swing at it.”

Eino scoffed, but Xiomara just stared at him. “I promise you, I can name four off the top of my head who aren’t terribly happy about learning to weave garments.  I also have a terrorist watch list you can pick from.”

He blanched, and I took that as a queue to play the recording. The entire Council, with the exception of Pranav - who had already seen the footage - gave various displays of curiosity regarding the relevance of the clip, right up until the end.  Grey looked the most curious, so I waved to them. “Feel free to zoom in. I’m sure everyone else wants to.”

As soon as they did, I gestured at the image. “This is Odvub. In their natural former, they are one tenth the size of a tardigrade. They are also so fragile that they die if you stare at them too hard.  You heard the information from the record - they mature, reproduce, and then join the singularity hive mind that runs the network that the Galactic Community uses on a day to day basis.”

I got several skeptical looks, not just from Eino. “I know, I know,” I rolled my eyes. “Doesn’t seem relevant yet. Promise, it will make sense.” With a deep breath, I called up my next piece of information. “This is the data that Pranav was able to copy from one of the Eko-Mari ambassadors while they were preoccupied being rude as hell.  Derek has been working on decoding it, which I am sure everyone in this room can agree is something that he is our top mind at doing.” Nods all around, including our wayward Finn. Time for more show and tell. “I can send you all the clip for evidence, but short story is that Derek found an error that kept repeating within the code. No rhyme or reason, except that it was particularly long and he couldn’t figure out how to filter it out. So, he came to me for a break, some food, and a wall to bounce ideas off of.”

I queued up the particular string of code. “This is the error. We were able to figure out that it repeats exactly, even when attached to disparate forms of data, and wasn’t consistently attached to data we shouldn’t have.”

“So it was deliberately placed there?” Xiomara leaned forward in curiosity, completely forgetting that I was making a plea with Eino.

I just shrugged. “It made sense as a possibility. Eino, I need you to request that this string of code be run through any and every translation protocol available on the Ark.” I flicked the string of code to him.

He carefully made sure it was the same characters showing in the emitter, then closed his eyes. “Ark. Can  you please translate this data code through every known language in every possible combination available?”

What followed was a lesson in slow torture. Eino sat for twenty solid minutes, with his eyes closed and doing breathing exercises while the translation ran.  I honestly thought he had fallen asleep, except that his eyes snapped open and alert as soon as the signal sounded to let us know the translation was complete.

No hesitation. “Display results on all human-preceptible channels,” he asked, staring me down.  I just blinked calmly, channeling Mac, as the room filled with holographic smog.  Eino sputtered, only getting more incensed as someone laughed. “Sophia, what is this!?”

“Zoom in,” I suggested. “A lot. A lot lot.”  Slowly, the images grew and resolved. I was able to finally see that Huynh was the one expanding the image as quickly as he could, twitching as a sound appeared. “Bear in mind, you’re enhancing on all channels.”

Seeing and hearing it for the second time only made the experience better, I found. Partially the sweetness of the anticipation, but also the delight in seeing everyone else see it at the same time.  Xiomara’s wistful gaze, Grey’s volcanic curiosity… both were dwarfed by Eino.

He was in nothing less than absolute rapture. “They are snow,” he whispered hoarsely. “They are living snow… so delicate, so brief.” His eyes closed and his head tipped back slowly.

Immediately I knew that he recognized the same sound that I had.

“Eino,” I begged gently. “This is the Odvub. They left the string of code that has been baffling Derek.”

“What is the information?” he croaked, eyes still closed.

“The Terran data.” I knew this was something of a hard sell, but I put every ounce of my people skills into it. “From Before, After, and everything in the century since we left.  Not just our data, but the data that the Galactic Community extrapolated from it.  That’s why not all of it would translate, because until we realized what the code was, there was no way to separate it from information that needs to filter several times. Because some of it isn’t from us, or for us, because we were never meant to see it.”

To my horror, that was the moment he realized that I was telling the truth. Not because he looked like he agreed, but because he looked like he was pleading guilty to a murder spree when he asked the next question. “And have you determined what that data is regarding?”

Dammit. “Not yet,” I admitted. “Derek and I only figured out the connection to Odvub a few hours ago - literally late last night - and after taking a swing at some of the newer data, he refused to continue.”

“He wasn’t tired?”

“I wish.” I found myself staring at my hands. “He took my cat, a whole plate of cookies, most of my blankets, and headed to a medbay on Level Fourteen.” High risk, violent patient was the unstated implication.

After a painful looking wince and gulp, Eino fixed his gaze on the Odvub. “Thank you. Admittedly, I was focused on the idea that any community that could span so many worlds would be enlightened enough to see the bigger picture. And they may yet still.” His head started shaking side to side, eyes never leaving the image. “But right now, that belief is clearly like unto an ant worshipping a human. We are pests to them.  I withdraw any objections.”

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#the miys #found family #humans are weird #science fiction #aliens #apocalypse #humans are space orcs #humans are space fae #earth is space australia #post apocalypse #post post apocalypse #original science fiction #original sci fi #original writing

[dbssh]

1.) how would you describe the world your story takes place in? I hope you feel better also

i tend to describe it as anachronistic magical mid-2000s. i put whatever technology i want in there which generally ends up in the "stuff i like" category of flip phones and big chunky computers and that kind of thing, with a heavy dose of cool robots and magitech and stuff. and also fantasy creatures both humanoid and not! im still nailing down the details of what exactly i think are commonplace things, but my general guideline for things are that theyre variants of real things as opposed to completely original stuff - for example dog-sized tardigrades and other Big versions of microscopic organisms are a pretty common animal, or dinosaurs and stuff like that thats more time displaced than anything. i like the idea of taking things that are mundane and putting them together in new ways to make them seem more magical and exciting

#ajaposting #also ty <3

[lesamis]

This seems like a linguistics question, so why are raccoons bears in German? What are other German bears.

so for raccoons specifically, there's a sort of precise answer to this question: raccoons are procyonidae, a family of species that's referred to as Kleinbären or little bears in germany. we decided to call them that instead of procyonidae because latin is annoying and none of the species in this family are native to germany, so on first encountering them we were like uhhhhhh sort of looks like a little bear? with the little hands and everything?

there are some more animals, besides Real Bears and procyonidae, that german refers to as bears. like certain species of seals, called Seebären or sea bears in german. or anteaters, called Ameisenbär = ant bear. my favourite use of "bear" in the german language is the most common word for tardigrade, which is "Bärtierchen", and which i can't really translate any better than "little bear creature". this is objectively the best name you could give them.

while i'm talking about stuff i don't really know anything about i'm going to posit a crackpot theory here and now that english would apply "bear" as liberally as german if there had actually been native bears around in the five centuries or so it took for english to become itself. i have chosen to believe this bc there have consistently been cats on the british isles for millennia, and english looooves to call animals cats that aren't. thanks anon for accidentally prompting me to find a new hill to die on

#i don't think german is all that strange is my point #the english word catfish has been dazzling and confusing me for more than a decade #this post contains 0 factchecked facts all of this except the linked procyonidae wiki entry came from my brain. do not believe this #asks #anon

[katyspersonal]

Rom / 2 & 4 :)

(Asks from this ( x ) meme)

2) What animal they remind me of

You will never believe what I will say.... xD Okay okay, her commitment Kin status and lore aside, her human self the way I made her reminds me of a hamster! Because she is tiny, has weak eyesight but can hear well, like to run around, and is very adaptive - similar to a rat but 'cute'. Mice + hamsters are rodents that say 'hiiiii' but rats are rodents that say 'bruh'. x) But also because hamsters are often mistaken for 'lazy and dumb' creatures by people who don't know better when in fact they are as intelligent as average rodents, and they are simply nocturnal so they sleep most of the daytime! :pensive:

As for overall vibe, she also reminds me of a tardigrade even more than of 'caterpillar' or something! They survive anything (even outer space!) and I think Rom is nearly immortal (as in, we kick her from the Lake rather than actually killing). Also just look at them, they are chonky with many legs. xD

4) Physical headcanons (sleeping habits, favourite food, all that)

One of her most frequently seen habits is holding her hands together, mostly around the chest level, sometimes near her face - just a habit.

She has large and rare freckles:

Fun fact - a couple of times I broke the pattern with them on accident, and other couple of times I just forgot them completely ;-; I am just clumsy as an artist but I try to improve that. Someday I will learn.... The proper pattern I planned is - three on her right cheek, two under her right eye and five on the left side of her face.

A lot of the time her lips are open just enough to show her front teeth, which is just her Default Settings. She only closes them when either she is tense or when someone tells her to do so.

You would expect her to be nice to all living creatures, but it is not always the case. If she finds a bug or a cockroach stuck in her meal, she will just eat it! I mean, they put that on themselves, right...?

Her senses work in extremely mysterious ways and it was the case even before anything having to do with Byrgenwerth! For example, she can hear sounds so far away or so quiet no other person would even notice them, or her intuition would urge her to check a seemingly random place and find an interesting object, or a creature! Sometimes she can also find lost objects by 'smelling' them (even if they have no smell). It is almost as if her fate was grimly foreshadowed - however it just happens with some people in reality too... I'd say the reason is, human senses being way more keen than we believe and humans not realising like 90% of what they're perceiving and catching on.

She is far-sighted, her glasses help with it.

I said that she has rather keen senses, right? Well, there is an exception for very harsh stimuls - like thunder or explosions. She'd need several seconds to actually react at something very sudden. The rule with her basically is, the more obvious something is - the slower she is to react to it. Most of it comes because she is too submerged in thoughts and her inner world.

Rom has trouble sleeping during the night, most of it is just her laying with eyes closed, but the daytime destroys her. She developed a habit of catching up with classes she might have nearly napped through during the night in the library, with a few other students with similar problem.

She is the second shortest student in the class (160 cm, or 5'3'')! The first shortest is my Laurence, sorry fdshdshd He is 155 cm, or 5'1'' :')

She appears like a person in 0 physical shape but honestly, the thing draining her energy or preventing her from doing many physical tasks is her HUGE brain sdfhsdh And mental state. If it is not lack of night sleep, it is the raw amount of her thoughts being so heavy she bends under them xD When you manage to make her feel more positive and involved in the world around her, she gets very fast, light and agile! Just needs right motivation.

Her hair is always extremely soft and nice to the touch, as if it is stuck in permanent 'just after washing and hair conditioner' state. It also can't grow past the length I draw her with, it happens with some people that at some point hair just stops (it is just genetics in her case).

#ask replies #ask meme #bloodborne #rom the vacuous spider #bloodborne headcanons #fandomry rambles #thank you so much for asking about her though! #this is my most written character! well one of them #some experiences are personal though #also i just love talking about characters that leave a lot to imagination #jeez..... rom versions are just ocs with a prompt lol #yet her vibe feels so apparent #also none of the shit about her i said is ironic she is very thoughtful just not organised #when you think about everything there is no way to choose WHAT to talk about lol #yurie loves falling asleep to her rambles tho (omg they were roommates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[daydreamodyssey]

I think a tardigrade could be a great pet

They are cute and indestructible

What's better than an animal companion that mocks death?

#tardigrade

[kmp78]

Anon VK has been promoting herself with that photo site as an escort for years. You're wrong she's not an innocent sheep.

Dim knows what she was doing, she saw the ad I sent it to him.🕵️‍♂️ Putin also said: "There is nothing better in the world than Russian whores."

You really are several genomes below tardigrades. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[traxanaxanos]

Made some more Pokémon trainer cards, this time for the most important Star Trek: Voyager characters.

Naomi loves her Oshawott and Bonsly even more than she loves playing a new holodeck adventure with Flotter and Trevis. Now I know what you’re saying, Bonsly evolves into Sudowoodo which is a Rock type and not even a real tree. Well, technically, neither is Trevis since he’s a hologram, so it all works out.

Woobat is cute! It’s got a heart nose! It’s fluffy! But also it’s kind of weird as a bat. What is a Woobat, if not the perfect Pokémon for kind of weird little girls who still like cute things.

Quilladin is Neelix in Pokémon form. That’s it. Just a friendly, pointy little guy. Naomi thinks her Quilladin is super funny. Silvally evolves from the Frankenstein-like Type:Null after attaining a high level of friendship with its trainer. It’s got organic and mechanical parts all bolted together, reminiscent of a certain someone onboard Voyager. The frightening appearance of Type:Null wouldn’t scare Naomi away. Naomi can make friends with anyone, up to and including Borg ladies and Frankenstein monster Pokémon!

Jolteon is technically Samantha Wildman’s Pokémon. Naomi is of course safe on Voyager, looked after by Neelix, Seven, and everyone else on the crew. But Samantha still worries - the Delta Quadrant is scary for a child! - so she insists Naomi also takes her Jolteon with her on her ship-wide adventures. It’s very protective of her.

Ensign Samantha Wildman is a xenobiologist. This is a fact you can only find out from one of the Star Trek trading card games that lists her position (Chief of Xenobiology - can you be an Ensign and a department head at the same time? I guess!) or the wiki because the show just didn’t feel like mentioning it.

Samantha loves animals so much she joined the science division of Starfleet so that she could study all sorts of animals. Extremely wild of Starfleet to stick her on a ship that has the mission to go out to track down terrorists. What did they expect her to do on that mission? Distract the Maquis with hours worth of bat facts, giving Tuvok the chance to escape?

Anyways, Samantha’s Pokémon reflect her position.

Solosis is the “cell Pokémon”, a favorite of biologists throughout the Alpha quadrant. And, much like tardigrades, they can survive in any environment, so its a good Pokémon to bring with you on your fleet assignment.

Beyond being a xenobiologist, my personal headcanon is that Samantha specializes in mammals. Thus she mostly has mammalian Pokémon, including a Walrein and a Mamoswine. She partners with these two to do science communication about the importance of giving wild animals, even if they have a cute baby form or are herbivores, their space (her Walrein and Mamoswine are very gentle, of course).

As a xenobiologist and a general lover of animals, Samantha is not deterred by animals with features the general public might find “ugly,” up to and including the ability to shoot awful smelling fluid from anal glands. She loves her Skuntank and will not hear anything negative about it. Tom Paris gets sprayed by it multiple times during their stay in the Delta quadrant, and whenever he complains to Sam about it, she just directs him to her above work on how to interact with animals (give them their space). (Tom was 100% attempting to manhandle the Skuntank in a way it didn’t like every time).

Passimian is the “teamwork Pokémon” and Samantha is always telling Naomi that “two heads are better than one.” Samantha genuinely thinks teamwork and cooperation is super important; she wouldn’t have joined Starfleet otherwise. Passimian sometimes helps her in the lab, handing her tools while she works.

Joltik is just a little baby! Its such a baby that it needs to latch on to larger Pokémon to feed off the static electricity their bodies generate. Naomi found it in the Jefferies tubes one day (quite possibly a stowaway left over from when the Borg were onboard with all their tasty electronic stuff). Samantha thought Naomi might not be ready to watch over such a high-needs Pokémon quite yet, so she’s taking care of it for Naomi for the moment. Joltik still spends a lot of time with Naomi, latched on to Samantha’s loaned Jolteon.

#samantha wildman #naomi wildman #star trek voyager #star trek #pokémon #pokemon #I resisted the urge to go the obvious route and give Samantha a Kangaskhan #I think Jolteon and Joltic is a cuter and more unique way to do parent/child Pokémon teams #just to be like incredibly tickled by my own choices #there are like NO good screenshots of Samantha #she either has the updo that I think is ridiculous #or she is disheveled and in a near death experience