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emonydeborah · 8 months

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SNW and DISCO spoilers

so I watched the Una episodes of discovery with no other context. So it’s just the episode where they find the sphere and the last two episodes of season two.

they really go buckwild on this ship. Tilly is being eaten by fungus and no one tells anyone. Jett and the mushroom man get high and slap each other out of it. Also did Jett appear from the vents? Michael is having a family crisis. Saru asked his friend to help him commit ritual suicide and I think a part of his brain fell out. Also I didn’t know he spoke so many languages so that was cool.

they are so dramatic here. The shocked and horrified stares around at each other made the finale an hour long otherwise it would have been like 30 minutes. I expect this from Chris but good grief. The letters goodbye one bye one? Sarek and Amanda somehow showing up ahead of a whole fleet to tell Michael they love her? The sibling fight as the ship is being fired upon? (that one tracks actually) I like it for the big moments but are they always like this?? And is the “eyes up” thing a thing and why doesn’t Chris do it anymore?

I do like the found familyness I am sensing. The whole fam banding together to go with Michael was sweet. And their goodbye to Chris. This is the level of found family where I’d expect to find at least a few of those foster kid fanfics where they refuse to leave each other and the foster parents get six kids at once. I have not looked but I would be disappointed if there aren’t any.

Pike’s stepdad energy is so strong. The whole crew does what they want and loop him in when they feel like it. They are fine without him and have their own system and dynamics going on. He knows it, too, which is hilarious to watch from just knowing him from snw. He really just intervenes to keep his genius stepchildren from straying too far off the mission. They are running around like overexcited puppies (“the sphere is trying to communicate!!!!”) and he keeps them from gnawing on the walls. But he is a good stepdad in that he is ready to throw hands and use his ship as a shield so they can get away from section 31.

then as soon as he gets back to enterprise he brings all of the evil fbi apparently. Una is not surprised and has tricked out the whole ship and the shuttles for battle without prompt. She went Chris was out of my sight for too long we need to be ready to fight the galaxy.

and some more Una notes: Katrina Cornwell seemed tall and commanding until she stood next to Una and it was hilarious how small she was. Took me out of the dramatic bomb defusing moment but I still had fun. And Chris knew someone was going to die from that torpedo and got Una out as soon as he knew there were no other options. My pikeuna heart.

And Una choosing violence with the interrogation sent me. SNW fans know she has been hiding and afraid of scrutiny her whole life, and this is how she shows it. What a woman. She did not even tell them her name. Did we know she was Una at this point or was she Number One all the way until snw premiered?

“Follow the queen.” *Chris immediately looks at Una* I see you Chris.

it is obvious that they did not know how they were going to open snw with Chris being depressed and Una going missing but I liked their shock and happiness when Spock showed up beardless.

idk if I am intrigued enough to watch this whole show but I like Georgiou being their personal annoying gremlin. “Everybody hates you. Congratulations.” Also queen Po going if I die I die.

did not like Una going “in English please” to literally another navigator. We know she’s a genius let her be one y’all. If it were a science person going off a thousand words a minute I would allow it. But Una was talking to a pilot. Do better.

IN GENERAL, a good time. I was there for Una and she was not there much, but that was expected I guess. I was not prepared for how emotional discovery's crew would be. They are all in their feelings at all times. I liked them as a crew and maybe I will return one day.

#discovery #snw #una chin riley #chris pike #michael burnham #saru #sylvia tilly #snw spoilers #disco spoilers #tw suicide #star trek strange new worlds #star trek #strange new worlds #katrina cornwell #seemed like a cool lady #but OH MY WORD #the number of times they said some variation of “you're my family”#this is a starship not youth group camp #we are not here to cry it out

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curator-on-ao3 · 2 years

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If Prime Gabriel Lorca ever shows up on SNW (or anywhere else), I can only hope that he’s accompanied by Terran Universe Katrina Cornwell who has him thoroughly gaslit and girlbossed.

#star trek strange new worlds #star trek discovery #gabriel lorca #prime gabriel lorca #katrina cornwell #terran katrina cornwell #our heroes can rehabilitate poor gabriel #but i need kat to live #and i need to see the look on chris and una’s faces when they see her #no music though #the sound of my heart shattering will be enough #tw gaslighting

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pixiedane · 1 year

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Pixie Recaps Starfleet

Hello! There are five weeks until the season two premiere of Strange New Worlds and I am using them to photocap one episode of each series I haven't done one for yet (Discovery, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds). For Lower Decks I will be doing "I, Excretus" but for the other series I'm running a poll to decide. First up, Discovery:

Prodigy Poll | Strange New Worlds Poll

#star trek discovery #michael burnham #sylvia tilly #saru #paul stamets #hugh culber #gabriel lorca #chris pike #spock #katrina cornwell #charles vance #osyraa #ruon tarka #zora #poll #pixie recaps starfleet

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downthetubes · 1 year

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All-new Battle Action miniseries landing soon!

Don’t miss out on the all-new Battle Action miniseries, landing very soon in comic shops across the UK and beyond!

There’s not long to go now until the launch of the all-new Battle Action, a five-issue miniseries reviving some of Fleetway’s classic war and adventure comic characters, which we trailed here back in February, a feature that includes an interview with Garth Ennis. Battle Action Issue One (2023) – cover by Keith Burns Battle Action #1 lands on 31st May, offering a high-octane combo of brand new…

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#Adventure Comics #Battle Action #Chris Burnham #Dan Cornwell #downthetubes News #Garth Ennis #HMS Nightshade #Humour Comics #John Wagner #Johnny Red #Keith Burns #Phil Winslade #Treasury of British Comics

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bigblue61 · 2 years

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This week don’t try to shade Jethro Tull, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Heavy Heavy, Billy Nomates, Monzanto Sound, Ikonika, Ugress, Theon Cross, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Congo Natty, Chris Issak, Hugh Cornwell, John Cale and unknown.

Obviously the passing of “the Killer“, meant I added a track by him.

The last track on this playlist the artist is unknown

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baubeautyandthegeek · 6 months

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The Romantic Type - Katrina Cornwell/Una Chin-Riley

A/N: It's part 12am for me so this is me doing it for a second Day... Day 2 for @theadmiralslegion, this one uses both prompts: OTP & First Kiss.

Had you told Katrina she’d find her home in Una’s arms, consider the woman her one true person, she would have laughed at you… but she does. She feels safest here, held tight and loved with a passion she hasn’t felt in years. In the end, their first kiss comes at the end of a fight. A fight between Katrina and Chris, of course. Una can see how coldly Katrina looks at him as he lets Marie Batel into the room. Katrina stands between Marie and Una, makes it clear she disagrees with the process. People learn just how angry as Marie leaves that same day, Chris is demoted swiftly and Una is placed in his seat as a Captain, Katrina selecting La’an as Una’s new Number One. The decision hangs in the air until La’an thanks Kat, excusing herself to change. Una crosses the room in four long strides, catching Katrina’s face in tender hands, thumbs brushing away angry tears before she kisses her. It’s deep and strong and sweet. It feels right. Katrina’s arms loop around her, pulling her down and closer, letting the kiss deepen further before she pulls away. “Shift time, Captain Chin-Riley…” “Yes, Admiral Cornwell.”

#star trek discovery #star trek strange new worlds #day 2 #first kiss #otp #katrina cornwell #una chin riley #kat/una #katrina/una #una/kat #una/katrina #katoberfest2023 #katoberfest 2023

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messers-moony · 2 years

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Devotion Season Three: Cast | F.H

Paring: Five Hargreeves X Fem!Reader (Series)

Summary: In which the Hargreeves siblings come together to stop the end of the world.

Disclaimer: I don’t own the Umbrella Academy. All rights go to the creators of the show, the comics and everyone in between. Gifs used in these chapters are NOT mine and are/were found on Pinterest.

Warnings: Cursing, Sex, Nudity, Violence, Gore, Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, Intense Scenes, and Abuse (if I missed any let me know)

—I don't think the crime-fighting super nerds are gonna let that go.

00.01: The Leader Marcus Hargreeves Justin Cornwell “Bigger isn't always better.”

00.02: The Schemer Ben Hargreeves Justin H. Min “Stop crying on my bedsheets, emo.”

00.03: The Sharp Eyed Fei Hargreeves Britne Oldford “The shitty kind.”

00.04: The Jokester Alphonso Hargreeves Jake Epstein “Popcorn?”

00.05: The Gravity Defyer Sloane Hargreeves Genesis Rodriguez “And I know there are better places out there in the world, and one day, I want to see them all.”

00.06: The Pessimist Jayme Hargreeves Cazzie David “Are they all perverts?”

00.07: The Chatterbox Christopher Hargreeves “You slay me, Chris.”

Lester Pocket Callum Rennie “You need to stop listening with your ears.”

Stanley (Stan) Hargreeves Javon Walter “Yeah, you're just mad that you got your ass kicked by a floating cube!”

#Five x you #Five x reader #Five x y/n #five hargreeves #five hargreeves fluff #five hargreeves x reader #five hargreeves imagine #five hargreeves x you #Five hargreeves x y/n #number five x you #number five #number five x y/n #number five x reader #tua au #tua #tua netflix #The Umbrella Academy #devotion— five hargreeves

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sweetest-devotion · 2 years

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DAVID DAWSON'S FULL INTERVIEW WITH THE TIMES

The British actor David Dawson stars in this autumn’s hotly anticipated film My Policeman, about a gay affair in the repressive Fifties. His co-star? A certain global pin-up called Harry

Ordinarily in David Dawson’s line of work, when you take on a new project – a play, or a film, or a TV show – “You have a meet and greet and a big read-through with coffee and cake or whatever,” he says. When the actor signed up to My Policeman, however, the country was still deep in Covid, and meeting, greeting and sharing cake in person was firmly out. “It’s a very bizarre thing when you’re then told you’re going to be on a Zoom discussing scenes with a very, very famous person. And you think, ‘How weird is life?’

He’s not exaggerating. The very, very famous person he was about to meet – albeit virtually, initially – was the world’s celebrity crush, the former boy-band member turned fashion plate whose current sellout stadium tour looks set potentially to continue indefinitely. He’s the star of two of the most talked-about films of the year; a man who can send the internet into a tailspin over whether or not he spat on his co-star, Chris Pine. He is one Harry Styles.

Adapted from the novel by Bethan Roberts – and based loosely on the author EM Forster’s 40-year relationship with a married policeman, Bob Buckingham – the film stars Styles as Tom, a sexually confused copper in Fifties Brighton who meets and marries schoolteacher Marion (Emma Corrin) while simultaneously conducting a clandestine relationship with worldly, sophisticated museum curator Patrick, played by Dawson. It is a tragic love triangle with a wholly non-equilateral apportioning of sex. By which I mean: poor Marion.

Forty years later, Marion moves Patrick into the cottage she shares with Tom to care for him following a stroke, much to Tom’s consternation.

As with Tom and Patrick, there was an age gap between Forster and Buckingham, who was 28 when he met the 51-year-old author of Howard’s End and A Room with a View, beginning what Bethan Roberts has called “a functioning triangular arrangement… sharing their beloved Buckingham”.

And, like Marion, Buckingham’s wife, May, nursed Forster in his later years; after a stroke in 1970, the writer moved into the Buckinghams’ home in Coventry.

“I now know that he [Forster] was in love with Robert and therefore critical and jealous of me and our early years were very stormy, mostly because he had not the faintest idea of the pattern of our lives and was determined that Robert should not be engulfed in domesticity,” May Buckingham later wrote. “Over the years he changed us both and he and I came to love one another, able to share the joys and sorrows that came.”

“We had three weeks of rehearsal, which is unusual, and was so useful to build a friendship and a chemistry with Emma and Harry,” says Dawson, the 40-year-old’s soft Widnes accent a dramatic departure from the aesthete Patrick’s clipped vowels.

How much of that three weeks was spent on the extensive sex scenes between him and Styles? “A good few days, actually,” admits Dawson. “Michael [Grandage, the director] brought on board an intimacy co-ordinator and it was very much a collaboration. It felt like a beautiful dance. And me and Harry promised each other on day one that we would always look out for each other, that we would always continue to check in with each other. Harry and I wanted those scenes to be the best they could be.”

“So much of gay sex in films is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it,” Styles has said of the film. “There will be, I would imagine, some people who watch it who were very much alive during this time when it was illegal to be gay, and [Michael] wanted to show that it’s tender and loving and sensitive.”

Dawson – who has appeared in a raft of period dramas including Peaky Blinders, The Borgias and The Last Kingdom, the adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories in which he played King Alfred – had limited experience of sex scenes in his career to date. “I’d done Secret Diary of a Call Girl when I was young, and I did sex in that, but no, I hadn’t done many intimate scenes before this.”

This is also his most high-profile role by some stretch. Is he prepared for the attention that his steamy scenes with Styles – whom he has called “a true professional and a gentleman” – are about to bring him? “I’ve not really thought about that, actually,” he says. I don’t believe him for a second.

Dawson arrives at the studio in east London in black skinny jeans, boots and a blue trench coat, an indie-band frontman’s floppy fringe and cheekbones you could grate parmesan with. He’d make a great understudy for Brett Anderson from Suede.

“It felt so strangely personal to look at your life and think, ‘How would I have coped?’ ” he says of playing Patrick, settling on a leather sofa with an oatmilk Americano. “How lucky I am not to worry that my reputation could be destroyed, or I could lose friends.”

He and his fiancé, Josh, a mental health nurse and author, got engaged just before Covid struck and plan finally to marry next year; he sports a large, black onyx engagement ring next to the silver McQueen snake ring his family bought him for his recent 40th birthday. The couple – plus Dodger, the French bulldog – are in the process of moving from north London to Manchester to gain a garden and be closer to their families. “The pace is slower, you can breathe more. And I’m sick of sharing a wheelie bin,” he says, grinning.

What he loves about Patrick, though, is that, “He has an awful lot of pride in his sexuality even though he’s living during this time. He knows who he is and he’s not ashamed of it. He’s developed this persona out of necessity, not only to survive but to thrive – in terms of his ambitions but also in terms of being respectable in this society.”

He is at pains to stress that even though it’s a period film, “I hope we don’t think that everything’s OK now. This film makes me acknowledge how incredibly privileged my generation is to have the freedoms and the rights we have. There are many people around the world where these laws and the society that Patrick lives in is the reality right now.”

The film is shot across two time periods, 40 years apart, with the elder Patrick played by Rupert Everett (the elder Tom is played by Linus Roache and Marion by Gina McKee). Everett, now 63, who publicly came out at 30, has repeatedly stated that he believes doing so derailed his Hollywood career. “It was a huge issue,” he has said. “There’s only a certain amount of mileage you can make, as a young pretender, as a leading man, as a homosexual.”

He has even gone so far as to advise fellow actors not to come out for fear of ruining their film prospects. “It’s not that advisable to be honest,” he has said. “I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out…” He has called Hollywood “an extremely conservative world” that “pretends to be a liberal world”.

“I really do hope it’s changed,” says Dawson. “Maybe I’ve just been lucky. I’ve been with the same agent since I came out at drama school in 2005. So I know I’ve got their support.”

He also pays tribute to his “legendary parents, who’ve always been there. It’s an incredible thing and I acknowledge that a lot of my friends and a lot of people do not have that in their life.”

Though he identifies as an introvert, growing up his performative streak was obvious from a young age. “I’d raid my mum’s black wool box, I’d get tinfoil and a coat hanger and be seriously Captain Hook.” His first major role? “Joseph. My mum made me a beautiful staff and I had a really lovely tea towel from Marks & Spencer. But I was a very serious Joseph,” he says, laughing. “I told the shepherds off for not focusing properly.”

He was heavily involved in local am-dram, but not only acting. At 16 he wrote his first play, Divorced and Desperate, which ran at the Queen’s Hall Theatre in Widnes for three nights. “I was obsessed with Rik Mayall. He was one of my heroes, so it was quite anarchic and bizarre.” A year later he wrote and starred in The Boy in the Bed, “about a boy who was pretending to be bedridden, is obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and who was abusing his home carer – it was really dark”, at the Tower Theatre in Islington, a production funded, in part, by Barbara Windsor and Julie Walters. He’d written – somewhat improbably – to the two actresses to ask for financial backing. “I loved the Carry On films when I was little and Peggy Mitchell was iconic, so I always loved a bit of Babs, and Julie because she’s long been a hero,” he says of his benefactors. “I never expected a reply. I think I had that ‘f*** it’ attitude where you just try. It was quite brave of them to give money to a 17-year-old…”

By then he’d moved to London where, after failing to get a place at Rada, he spent a year as a silver service waiter. I’m about to offer my own experiences of silver service ineptitude at provincial hotel weddings, but Dawson’s gigs were a cut above. “I worked for the Beckhams and Princess Anne, at marquees in the grounds of Beckingham Palace and Sotheby’s. We had to sign a lot of confidentiality things.”

He got into Rada the second time round in a class alongside Tom Hiddleston and Andrea Riseborough. His first professional role on graduation was understudying Kevin Spacey in Richard II at the Old Vic. “It’s a weird thing, being an understudy. You cross your fingers a bit. I’m sure that’s not the case for all understudies, but I certainly was hungry to play Richard II.” I ask what it was like working with Spacey – long before the actor was accused of misconduct. “I didn’t really get to… We were kind of supporting artistes, the people I was with, so we never really got to work with any of the lead actors,” he demurs.

Dawson is equally cautious about commenting on the accusations of “queer baiting” (the practice of hinting at but not actually depicting same-sex romance or representation) that have been levelled at his co-star Styles, whose brand is built on sexual ambiguity. “I think everyone, including myself, has their own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it,” Styles told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “It’s not like, ‘This is a gay story about these guys being gay.’ It’s about love and about wasted time to me.

“Sometimes people say, ‘You’ve only publicly been with women,’ and I don’t think I’ve publicly been with anyone,” Styles went on to assert. “If someone takes a picture of you with someone, it doesn’t mean you’re choosing to have a public relationship or something.”

Dawson spends time mulling over the subject. “I appreciate that who I am playing – [someone] who absolutely understands who he is in the world – that as a gay man I got to play that part,” he says eventually. “But in terms of who he is playing, it’s kind of ambiguous. Harry’s playing someone who doesn’t quite know who he is. The problem with Tom – and he’s the one who causes all the problems – is that he doesn’t know who he is throughout his whole life.” He stops for a beat. “I’m not saying that about Harry, by the way.” Nor is he criticising Tom. “I understand that he was growing up in a time where you were not allowed even to think about alternatives.”

Audiences may disagree that only Tom causes problems; Patrick’s motivations might seem questionable too. “I’m really excited by projects where an audience will find their relationship with the people that they’re watching conflicted at times – because they’re only human,” says Dawson. “They make mistakes, like all of us, or they make bad decisions. But I hope in My Policeman that you understand it’s the world in which they’re living that has made them make those decisions.”

When making My Policeman, Dawson spent a lot of time, he says, reflecting on his first lead role on television. He played Tony Warren, the creator of the long-running soap in the BBC drama The Road to Coronation Street in 2010. “He was openly gay in 1960 and he was only 24.

“I suppose when you look at My Policeman as a modern person you might have a certain element of anger or feelings of sadness about that period,” says Dawson. “But Tony used to take me for dinner and he would tell me what it was like being a young man then.

“He told stories of romance and passion and that being something quite sexy. It shows the strength of that community to find joy in a time that was incredibly difficult.”

My Policeman is released in cinemas on October 21 and streams on Prime Video from November 4

#the times #David Dawson #MP #my policeman #MP promo #Tom Jackson #michael grandage #Bethan Roberts #Harry styles #acting

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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years

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Cursed (Wes Craven, 2005).

#cursed #cursed (2005)#wes craven #christina ricci #robert mclachlan #patrick lussier #lisa mozden #chris cornwell #bruce alan miller #andrew max cahn #jeff knipp #douglas a. mowat #dena roth #alix friedberg

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owedfavors-a3 · 1 year

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░ ✧ @cptnpike sent, [ keys to your muse’s car. ] ( but it’s entrusting her with enterprise ) ✧ GIVE MY MUSE SOMETHING .

she knows she does not understand, what this new ship and new crew have come to mean to him in such a short span of time. there hasn’t been time to speak of it, beyond half-allusions on the fringes of messages otherwise focused on their responsibilities as he checked in on the status of his other ship lingering in space dock. now, there is no time for conversation, only for decisions and for actions. as una strides beside him down the corridor back towards the transporter room ( stolen moments, nothing more ), she reaches for words that slip from her reach, words that should come easy after ten years. such words have never come easy.

she gestures the transporter operator on duty out of the room more sharply than she intends to. if enterprise is truly saying goodbye to her captain, then it only seems fitting that una be the one to do the honors. the captain says something. words that brush past the edge of her consciousness. they register only belatedly, and fuzzily. something about having spoken to admiral cornwell. something about enterprise being hers now.

but that’s the thing. she never wanted enterprise to be hers. not in the way he means. she never wanted any ship to be hers in the way he means, but for enterprise in particular to be hers has always meant that he will no longer be there, and even after past months ( especially after past months ) she cannot imagine enterprise without christopher pike. part of her reaches for humor, calling upon her to insist that enterprise has always been hers, but the joke refuses to take shape, no less elusive than everything she needs to say.

what he reads in her silence, her blankness, she does not know, but the next words from his lips are reassurances, an assertion of trust, that enterprise is in good hands. it makes her angry, irrationally angry in a way she stamps down on because it’s unwarranted and unfair. she can’t even argue logically that they need him as much as discovery, not when discovery’s task is so much more dangerous, so much more uncertain, than anything that lies before them. she would like to argue that it doesn’t always need to be his responsibility to throw himself in the line of fire and take such burdens upon himself, but he wouldn’t be the man be is if he didn’t.

she doesn’t step behind the controls, though she hovers beside the console, just close enough to it that she can reach for it, drum fingers upon the corner, the quiet yet sharp tap of her nails almost grounding her in an otherwise anchor-less sea. somehow, she cannot look at him, gaze cast down and to the side, focused upon nothing.

she draws a slow deliberate breath before she can form words. ❛ chris, are you sure about this? ❜ she doesn’t mean enterprise in her hands, though she realizes belatedly through the fog of her thoughts that in context her intent might not be clear. ❛ discovery, I mean. ❜ her words sound distant to her own ears, blank. and they’re stupid, for of course he’s certain. of course he’s thought it all through and decided that this is what he must do. or wants to do. or some combination. she’s not sure the motivation matters. the outcome is the same either way. either way, she loses him.

#cptnpike #cptnpike:asks #⤷ file / interactions.#⤷ verse / canon | to unpath’d waters‚ undream’d shores.#this is not canon but I don't have a better tag for it #asdlfkj I hurt #did I actually answer the prompt?? barely #here have 570 words of una internalizing and refusing to say what's on her mind #I'm so sorry

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Can I please hear about the La'An and Chris' mom lore for Youthful Exuberance?

~ enterprise-come-in 💠🖖🏻

Oooh yes, and thank you for asking, @enterprise-come-in! ❤️

Folks who haven’t read the story to the end, this isn’t the post for you. Spoilers incoming.

Seriously.

Last warning….

Okay, so we know La’an and Willa (Chris’ mom’s name taken from beta canon) meet at Chris and Una’s wedding when La’an is in prep school. Not long after that, La’an starts at Starfleet Academy. Willa, at this point, is established in Montana, has come to love Una (sort of), and enjoys having houseguests more than she admits to her son who waited a year to truly start his career so he could be close to Willa. And, of course, we all know from watching the show what La’an suffered before Una found her.

(You might be wondering about Willa’s Earth-typical mistrust of Augments and genetic engineering. But why, according to Willa, would La’an be considered an Augment when the young woman is in fact a descendant of an Augment — and therefore someone with a tough road that could be smoothed by some extra love?*)

*I find the canon status of La’an in terms of “benefitting” from genetic engineering to be confusing at best (as of two seasons in). That’s a dozen headcanons at least, but Willa sees La’an in Willa’s way.

So we have two people, both in need of family, both part of the same family through Chris and Una, both on the same side of the same continent on the same planet.

Which means that La’an stays over at Willa’s house sometimes, the first invitation extended for Federation Day dinner when La’an had nowhere to go and Willa had no one to feed. The invitations continue, gratefully accepted. Willa learns La’an’s favorite foods (because that’s how Pikes show love) and La’an volunteers to help with household tasks that Willa finds difficult (because beating back her own shyness in service of a task is how La’an shows love). Which means La’an upgrades Willa’s security system. Twice. Sometimes they read in separate chairs in front of the fireplace and La’an could swear she could reach out and feel the love in the air, tangible.

Chris and Una get separate letters from La’an and Willa, each pleased and worried she’s taking up too much of the other’s time, then both accepting reassurance that it’s good, it’s really good, that La’an has someone to fuss over her and Willa has someone to fuss over. Especially because Chris and Una try to be there for the important things, but are gone for sometimes years at a time.

La’an invites Willa to see First Contact Day fireworks and Willa’s laugh is full-bellied because Willa was going to invite La’an to the same fireworks display.

Remember the story’s scene in which La’an finally gets to see Una in the holding cell? I reworked that scene so many times because I kept trying to (and ultimately couldn’t) fit in dialogue of La’an saying to Willa in that quiet, under-her-breath way La’an can have: “I admire how you got into the holding cell.” And Willa replying in her usual encouraging, self-assured way: “With age comes wisdom, dear.”

And I know the story makes clear that La’an has separate close relationships with Una, Kat Cornwell, and Neera. In my mind, Willa is there, too — particularly for Family Weekend at Starfleet Academy and someone asks La’an who that feisty old lady is and La’an isn’t sure whether to say my grandmother-in-law or my great aunt-in-law or some variation on my older, nebulously related cousin. But categorizing is for security sweeps, not people, so La’an simply says: “Her name is Willa and she’s my family.”

#i love asks #youthful exuberance #family #found family #family by choice #family for la’an #everyone should have a loving doting grandmother either by blood or by choice #thank you again for asking #enterprise-come-in

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