#compasses were tossed out of the airlock after they entered the expanse)

[el-im]

#trek #captain's log #best parts: 1. starting off with 'take this pink ribbon off my eyes / i'm exposed and it's no big surprise' #and (nearly) ending with 'hand me a blindfold / i can't bear to watch anymore' in m'aidez #(moving from too nervous to go on away missions to being ashamed of the part she took in the xindi mission when the whole crew's moral #compasses were tossed out of the airlock after they entered the expanse) #*edit: this was in my drafts for a long time and i've been fucking w this playlist so it doesnt start w just a girl anymore #so that you have a pre-joining ent narrative #(dreaming/the tide is high is supposed to be about when she was working as a professor in rio/archer recruiting her) #but still.... just a girl is up early. lmao. #2. the fact that i put 'the oldest established (permanent floating crap game in new york)' on this. and then took it off. and then put it #back on. and then took it off. and then put it back on. and then #3. this must be the place. i really love this song in its own right but it's so popular that i have a hard time using it bc i think it's #generally overused but... i love the idea of hoshi coming around to space travel+enterprise becoming her home. i love her realizing that #she's become comfortable in a place she used to find confining and frightening #theres a lot of kate bush in this but i LOVE them heavy people as a hoshi song. reminds me of 'exile' which is one of my favorite ent eps #and one of very few where hoshi is in a central role. #it's just so absurd + it has the same overtures of 'alien presence entered my otherwise small and private life without warning' as the song #i just think it fits really well #its not perfect and ill probably still fuck around with it a lot even though im publishing it #but really i only do this bc i like to keep my playlists in my tags for them #which for hoshi is here #hoshi #also love the visitors on here. its just fun. groovy baby!!!!