#ep: sub rosa

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry [sub rosa, s7ep14] 'Beverly and Ronin'

#star trek #star trek the next generation #the next generation #gene roddenberry #tng season 7 #the next generation season 7 #tng sub Rosa #sub Rosa #lot: st tng season 7 ep 14/26 (ep 165/178) #gates mcfadden #duncan regehr #beverly crusher #Ronin #Beverly and Ronin

[figureofdismay]

actually, now that I think about the timing, it's possible that my first contact with the Horror Genre was the 'de-evolution episode' of TNG, Genesis. I would've been.... 5-ish? when that first aired? Plenty of jumpscares and Deanna looking like a corpse with gills, that's plenty of horror for a kindergartner 😆

#honestly why does Sub Rosa get the 'worst' ep holiday honors when Genesis is stupider and creepier 💀

[cecilysass]

Please write more of these, never stop

I love original fanfic ideas so much, but also: I could read these particular contrived scenarios told again and again and again, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Okay, I'm a little ashamed. But not very much.

Marriage of convenience (like Nuptiae Sub Rosa by @xfmaweezy and @sisterspooky1013 or All That Is Dark and Bright by @malibusunset-xf-blog). Absolute gold in every way and I will read every variation.

Scully pretending to be Mulder's 900 number girl (done recently in Dropped Call by @phillippadgettwrites)

The awkward first descent into phone sex in general, including and especially calls from the fertility clinic. This is done in an especially brilliant way in Vox Mulder: Wired and Fired by @darwin-xf.

All Milagro post-eps that force them to address "Agent Scully is already in love" without being too obvious

Almost all DeadAlive and Three Words post-eps period, because those eps just are fertile ground, no pun intended. I have a whole discussion about that and recs right here.

M&S have sex for non-romantic reasons (like, they're trying out friends with benefits, or they're trying to conceive a baby, or some other ridiculous reason). This obviously is a delightful way to show repressed feelings.

Mulder's psychic fics. I feel like there could be so many more of these. This one (Dissonance by suilven) has a killer set up and I revisit it a lot, but we should have more riffs on this concept.

All right, yes, jealousy fics, I know, very basic of me, but I just really like these. I personally like them when the angst goes really, really far. Like you want to die it hurts so bad far. That one moment in Pilgrims Creeping Towards the Dawn by @softnow where Scully hears Diana say “Fox” in the background on the phone? Inject that into my veins.

Contamination shower fics. Yeah. Enough said.

There are more than this, because actually I get wasted on tropes all the time. What do y'all like? And more importantly, DO YOU HAVE RECS FOR ANY OF THESE?

(The fics I mention here are linked here on my favorite fics doc, if you want to find them. If you haven’t read some of these, DO IT.)

#tropes #xfiles fanfic #x files fanfic #the x files

[randomvarious]

1990s IDM Playlist

Alright! Now we’re finally getting somewhere with this 1990s IDM playlist! Not so much on the Spotify end of things, because their IDM selection isn’t very good at all, but with YouTube, I was able to add a handful of some really great and extremely slept-on songs.

But first, Spotify: with this update, I added one song, and it comes courtesy of a guy from Manchester, UK called Jega, who made his debut in 1996 with an EP called Phlax. And that release’s title track, which also appeared on a 1997 compilation from Skam Records that was simply called Skampler, is fantastic. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles and bleeps and bloops that IDM tracks typically have, but it’s this piece of sci-fi-futuristic electro-intensity that comes with warped and reverberating layers of strings and a sharp and crisp drumbeat. It’s one of Jega’s most popular songs too, having netted over 108K plays on Spotify.

Jega - “Phlax”

And now, YouTube: I ended up adding seven different songs to this thing, all of which aren’t on Spotify at all, and five of them are made by who I consider to be quite possibly the most underrated IDM producer of all time, London’s Simon Pyke, better known as Freeform, but also known as Nudge. Pyke’s released a bunch of stuff on different stalwart IDM labels throughout his career, including Warp, Skam, Quatermass, Sub Rosa, Worm Interface, and Sprawl Imprint, but he’s also contributed a bunch of complete stunners to compilations as well. And the YouTube play counts for the ones I added today happen to be appallingly low, with “Dice” being the highest at 55 plays, and “Duplo” being the lowest at just 10 plays. It’s hard to pick an absolute favorite out of all of these Pyke adds too, but “Duplo” just might be the one. He really has a tendency to make some of the wildest, most innovative, densest, and uniquely breathtaking IDM that you’ll ever hear in your life. I swear on it. Bear witness to this absolute genius 🤯.

The other two YouTube adds come from a pair of other IDM entities: The Black Dog, who remix German duo Alter Ego’s “Tanks Ahead”—a hypnotically enthralling song with just a little over 4,600 plays that first appeared on Frankfurt label Harthouse’s Dark Hearts - Volume 1 compilation in 1995—and nebulous Autechre side project Gescom’s “Keynell 1,″ which has a number of uploads on YouTube, but only one as it appears exactly on that aforementioned Skampler album.

Alter Ego - “Tanks Ahead (Black Dog Mix)” Gescom - “Keynell 1″ Freeform - “Dice” Freeform - “Fyonk” Freeform - “Flumps” Nudge - “Skewer (You’re So Human)” Nudge - “Duplo”

This playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, while I understand people’s preference for Spotify, because it’s a way more convenient platform for streaming music, know that if you choose that one, you really will be missing out on some of the greatest IDM that’s ever been made, because I don’t have a single Freeform or Nudge track on it. They’re all over on YouTube. The Spotify playlist is at 14 songs and 75 minutes, but the YouTube one is at 34 songs and 3 and a half hours! That’s more than double!

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!  

#idm #intelligent dance music #electronic #electronic music #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music

[spookytrixy]

TNGs Sub Rosa - the one where Beverly has sex with a ghost OR the one where Beverly is mentally and sexually assulted by an alien entity, and has one of her lowest moments in all of TNG?

Does the episode require Beverly to be an idiot in order for it to work, or does it show the impact of accelerated addiction?

I will defend Sub Rosa to my dying day, and so I joined two of my buddies to talk through the episode and see if I could convince them it is more than just the "sex ghost" one.

#Beverly Crusher #Sub Rosa #Star trek #The Next Generation #TNG #Gates McFadden #Ghost Candle #I will defend this episode till my dying day #it is so much more than just Beverly has sex with a ghost

[bradwottakes]

So what do people think of the Chibnall era on here?

Heard a lot of negative stuff, and now that I'm finally on to it, ummm I think I agree.

Like 13 just said "things get smaller, faster, cheaper. That's progress"

And I recall 12 saying "Human progress isn't measured by industry" what the hell. Where did this complete 180 come from? Not against changes in the doctor, loved the growth from 9 to 10, but this is just... HUH?!

And why did they kill off the one character who's both interesting AND useful - Grace - in ep. 1 and replace her with 3 Exposition Querying Machines?

Seriously, prior stories usually had a Big Important Plot that takes up the doctor's attention. But characters would hold it up, and there was great tension between the plot-driving threat and the fact that these are... Well... People who do and want things that aren't always aligned or don't understand what's happening. It's a push and pull, and the Doctor synthesizes them: reminds the characters obsessed with The Threat that there's a human/personal element to the story, and keep the characters obsessing over their issues in line with what needs to be done RIGHT NOW so that they live long enough to figure out their problems later.

But now, the characters stop doing anything involving themselves as people any time The Threat is brought up, or even something new happens and the Audience needs it "explained".

Four main characters SHOULD be a great opportunity to have sub-dynamics and conflicts beyond just Companion-Doctor tension, or tension between the doctor-companion group and the episode's disposable characters.

Instead, so far, it's... "I want More, my family is annoying" "I'm sad my wife is dead, and my step-grandson is emotionally distant" "I'm sad my grandma died and my dad isn't around"

Will there be tension between Yaz and Ryan, cause he resents his father, but she's pushing her family away?

Tsuranga Conundrum did something cool, put the doctor in an unusual position: being a bit selfish, and not in charge because there's someone else who understands the situation and priorities better. It's literally Doctor vs doctor. But 5 mins later, Astros is dead and we're back to the Doctor being in charge. Mabli has serious self-esteem issues, so the doctor uses her as exposition and she gets to... Maybe be in charge later, once she works through her issues off-screen?

Previous writers were never great with race (Bill calls our victorian racism only to find out the past wasn't as racist as she thought, and the doctor white knights for her against the only racist they meet. A few episodes later, it turns out SHE'S the prejudiced one for not knowing how to talk to an alien) but Chibnall is... Just bland. In the Rosa Parks episode they all agree on exactly what to do the whole time: save Rosa Parks from the time traveling neo-nazi. Don't get me wrong, I don't want them on his side - but it's such a boring premise and execution. It's just "we have to keep history the same" and it only works because they all like the outcome this time. Usually there's a question of "what do we change?", And though the resolution is usually "we can't interfere", the story isn't actually about changing/not changing history, it's about WHY changing history is generally a problem. They're rarely my favorite stories, but at least there's SUBSTANCE. There's a (still cliche) but more tense story available even in that premise: MLK. He's gonna get assassinated, why not have the story center on the question of "do we prevent this?".

Then there's some serious tension: you have two people of color who can call out the doctor's privilege of not interfering. This doesn't affect her AT ALL meanwhile Yaz and Ryan can point out that sure, things are better by 2018, but it's pretty fucked up that keeping history on it's current course is based on the assumption that things "went correctly" the first time around. That chattel slavery, segregation and mass incarceration are necessary from the doctor's POV. That she's projecting her understanding of history as some universal, objective law: things happened this way, we have to let them play out like that.

The show's logic often condones this, because the universe breaks when history changes. But also, the doctor changes stuff all the time.

Hell, there's all these episodes about characters getting pulled out of time before they die, learning they'll die, and then accepting it. You're telling me you can't write just a nice, dignified story where MLK gets that same opportunity? It wouldn't be amazing, but it would be better than "stop the time Nazi cause he's prejudiced".

Or just a story where Yaz and Ryan are the ones who actually have agency in deciding how to change or not change something big about BIPOC struggles on earth. Not where the doctor tells them everything and they just follow orders and remember facts from primary school.

Also, it's such an insultingly basic portrayal of racism. This is something that affects every writer: racism is always bad things a couple people do or say, and it's never explained or broken down. 12 can punch the racist before it actually becomes important to ask: if this is such a fucked up thing, why does it endure?

FFS 12 is explicitly critical of capitalism, and racism is often sustained by it. Why is there no episode of him being taught that "hey, this system of exploitation you don't like? It gets racialized sometimes. You don't know what race is/don't care about it? That's nice, but I'M HUMAN AND LOTS OF HUMANS DO CARE. This affects me almost constantly, and it would be nice if you showed some basic decency and empathy by at least listening instead of saying 'so it is' or 'what would they do that for?' "

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #twelfth doctor #chris chibnall #rosa parks #whyyyy #godawful nincompoop of a writer #can we get some CHARACTERS? #rant

[transemh]

how do i word this in a normal way. i think the like. people viewing sub rosa as a silly/funny “bizarre” episode is such a weird and vile thing to a point because most of the ep is like..... idrc what you think watching a woman get assaulted by a "funny sex ghost" whos been grooming her whole family with absolutely distressing scenes isnt funny and goofy like you thiink it is . but thats just my opinion.

#splash rambles #its like idk . idk. that episode made me feel really weird and bad and i dont understand how people view it as WeirdFunny . it was just... #ask 2 tag #and the ending was shit . it just makes my skin crawl. man..

[wanderingwriter87]

For the ask game, favourite outsider character (Star Trek)

Also favourite "bad" episode (Star Trek)

Favorite outsider: Seven, I think, as much as I hate what Berman did to Jeri Ryan over the course of that show she's just????? so good??

Favorite bad ep: Move Along Home, honorable mentions to Threshold and Sub Rosa

[abelkia]

La playlist de l'émission de ce jeudi matin sur Radio Campus Bruxelles entre 6h30 et 9h : Pseudo Code "Fight Back (The Angels)" (Slaughter in a Tiny Place/Sub Rosa/1981-2010) Pierre Bastien "Pep" (Pop/Rephlex Records/2005) Maja S. K. Ratkje "Voice" (Voice/rune grammofon/2002) Ignatz "Bright Future" (I Live in a Utopia/Aguirre Records/2015-2022) Gastr Del Sol "The Seasons Reverse" (Camoufleur/Domino-Drag City Records/1998) Andrea Laszlo De Simone "Sogno l'amore" (Uomo Donna/42Records/2017) Diseño Corbusier "Meta metalic" (La Contra Ola – Synth Wave & Post Punk from Spain 1980-86/Les Disques Bongo Joe/1985-2018) Eyeless In Gaza "Speech Rapid Fire" (Photographs as Memories/Cherry Red Records/1981) nits "Red Tape" (7"/CBS Records/1981) Stereolab "Blips, Drips and Strips" (Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night/Duophonic/1999) Solah "Que je t'aime" (Ballades/Cheap Satanism Records/2022) Arlt "Des amis" (Turnetable/Objet Disque/2022) Dominique A "Gisor" (Kick Peplum EP/Cinq7/2009) Bark Psychosis "Miss Abuse" (Codename: Dustsucker/Fire Records/2004) Jean-Pierre Mirouze "Sexopolis" (Le Mariage Collectif/BORN BAD RECORDS/1971-2012) Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier "La horse" (Les Années Psychédéliques: 1966-1971/Le Smoke Disque/1969-2007) Jean-Claude Vannier "Le Ballet des accoucheuses" (Electro-Rapide/Finders Keepers Records/1973-2011) Silver Apples "Confusion" (Contact/Kapp Records/1969) The Music Tapes "The Television Tells Us" (First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad/Merge Records/1999) The Baptist Generals "Clear Creek" (Dog/Munich Records/2000) Joanna Newsom ""En Gallop"" (The Milk-Eyed Mender/Drag City/2004) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTLGGQt_Sg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wolfsbane123]

My sub rosa ep is seriously virtually nigger proof

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry Sub Rosa [s7ep14]

#star trek #star trek the next generation #the next generation #gene roddenberry #tng season 7 #the next generation season 7 #tng sub rosa #sub rosa #lot: st tng season 7 ep 14/26 (ep 165/178) #gates mcfadden #duncan regehr #beverly crusher #Ronin

[miragestation]

Mirage Station playlist for March 1st, 2023

1. Satomimagae “Tou” Awa (Expanded) (RVNG Intl. 2023) 2. Library L'Amour “Premier Caprice” Premier Caprice (STROOM.tv 2023) 3. SFV Acid “Dwell On 2” The Dwell (UNO 2013) 4. Black Forces “Body Talk” Back 2 Black EP (2MR 2023) 5. Atom™ “Nacht” from Nacht (raster 2023) 6. Soft Tissue “Mel” from Gush (GLARC 2023) 7. Mouse on Mars “Tamagnocchi” Autoditacker (Thrill Jockey 1997) 8. Astral Social Club “Untheme” Starballs (Chocolate Monk 2023) 9. Oval “Touha” from Romantiq (Thrill jockey 2023) 10. Phil Maggi “Enchantment” from The Encrimsoned (Sub Rosa 2022)

#playlist #wgxc #hudson valley

[42frankee]

Natural Forces - Interface - Dispatch LTD 062 (CLIP) by Dispatch Recs | Ant TC1 http://bit.ly/2BBvrud

#Drum & Bass #Natural Forces #Sub Rosa EP #Dispatch LTD #SoundCloud #dnb #Interface #Natural F

[naggingatlas]

#fuck sub rosa this is the funniest s7 ep

[nylarae]

Indie Buzz

What’s known as the indie music scene, otherwise defined as “Independent Music”, has stretched itself far beyond its original meaning in the past fifty years. In its origin around the year 1970  (mostly taking place in the United States and England), the term “indie” referred to music created by independent labels, or music released and/or funded by the artists themselves. A current example of a traditional indie artist is Sven Gamsky, better known as Still Woozy. Gamsky was signed to the label Interscope Records in 2017 but continues to produce his own indie-pop music. However, “indie” has become a genre of its own rather than being used to disclose who is funding the music, now being associated with alternative rock and pop.

One of the earliest successes in the production of independent records comes from an English pop-punk/rock band by the name of Buzzcocks, titled the Spiral Scratch EP and released in January of 1977. The EP included four tracks; Breakdown, Time’s Up, Boredom, and Friends of Mine. Each song is electric guitar/percussion heavy, as well as featuring lead vocalist Pete Shelley, who sings with an attitude that can be described as carefree and maybe even spunky. Following the release of their EP, Buzzcocks continued producing records which contributed to the Manchester music scene as well as setting a precedent for indie rock. 

In its earlier years, indie music was also identified as sounds produced locally, or by smaller artists who ended up playing a key role in the development of the genre. Multiple areas housed sub-scenes of this kind, New York’s being the “No Wave” scene in the 1970s and 80s. This included punk and experimental rock, and local artists even became popular in this scene for jazz/funk music. Being that they are an early part of what we now know as indie rock culture, you wouldn’t know many of the musicians involved in No Wave. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Rosa Yemen, Mars, and Lydia Lunch among others were local performers and released their music independently, checking both of the boxes to be a part of the independent music scene, even though hearing their music now, you might not associate it with our new definition of “indie”. The stellar guitar riffs were still there, though, as well as the absurd band names that seemed to be a requisite for a lot of indie artists of the time. 

A few of the big bands we consider to be indie rock today can exhibit the substantial change the genre has undergone since its birth in the 70s. The fact that these bands have gained so much success and popularity already speaks volumes regarding the distance from original indie music, seeing as being small and local was one of the major traits that considered a musician to be indie. The popular songs “Do I Wanna Know”, “R U Mine?” and “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High”, while written by Alex Turner of the indie-rock band Arctic Monkeys, were actually produced and released by the record label Domino Recording Company. Because of this, Arctic Monkeys fits the indie rock genre, but not the independent scene as it was first created. Many of the individual artists and bands listened to by indie fans today fit this same category of “new indie”, shaped by predecessors who made a similar sound and produced it all on their own. After reading about how it all started, now we know who we should be grateful towards for creating the genre. Of all the bands out there, Buzzcocks made it happen. 

#arctic monkeys #buzzcocks #no wave #indie #independent #indie music #still woozy #cooks #breakdown #alex turner #do i wanna know #505 #r u mine #why'd you only call me when you're high #boredom #time's up #friend of mine #indie rock #punk rock

[gayspock]

okay last tng thoughts before the final ep

- last time i did a proper dump i was abt to watch the pegasus and i literally dont remember wtf my thoughts on that were its just a big gaping hole help. all i remember was omg locke's actor locke from lost 😁hiya baldie. nowt else on the brain. i feel like i liked it though?? ehrm

-theres a few eps i jsut plain dont remember actually jesus christ. which is silly bc it was obly a few weeks ago like ew get it together bestie. i was actually shocked to realise tht ep was even in s7.... huh.

- i think ijust burnt out so badly in this season and the hit and miss episodes didnt help with the problem i already had with bingeing tng. its like- again, i can tell the show is at the end of its rope and i dont even mean tht in a bad way... i think it worked in its favour with some of the things it started trying to do in some eps (like Lower Decks, finally giving Crusher&Picard closure in Attached). but in a lot its like... kinda jsut stupid ideas (Genesis) or stuff that kinda could work out but they really fucked it (Eye of the Beholder - like that execution was sloppy babe).

- sub rosa is so much though i dont think i can elt it go i think helop im sSFV-F help tihelp jEUSS

- however Journey's End is the episode i have the most grief with for sure. now- i cant... rlly speak too much on the depictions here bc im very uninformed. what i will say is: it certainly felt hokey as hell with some of the portrayals and the resolution to the conflict was jsut... like sorry but what did picard do, exactly? and now that... absolves- okay uh... its literally- its literally just such a weird fucking set up with that whole thing.

- but also wesley. ggggfuckg. FUCKS sake. okay heres my thing! i have complex feelings with wes<3 i think ppl who loathe him are fucking weirdos with it like MOST of the time but i dont rlly like a lot of his earlier depictions, but that was in part due to the shoddy writing of s1&s2 of tng so i'm LENIENT and i actually really liked wes in his later reappearances as his character became more grounded. when he was actually facing consequences for sth at the academy? YEAH, i dug that! and i sjtu

- they were heading in a better direction. or at least one i wanted and preferred and i just hated the way they ended it with him insisting he was special and fated. it didnt help that the episode kinda elluded to his place on that planet being his destiny- i got very scared we were about to get into some messy white savior mess which woulsd make me throwup and gag so bad. lllike pwease dont pwease donnnttt. in the end thwey just let it be i guess but still like.

- the thing is i dont hate him going with the traveller and i really like the idea of him leaving starfleet and deciding to do that. thats honestly what i want! but i just- again this weird insistence that hes special and different form everyone else- it jsut... it doesnt fit right with me at all and its exacerbated by all the problems with his earlier characterisation and im like :( bc AGAIN i like wes after the rough start so its just kinda sad for this to be his send off . feels like it unravels a lot of nuance and just makes it. irritating again but im not going to unpack . all my wesley feelings bc i think it would be #controversial and i dont have the energy to deal with it im just gonna live in a world where the little guy got sth i wanted for him

- OH. and i was so so so happy to see ro lahren back and im happy she fucking went off at the end. literally so so so fucking good for her. fuck starfleet.

- im glad they are actually are easing us more into the problems with starfleet even if tng isnt strictly about that. again more of wht i like with how theyre being pulled in different directions more in s7.

- i dontthink i have much else to say rn before the finally. i did watch the cold open though and i must say. worf and deanna still fucking baffle me to no end. every time they did anything together i jsut thought i was in a fever dream bc it made no god damn sense. im sssorry. but they dont rlly have chemistry whatsoever and im not trying to be mean but its just the case. love and kisses.

- oh and im gonna miss tng all said and done. idk how soon i'll be rewatching it since i am going to go onto ds9 p quickly but yeah. i still deffo prefer tos- sorry. its just more to my tastes.

#egg.txt #star trek liveblog