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felunax · 5 years

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oc info meme

tagged by: @bright-witch 💗✨

tagging: @druzsea @boringartist @ice-fyre @creamsodaprince @gemkids @coffeecats900 @24cr

and anyone else who wants to!

B A S I C S

Full Name: Opalized Wood

Gender: Female/non-binary

Sexuality: Lesbian

Pronouns: She/her

O T H E R

Family: I’m not quite sure what to put here. But she is rarely with other Opalized Woods, as there aren’t many of them left after the war on Earth. She’s commonly within a scientific crew of sorts. Generally the same type of gems each expedition. I haven’t really fleshed it out, but I know Opalized Wood is around Lapis Lazulis at least sometimes. (I LOVE other people’s gemsonas who have similar work to Opalized Wood’s, so I like to think whatever gems that do science/ terraforming/ early colonization stuff would be around her)

Birthplace: Earth

Job(s): Planetary Scientist / Astrobiologist. Involved in terrain investigation and early processes for ambiguous planets or celestial bodies that are yet to be terraformed + colonized. Specializes in planets particularly filled with organic (biological) life. Her abilities are commonly used for understanding the structural life forms on planets. If desirable, she can be used to create blueprints of promising or interesting organic structures for future technology (Biomimicry). If a lot of Opalized Woods are together, they can efficiently mass deconstruct forests and such to aid in terraforming planets.

Phobias: affectionate physical contact, shattering

Guilty Pleasures: Sleeping, creating completely useless structures straying from original plant blueprints (basically art!)

Hobbies: Studying plant life, experimenting with said plant life, exploring planets

M O R A L S

Moral Alignment: Lawful Good

Sins: lust/greed/envy/gluttony/pride/wrath/sloth

Virtues: charity/chastity/diligence/humility/justice/patience

T H I S -OR- T H A T

introvert / extrovert / ambivert

organized / disorganized

close-minded / open-minded

calm / anxious / restless

disagreeable / agreeable / in-between

patient / impatient

outspoken / reserved

leader / follower / flexible

empathetic / unempathetic

optimistic / pessimistic / realistic

traditional / modern / in-between

hard-working / lazy

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

(I can’t imagine Opalized Wood in a serious relationship with anyone. She’s kinda weird and distances herself from other gems. Opalized Wood is not romantic, however I think she does admire some gems from afar!)

OTP: n/a

Acceptable Ships: Idk, I think Opalized Wood and Jasper, or Opalized Wood and a Lapis Lazuli would be fun

OT3: n/a

BROTP: n/a

Thank you for tagging me I had a lot of fun doing this! 🥰🥰💗💓🥰💓

#opalized wood #gemsona #ask meme #oc meme #fan gem #gem oc #steven universe #original character

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hithelleth · 7 years

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Salvation S1

Why do I keep getting into shows that are likely to be cancelled!? Oh, right, because I’m a masochist. So, I’ve finished Salvation and it was so good! I’ve been internally squeeing for days, so I’ll try to get things out of my system now so I can then maybe focus on other fannish (and non-fannish) things.

(This turned out long, so I put it under the cut and tried to make it more easily readable with some bolding. My apologies to those on mobile.)

I’ve always had a thing for doomsday premises, so this was right up my alley with an impending extinction level event that must remain secret from the general populace to avoid panic while the big shots try to prevent it.

Except that unlike a number of cheesy movies where the world comes together to save humanity and/or help each other after the disaster, Salvation creators tackled it from the other end: the whole season is set before the disaster strikes and nobody is willing to cooperate.

I found the approach refreshing and really liked it. Probably because I’m what I call a pessimistic idealist. I mean, don’t get me wrong, obviously, if such a scenario happens in real life, I do hope (or want to) that humanity would come together to save itself/the Earth. But the pessimist in me thinks there is just as much chance for us to kill each other before the Earth/space/whatever gets to us.

Although, of course, with the current political atmosphere where the orange menace and the little dumpling (you know who I mean, they don’t deserve to be named) are throwing threats with nuclear war weapons around, the cold-war-era-like hostilities in the show gave me chills.

So, there’s political power play galore while the tech wiz and co. are trying to find the way to save the world while being obstructed on every step by politicians. I liked the suspense it all brought out, and how it made the show fast paced (but didn’t take anything from complexity). I also liked all the shadiness and there was a lot of it around, as basically everyone does at least something not quite right (even if with the best of intentions).

I liked that the focus of the show is sort-of evenly spread between science and politics as well as different age groups, as in the characters in their early to mid-twenties and those around/in their forties, which I’m more into the older I get (seriously, it’s one of the biggest reality checks as to age when I realise that the character/actor(ess) is only a few years older than me, or worse, younger!)

And while I’m at that… I have a new OT3!!!! Come on, you knew this was coming, I’m that weird person who can find more or less likely OT3s anywhere and I proudly own it.

But damn it, I wasn’t looking for it! Then again I never do, you know how it goes: I don’t choose my ships, they chose me. Those three fuckers! Why am I doing this to myself? Why? *high pitched pterodactyl screeching*

I’m talking about Harris/Grace/Darius (in all variations), just to be clear. Seriously, I have no idea how it happened, but around episode 5 or 6, I was like, “well maybe instead of squabbling and ‘slight’ signs of jealousy, you could, you know, work together?” and then one thought led to another and I was like, “yeah, I could ship it, provided Harris wasn’t evil…” (I mean, he was a very, very bad boy once or twice, but turned out not to be evil) and the rest is history. *insert more swearing* Yeah, episode 8 didn’t help at all. And then of course they did work together so well towards the end of the season. *sighs*

Anyway, look, I’m not asking for much, just a S2 where they can occasionally (well, the more often the better, but I’ll take what I get) share screen time and be the badass power world/country-saving trio they are. My imagination can do the rest. ;)

But of course, IAD was promoted to a regular on Hawaii 5-O, so I’m not sure what that would mean – although Salvation is a summer show, so I guess coordination could be possible – and the ratings seem to be shit and I don’t want to get my hopes up despite the articles floating around saying not all is lost for S2. *fingers crossed*

Which brings me to a bit of ranting about a plot hole or two and a few general observations and possible S2 speculations.

a) You want me to believe that the US Secretary of Defence can just simply drive around on his own, NBD, and nobody bats an eye? FFS, even in my itty bitty country where the cabinet members really aren’t in much danger of imminent assassination, they have drivers and security details, especially the Defence Minister. It did come very handy for the plot that Harris could just drive around like it’s nobody business, though.

b) How did they get the selected 160 on site so fast? Magic? Because they couldn’t have picked them solely from Tanz personnel, since that would be mostly scientists, and they did pick historians, artists, etc… And those would be from all around the country, I’d say. (It’s shitty enough that they would be all only Americans, like the rest of the world has no smart people to offer. Also, for genetic diversity it would be better if people were from other countries, too.)

Unless they brought them into Tanz as they picked them, before the nuclear alarm. But didn’t they finish the selection process just a day or a couple before (my memory is a bit foggy, I’ll have to rewatch)?

And nobody seemed surprised at the sight of the space-ship, so I guess they were told the actual truth or at least the Mars colonisation version beforehand? I think the second is more likely.

But, never mind, that is not even my biggest problem with the 160 and I can easily let it pass, because time on TV can work in mysterious ways (plus, maybe they cut the scenes that were supposed to clear it up.)

c) No, my biggest problem is that if 160 people are the minimum viable population, I assume those people must be able to procreate (and have healthy and diverse enough genes.)

And so there were mostly young people in their twenties (mostly women) and thirties in the Salvation bunker. So far so good.

Of course if we only look to the continuation of human species, choosing young people makes sense.

(I’m not going into the fact that if all those youth are the best and the brightest, there would be other issues with picking people who must have been child prodigies and could therefore lack the social skills that are just as important for humanity as science – but I guess the humanities studies part of the group can compensate for what others lack in that field.)

It also makes perfect sense that some people would be chosen for qualities other than reproductive abilities, which is where Harris and Grace come in.

I mean, men don’t have that sort of a problem, but with Zoe about to start college, Grace must be at least in her early 40s (although Jennifer is younger) since she doesn’t strike me as a teen mom, and a woman of her age has a hard time having a healthy child even in the most optimal, peaceful conditions and with the best medical treatment available, so I think it’s safe to say Grace having any more kids, especially in a couple of years, is out of the question. But that’s okay.

My problem is with Darius being disqualified on grounds of carrying the Huntington’s gene. Sure, it served as a fantastic testimony of his character that he would work on the Mars project and then this saving the mankind thing knowing that he can’t go/save himself. That’s great, what a good person!

But since other people were picked for their leadership/wisdom/merit, then why not Darius?

Did the writers forget that contraception is a thing? You know, to prevent ‘accidentally’ spreading his bad genes around? And pre-natal screening also exists (okay, IDK if they can find out about the Huntington’s gene that way, but still) – and there are doctors (I assume a few actual MDs have been picked) around to do it and in case of a positive result an abortion is an option? (But god forbid we’d even think of the A-word on a national network in the US, of course.) Or you know, just have the guy have a vasectomy, the easiest sure-fire solution. (Yeah, now I’m being mean.)

My point in short: there is no logical reason (I know, looking for logic on TV; I never learn) for Darius not to be among the 160 apart from the writers’ need for characterisation through drama.

Anyway, I think that if we get S2, it might turn out the nukes were false alarm or something, because Santiago Cabrera is first-billed and I expect they wouldn’t kill him off, so this disqualification issue will be moot.

So, if we get S2:

d) The usurping VP (why TF does he have to be named Monroe Bennett? *wry smile* *cue reminiscing of a certain other show*) escaped and will be wreaking havoc, I assume.

e) I’d really like if Amanda somehow survived (I mean, it’s TV, anything is survivable on TV, a little chest/shoulder wound should be nothing), because I liked her.

f) I had to google the actor who played Grace’s dad (he was awesome!) because he looked familiar and look, he also played the substitute pressie who needed to be bullied into doing the right thing in TLS.

g) With the EM drive being magnetic (duh), I think Liam’s idea has something to do with trying to use the EM drive to pull the asteroid in off the impact course. I vote for partial success, because otherwise the show’s premise would go out of the window and they might as well just end it.

And I think that’s all I’ve got (for now).

I think I’ll go find some pretties to queue up for next week. Although, I’ve already been in the tags a little and as far as I could see, nobody ships my OT3 (I’m not surprised at all), so I might need to do some giffing myself. And maybe write fic. But after I finish my current fic exchange assignment, which I should be doing instead of writing this, but oh well. Maybe now I’ll be able to concentrate better.

Tagging @street-of-mercy, because you got me into this mess! ;) (You don’t have to respond or anything, but in case you’re interested in my thoughts and questionable shipping choices, here you go. :D)

#CBS Salvation #salvation cbs #salvation meta #my meta: salvation

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vodka-aunt-coran · 7 years

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my bookmarked fics

@fictionismynationality asked me to dump the entirety of my bookmark folder on y’all so here’s what i’ve got (somewhat organized)

(mostly does not include all the WIPs and “to read”s i currently have open in my 21 tabs)

slowburn:

nothing’s quite as sweet – klance, 50k, kitten/coffeeshop, but the coffeeshop is a capitalist machine

all things infinite – klance, 7k, jealous/pining keith, rated M for graphic blood/gore stuff (not sex)

chaser of fate – klance, 7k, don’t actually remember reading the second chapter lol i assume it’s good too? it’s a reincarnation fic and i’m always a sucker for those so

animal magnetism – shatt, 14k, veterinarian au, dork matt, i rly liked it??

sweeter than pumpkin pie – klance, 45k, i didn’t realize there was a second chapter to this now?? lance taking care of sick keith over thanksgiving, pretty cute

cause you’re learning me – klance, 32k, roommate fic w strangers-turned-friends-turned-lovers. i really really loved it and wasn’t entirely sure whether to put this under slowburn or fluff so. enjoy.

how to fake an interest in biomechanical engineering – shatt, 8k, rly rly cute college au, shiro is Relatable, keith is an annoying little brother, highly recommended

where the lions roam – klance, 7k, tentatively putting this under slowburn? blue keeps protecting keith whenever he’s in danger and lance?? can’t?? imagine why??

time out of mind – klance, 28k, RLY FRUSTRATING TO READ LMAO, keith and lance bicker too much so an alien transports their consciousnesses ten years into the future where?? apparently?? they’re happily, sickeningly married?? oh no how will they ever get back to the present (spoiler: they Have to Kiss)

angst:

this house unfinished – klance, 30k, does not have a happy ending, one of the first vld fics i read and it wrecked me, beware. it’s beautifully written though. belongs in a museum.

what a healing pod can’t repair – klance, 55k, LMAOOO THIS WRECKS U the first part is rly good and so is the second part, and it does have a happy ending though if you’re worried abt that

just static – klance, 84k, YOU! WILL! GET! FUCKED! UP! there’s a lot of injury (graphic!!!) so beware!! also a lot of foreshadowing, and i don’t want to spoil the ending so just make sure you read the tags!!

fluff:

nightmares – klance, 15k, i’ll be dead-honest, i don’t remember reading this, but i know it’s been recommended a million times and i must’ve enjoyed it if i bookmarked it so

got got got it bad – klance, 10k, lmaooo another one i can’t really remember but it’s named after one of my fave disney songs and it’s modeled after the five stages of grief bc keith realizes he’s pining for lance and i’m 98% sure it’s mega cute

never been kissed – klance, 3k, lance (and keith i think) have their first kiss in an alien mcdonald’s. i swear it’s super cute. a nice, refreshing fluff read.

call me beep me – klance, 85k, The Texting Fic. if you haven’t already read it...you should.

we’ll make it, you and me – klance, 6k, written post-s1 wherein keith and lance crash together. injured lance (possible warning for bad injury!!), but ends up pretty cute imo.

cheeky – klance, 3k, kiss fic that is rly well-written and kinda funny?? like. it’s an antagonistic kiss? i really liked it, anyway. rly cute. 10/10.

we’ll be counting stars – klance, 3k, the frat bro astrophysicist lance We Deserve

IDK WHAT TO CATEGORIZE THIS AS BUT I LOVE IT:

stormchasing – klance, 18k, y’all adventure fics are my favorite like idk how much klance was actually in this but it was so much fun to read and i love it so y’all need to read it too ok trust me. seriously. best fic ever. read it.

another word for never – ???, 204k (holy shit), i followed this one as it was a WIP so it seemed a lot shorter to me lmao. a MEGA au where matt is the red paladin, allura is the black paladin, shiro is a galra prisoner-turned-soldier, and keith is a galra prince-turned-traitor. super super interesting mostly-gen action fic, there is a sequel that i haven’t touched but i need to, highly recommended if you’re fine with heavy themes. (seriously, read the tags before you start.)

WIPs:

ok i needed to share a few WIPs which i’m too drained to finish/haven’t been updated in a while

ASPEN FUCKING FALLS – kla...nce...? (in the same way 11/mike is a thing though) & shalluratt!!!, a stranger things AU!!!!! half the reason i’m even adding a WIP section!!!!! unfortunately not updating anymore, but it holds a special place in my heart and i will keep it open in my tabs in the hopes that it will one day come back to life. note the the description says ot3 heavy after chapter 8 and it is at 8/25 chapters....that is what i am holding on hope for.

suis-moi – kinda klance and shatt??, 16k, the brothers au, one of the few fics that i have read multiple times. it’s just...very good. read the warnings though! but seriously one of my all-time favorite fics that i’ve almost completely adopted into my headcanon.

homesick at spacecamp – klance, 48k, besides being named after the one song i have most desired a vld fic to be named after, it’s a fake married au which, by the most recent chapter, is resolved, so you can read without fear of being left on-edge. note the tag “gratuitous ballroom dancing”. that’s how you know it’s good.

watercast – klance, 48k, My Friend if you haven’t read this yet, you should. it’s got mermaid lance and hunk, avian keith and shiro, and curious human pidge. klance-centric though. very interesting universe, good character interactions, highly recommend.

on thin ice – klance, 125k (holy shit), apparently there are two new chapters to this which i have yet to read....so.....i assume they’re good? keith is a hockey player who lance teaches figure skating to. lance has Unresolved Issues regarding partner skating. frustrating at times, but i’m pretty sure it will end well?

#fic #i haven't read anything lately sorry :(#so this is all kinda old #hopefully y'all enjoy?#otp: I'd recognize that mullet anywhere #otp: I volunteer as tribute #When Will Aspen Falls Return From The War

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