#nerdgatehobbit

[mylittleredgirl]

For the ship it or not game: Benjamin x Kasidy, please?

(ship asks)

I Ship It

1. What made you ship it?

they literally COULD NOT have written a better love interest for ben sisko, and they put them together so thoughtfully. jake sets them up -- after a build-up where we see jake turning into a young man thinking about his future and really wanting his dad to have someone. i love that she's a freighter captain, a type of person in the ds9 universe who we have never really gotten to know, and essentially a grounding element -- she's a civilian living her own life who is (at first) totally uninvolved in the a-plot. and she knows about baseball!! the sheer joy i felt watching her walk in in her second appearance in "the way of the warrior" and they're already together and falling in love...

i couldn't find a great two shot of them so look at these caps from the "don't get killed" moment in the way of the warrior........ ROMANCEEEE

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

it's such a good relationship!!!! they're mature, open, respectful, demonstrative, sexy... every beat is so potent and it expands into episodes she's not even in. i love her, i love her for him, i love him for her, and i LOVE her relationship with jake. their love stories are both heavy and light ("it's a big step") but there's never a flippancy to their relationship ever. and hooooooly shit. for the cause. i remember my dad showing me the last scene of casablanca like "this is the end scene of all time" but have you seen the last scene of for the cause.

genuinely i think this would be THE undisputed together-on-screen-in-canon star trek relationship of all time if it weren't for the fact that kasidy is a guest star and, while she has a rich implied life and does develop and grow, we never get the full main character treatment with her like we do with riker/troi and paul/hugh (and michael/book because book is also a guest star but he's a driving force of the a-plot of a whole season).

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

i think most people probably agree with me tbh that it's an incredible ship that's electric on-screen and underrepresented in fanworks. i don't know if people agree that the last part of their arc was the weakest part because it was rushed (that engagement scene was so sweet though!! it's your house i want it to be our house!!), and i don't really like unplanned pregnancy as a trope (planned pregnancy? yes please!). like yes, her entire presence in the series has always been to serve his emotional story, but this felt different. until that point, her life between episodes was mostly implied until it intersected with the plot, but it was important to her and believable. in the final chapter it vanished completely, and i can't remember if she ever made that an intentional choice (or, if she did, if that choice was given enough weight).

#chatter post #nerdgatehobbit #ship asks #the siskos #it's funny that my tag is the siskos when just now when i looked her up and saw they called her kasidy yates-sisko i was like NO. #that is kasidy YATES. of family sisko. #the siskos is for all siskos and siskos-adjacent #deep space nine

[magic-owl]

Discworld-wise, I think you’d like Jingo (admittedly partway through the Vimes books but it does take a serious look at the dangers of us vs them & looking down on other cultures) or The Wee Free Men (the first Tiffany Aching book). I personally have a soft spot for Moist’s books, which start with Going Postal. Night Watch is very good & hard-hitting as well as the source as why the fandom reactivates every May 25th, but it’s both the start of & rather late in Vimes’ storyline (time travel is involved), so it might not be the best read early on. I admittedly haven’t read all of them but those are the ones I thought of off the top of my head. Oh! Hogfather might be a fun December read, or sooner if you want more of Discworld’s Death.

oooooh thank you so much for the recs!!! I'm noting down all the ones you've mentioned to me and I'll look at the summaries next time I'm at the bookstore!

#owl gets an ask #nerdgatehobbit

[asokatanos]

Happy birthday! \o/ I hope it’s going great for you!

Thanks friend!! It’s been pretty nice all said!! ✨🎉

#nerdgatehobbit #birthday 2023

[bex-pendragon]

17 for Spotify wrapped?

My #17 was "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush.

For the record, I loved this song long before it blew up on Stranger Things. I had it on one of my story playlists, so I always end up circling back to it.

Send me a number from 1-100 and I’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist on Spotify.

#Bex answers asks #nerdgatehobbit

[bethanyactually]

For the Just Because Asks: 38 and/or 46?

38. What’s one show you watch or musician you listen to that your friends know nothing about?

Uhhh you mean, a show/musician that I don't talk about, or one that no one else I know is into? I honestly can't think of one of any category. If I like a thing enough to keep watching or listening, I'm probably gonna mention it.

46. What’s the last thing a friend recommended to you that you looked into and actually liked?

Oh, maybe the Peter Wimsey mysteries? @preux-chevalier has been talking about them on my dash for years, and @pressdbtwnpages finally gave me the push that got me reading them.

Thanks, friend!

50 Questions Just Because

#nerdgatehobbit #meme #50 questions meme

[twilightofthe]

For the Blorbos: Bail Organa?

Heck yeah thanks Hobbit!!! Here’s Best Dude!!!!

#bail organa #Star Wars #i wish he gave fruitier vibes to me i really do #and ik some folks like to ship him with obi wan #but alas i cannot see him as more than number one straight ally #i don’t have a bail tag yet #ask #asks #nerdgatehobbit

[jadelotusflower]

🔉 for Janet Fraiser?

Ohh, that’s a hard one! Maybe Shake it Out by Florence + The Machine?

#ask #nerdgatehobbit #stargate sg1 #janet fraiser

[rings-of-power-realm]

Miriel’s Vision The Great Wave

For @nerdgatehobbit​

#the rings of power #rop edit #miriel #the great wave #gif request #tumblr annhialates the quality aah #how do people god tier gifs #tell me your secrets #numenor

[carsonsweebabyturtles]

Thanks @salchat for the tag

Rules: list eight shows for your followers to get to know you better

The top 4 are my favourite obsessions of the moment. I had to ruthlessly choose between TNG and Enterprise but thanks to Picard S03 I’m going through a TNG phase again.

tagging: @sun-ni-day  @vikujir  @hideoussundemon  @nerdgatehobbit  @lt-col-siren  Feel free to ignore if you don’t want to do this.

#tag game

[morethanaloveinterest]

people you'd like to get to know better

Thanks for the tag @coolswearypriest

last song: Smells Like Teen Spirit (cover) by Tori Amos (she's my favorite)

currently watching: 30 Rock (for the hundredth rewatch)

currently reading: The Fun Widow's Book Tour by Zoe Fishman

current obsession: romance tropes and why people seem so blind them these days

no pressure tagging some folks: @nerdgatehobbit @aquaburst3 @rosekitty414 and anyone else who wants to!

#about me

[angsty-violet]

I posted 554 times in 2022

That's 331 more posts than 2021!

44 posts created (8%)

510 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@archangelsunited

@ceylonsilvergirl

@nerdgatehobbit

@azzandra

@blessyouhawkeye

I tagged 109 of my posts in 2022

#fanfiction - 8 posts

#violet's life - 7 posts

#star wars - 5 posts

#moodboard - 5 posts

#writing - 5 posts

#obi-wan kenobi - 4 posts

#tea - 4 posts

#qui-gon jinn - 4 posts

#fringe - 3 posts

#danny williams - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 74 characters

#and explain the complex intersocial relationships that make up friendships

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

So, @amysnotdeadyet wrote the best fic, and I have read it so many times. I read it so much that I got inspired to create a moodboard for it. So, here's the moodboard.

Go check out her fic Specificity. It is so good.

25 notes - Posted November 26, 2022

#4

Boga survived Order 66? Why didn’t I know this?

40 notes - Posted March 3, 2022

#3

Proposal

Steve was so nervous he could hardly stand it. He patted the pocket twice more, just to make sure that the rings were still there. He knew that Danny was going to say yes. They had been discussing marriage and particulars for months. He knew that it was a sure thing. However, that didn’t change the nerves that kept telling him that his partner was going to say no.

Steve drew in a few more breaths and tried to act like he wasn’t a crazy person. Although Danny hadn’t run screaming from their relationship yet, there was still time. He heard the door open and looked up to see his partner enter. Steve smiled at Danny. No, Danny was in it for the long haul, and Steve was ready to show him he was too.

42 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

#2

00Q moodboard

44 notes - Posted November 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

By far one of the funniest parts of Phantom Menace is when Qui-Gon uses a force suggestion to relax Jar Jar and it puts him to sleep and Obi-Wan knowingly says “You over did it.” Like, mate, how often has this happened that you know exactly what he just did without even looking at him?

But also Qui-Gon knowing that Obi-Wan can’t focus on piloting with all the racket, because he’s still an easily distracted padawan and not at all giving a shit about putting Jar Jar to sleep. How many times has this scenario played out anyway?

251 notes - Posted March 17, 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

[mylittleredgirl]

They showed us what happens if DS9 goes to TOS. But what do you think would happen if the TOS crew ended up on Deep Space 9 via shenanigans?

you know what?? i think they ALSO would have had a straight up blast with some silliness and no lasting repercussions. the very same episode could have happened in reverse except the cold war vibes would be with the cardassians instead of the klingons. and given the kind of episodes that happen to the tos crew they would not be fazed at all by all-knowing aliens living next door or rapid modes of transit to the other side of the galaxy, you know? they would probably be surprised by so many different kinds of aliens all shopping at the same mall together, but i think they'd get used to it pretty fast.

the main difference they'd wrestle with is that the tos crew would be VERY uncomfortable sharing the station with klingons if this happened to fall during a season where there were lots of them around.

#chatter post #nerdgatehobbit #star trek thoughts

[magic-owl]

POV, please?

(ask meme found here)

Ahhhh shite that's like the one prompt that i CAN'T do cuz there's only one character in this part of the story and the only other POV I could possibly do is literally my writing partner's job to write 😅 As recompense, I'll post bits from all the other prompts to make up for it for ya!

FIRST — The thing about being dead is that it’s a very distinct sensation, putting things if not lightly then the only possible way to put them because how does one explain the feeling of death to someone who has never experienced it before?

[He] doesn’t remember all that much about being dead, but he has enough of a recollection of the experience that now, opening his eyes and squinting into the glaring shroud that is sun-bright mountain mist, he understands that he is very much Not Dead.

LAST — So killing [the guy] didn’t do it, then.

'Damn it', [he] thinks, and blacks out.

NEXT — Lol I since finished the chapter after I posted this prompt so you'll get one of my favorite lines out of context!

'He felt betrayed by the man, so he killed himself and summoned you in all of your cursed glory to deal with his problem,' [his] brain reminds him snidely. 'I think we can safely assume he is more than “a bit” upset.'

[insert prompt here] — i'll skip this one since you didn't prompt xD

THE END — some poor child finds a murder scene and is traumtized

BEFORE THE BEGINNING — some poor suicidal guy finds his friend is lying to him, decides a good mediator for this problem would be to summon the bogeyman

#thanks for the ask! #owl gets an ask #nerdgatehobbit #asks

[asokatanos]

I got tagged by @corrodedcoffn to do this cute lil picrew and while I haven’t done a tag game in aaaages I miss how tumblr used to be when these were super popular so

I actually just bought shortalls like this a couple weeks ago and have been looking forward to wearing them!! They make me feel like I’m six years old 😂

Tagging: @ anyone at all who wants to do this, @eohwyyn @clotpolesonly @rosieposiepie @nerdgatehobbit

#picrew #tag games

[careful-knives]

Ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags

I got tagged by @nerdgatehobbit, thank you so much <3

I'll probably invoke some old fandoms for this.

Let's go:

Wei Wuxian from Mo dao zu shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII

Excel from Excel Saga

(Garrett) Hawke from Dragon Age 2

Xelloss from Slayers

Granny Weatherwax from Discworld

Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon

Lauress from Seimaden

Stede Bonnet from Our flag means death

Seung Mina from Soul Blade

All of them are/were important to me somehow. Still are.

As usual, no pressure but if you'd like to play: @death-by-cuddles, @the-names-salomea, @kouya-no-eden, @jadedaceofspades, @hostilemakeover, @whereisyourboy, @the-social-recluse, @tenitchyfingers, @noirenurie, @nona-inc

#answers #thank you

[bethanyactually]

For the ask game: Janet Fraiser, Leia Organa, & Ursula from George of the Jungle.

Spouse: Janet

One-night stand: Ursula

Best friend: Leia

Thanks, friend! 😊

#spouse - one night stand - best friend #meme #nerdgatehobbit