really really super enjoying how the dominion is slowly introduced over the course of season two
first wind we catch of the dominion is via quark when he hears of them through an attempted trade agreement with someone in the gamma quadrant - makes a ton of sense that the first thing we learn is that they are a powerful force in the economics of the gamma quadrant, and it also makes great use of both quark and zek as narrative forces
the second reference to them is when a group of three million refugees make their way through the wormhole - this was also interesting because the group had been essentially farmer serfs to a more powerful species (or maybe just political group? its unclear) on their home planet, and were freed as a side effect of that group being conquered by the dominion. this to me felt like a really interesting second thing we learn; it really underscores the way deep space nine is seeing the ripples of the dominion far far before anything concrete
and then! the third reference! is a man who survived his planet being conquered, and recreated his life via hologram on another world - this episode serving to really put a face to the harm that the dominion has been causing in the gamma quadrant
this all leads up to the season two finale where sisko, quark, nog, and jake encounter a jem'hadar soldier while on their camping trip. SUCH a multilayered approach to introducing the major antagonists of the series, a great slow burn and easily the best execution of this in any star trek in my opinion. deep space nine so perfectly transitioned from episodic to serialized and it blows my mind every time
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I'm a firm everybody lives AU-er, but my brain has been wobbly recently and has fixated on pseudo-widower Bilbo.
Just. Him going back to Bag End, alone. Maybe growing some flowers with meanings like mourning in his garden. Picking them and putting them in a vase in front of some momento of thorin - maybe he asks Ori for a drawing before he leaves.
Him reuniting with his parents in Yavannas gardens, and answering "Did you ever find anyone?" With "yes. But I lost them" and having to explain that no, he wouldn't be reunited with them now - for they waited in their makers halls, where he could not go.
Or maybe before he left, quietly pulling Balin to one side and asking what the dwarven practises were for those with a bonding bead at the funeral of their chosen. And Balin gently and kindly explaining, and the company pausing around him when he delivers the blessing as best he can, because they'd all clocked there was something, but only a select few really knew. And those dwarves who were relatives of the line of Durin, afterward, pledging Bilbo as kin and promising to uphold their duty to take care of widowed members of their family. And maybe after that, Balin delicately places in his hands unfinished betrothal gifts that thorin had intended for him, and Bilbo carrying them with him until the end.
Or what about even in a happy ending, when Thorin dies first, old and grey, and Bilbo has to outlive him - and says that he is glad of it, that Thorin knew enough loss in his lifetime and Bilbo was glad to spare him living through any more, all the while knowing that there was a chance he'd never see him again, if Mahals halls were closed.
BUT. There is some light at the end of these angsty tunnels. Because I choose to interpret the little I know about Tolkien lore to mean that when the world is remade, everyone waiting with their respective maker will be reunited. So even if they do die separately, and go elsewhere after, beyond that - they will see each other again. And if you know more about the lore and know this is wrong no you don't
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i had a nightmare i was in the zombie apocalypse with my sister and she decided to pull off to the side of the road and 'wait out' the hoard coming right to us to get high and completely dismissed me the whole time I was begging to just keep moving until we got eaten.
ive upgraded to literally having nightmares about the night she did that at the rave. bc she ACTUALLY did that btw. she fought me for a whole hour about leaving while a guy with a gun was tweaking out LOOKING FOR US and knew we were on that bridge.
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guess who left their best blade lying out such that it was spotted by her dad, made up random excuses, got asked to throw it away as it is dangerous without the plastic cover and finally had it thrown in the dustbin after it was broken into pieces ????
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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