#the voyage: year 2

[writingmochi]

ｌｏａｄｉｎｇ ｉｎｔｅｒｆａｃｅ．．．

you have reached year 2

lissie: greetings, visitor! this is your flight director speaking~ welcome to the two-year anniversary of this blog (freaking awesome if you ask me). thank you so much for reading, indulging, and/or interacting with this blog, me, or my works. the sentence before cannot describe the gratitude i'm expressing towards all of you. this is a yearly recap for me and maybe for new visitors who come to know what has happened on this blog for the year.

before we get to it, i'm doing a survey to get to know my audience better (and more research). if you have spare time, do fill in the survey so that i get to know more about the visitors, the works, and the audience on tumblr in general! (average time is around 3 minutes~)

survey link! (survey closed)

leggo!

all research done (read: works written and released)

troubled pixies | txt's taehyun (2 parts; 52k [novel])

smirch episode 2: jay | enhypen's jay (27.4k [novella])

isobel | txt's soobin (43.3k [novel])

pizzeria run | enhypen's sunoo (17.9k [novella])

total: 4 works (1 two-shots, 3 oneshots) and 140.6k words written

all the navigators connected (read: mutuals i got within the year. check last year's recap if you didn't find yours!)

@it-rains-blue (via @itz-yerin)

yerin! the other biggest bamtori i know here! gosh i hope you're doing well irl and online... hope for the best for your confession cafe >> check it out folks @the-love-cafe

@heart2beom

hey jazmine! i notice you haven't posted in a while now. so i'm hoping your doing okay, okay?

@tyunlatte / @wave2tyun

alex! if you are lurking, i hope you're doing so good irl! live your life for the best (edit: alex's back!)

@lovejoshua

1/6 angels: ilem istg! hi! you've been like one of the constant presence when i check the discord server. hope you treat yourself well!

@junniieesbby

2/6 angels: whenever i see a heart, it always reminds me of you, angie. i think you're busy currently, so the best i can say is that hope you have a good rest cause you need it and always hydrate ;)

@hanniejie

3/6 angels: hey lex! i just saw the band au teaser on your blog and i wanna punch myself for not noticing that sooner! /j hope you have a great time writing that one :D

@txt-yaomi

4/6 angels: sof!! i gotta have to consult you more for street spirit cause just the way you work with the album for angel is just *chef's kiss*

@talesofyuan

yuan~~ ngl i can't wait to read your kei lovesick series (tho i'm hoping to staying loyal to yixiang) can't wait to see more of your &team fics. check the blog out for &team content, folks!

@choistick

5/6 angels: saph !! thanks for the tag and hope your hiatus is treating you well~

@robin-obsessed

6/6 angels: lee~ i've just seen that you also like riize like akfjbaieufiw okayyyy i hope you have a good day/night whenever and wherever you are!

@dido-of-the-endless

hi nida! tbh you have so many side blogs i'm confused in which one you post your writing (so i'm tagging your main account). feel free to consult me if you have any wips you wanna let out lmao >.< n thanks for joining the txt hub server, i won't know you if not from there...

@pyeonghongrie (via @pyeonghongrie-main)

rie! thank you so much for letting me in the cult (mueheheheh) and hope we can interact more here or on the server

@aduh0308

welcome to the roster, ada! thanks for letting me join the soobin collab and nice to see you!

director's journal entries (read: all the rants i have thought out the past year. some are genuine, some are sarcastic):

wow… i freaking broke tumblr huh

i shouldn't have been too ambitous fook me

bruh my body's crumbling…

i swear i hate college for not allowing me to write

i broke tumblr twice w/ a txt fic alsnskdams

tumblr can’t handle things :(

is my mind running too fast or is it just harder for people to understand me? annoying much…

i’m literally a step away from going out of the kpop fandom. this kind of fan behavior is sickening

^ and the fact is: i’ll probably survive

kinda wish someone could appreciate my writing just like i do for other people here

is there something wrong with how i write asks? i should have put more tone indicators…

the desire for me to revert back to web 1.0 is crazy. like, me owning a blog? ughh yes pls!

i’m getting freaking frustrated!!!

AGGHHHGHHHHHHHH

… will i ever … :")

*queue yoda's voice* you pushing back more wips i see

how the fuck have i made fewer works yet the wc is 20k away from last year's result? (166k for 12 compared to 140k for 5 works)

^ it's quality over quantity now darling

^^ and the fact that the year 3 count will get higher because of the fics you've delayed

notable moments from the past year

established @a-dream-bookmark, a rec blog + kpop writer & reader network

reaching 200!

started writing for ateez!

joining @kflixnet, @k-labels, and @cultofdionysusnet networks

what’s next?

lissie: if you haven't seen it, i'm starting a new big-scale series called terra incognita for enhypen's jake, do check it out if you like cyberpunk, or dystopian fics! also, i an doing the wips that i promised will be released this year (will prioritize evaluation and subterranean homesick alien first)

lissie: once again, thank you so much for following me on this journey! cheers~

#the voyage: year 2 #milestone of the moon #announcement from the moon

[maliciousalice]

All we can do now is keep moving forward. Carefully. I was busy on the real day but rest assured I was watching all the shenanigans unfold. Happy Threshold day 2024!🦎

#2 years in a row i've been caught up with job related shit lol #also my computer crashed on my original attempt which was sad but sometimes doing things twice results in something better #ive enjoyed all your things #threshold is very special to me and im glad people have fun on that day #threshold day #threshold au #captain janeway #janeway #kathryn janeway #threshold #startrek voyager #art #my art #startrek voy #star trek voy #st:voy

[bumblingbabooshka]

“I have a home and a spouse on Vulcan.“  - Tuvok, St Voyager: Alter Ego Redraw of this: X Patreon | Ko-fi

#Tuvok's GNC wife - GNC mother to his children #Tuvok/T'Pel cheating scandal where someone goes up to T'Pel like I saw your husband with a man the other day and T'Pel looks at the picture #and it's just her #I HAATE that old art!!! But I do love this concept so I'm glad I redrew it <3 #looking at old art is always like 'making a lot of choices I see - all of them incorrect but still' #and YET!!! That just shows you've improved!! I'm sure in 2 years this art too will make me groan #bea art tag #T'Pel #st voy #st voyager #star trek #Janeway: Who's that man who let me into your house? / Tuvok: ? That was T'Pel. #Tom: You have a husband AND a wife?? / Tuvok: ? That is T'Pel. #trans Vulcan

[spockvarietyhour]

3 different encounters with a border guard "Year of Hell Pt. 1 & 2"

#love how that light is subtly changed is time but keeping the same back panel #the uniform is also different in the first one #Star Trek Voyager #VOY #Peter Slutsker #Year of Hell #Year of Hell Pt 1 #Year of Hell Pt 2 #Krenim #Krenim Imperium #4.08 #4.09 #VOY S4 #GIF #my gifs #voyedit #startrekedit #voyageredit #Hide and Queue

[emillungs]

my laptop is broken so i offer you a traditionally inked janeway with an old pen

#my art #captain janeway #kathryn janeway #star trek #artists on tumblr #sketches #fanart #traditional art #posting this to announce that: 1. i have officially started watching voyager and it slaps #and 2. im broke and my computer is broken 🥲 #going trad after years of digital feels weird

[baylardian-1]

hi im mildly obsessed with your art! i watched like 5 episodes of voyager when i was 10, i have no idea what's going on, your AUs slap tho!! 10/10!

aw ty!!! 🥺❤️

the only episode that matters is Threshold so if you havent watched it, HIGHLY RECOMMEND lmao. XD

#i feel like we (me and maliciousalice) are nearing around our 10th time through watching voyager in 2 years lmao cringe #i lost count after round 5 hahaha #Threshold's just kinda the backbone of all my stuff :) #the one with the LIZARDS #Ask #Mackerelgray #ty for the ask!!!!! <3

[sciencewife]

Oooh drawing requests! Neat! How about…Caroline (SC or vanilla, dealers choice) but in whatever outfit you currently have on? Or if not that, maybe your favourite outfit? Show off a bit of your own fashion sense!

What do you do when the prompt is for whatever you have on or your favorite outfit, but the favorite outfit is the Caroline outfit in your wardrobe? Pick a secret third thing: my second favorite outfit, my Star Trek uniform, which I always have in my closet in case there’s a con and I have no other ideas on what to wear.

Let’s be real though: Caroline looks sharp in this uniform yes, but she is NOT starfleet material lmao. She’s probably broken several Federation laws by now…

#This is so stupid lmao but ask and ye shall receive #SC Caroline not in lab coat for once! Let it be known she does wear other things. But NOT this lol #portal #portal 2 #caroline portal #Sc caroline #schrödinger’s cave #art request #Sc #Star trek #I had a big Star Trek era about six years ago #My art #star trek voyager

[wwwyzzerdd420]

My wife works as a help line operator and she just asked the caller "is that T as in Tom, or P as in Paris?"

#star trek #tom paris #i love her so much we havent watched voyager in like 2 years but here she is stanning like it was yesterday

[battywitch]

Top 5 Star Trek characters

(okay, I should stop now with the asks *lol*)

Hmm this one wasn't showing up on the desktop site.

Oooh ok so I haven't seen everything, and I really need to rewatch DS9 and Voyager, but, at this moment, I think

Data (my actual fave-fave of all time I think)

Worf (very close second fave)

Uuuh Ro Laren, and Geordie, and Julian are all characters I'm attached to

I think Odo, probably has to make this list

Guinan

#''my'' show is mostly tng but i started rewatching ds9 a few years ago but it was pulled from Netflix while i was on season 2 😣 #and i loooved voyager but i haven't seen any of it since my teens i think so i don't actually remember much #and i haven't seen any of the newer shows because I'm a fake fan lol #batty answers #ask game #ask me top 5 anything

[sugarpkts]

as the world’s slowest show watcher it’s fun to be able to catalogue basically my entire 20s by which star trek show i had on the back burner

#gonna have to make this last season of voyager last like 2 more years…

[bobcatmoran]

Voyager 2 just got another 3-year extension on its array of scientific instruments! The folks at NASA figured out a way to keep the space probe's power supply going for a bit longer so they can gather more data on space beyond the heliosphere and the influence of our Sun. Not bad at all for a spacecraft launched back in 1977 whose original mission only lasted for four years!

#space probe feels #i have a particular attachment to voyager 2 #since as a wee bobcat i went with my dad to the local University #to see the images from its flyby of neptune come in LIVE #one of the local public TV stations also broadcast them #and my mom taped them and for years and years we had a VHS tape labeled simply 'Neptune'

[blueiskewl]

Voyager Probes Still Going Strong After 45 Years

Most of the space community's attention is on the delayed Artemis launch, but one of NASA's oldest projects is still motoring along, and it could continue for many more years.

As much of the space community’s attention remains focused on the delayed Artemis rocket launch and the return to the moon, two relics of the Space Age continue to  make their way across the void between the stars, sending back valuable information to scientists on Earth.

The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes launched 45 years ago, the first on Aug. 20, 1977  and the second on Sept. 5, and they are now the farthest human-made objects from Earth, at about three times the distance of Pluto from the Sun.

Measurements indicate both probes left the interstellar bubble of our solar system a few years ago. But they’re getting old, and so engineers have been progressively shutting down their systems in the hope that their fading batteries can provide enough power for just a few more years. After that, the probes will shut down completely, and could coast through space forever.

“The two Voyagers have become our first interstellar travelers, sending back information about a place that we’ve never visited before,” said Linda Spilker, NASA’s deputy project scientist on the Voyager missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

It now takes about 22 hours for radio signals from Earth to cover the more than 15 billion miles to Voyager 1, the farthest probe, and another 22 hours to receive its reply. Spilker, who’s worked on the probes since the first launch in 1977, said that keeping contact with them has been a monumental effort using the largest radio telescopes of the Deep Space Network, which NASA uses to relay commands to its spacecraft.

The Voyagers were a big deal when they launched at the height of the Space Age. Their main purpose was to make the first explorations of the solar system’s gas giants and their moons — Jupiter and Saturn by both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1979 and 1981, and Uranus and Neptune by Voyager 2 in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

The high-resolution color photographs they took and the data they recorded are still crucial to scientific studies today. Their final photo was the Pale Blue Dot, a portrait of the solar system taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, at about 6 billion miles away from Earth.

After their dramatic planetary fly-bys, however, the Voyager probes began a quieter phase of their journey, heading for the very edges of our solar system and beyond. Onboard instruments that measure charged particles in space indicate Voyager 1 left the protective bubble of particles emitted by the sun in 2012, while Voyager 2 left it in 2018. That means that both probes are now technically in interstellar space — between stars — and yet they are still sending back vital data from their onboard instruments, Spilker said.

Where the Voyager probes have led, others will follow. A panel to set the nation’s scientific priorities for the next 10 years is considering a proposal for a $3.1 billion Interstellar Probe (IP) that could reach the Voyagers’ current location in as little as 15 years. If it’s approved in 2024, the probe could be launched by 2036.

Ralph McNutt, who heads space science at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, has worked on the Voyager missions for his entire career. He witnessed the Voyager 1 launch in September 1977, and he’s now a leader of the IP project.

“We can get to a speed of about twice that of Voyager 1, and get about twice as far before the Interstellar Probe runs out of power,” he said.

The newer probe would be much more capable than the Voyagers, which were built with 45-year-old technology, and the project’s planners now have a much better idea of what’s possible and what to expect on the journey.

The key transmitter on the new probe and its instruments, including magnetometers and spectrometers, would be many times more powerful than their 1977 equivalents. And the IP could also visit some of the mysterious Kuiper Belt objects in the outer reaches of the solar system, which are thought to be the origins of some comets, McNutt said.

Until the Interstellar Probe gets the green light, however, the Voyagers will be humanity’s foremost representatives in interstellar space. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will get relatively close to another star in the constellation Camelopardalis, while Voyager 2 will near a star in the constellation of Andromeda on its way to the giant star Sirius, which it will reach in roughly 300,000 years.

Long before then, however — in as little as 10 years — both Voyager probes will completely run out of power, Spilker said. Each probe is powered by plutonium batteries, but they’ve already started to weaken, and every few months NASA engineers order the probes to shut down a few more of their onboard systems. Their hope is that they can eke enough power out of the batteries so some of the instruments can keep working, at least until the 50th anniversary of the twin launches in 2027.

After that, who knows?

“Fingers crossed, if everything goes as planned, we could get to the 2030s,” she said.

Whenever their power does finally run out, the Voyager probes will serve as “silent ambassadors” to the stars, Spilker said. Each probe is carrying a record, imprinted on gold, of sounds on Earth, including a baby’s cry, a whale’s song, music by Mozart and Chuck Berry, and greetings in 55 different languages.

“Maybe some other civilization will find them, and will want to know more about the Earth,” Spilker said.

By Tom Metcalfe.

#Voyager Probes Still Going Strong After 45 Years #voyager 1 #voyager 2 #nasa #space #deep space #nterstellar space #space probe #space craft #space ship #long reads

[isagrimorie]

Watching first part of Year of Hell, and rewatching it confirms that its still my favorite Janeway two-parter.

Its such a tour de force showcase of how determined she is. By hook or by crook, she will get her people safe.

It’s frustrating how the show would frequently reset back to status quo but in this case I was entranced with it.

I remember reading a really great follow-up fic for it where the Voyager that finally broke free gets the black box of Year of Hell!Janeway and the crew decide to listen to it. And it was amazing to read, I wish I remembered what story it was and that I saved it.

(Also, I can see seeds of how Picard Era!Seven moves and saunters. She very much modeled her persona on Janeway.)

#star trek voyager #kathryn janeway #year of hell is my favorite 2 parter #year of hell (voyager)

[bumblingbabooshka]

Do you think Kes' ability to pick up on things so quickly is linked to her being an Ocampa? Like, since she's 2~ years old in canon (and has distinct memories of her father) I imagine her species doesn't spend much time as children and I wouldn't imagine they'd have formal schools (like entire buildings for schooling) and would instead learn from like, primarily parents or other elders. In that case learning things very quickly would be extremely beneficial for their survival. Kes: Oh yes, childhood...what a lovely few days~ Kes was a baby like for a day and then the next day she was up and ready to learn. Kes meets Naomi and every day that passes she becomes more and more amazed that she's still a baby. Wow! It's been like two months and she still can't do anything?? The doctor told her it was normal but wow. What I'm saying is they should have had Kes as a jack-of-all-trades character who could slide into pretty much any of the teams on Voyager. The Doc misses her when she's not in sickbay though!

#Kes: Doctor I'm sorry this is just the sort of wisdom you have when you get older v_v #Doctor: You're only 2 years old. / Kes: You're 'only' a few months old. #Can you imagine Kes learning that Tuvok's like a hundred? That'd be like someone saying they're over a million years old in Human aging #I'd imagine even Janeway's 40~ years is like a hundred to her #Kes gives Samantha Wildman a very difficult biology book and is like 'for When Naomi's.....(trying to guess)....4?' #'Kes is a child because she's 2 years old' boo - engage with the unused horror and hilarity of a humanoid species that is fully matured #before they are a year old. #I just think Kes is a very interesting character who had a lot of WASTED potential (like seriously she was SO squandered) and I wish she #wasn't only mentioned to like dunk on Neelix - she's a fun character in her own right even if the writers don't think so!! #Kes #st voyager #I wish Kes had stayed so we could see the makeup department try to make her look old or the writing team bullshit ways to keep her young #It would also have been emotionally devastating to see her die of old age (in the version of Voyager where she bonded with the crew and had #more episodes devoted to her personality etc etc) #Doc: What're you learning today?? / Kes: Lieutenant Torres is teaching me rocket science :)

[thresholdbb]

Year of Hell

It’s only 257 days of hell

Almost 37 weeks of hell

8 1/2 months of hell

3 seasons of hell

#none of them sound as good as year of hell #over here engaging in intentional pedantry just for the hell of it #the whole thing is iconic to be clear #what would another ~100 days of hell done to them perish the thought #another 3 1/2 months of that would have been absolutely insane #yes yes the original concept was a season idc #year of hell is on for the millionth time and I’m here for it #sonic shower thoughts #star trek voyager

[ailendolin]

Just finished Star Trek Prodigy's first season and I'm a wreck.

I am going to miss Hologram Janeway so much.

#my heart broke when it became clear she wouldn't be able to copy her program #the look of devastation in her eyes #the quiet acceptance #the way she went down with her ship with her head held high #the last message to the kids #go boldly #I love her so much #but I also can't wait for season 2 #Admiral Janeway's ship is going to be Voyager right? #It has to be #I need to see that pretty lady again #it's her home #she even kept a replica with her on the Dauntless #and I can't wait to see her and Chakotay reunite #I've been waiting 22 years for this #and for someone to fix the mess that Endgame was #Prodigy writers please don't disappoint me #star trek prodigy #hologram janeway #star trek prodigy spoilers