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ussjellyfish · 5 months

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20 questions for fic writers

thank you, @mylittleredgirl for tagging me! Have I done this...perhaps. Will do it again! It might also be new? the questions are fun.

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

423

2. What’s your total ao3 word count?

2,817,922 (hitting 3 million should be fun). I average 6661 words (ha) per fic. Which is interesting. I have 43 drabbles and 7 fics over 100,000 words so they must even out.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Once Upon a Time (though not for years). Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Discovery. Stargate Atlantis and Agents of SHIELD. many other things, but not a lot of fics. (12 or less).

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Stray Feathers and Scales (Emma Swan/Regina Mills, Once Upon a Time) I almost listed this one as Maleficent/Regina, which it isn't..kind of is, could have been poly if I'd thought about). This fic has HUGE stats for me and I haven't reread it in years. Parts of it are really detailed though, and it's VERY me. It's all the tropes.

Lost Leaves of Autumn (Catelyn Stark/Ned Stark, Game of Thrones) This one is very soft and doesn't really belong in the GoT universe, which is so brutal, but I really love Catelyn.

Thawing Deep (Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell, Game of Thrones). They could have worked! I haven't read this one in ages either.

Her Majesty's Mercy (Maleficent/Regina Mills, Once Upon a Time) The best Once fic I wrote, in my opinion. I remember the fun of writing this one.

A Funny Thing Happened at a Stark Tower Gala (Melinda May/Phil Coulson, Agents of SHIELD). Maybe this got recced somewhere? Maybe AoS fandom was just big that year? It's cute and fun, and for some reason has a bunch of kudos.

(this is long)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to? If it's a fic that I'm really into I'll reply. I'm kind of giddy about comments on the ones I'm writing right now. If it's an older one that I am sentimental for I try to reply. If I'm not into it at the moment (I am kind of burnt out on Once Upon a Time, and I haven't been into Chakotay lately so I've been kind of meh on my own Janeway/Chakotay stuff). I try to, but I am fickle.

I did just have this really positive experience where I posted my chapter of Quantum Variations (which is my long Disco WIP) and the chapter was kind of a mess, but I was so happy to post it, I really didn't care) and people found things for me to fix and were really kind about it. It felt good, for a chapter with a bunch of errors.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I killed Elizabeth Weir once, but she came back, so the ending was pretty hopeful. I don't write much angst without a happy ending.

I have Janeway rather self-destructively run off with the Borg Queen but... uh...it wasn't that angsty. Dark, but she kind of wanted it.

There's probably something really angsty I'm just not thinking of, but I don't reread my really old stuff often. (some of them I honestly have no idea what the fic is about).

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

there's a really sappy SGA one where they have a bunch of kids.

Firefly (Star Trek Discovery, Philippa and...learning to have feelings). maybe? Considering how messy Philippa's feelings are, she ends up happy, and more human, and she goes on a very long journey about it.

8. Do you get hate on fic?

Not lately. I did, I have, but it's been years. Once Upon a Time fandom you were a wild ride.

I did make massive drama back in the day with Janeway/Crusher, because I really wanted to get to play with them in the fandom space I was in, but that was not the space for that.

9. Do you write smut?

Sometimes! I'm on a somewhat lazy sort of fade to feelings place at the moment. I wrote a somewhat detailed one awhile back, but it was pretty tame. The fic is good though! I really like that one. Trapped in a turbolift and then later they have sex.

Migrations and other recurring phenomena (Star Trek Discovery, Michael Burnham/Laira Rillak). Happy Birthday, madame captain...

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not often, I do have a SGA and TNG crossover where the Enterprise turns up at Atlantis, which is odd but fun, and for some reason (there's a space battle) it got outside my usual audience. I really liked the challenge of all the characters meeting each other.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I recall.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I think a OUAT one? maybe two? It has happens but...I don't remember which fic it is.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes! Jackie and I wrote two really long ones together (which were a blast). I don't think she's still on tumblr but, @shinewithalltheuntold, I love you).

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

I am really into whatever I am really into at the moment, because I get REALLY into things.

Right now it's Michael Burnham/Laira Rillak, underappreciated ship of my dreams. Michael gets to date the president of the Federation, as a treat. fun bonsu for me is that they have scenes together! and a relationship arc and that's really fun. (even if it's not romantic, it's something and I adore them, so I'll take it).

All time ever? Kathryn Janeway/Beverly Crusher, which made drama, ruined some of my fandom relationships, but really gave me something I needed.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but probably won’t?

I have a few that I just ended, which I'm okay with. I've taken longer hiatuses than I'd like, lately. (life's just been a lot).

I have three right now. Only one is posted and I'll finish that one! (Quantum Variations on a Love Theme (Star Trek Discovery, Michael Burnham/Laira Rillak) is my favorite. It's my heart right now. It's long and it's sometimes hard to write and there's backstory and plot threads BUT I love it.

And it has it's own little following and really that's all a really long fic needs: a handful of people who read it.

The other two I need for Year of the OTP so I should get those done too. (Firefly universe crosses over into canon-adjacent universe and Michael rescues sick Laira fic).

Hopefully they all get finished. (I'm fairly certain they will. I am not answering the question well).

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue. Soft feelings. Incremental character growth. Long, slow, introspective character journeys. Friendship and found family moments. (there are some Tilly and Philippa moments I really like in Firefly, and Tilly and Laira and Tilly and Michael and...people having loving conversations is fun).

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Description. (I feel like I'm really lazy with this most of the time. They're there, you know what they look like).

Urgency. (my fics do not move quickly, or really with a lot of certainty in their direction).

Plot. (frequently feels like an afterthought so people can have feelings).

Focus? I drop plot threads, all the time.

Writing by myself is hard. I ALWAYS want to show whatever I've just done to a person and sometimes people are busy and I am so unmoored by that. (post it anyway, dammit). I adore having someone tell me it's good before I post it.Sometimes I have to post it anyway...

I also write the thing I want to write, over and over in different fandoms and with different a characters and I've written my own variations on "pregnant person goes on a journey with her feelings and grows as a person" at least 10 times.

and I'll do it again.

And I love midly sick character, which I will do again.

I feel bad and don't feel bad? It's what I want to read so I have to write it so I can read it.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I google translate, or skip around it, or switch POV so I don't have to deal with it. It's hard to do and I can usually avoid it. I use a lot of fantasy name/word generator for alien words.

It's mostly [alien name goes here] and hopefully I put something in.

I borrow words (or spelling conventions) from languages I know little pieces of (Finnish, German, Welsh) when I need to for alien things.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Star Trek the Next Generation. (Stranded, Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard, Will Riker/Deanna Troi, adorable future children who are lesbians). One of my oldest fics is ON Ao3! it is like 22 years old I think? it's a mess and I should fix the formatting but it's SO LONG... It's fine. It's there. It's really not bad for my first long fic.

It's fun to see how far I've come. I wrote that one so long ago that I wrote it under my real name on a usergroup. Then posted it on my own website that I made with html on geoctities.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Whatever I'm working on right now is usually my favorite. I have fics I am especially fond of.

Her Majesty's Mercy. (Once Upon a Time, Regina Mills/Maleficent) one of the darker things I've written for them, that has a very happy ending it's just...kind of all raw messy feelings)

When I the Starry Courses Know. (Star Trek Voyager: Kathryn Janeway/Borg Queen) very depressed Janeway gives herself up to the Borg Queen, which kind of a Faustian twist to it. It's one of the better things I've ever written).

Fedvision (the Federation does eurovision, with Beverly Crusher/Kathryn Janeway and most of Voyager and TNG at their party). Fedvision is wonderful I should write it again, because it should happen every year. (Disco needs it). This fic is full of bubbly happiness and hats and love. It's full of love.

Firefly (Star Trek Discovery: Mirror Philippa Georgiou and Michael Burnham, and feelings, and learning to trust people). I used to live in a state of angst waiting for someone to comment when I posted...this fic has chapters without any comments at all. I had never written anything this long that didn't depend on a romantic pairing, this one doesn't have one in the center. I took huge break...and came back! I didn't have a beta or an alpha and I lost friends in the time it took to write it, and it still turned out. I grew as a writer and poster with this fic.

Quantum Variations on a Love Theme (Star Trek Discovery: Michael Burnham/Laira Rillak) is my favourite right now, because it's a me fic. It's a long meandering jellyfish fic and Laira's pregnant and I love it. It's the most fun I could have. It has really good parts. (not all of them but, there are some stellar bits). Also it has some detailed world building, and that's fun. This is the me fic that owns my soul at the moment so of course it's my favourite.

I'll just have five...

Tagging @aleksandrachaev @that-one-curly-haired-chick @purlturtle, @winternightjewels @regionalpancake @galactic-pirates @jackabelle73 @holdouttrout (if you fancy it)

and you, if you feel like it, person who made it all the way to the bottom!

The questions!

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

2. What’s your total ao3 word count?

3. What fandoms do you write for?

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

8. Do you get hate on fic?

9. Do you write smut?

10. Do you write crossovers?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but probably won’t?

16. What are your writing strengths?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

19. First fandom you wrote for?

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

#long post #20 questions for fic writers #about me #so much about me

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ensign-spider · 1 year

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a star trek theme park

in the "magic kingdom" type place is starfleet academy. rides include Red Squad, a wild rollercoaster, and maybe a log-ride style where an experiment with tilly goes wrong. obviously actors walking around. if you're lucky, you can catch boothby cleaning up and he'll tell you a story of young jean luc picard. you can "transport" to Sisko's in new orleans, where there is a great display of Creole/Cajun futurism.

then of course you have a starship-type area of the park. you can visit engineering and medical, with interactive panels. there's a shuttlecraft ride (think star tours from back in the day). you may run into chief o'brien or lt lefler. twice a day is a red alert and potential warp core breach, and at night it ends in fireworks and a show featuring geordi and data. there's also a 3D chess experience, and wesley can take you on an informative tour about space and advancements (a la hall of presidents).

now let's go to q'onos. there's hunting (laser tag), a space-mountain esque rollercoaster where you are in a klingon bird of prey being commander by general martok, and probably some bungee ride called the Klingon Death Drop. it's also home to the biggest food area, a huge dark cafeteria with klingon and human food. also about four times a day is a show featuring a klingon fight to the death (think medieval times).

deep space 9 would be kind of like epcot. i like the idea of a tour-type ride through deep space 9 featuring odo. obviously for the adults you can go to quarks and sample beer from around the quadrant. a dumbo-esque shuttlecraft ride featuring all the runabouts. if you're reeeeeally lucky, you'll run into harry kim or tom paris, but they're not there for long.

misc ideas: characters are stationed around the park. sometimes they'll need help from park guests to fix a panel (ie, lil kids) and they always have a fun story. there's hidden deltas you can find around the park. there's a "get the crew of voyager home game" where you have to collect all signatures from voyager crew members to help get them home. pin trading in the form of insignia of every kind, planet, and era. jumja stick stands, romulan ale cocktails, even an exotic restaurant that serves cardassian and orion food.

just call me paramount, okay? i have way more where this came from.

#star trek #star trek tng #txt post #tng #trek thoughts #ds9 #star trek deep space 9 #star trek voyager #star trek discovery #theme park #star trek ds9

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janieshi · 10 months

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Hey Janie! I’ve been wanting to watch Star Trek at some point, but I’m not sure whether to start with TOS or dive right into TNG. I haven’t seen any Star Trek except some of the newer movies. I’ve seen some Star Trek stuff from you a few times and each time I think “I’ll start that soon.” Any suggestions on what the best place is to start?

Omg yes yes yes! I’m stupidly excited for you; you are in for wild ride. Please excuse me as I vibrate out of my skin with suppressed delight and attempt to keep this short.

I would absolutely start with TOS.

For one thing, it IS the beginning from which all other Trek has sprung, and holds up surprisingly well. but also? It’s far less daunting as a newcomer to begin with a series that has only 3 seasons to get through (as opposed to TNG with 7). There are definitely a handful of TOS episodes you could skip and never regret missing (let me know if you ever want a comprehensive list! Although honestly part of the fun is how dang stupid some of the really terrible ones actually are, so there’s that).

Now, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve watched the whole of TNG, but iirc the first…maybe 1.5-2 seasons? were just…not the best. Don’t get scared off! It does improve! And I have a lot of love for both series (As well as DS9. And even most of Voyager. Enterprise can go straight to hell as far as I’m concerned). I grew up watching Star Treks TNG and DS9 with my mom, and I didn’t actually find TOS until my early 20s. I remember wondering where the hell it had been all my life and being absolutely delighted that I’d found it.

I do think you should watch as many of the series as you’re interested in, eventually. But in my opinion, you should begin at the beginning. And if the original doesn’t trip your trigger? There are plenty of other flavors of Trek to choose from :) Happy watching!

xoxo

#Janie rambles #Star Trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #star trek tng #star trek the next generation

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oldschoolfic-ds9 · 11 months

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Feder(ation) Bureau of Investigation

by KRiley, unknown year

Garak and O’Brien get caught up in an anomaly that sends them on a journey with a long way home. They discover more than they bargained for, and a few surprises along the way. The guys are trying to get home, but there is another surprise stop, can they handle this ride?

Words: 29320, Chapters: 6/6, Language: English

Rating: R

Warnings: language and sex

Characters: Elim Garak, Miles O’Brien, Julian Bashir, Chakotay, Tom Paris, Fox Mulder (X Files), Dana Scully (X Files)

Relationships: Bashir/Chakotay/Paris, Chakotay/Paris, Garak/Bashir, Bashir/Mulder

Reader suggested tags (what are these?): AU, crossover - Star Trek: Voyager, crossover - The X Files

Bad Boys series:

Wild, Wild West Style

Feder(ation) Bureau of Investigation

Genetic Galactic Gladiators [currently lost]

links (link broken? report it and try the archive.org alternative):

archive.org - option 1 (ch1, ch2, ch3, ch4, ch5, ch6)

#unknownyear #egarak #milesobrien #jbashir #bashirmisc #garakbashirfic #CrossOver #20kto40k #crossover: ST VOY #additional tags: other relationships #additional tags: AU #additional tags: missing parts #ratedrm

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buzzdixonwriter · 3 months

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Sensational ‘60s Sci-Fi

It's hard to explain context to modern audiences.

Does the Parthenon require "context?" Does Demoiselles D'Avignon? “Kind Of Blue?"

The Parthenon? Yes, to fully appreciate it you need to know the culture and purpose it was constructed for. You need to know what Demoiselles D'Avignon was responding to in order to fully grasp its importance. “Kind Of Blue” sounds great because we grew up in a post-”Kind Of Blue” world, only when you're fully versed on the history of jazz including jazz place in the history of music do you really appreciate it.

2001: A Space Odyssey offers several important contexts:

One of the first science fiction films in over a decade to try to present sci-fi concepts to the general mainstream adult audience, not kids or genre fans

One of the first since Destination Moon in 1950 to try to portray space flight accurately

One of the first real attempts to depict an encounter with a genuinely alien intelligence

A cultural document of the 1960s showing our hopes and fears

At was meant to be viewed as a widescreen roadshow release, not on TV screens

Understand that for sci-fi fans, most of what was produced after Forbidden Planet was a load of low budget crap, with only the occasional mediocre big budget A-film tossed in. Sci-fi movies earned a justifiable reputation for being juvenile trash. When MGM announced Journey To The Stars (2001's original title) as a big budget A-film by a major director, it was on par with Friz Lang doing Metropolis. While the film took several years to produce, it spurred other producers to try more serious sci-fi efforts.

Check the timetable below. Even tongue-in-cheek films like Barbarella and Wild In The Streets marked a far different sensibility than the era that preceded them.

Fantastic Voyage (1966 Aug)

Star Trek (1966 Sept. TV premiere)

Privilege (1967 Feb)

Quatermass And The Pit a.k.a Five Million Years To Earth (1967 Nov)

Planet Of The Apes (1968 Feb)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 April)

Project X (1968 May)

Wild In The Streets (1968 May)

Charly (1968 June)

Barbarella (1968 Oct)

The Power (1968)

In a little over two years mainstream audiences were targeted with sci-fi films meant for them, not genre audiences. It felt like a firehose had been turned on, and kick started a resulting sci-fi boom that continued for several years, eventually morphing into the Close Encounters / Star Wars / Alien wave we're still riding.

#science fiction #movies

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raineydaywrites · 5 months

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20 Questions for fic writers

Tagged by @barry-j-blupjeans (thank you!!!)

tagging @sgrumby and anyone who wants to play!!

1. How many works do you have on A03?

132

2. What's your total A03 word count?

568,150! half a million!!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Mainly TAZ Balance and Star Wars (Prequels/TCW era, mostly), but I've written a fair amount for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the past, and I'll sometimes write a fic here or there for other fandoms.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

They're all Star Wars fics, which makes sense but makes me kind of sad because I love my other fics too. But oh well:

still much that is fair.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Jedi Code, and Other Things That Anakin Has Misunderstood

Take Two

brothers don't let each other wander in the dark alone

growing season (absolutely BLEW MY MIND that this one is in my top five now. It's a one-shot kidfic for a pairing I don't write often?? I'm not used to those getting notes. But I guess it is the Codywan era for prequels fans so I can see where it's coming from.)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to! But sometimes I don't have the spoons for it. But I love getting comments and want to show my appreciation!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't usually write super angsty endings! I don't like them. Or, well, actually I do enjoy them sometimes, but IDK, if I'm writing a whole-ass fic, I usually want to make the ending happy!

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending

still much that is fair! which is wild because it has one of the angstiest premises I've ever written (suicide attempt that all loved ones believed to be successful, ends with characters giving each other hugs and 'love yous' and closure)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Rarely. Every once in a while. Sometimes people don't like me writing autistic headcanons or characters mentioning pronouns.

9. Do you write smut?

No. I'm not opposed to it in fic, but it doesn't interest me.

10. Do you write crossovers?

No, but I'll read them sometimes. I'm not opposed to writing them, but I've never really gotten an idea for one that inspires me.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of! I did once have someone warn me that my fic was 're-posted' to ao3 back in the days when I was still posting on both ffnet and ao3 with different usernames.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, actually, though I forgot about it until asked! It's not one I ever posted. I co-wrote a Maximum Ride fic with a friend in middle school, lol. But I'd love to co-write again in the future! It's fun to talk about ideas with friends.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

All-time favorite ship is SO hard for me because I'm a multishipper and I flipflop fandoms a lot, so I kind of default to my first (and still beloved) ship: Janeway/Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager. I'm also gonna answer for my two main fandoms atm: Star Wars is Obi-Wan/Satine and TAZ Balance is Barry Bluejeans/Lup/Lucretia, because I love a good polycule. Also Barry and Lup on their own are great but they remind me too much of my parents to really go wild over them.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Be My Brother's Keeper. A Darcy Lewis is Tony Stark's daughter AU. I love that one and I had PLANS for it, but my Marvel days are so long gone.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm good at coming up with creative, unique ideas and making them work!! People often say that they didn't expect to like my fics from the premise but enjoyed them anyway. :3 I'm also good at character interactions and emotions

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Describing things, mainly visual things that are happening. They're just there, in the fanfic, not in a physical location to me. Also staying motivated to finish writing and avoiding derailing my own ideas with wanting to include EVERYTHING.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I haven't done it before but I'm not opposed!

19. fandom you wrote for?

Like, first fandom? Nancy Drew. I wrote a Nancy Drew fanfic when I was eight years old on looseleaf notebook paper, before I knew that anyone else wrote fanfic. In it, Nancy fell down a hole, broke her leg, everyone who loved her thought she was dead and they were all soso sad, but then they found her and it ended happily. My tastes have not evolved much since, but my writing ability has!

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Changes often! Currently it is The Parent Trap(ped in an Umbrella) but I'm also quite fond of Still Much That Is Fair and one more last try, I'm gonna get the ending right.

#reblog game

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liopleurodean · 11 months

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Season 6, Episode 18: Frontierland

Back to the Wild West

Wow

Snap crackle pop

Dean!

ASDFGHJKL THE INTRO

AND 150 YEARS LATER

Sam?

Whoa, that's dusty

Whaaat

Nice

Oh, fun

Research montage!

Good question, Dean

Most things aren't myths for you

Dean.

The Colt.

That's awesome

Dude. That's gotta be Dean's most prized possession

Lightbulb

STAR TREK FOUR Dean I have never been in love with you more

Bobby. You're on thin ice

SAM

Facts

SAVE THE WHALES, SAM. IM SO DISAPPOINTED

Come on, people! Voyage Home!

YES

Call Cas!

Yeah that's awkward

Weird

Hey, that works

He's kind of in charge

James Bond!

I can't argue with that

Wow

Yeah and you're doing a great job

Oh, Cas

Dean.

That's... still doable

String theory?

That makes sense

Dean's having the time of his life

Wow

He absolutely does

Can't say I've had the pleasure

Nah, you look fine

Absolutely!

Dean

Fair enough

Dean.

It's like Disneyland

Yeah

SUNDANCE

Dude. Come on

DEAN

Wow

Is he?

That's suspicious

Yeah

That hurt

Aw, Dean

Dude. Winchester meets Colt

Wow. Eastwood?

WALKER TEXAS RANGER

Sure

Dean.

Elkins? Like Danny Elkins?

Oh, boy

Dean

THE DEVILS TRAP

I'm sure

I think he's good

Germophobe Dean <3

Right

Dean.

I almost feel bad for the girl

Uh oh

Not a ghost

A posse, huh?

Yeah

That'll be a trip

That's a fair point

POSSE MAGNET

I need that Tshirt

Never

Horse!

Save a horse, ride a Winchester?

Nice

Have fun, Sam

Yeah

Uh oh

He's screwed

Cas?

Uh oh

This doesn't sound good

Do you?

Cas, are you okay?

I'm sorry, Cas

Yeah, me too

Will he have enough grace?

...Cas?

Neither

Looks a little too light to be dawn

Yeah

Not even close

He's dead

That was convenient

Wow.

Uh oh

Crap

I hope Sam gets there soon

I guess he didn't need it!

Yeah

Dean

Dean.

Sure you are

Probably not

That's a great question

Ouch

Tread carefully, Sam

WINCHESTER MEETS COLT

Yeah, that'll work

Fair

Yup

Nice

I think not drunk enough

Well...

Absolutely

Which do you think?

Wow.

Doesn't it?

He's got plenty of miles

Not really

So has he

Well that's great

You okay, Cas?

Something tells me that's not the whole story

Will you?

That's not good

Not exactly

Touch it!

That'll hurt

Or you'll explode

Thanks, Bobby

Dude. I swear I have that same clock

What was that?

Dang it, Sam

Nice

Good one, Dean!

Good for you

If you could call him that

Yeah

I'm kinda sorry for him?

Sucks to be you, buddy

Yeah

Mm, you wanna bet?

Yeah, probably

Wow, Dean

Nice to see you again

You're in good hands

Wow.

Something out of one of his biggest wet dreams

Oh, he ain't gonna die

Times running out

Han shot first

Nice, Dean!

Okay, now get the ashes!

DIE HARD

Hurry up, boys!

The Colt!

Dang it

He doesn't have the juice

Who's that?

WHAT

GOOD OMENS HOLY CRAP

AGNES NUTTER'S ACCURATE PROPHECIES

Sam, you need to sign!

Dude, you left your phone?

Nice

That belongs in a museum

Dude

Samuel Colt is awesome

Dean

#ashla chick flick moments #supernatural #season 6 episode 18 #frontierland

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existentialcrisistime · 2 years

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Hi! :D Hope you're doing well. I'm kinda sorta new to Star Trek (watching ToS at the moment.) I was wondering if you could tell me which novels with Kirk/Spock/Spirk/Bones can I read? I tried looking it up but there are just so many that I'm very confused where to begin. It'd be nice if you could tell me. Have a nice day!

Hello! Welcome to the world of Star Trek! TOS was my first, so excellent choice :))

Honestly, I haven't read that many Trek books but I can definitely give you a few pointers based on what I know, especially if you're looking for the more Spirk-y ones.

A good place to start could be the books with fan connections, such as:

Killing Time (the most infamous TOS novel, known for being very shippy especially in the unedited first edition! but tbh it's not that much wilder than some others I've seen. Would recommend tho!). I kinda liveblogged the reading of this so feel free to check my tags #killing time and #nic reads killing time

The New Voyages 1 & 2, compiled/introduced by Myrna Culbreath and Sondra Marshak (two collections of officially published fanfic - the first non-episode-novelisation Trek stories to be officially published and possibly some of the first officially published fanfic out there. Each story is introduced by a member of the cast & crew! An absolutely wild ride) Again I shared some extracts, see #the new voyages

Other TOS books I have my eye on are:

The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix by Myrna Culbreath and Sondra Marshak

and anything by Diane Duane, author of Spock's World among others (did you know she's also on tumblr?)

There are also the episode novelisations by James Blish, around seven or so novelisations of the TOS episodes collected in each short volume (I believe there are 11 in total?). These are quite straightforward, but do sometimes have some fun additions to the scenes! The books are simply titled Star Trek 1, Star Trek 2, and so forth. I currently own 3 and 4, but personally I think I prefer the original stories to the novelisations so far.

Oh, and not forgetting the TOS movie novelisations! These are absolute gems and well worth a read. The 'The Motion Picture' novelisation by Gene Roddenberry is where the term t'hy'la comes from! It's a wild ride for sure.

Here's a list of all the novelisations, from James Blish to the movies and beyond

I also have my #star trek books tag, which as the name says I've been using to collect all the book extracts I'm interested in - some I've read, some I want to

Anyway I hope this is helpful! This is by no means a definitive list, just what I've read and what I'm interested in so far! (there is actually a really good list floating around tumblr but I believe it's stored within the depths of my likes, will add to this post if I find it)

And honestly, don't feel like you've gotta collect/read every book, just go where the joy is! The blessing/curse of getting into Star Trek is there's probably more content (shows/films, books, zines, etc etc) than I could ever consume in one lifetime, but it's so exciting to be a small part of something so big and timeless! Enjoy!

#ask #star trek #star trek tos #tos #star trek reference #nic watches star trek #star trek books #I apologise if this is a bit of an info dump but I love talking about star trek! always open to further questions

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Today In History:

A bit of November 22nd history…

1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to 1st voyage from Europe to reach India

1934 - “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” 1st heard on Eddie Cantor’s show

1954 - Humane Society forms in Washington DC

1955 - RCA Records makes its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract

1963 - US President John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open topped motorcade in Dallas, TX (pictured)

1965 - “Miss Goodall and Wild Chimpanzees” broadcast on CBS, watched by 25 million, brings Jane Goodall to international attention

1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss - Star Trek, Captain Kirk and Uhura

1995 - “Toy Story”, 1st feature length film created completely using computer generated imagery (CGI), is released

#Today In History:

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whattolearntoday · 2 years

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A bit of November 22nd history...

1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to 1st voyage from Europe to reach India

1934 - “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” 1st heard on Eddie Cantor’s show

1954 - Humane Society forms in Washington DC

1955 - RCA Records makes its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract

1963 - US President John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open topped motorcade in Dallas, TX

1965 - “Miss Goodall and Wild Chimpanzees” broadcast on CBS, watched by 25 million, brings Jane Goodall to international attention

1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss - Star Trek, Captain Kirk and Uhura

1995 - “Toy Story”, 1st feature length film created completely using computer generated imagery (CGI), is released (pictured)

#history #anthropology #da gama #santa claus #humane society #elvis presley #jfk #jane goodall #star trek #toy story

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Disco 4.06: Stormy Weather

TL;DR: I loved the crap out of this episode. As far as I’m concerned, Disco’s upward trajectory only continues.

EL;OR;CS (even longer; optional read; contains spoilers)—

THAT’S MY DAD!!!

So I hate to nitpick (lol, no I don’t), but... *pushes glasses up nose* traditionally on Star Trek, the level of a computer diagnostic goes down the more intensive it is. They should have been running Level 1 diagnostics on Zora (or maybe Level 2 if they couldn’t power her down entirely)—a Level 10 would, by TNG standards at least, be automated and take no more than a few microseconds. What a blunder! 🤓️

We’re checking a BIG box off my Star Trek wishlist this week—and not the Disco-specific list that’s been getting an almost awkward amount of attention in Season 4, I mean the list of things I’ve wanted from Star Trek since I was a literal child: the ship’s computer gaining not only awareness, but a whole personality. The TNG episode “Emergence” flirted with this idea, and then completely fucking whiffed it, and I’ve been waiting since 1994 for Trek to do it again, and do it right. (The Doctor on Voyager, whomst I love, doesn’t count for this because he was more or less sandboxed from the main computer.)

“Develop emotions? Build relationships with the crew? Nah, I’m gonna bounce.”

Anyway, I have this whole thing in my head about Zora, and the sphere data, and “Calypso,” and how I think/hope they all tie together, and I might try to turn it into a fanfic over the mid-season break so my wild theories have at least a few weeks to not be completely obliterated by canon 😂️

Since Book is going around making friends with pretty much everybody, he and Gray should bond over being the non-Starfleet boyfriend who’s just sort of tagging along for the ride.

I loved the anomaly. It was fuckin’ SPOOKY. That long, long pull back from the ship (with just a hint of the ol’ Frakes shaky-cam) gave me real chills.

Also, I didn’t notice until my rewatch, but the ship’s usual background hum (the kind of thing you fall asleep to a 10-hour loop of on YouTube) gets like 80% quieter once they’re inside, and stays that way until they’re out, making the void feel even more empty and silent and adding a real sense of subliminal discomfort to the episode for me, even before I realized.

Detmer doing velocity calculations in her head just off the cuff was uhhhhhh extremely sexy?

I TOLD YOU THE SHIP NEEDED A THERAPIST!!!! And Gray is kind of uniquely perfect for the role: he’s trained to help newly joined Trill integrate their consciousnesses with new bodies and circumstances, and that’s basically what Zora’s going through, give or take a few isolinear chips; he’s trans, so he has that perspective on determining one’s own identity; and he’s technically part–artificial lifeform himself! I’d started wondering if he was going to leave the ship for Guardian grad school or whatever, and this is a great way to keep Ian on the show doing interesting things, even if it’s talking to himself in an empty room. (What a trooper, btw <3)

Loved Michael making the non-reckless decision for once and deciding to abort the mission, but here on the other side of the fourth wall, we knew it wasn’t going to be that easy. Has she never seen an episode of Star Trek? Come on.

The spore jump going wrong brought to mind the gruesome fate of the USS Glenn in Season 1. Remember when this show was all about body horror and war trauma instead of a found family of queer nerds getting therapy together? I do not miss it!

“Oh my god, he can’t hear us, he has HeadPods in…”

I found Book’s storyline a little repetitive (he was already a helpless victim who had useful information passively extracted from his head once this season, ok) but also deeply relatable, as I too have a copy of my shitty dad that lives rent-free in my head and makes shitty comments about all my decisions. 😬️

(Also, those visions reminded me of what the Enterprise-D crew saw when they went outside the galaxy in “Where No One Has Gone Before,” and I can’t help but wonder just how much previously established lore is going to end up surrounding this “Species 10-C”…)

Also also, Book’s birth name was established as “Tareckx” last season, and that’s also how his father is credited here—Tareckx Sr., I presume?—and even though I watch with SDH, I can never not mentally spell it “T’Rex,” like he’s a Vulcan dinosaur 😂️

Also also also: when Book’s head-dad accuses him of foregoing revenge and basically just sitting on his ass about the destruction of Kweijan because of Michael—sneering “because you love her?” like that’s a bad reason—David Ajala’s face when he just replies “yeah,” that angry/proud/defiant teeth-baring fuck-you smile—I know that feeling. It’s a powerful feeling, and he communicated the hell out of it. What a phenomenal actor.

Gray saying he chose his name just because he liked it was another relatable moment for me, and not even in a trans way: I have a bunch of tattoos, all purely for aesthetic reasons, and I’m always surprised how many people are legit disappointed to learn there’s no profound meaning behind them. Sorry! They just look cool!

It was a bit of a head-slapper that they couldn’t beam Ensign Cortez to safety nor explain why they couldn’t, but I was less annoyed by that than I was impressed by the overall restraint. In a season that set the opening stakes to “randomly-roaming planet-buster,” poor Cortez was the only fatality this episode, and it felt like it mattered in a way most redshirts’ deaths never do. Everyone we know, from Captain Burnham on down, is visibly shaken by his loss, and both Owo and Zora have full-on freakouts because of it. Another long-standing complaint I’ve had about this show is that it can treat life—individual lives—cheaply, for the sake of spectacle or lazy drama. It doesn’t necessarily bother me when characters die, but it bothers me a lot if there isn’t weight behind it.

(For all the Bury Your Gays–themed outcry over Culber’s death in Season 1, I feel like it would have gone over at least a little better if he’d died heroically, or if it advanced the story in a more meaningful way than raising stakes that were already high enough.)

Anyway, speaking of that part, it’s hard to convey in a screenshot but I’m obsessed with the refracting-glass forcefield effect:

All season I’ve been wondering what this thing in the opening credits would represent…

Turns out it’s Zora! 😍

I have a lot of feelings about Michael’s role in Zora’s storyline. When you’ve learned something useful through bitter, traumatic experience, and you pass it on to help someone you care about when they’re struggling, it can feel like maybe those awful experiences that fucked you up so badly weren’t for nothing. It can be shockingly empowering. It can even soothe, and sometimes partly heal, that original trauma. And I’m speaking entirely from my own life here. So when Michael shared her hard-earned wisdom about fear, and guilt, and loss, and sitting with her overwhelm to overcome it… I was so happy for her? And so proud of her. And even, corny as it sounds, a little bit inspired.

“You’re talking about logic. I’m talking about feelings.” When I heard Captain Michael Burnham Jr. say that, I almost went feral. And the fact that it was exactly what Zora needed to hear… oh friends, I was ugly-crying for real. (It’s too bad the only other person in the room is Gray, who barely knows Michael—I would have loved to see a reaction shot from Saru or Tilly when she said that.)

…aaaand I ran out of steam to expand on the rest of my notes, so bullet points it is:

Once again, we had a member of the bridge crew interject with extremely specific knowledge that happens to be the perfect metaphor for the techno-solution of the week, and frantic action screeching to a halt so a member of the bridge crew can deliver some emotional backstory about themselves—only this week it was two different people! Nice teamwork, Bryce and Owo.

Captain Burnham on the bridge in an EV suit while the ship’s outer hull gets peeled off—and the episode ending with Disco getting repaired in drydock—reminded me of the finale of Lower Decks S2, and man oh man do I ever miss that show.

I forget the proper name for the little glowing marshmallows they use to do practical spark effects, but it felt like there was an entire season’s worth of them in this episode.

The soundtrack album for this season should definitely include a full version of “Stormy Weather” as performed by Annabelle Wallis, in the same way the Picard S1 soundtrack had Isa Briones’s “Blue Skies.”

I’m glad we didn’t see Michael until after she was all patched up in sickbay, because I have to assume she looked like Freddy Krueger when they first got that suit off her, yikes.

The conversation between Book and Saru about anger was another really powerful and poignant one, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since—just not enough to have anything coherent to say about it, alas.

ZORA MADE A TREE OF THE CREW 😭😭😭😭😭

Notably absent from Michael’s lalogi tree: Ash Tyler. Ahem.

If you want a wholesome good time, go watch this week’s Ready Room interview with Jonathan Frakes: he talks about directing Sonequa in those climactic scenes on the bridge, and he just raves about how talented she is, and how much he loves working with her, and it warmed my grinchy little heart.

Next week, it’s—wait, it’s the mid-season what? Until February? What the fuck, CBS.

#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek discovery spoilers #disco spoilers #amy's episode notes

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pandirpus · 2 years

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tagged by the lovely @seraphtrevs 💜

three ships (on my mind right now): Anders/Alistair, Kristoph/Klavier, Trucy/Vera

first ever ship: (maybe Ash and Gary? Sam and Frodo?) first ship I wrote fic for and really shipped is Yami/Seto

last song: Running up that Hill - Placebo cover

last film: Butterfly Effect, which is wild ride in a hilariously strange but good way

currently reading: last thing I read was some good old classic Thorki smut

currently watching: picked up watching Star Trek Voyager again

currently consuming: I just woke up, but I'm gonna make some eggs

currently craving: chocolate

Tagging everyone who's bored or feels like doing this! 💜

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Hi! I want to ask why you think SPN interests so many demographics. My father's 80 yr old buddy watches it constantly, I am a 48 yr old woman and an addict, my 22 year old son is a huge fan, as is my friend's 17 year old daughter. What is it do you think, that makes it appealing to so many?

There is a theory that there are only 7 stories in the history of literature and it gets recycled over and over again in novels, movies, plays and operas:

Overcoming the Monster (check, literally and figuratively)

Rags to Riches (check, the MOL bunker)

The Quest (check, check, check)

Voyage and Return (check, Sam’s reluctant return to the family business, rising in ranks to become leader, and have his own family *edit - the last part is my prediction or wishful thinking*)

Rebirth (check, Sam is SPN’s Jesus and continue the family legacy)

Comedy (check, “Fight the faries!”)

Tragedy (check)

SPN check all the boxes so it’s going to hit most of the demograhics at least once.

Western is uniquely an American genre and Supernatural was designed to be a modern Western: strangers ride into town on their trusty steeds, get rid of the bad guy, and leaves to do it again in the next town. But the Western genre is far deeper than that, it often involves:

Chracters vs Character - two characters with divergent viewpoints (Sam & Dean) are on a journey together in which those disagreements are pushed to the limits.

Character vs Nature - the southwest of the U.S is stunningly beautiful but the harsh nature could kill you in a day. Everytime a character steps outside, a battle with nature begins. That’s every episode of SPN and Walking Dead.

Character vs Self - people going west leave their old lives behind, they start anew and stuggle with the definition of the self. The main charcter goes through a transformtion and has an epiphany as he finally understands who he is (this is Sam all the way).

Character vs Technology - the old ways of life are being quickly taken over by approaching technology, from horse to train, from ranching to oil. Dean drives a classic lowrider and uses cassette tapes. The MOL bunker is a time capsule.

Supernatural is also the precusor to the superhero films and tv shows glutting our screens for the past dozen years. People are still into comic book superheroes after 80 years because they’re exaggerated stories of ordinary humans overcoming inner demons, animals living in the wild struggling to survive each day amidst predators to live for another day. It’s good storytelling that gives us hope because it shows that superheroes can be broken too but they can get back up with a better version of themselves. Interestingly, superheroes don’t change the world. It’s still the same world more or less that you and I live in. Superman doesn’t rule over the world and he doesn’t share Kryptonian technology. Iron Man invents his armor but refuse to mass produce and sell his inventions. In fact, superheroes spend much of their time stopping people from changing the world. Sam and Dean are always stopping monsters, angels, and demons from changing the world and they don’t share their knowledge on youtube like Sheriff Mason asked them to. The paradox makes the stories of the superhero universes remain relatable in a way that “hard” science fiction like Star Trek or Lord of the Rings isn’t.

Combining the Western and comic book superhero genre and you have the ingredient to make Supernatural familiar and relateable to a wide demographic. Finally, Supernatural’s storytelling offers resolutions in every episode; MOTW cases are solved, season long arcs are wrapped up, and old plot points are (usually) not forgotten. People need closures, the human brain do not deal well with the unresolved.

#supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #Cultural impact

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