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If a person (in an EV suit and gravity boots) landed on the outside of DS9 at around the green X, and had to walk their way all along the outside to Ops -- or at least somewhere in the centre, so they could knock on a window and be let in --how long would it take them?

(Yes, this is fic research :P Yes, the categories are weirdly variant -- I really don't know these things are hard to judge. Help me please!)

#rebloggin for timezones #please help! #i need this for a fic 😅

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Btw before I even started Star Trek, I was convinced I would HATE Kirk.

I worked for 2 years and a half on a stage production of Fight Club, and during the preliminary stage of script adapting we developed an inside joke about the line where Tyler says he'd beat the shit out of William Shatner and captain Kirk. I had absolutely no idea of what was going on in Star Trek, but we just loved to trash on Kirk for no reason.

From what I heard from the two people working on said stage productionwho sort of watched Star Trek as kids, I imagined Kirk as an arrogant misogynist with a superiority complex. Basically I imagined him as Tyler Durden who I absolutely despise for serveral reasons.

BUT THEN I ACTUALLY STARTED STAR TREK!!!! AND OMG!!!!! Jim my beloved he's such a comfort character. I kin my softcore babygirl so much he's such a good little kitten can do no wrong ever and I'm so sorry for my initial misconception

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not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

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Every time I watch Shore Leave, I become more convinced that Ruth is dead.

Like, Jim's hellbent on chasing after Sulu, Yeoman Barrows has just been attacked, and then he stops for these flowers with a look of wonder on his face?

My theory is that he's terrified he'll be too late and something will attack Sulu, he thinks something along the lines of "how many more flowers will I have to lay on graves?" and then he sees the exact flowers he lays on Ruth's grave and he has to stop and take one and smile sadly.

And then the whole conversation with Ruth, I mean... Yeah, it does make sense if they were once together and then broke up, but the /pain/ and /longing/ in his eyes, man.

(Also this leaves open the possibility that because he's already seen one dead loved one on this planet, after McCoy is "revived", he might be half-convinced that the McCoy who came back was just a reconstruction because he wanted to see him, and the real Bones is still just as dead as he was. Oh, I want to write this fic so badlyyyy.. if it wasn't a work night ...)

#James T Kirk #Andi watches TOS #TOS shore leave #my trek musings #Jim Kirk #My beloved #I actually really love this episode so much #And not just because it has delicious feelings #But also #Jim's face when Bones dies is everything #And the way he Really Cannot Cope with Barrows crying so much because you know he wants to be able to let go #They keep on saying “after the three months we've had you NEED a break” #Even before he beamed down he had an obvious headache #Idk if the fight with Finnegan didn't go so hard half because he wanted to beat himself up about McCoy's death #Literally #Anyway I really need to go shower and bed #Wsb

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If a person (in an EV suit and gravity boots) landed on the outside of DS9 at around the green X, and had to walk their way all along the outside to Ops -- or at least somewhere in the centre, so they could knock on a window and be let in --how long would it take them?

(Yes, this is fic research :P Yes, the categories are weirdly variant -- I really don't know these things are hard to judge. Help me please!)

#deep space nine #ds9 #deep space nine poll #deep space nine question #please help! #this is a genuine question #i need it for a fic 😅 #therefore it doesn't matter what's accuarte #just what your perceptions are XD

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Oh man, I was just reminded of my old fanfiction.net account and decided to look it up just for fun.

I'd forgotten how dramatic a teenager I was. Oh my god. I can't stop laughing, this is what's on my profile XD

(I was deeply convinced that being unable to stay away from explicit fic was sinful... this was one of many attempts to "do what God wanted". I genuinely transferred the account to the email of my schoolfriend so I couldn't log in anymore XD ....Yeah, 2012 me would be deeply disappointed with where I've ended up. I'm pretty happy with it though :P )

#'perhaps forever' #Yeah Andi that lasted for what #a month maximum? #oh dear #the things we do for the deeply ingrained shame that we feel when brought up christian 🙃 #(not every christian probably -- but my lot weren't even *about* the purity culture and were pretty chill as churches go so....) #personal #wsb

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#No... but if I'd had AO3 back when I was 13 and writing HP fanfic I would at least have orphaned those fics by now #Luckily that was way back when on fanfiction.net under a whole different name and that part of my life can be forgotten XD

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Chapter 7 of Vision Awry is up! In which an autopsy is needed but Julian really wishes he could just stop.

It wasn’t just his energy that had been depleted; he’d been running on fumes for most of the last hour, and they had run out too. Everything necessary had been done, and now he was just an empty shell with no direction. 

(Whole fic premise: Julian is caught in a time loop, forced to watch Miles die over and over again in a remix of the season 3 episode Visionary.)

#Julian Bahir #DS9 fic #Julian Bashir fic #Andi writes #5+1 visionary fic #wsb

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Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

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The Garashir wedding: Lower Decks style

Mariner's called into her mom's office. Freeman informs her that something very special but currently classified is going to be happening in the next week, and she knows Mariner is going on leave tomorrow, but she might want to consider postponing it. Mariner declines - "Nah, my thing is more important".

Mariner and Rutherford are left at the space station to go on leave. It transpires that Mariner has been invited to Julian's wedding, and taking Rutherford as her plus one because Julian Bashir is one of his heroes. (augment-cyborg solidarity, anyone?)

Boimler, Tendi and T'Lyn are all trying to find out what the mission they're being sent on is. Boimler reports that Shakx seems pretty unhappy. Tendi suggests it's just because T'Ana has apparently discovered a drink she prefers more than Bajoran springwine.

Mariner and Rutherford encounter Hijinks and Troubles as they try to hitchhike their way to the wedding.

Freeman is stressing over what to wear for the occasion and has dragged Ransom in. Dress uniform, obviously, but can she get away with accessorising a little? And if so, how? She doesn't want to be a regular Starfleet officer, she wants to be a cool Starfleet officer. ("I literally cannot help you I don't even know what we're doing because you STILL haven't TOLD me." "It's classified." "You told Shakx!" "Have you tried keeping a secret from Shakx? He's terrifying!" "I can be terrifying!" "Nice try, Jack... Is a scarf too much do you think?")

Mariner and Rutherford have managed to trade his engineering abilities in exchange for passage on a merchant ship. Unfortunately, he is too good, and the ship now want to keep him.

Boimler is on navigation. They're approaching their destination but Freeman still wants the information to be known only to Bridge crew for as long as possible. (Boimler: "But what are we doing on--" Freeman: "Shh. Even the walls have ears, you know.")

The merchant ship have arrived and reluctantly agree to let Mariner and Rutherford go. They change into their fancy wedding stuff ready to be transported down. They are in the middle of a desert. "Screw you!" Mariner shouts uselessly at the sky.

Boimler is in the mess with Tendi and T'Lyn. Boimler is sweating profusely and tapping anxiously on the table. He cannot keep a secret this big. Tendi looks at him curiously. "Why do you keep tapping out "Cardassia" in Morse Code?" she asks, just at the moment when the room has gone silent. All eyes are on Boimler.

Mariner and Rutherford are hot, sweaty, bedraggled and exhausted. The doorkeeper reluctantly lets them in. "It's just started," he says. They sit down quietly in the back. Rutherford think his UT is playing up. "Did they just wish them many happy arguments?" he whispers.

Captain Freeman is nervously playing with her red scarf. "I wouldn't wear that if I were you," Ransom says. "I hear his reputation is quite formidable." Someone gestures that she's up.

We see her begin to walk out, and begin the "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all shipmasters have had one happy privilege..." speech. The happy couple have their backs to us, and are silhouetted.

The camera zooms further back, and we are now at the back of the building. "Mom?" Mariner whispers to Rutherford.

We finally get to see the couple's faces as the camera pans back to Freeman and looks over her shoulder. Julian and Garak are facing each other. "...Of course, the legal part of this marriage has just been taken care of by the Cardassians -- but it is my privilege to bring this very human tradition to a Cardassian wedding ceremony and tell you that, Julian, you may kiss your husband."

Garak and Julian smile at each other, but the camera cuts away to the crowd. Federation guests are clapping and cheering; the Cardassians tend to be trying to avoid eye contact with anyone else in their vicinity.

We cut to the reception. Mariner's asking Julian "It all seemed so... Federation? Even the Cardassian bit?" Julian shrugs. "When you end up making every compromise in the book in the name of interstellar relations, it turns out all you get is a nondescript, bureaucratic service." He winks. "This is going to be when the fun starts."

Garak is complimenting Freeman on her scarf, and we can see in her face that she is totally lording it over Jack. Garak returns to his husband. "But you hated that scarf?" whispers Julian. "The things I do for diplomacy," replied Garak sorrowfully.

T'Ana is downing Kanar like it's nothing in the background to Shakx's distinct disapproval.

Mariner's managed to sneak Boimler, Tendi and T'Lyn into the party. "I can't believe we could have just come on the Cerritos," she moans, "but anyway, go wild."

Of course, her deeply uncool friends go wild by fangirling over their DS9 idols. At the end of that montage, Rutherford finally gets the chance to say "Thankyouforallyou'vedonefortheaugmentcommunityDoctorBashir". It's sweet.

Aaand endings are hard so sorry, I don't have one to neatly wrap this all up 😅 I will leave it to your wonderful imaginations.

#Lower decks #Garashir #Garashir wedding #Beckett Mariner #Julian Bashir #Elim Garak #Captain Freeman #Samanthan Rutherford #post-Canon Cardassia #BYOE fic (bring your own ending) #This episode does actually just exist in my head now XD #I feel like I could write it better but eh this is fine and fun #Andi Writes #my trek musings #wsb

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all at home btw. no leaving the house except if it's to immediately sit or lie down there :)

#I'd totally nap with Mariner or Nyota #Of those options I think dinner with Chris though #Food is good and Pike is sweet :)

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most of these were suggested in the tags here

#ttrpg? I'm already in #Dax?! Yisssss #Perfect combo

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previous polls here, here and here.

#I've been loving the fact that Julian isn't in these to make the choice difficult XD #And now he's appeared it's doing something that I wouldn't want to suffer through even for him XD #These are incredible and I love them #(tribbbbbbles) #(or possibly darts) #(i'm competitive) #(though would probably suck at that game)

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I enjoy Kira/Keiko as a ship, but I wish that most of the discussion about them didn’t center on the “O’Brien polycule”. I’m interested in how their dynamic changed from vaguely adversarial in “In the Hands of the Prophets” to friendly in later seasons. I want to know how they navigated the differences in their opinions on faith and religion. I want to know if/how Keiko’s thoughts on Bajoran religion changed over time. I want to know if Kira experienced any lingering resentment toward Keiko. I want to know how long it took them to become friends – if one or both of them made a great effort to mend the divide between them. I want to know if they have disagreements after that or if they carefully try to avoid speaking about topics where their opinions differ. There’s a lot that’s potentially interesting about their dynamic outside of how it relates to Miles.

#Ooooh yes this actually!!! #Just seeing Keiko outside of Miles at all #I know it rarely happens in the show but I do love seeing her #And get relationship with Kira IS so interesting

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honestly my heart goes out to keiko o’brien bc she tried so damn hard to add kira to her marriage, which she knew was what everyone wanted! but she was dealing with 2 of the stupidest mfs alive and all of her pretty obvioius attempts went right over their head

she was all “why dont I leave you 2 alone so you can give her a massage ;) ;)” “miles you cannot let kira travel alone in her condition!! you should go with her on this romantig getaway, just the two of u ;) ;) ;)” and instead of catching her drift the two of them got so afraid of fucking eachother that they never allowed themselves be alone together ever again

like, can you imagine her reaction when miles didnt go on that trip to bajor and instead went back to their room looking all guilty, going “no baby, kira’s boring ass boyfriend is going w her instead! let’s do something just the two of us” idk i think i'd flip my shit if that happened

#XD #I love how this is just treated as Fact here ❤️

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We all know Gul Dukat is an irredeemable monster, and that’s why we love to hate him, but somehow I never give enough thought to the fact that he straight-up murdered a Cardassian politician’s wife and kidnapped his son, just in the off chance that he might need political leverage at some point in the indeterminate future. And everyone on DS9 knows it, but he just hangs around all the time anyway and they’re all like, “ugh, this fucking guy,” and they just roll their eyes and fix his ship for him. This is why DS9 is the best Star Trek.