clarasteam

old enough to know better, queer enough to do it anyway

[clarasteam]

it's a rubbish day, so here is Ncuti Gatwa looking beautiful with his ballet arms in rehearsal for The Importance of Being Earnest

📷: Marc Brenner

[captain-athos]

can we please talk about how Persephone folded her sandwich wrapper into a little origami while she's waiting for Zeus

[imanwithoutbowie-deactivated202]

Continue✨ Keep going✨

[tartrazeen]

Thank you, lady 🤗

[kukoyi-deactivated20210512]

The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home...

[everybodywantstorueltheworld-de]

Always grateful when this makes the rounds

[takepenandink]

So much love for this

[cannibalspicnic]

KAOS (2024- )

THE FURIES Cathy Tyson as ALECTO Natalie Klamar as MEG Donna Banya as TISI

[ratantics]

Count Binface oozes more confidence and charisma in this 52 second clip than Farage ever has in his entire life and I'm actually going to be genuinely upset if he doesn't win.

[unamccormack]

The sheer filth at the end; worthy of ISIHAC; true legend.

[girlfleeshouse]

The girl is a scholar. She is irresponsible. All she wants is vindication.

[unamccormack]

My heart belongs to Evil Keiko

Reflections on a suprisingly load-bearing episode

Love for Keiko on Critical Stsr Trek today, quite right too.

[planetarywanderer]

KEIKO O'BRIEN!!! So overlooked by Trek as a whole. They should all be calling her Dr. O'Brien. She should be interacting regularly with Jadzia Dax, the station chief scientist - there's gotta be a coordinated research program with Bajor and exploring through the wormhole. She's perfectly placed to continue her research work from the Enterprise if she wanted to. Hell, she could be catching up on writing up her research - I don't know a single scientist who isn't multiple papers behind. Even if they kept the plot line of her no longer doing research science, her struggle of changing family dynamics due to career change and family relocation could have had so much more depth and introspection to it.

I probably over-identify with Keiko, as I too am a scientist with a Ph.D. married to an engineer who I love in spite of his inability to maintain any semblance of a work/life balance, and does the ever-shifting balancing act of managing my career, my spouse's career, and raising a child. My answers to what specific blend is right for me has changed over my life, and has involved a lot of soul-searching. I know I'm not the only one who has dealt with this, and I am perpetually disappointed that DS9 boiled it all down to complaining housewife stereotypes.

[unamccormack]

Beautiful reflections on Keiko. I tried to put her front and centre in The Lotus Flower, as a working mother reaching out to another working mother, but I think I would write that book completely differently now that I’ve actually been a working mother!

[aeide]

By day I wove the web, and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it // ἔνθα καὶ ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκον μέγαν ἱστόν νύκτας δ᾽ ἀλλύεσκον, ἐπεὶ δαΐδας παραθείμην

Odyssey 19.149–150. Emily Wilson translation.

a weaving based on Dora Wheeler's "Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night", which is one of my favorite works that looks woven but is actually embroidered. I wanted to try out deborah silver's split-shed weaving technique, so I chose polychrome taqueté with linen and cashmere. I maybe should have chosen an easier technique with fewer colors to start, but here we are! on the right side, I left the uppermost warp threads bare to show the unraveling.

reference below the cut:

[unamccormack]

The beautiful, beautiful cover for The Peacemakers is up and I’m wild about it. Honestly, it’s been such a tough couple of years; I can’t believe I got this book done and how pleased I am with it. Hope people enjoy it.

The Peacemakers

An all-new novel based on the landmark TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.It’s five years since the end of the Dominion War. Jake Sisko is

[unamccormack]

I mean honestly goodness me

[f-yeahbendaniels]

My Top Five Favorite Ben Daniels Characters (21st Century): 2. James Steel - Law & Order: UK (2009 to 2010).

[thequietesthing]

i’m sorry but KAOS is like a greek mythology fanfiction AU on steroids and i love her for it.

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

[exlibra]

what happened to tain’s fortune after he died? i imagine garak was not in the will, but did mila inherit? i assume garak would be her heir after her death. is garak actually (jean ralphio voice) fluuuush with caaaash or did it go to some other unnamed relative? are there half siblings running around?

[unamccormack]

FWIW, I think the money was all his never-seen-on-screen posh society wife, but the house was Tain’s, and it’s in his will that Mila gets to live there for as long as she needs, then it reverts to the wife. There is absolutely categorically nothing for Garak, not even a mention: come on, Tain’s made that watertight. But Garak outlives the lot of them (including any putative and imho entirely possible half-siblings) and nobody else wants this heap of rubble piled up over his dead mother. Well that’s cheered me right up!

[knivesandteeth]

Mila/Mdm Tain Yuri fics when!!

Also, love that Garak got it all despite Tain's best efforts

[unamccormack]

Garak’s first exposure to high fashion is watching Mdm Tain stalk past, gimlet in hand, haranguing Tain.

Garak gets house, love, and Cardassia. Kiss the boy, get the key.

[finnwaller]

(Via TOBS ig)

Brilliant. Had been waiting for in costume but real accent 🥰

[musicalgifs]

Who out there could love you more than I? What out there that I cannot supply?

[unamccormack]

What would The Traitors be like on Cardassia? I reckon it’s called The Order, and there are 3 people who are secretly designated dissidents, unknown even to each other. Everyone else is with the Order, and it’s their job to hunt down the dissidents. At the round table everyone gets a turn to denounce someone else, and the person with the most denunciations is exiled.

The dissidents have never won, in more than 25 seasons of The Order. Everyone knows it’s a massive fix but obviously nobody says so. It’s the third most watched show on Cardassia Prime after Clouds Over Culat and Real Housewives of Lakarian City.

[8nin]

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away