How’s the Spice Pudding?

Mostly Star Trek, especially Garashir. Probably a lot of Jeeves and Wooster. She/her

[klavieren]

recently finished ds9 and have been spinning them inside my brain

[lordbasilebub]

Wanted to see if I still knew ball (redraw of my old piece from prolly around 2024/early2025?)

Unfinished ofc, to stay true to the material.

For reference:

[zhaan-deactivated20171022]

the best lord of the rings thing ive seen is the headcanon that gimli is like Prince Tier of beauty for dwarves and is absolutely stunning and legolas is like, for an elf, absolute butt ugly like relatively and everyones always like gimli how could you marry such a shit tier ugly ass elf and gimli is like ach.. nae…i love him

[newlyy]

Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.

[cucumbermoon]

Fun fact: I met my husband while he was going through a divorce from his first wife. The thing I liked about him from the moment I met him was that he wouldn't say anything negative about his ex, even though (as I learned quite a bit later) she had cheated on him. When I asked what lead to the divorce, he just said that they weren't right for each other, and they were both better off apart. He was completely fair throughout the process, always polite to her, and never called her any names.

I was coming out of a relationship that had ended with the other person stalking me and threatening me for a year. I thought I would never feel safe to date again. I remember legitimately thinking, "Oh, ok, I could totally date this guy and safely break up with him if I need to." And guess what? I didn't ever need to. But I know for sure that I could have, and it would have been fine, and that is exactly why he's someone that I have been able to be with for fifteen years.

[k-slash-s]

1x08 - Miri

[nightnut]

was there like any straight explanation for what was happening in the show like evaaaa (none)

[cucumbermoon]

[monkey-writer]

[worfsgoldspeedo]

Garashir Fic Rec

Y'all, go and read this series immediately: A Way Home by cucumbermoon

It is THE Garashir series for real for real, incredible character study (especially of Garak), spans the whole of the DS9 timeline, pre- and post-series. Non-linear narration, beautiful language, incredibly engaging plot. I'm telling you, read the shit out of this, I was up late last night binge-reading it, it's so good!

[cucumbermoon]

Oh, now this really makes my day. Thank you! I'm so happy that you enjoyed it!!

[last-of-the-independents]

ANDREW ROBINSON as ELIM GARAK, Rene Auberjonois as Odo in DEEP SPACE NINE, S3.E20 - Improbable Cause (1995)

[fish33]

Inspired by this newspaper,so I made a same one like it

FAKE NEWS HAHA…

[veryvictorian]

tiktok: viktorianskt

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

The convoluted relationship between Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves

Sassoon (left), Owen (middle) and Graves (right)

"An interesting creature, overstrung and self-conscious, a defier of convention." (Sassoon about Graves, 1915)

"A very nice chap but his verses, except occasionally, don’t please me very much." (Graves about Sassoon, 1915)

"He wants to travel with me after the war; anywhere — Russia for preference. And whenever I am with him, I want to do wild things, and get right away from the conventional silliness of my old life." (Sassoon about Graves, 1916)

"I had a long talk with Robert Graves, whimsical and queer and human as ever." (Sassoon about Graves, 1916)

"Robert might have been a great poet; he could never become a dull one. In him I thought I had found a lifelong friend to work with." (Sassoon about Graves, 1916)

"There was something of a bitter charm in him, a sort of sallow, victimised, faithful Jester in the storm — quite impossible to describe — queer twisted smile — ungainly lankiness — rather goggling eyes. [...] His rare gaiety was like a young animal hopping in a daisied field." (Sassoon about Graves, 1916)

"He is a very loveable creature." (Sassoon about Owen, 1917)

"A big, rather plain fellow, the last man on earth apparently capable of the extraordinary, delicate fancies in his books." (Owen about Graves, 1917)

"A most extraordinary good man [who] says what means very courageously." (Graves about Sassoon, 1917)

"On Sat. I met Robert Graves... No doubt he thought me a slacker sort of sub. S.S. when they were together showed him my longish war-piece 'Disabled' (you haven't seen it) & it seems Graves was mightily impressed, an considers me a kind of Find!! No thanks, Captain Graves! I'll find myself in due time." (Owen about Graves, 1917)

"The real thing, when we've educate him a trifle more. R.N., S.S. and myself are doing it." (Graves about Owen, 1917)

"SS said of [RG]: he is a man one likes better after he has been with one. So it turns out in my case." (Sassoon and Owen about Graves, 1917)

"And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me — I was always a mad comet, but you have fixed me. I spun around you a satellite for a month, but shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze." (Owen to Sassoon, 1917)

"We loved each other as no men love for long." (Owen about Sassoon, 1917)

"I don't think RG feels things as deeply as some... with all his egotism." (Sasson about Graves, 1917)

"And I want no limelight, and celebrity is the last infirmity I desire. Fame is the recognition of one's peers. I have already more than their recognition: I have the silent and immortal friendship of Graves and Sassoon and others. Behold are they not already as many Keatses?" (Owen about Sassoon and Graves, 1918)

"Though you do write bloody good poems I’m sorry you’re such an ass." (Graves to Sassoon, 1919)

"I can only affirm that he was a man of absolute integrity of mind." (Sassoon about Owen, 1920)

"There was some vague sexual element lurking in the background of our war-harnessed relationship. There was always some restless passionate nerve-racked quality in my friendship with R.G., although he has been one of my most stimulating companions. He made me self-conscious." (Sassoon about Graves, 1922)

"I felt very affectionate toward him (only second time I’d seen him this year)." (Sassoon about Graves, 1922)

"He is as stimulating as ever, and I take up my talk with him as though we hadn't been apart for months. [...] There is nothing mean or malicious about R.G." (Sassoon about Graves, 1922)

"Have only just realised how impossible it is to connect it with Robert Graves (who will be one of its literary glories, when he is dead)." (Sassoon about Graves, 1925)

"I still get absolutely dithery thinking about the War so I can’t judge Owen fairly: but I say he’s all right and risk it." (Graves about Owen, 1926)

"Siegfried, we’re all fools and blockheads. And you and I have forgiven each other a lot in the last eleven years or so." (Graves to Sassoon, 1927)

"Dear Siegfried is still my dear Siegfried." (Graves about Sassoon, 1929)

"If I had met you a couple of months ago I should probably have tried to knock you down." (Sassoon to Graves, 1930)

"You're a fad-ridden crank." (Sassoon to Graves, 1930)

"I do know that while I was your friend you were never really open with me, or with any other of your then friends and tried to avoid their knowing each other." (Graves to Sassoon, 1933)

"I was being sentimental, imagining back to the time when I knew and liked you — loved you was more like it." (Graves to Sassoon, 1933)

"Owen was a weakling, really; I liked him but there was that passive homosexual streak in him which is even more disgusting than that active one in Auden." (Graves about Owen, 1943)

"He was able to be of high significance for me both as poet and friend." (Sassoon about Owen, 1945)

"I have, more and more, believed that he would have been incalculably valuable to me. His death made a gap in my life which has been there ever since." (Sassoon about Owen, 1948)

"All the years and misunderstandings had melted away." (Sassoon about Graves, 1954)

"Besides his homosexual soul-scar, he has an Enoch Arden complex — or so he once told me — and a lot of self-protective dishonesty." (Graves about Sassoon, 1954)

[purplespacekitty]

been thinking a lot lately about the existence of Sisko’s Creole Kitchen and what it means for 24th century Earth.

because on one hand, narratively, it’s an important piece of establishing the character of Benjamin Sisko - it tells us where he comes from and what kind of family raised him. the family restaurant situates him in a particular historical and cultural context by showing us that the Creole food he cooks on the station is something he and his son quite literally inherited and is part of a continuation of Creole culture in New Orleans centuries ahead of the here and now. it is the antithesis of Star Trek’s usual watered-down and whitewashed approach to various Earth cultures, where established characters of color are stripped of their culture in order to fit into the homogeneous Human.jpg box Star Trek likes to put its human characters in to contrast with the aliens of the week - all under the guise of equality. textbook allegorical storytelling. what sets Sisko apart from this tendency is that he is not just a Starfleet captain who happens to be Black, he is explicitly written as a Black American captain whose identity and family history is deeply rooted in the legacy of his ancestors. on this hand, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen is a vessel of cultural preservation.

and on a sort of different hand, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen is a very clear example of community-based food sovereignty on a post-capitalist Earth. on this Earth, Joseph serves his patrons without any expectation of compensation for his and his kitchen staff’s labor, which means that he’s likely not paying for anything that allows him to keep running the restaurant. might seem a bit contrary to the whole concept of a restaurant, but that’s what i’m trying to get at, here.

in a future where every starship and probably most homes are equipped with replicators that can create pretty much anything for you, farms and restaurants and even the act of cooking might seem a bit redundant. so why continue those traditions at all?

well, the concept of a restaurant in the world of today is, essentially, to eat a meal that you don’t have to prepare for yourself, as well as for chefs to share cultural ties through food and creativity with others. it’s both a time-saver for consumers and a platform for culinary art. but it also commodifies food, the act of cultivating it, the act of consuming it and the act of making it.

in a post-scarcity society, where, presumably, no one is required to work long hours at the expense of their physical and mental health just to keep a roof over their head, everyone should, in theory, have enough time to put as much effort as they choose into preparing their own food. of course, cooking is not everybody’s particular love or strong suit, so the appeal of restaurants as access to good, fresh food remains.

the fact that Sisko’s even exists is indicative of, once again, the act of cultural preservation and also of the necessity of establishments that feed their surrounding communities through a labor of love. the best reason to cook is because you love doing it and Joseph clearly values culinary artistry and the cultivation of fresh ingredients, so he must not only be supporting those who come to his restaurant but also those who fish, rear livestock, grow produce and those who help prepare them to be served. in this way, his restaurant could be a very direct system by which he keeps other foodways alive. and, again, presumably - because none of this is based on a system of currency or capital and food is not a product but a facet of the community - it's plausible and, in fact, necessary that all of this is done on the terms of those involved. so on that hand, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen is a cornerstone of food sovereignty on 24th century Earth.

[clownasaurus-deactivated2020100]

[cursedtrekedits]

idk it looks like the original scene to me

[avinthecoffee]

Watched a behind the scenes video about Jeeves and Wooster and??? THEY COULD’VE BEEN SHERLOCK AND WATSON???

[vernard]

[Jeeves & Wooster (1990) BTS]

[crazymushroomvee]

Jeeves gets changed in 34 seconds, he goes from being in drag to normal Jeeves again in 34 seconds (Removing makeup and changing clothes), 20 seconds to remove the jewellry wig and lashes then 34 seconds to remove makeup and put on normal outfit it takes Jeeves 54 seconds to change in irregular circumstances Not to mention he looks completely presentable not dishevelled in the slightest how?! if this is irregular circumstances, imagine normal??

s4 ep4

how??????

approximate times stamps:

40:59 - 41:19 = wig, jewelry, lashes (20 seconds)

41:38 - 42:12 = makeup, clothes (34 seconds)