dae

on ao3 as daemonology (https://archiveofourown.org/users/daemonology), verily_enthused on discord

[daemonologywrites]

Name: dae, daemonology (ao3 here)

(I am also at @melmedardaapologist where i post my Arcane ramblings)

Pronouns: any and all are fine

Occupation: T'Pring's full-time defense attorney

Fandoms i write for: Star Trek and Arcane, mostly

What I write: short works, mostly femslash with a dash of gen, at times overly indulgent prose

Likes: sleeping in, dogs, pad thai, queer media, amateur linguistics

Dislikes: writer’s block, wasps, power outages

When do i update: infrequently, due to stress and burnout

My asks are open—I love to chat!

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

I'm so tired of being a character in the folklore collection 1001 Nights. Yesterday I was bringing my boss some copies and I said, "Sorry it took so long; someone was printing out a bunch of booklets." I was gonna go sit down, but my boss said, "A bunch of booklets, eh? Ah, but I know a story even more marvelous than that!" and then he talked for an hour about the time his wife turned him into a goat. I promise I did not ask. I got stuck in traffic for forty minutes because three separate people were at the toll booth telling different tales about why none of them had any change. I told my friend I was feeling tired because everyone was yapping at me all day and she said, "But surely you don't feel as tired as Ghanim, the Son of Eiyoob" and she's still telling me about him. She hasn't even noticed that I'm posting on Tumblr.

[femfilm]

Taylor Russel in Bones and All 2022

[daemonologywrites]

the siren

Sevika gave a small laugh. "Will you abandon us to become a fish, Councilor?" Zaunites are not a seafaring people. 

tags: melvika, beach holidays, <500 words,

[daemonologywrites]

i know i'm so late to the party but i just started pluribus and. oh my god. oh my god. helen smiles at carol before dying in her arms and it's not helen anymore.

[daemonologywrites]

i do not advise attempting to cram three semester's (spread across three years) worth of morphology and syntax into three days. i did survive. but at what cost

[from-a-spiders-web]

Alathea, 1895 John White Alexander

[daemonologywrites]

rosalía’s “berghain” was actually written about t'pring and the fear of loss of selfhood through pon farr btw

[daemonologywrites]

though of course i maintain that her #1 song would be “venus fly trap”, because marina still has an iron grip on my soul

[photos-of-space]

Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, as Japan has officially declared the Akatsuki orbiter - which took the clearest ever picture of the planet, as seen below - dead

[daemonologywrites]

rewatching the “ghosts of illyria” episode in snw and i’ve just realized, do we ever get a reason why the illyrians are interested in joining the federation other than show’s central “joining the federation should be aspired to because it’s Good” tenet? what sort of support do they need in exchange for being willing to give up what is the foundation of their culture and that they’re willing to segregate cities under their provisional membership? was it internal collapse? a political or cultural crisis?

[queen-karis-nonsense-ramblings]

From what I understand, the Illyrians are not actually a very powerful civilization, and are a minor power at most. Considering their other neighbors are the Klingons, Romulans, and Gorn, the Federation is probably a much safer option. And based on what we've seen of their civilization; segregation, civil unrest, and abandoned outposts, I'd say that external and internal pressures had mounted to a point that independence was no longer a viable policy, and joining the federation was a maybe a single common goal to keep things held together with duck tape while their society was falling apart at the seams.

[daemonologywrites]

ooh good point about the external factors, that would definitely be a powerful motivator, i'm still a bit unsure about the internal ones, since they seem to be a result of partial integration with the federation (for the abandoned outpost in the mentioned episode its abandonment was a result of attempting to join) rather than the cause, but now as i'm writing, the two different approaches point to a severe social splintering instead? we know the illyrian colony una grew up on was in the federation long enough for a sizable non-illyrian population to inhabit it and for it to develop tension with the illyrians, but we don't know when exactly the members of hetemit ix decided to reverse their engineering, though it seems to be more recent, so due to the difference in time and method i guess it points to some degree of splintering, with some colonies joining and others not due to an unspecified crisis

i guess i'm mostly frustrated that so many of the details of that crisis are left to guesswork, especially since i think if genetic engineering was involved in that tension, the way it shaped the conflict could be narratively fascinating, since "ad astra per aspera" doesn't actually specify how illyrian genetic engineering is different in day-to-day practice (not stated theory) than the eugenics leading to war on earth (ketoul's counterargument is based on the fact that forms of discrimination were once legal, which is true but focuses on the reaction to illyrians rather than the reality of the engineering when they were independent)

[daemonologywrites]

The Ashes At Thy Feet by mediumrawr

The Forge is Vulcan's most hostile continent, now almost uninhabited except by monks and researchers. And by the adolescents who must survive ten days alone in the wilderness before they can be treated as adults. And by adults like T'Pring and Christine who get sent out there to keep an eye on them.

i bookmarked this piece to read half a year ago and finally rediscovered it and was absolutely enthralled by it—it's part philosophy and meditation, part slice of life, part wilderness survival, and the world-building is top-tier

[daemonologywrites]

rewatching the “ghosts of illyria” episode in snw and i’ve just realized, do we ever get a reason why the illyrians are interested in joining the federation other than show’s central “joining the federation should be aspired to because it’s Good” tenet? what sort of support do they need in exchange for being willing to give up what is the foundation of their culture and that they’re willing to segregate cities under their provisional membership? was it internal collapse? a political or cultural crisis?

[daemonologywrites]

rosalía’s “berghain” was actually written about t'pring and the fear of loss of selfhood through pon farr btw

[skipidastra]

before/after rendering

[daemonologywrites]

i've just read through borges's "the library of babel" and, while i can immediately tell that this influenced both danielewski and eco, i also thought of ted chiang's "tower of babylon" story, not just because of the theme of the tower of babel myth, but also with the line:

"I venture to suggest this solution to the ancient problem: The Library is unlimited and cyclical. If an eternal traveler were to cross it in any direction, after centuries he would see that the same volumes were repeated in the same disorder (which, thus repeated, would be an order: the Order). My solitude is gladdened by this elegant hope."

which chiang then echoes with the cosmology in "his short story"tower of babylon":

"Somehow, the vault of heaven lay beneath the earth. It was as if they lay against each other, though they were separated by many leagues. How could that be? [...] And then it came to him: a seal cylinder. When rolled upon a tablet of soft clay, the carved cylinder left an imprint that formed a picture. Two figures might appear at opposite ends of the tablet, though they stood side by side on the surface of the cylinder [...] the world was wrapped in some fantastic way so that heaven and earth touched."

both world orders seek divinity in the infinity provided by repetition, and the repetition specifically through the act of the written word either explicitly with the library (borges) or metaphorically through the "word" of god (chiang)

[daemonologywrites]

yes i know one of them is a podcast but these four have been haunting (ha) my mind this entire past month so here’s an approximation of my thoughts

(not to mention three out of four make either explicit or implicit reference to jorge luis borge’s “library of babel”)

[daemonologywrites]

in the dream house is about abuse. about architecture. about the subjuntive mood. about bluebeard. about the violence of an archive. about queens and squids. god i loved this book