Obsession of the Week

A conglomeration of various ideas and infodumps about whatever I am currently interested in. My long-term obsessions are Lord of the Rings, Star Trek (all versions), Doctor Who, Community, Quantum Leap, Good Omens, and Detroit: Become Human. Currently, I am also interested in Disco Elysium, and TMNT.

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Oh no, you got body swapped with a Star Trek character!! Whose body are you in now? ds9 version

Benjamin Sisko

Jadzia Dax

Kira Nerys

Odo

Quark

Julian Bashir

Worf

Elim Garak

Miles O'Brien

Keiko O'Brien

Rom

Voting ended onAug 30, 2024

this includes "having to pretend to be the other person" shenanigans. not necessarily the entire time and to everyone, but you will have to convince someone for a while.

link to the tos/aos version, which has the links to all the other versions

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the brief time when Mickey and Jack overlap in the tardis team is honestly one of my favorite ever (even though Mickey is not techincally part of the team yet. they could have been so great :(

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Trans coded Julian Bashir is everything to me

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thinking about “my brother, my captain, my king” and i know realistically it’s meant to be a brothers in arms thing but consider boromir and aragorn actually forming a brotherly relationship in the time that they knew each other

then later when he meets faramir he’s like “welp, your my little brother now” and obviously not replacing boromir, but forming their own kind of brotherly relationship, supporting each other, being there for each other, teasing the fuck out of each other and never giving the other a moment of peace, like siblings do

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I watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time when I was 5 years old. It has been well over a decade since then, so here are a couple of characters 5-year-old me thought were scary/creepy/evil from most to least understanding.

Borormir.

I feel that this is pretty understandable. He tries to take the ring from Frodo and gets super angry/violent and I was far too young to understand the situation with Gondor being the last line of defence or the amount of stress he was under. I just saw a guy bully a hobbit. Ironically, I love him now and am a Boromir defender.

Bilbo.

I could not get past the scene where he gets ring-crazed and leaps at the screen. Scared the crap out of me as a kid to the point that even reading the Hobbit a year later did not help.

Galadriel.

Again, just because of the scene where she is overcome by the ring for a moment. I thought she was so terrifying, even though she spends the rest of her screen time being very lovely and gentle. I am also pretty sure I was convinced she was secretly an antagonist.

Frodo.

The main character of the whole series. I do not even have a good justification for this I think his eyes and thousand-yard stare just creeped me out as a child. I also thought that his portions of the second and third movies were the scariest versus the Gimli and Pippin shenanigans.

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It's my favorite Cardassian, Dol Guldur!

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In honor of beginning the Lord of the Rings again for the nth time, I had a question for the masses who have read it multiple times.

Do you read "Concerning Hobbits" every time you read Fellowship?

Yes, I read it every time

No, I read it the first time/couple of times

I read some of it

I have never read it

Other/Explanation

Voting ended onJun 18, 2024

I read it probably the first three times I read the lotr books, but now I only read it through if I have the motivation/time for it. I find that it makes it hard for me to start Fellowship sometimes if I have to read through so much "factual" information when my brain is expecting story.

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I am in a weird intersecting fandom space that when I see a post that says the words "Harry" and "Kim" I have to take a moment to discern whether they are talking about Ensign Harry Kim himself of Star Trek: Voyager fame or human disasters Harry DuBois and Kim Kitsuragi of the hit game Disco Elysium.

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Hey it's me, The Devil. Give yourself a choppy transgender haircut in the bathroom mirror. You'll feel so much better.

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swagever

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Girl was having flashbacks.

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Accidentally went on a Star Trek rant today trying to get a girl I know to watch it. I started out talking about the Enterprise episode where Trip gets pregnant, then went to Spock's Brain, then to Amok Time, and thusly the Omegaverse.

I don't know if she will watch it now... or speak to me ever again.

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"I don't like Voyager because of the characters." "I don't like Voyager because of the writing." WRONG. I don't like Voyager (I actually do like it very much) because they made it canonical that Vulcans (or at least Tuvok) like BLAND FOOD, which is INCORRECT and INSULTING. Vulcan dishes are absolutely flavorful and spicy and are in fact so hot that other species try them and suffer while the Vulcans look on impassively. I will not be told otherwise and will hereby be ignoring that scene in Voyager.

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I think i have just lost control and reblogged about 100000000 Crime and punishment posts in a row

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Monomania

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Raskolnikov: I'm gonna change the world!

Razumikhin: For better?

Raskolnikov:...

Razumikhin: Answer me.

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Raskolnikov's "On Crime" article.