maybe dailies

post before it's good my DMs are always open to anyone for any reason

[hildabun]

not doing x because i wanted to try y and got distracted by tiny component z

[hildabun]

pokemon fusion website but for the Voyager crew

[sukig2]

I just realized that it's not quite true that Earth doesn't know what happened to Grace after he went back for Rocky.

I mean, NASA keeps tracks of what's happening on the other planets. They know which planets are infected with the astrophage.

So they probably know that Erid is NOT infected with it anymore, which means they can come to the conclusion that Grace must have suceeded in finding Rocky.

And now there's a wikipedia page for Rocky and Grace respectively that specifically describe them as the saviours of two planets.

[celenequinn]

Saw a post about Stratt and Grace getting married so he couldn’t testify against her in court and I believe the interaction goes something like as follows:

“Grace, I need your signature.”

Grace looked up from his work in his closet of an office. Stratt closed the door behind her.

“An autograph? I’m flattered.”

She pushed the work off his already disheveled desk and set a single paper on top. It kind of looked like his degree, it kind of looked like-

“A marriage license? Well, now I’m really flattered.”

“For legal reasons. Just sign.” Stratt muttered.

“Are you serious?”

Of course she was serious. She only was serious. But she seemed…uncomfortable? The feeling looked strange on her. Eyes dart between the paper and him. Arms crossed over her chest as if hugging herself. It was definitely a new look. They were in new territory.

“I’m not the marrying type.” said Grace. “And I think I forgot to propose.”

Stratt breathed in deeply. Steeling herself.

“Grace,” Her hands were fidgeting with the cuff of her sleeve. “What I’m doing here is illegal. I’ve broken alot of rules to give the crew a chance to save us. But once the mission begins…the world order will need to go back to how it was.”

Grace listened intently trying to make eye contact with her glassy gaze. He hadn’t thought to much about the legality of it all. After all, that was her job.

“I will be put on trial. I will be found guilty. I will serve the rest of my life behind bars. That is my cost.” Stratt continued, “You, the team, will all be fine. But-”

She pushed the license closer to Grace.

“Spouses don’t testify in court.”

Finally she looked at him. She wasn’t telling him to sign. If that was the case she probably would’ve just forged his signature. Hell, she probably has a whole team just for that purpose. She was asking him.

His choice. Just between the two of them.

“We don’t have to sleep together, right?”

Her eyes went big. “God Grace! No! Just sign the damn paper!” she huffed.

He smiled. And put his name under hers.

Husband and wife.

Well, more like “Most powerful person in the world” and “Some guy she kept around.” But still. Till death do they part.



[0v9]

A truthberry might make you tell the truth... But a lieberry? A lieberry will loan you books

[silly-blue-gosling]

using this post to inform my mutuals that i say lie-berry

[hildabun]

[hildabun]

before she talks to grace, she talks to Carl. They both agree that grace will step up to it and do the right thing. Of course Grace will do that. They have all worked together for years. They know each-other. Grace is the only reason Carl is even still there. But there's still a question.

"And if he doesn't?"

And there's a pause, because Carl knows exactly what Stratt is saying. There aren't other options. Carl has been on more than a handful of outings with Stratt where she didn't bring Grace. There'd only ever been one reason for whenever Stratt would leave Grace behind during something important.

And within that pause, Carl knows that this is another of those times.

"He won't hurt anybody. Even if he runs, even if he's in 'fight or flight' and he's cornered, he won't hurt anybody."

Stratt just kept looking at him. It wasn't the question she needed an answer to.

"He won't hurt himself, either. Not if we have the right people there. To bring him in the right way." He paused for just a moment more. "I know who to bring."

There was no sense in arguing it. You never want to need a contingency plan, but you never want to need one without having one, either.

[mackerel-cheese]

eva stratt i love you so much if i think too hard about you i'll explode

[hildabun]

nobody even knows them. nobody knows anything about them. there's nobody who knows anything at all about them

[hildabun]

so the goddess of inspiration is the daughter of the god who killed the god of time and so if i am ever inspired i will not have time to do anything about it. Is that right?

[anarchistmemedistro]

[writingdose]

being a writer is fun

[streetkit]

it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"

no more being polite about it fuck the USA

[venusmuseum]

eva stratt they can never make me hate you

[hildabun]

I have been told not to write an AU in which Stratt has a looney-toons-style desire to kill Grace via such methods as:

exposing Grace to an unknown alien microbe

putting Grace in charge of breeding and distributing more of microbe - once it was known how dangerous and explosive it was

having Grace be in the room during a test of a mass-to-energy-conversion drive that's powerful enough to melt a thousand kilogram block of silicon

Taking Grace on random field trips including a maximum security prison and observing a nuclear detonation

Introducing Grace to Ilyukhina

Finally, launching Grace on a one-way trip into deep space

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[hildabun]

So, like, we're all agreed that if there was an advanced civilization on Adrian there would be no way for anyone on the Hail Mary to notice, yeah? And there's barely any ceiling on this: Like, satellites are small, the atmosphere is thick, the odds of seeing a spaceship even if you're looking for it is tiny. Basically anything other than active astrophage-powered spin drives would be invisible.

Rocky and Grace ignited the atmosphere of an alien world, then left without giving it a second thought.