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“…so by that logic the whole second canto is obviously a veiled critique of Meroc’s appropriation of the Hebitian epic style for State propaganda purposes, and - uh - Garak?”
“Yes?”
“Are you playing footsie?”
“What a charming term! I’m not familiar with it. But please do continue, Doctor - I’m eager to see how this fascinatingly wrongheaded analysis of yours will play out.”
“Hang on - I’m winning, aren’t I? I’m winning the argument, and you’re trying to distract me.”
“Whatever do you mean.”
complete and utter fluff, post-canon Cardassia-style.
I think it was AuroraNova who came up with anshwar, resting foreheads together as a Cardassian gesture of intimacy. At least, I first encountered it in their post-canon fic and I loved it.
Bashir’s scarf is both a concession to the fact that post-Dominion-bombardment Cardassia is a giant dustbowl, and to modesty, since the lack of neckridges makes his outfits somewhat scandalously revealing (fancanon that Julian’s collarbones are the single greatest threat to Cardassian political stability is courtesy of thehoyden’s Letters from the Northern Continent)
It’s such a shame that you don’t often get thoughtfully and beautifully designed DVD cases like this anymore, because the Polish slipcase release of the ‘Crime and Punishment’ DVD set is just so lovingly put together.
A fitting homage to a TV adaptation that’s a tour de force from beginning to end, and visually such a work of art, depicting Raskolnikov’s intense journey in mid-19th century St. Petersburg like a love letter to the grittiness of the city at the time with gripping performances all around.
It’s unfortunate that the UK release is very lacklustre in comparison as my Polish is virtually non-existent and the UK DVD has audio commentary, but zero regrets about adding this beauty to the DVD shelf.
(Shoutout to @cawtron335 for sharing the news that this existed in the first place!)
I'm fluent in Polish, what do you want me to translate? :)
there is something so ethereal about this
its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.
i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!
A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."
Best advice ever!
when i was a kid i was taught to be safe online. never give out my name, location, or any personally identifying information. i was told to immediately block people who ask for A/S/L. i was taught to always hide who i was, use a pseudonym, only share my email with people i absolutely trust.
and now im supposed to give my legal driver's license to every single porn website and use my email and sign up for ads and junk mail every time i want to read an article and agree to webcrawling ad tracking surveillance to do anything online anymore.
but yeah, its for kids safety. sure. i bet the panoption is much safer than the club penguin and nickelodeon dot com that i had as a kid. so glad we got rid of kid friendly spaces and in turn had to make the entire internet advertisement friendly. so glad we tore down that public park and replaced it with a strip mall and parking lot next to a police station
Dash, important poll incoming.
Jadzia/Worf baby
girl
boy
wouldn't have worked
PROPAGANDA:
Worf as a girl dad is a hilarious visual + mini copy of Jadzia but Klingon
Worf is already proficient at being a shitty dad to a son, he wouldn't have to learn anything new + Uncle Ben knows how to raise a fine young man
first half of Jadzia lived!Season 7 would have had an ongoing subplot of Julian having to deal with the fact that his brilliant idea/solution failed and that all that he did was give his friends false hope
PLEASE DISCUSS.
Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.
#you want to know a sentence that rewrote my brain:#most people have never been 20#more than half of humans ever born never made it to 20#which. is so crushingly sad to me i can't think about it for too long and also weirdly tempering when i'm angry at the state of the world#most people have never been 20! is it any wonder we're bad at being people sometimes! it's so new. we're young to it#anyway#i'm so stupidly grateful to live in the present and for modern medical technology (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
XKCD: Degree Off
Never Forget what Childhood Vaccines and Antibiotics have done.
The two most powerful words in the English language, owed entirely to the efficacy of vaccines, are thus;
“Smallpox was.”
For most of history, smallpox was (!!!) the scourge that haunted human civilisations. We have evidence of smallpox from mummies c. 1350BCE in Egypt. It’s speculated to be one of causative agents of the Plague of Athens c. 430BCE. There were outbreaks of smallpox in Angola in 1484, in South Africa in 1731 that wiped out entire clans of Khoisan people. There was at least one major smallpox epidemic almost every decade across Europe.
Smallpox was transmitted by droplet/aerosol infection; it tore through even the smallest population centres. Typical smallpox incurred a blistering fever, raised pustules, debilitating joint and back pain; if you lived — and that was a fat fucking if, as typical smallpox had a mortality rate of 30% — you’d have tell-tale pockmark scarring, and face stigma for the rest of your life. Some were left blinded.
The worst form of the disease was haemorrhagic smallpox; all the agony of typical smallpox, with the addition of skin haemorrhage and pinpoint haemorrhage in the spleen, liver, kidneys and gonads. Near-universally fatal, haemorrhagic smallpox made up 5-10% of all cases. Of this number, 72% were children.
The global smallpox vaccination campaigns of 1958 to 1977 were a monumental effort by the World Health Organization and its global associates, backed by incredibly diligent public health work and epidemiological monitoring.
Wherever there were outbreaks, there was herd immunisation. Health bodies campaigned tirelessly for the general population to be immunised. In the ‘70s, a concerted effort was made by the WHO to ensure vaccines were administered in the most remote and vulnerable communities in the Horn of Africa, South Asia and the Pacific.
In 1980, the world was officially, finally free of one of it’s oldest adversaries; universal vaccination had been achieved, and there was no population that could act as a reservoir for smallpox.
If mankind has only one great achievement, it’s the smallpox vaccine; to date, smallpox is the only human disease to be completely eradicated.
After over two millennia of suffering, mass disability and death, humanity finally had the means to give one of it’s biggest threats the biggest possible fuck you, and through scientific and public health collaboration, careful epidemiological monitoring and countless hours of on-the-ground vaccination efforts, managed to blot it from existence entirely.
Where there is vaccine coverage, childhood diseases with high morbidity and mortality rates like whooping cough, diphtheria, influenza B and have dropped.
We have vaccines for TB, another of our greatest and longest adversaries.
With enough effort to counter misinformation, more people fighting for vaccine equality, patent free medication for communicable disease, and universal vaccine coverage, and everyone making sure to keep up to date with their vaccinations, one day, we could be fortunate enough to be able to say;
“Tuberculosis was.”
“Smallpox was.”
Fuck. That hit me hard.
death and the stars
I'm quite fond of the heroes of my field have slain one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse
One of my friends was a university lecturer who had worked in the lab where the final smallpox case escaped from a lab and killed Janet Parker, a medical photographer who worked in the room upstairs. He was a very funny man, always "on", but once a year when he taught the lecture about smallpox and about 'swiss cheese' risk management, he looked like a dead man walking.
Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.
#you want to know a sentence that rewrote my brain:#most people have never been 20#more than half of humans ever born never made it to 20#which. is so crushingly sad to me i can't think about it for too long and also weirdly tempering when i'm angry at the state of the world#most people have never been 20! is it any wonder we're bad at being people sometimes! it's so new. we're young to it#anyway#i'm so stupidly grateful to live in the present and for modern medical technology (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
XKCD: Degree Off
Never Forget what Childhood Vaccines and Antibiotics have done.
The two most powerful words in the English language, owed entirely to the efficacy of vaccines, are thus;
“Smallpox was.”
For most of history, smallpox was (!!!) the scourge that haunted human civilisations. We have evidence of smallpox from mummies c. 1350BCE in Egypt. It’s speculated to be one of causative agents of the Plague of Athens c. 430BCE. There were outbreaks of smallpox in Angola in 1484, in South Africa in 1731 that wiped out entire clans of Khoisan people. There was at least one major smallpox epidemic almost every decade across Europe.
Smallpox was transmitted by droplet/aerosol infection; it tore through even the smallest population centres. Typical smallpox incurred a blistering fever, raised pustules, debilitating joint and back pain; if you lived — and that was a fat fucking if, as typical smallpox had a mortality rate of 30% — you’d have tell-tale pockmark scarring, and face stigma for the rest of your life. Some were left blinded.
The worst form of the disease was haemorrhagic smallpox; all the agony of typical smallpox, with the addition of skin haemorrhage and pinpoint haemorrhage in the spleen, liver, kidneys and gonads. Near-universally fatal, haemorrhagic smallpox made up 5-10% of all cases. Of this number, 72% were children.
The global smallpox vaccination campaigns of 1958 to 1977 were a monumental effort by the World Health Organization and its global associates, backed by incredibly diligent public health work and epidemiological monitoring.
Wherever there were outbreaks, there was herd immunisation. Health bodies campaigned tirelessly for the general population to be immunised. In the ‘70s, a concerted effort was made by the WHO to ensure vaccines were administered in the most remote and vulnerable communities in the Horn of Africa, South Asia and the Pacific.
In 1980, the world was officially, finally free of one of it’s oldest adversaries; universal vaccination had been achieved, and there was no population that could act as a reservoir for smallpox.
If mankind has only one great achievement, it’s the smallpox vaccine; to date, smallpox is the only human disease to be completely eradicated.
After over two millennia of suffering, mass disability and death, humanity finally had the means to give one of it’s biggest threats the biggest possible fuck you, and through scientific and public health collaboration, careful epidemiological monitoring and countless hours of on-the-ground vaccination efforts, managed to blot it from existence entirely.
Where there is vaccine coverage, childhood diseases with high morbidity and mortality rates like whooping cough, diphtheria, influenza B and have dropped.
We have vaccines for TB, another of our greatest and longest adversaries.
With enough effort to counter misinformation, more people fighting for vaccine equality, patent free medication for communicable disease, and universal vaccine coverage, and everyone making sure to keep up to date with their vaccinations, one day, we could be fortunate enough to be able to say;
“Tuberculosis was.”
“Smallpox was.”
Fuck. That hit me hard.
death and the stars
I'm quite fond of the heroes of my field have slain one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse
One of my friends was a university lecturer who had worked in the lab where the final smallpox case escaped from a lab and killed Janet Parker, a medical photographer who worked in the room upstairs. He was a very funny man, always "on", but once a year when he taught the lecture about smallpox and about 'swiss cheese' risk management, he looked like a dead man walking.
ds9 the wire screencap redraw exercise
All this talk about Garak and drinking reminded me of when I lived in San Francisco and was determined to try prune juice. I bought a bottle at Trader Joe's and lemme tell you: disgraceful.
I know Worf's adoptive parents are still alive in DS9, but I swear, they are pre-emptively rolling in their beds instead of graves any time they remember that their son Worf grew up to be drinking prune juice instead of truly Slavic drinks such as vodka or kvass, or kefir or buttermilk if we're looking for non-alcoholic beverages. Shit, apple juice (Belarus grows like 60 different varieties of apples, Poland 71 - apple juice is the true Slavic juice) if it really had to be a juice.
Both not very Klingon and not very Slavic of him. A disappointment to the House of Rozhenko.
Do you think Garak got laid at all during ds9 and, if so, when?
no
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
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Season 6
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Poll results say my man too tense to Fuck
So I think there’s a Galipotan textiles merchant who passes through every so often with whom he has an arrangement but of course the guy is unreliable as hell.
Smh that man hasn't shown up for Garak in 7 years...
The orchids have wilted, the kanar is warm, the spice pudding is stale…
Would drinking warm kanar be a violation of tradition? At what temperature would kanar be considered warm?.. like, vodka is often kept in the freezer. Is kanar? I guess it would depend on how alcoholic it is?..
I don’t know enough about alcohol to answer any of these questions by myself, but I do wonder…
Maybe it’s like wine and some you uncork and leave to breathe and others you chill and drink with sweet stuff and then there’s rosé
And some you cook with spices to serve warm. Mulled kanar?
Glögg!
You can tell Garak’s mental state from the kanar he drinks.
His favourite is something light and crispy, with complex tasting notes. Akin to a Phoenix or maybe a nice Grauburgunder.
If he’s about to be a messy bitch, it’s the equivalent of a rosé: cheaper, for easy drinking.
Sweeter, heavier flavours are for when he is at his most devious. Think dessert wines, and how lethal they can be.
And if he drinks the equivalent of an old, heavy red, something priceless and heady, he’s having a self-destructive mental health episode because that is the stuff his father used to drink.
Parmak has a spreadsheet.
how id survive horror movies:
iron lung: im vaccinated against polio so i dont need one
it: my pronouns are she/they
sinners: im an atheist
the backrooms: my house doesnt have that many rooms
Resident evil: id evict them
Midsommar: im swedish.
Get out: ok i'll leave
x: im still calling it twitter
american psycho: i live in sweden
la llorona: i speak spanish so id tell her to stop crying
train to busan: my destination is before busan
Aliens: im a monsterfucker
a nightmare on elm street: i dont live on elm street
US: i dont live in the united states
eraserhead: i dont have a quirk (this is a my hero academia tie-in joke)
Carrie: Thats not my name
Green room: my room is red
The orphanage: my parents are alive
I saw the TV glow: yeah they tend to do that when theyre not turned off
The Cabin in the woods: i only have a cottage
The Thing: i love fantastic 4
Werewolves: im a tumblr user 🍍
shitty star trek buttons, p.1/?
designed using the wonderful and oldchool website https://designer.buttonmakers.net/
printout sheet to make your own: (sorry if the quality is bad, that's on tumblr)
It just occured to me that I left the "i ❤ my cat" one in. That's not a Star Trek reference, I just wanted a pin that said that. But everyone is welcome to print that one out as well
Of course it's a Star Trek reference. It's a Data pin.
