MaMe

[mame46]

There´s a crack in everything

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84429976

This year, I spent an evening brainstorming to Cohen’s songs, and when I got to ‘Anthem’, it brought back memories and feelings from certain periods in my life. This is the result.

“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in” Thanks to regionalpancake for organising this event. <3

[tanktopjaneway]

Hi! Do you like comics/ graphic novels? Are you also a massive Avorah from Hacks fan? *sneak peek below*

If so, (thanks to the Avorah book clubbers enthusiasm) I am pleased to announce that (hopefully today) I will be starting to post Acrimony- my lawyer AU Avorah fic as a comic from the beginning of Deborah and Ava meeting. Not from where written Acrimony starts, but the whole gritty, unhinged and roller coaster of a ride they have been on. I am having an easier time using a tablet right now than my heavy laptop, so I figured why not actually start my dream of doing comics/ graphic novels than with our ladies! I can’t promise regular updates (as usual, chronic illnesses be chronic) but I must say I am really loving this style combined with the canon moments we know and love, and showing vs telling.

I do promise that when I’m able to sit with a laptop for 12 hours a day again that I will get back to the written version!

Here’s your sneak peek of what you can expect without fully giving away the rest!

[paksthestoic]

I didn’t always like the idea of Janeway becoming an Admiral after bringing Voyager home. But I think I can see it.

I could see Kathryn Janeway returning to the Alpha Quadrant in the wake of the Dominion War and a lot of her fellow captains thinking she had it easy by “getting her ship lost”. And then the ship’s logs start hitting general access after the debriefings are over. (The same way Janeway was able to pull other captain’s logs for reference).

And her fellow rank-and-file get the logs dealing with the Borg, the Hirogen, Species 8472, the Vidiians, the telepathic pitcher plant, the macrovirus, what have you. And combining all that with making the journey in seven years and the fact that the entire Voyager crew is now a highly trained influx of fresh staffing after the Dominion War, with seven years of Janeway’s desperate insistence on Starfleet morals informing them?

Suddenly Janeway’s crew is captains and commanders and lieutenants, and she’s this Teddy Roosevelt-esque figure in Starfleet in that she’s revered for her leadership but also considered the type of admirably insane that wins wars.

And right about this time Janeway is looking at how Starfleet principles - the very same principles she clung to for her own sanity for seven years - have distorted and changed to be more war-like after the Dominion took so many lives, and she’s thinking “???? have you all??? gone mad???? you know what, yeah, put me in charge.”

The admiralty thinks they’re pulling one over on her by getting her innovative/insane mind to accept a desk job. Jokes on them, after seven years of being an absolute authority on Starfleet principles wherever she goes, she’s perfectly happy to be back in a spot where she can’t be outranked.

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

I love this and agree with your take 100%. I just want to add that the first Janeway that makes it back to the alpha quadrant much later probably is a lot more aligned with the new more cynical federation and/or she’s become jaded about a system that she no longer believes in. That Janeway had to have years of conversations with the more cynical Starfleet for years before she even got back to Earth. I can imagine Voyager getting many missions where they were ordered to spy/confront Romulans etc during the end of Voyager’s first journey home that we don’t get to see.

So, I can imagine that the admiralty actually achieved their goal of getting Janeway behind a desk when she got back to Earth the first time, but she gets the last laugh when she gets her younger self home much sooner. The younger Janeway that we see has not had her ideals worn out of her, so she’ll take the desk job but this time she’ll use her authority to fight for the Starfleet ideals that she still believes in. In my headcanon the first admiral Janeway accidentally saves the federation when she gets her younger self back home sooner (I personally choose to believe that the Picard series is from an another altered timeline…).

[onlythejaneway]

Kate Mulgrew and her man, Bennett Zier, arriving at the Emmys last November.

[mame46]

Ending of Star Trek - Discovery

Oh, guys. I was so bored by Star Trek Discovery. To this day, I still can't name three of the main characters. But – as a loyal Trekkie – I watched it anyway, of course.

At the last episode of the show that is airing right now in Germany. I've spent over 120 minutes watching action alternate with suspense, and then almost 30 minutes for (almost) every storyline to find a (positive) ending, complete with a future chapter for... Burnam?

Okay, it doesn't help us now, but... apparently they did take note of the many tears shed by the Voyager fan community and tried to do better. <3

[meanao3thoughts]

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

The Ultimate Star Trek Voyager Tournament

All Star Trek Voyager episodes will face off in this tournament in the quest to find the best one.

There are 149 episodes in total, and 148 of them will face off with each other on Round 1.

All the double episodes are counted as one episode.

Because the number of episodes is uneven, Endgame will go directly to Round 2.

No episode in round one goes against another episode from the same season.

I have tried to make the pairings as random as possibly whilst making sure that episodes from one season will be as equally matched with episodes from the other seasons as possible.

Because the pairings are random, there will be some painful matchups and great episodes will be lost in the early rounds BUT that’s where the wildcards come in.

After all the matchups in Round 1 are done, I will choose the 12 best episodes from the eliminated 77 put them in a Wildcard poll. Two episodes with the most votes will go on to the next round.

In Round 2, 80 episodes will face off with each other.

In Round 3, 40 episodes will face off with each other. After all the matchups are done, I will choose the 12 best episodes from the eliminated 20 put them in a Wildcard poll. Four episodes with the most votes will go on to the next round.

In Round 4, 24 episodes will face off with each other. After all the matchups are done, all 12 eliminated episodes will be put in a Wildcard poll and the four episodes with the most votes will go on to the next round. This is the last Wildcard poll in the tournament.

In Round 5-8, 16 episodes will become one.

The tournament brackets will be updated continuously as the results come in.

Poll links

Round 1:

1. Caretaker vs Tattoo

2. Before and After vs Life Line

3. Warhead vs Riddles

4. Bride of Chaotica! vs The Haunting of Deck 12

5. Alter Ego vs Spirit Folk

6. The Raven vs Pathfinder

7. Waking Moments vs Juggernaut

8. Living Witness vs Q2

9. Mortal Coil vs Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy

10. Parturition vs Coda

11. Macrocosm vs The Disease

12. Remember vs In the Flesh

13. Blink of an Eye vs Imperfection

14. The Cloud vs Fury

15. Learning Curve vs Hunters

16. Heroes and Demons vs Muse

17. Basics vs The Chute

18. Innocence vs Virtuoso

19. Resistance vs Vis à Vis

20. Dreadnought vs Ashes to Ashes

21. Unity vs Friendship One

22. Distant Origin vs Renaissance Man

23. Relativity vs Human Error

24. Latent Image vs Flesh and Blood

25. Maneuvers vs Thirty Days

26. Night vs Good Shepherd

27. Message in a Bottle vs Critical Care

28. One vs Dragon’s Teeth

29. Parallax vs Warlord

30. Non Sequitur vs Day of Honour

31. The Q and the Grey vs The Omega Directive

32. The Swarm vs Random Thoughts

33. Resolutions vs Fair Trade

34. Eye of the Needle vs Repentance

35. Jetrel vs Blood Fever

36. State of Flux vs Nothing Human

37. Rise vs Child’s Play

38. Deadlock vs Prophecy

39. Prototype vs Nemesis

40. The 37’s vs Darkling

41. The Gift vs Live fast and prosper

42. Displaced vs Revulsion

43. Dark Frontier vs Survival Instinct

44. Counterpoint vs Unimatrix Zero

45. Year of Hell vs Natural Law

46. Drone vs Repression

47. Prey vs Collective

48. Hope and Fear vs Course: Oblivion

49. Cold Fire vs One Small Step

50. Elogium vs Once Upon a Time

51. Future’s End vs Drive

52. Death Wish vs Someone to Watch Over Me

53. Time and Again vs Concerning Flight

54. Ex Post Facto vs Alliances

55. Faces vs Twisted

56. Prime Directive vs Retrospective

57. Tuvix vs Unforgettable

58. Investigations vs Flashback

59. Threshold vs False Profits

60. Initiations vs Workforce

61. Favorite Son vs Equinox

62. Worst Case Scenario vs Think Tank

63. Bliss vs The Void

64. Timeless vs Body and Soul

65. Scientific Method vs 11:59

66. Extreme Risk vs The Voyager Conspiracy

67. The Killing Game vs Infinite Regress

68. Scorpion vs Fair Haven

69. Persistence of Vision vs Nightingale

70. Projections vs Alice

71. Sacred Ground vs Barge of the Dead

72. Emanations vs Real Life

73. Phage vs Gravity

74. Lifesigns vs Demon

75. Cathexis vs Lineage

76. The Thaw vs The Fight

77. Meld vs Author, Author

Round 2:

1. Caretaker vs Riddles

2. Life Line vs Bride of Chaotica!

3. Alter Ego vs Waking Moments

4. The Raven vs Living Witness

5. Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy vs Macrocosm

6. Coda vs Remember

7. Blink of an Eye vs Hunters

8. The Cloud vs Muse

9. The Chute vs Resistance

10. Innocence vs Dreadnought

Round 3:

Round 4:

Round 5:

Round 6:

Round 7:

Round 8:

[mame46]

It was a quick scribble a while ago. But thats: My favorite Janeway. =)

[mame46]

https://archiveofourown.org/users/MaMe45/works