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[kaelio]

[overseer-picard]

One thing Star Trek regularly does so well is patch up overpowered-character plot holes with very specific inner traits.

“Why doesn’t Odo change into—?” Cause he’s bad at it and has rigid moral reasoning.

“Why doesn’t Data just rip that guy’s head off?” Cause he’s not violent.

“Why doesn’t Q just save that planet?” Cause he’s a bit of a dick.

From a writing perspective this is absolutely genius and I love it because my Hollywood necrosis brain wants the obvious plot answer but then I get a gentle finger wag from the writers that says “no no, remember this is not a normal show, it’s a Star Trek show.”

[dalniente]

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

[handweavers]

there is something erotic about watching someone be extraordinarily competent at something especially if they're also really passionate about it

[youngpettyqueen]

I wish Julian and Martok would interact more cause I think they could have the funniest possible dynamic. they spent 5 weeks together in a Jem'Hadar prison I just know they have a friendship that looks fucking INSANE from the outside looking in

[dangerousconnoisseurdonut]

Dude, your tags are epic and hilarious; it is not the Klingon way to let such awesomeness be lost by people who forget to tag!

Seriously, can someone adept at writing Klingon characters please write this? I need Jadzia loving Julian bonding with a Klingon while Worf asks Martok what he sees in such a baby giraffe and Martok is just like, 'body of a giraffe, heart of a targ'.

[fatalism-and-villainy]

I love how Bashir just refuses to acknowledge or appease authority he doesn’t respect. He goes to see Tain, an extremely dangerous retired spymaster of whom he is explicitly asking a favour, and is as impertinent as possible throughout the meeting and doesn’t even try to hide his contempt when Tain says he wants Garak to suffer for the rest of his life. He gets chucked in solitary confinement while in a Dominion prison for protesting the guards cutting rations. And he snarks off Sloan while getting interrogated. He always puts honour and principles above self-preservation even when the consequences are or could be dire.

[fatalism-and-villainy]

This is also why I don't really buy the idea that his character went off the rails in the later seasons. His righteous anger and steely resolve is seeded early on, with things like the encounter with Tain in The Wire and him laying into Kai Winn in Life Support.

[fatalism-and-villainy]

@cdr2002:

Another example is his interaction with Mirror Odo and the way he makes his contempt known there

Absolutely present in his defiance towards Mirror Odo, and it shows up later in the episode towards the Intendant herself:

INTENDANT: I know very little about where you come from but from what I've heard, I think your kind has a lot to learn. BASHIR: We've got a lot to learn? What a laugh!

Siddig's delivery of the line is fantastic too, just nailing the scorn and contempt. Once again, he is not just naïve and earnest in the early seasons - his characterization as prone to righteous anger and extremely firm in his convictions is very consistent throughout the entire show.

[draculings]

sooo I've been rewatching Deep Space Nine... (✿◡‿◡)

[spacealiencafe]

fucking? kanar bottle in the Addams Family?

[thisloveforyourmom]

the ds9 novels are so good. bashir played dead in front of obrien to hear his eulogy and only succeeded in hurting his own feelings because the eulogy sucked

[thisloveforyourmom]

the terrible eulogy in question btw

[finalfantasyvii]

logged the fuck in

[bearsintreesofficial]

BE the cringe you want to see in the world

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[arahir]

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

[startrekuniverse]

SNW || TOS

[pinnaxe]

A poem for grim city AMs

A poem for grim city AMs

Living deep in an unfamiliar PLACE

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

waking up

outside there is a wailing, staggered footsteps and a crackle of broken glass inside I am considering if the brown at the bottom of my mug is worth washing out or if the take-away from this afternoon is worth eating cold in the end I decide…

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[pinnaxe]

A poem for lazy mornings in the countryside

A poem for lazy mornings in the countryside

A silly little ode to bread

“Since when,” he asked, “Are the first line and last line of any poem where the poem begins and ends?”

Seamus Heaney

The Patchwork of Fields

Trees with branches like antlers and others that are tall, thin: a parade of young and old soldiers to attention, dressed in green. Few out of hundreds sway in the early morning light, older brothers holding them steady.…

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[pinnaxe]

A poem for desire

A poem for desire

Two poems, one theme

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.

Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

Burning well into the night

There’s six doors that are red on my street, I count them day by day, there’s five doors left now my fire has come to stay

He burned away the door, key and locks, blackening the walls until all’s petals of…

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