[rowark]

This is exactly what happened in this scene and i cannot be convinced otherwise

[eknippp]

Some of our favorite quotes from Artemis ii so far:

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon. See you on the other side."

"We just went sci fi.

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.” (The name of Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife)

"Amaze amaze amaze."

"I said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it. And that is true."

"Christina has been sleeping head down in the middle of the vehicle, kind of like a bat"

"It's really fun to be floatin' around, it just makes me feel like a little kid."

"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful."

"'Homo Sapiens' is all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like. We're all one people."

"We're going to power cycle the toilet from the ground."

"I'm proud to call myself the Space Plumber."

"We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus." (After Mission Control cut off Pink Pony Club early when waking up the crew)

"Copy heart. Copy bracelet." (In response to Wiseman giving his daughters heart hands and showing them the bracelets they made him that he was wearing)

“Welcome back. We are still here. They are in space.”

"Copy. Bubble wrap nominal."

"We have rediscovered the chocolate snacks."

“The truth is, the moon really is its own body in the universe. It's not just a poster in the sky that goes by, it is a real place."

“We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy, we will found companies.”

"I've seen a lot of new perspectives, but my perspective has not changed because I launched with the perspective that there is enough for all." (After being asked if they had a new view on humankind.)

"On behalf of all Canadians, we wanted some reassurances of your preferences for maple syrup over Nutella on your pancakes."

[polarity-disturbed]

I'm of the opinion that Men in Black has a more interesting secret alien agency than Doctor Who currently does with UNIT, and if the show took like a handful of notes from those movies it would improve modern UNIT immensely.

Because in MIB they have agents, weapons, and protocols for alien threats, much like UNIT. But they are also shown doing the day to day work of coexistence. Issuing passports. Letting extraterrestrials work normal jobs. Having alien restaurants in the break room. Treating aliens less like an endless parade of invasions and more like… people. Weird people. With paperwork.

UNIT, by contrast, often feels like it exists only to react. Something crashes. Something explodes. Something threatens Earth. Call UNIT. Guns out. Rinse and repeat. It feels narrow given where Doctor Who as a whole has been heading.

They should be diplomats, administrators, and the poor bastards stuck mediating disputes between a shape shifter and their human landlord. Show me UNIT staff whose job is to make sure an alien living above a kebab shop is not accidentally violating three interstellar treaties.

And crucially, show me aliens working for UNIT.

They already have the perfect excuse sitting right there with the Vlinx, an alien intelligence quietly running logistics and analysis for UNIT, and the show does basically nothing with that idea. Lean into it. Make the Vlinx the tip of the iceberg, proof that UNIT is already multinational, multiversal, and quietly interspecies.

Also they're already doing the mind wipe stuff so like... let 'em do the rest.

[technicallywrite]

So basically get @ncruuk into the writers’ room

[tryingtoavoidcapitalism]

If I were to stir my tea for an infinite period of time, would it eventually return to a milk section and a tea section?

[ncruuk]

The Captain and Her Captain is now updated - read Chapter 86

or go start at the very beginning where it's 2403, the Enterprise-G has just completed its 1st 6 month mission with Captain Seven in Command. Starfleet and the Federation are trying to rediscover their spirit of adventure and peaceful exploration. Good job the new Commander-in-Chief, one Admiral K. Janeway, knows a thing or two about that.

Or, what happens six months on from the final scene of the final episode of s3 of Picard for Seven and Janeway, with some attempt to explain how they got there, because I had questions. Lots of questions.

[Voyager/Picard/Prodigy 'fix-it']

[wearyrains]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ncruuk]

The Captain and Her Captain Ch 85

is posted

(actually has been for a few days but the flaming boomerang of adultness nearly reignited and in making sure it was merely the extremely well aimed boomerang of adultness that's no longer aflame I appear to have forgotten to mention it here....oops).

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you might like to either start at the beginning of this post picard star trek fix it through a J/7 everyone (well, all the women, - I have a type ;-) ) are happy finally lens, or quietly move on.... but do give it a go, it's apparently rather lovely according to the wonderful readers who are persisting with me :-)

[tryingtoavoidcapitalism]

see I don't think we talk enough about infinity.

specifically the fact that the current generally accepted theory of the universe is that it is infinite and expanding.

because infinite universe means somewhere in it there is a clone of you.

not only that but somewhere in it there is a clone of you who lives forever with the people they love learning everything they want to learn who has never had any needless suffering.

somewhere in the universe all of us live happily ever after.

!!

and I feel this is not discussed nearly enough.

[tryingtoavoidcapitalism]

see the thing is that ostensibly emotionally constipated highly competent women cause many of my problems but they also fix so many of them

[jasontoddiefor]

Yeah sure we’ve all binged a long fic, but have you ever read a WIP and followed someone’s life?

Tidbits of information - (“I graduated today!”) - and small joys (“It’s my birthday!”) and you get to be there to say “This chapter made me cry, happy birthday, thank you for gifting us this”.

I remember reading this fic of someone at the end of high school, older than me then. They seemed infinitely wise, spoke of their future career and getting into the college they wanted. I remember them posting on days they felt like nothing could bring them down - and on days the whole world did and it’s the aftermath of a hospital visit. Cancer, I think it was, their father. I got to the end of the story, I know their father was fine, but also they got to finish their WIP. I graduated three years later than them, still dutifully wrote thank you notes in every comment. I wonder if they remember me, or just the collective of people reading the story as it updates.

Four years ago I was into my first year of university, my first year of figuring out being out in public spaces. I made excuses as to why my name didn’t match my paperwork and read a fic on the train, the same five chapters over and over again for the next years as I thought the story abandoned. It updated this week after such a long hiatus, I left another thank you comment.

There’s an author I love, they update their stories like a clockwork. When they don’t, I check their blog, just to see if their doing alright, not because I feel like they owe me, just to ensure whether I better get out my laptop to write that really detailed university level essay chapter analysis to get them smiling when their day sucked.

And then, once, when I was 17, I read a fic that hadn’t updated in over a decade. I wasn’t even in primary school when it started posting. On the last chapter, I left a comment that, in retrospect, was horribly rambly and most likely full of grammar mistakes. The author replied and though I couldn’t see their face, I thought of them crying. They were married now, had children, and hadn’t thought about this fic in years. They went through their files again, found another half written chapter and an outline. I got two new chapters to read that year.

And then, recently, someone told me they got back into writing original fiction because of my comments. I get to read nearly weekly chapters.

I love binge reading a finished fic, but nothing is ever going to top the feeling of anticipation of waiting for a chapter, the pure joy when someone tells you I was done with this, but you made me think of it again, so this is for you.

Anyway, I think we should romanticize reading WIPs more, growing up alongside the authors writing the stories we love.

[evergreenxbess]

Téa Leoni (aka Sofia Caccimelio) in Only Murders in the Building – 5.06 Flatbush (2025)

[the-coffee-nebula]

The Borg Queen: Hey, I took your soul last month and- Janeway: No returns. The Borg Queen: *sobbing* But it's making me sad...

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[anarchistmemedistro]

but also all college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[theartofangirling]

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

[beautifuldisastr]

the cast of Madam Secretary saying nice things about Téa Leoni [as requested]

[seaduster]

Still reposting this.

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags the last book you read, the book you’re currently reading and the next book on your list

[romans-art]

something homosexual happened to me during this episode