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kelyon asked: 

Are there any fandoms/ships that you support in general but don’t really consume or create fanworks for? Any particular reason why? What, if anything, might inspire you to start?

Hey! Did you mean to send this to me? I’ve not reblogged an ask meme in ages. It’s no matter as I love questions and I love rambling heh, so I am going to answer anyway. So thanks for sending it even if it was accidental ❤️

The question confuses me a little bit as I support fandom as a general concept. Go forth, be happy with what you love, you know? I have watched and read lots of things, so so many, and I have produced fanworks for comparatively few. But when it comes to support… as I said I don’t really understand. There are things I like obviously that I am not drawn to create for. But support feels like it implies more interaction than just “I like the thing”. But if I interact then that’s creation?

I get a feeling I am misunderstanding this.

I have a handful of NoTPs but even with those I respect that people like them. I don’t want to see it because it is the opposite of sparking joy. But if it sparks joy for someone else then good for them. So that goes back to my general support for fandom.

To be honest these days I’m not consuming many fanworks at all. I have a stack of fanfics I need to read and I haven’t got round to it. I want to shower love on them but I have been so tired and stressed. I reblog art on tumblr, and try and say nice things, but that’s about it right now.

As for what inspires me to create. Love is always at its core. Some spark that is just magnetic. I wasn’t initially drawn to creating for The Librarians because I was happy with it but then I discovered prompt month. The more I thought about it, the more questions I had, and then I wanted to fill in some missing pieces. Frustration and spite is a good motivator, a need to fix things. Most of my ships aren’t canon so I give them the happy ending that doesn’t otherwise exist. The final piece is whatever idea I want to make manifest, the desire to draw/write in itself. Sometimes I want to make art, I want to get my markers or pencils or paint out etc. I want the image in my head to be realised.

I’m not sure if that answers your question or not. If you wanted to know about support for a specific fandom or ship please say 🙂 or if you wondered if I would create for something specific.

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Ok so the shitshow that was Picard Season Three accomplished at least one thing – it completely reawakened my utter love for Seven and Raffi. I mean that had never gone away but last year with the whole moving house thing, I had kinda gone “off the boil” so to speak with my obsessions.

I started with the oneshots. I posted Seven’s. I have a ton of notes for Raffi’s and I will most likely still write and post that.

But it was a slippery slope and I joked about that. It made me remember the fanfic ideas I had walked away from (some part-written on my HD) when I decided to quit fanfic last year. I started musing over whether it would really hurt anything to write a little more fanfic. I love it right? I have such feelings for Saffi and Bering and Wells and my Sanctuary OT3 etc.

So I was circling the idea and it felt pretty inevitable I was going to give in. I wanted to. I could feel the rush of the love I have for these characters.

And then Picard Season Three and more critically the utter feeling of dread I have when I think about a potential Star Trek: Legacy continuing in that same vein.

I’m NOT going to come back to fanfic. I love the characters so much but I am done investing myself in other peoples creations. I am done riding that train of aggravation and disappointment. Yes fanfic is very much “I can fix it” and I am still going to feel emotional when I watch stuff because fanfic or not I will care deeply about what I love. But at this point it feels like trying to fill some kind of endless void. No matter how much fix-it fic I write I can’t erase what made me sad in the first place.

I want to write a better story. I want to invest my creative love in something I can control – my own creation. And by better I mean it might not be (I have very little faith in my own skills) but it will be more aligned with my tastes, put it that way. Better is subjective but it will be better for me and that’s enough.

I feel a sense of peace from this realisation. So I think it might be permanent this time. But life likes to be a surprise so never say never.

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The news is OUT! “The Librarians: The Next Chapter” will be on the new CW!! Can’t begin to tell you how excited we are to work on this spin-off series of #TheLibrarians. #NewSeries #ElectricEntertainment https://t.co/7zcXrIX2ae — Dean Devlin (@Dean_Devlin) May 18, 2023
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#and in news I was not expecting to see today – or ever#thank you Librarians discord for letting me know#WOW! I mean I am WOW speechless to be honest#I rewatch the Librarians constantly so the concept of any kind of new material is just OMG#aaaand time to start speculating as to when in time our time travelling librarian has come from#I haven’t been so pumped for a show announcement since Leverage Redemption or Strange New Worlds (whichever came last)#interestingly it was those two shows that made me forgive them for cancelling the Librarians at all as I was so sad about that#I know the OG cast is busy and I wish them all the success but I hope at least one of them can cameo#if not or hopefully as well some references dropped sometimes too for the continuity I don’t need much to be super happy#ahhhhh so excited

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My likes are such a mess. When I eventually manage to get back onto a PC sorting my queue out is going to be a bitch.

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Ok as an FYI follow-up I have played a couple of hours of the Prodigy video game now.

It is repetitive but fun. I like that it’s a simple game to be honest because variety in games is cool. If everything was hardcore all the time it would be too stressful. This is something chill and not taxing. (I have been playing Jedi Survivor on PS otherwise and that is much harder in contrast). I mean it’s clear that this Prodigy game was designed for a younger audience and I don’t mind that. I thought it would go well on the Switch and I was right. It is a perfect game for that platform. I played some while I was in waiting rooms at the hospital. It is low stress but quite absorbing.

Idk if it is the switch version or if just generally the game looks low fidelity but it looks better on the smaller screen than my big TV to be honest.

My main annoyance is I have just learned (or rediscovered idk) that the Switch doesn’t do achievements. I am a trophy nut (completionist) and I can see they exist in like the PlayStation version, so it’s annoying they aren’t on the switch.

Voice acting is pretty cool. I like how they kept the banter between the characters. I have noticed that the subtitles aren’t always accurate to what is spoken (the meaning is correct but it’s not word for word) which bugs me a little bit. Like if they improv on the script then fix the script you know?

Anyway if you want a game you can duck in and out of with zero stress would recommend.

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baubeautyandthegeek:

angrywarrior69:

curator-on-ao3:

Thinking about her.*

*The USS Voyager, the ship that flew farther than any other, sent to the Fleet Museum to rest. But can she? Can the ship that never knew the safety of harbor find peace as an exhibit, a display, a starship that can no longer explore the stars? Is she okay? Is she depressed? Are her gelpacks that healthy blue or have they turned sickly green and no one can figure out why, languid processing and connectivity, organic circuitry behaving erratically and sometimes failing to perform even basic tasks? Do her darkened corridors echo with the memories of a crew that celebrated and mourned and fought and made up and cared about the journey, cared about her, their home? Do the other ships know what that was like — to be a home, not a posting? The other ships don’t have bio-neural circuitry, so they don’t seem to register where they are or what’s happening. But Voyager does. Voyagerknows where she is and why. Is she okay, though? Is she?

Brb just imagining white-haired retired B’elanna stepping onto the ship and it just, hums in excitement, and all the panels light up as she walks from the transporter room to main engineering and when she gets there the console by the warp core is flashing the message WELLCOME BACK and she does that cute lil smirk as she swipes the message away and asks the ship if she’s been treated nicely over the years

Okay but now I’m picturing Naomi constantly visiting and B’Elanna gets Naomi’s entire starfleet academy history from a VERY EXCITED ship.

Not gonna lie the whole fleet museum concept, and Geordi being the dad who restores the classic car in the garage on weekends, just had me imagining.

Like StarFleet has a lot of ships. Only ones that they consider to be the prime example of their class – the ones that made their mark on history get a place in the fleet museum.

So obviously the chief engineers of those ships are very protective and want their ships looking the best they can be. Like I know it was a budget thing but I am just howling at how all of those fleet ships like Voyager are probably as pristine and ready to fly as if they were brand new, and they could have taken any/all of them to save the day as they are just perfect.

If anything happens like a rogue ion storm, you betcha that practically every retired engineer in StarFleet would descend on the museum. B’elanna would maximum warp it to the fleet museum, metaphorical wrench in hand, because Voyager has her quirks, a personality, and only she really gets her. So recalibrate, reset, make it good as new. And it would be like that with all ships. Engineers would get older, they would retire, they might spend even more time at the fleet museum tending to their beloved ship.

When the Chief passed on (like Scotty for Kirk’s Enterprise), another Engineer would self-appoint the task because they are our ships, they saved us when we needed them and dammit one day they might be called on to save us again. The old “they don’t make them like they used to” but also because those ships were home. More than transport. Pike said he has faith in the Enterprise that it would hold. Janeway had faith in Voyager. B’elanna made sure Voyager held together. It might have been metaphorical duct tape and dreams, a lot of the time (along with a hell of a lot of skill) but Voyager was a safe harbour in a strange land. She was home when home was an impossible dream, and she got them back.

I may have to write fic about Seven taking Voyager because if it’s about faith in a ship, then she would know that Voyager had a lot to give and could be trusted. That if any ship could stand against impossible odds and win the day it would be Voyager.

I don’t know I just have a lot of feelings about the ships, and the Chief Engineers who poured their heart and soul into them, and how the ship just became something more, something they could believe in.

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@purlturtle thanks for the tag ❤️

Questions for easy copy: Relationship status: Favorite color: Song stuck in my head: Last song I listened to: Three favorite foods: Dream trip rn: 

Relationship status: Single for life (aro/ace)

Favorite color: I usually say blue but I am really digging purple at the moment.

Song stuck in my head: Head is kinda empty right now to be honest. No thoughts just tumbleweed. Whoosh.

Last song I listened to: Probably “I love the way you love me” by Boyzone. I have the album By Request and generally it’s quite soothing but there are some songs that have more of a beat. I needed something to block out all the beeps and bangs of the ward at the hospital as they kept me in overnight 🙁 and my usual white noise/sleepy music wasn’t on my phone (it’s on an old phone I keep purely to play that every night). Anyway I was so doped up from the anaesthetic and painkillers I thought it was a good idea to just stick the one song on repeat – all night. My ReplayMusic stats next December are going to be interesting. With a “you listened to this like 100x in a row in May, are you alright?” 

Three favorite foods: honestly feeling so sick right now nothing seems good. I know this is probably “favourite of all time” but honestly food is such a minefield for me sometimes what is good, doesn’t stay good. Soya yogurt is a definite staple. I miss toast. I like just wholemeal, it’s tasty. My throat is sore from the breathing tube and I can’t tolerate it, I made some and couldn’t eat it, so sad 🙁 oh tortilla crisps are going down ok at the moment. Cereal always tasty. Cornflakes, shreddies etc.

Dream trip rn: hmm I think my usual answer to this question is “reality or if I am not me?” as if I am not me then sure going lots of places could be interesting, but if I am me then going basically anywhere is more a nightmare than a dream. To be honest I think the place I would love to go the most right now is a Lego store. Like an actual Lego store not just a toy store. The nearest one is around 3 hours drive and so it’s not somewhere I can just go even when I am not immediately post-op (I know Americans are laughing at that) but they have the hologram machine. You hold the box up and it knows what set it is and it sort of comes to life. I love that. Such fun.

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thewalkingnerdx:

If you heard of writer’s block, get ready for reader’s block. You want to read. You have time. You know what to read; how have a pile of books ready to be read. You cannot sit still and focus enough to do so or you can’t even open the book. 

(via the-goofball)

#ok well this is bizarrely reassuring that nearly 179k other people also feel this way#I was doing so well and then brain just said no

Official PIC Bracket

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best-star-trek-character:

best-star-trek-character:

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/28 at 10 am EST!

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AND ROUND ONE IS DONE! Thank you everyone who voted! The results will go in the first post, and Round Two will begin tomorrow 5/6 at 10 am EST!

#I am cackling that Picard got knocked out in round one of his own show#Laris you deserve it you absolute gem I love you#bit sad Soji got knocked out but all the other round one brackets went how I like#but but oh no the next round is 😬 it’s going to be a bloodbath#Data seems to sweep most things and he’s up against Seven it’s not the final and I am genuinely worried for Seven#Raffi vs Worf and will nostalgia beat Raffi’s awesomeness? I mean Worf was great in season 3 but Raffi was there the whole time#Elnor vs Hugh is like physical pain#Riker vs Rios will be one to watch#it is probably ridiculous how intently I am going to be watching this 😂

regionalpancake:

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Watching TNG characters consistently beat original PIC characters in the (checks notes) Best PIC Character Competition is making me want to bite things

#and *waves hand* this so much this just ugh#like nobody is saying TNG characters aren’t good (I mean opinions obviously vary) but they have their OWN show#I mean Worf bless him is still in the TNG and the DS9 bracket!!! this is Raffi’s only eligible bracket#and Raffi is amazing like defies words amazing because it’s just such a lot#sighing forever

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quasi-normalcy:

honey-wine-and-time:

So at its best, Star Trek is a franchise that makes one think. About moral, ethical, philosophical, anthropological, humanistic, and scientific questions.

Which is why I think I found Picard season 3 to be SO frustrating. Everything else aside, it seemed to be a season that *aggressively* didn’t want the audience to think. Not about the simplest questions (where is Troi and Riker’s daughter? Why wouldn’t you contact that other Borg Queen that is your friend? Why are the changelings working with the Borg anyway?) and *certainly* not about anything morally or ethically complicated, about, say, war crimes, or the securitization of the Federation, or the implications of everyone just going along with something as jingoistic as “Frontier Day,” or about whether there might be any solution to a problem besides just killing your enemies. 

There was no thought in that season. It was nostalgic blither that quieted everything queer, that quieted any meaningful growth the TNG characters had beyond TNG (the only exception being the world’s most boring nepo baby who was The Most Important Thing). It didn’t want you to think, it didn’t want you to ask questions, it certainly didn’t want you to imagine a better world.

It was profoundly disappointing. 

And it’s frustrating because it could have talked meaningfully about the implications of, say, the attempted genocide on the Changelings. But it didn’t seem interested in fleshing it out beyond a “Hey, remember that thing from Deep Space Nine? Here it is again!” kind of a way.

(via the-goofball)

#sighing forever#I am so salty#I do think about all this stuff and I think a good chunk of the reason season 3 sucked so much is because the characters didn’t#like that’s storytelling 101 if you introduce something there needs to be a payoff#if there are no consequences then why plot? it doesn’t have any gravity or weight and is ultimately meaningless