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English: we call it sinusitis because it's Latin :)

German: we call it Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung because the Höhlen neben your Nase are entzündet.

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Saw a post a while back that said something like “Data’s not playing Poker. Data’s playing Playing Poker” and it’s such a simple yet thorough analysis of so many parts of his character.

His goal isn’t to win poker. He could do that easily. He’s always had much loftier aims.

Data’s goal is to win friends.

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Ally: I just really wanna be on Survivor

Iffy: we have Survivor at home

Survivor at home:

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📺 This week on Dropout: on Monday, a new Make Some Noise with Jess McKenna, Ben Schwartz, and Ryan Gaul; on Tuesday, an extended Dirty Laundry cocktail recipe; on Wednesday, a new episode of Dimension 20: Misfits & Magic season 2; on Thursday, a behind-the-scenes crew Adventuring Party talkback; and on Friday, the series premiere of Nobody Asked, with Brian David Gilbert, Oscar Montoya, Ify Nwadiwe, Rekha Shankar, and Ele Woods.

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A friend asked what my favorite Star Trek show is now that I’ve finished them all. And the thing is, I’m not one for favorites generally, but I am a sucker for a good narrative thread. So, kind of wrapping most of the movies into their corresponding TV shows, here’s my take:

TOS/TAS had an idea, and they just fkin ran with it in a dead sprint

TNG picked that idea up and built a blueprint. It grew that idea into a whole world

DS9 and VOY took that world and played in it, frolicking in the fields, pushing its limits to see what would break, making it their own

ENT said “you’ve built a real nice house here. Mind if I go play in the crawl space for a bit?” (A bit confusing, as a world isn’t a house, but ehh fuck it yeah let’s go take a peek at the foundations. Could be fun)

The Kelvin Timeline looked at this world and said “oooh pretty!!!” without ever really understanding what it was holding. But, it was my first glimpse of the world, so I can’t be too upset.

DIS took the old world that hadn’t been taken seriously on screen for a while and decided to visit, tour around, kick the tires and see if it’ll still turn over. It does.

SNW stepped into this vast and complex and dynamic world and reminded it of The Idea that started it all in the first place

PIC was a class reunion, and a beautiful one at that

With the world alive and kicking again and the old idea finally returned, Prodigy and LD followed the old DS9/VOY lead: they ran in the meadow again. They frolicked. They played.

Favorite? Nah. It’s all Trek. It all has its place. It’s all home.

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She has a lucky sock. Very necessary when monitoring the bird situation.

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I called after the first vote.

Call now, while you can still affect the outcome.

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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*taps the sign on Diane's behalf*

We’ve been over this before

Folks, please pay attention to this.

Do not send me (in my inbox, or via message, or anywhere else) suggestions for things you’d like me to write. No matter how vague and nonspecific you think they are. By doing so, you are guaranteeing that they will never happen.

Such suggestions, even in the inbox, leave an electronic “paper trail” that the platform is required to preserve. People bent on making legal trouble for a writer can subpoena a platform for such data as proof that you got your idea from somebody else (like them) even if you genuinely previously came up with it by yourself.

“Oh, come on, who’d do a thing like that, what are the odds…?” people will say. But it’s not generally known that I’ve already been involved in a high-stakes lawsuit in which someone tried to sue Mattel over material I wrote when developing the initial form of the “Barbie: Fairytopia” universe (and the first Fairytopia film) for them. I’d never so much as met or communicated with the person suing them, had never read even a word of their work… but they still went to great trouble and expense attempting to prove that I’d had access to their material and used it without permission. 

Mattel won the suit—as I’d frankly been expecting: the attorney handling their defense was one of the most expert IP lawyers in the US. But it gave me the chills… and made it clear how very wrong things could go, and the kind of damage that could be done to my career and my personal life, if I even accidentally used ideas from unauthorized sources. 

Seriously, folks. I know you mean well! But please don’t make me tap the sign. 

I already have a list of things that can never happen. It’s already too damn long. Don’t make it longer.

DO NOT SEND ME STORY IDEAS, no matter how general or conjectural or unformed they may seem to you. To do so is to guarantee that they will never, ever happen. 

And in my own universes, your innocently-meant suggestion could mean that neither you or anyone else will ever see that particular Young Wizards or Middle Kingdoms plot, no matter how much you’d like to… because I take this stuff seriously.

Okay?

Thanks.

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It's Crossings Book Club day! Join us at 8pm EST for our discussion of Stealing the Elf-King's Roses.

Find a link to our virtual book club meeting space on our website (under the Community tab), as well as info on how to register for CrossingsCon 2025, taking place August 15-17 in Philadelphia!

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just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

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“all trans guys need to do to pass is put on a hoodie” i have a mustache. i still do not get gendered correctly.

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Tumblr is a fate driven website. You can't find posts through the search function, you see them when you're meant to.

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The bean jar

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2010. A Japanese woman sits down to take photos of her shiba inu dog for her blog. Suddenly, a man leaps out of a time portal. "Sorry, I can't let you do this. I cannot tell you why." She asks: "Is it forbidden knowledge from the future?" He sighs: "No, it's just too fucking stupid to explain."