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In Moonward we get lots of ominous statements from Mother Trauma about what's in the deep Fold, and we get the description of Dark Sonia and how she is "the embodiment of all the pain and loss and fear that the Fold has ever felt for as long as it has ever touched human minds", but I feel like the lore revealed in UNEND about what's in the deep Fold really drives the point home. We get the imagery of it being thick, condensed, almost like a peat bog, preserving literal objects for.... years, centuries, for who knows how long (forever?). And of course I do think there is an omnivorous/neutral element to that - it's not all bad stuff, it's just *stuff* - but when you combine that with the Moonward lore about the emotional resonance of the Fold it's like, oh shit, there's generational trauma down there, literally, emotions that were felt years and years and years ago, preserved in black liquid amber, just. collecting. You look different. I'm the same, says Dark Sonia. And the "you" she's talking about is not just your younger self but people. through time. all people through time. The Grandmother says she can't accompany the crew because it's much too dangerous for her to "encounter what lies below", and while obviously that's in part for meta reasons (we don't want the super powerful space witch to skew the narrative for our humble protagonists) the reveal that Dark Sonia is "a former Grandmother transformed by the darkest truths of the Fold" suggests it's possible for a Mother of sufficient power - a being very in tune with the Fold - to fail to keep the Self separate from all that stuff in there. Maybe Dark Sonia was a grandmother who didn't know that yet, or sought to challenge it. Imagine you go on a little trip and suddenly absorb an entire cosmos' worth of grief and suffering. Tbh my real question is, did she like to rhyme before or after that transformation?

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Jan Stanisławski (Polish, 1860-1907)

Meadow [Dandelions], n.d.

Oil on panel

22.1 x 16.2 cm (8.7 x 6.3 in)

National Museum in Warsaw

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god, i’m not done with the beau thing yet. because like. how confusing must it have been for her? at first the soul and dairon were just training… helping her become a better, tougher fighter. but slowly, surely, she learned more about them and what they stood for. that they were fighting for justice, for truth, for right. against corruption, against wrong, against unrestrained power. 

she began to believe in their cause. she became one of them, and not just any one of them, but a respected expositor.

and all the while, she could think back to the monks who invaded her home and stole her away. the ones she fought while her dad stood by and watched it happen. 

but the cobalt soul, she now had firsthand experience, really did fight for what was right. they did fight for balance.

did she ever have thoughts that if the cobalt soul did what was right, then what happened to her was right after all? her life was bettered by this institution, did she have thoughts trying to rationalize that terrible beginning? i’m sure she did.

and then to have someone, not just anyone, but one of the foremost authority figures of the Soul say No. What happened to you was wrong. You shouldn’t have come to us like that. There should have been a choice. I’m sorry.

it’s just… it’s a lot.

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SUTO Kazuyuki（須藤和之 Japanese, b.1981）

Moonlight   Mineral Pigments, Ink, Color on Paper     via

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Seiju Omoda (Japanese, 1891-1933) – Wheat Treading

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Tihamat Qahtan, Saudi Arabia. Scanned from the book Hommes-fleurs d'Arabie by Thierry Mauger.

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I tried to leave out all the ones that are deemed shit because they're racist, misogynist, homophobic, ableist, etc and simply pick the ones that are shit because they're shit. But you can add your own choices obviously.

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Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

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it's just a little bit of wind

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what must it have been like to have been alive during an era where the cultural zeitgeist was that the future was looking bright

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ive known so many “cis” people who’ve told me they thought they might be trans or nonbinary but they dont really experience dysphoria so they felt like they werent allowed to call themselves trans. how many people have had to live their lives in the closet because they were told they werent in enough pain

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reblog and put in the tags the first queer pairing you remember consciously shipping

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leverage redemption episode where for reasons the crew needs to go undercover at a star trek convention.

eliot obviously goes as a klingon. hes in the full makeup and get up he pretends he hates this. he of course ends up making friends with other klingon cosplayers and is at some point invited to a regular cosplay meetup by them. there is also an egregious fight scene where he uses a batleth to take down like 8 people also in full cosplay. it is awesome.

i think breanna would maybe go as b'elanna. maybe im just projecting a lil but i could really see her loving the complicated smart woman of colour and i just think she'd really love the lady engineer esp as a young woman in stem and with her love of tech and computers. and shed certainly be the right age for voyager to have been something she watched when she was younger (perhaps with hardison as a way for him to bond with his new foster sister <3)

parker isnt in full cosplay for practical reasons. however not wanting to miss out on the fun her regular thief garb is accompanied by vulcan ears and she spends the entire episode speaking a monotone vulcan impression. this annoys eliot IMMENSELY.

sophie is reluctant to dress up in a cosplay. she thinks its tacky and would hinder her performance to be in such an outfit. then hardison shows her a picture of lwaxana troi and she is SOLD. she easily has the single most elaborate cosplay of the group. she is constantly being swarmed by congoers who want her photo.

hardison is in the van mostly this episode (much to his dismay as the groups resident main trekkie) but he makes use of this to cycle through about 5 different cosplays (notably riker, kirk and sisko are in the mix) whenever the camera cuts to him hes dressed as someone new. he ends up coming into the building towards the end of the con just in time to witness eliots big batleth fight and make some extremely delighted jabs at him.

harry misread the email and shows up in a full chewbacca cosplay suit. hardison is like "absolutely not" and makes him go change. so hes in his regular old suit for the entire con. he looks incredibly out of place.

bonus if tara is also there this episode and she goes as seven of nine. theres an obvious joke made about how she looks "so much like the actress who plays seven" and shes like "idk i just dont see it personally :/"