#BLISH.

[guildwarszeke]

LWS4 EP 4 SPOILERS

oh my fucking god. oh my god

if taimi dies im giving up this game (slash LIE.)

[millenianthemums]

i vote we name him… blish………

[lichqueenlibrarian]

SPOCKO

[retroscifiart]

Art by Doug Beekman for ‘The Devil's Day’ by James Blish (1990)

[ilona-art]

"𝐒𝐨... 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝. 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝." A few days ago I had a chance to meet the wonderful talented Tommy Earl Jenkins. And it was only afterwards I realized he also voiced one of my most memorable GW2 character: Blish. A true hero...

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[blanc-ci]

Gonna start reading Spock Must Die on my sucky 5am flight, will update as I have wifi >:)

[smbhax]

Illustration by Lou Feck

[funzige-gedachten]

I dreamt kris told me that bojans kink was “shipping international people and trying to make them actually fall in love” so for anyone wondering if rpf is fine; bojan says its great.

Also bojan had a phobia of drowning in that dream and he had a panic attack about it

[midnighttraindemo]

analog science fact & fiction (british edition) issues from 1963.

note that one has a story by james blish, who went on to novelise the original star trek series !

from my grandfather's scifi collection :)

[tricorderreading]

Star Trek: Spock Must Die!

"Unobtrusive identifying mark" ye a h okay whatever you wanna call it and it just so happpeeennns to be a ring mhmmm of course, how logical mr spock and kirk

💍

[transzojja]

Started drawing Blish before being uploaded to a golem but then my blood sugar dropped. Dunno if I'll finish it later, so have the sketches.

[howdy-do-da-day]

Captain Kirk wont even look at a beautiful woman because he doesn't want to make her uncomfortable in a professional setting and yet people still act like he's nothing but a horndog

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Yes be one with him, Bones

[derangedrhythms]

[...] a raven-headed angel with a bright sword, astride a black wolf [...]

James Blish, from 'Black Easter'

[asomics]

remember when everything was fine

[ratasum]

A bunch of you asked for it SO...

Eye of the North and Rhenn's very near death to Bangar shooting him with Braham's bow was indeed a huge shift in Kippa and Rhenn's dynamic. Before that point, she'd held back her magic significantly, and he'd always strived to protect her.

After all, when he died to Balthazar, she didn't have access to her full well of magic, and Aurene was still Baby. So any time she DID use her magic, it was outbursts or in limited amounts. Which is why she was struggling to heal him in EotN when they arrived.

As a result, she started reaching PAST what she allowed herself, deeper and deeper, until a dam broke. Everything she'd been holding back the ENTIRE 29 years of her life. And something SNAPPED. This little asura, completely unknowing of the kind of magic that was churning inside her, was just flooded with the dragon magic she had no idea she had, and all of a sudden, it was too much. Which is why Aurene intervened- it was too much for Kippa to control without the knowledge to do so. Linking her magic to Aurene's mostly by accident, but in a welcome respite, that let Kippa come down safely but not without consequence.

It happens in a split second. A blinding flash of light, and Kippa's just… floating. There's delicate shards of ice and crystal suspended in the air, Rhenn is healed, he's breathing… but everyone else is healed too. There's a distinct feeling of dehydration, like they'd just walked through the Crystal Desert for a day without a water flask. And there's a LOT of consequences to the immense, powerful, immediate healing she unleashed.

Depending on the severity of the injury, there's phantom pains. Aches. An almost hollow feeling. People brought back from the brink of death have haunting nightmares, INCLUDING Rhenn, that last a few days.

(And yes Kippa feels SO much guilt over this. She wasn't trying to drop a healnuke she was just trying to save Rhenn's life, and apparently grief and panic can do a lot of heavy lifting)

I don't think anyone's really mad at her but reactions vary. Some charr are outright distrustful. Some asura want to study her. The Crystal Bloom starts treating her as almost a saintlike figure.

And she does finally start learning to control and utilize the well of magic she has. By EoD she's much more in control, and a lot more confident.

Aurene does a lot to help her learn that having this gift isn't her fault. She didn't ask for it, and she didn't take it. Someone else gave it to her, and maybe it wasn't theirs to give, but it is Kippa's to use.

But where Rhenn had always tried to keep her safe before, Kippa has the power to protect herself now. She has access to her fire and earth attunements in ways she never had before. He's still commander, and still gets a lot of respect. But Kippa's something new. She has power that neither of them can fully comprehend, and the ability to fully defend herself if push comes to shove. Things she wasn't able to do before (hence why she didn't try to escape when she was captured along with Taimi in S4).

It doesn't change their feelings for each other, but it does change how Rhenn sees her to a degree. He's no longer her protector- they're equals in a way he hadn't expected. If anything, it makes him admire her even more, and levels the playing field as their relationship deepens and progresses.