#How Much For Just the Planet

[trek-tracks]

Shoutout to the time that Bones was so much not a morning person that he didn’t notice he was eating neon orange grits.

(From How Much For Just The Planet? by John M. Ford)

[bad-startrek-aus-unofficial]

AU for How Much for Just the Planet? where Kirk likes Plan C so much that he adapts it for the Enterprise to use. It takes off in the fleet, and by the time TNG rolls around it's a requirement that all Starfleet officers be triple threats

[tinsnip]

Best thing about “How Much for Just the Planet”:

frumpy klutz Vulcan who spills milkshakes on everything.

I *needed* her.

[chrisrin]

Is karkat going to go through a similar arc as peridot?

Karkat's arc is a bit of a mix between Amethyst and Peridot, but both sorts of flipped on their heads!

The idea with Karkat is that he's a Jasper who woke up too early. Unlike Amethyst who woke up too late, Karkat emerges from his hole some hundred years before he's supposed to. The planet is incubating and not being super closely monitored because everything's all set and they're just waiting for the gems to grow. This leaves Karkat pretty much alone on a desolate, dark, dying planet.

He wishes for nothing more than to go back to sleep, he tries to crawl back into his hole multiple times waiting for consciousness to slip, but he can't go back to "keep growing" after he's emerged.

The longer you wait, the more your mind fills. It’d be wrong to call them memories, you didn’t exist before, so they can’t be memories. 

Purpose. What your purpose should be. You’re a Jasper, you’re a Quartz, made for war. You’re a soldier, you’re a warrior for Homeworld. You’re supposed to be big and strong, ready to fight for your creators, for your Diamond.

You’re supposed to fit your hole. You can’t.

So he makes a life of wandering the planet. It's cold and boring, so fucking boring, and he thinks a lot about what he could do. He thinks about how he's a failure to the Diamonds, swapping between fear of being discovered here and wanting nothing more than to interact and talk with another sentient being.

Unbeknownst to Karkat, another group of gems nears the Kindergarten. The Alpha Kids are a small group of rebel gems who stole a ship off Homeworld. Upon needing to stock up on supplies, Roxy locates an incubating Kindergarten that is long enough in its cycle for no gems to inhabit the planet, but early enough that they can still retrieve what they need. They land on the Kindergarten and Karkat eavesdrops, stunned to be witnessing actual living real people.

But Karkat realizes what they are, when he listens in and realizes that they're traitors.

He sees this as an opportunity. If he can turn these rebels in, then the Diamonds won't shatter him! He won't be a failure!

So he boards the ship, sneaking on as a stowaway. Roxy almost immediately finds him and it turns into that little scene.

Jane and Roxy convince Dirk to let Karkat live and stay aboard, and Karkat stays locked up in one of the rooms. He's like a little hissy cat, but he's also completely overwhelmed and overstimulated just being around things that aren't the Kindergarten.

With a lot of time and a lot of slowly building trust, Karkat starts to warm up to the Alpha Kids and eventually becomes a proper part of their squad.

[aqukana]

yuri: ayo i got u this wine

loid: you're with the fucking secret police aren't you?!

yor: i love sharp objects! also i'm sorry that i only have abnormal brute strength that i use to kick ass and i'm sorry if i say "death kill passing behead murder" sometimes :(

loid: it's ok you're a great mother and a wonderful wife <3

[kieselguhrkid]

Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[gxlden-angels]

Doomsday Cult Christians when the Doomsday Cult ideology causes Doomsday anxiety in their kids:

[gideonisms]

since we are a week from nona here are my top predictions. Now I don't have "evidence" for these so much as Vibes. With that in mind:

*alecto in harrow's body, harrow in alecto's body, gideon back in gideon body by end of book

*gr*ddlehark kiss but in the most convoluted angsty possible way before they are parted once again by circumstance

*ianthe makes suggestive comments to john who nopes out of there to the dream bubble where he meets with harrow

*coronabeth badtwin moment

*nona has to sacrifice her identity to become someone she was before, we all cry

*camilla palamedes tragic choice

*Anastasia/Alecto scraps

*mercy/augustine Actual failed marriage pre-necromancy

*john hot professor moment (vindication for me specifically when everyone who isn't a lesbian or a Good People Enjoyer follows me into my toxic waste thirst zone)

*some kid Nona knows becomes a zombie

*3 shakespeare refs this time

*between 5 and 10 bible refs

*yeah I'm still on my nona is alecto bullshit. I don't buy gideon, harrow, or any combo because both of them are intense in ways that Nona is not & I don't think you could go back far enough in their memories to make either one of them easygoing but who am I to say

*fuck it. pyrrha/camilla give camilla a sexy summer fling let's see how complicated we can make this polycule

*aiglamene with a steel chair

*nona not affected by resurrection beast, thinks it's cool & potentially a friend

*tamsyn picks a new character to convince me to like better (babs?? silas??? some new horrible teen I have trouble getting invested in but grow to appreciate by the end?)

and finally

*I don't cry at the expected moment but at a totally different moment that hits me out of nowhere

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

*taps microphone* so i’d just like to talk about all the little kids in coruscant who would absolutely be out of their mind with love and awe for the corrie guard, and their fire engine red painted armour

these kids

these kids would wait at their windows to watch them drive past their window on a scheduled patrol. they’d be so thrilled to see them in the market. or when Fox is standing next to Palpatine in the press in his extra red paint

their parent will be like ‘want to talk to them?’ and the kids will get all shy.

they might even draw pictures of them to give to them

because no matter what the adults think, abiut flesh droids or military police being given more and more responsibility (that theybwould see as power) as the war went on, but little kids know what’s up. they know how cool garbage men are, and fire men (with the shiny red paint), and other civil servants that adults don’t think are awesome but kids know

and you know, you just know that Sergeant Hound, with his cute mastiff and awesome bucket paint would be the absolute pinnacle of coolness to an eight year old coruscanti child

[humming-fly]

>𝙿𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐

[bikananjarrus]

i just want everyone to know that when they showed alderaan and it clicked that we were about to see little leia, i had to pause because i just started fucking sobbing. like i just. she. leia organa

[blaiddraws]

What about Nobori the Eclipse?

,,,, yeah okay genuinely Thank You Very Much to everyone who sent in suggestions but this one easily takes the cake.

totally not anything to do with my love of astronomy btw. did not spend a hot while imagining how eclipses work (and the different Types) in a binary star system on a planet with five moons of various sizes. anyway

it works great because. eclipses are spooky and ominous, the black. the largest amount of red, actual color, on nobori's coat is behind/underneath the dark cloth. him. Eclipse works very very well as a title for him, AND it rolls off the tongue nicely

he gets an official wanted poster now

[allalternate]

🌜Dijon Part 2🌛- WIP

I was having a really hard time finding a middle ground for Jonathan’s and Dio’s fashion, both seemed to prioritize different things and accent in vastly opposite ways. But turning away from panels for a sec and focusing on official art provided a whole new pool of inspiration!

It was way more fun then on dressing them like a paper doll until I found this kind of in between.

Dijon is their own person most of the time, but they’re the cumulation of a kind of deal passed between two warring enemies stuck in the same body to survive - ever couple of months Dijon becomes ‘mostly Jonathan’ and goes to spend his time with Erina and friends, and they spends the weekends as ‘mostly Dio’. A very precarious balance mostly maintained out of spite, pride and (unfortunately and bafflingly) respect.

[tmae3114]

Thinking about the people who remember before the Reset and it's very funny to me that it's like

Cysero is a glitch in reality, unbound by its rules. Safiria is an impossibly ancient, incredibly powerful vampire. They were both present in the frozen moment of time between versions of reality. Kordana is a mech AI who survived it unchanged. Lock & Key are a bit unclear but either survived it unchanged or had surviving data when they achieved sentience. Kathool is an eldritch abomination driven further mad by awareness of it.

And then there's Jack, who was sealed in a moon and literally just missed it happening

[molagboop]

I just think it would be fun to make Raven Beak smooch Samus' other dads.

[t-u-i-t-c]

ohranger (1995-1996)