#Romulus is an alpha

[realitybitesyouknowit]

Chapters: 21/21 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley, Remus Lupin & Harry Potter Characters: Harry Potter, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Remus Lupin Additional Tags: Werewolf, harry is a werewolf, Fred Weasley Lives, Remus Lupin Lives, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Hogwarts Eighth Year, Post-War Summary:

After the war, Harry goes camping on his own to get away from the media and the attention. But, something happens that he never expected. Harry is bitten by a werewolf. And now, going back to finish his education, he has to hide part of himself from everyone.

[miscealignment]

Is it too much to ask to have a Warren in the middle of nowhere, with many Burrows/Dens, one for each little Misce "group/clan/family" where we all care for the land, the crops and the animals. Have our own culture and rituals and celebrations and cuisine and traditions. And where we just make lots of jam and other stuff from the things we grow so we can sell it so we can finance never having to live in this non-misce world ever again?

Honestly I don't feel it's much to ask. Totally realistic desire in my books.

[yuttikkele]

do you guys think the omegaverse exists for werebeasts in the monster high universe?

yes that’s a really funny statement, but I’m taking it seriously in this post, so BEFORE we go any further: STOP thinking about omegaverse as a fetish. STOP thinking about it as a sexual thing. ABO has such interesting potential, so before I say anything else, I need everyone to be on the same page that it does NOT always involve sex. This post is NSFW FREE!! YOU HEAR ME!!! Especially since they’re CHILDREN!!!!

ahem. Anyways

It makes sense. It would be an interesting concept and sort of an add-on to separate werecreatures from other animal-inspired monsters.

anyways I have a bunch of headcanons about it under the cut. these are specifically for G3, but take them however you like! also, there’s a huge text wall under the cut, just so you know.

Clawdeen is an alpha. In every universe. She’s specifically the born leader alpha. She’s humble and is all “no, no, I can’t lead it’s not my thing,” but she seriously fits the role of leader like a glove. She’s also subconsciously wants to have control over every little thing, but she consciously knows that’s not how things work. She’s one of the more aggressive alphas, though she doesn’t notice and won’t admit it to herself.

Clawd is a beta. He’s. Just a dude. And he’s quite good at it. He’s very good at calming people (namely Clawdeen), and generally very mellow. He’s protective of his sister, obvi. That’s like a mix of older brother syndrome and beta-will-watch-over-the-pack-itis.

Howleen is also a beta. Howleen is one of the more aggressive betas. She knows her time is coming when Grandpa Romulus will get too old, and she’ll be leader of the pack. She likes to fight for the formality of the title, but she actually doesn’t mind Romulus being the leader. She’s very comfortable with it!

Romulus is an omega. Yes, he’s an omega, and everyone (at least all the werebeasts) knows it. He’s the leader of the pack, and he takes pride in that title. He’s very insecure about being an omega, so that’s why he fights for any ounce of dominance he can get. This does cause him to be a nuisance, though. It’s not that he minds being an omega; he just doesn’t want others to treat him differently, which is fair. The tough show is just so people don’t automatically think he’s weak. He does need to realize that all of his friends believe him, though, so he can stop being such a self-protecting bonehead now.

Barkimedes is an alpha. Some people find it odd that the werewolf pack has its omega as the first in command, beta as the second in command, and its alpha last as third in command, but Barkimedes likes it this way! He’s never really been one to tell others what to do. Lots of people are surprised that he’s even an alpha because of how much he’s bossed around. Well, those people are wrong because Barkimedes is the alpha that ever alpha’d (whatever that means…)! Barkimedes is more of the protective type. If he senses his friends are in danger, he would do literally anything. He is REALLY overprotective of the pack, and they probably never notice it (Example: You just barely insulted Romulus and Howleen. They’re telling you off while Barkimedes stands behind them with the most menacing look on his face. Romulus and Howleen look back at Barkimedes, and suddenly his face is as sweet as an angel. They turn back to you, and he is growling at you again). If he sees you messing with something his hindmind considers “his” (like his friends, or maybe his slice of pizza), he’ll go feral on you. However, he’ll never use his alpha “powers” (such as his alpha voice) unless it’s an emergency. He’s just chill like that.

Toralei is a beta. I was debating saying she’s an omega, but beta just makes more sense in my mind. No one knows she’s a beta. Everyone thinks she’s an alpha. She acts and tries VERY hard to present as an alpha for the validation. Her mom, Catarina, is an alpha. As she is a terrible mother, Catarina is an elitist and also a sexist. Catarina thinks that betas are no better than “useless” omegas. Possibly even more useless than omegas since they don’t do “anything special.” She was very disappointed when she found out that Toralei was a beta, despite that not being something Toralei can control. Toralei will sometimes make fun of Romulus being an omega, and she will always feel bad immediately after. She does take medicine that she really shouldn’t take so that she can mask and smell like an alpha. Whenever the topic of second sex comes up, Toralei tries to back out of the conversation as soon as possible. She really needs to be comfortable in her own body and stop caring what her mom thinks.

Purrsephone and Meowlody are either betas or omegas. I don’t know which one they’d be, but they’re definitely not alphas.

Mouscedes is an omega. I don’t know much about mousedes, but from what I can tell, she’s pretty dependent on others. She’s not ashamed of it either. Whatever works, queen!

Teez I have no clue. We really don’t know much about him yet. I have no idea what he could be.

Frankie conveniently has a werecreature hindmind researcher brainbit, so they spout random facts sometimes and occasionally can help out (depending on what they can conveniently recall)!

A lot of the other monsters don’t actually realize that werebeasts have a second gender. Clawdeen didn’t know at all until the pack told her, and it explained a lot about her sudden aggressiveness.

The second gender is also a second sex. It’s basically just like us separating gender and sex. The werebeasts just have another pair!

Werebeasts can find out what their “assigned second gender” is at birth, but a lot of parents decide not to worry about it. 1. It’s way simpler to use one’s first set of gender/sex. 2. The rest of the monster world isn’t even gonna care about your second set.

The second gender reveals itself on its own right when puberty starts. It’s usually the first sign of puberty in werebeasts.

[elysianymph]

🔥

i’ll always support ppl being haters xx

thank you fae for enabling me to hate <333

companion post to my sirius one bc i can't stand new remus either. sorry but remus isn't a cool, effortlessly smart, basketball player casanova fuckboy who beats people up and sells drugs in the hogwarts bathrooms and is friends with REGULUS BLACK, EVAN ROSIER AND BARTY CROUCH??? if you actually think he is... well i can tell you've got bigger issues to deal with, get well soon 🫶🏻 delusions are tough

remus is a loser. no other way about it. people only knew of him bc of the marauders. no one paid him much attention outside of his core friends bc he was a nobody. he was literally trying to get by hogwarts without being noticed bc HE WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE!! what part of "dumbledore felt bad so he let him attend hogwarts anyway" makes you think remus would have the guts to go around selling drugs and weed in his school??? or getting into fights??? fucking in bathrooms with random people??? i mean yeah pulling pranks with his friends was a nuisance too but as far as he (and peter) go harmless pranks was all it was. sirius and james (the entitled assholes) were the ones hexing students left and right for no reason other than "they annoyed me".

remus spent most of his days studying in hopes to catch up to his friends who somehow still got better grades without even trying. he became a prefect but despite that he couldn't hold his friends back from playing pranks and joined them instead (he could've just told mcgonagall bc at that point it was his literal duty to keep them out of trouble but he didn't. why? bc he's a people pleaser and deathly afraid of his friends leaving him behind if he goes against them one too many times). he helped the first years around the castle and made sure they didn't get lost. he had an embarrassing crush on sirius and blushed every time sirius did so much as put a hand around his shoulder. poor peter had to listen to him complaining about his big grey eyes and pretty hair and soft skin and kissable lips ("moony, one more word about sirius and i'm gonna throw you off the astronomy tower"). he cried over the smallest inconvenience and kept stuffed animals on his bed (made by his mum). he spilled ink on himself when he did his homework and by the time he was done with it he had ink marks all over his face from rubbing at his eyes with stained fingers. he couldn't wink (sirius tried to teach him but he kept blinking and sirius laughed at him and it was too embarrassing he refused to do it ever again). he was always pouting :((

also i'm tired of the lupins being bad parents!! lyall and hope struggled with a lot but they were amazing parents and they loved their boy more than anything. hope was remus' best friend before hogwarts and lyall was deathly protective over him. he received at least two letters a week from them always asking about how he was doing in school, how he was feeling. hope would usually send one of his favorite homemade treats along with the letter too

[attackcopterblog]

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[royalresistance]

[monstersflashlight]

Commission for @hanaotaku95

A/N: Thank you so much for commissioning! I hope you like this, was a very fun thing to write :)

Request: In anticipation for Alien Romulus, may I request an A/B/O scenario where Female Reader is the only omega on their research station that is examining the Xenomorph lifeforms. Well, they escape and start killing people, and the reader has managed to evade. Fortunately, she goes into heat and this saves her life as the Xenomorph is a virile Alpha.

Heat salvation

Xenomorph alien x fem!reader || omegaverse, heat, dub-con (heavy), light choking, overstimulation|| tw: murder

When you got selected to be one of the researchers in a very special project, you counted yourself lucky. Only the most smart omegas were supposed to be able to enter such elite program, and you got in. You were happy, you were better than anyone. You couldn’t be thankful enough. And you got to work with the most interesting alien species out there, researching and testing and being completely interesting. You were over the moon.

All the testing and poking was a big annoying, they snapped and hissed at you, but you got used to it pretty quickly. You were the only omega in the ship and that was a bit weird, but you didn’t care, you were happy to be researching aliens. That was enough.

Until the specimens got out.

Until the xenomorphs escaped.

It was a normal day in the lab, and you were just getting some tests done when you heard screams out of the lab where they did the testing. But then you heard the screaming in the distance and the scientists around you got all nervous. They tried to hide you, a normal reaction of betas and alphas protecting the only omega, but they didn’t have enough time. One second they were fine, the next second there was a big scary alien in front of you, killing them all.

He was the same xenomorph you were in charge of, the one that you tested, the one that knew you… But he hated you. You were sure of it. You tried to be as careful as possible, but sometimes some little pain was inevitable. Some of the testing was brutal and you didn’t want to do it all, but it was that or getting out of the program, and the taste of new knowledge was too good to pass.

You thought he was going to kill you, but instead he stopped right in front of you. He smelled the air and stare at you. His weird elongated head twisted to the side in such a puppy like gesture you had to bite down on your lip to avoid giggling.

“Are you going to kill me?” You asked. You knew he talked, but he never talked to you. You weren’t sure he was going to talk to you now, but you had to try, you had nothing else to lose. He was going to kill you either way.

He kept staring, and you almost thought he wasn’t going to answer, but then he surprised you. “You don’t need to know that, do you omega? You only need to know that your body craves mine. I can smell it.”

“What?” You were more than confused by his words, not knowing what he meant.

And then he surprised you for the second time: “You are going into heat. And you smell like the best food in the universe.”

“I- I don’t…” You gaped at him, your brain short circuiting for a second. There was no way, you weren’t due for at least a month, but the fast rise of your chest, your body overheating… It couldn’t be, could it?

“Don’t you feel it, omega?” He asked, smelling the air again and licking over his sharp teeth. You shivered at the sight. You were about to say no when he stopped you. “Don’t lie to me.” His growl was enough to send spikes of arousal down your body, your pussy getting wet as he growled again, smelling the air.

“Yes,” you confessed.

He didn’t hesitate to ask: “You want to be claimed? You want to be fucked?” His long tail was swinging behind him as you shivered. You wanted that. You wanted what he was offering. Your body craved him.

You knew you should say no. You knew it would be a bad, bad, bad idea to say yes. To tell that amazing specimen of alien that you did want to be fucked by him. That you were in heat… And you knew he was an alpha. But you didn’t even know if he had a dick, or something similar to that… You didn’t know if your bodies were compatible, but he didn’t let you say anything. He smelled the air and was over you in less than two seconds.

When his body covered yours, you were more than ready to be squeezed, to be fucked, to be used as however he pleased. You could only feel the heat and the way your pussy was getting wetter and wetter every second it passed. Your brain got disconnected from logical thoughts the second you smelled his alpha pheromones. It was maddening, your clit asking for attention as your nipples got hard. You were no better than any other needy omega.

He said something in a language you didn’t understand, and then he added: “Say you need this. Say you need my alien dick.” He rubbed what seemed to be a phallic organ against your damp center. You whimpered, and he ripped your clothes away, leaving you panting and aroused under his hard body.

So you didn’t even think twice before saying: “I need it. I need you. I need your dick.” You barely recognized your own voice anymore, but your need was too great to ignore, you never felt like this. Your other heats have always been suppressed and cared for by other betas or omegas, but the presence of an alpha, and your induced heat… It was too much, your whole body felt electrified.

“Good omega, such a pretty slut for his alpha.” In other situation that could have made you mad, but you craved his words the same way you craved his body. His dick was still rubbing against your center, this time spreading your juices all over his dick, creating the most delicious friction.

“Yes, alpha.”

He didn’t need any other word. He entered you in a long slow thrust, not stopping, not letting you accommodate to his girth, but it was good enough to make your eyes roll back into your head, your brain empty apart from images and flashes of his hot body over yours. Your hands grabbed along his elongated head, trying to grind yourself into him, but not being able to. He controlled every single millimeter of your body, holding you down as he fucked into your dripping cunt.

“Faster, harder,” your voice was barely a whisper but it felt like a scream.

“Beg,” he ordered, his tail curving around your neck, not pressing, but making you tilt your head back, your brain fuzzy.

You always thought you were above begging, that you would never… But there you were, first time with an alpha and being split open by alien dick. Nothing could surprise you anymore, you weren’t above begging, not at all. “Please alpha, please. Please. Please,” you chanted.

He laughed over you, cruelly and harshly. You felt absurd, but the second his tempo increased, you were ready to beg again if it was necessary. It was so good. He was so good. Such a good alpha. A bright part of your brain thought you were over your head, that maybe your heat induced you to like him… But in that moment you didn’t care. You were an omega in heat, and he was an alpha ready to give you everything you craved.

And he delivered.

He fucked into your pliant body, hands and those tentacle-like appendages holding you down completely, at his mercy. You couldn’t even squirm under his body, just enjoying what he decided to take, what he decided to give. You were a recipient for his dick, just an alien fuck toy, owned by your alpha… And you loved it.

His orgasm came first, filling you with molten lava seed, your insides turning and convulsing to be filled so deeply and completely. And that threw you over the edge. You came hard and messily around his alpha cock as he grunted over you, your screams muffled by the tail still wrapped around your neck.

He filled you over and over, until you felt like you were about to burst, just to pull out and do it all over again. He fucked you for hours, until you didn’t know which way was up and which way was down, until you were so cum-drunk you would give everything for your alpha, until your poor omega cunt was oversensitive and tender.

And then he did it again.

After you don’t know how many hours, he stopped, wrapping his appendages and arms around you in the weirdest embrace you’ve ever felt, but the most comfortable, too. Still panting, your head resting against his hard chest, you asked: “Why didn’t you kill me?” It has been bugging you since he appeared.

He said nothing for a few seconds and then deadpanned: “Because your omega smell was too good to kill. I prefer to keep you.” You didn’t know what to say about it, you were literally spared because you were an omega...

Weirdly enough, you were okay with that.

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[dracobrooklyn]

Please forgive me if I got the research wrong 😭

|| MDNI || 18+ ONLY

CW: Smut, Prey/Predator dynamic, and Public sex

Me thinking about the holiday Lupercalia where it’s through February 13-15 where if my research is correct it was the day to celebrate the she wolf who took care of Romulus and Remus as infants and appease the fertility god of Rome. When Lupercalia first began, each man of Rome participating would select a woman’s name from a jar and the two would be coupled for the duration of the festival.

If I also remember correctly, they chase that same girl into the woods like the rest of the couples as if “hunting” them down, and once they catch them. It’s all carnal pleasure, sex in the woods kind of thing.

And all I could think about was König in this situation. Wearing a wolf pelt over his head like the skin he has in COD. Picks the name of said reader, is paired with her for the rest of the festival and definitely enjoys the time he has with her. Possibly falling in love with the reader in the process. After all wouldn’t they deem him the Alpha because of how tall and big he has. Wouldn’t it be an honor to be chosen by him.

Am I going to write a one-shot of this… yes, yes I am. I can’t get this idea out of my head now.

[stra-tek]

Facts about Captain Robau

This was a long-running thread on TrekBBS in 2008-2009, a riff on the "Facts about Chuck Norris" meme. And it had some gems (thanks to all TrekBBS members who participated):

The Kelvin's shields aren't for keeping weapons out... they're for keeping Robau in.

There are only two things that can cut diamonds: other diamonds, and Captain Robau.

Spock is constantly shouting in "The Cage" because he can't hear his own voice over the sound of how awesome Captain Robau is.

Sisko and Picard are arent really bald. They just want to be like Captain Robau

The Kelvin doesn't need two warp nacelles to create a symmetrical warp field. Captain Robau simply wills it to happen.

That God head thing in Star Trek V wasn't exiled to the center of the galaxy he went to hide from Captain Robau

That Borg didn't open a gateway to fluidic space to assimilate species 8472 they did to get away from Captain Robau

Captain Robau doesn't sleep. He waits.

Captain Robau doesn't use the transporter. He just leaps down to the surface.

The new Enterprise is being built on the ground because Captain Robau plans to lift it into orbit

Captain Robau can kill two stones with one bird.

When Capt. Robau was born, the only one in the room crying was the Doctor. Never slap Capt. Robau.

Captain Robau does simply walk into Mordor.

Captain Robau doesn't do pushups. He pushed the planet down and then pulls it back up.

In space, Captain Robau can hear you scream.

Captain Robau is hung like a Horsehead Nebula.

Captain Robau once used a crowbar to destroy Ceti Alpha VI. That crowbar later found its way to Black Mesa.

Captain Robau is immune to entropy.

When Captain Robau makes love, he causes a quantum singularity.

Captain Robau's bald scalp is considered an aphrodisiac in...oh, what's that place called? OH. Right.

The universe.

Zod kneels before Robau.

Captain Robau got drunk one night and relieved himself out in the desert. The spot in the desert is now known as the Grand Canyon.

Captain Robau CAN beam through raised shields.

A supernova didn't destroy Romulus, Robau did!

Robau doesn't wear sun screen. The Sun wears Robau screen.

The Great Bird of the Galaxy is the name given to Captain Robau's cock.

Captain Robau was deeply surprised that in VOY: “Threshold” everyone who went at warp 10 didn’t evolve into him. Then he realised, even at their most evolved potential, the Voyager crew are no match for Captain Robau.

Captain Robau never went to Starfleet Academy. He just showed up one day and flew the Kelvin out of spacedock. No one had the balls to question him.

Captain Robau decided to take up pottery one day. He named the result The Guardian of Forever.

Captain Robau told Pluto to fuck off and stop being a planet. It did.

Q used to have a proper name but Captain Robau slapped him so hard he forgot it.

The great barrier exists to protect the other galaxies from Captain Robau.

Stardate 0000.1 was the moment Captain Robau was born.

Sha Ka Ree is Vulcan for Captain Robau.

What does Captain Robau use for a condom?

SPACEDOCK.

[impishtubist]

tell me more about romulus and hilarius dating please

OH BOY I'M SO EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT MY NEW OTP

(Also credit must be shared with @lynxindisguise and @spindrifters)

Okay, so, Sirius's twin Hilarius is a twink. And also has no sense of humor. He's extremely serious (ha) and dry. Also he steals his cousin Bellatrix's clothing all the time. He tries on Sirius's leather jacket and collapses under the weight. Hilarius is also in Slytherin like Regulus but is NOT about that DE shit. Sirius is afraid that Hilarius also wants Remus but Hilarius is like "no one wants your man Sirius. I don't even know why YOU want your man."

Romulus is big and buff and sexy and muscular and the alpha dom jock that everyone wishes Remus would be. He and Remus also get along really well! They're such good brothers! Romulus gets things off of tall shelves for Remus! It's very sweet. He's also a squib, so he doesn't go to Hogwarts, but he's there every weekend to hang out with his bro. Also we have decided that Romulus is the sports gay and the maths gay while Remus is the bookish gay. Remus is worried that Sirius is gonna fuck his brother and Sirius is like "why would I want that."

Anyway, all the art you see where Remus is huge and buff and Sirius is tiny? Yeah that's just Hilarius and Romulus actually.

[streamdotpng]

Military School AU

Orion as in the one that calls Enid by Antigone in T&T AU? Huh, I can see that

Does that mean Sirius (or was it the other guy, I only remember him as Enid's werewolf culture tutor) is the principal of the school, cause he gives me principal Nezu vibes (happy go lucky sadist)

romulus is the principal since he's the father of orion and sirius in t&t, he's rather chill and more calm and collected than his sons

Sirius is the one that manages the dynamics in the packs as a supervisor, kinda like the secretary and stuff. He's also the one that completely agreed with enid being alpha

orion didn't want to be high rank and was fine with being a cohort leader/supervisor during work immersion and the one that suggested enid being alpha to sirius

also yes, orion was the one that called enid antigone

[youngpettyqueen]

finished The Price of the Phoenix! review under the cut-

tldr: this book is gay as FUCK and on top of that its quite good

im gonna get it out of the way right now: Kirk and Spock are gay as hell in this book and its actually insane to read. every interaction between them- whether it be the original Jim or the clone James- was dripping with tension and longing and actual textual love. this was Amok Time levels of "how the fuck did this (insanely gay shit) air" and I applaud Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath for it. Spock's unwavering loyalty to Kirk, both Kirks, and it being his driving force throughout the novel, the mind link between him and James, the raw emotional state he's in... and both Kirks and how they rely on Spock, know him, love him... LORD

ahem. anyways. this is a GREAT Spock novel. the character exploration for Spock here is just so good and so compelling. this is Spock at some of his lowest, barely holding himself together, fighting his emotions down and just trying to keep going. Spock wants Omne DEAD and he wants to be the one to break his neck. he's so viciously furious and grief-stricken, its honestly beautiful to read him in such a volatile state. this isnt a side of Spock we often get to see, and what else could bring him to this point besides the faked death of his captain, the abduction, the cloning... great to see just what will drive Spock to literal murder and vengeance. his POV chapters were my favourite throughout, especially in the rare tender moments he shared with James. so many facets of his character are on display here, and all so wonderful to read

my second favourite part of this novel was the Commander's presence. what a POWERHOUSE she is. I thoroughly enjoyed how she effortlessly manhandles both Kirks whenever she needs to, and how bad this throws him off. she's a wicked fighter, every fight she has with Omne is fantastic to visualize. shes also ruthless and cold, with a lot of great Romulan logic on display. I love love love that she was one of the main characters in this novel, I love how we got to see more of this genuinely fascinating character, makes me wish we got more of her and the Romulans in TOS. her romance with James was predictable, but I found I quite enjoyed it, especially since they made it very clear that she wouldnt be bowing to him, nor him to her. they'll definitely make for an interesting couple

the issue of the two Kirks was a fascinating thread throughout. its quite the moral conundrum- the rights of the original, what to do with James, what rights does he have as a copy, what can they ask of him, etc. I dont think theres honestly a true right answer, and thats the conclusion they all seem to reach, as the best they can do is send to him to Romulus with the Commander as her princeling. its not an entirely satisfying conclusion, but I think thats deliberate, because I dont think there is a satisfying conclusion in this scenario. they cant keep James on the Enterprise, they cant just let him loose, the best they can do is keep him under lock and key and secrets on Romulus as the Commander's boytoy. a fate I wouldnt mind, tbh, but hey thats just me

Bones gets a couple of chapters, and I loved his. his relationship with Spock is what shines most for me from his chapters- his care for Spock is made very obvious, and the two of them are shown to be able to talk with just their eyes, much like Kirk and Spock do. I wish we could've had more with Bones, but that would've thrown off the structure and flow of the story, so I understand why his chapters were limited

Omne himself was an interesting villain. I wasn't super invested in him, but I did find the idea of him interesting. I think he's the weakest part of this novel, in that his whole thing relies on the idea of the alpha male, and a lot of him felt like... how do I describe this. you know when youre a kid, playing some sort of battle with your friends, and you make some shit up like 'oh you cant get through my shield' and 'I have a SHIELD BREAKING HAMMER'? thats what Omne's repeated one-upping felt like, after a point. the fight scenes with him were good, I could very much buy that he was physically stronger than our protagonists, but when it came to his tech and especially his last appearance on the Enterprise... yeah. im not saying I disliked it, but it did feel weak

overall I quite enjoyed this book. it was a slower read, I tended to read a chapter or two before going to bed every night, and I liked it that way. not one I picked up and tore through, but that isnt a criticism. sometimes books just want to be enjoyed slowly, and this was one I felt I wanted to take my time on. for my first TOS book, I thought it was really good, and ill definitely have to look into some more TOS books to read once im through my current to-read stack

[isagrimorie]

For my own personal files and resource, I decided to compile Star Trek timeline relevant to Seven of Nine and the Star Trek Picard timeline.

/Edited Jun 13 8:30PM

2344 - Stardate 25479. Annika Hansen is born to Erin and Magnus Hansen in the Tendara Colony.

2350 - The Hansens go to the Delta Quadrant and shadow the Borgs.

2355 - Annika Hansen is assimilated and becomes a Borg.

2353 - April 9: Raffi Musiker is born on Earth.

2368 - Seven of Nine and other drones from her Unimatrix crash land. Seven forcibly reassimilates her fellow Unimatrix drones to return to the Collective with her.

2374 - Seven is severed from the Collective and becomes part of the Voyager crew.

2375 - Raffi becomes security officer on Starbase 39

2378 - Voyager returns Home to Alpha Quadrant with the help of Admiral Janeway from a now alternate future.

2379 - Raffi is assigned as Romulan Affairs Analyst in Starfleet Intelligence. Captain William Riker takes command of USS Titan (Luna Class) together with Counselor Deanna Troi.

2380 - Romulans discover their sun will go supernova soon and the Romulan Star Empire requests help from the United Federation of Planets.

In the upcoming Seven of Nine novels, Firewall. Starfleet continued to reject Seven's application to Starfleet. Despite Janeway's recommendation to bring Seven of Nine and even threatens to resign from Starfleet if they won't accept Seven. After two years Seven decides to join Fenris Rangers.

2381 - Raffi starts work with Jean Luc Picard as First Officer.

2385 - Thad Troi-Riker is born.

- April. Utopia Planitia is attacked. Synth ban is enacted. The Federation plan to help Romulan Empire is abandoned. - Picard resigns in protests. Raffi is left in the dust because of this action. She continues her investigations about Tal Shiar, Zhat Vash, and the Conclave of Eight.

Around this time Seven gets romantically involved with Jay, who was helping out the Fenris Rangers. Unknown to Seven that she's actually a Black Market fencer. Real name: Bjayzl.

2386 - Icheb is captured and dies.

- Raffi asked to be dishonorably discharged.

2387 - Ambassador Spock tries to save Romulus Prime. Romulus Prime explodes.

2396 - Captain Liam shaw takes command of USS Titan. The Titan was badly damaged and is reconstructed and redesigned mid-refit. Using the Luna class frame USS Titan-A becomes the Neo-Constitution III Class.

2398 - USS Titan was pulled from service after getting heavy casualties. Under Riker Titan and its crew stabilized the Beta Quadrant.

2399 - Dhaj, Soji’s sister is attacked and contacts Picard

- Seven finally avenges Icheb. Tracks down and kills Bjayzl.

- Hugh is killed, and Seven is summoned to the Artifact. Seven pilots the Artifact out of Romulan space and lands the Artifact on Coppelius for the remaining xBs to live in.

- Raffi's conspiracy theory is proven RIGHT. Zhat Vash conspiracy to destroy the Synthetic citizens of Coppelius.

- Late 2399 Raffi and Seven begin their on again and off again relationship.

- Events of No Man's Land happen with Seven and Raffi.

- Rios is reinstated in Starfleet, and becomes Captain of the Stargazer. Rios gives/sold La Sirena to Seven.

- Raffi regains her commission for Starfleet Intelligence and is immediately dropped into the situation in Ordeve. (Star Trek Picard: Second Self).

2400 - Raffi joins Starfleet Academy as an instructor, Elnor joins Starfleet as a cadet.

2401 - Raffi and Elnor join the Excelsior.

- The events of season 2 kicks off. A new transwerp is born, Jurati Borg requests to join the Federation.

- Rios decides to stay in 2024.

- Seven receives a field commission as captain and briefly commands The Stargazer.

- Janeway and Picard leans on Starfleet Command to make the commission official. Starfleet Command gives Seven full Commander rank and assigns Commander Seven of Nine to USS Titan.

- Frontier Day / The Borg Attack. USS Titan-A led by Captain Seven of Nine (field promotion) and Commander Raffi Musiker engages the Borg infected Starfleet Armada in defense of Earth and Spacedock. Enterprise-D crew finally destroys the original Borg Queen.

2402 - USS Titan-A is fixed and rechristened into the Starfleet Flagship: Enterprise-G, captained by Captain Seven of Nine with First Officer, Commander Raffi Musiker. They launch for a Shakedown cruise.

These are the adventures of the Starship Enterprise...

[namesarelikeshinythings]

Werewolf names

I'm more of a vampire guy myself but I can appreciate werewolves. Wild, brutal but also comforting. Enjoy these werewolf themed names :

tw : mentions of murder

Alpha (neutral, greek letter A, there's a misconception that wolf packs are ruled by an "Alpha")

Brutus (masc, latin for heavy, the name you'd give an aggressive dog, the name of the man who killed Caesar)

Celeste or Celestial (neutral, french from celestial which means from the sky or heavenly)

Cuilen/Cailean (masc , means cub, whelp, young hound in gaelic)

Loup (masc leaning, wolf in french)

Lunar (neutral, pertaining to the moon in english)

Luna (fem, moon in latin)

Lupa (fem leaning, wolf in latin, as well as sex worker)

Lupin (neutral)

Lux (neutral, light in latin)

Lycos (masc, greek word for wolf)

Moon(y) (neutral, the natural sattelite of earth in english)

Nox (fem, night in latin, roman goddess of night)

Nyx (fem leaning, night in greek, greek version of Nox)

Rebel (neutral, a person with little respect for authority in english)

Remus (masc, twin in latin, in roman mythology, one of the twin brothers raised by a wolf, his brother Romulus ended up killing him because of their disagreements about building what would become Rome, it is also the name of the werewolf Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter saga)

Rudy (neutral, famous wolf in german)

Romulus (masc, means "of Rome" in latin, see Remus)

Selene (fem, the moon in greek)

Wolf (neutral)

Wolfgang (masc, wolf+path in germanic)

Wulfric (masc, wolf ruler in old english)

[xremusx]

closed starter for @alekgray​​ location: all fours

The events of Lupercalia seemed so long ago now, but Remus could not forget it. As much as he had looked down upon the lycans back when he was a vampire, that was a long time ago now. It seemed like he had lived several different lives with many different faces. This one that he was currently inhabiting had been one stolen from a man that knew no better. He had been a witch that Remus took from and had no care for if he lived or died. The terror had a one track mind. He knew what he wanted and he made sure it was going to happen. At some point. It took too much time to really handle this whole Romulus thing and he wanted to get it done as quickly as possible now. What point did he have in waiting? There were others in the way that would make it difficult for him, but it seemed these lycans had a common goal. Not in killing his brother, but in making sure the Senate got put down quickly. Plus, he did like the idea of bloodshed. That seemed to be something only the lycans could provide to him right now. He certainly wasn’t getting an army from the drow.

His in to make his way to the alpha had been to mimic one of the many lycans that could make their way through the thick fog that blinded those that did not wield the proper tools to wander through it. Once he had gotten to the bar, he let go of the face for the one that he had been wearing for many years now. A drink was in his hand as he waited for an appearance from the one they called Alek. A volatile alpha. Remus was a bit of a fan of someone who would rip a heart out and eat it in front of a large crowd of people. He would never admit to such a thing though. His own ego was large enough for one room. He certainly didn’t need someone else’s blowing up as well. The terror was a bit selfish in that way. 

“Alek Gray, correct?” That was the name he had remembered being said and the face he remembered. “We have a lot to discuss.”

[lightningarmour]

Star Trek the next-er generation part 1: The Romulan officer.

The destruction of Romulus, I think would be a pretty big deal. Season 1 of Picard did really try to address it as such, but it was a terribly written show and the result is a confused mess. We're led to understand that there was a massive crisis of evacuating Romulans which the federation pulled out of part way through. There's this like, refugee camp or something where former senators have become pirates because the government fell or something? Picard has like, Romulan immigrants working as his servants. But then you still have like, some sort of authority overseeing the Borg Cube reclamation, and some kind of deep state doing espionage and shit, so like, is the empire in ruins, or still able to maintain stability?

Of course, Picard is so uninterested in examining this aspect of the setting, and the people writing it are more concerned with plagiarizing the plot of Mass Effect 3 to bother making it coherent.

So for my purposes, I'm ignoring or at least stepping over some elements of Picard. Now, presumably, the "Romulan Star Empire" would encompass many worlds and possibly species aside from just Romulans and Remans. So even if the homeworld and, again presumably, the home solar system of the empire is destroyed, there are a lot of planets under the control of the empire. Who knows precisely why then, they had to rely so heavily on assistance from the Federation when their star went supernova, you'd think and empire would have plenty of ships and resources. But, nonetheless, evacuating an entire solar system, of probably trillions of people, would be an enormous undertaking, so sure, the Federation would probably be happy to help. Especially if we look at the events of Nemesis, which ends with the opening up of relations between Romulus and the Federation.

I also think that it's not beyond reason that this would cause political chaos and upheaval. Suddenly the seat of the empire has to be moved, a mass amount of resources are being shifted towards relocating entire worlds, the empire is vulnerable. Outside forces could see it as a prime opportunity to attack. Klingons, Cardassians? Hell, even the Breen? On top of that, maybe there are some populations of alien subjects who think, hey, it's our best chance in a century to declare our sovereignty against our imperial overlords.

And of course, not everyone could have made it out alive. A catastrophe like an exploding sun? No way they successfully get everyone out. So faith in the leadership is in question, maybe the Senate itself suffers losses. It's a moment of change, and a few ambitious people could decide it's their moment to seize power.

One way or another, the Romulan Star Empire is not going to continue existing in the same capacity it did before now. A quick glance at memory alpha says that the version of the government that existed as of Picard is the "Romulan Free State" which gets it's legitimacy from the Tal-Shiar, and their economy is entirely based on selling borg technology they salvage from the derelict Cube, which, like, idk, sure I guess. It's a far cry from an Empire though, so what about all the rest of the territory? The people? The military?

I think maybe you see something like an era of warlords competing for control of the former Romulan territories. A few senators, maybe a few generals each declare themselves the new Praetor, and now begins a period of little republics and fiefdoms popping up. Infighting. Something like the Romulan Free State can exist and maintain enough control over a portion of space to be considered legitimate, but there are other claimants.

Meanwhile there's no way this "free state" can possibly still represent the entirety of the former populace of Romulus and it's territories. So there's probably a significant number of refugees with no home left, and no capable government to care for them. So of course the Federation would allow romulans to settle in Federation space.

Problem is, the Federation has spent the past like, 200 years not exactly presenting the Romulan empire as a welcome presence inside the Federation. So this functions as a very thinly veiled metaphor for the current IRL "refugee crisis." Romulans fleeing the fracturing empire are allowed to settle in the Federation, but maybe not always in the greatest of conditions, and not all Federation citizens are welcoming of them. There's also the Remans to consider. They were already a slave-race who tried doing an overthrow of Romulan society and failed. They'd probably try making another play at power.

Incredibly long story short, though, this leads me to the first major addition to a new Star Trek show. Much like The Original Series presented a grand vision of a wonderful future where Americans and Soviets could live and work together in harmony, TNG gave us a leap forward by having the first Klingon in Starfleet. DS9 continued this tradition with Nog becoming the first Ferengi to enter Starfleet Academy. Star Trek is all about people putting aside their differences and working together for a brighter future, so the next logical approach to this idea would be to introduce a Romulan crew member.

At this point if we were to make a show that was set in real-time since 2009, it's been about 15 years since Romulus' star exploded. The idea I had for a character would be a former member of whatever the Romulan equivalent of Starfleet is, the military I guess. A scientist. Specializing in something like weird space anomalies and shit. Someone who's passion for their work would supersede their loyalty to whatever shadow of it's former glory the empire descends into. Over the past decade, the imperial remnant has had to divert all it's resources to try and maintain stability and fighting insurrection and attacks on it's borders, and yadda yadda. They're not doing much space exploration and stuff these days, so our young(relative to romulan lifespans, which are apparently similar to that of Vulcans) Romulan scientist decides that if she wants to pursue her career as a scientist, the best place to do it is in Starfleet.

So she goes to San Francisco, enrols in Stafleet Academy and comes out as the first Romulan officer in Starfleet history. Of course, this is not without it's speed bumps and road blocks. Rumors follow her throughout her time at the academy. That she's a spy, a Tal-Shiar agent, etc. Remember Commodore Oh? We're just asking for trouble letting a Romulan in, yadda yadda. She tries her best to acclimate to Earth/Federation society and customs to appear less threatening, but a part of her certainly resents the stigma she and other Romulans now living in the Federation face.

And given her career history, she of course excels in the academy, and is granted an express promotion to reflect her experience in her field, and she is assigned to Starfleet's newest and most advanced research vessel, the USS Revelation or Evolution or what the fuck ever. Something that evokes a sense of progress and reaching towards the future, like the statue of Zephram Cochrane. Fuck it, have it be the USS Excelsior NCC-2000-D or the newest Reliant or something.

Our Romulan science officer needs to report for mandatory psychological evaluation, and in doing so is going to encounter first hand one of the features of this swanky new science ship.

To be continued....?