#and we dont even get the bread and circuses

[dukeofankh]

Had an minor existential crisis in the customer support chat today.

[thegeminisage]

okay it's star trek update time. saturday we watched voy's "demon" and "one" and last night we did voy's "hope and fear" and ds9's "tears of the prophets."

demon (voy):

this one was so fun. i kept yelling THE GOOP IS ODO and it wasn't ofc but it was fun to imagine

a y class planet...i feel like we only ever see m class...this was very exciting

always exciting when they break out the space suits too

the ship landing is so silly and ridiculous. only slightly less ridiculous than the saucer splitting from tng

for a few minutes there i thought we were gonna have the tom paris/harry kim version of 2.25 resolutions. like because they could only breathe the planet's air. really really really funny

i love that the solution was to just let them clone everybody. imagine after voyager leaves and you can choose any crewman and all the little slimes want tuvok so you just have a bunch of tuvok slimes running around. 10/10

one (voy):

MY GIRL SEVEN....................

this one was soooososososo good

first of all, wtf at chakotay like talking to janeway about her bond with seven...that was gay as hell

i loved also she and the doctor eventually getting tired of each other. their scenes are so funny because they're both really autistic but in different directions

i love also when she gets put through the fire and succeeds...there is nothing she can't do. she really ran that whole ship on her own WHILE HALUCINATING i'm so proud of her

how clever to kind of leave it up in the air whether or not that guy was real, also. i went back and forth on it a few times and finally landed on not real only second before the reveal

her dream about being alone in the snowy tundra...damn. she like hates other people but also hates being alone. what a way to be

hope and fear (voy):

i had to physically pause this one multiple times to collect myself re: janeway/seven

the holodeck game. the argument where they both hit below the belt. the bit in the brig where they reference the first thing that happened in the brig and janeway had to touch seven's little eye thingy in the soft mood lighting wwwwow

i think the ethical dilemma here was a little silly though. like, my guy, you were banking on the ruthless guys who were stronger than the borg and also wanted to eat everyone else for lunch on helping YOU? like everybody say thanks janeway for getting rid of something even worse than the borg! not fuck you janeway for not letting the borg get killed by them

idk. i don't see that she did anything too awful. she sent them back home and saved them from the borg and saved the borg from them and then also got her people thru borg space AND got a gf out of it. leave her alone

i did like all the stuff about intuition vs borg knowledge though...janeway and her intuition remind me of kirk, but janeway and seven both fighting in the brig and then making up in the brig (complete with the touching) is very spones bread and circuses of them.

tears of the prophets (ds9):

man, sorry to say this, but...this script sucked bad. i dont think avery brooks is capable of phoning it in but we probability saw him get pretty close here. that final monologue, which should have ben about dax and was instead about the prophets, was poorly written

and dax's last words being about a baby - come on.

and kira and odo's argument - he is not so stupid he would do this without expecting her to be mad

and the scene between dukat and damar...where was the tension?? crazy dukat great but he's been better

even the thing with quark and bashir moping around in the holodeck because of dax was bad on paper

like, all of these things were saved (well, some of them were saved) by admirable performances from a charming and talented cast, but whew! like, julian looked so sad this became funny. kira and odo kissing to make up was so charming i forgave the premise

but dax's death was a bad death and her final arc being about a FUCKING baby was really sexist. sisko leaving not sure if he is coming back bc of some prophet thing right when bajor needs him most seems ooc. and his monologue to dax not being ABOUT. DAX. was a crime. poor terry farrell.

overall s6 has been great so far aside from a couple of bumps but man did it end on a sour note. i have heard season 7 is divisive so i guess we will see!!

TONIGHT: ds9's "image in the sand" and "shadows and symbols."

[ithisatanytime]

KIDS Incorporated - Dare Me (1985 - 720p)

 do you believe that muslims sometimes strap explosives to themselves and blow themselves up in the middle east or are all of those suicide bombings that dont even make the news in the west really, are all of those false flags as well? 9/11 is not THAT much more sophisticated than this, and we know muslim terrorists hijacked planes basically all the fucking time but usually to hold the planes passengers for ransom, it doesnt take a fucking genius to combine these two concepts and thats literally all they did, you could do it again today even with the security measures being what they are now, you could do it and it wouldnt be hard, the problem is where would you hit? the world (((trade))) center is already gone lol. the jews promote 9/11 conspiracy theories because they make you sound retarded, and 2001 america really wasnt ready to hear osama bin ladens stated reason for carrying out the attacks as he stated plainly that america was a slave to the jews and he had no problem with individual americans but their jewish master, that would have blown americas collective fucking mind at the time, instead you get bread and circuses about dancing isrealis and lucky larry silverstein, “it was insurance fraud! its all about da money” they own the money printing machines, do you know how america is TRILLIONS of dollars in debt? who do you think they owe that money to? they owe it to the literal jews who have ALWAYS ran the fed and print every fucking US dollar and LOAN it to america with interest, they dont need money if they needed money theyd print more “bu-bu muh inflation” that only applies to goys, prices went up? print more money

[oswednesday]

they could have picked a barbie theme to keep us in line, we dont even get circuses, we dont even get bread!!!

[xiueryn]

17 (circus) and 18 (war) because I dont know how you'd mash then together...

seventeen: “war” eighteen: “circus”

i’ve read a lot of isekai manga with the protag going to war so here we go i guess this is happening. when is this set? i do not know. did circuses exist back whenever this it? let’s pretend they did. nothing is historically correct and i love it.

“You're acting high and mighty for someone that can't even hit the target,” Marinette snapped.

“All I'm saying is that you should get your cut looked at!” Adrien retorted, throwing his hands up in exasperation. “It's distracting me. I can't think properly when you're bleeding.”

She snorted. “Since when do you care?”

“It stands out!” he exclaimed, gesturing towards the blood that had stained through her shirt. “You're not going to be any good to us if that gets infected. You're already wasting our supplies by being here, don't make it any worse.”

“Sure, that's it,” Marinette muttered, walking to retrieve her throwing knives from the target, yanking them out and safely putting them away on her body. “If I go, will you stop complaining?”

Adrien sniffed. “I do not complain.”

“Who told you that?” she said, picking up Adrien's fallen dagger and tossing it in the air before catching it in her hand with ease. “I don't know why you even bother coming here. You're never going to perfect this like your sword.”

“I don't—”

“Yeah, yeah,” she interrupted, passing him his knife before knocking his shoulder with hers on her way past. “Whine about it later. I'm going to the medic.”

It was only a scratch.

She'd received an unimpressed look that she'd answered with a smile and left the tent with a bandage tied around her forearm to prevent the minimal risk of infection.

During dinner, Adrien loudly put his tray down beside her. “You got it looked at.”

“Yes?” Marinette responded through her mouthful, using the back of her hand to wipe her mouth. “I did say I'd do it, didn't I?”

He shrugged. “You're stubborn.”

She huffed. “Why are you even here?”

“I want to make something clear,” he started, favouring looking into her eyes instead of eating his food. “Things might be different back at your circus, but here? You need to get every wound checked.”

Rather than respond to that rudely, Marinette made her opinion obvious through her expression as she took a large bite of her bread.

Adrien made a disapproving noise.

“I signed up to be here,” she said, gesturing with her bread to the other soldiers around them. “Can't you back off? You're not my superior.”

He frowned. “A knight is a higher rank than you.”

“Good for you,” she said. “I'll respect that when I stop showing you up.”

“Respect shouldn't rely on me being able to throw a tiny knife—”

“I saved your life the other week with that tiny knife,” she interrupted with raised eyebrows. “Or did you forget all about that?”

“No.” His ears reddened. “I—I wouldn't forget that.”

Suspicious, Marinette stared at him as she ate more bread.

Adrien looked away, focusing on his own food for once. And before he took one bite, he scooped a spoonful of it onto her tray without asking, simply saying, “You need to eat more.”

She blinked.

His explanation of his actions was, “If you're not going to look after yourself, someone else has to.”

Bewildered by the turn of events, Marinette asked, “Since when did that mean you?”

Adrien ran a hand through his hair. “Since you saved me.”

these two prompts are from here