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galact1c-ambition ¡ 1 year ago
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ROUND 3: SPLATOON EDITION
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from-a-legends-pov ¡ 6 months ago
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Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week — Favorite Droids (Who Are Not Artoo or Threepio)
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We know that Artoo-Detoo (R2D2) and See-Threepio (C-3PO) are favorite droid friends and heroes in any canon. But which of these other droids from Legends is your favorite?
Squeaky, the cantankerous protocol droid who served as quartermaster to Wraith Squadron and had a previous career as an extremely rude waiter at the tapcafe near Folor Base (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)
Tonin, the R2-series astromech droid and companion to Gara Petothel; dubbing himself “king of the droids,” Tonin wrangled an army of mouse droids to slice into the systems of Warlord Zsinj’s ship, the Iron Fist (X-Wing: Solo Command)
IG-88, an assassin droid created by the Intergalactic Banking Clan that was given sentience programming to improve its operation as an assassin, reasoned it was superior to its biological creator, and destroyed them; it later started a droid revolt and worked as a bounty hunter during the time of the Galactic civil war (Tales of the Bounty Hunters)
Shiner, Myn Donos’s beloved astromech droid, whom he considered the last remaining survivor of the ambush that killed Talon Squadron, causing Myn to nearly go catatonic when the droid was destroyed in a battle with the Blood Nest pirates (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)
Whistler, also known as Xeno, Corran Horn’s astromech droid, who assisted him with detective work when he was a Corellian Security (CorSec) officer and later came with Corran when he joined the New Republic starfighter corps. Similarly to Artoo, Whistler escaped memory wipes and developed more of a distinct personality than other droids. He was painted the same green and gold as Corran’s X-wing (X-Wing: Rogue Squadron)
R5-D4, the astromech with the bad motivator originally chosen for purchase by Owen Lars. R5-D4’s original story was that he was extremely jealous of other droids and that Artoo deliberately sabotaged R5’s motivator to make sure Artoo was the one purchased; however, in the “Skippy the Jedi Droid” story, R5-D4 was a Force-sensitive droid who sabotaged his own motivator after seeing a Force vision of a grim future in which R2D2 never reached Luke or Obi-Wan and was never able to complete his mission (Star Wars Tales)
Gate (R5-G8), originally R5-D2, Wedge Antilles’ astromech droid with Rogue Squadron. R5-D2 was known as “Mynock” because of how noisy and shrill his whistle was. Wedge got so annoyed with Mynock’s noise that he had the droid’s memory wiped; during the wipe, the droid’s internal components were upgraded, resulting in its new designation and nickname (X-Wing: Rogue Squadron as Mynock; X-Wing: The Bacta War as Gate)
Vape, Garik “Face” Loran’s R2 unit astromech. When he had the droid repainted from red to the unit’s gray color, Face had Wraith Squadron mechanic Cubber Daine reprogram the droid to respond to the command, “Cold one” by dispensing a cold Elba beer (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)
HK-47, a Hunter-Killer assassin droid and Jedi hunter constructed by Darth Revan in 3960 BBY. He despised organics (whom he referred to as “meatbags”), and multiple times over the centuries turned on organics who attempted to reactivate him or use his data or AI. These included Separatists who found him on Mustafar during the Clone Wars and a group of spacers in 1.5 ABY whom he convinced to help him regain his body and restart the Mustafar droid factory, after which HK-47 built a droid army to kill all organics, including the spacers (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
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discoonthegrass ¡ 2 months ago
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By Any Other Name: Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion. Kirk's one advantage - they're not used to their adopted human form. (Vague descriptions this is the one where the Andromedans come onto the ship & Kirk-and-co incapacitate them by getting them drunk, boring them, fighting them, and seducing them)
Court Martial: Kirk draws a court martial in the negligent death of a crewman.
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justahumblememefarmer ¡ 11 months ago
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Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 1 - Matchup 5
Episode Summaries under the cut
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106: Twice Upon a Time - Season 10 Christmas Special: The Doctor, refusing to regenerate, is taken by the TARDIS to meet his first incarnation, who is also conflicted about regenerating. They encounter a Captain from World War I being hunted by a group called Testimony. Testimony offers to return the Doctor's deceased companion, Bill, to him in exchange for the captain. The Doctor takes her and escapes with Bill, the Captain, and his younger self. To learn more about Testimony, the Doctor travels to a huge galactic database, run by a Dalek the Doctor had encountered before. In the database, he learns that Testimony extracts people from their timelines at the moment of their death and archive their memories. The Bill that's with them is an avatar created from her memories. Realizing that there is no evil to fight, the Doctor returns everybody to their timelines, returning the Captain to the Christmas Armistice, allowing him to live. The First Doctor returns to his TARDIS to regenerate. The Twelfth Doctor's memories of Clara are restored and he is bid farewell by avatars of her, Nardole, and Bill before reentering his TARDIS to regenerate into the Thirteenth Doctor.
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151: Kill The Moon - Season 8, Episode 7: The Doctor takes Clara and one of her students on a trip to the moon. They arrive in a space shuttle in the future on their way to the moon. The moon has been increasing in mass, causing several issues on Earth, so the crew of the ship are on a mission to destroy the moon. They are attacked by several spider-like creatures, which they determine are gigantic antibodies of the creature living inside the moon, which is actually an egg. The creature is gaining mass as it prepares to hatch from the egg. Clara communicates with the people of Earth, offering them the chance to vote for either killing the creature in the moon before it hatches and stopping any further mass changes, or allowing it to live and hatch and living with whatever consequences that brings. Earth votes to kill it, but Clara overrides them and allows it to live. The Doctor takes everybody back to Earth and they watch the creature hatch, flying away after laying another moon-egg to take it's place.
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princesscolumbia ¡ 1 year ago
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Star Trek Captains, A Review and Categorization II - The Wrath of Polling
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I'm 100% sure it's due entirely to people not knowing the poll existed, but where the support of Capt.'s Rios and Seven are annecdotally strong, I've got numbers for Spock, Batel, and a surprising tie for third of Scott and Saru.
Without further ado...
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Captain Spock
At least four generations of Done With Your Shit™️. Your ideas are stupid and wrong and he can prove it mathematically...which is why he can't get enough of Kirk, weird lil' himbo twink just dual-weilds the middle finger at the No Win Situation and Spock has to check his calendar to make sure Pon Far didn't arrive early! (We get it, Spock, we've all been there, right ladies?)
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Enterprise Captains He's Given 'The Eyebrow' to: 4
Civilizations unified: 2
Ancestors whose name rhymes with "Barthur Cronnan Spoil": 1
Amount of time he kept one ship in battle-worthy condition when all the others of its class and generation were being mothballed, destroyed, or lost to the future: 40 years
Siblings he just never talks about: 2
Category: Space Elf
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Captain Batel
Probably the one person in Starfleet that can always call out Pike on his shit. Maybe not Mom to Pike's 'Dad,' but not bad as the cool stepmom. Yes, Chris, she'll take care of Chapel while she deals with her boy issues, we'll have some girl time, it'll be fun!
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Number of Pike fans INSANELY jealous she managed to land in Pike's bed: Like, all of them!
Number of musical numbers while in command: 1
Number of musical numbers that singing voice should have been given: ...a LOT more!
Amount of patience to deal with Pike's mid-life crisis: 9,001
Category: Step-MILF that will teach you how to drive when Dad (Pike) gets too 'back-seat-driver'-y
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Captain Scott
Crouching Engineer, HIDDEN BADASS! Kirk may sit in the Captain's chair, but we all know who the Enterprise lets put her engines to bed for the night. This man can make any engine or transporter you can think of just sing, all in perfect accompaniment to his bagpipes.
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Times he accidentally created a time machine (with Spock on assist): 1
Times he accidentally hosted a murdering parasite: 1
Times he out-drank an extra-galactic entity bent on stealing HIS ship: 1
Times he tested transwarp beaming with an admiral's dog: [0/1] <- YOU open the box! I'm not collapsing that waveform!
Times he unironically used the line, "There be whales here!" in a 23rd century space vessel: 1
Category: Miracle Worker
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Captain Saru
Proof that a prey species can unequivocally kick your ass. Ride or die. This man will take your spaceship, captain it efficiently, and give it back to you better than when you got it. Alfred to Burnham's Batman. Might call you "Daddy," but we know who wears the belt.
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Evolutions (you know, like Pokemon): 1
Autistic crew he's whole-heartedly supported and mentored: 1
Category: Tol Cinnamon Roll
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kisskissbanggang ¡ 1 year ago
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Jumpspace Renegade - ep. 17 ✨🚀
[5.4k words, 20min. read - Stray Kids Multi Fic, Scifi!au, Choose Your Own Adventure - Jisung x Fem. Reader - NSFW/Smut - Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Hooking Up, Navigating Feelings, Platonic(?) Intimacy, Ominous Plot Hints, Reader has a Another Terrible Idea, We Have to Figure Out What to Do on Sentury Station, Dressing Up, Crumbs of Backstory, Who the Hell Knows What Minho is Thinking, Chan is Not Completely a Dick?, Always Check the Tags]
[Author's Note: This is the end of season 2! Stay tuned for polls and updates about the series. Thanks as always for coming along for the ride! 💕]
[Author's Note #2: This episode is late! Voting closes on Saturday, 10 pm PST]
[Episodes on Fridays 7pm pst, Polling closes Saturdays 7pm pst]
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You were frustrated, hungry, and disappointed.
And confused.
Because the disappointment didn’t feel just like disappointment. Maybe you felt a little heartbroken, finding out that you were likely never going to see Seungmin again after his negotiations at Sentury.
But for now, you were hungry.
You surveyed the kitchen, hoping to see if Jeongin had left a plate out for you. Finding none, you checked the warmer. There was a plate inside, but it’d been picked clean, leaving a sad corpse of dinnerware covered in crumbs. Dejected, you grabbed an energy bar and nibbled on it while you walked back to your cabin.
In the cool air of the workshop, Felix was reclined in the hammock set up by the workbench, hanging all the way down from the catwalk. Changbin was preoccupied tuning up the four-wheeler. Someone, at some point, had written “PLACE FELIX HERE” in the middle of a circle on the cargo basket, the permanent marker ink shiny in the overhead lamps.
Just when you thought you’d slink by, letting the duo go about their business in peace, Felix’s smooth voice made you pause.
“You excited to go to the Station?”
When you turned back around, Changbin was chuckling and shaking his head. “You know it’s only folks who’ve never been that are excited to go,” he teased Felix.
The ranger’s giggle was deep, comforting despite being foreboding. He lazily kicked his feet where they hung over the side of the hammock. “Doesn’t mean she can’t be excited to dock tonight. She’s never been, after all.”
You hopped up to sit on the workbench. From here, you could see Felix looked a little bashful, maybe surprised that he and Changbin were back to bantering. But your confusion multiplied.
“Wait,” you shook your head, “tonight? I thought we were docking tomorrow!”
Felix and Changbin looked at each other, and then at you. The blonde pointed to another digital screen, like the one in the galley, this one on the wall by the door back out to the common area. Sure enough, the time and date had changed to Galactic Standard. The ship must’ve passed a Federation satellite at some point. 
You were internally screaming, but you tried to remain calm on the outside. “Well,” you heavily sighed. “I’m not even sure what to expect at Sentury. All I know is the Station is huge and there’s some casinos.”
“Some casinos?!” Changbin roared out a laugh, popping his head out from where it was focused on the four-wheeler’s engine. “There’s dozens of casinos at Sentury, maybe even a hundred. You’ll find some of the best gambling of your life there.”
“It was our home base for a few months,” Felix clarified. “Some great nightlife there, if you’re into that. They don’t even follow a day-night cycle, so you’ll run into folks out having a good time or the worst night of their life at all hours.”
You somewhat recalled this, that Felix and Changbin were a team before joining Chan. Something about Changbin rigging slot machines and Felix shaking down tourists and high rollers.
“Well I’m excited to go,” Changbin snickered to himself. “Always something going on. We just have to finish prepping first.”
The urge to share everything that had gone down was nagging at you. Felix and Changbin were clearly experts on Sentury, but you were more than a little wary of how eager Changbin was to cause some ruckus, apparently. 
“Do you need any help?” you cautiously asked. “Preparing, that is.”
A soft sigh could be heard from the hammock. “I still have to do inventory and secure the lockers,” Felix explained. “Anything bigger than a blaster needs to be deactivated or emptied before we disembark. I don’t think we need any help–”
“Or,” Changbin stiffly cut in, “maybe you could ask Nova to do the thing.”
“The thing?” you repeated.
Felix’s blonde head peeked out from the hammock. “Chan just asked if I could grab a trunk we nabbed from Floree Outpost out of the cargo hold. You don’t want to–”
“Sure!” you instantly nodded before you hopped off the workbench. “It’s no problem at all.” You could sense Changbin’s concern over Felix, and what could it hurt? There wasn’t anything to do before docking tonight.
You strode over to the mini-lift down to the cargo hold in the workshop, hearing your racing heart booming in your chest while you descended.
Tonight.
All this groundwork you wanted to do had to be done as soon as possible.
You punched the button for the lights when the lift hit the ground. The cargo hold was still an indecipherable mess in your eyes. If there was any method to the madness, you’d yet to find it. You entered the winding labyrinth of crates and boxes, trying to figure out what the hell you were looking for when you came across your old boots.
They smelled like your old apartment, something you never even considered to have a smell before.
What had it been, a week? A very long, exciting, terrifying week?
It felt like you’d been away from T’kaarm for decades.
“Looking for something?” came a voice, making you look up from the maze of cargo.
Hyunjin was leaning out of his cabin from under the stairs. You waved in greeting although you weren’t quite sure why, but Hyunjin waved back.
“A trunk? Apparently?” you asked. “From Floree Outpost?”
The appraiser nodded dutifully and made a bee-line down a path of crates. You could somewhat see him moving things out of the way, shuffling items around before he came up with a giant foot locker. The thing was gaudy, shiny magenta with gold curlicues decorating it and brass hardware. A large combo lock was on the side handle.
“Exciting,” Hyunjin laughed. “If Chan wants this, something interesting must be going on. Been hearing funny stuff about Sentury lately.”
There was that nagging feeling again, but just like with Changbin, Hyunjin came with his own risks. The appraiser was way too gossipy for your preference to ask for his help, even if he knew just about everything.
“You excited to go for the first time?” Hyunjin asked, leaning on a pile of crates.
“Er, I think so,” you waffled. “I hear there’s great night life.”
Hyunjin let out a guffaw, his laugh bright and airy. “Who told you that? Felix?”
You sheepishly nodded before Hyunjin walked back in the direction of his cabin, waving you over after him. “I love those two, him and Changbin.” Hyunjin picked up his tablet and typed something in before presenting it to you. On the screen were two mugshots: Felix, having the time of his life with a big grin on his face, and Changbin, quietly proud and giving a dazzling smolder for the camera. 
Some time had clearly passed since then. Felix’s hair was a daring shade of blue, while Changbin’s was a cute chestnut brown. Felix even had some cute extra piercings and a large love bite on his throat, while Changbin was apparently hiding all sorts of tattoos under his long-sleeve shirts if the mugshot was anything to go by.
“Look at ‘em,” Hyunjin cooed. “Felix is blacklisted from practically half the clubs and bars in Sentury, and Changbin’s not even allowed on a casino floor. Any of them.”
“Shouldn’t they have made bank then?” you wondered out loud.
Hyunjin shook his head. “They didn’t hit all these establishments, mind you, they just created enough of a reputation to become a preemptive issue. Keep a close eye on them when we disembark, and if anyone asks where they are–”
“I don’t know anything,” you innocently raised your hands. 
“Exactly,” praised Hyunjin while he looked at his wristwatch. “Now come on; it’s almost time for dinner.”
You spied the time he was looking at. “Dinner?! It was just breakfast!”
“A good crewmate is hungry when the clock says to be,” Hyunjin chided. “Much to learn, rookie.”
You sighed and returned to the trunk to haul it upstairs, fully prepared to drag it over to the lift before you realized that it was actually surprisingly light. It was difficult to figure out what was inside the foot locker; nothing was rattling inside. The most awkward part of getting it up to the common area was simply the size of the thing, trying to maneuver it up the tight staircase. You had to admit, you were still hungry.
Something smelled amazing when you got up to the galley, and you dropped the trunk by the booth before heading into the kitchen. It appeared that Jeongin was finishing getting everything set.
“Looks good, chef,” you complimented, peeking over his shoulder to the stew he had going on the stove.
“Thanks,” he humbly replied. “I’m getting more comfortable not having Felix right here to help me.”
You raised a curious eyebrow. “Didn’t do much cooking before this?”
Jeongin shook his head. “Never got a chance to learn, so Felix has been teaching me.”
“You’re doing great,” you reassured him.
“Excited to go to Sentury?” the cabin boy asked. “I’m a little nervous, honestly.”
“What?” you involuntarily laughed. “You’ve never been?!”
“No!” Jeongin laughed back, his eyes turning up into charming crescents. “Last time we passed through, Chan refused to let me go, ‘for my own good,’ he said.”
Internally, and although you’d never admit it, you commended the captain a little bit for that one.
“It’s funny,” Jeongin continued, “Lee told me something similar recently, like, when he was still in the brig. He said I should be getting off the ship and exploring as much as possible, also ‘for my own good’.”
“Is that what made you look for Jisung back on Phaborus?” you smirked. He simply nodded in return. “And were you nervous?”
“A little,” he admitted. “I know it makes me sound like a pussy, but just a little.”
“Nonsense,” you shook your head resolutely. “Doing shit when you’re nervous helps you to not be nervous the next time.”
The cabin boy smiled again, softening his sharp features, but the mention of Minho turned the wheels in your head. It felt a little selfish, but it was worth trying when you had a chance.
“Want help? I can take Minho’s food to him.”
“Sure!” Jeongin brightly agreed. “Gives me a chance to eat. Do you remember the combo?”
He asked as if you ever knew. When you shook your head, he dug in his pocket and fished out a keycard, just like the one Chan had given you. You tried not to squeal in excitement when you quickly fixed a bowl for Minho and rushed off.
Thoughts were racing through your head before you stumbled into the workshop, apparently interrupting something when you heard Felix curse from the loft. He and Changbin ducked down behind the couch, and you surreptitiously ran into the alcove between your and Minho’s cabins. You took a moment, though, pausing to make sure you had a game plan, a stance you were actually holding.
It sucked to think that Minho set you up.
Largely, you admitted to yourself, because the idea was ridiculous. In order for that to happen, Minho had to have made sure the ring not only made it to you in the first place, but that you would make it onto the ship. Yes, it was convenient that the crew got the lead, picked up Minho, and then picked you up, and you had it – but it was only that. Convenient. And conveniences did happen, you reminded yourself. 
You beeped open Minho’s door to find him examining his stubble in the mirror again, but not the one on his closet door. He was sat on the windowsill. Someone, at some point, had not only brought Minho a change of clothes, but a hand mirror and a razor. He looked comfy and refreshed in some cargo pants and a hoodie.
“Remind me what you said about facial hair the other day?” you nonchalantly asked. You helped yourself to a bite of food from his bowl, marveling for a second that Jeongin did do a good job.
“Dunno,” Minho shrugged, “but I miss growing it. When was the last time that you saw a Marine with a beard?”
You shrugged back. Actually, you don’t think you’d ever seen a member of the Federation military with facial hair. Minho cleaned off his razor in a cup of water at his side. 
“That’s because,” he continued, pulling the skin on his chin taut, “they neutralize the follicles on your face in orientation. Hurts like a motherfucker, but it’s supposed to enforce dress code. Takes some folks years to grow it reliably again. I’m still patchy as hell.”
You watched Minho shave for a little bit, lamenting that it maybe was somewhat attractive.
But you wanted to calm that relentless thought in your mind.
“Hey,” you bluntly changed the subject, “my Clessorian ring. Did you know about it before I came aboard? Like, did you know it was on T’kaarm?”
“Yes, ma’am,” Minho staunchly answered.
“Was it ever in your possession?”
Minho rinsed his razor in the water cup beside him and patted his chin dry with his hoodie. “Sure was,” he nodded. “You done eating my food?”
You swallowed your spoonful of stew before handing the bowl to him. “And what did you do with the ring?”
The bounty met your gaze but it was hard to read. “I got rid of it. Too much trouble. You excited to go to the Station?”
This was a satisfying enough answer for you. You walked back to the door. “Not really,” you shrugged. 
“Smart girl,” he praised. “I knew I liked you.”
Minho was giving you an odd look. You pointed at the bowl in his hands. “Your food’s getting cold,” you told him, before you promptly left.
The loft was empty, the workshop was empty, and the galley was empty when you entered it. You scarfed down a quick bite to eat before you crept upstairs. The boys were all assembled in the back of the bridge, with the trunk from Floree Outpost at the center. Hyunjin, Changbin, and Felix were all squished together on the couch. Chan sat at his console. You could hear faint music from the nav office, implying Seungmin was busily at work inside. Mysteriously, Jeongin and Jisung were nowhere to be seen.
Beyond the front window, a gargantuan, revolving, metal mass of a space station could be seen in the distance. This had to be Sentury.
“Enough bullshit,” Changbin ribbed. “We finally get to see what’s in this thing?” The mechanic pointed at the trunk.
Meanwhile, Chan pointed at you.
“It’s for Nova,” he cryptically explained. He tried the combo once before he broke the cheap lock with his bionic hand. Inside the tacky trunk was a tangle of fabric, all shiny and satiny textiles. The captain pulled out a couple items, revealing them to be showy dresses, the kind you’d wear to nightclubs.
Well, not you, but the kind that you could wear. 
Chan plonked the dresses into your hands. You scanned the room, confused, and caught Seungmin peeking from the nav office.
The crew were tittering and giggling. “So,” Hyunjin grinned, “it’s true about Sentury, then?”
“Is what true?!” you demanded.
The captain waved a dismissive hand at you, and then at the peanut gallery. “So we grabbed this trunk off a couple resort hostesses back on Floree Outpost,” he flippantly explained. “Pick one or two outfits you like, just to last you until you find something at the Station. And you’ll need to name an escort from the crew.”
“Excuse me?” you gawked, your arms limp in front of you.
“That’s new,” grumbled Changbin. He dug in his pocket, counted a couple credits, and placed them in Hyunjin’s waiting hand, having apparently lost some wager.
You spiked the dresses at Chan’s face. “Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on? What’s with the dresses? Why do I need an escort?!”
“It’s fine, babe,” Felix soothed you. You and Chan both turned to face him. “This happens sometimes with regime changes. Whoever runs the Entertainment Bureau gets to make the rules. One time, the Director was super into bikes so everyone was big on street racing for a bit, you know?”
“Okay, sure,” you huffed. “But what changed for there to be assigned escorts now?”
Chan mumbled something and you whipped around to look at him again. He met your eye and reluctantly began explaining. “From what I gather, the Director must have one hell of a crew of dancers or hostesses or something because ladies have preference on the Station. Their own security checkpoints, their own transports, their own reserved sections in bars, clubs, even casinos–”
“And still no decent shopping, I bet,” Felix complained. Changbin and Hyunjin nodded in agreement. 
The captain shot the three a look, gaining their silence before continuing. “The escorts have been used before, when valuable cargo was moving through Sentury. It’s basically naming your one trusted contact. If you have this escort around, they’re permitted with you, no questions asked. If someone’s with you who isn’t your escort, they can be separated from you at any time.”
“And what if I don’t name one?” you asked.
“Apparently,” he began, “one will be assigned to you. From our crew or from the Station, I don’t know which. On the flip, I’ve actually heard of cases where an escort isn’t even named, but instead a crew member is indicted. Can you fucking imagine? Even a whole crew one time, holy shit.’
“Maybe they deserved it,” Felix shrugged.
The captain and the ranger began bickering while you regarded the dresses in the trunk. Not to be that person, but you never really had the occasion to dress up back home. You sneakily pawed through the trunk while the boys were busy arguing, sort of indulging and taking a look. One little number did catch your eye, a slinky, shimmery, champagne-hued dress. 
“Is that the one?” Chan asked, almost warmly, but catching you off-guard nonetheless. “Try it on!”
“Now?” you whined. 
“He has a point, love,” Changbin admitted. “Don’t want you looking frumpy when we disembark. We can make adjustments but we can’t do magic.”
“Fine,” you huffed, ready to turn heel down the stairs. 
“Oh my god,” the captain grumbled, “just try it on here, you prude. None of us are looking, no one is gonna care.”
You were this close to tearing Chan a new asshole, breaking his knees based on principle alone… but he sort of had a point. He’d said you were part of the crew. The crew all lived in these tight quarters, seeing each other in various states of undress on regular occasions – why shouldn’t you act like part of the crew?
“Whatever,” you relented. “But if I hear one catcall, it’s gonna be a bloodbath.”
“Such big talk coming from you,” Hyunjin giggled, sliding off the couch and looking through the trunk himself. Changbin and Felix were reading something on the appraiser’s tablet. Chan even had his hands over his eyes, rich coming from the one man present who’d seen you naked.
Regardless, you were modest about it. You turned around, swiftly slipping off your shirt and pulling on the dress, finding just enough stretch in the fabric to fit around your shoulders and hug you around your waist. Then you tugged off your bottoms, yanking them over your sneakers. You turned back around, admitting to yourself that you felt really good in the garment – when you noticed Seungmin staring. His cheeks rouged immediately, his face going pink when he tried to look busy and not like he was just watching you change.
The boys all turned their attention to you when they no longer heard your clothes shuffling. Chan looked you up and down but didn’t say a word, while Felix and Changbin nodded their approval. Hyunjin, meanwhile, nudged your hip with a pair of high heels from where he was digging in the trunk. Once again, they were in your size despite never confirming it for him. 
“Oh, no,” you refused, “I’m not ready for that.”
“Then practice, you maniac,” Chan complained, taking the heels from Hyunjin and pressing them into your hands. You scooped up your clothes from the floor. “Go practice, make sure you’re presentable, and pick an escort,” the captain directed.
You sighed hot into your chest as you defeatedly nodded, turning so you could head down the stairs. 
This was a lot to take in all at once. 
Just like you’d considered who to conspire on Jisung’s lead with, now you were wondering who to name as your escort. They’d have unquestioned permission to accompany you. 
Did that mean you could force someone to help you?
Like… if you named Seungmin?
Or you could even indict someone, apparently.
Could you even… name Minho as your escort? 
That’d probably make Chan snap. Hilarious.
A rush of footsteps in the stairwell startled you, and you turned to see Hyunjin jogging down to the galley. He held out an equally gaudy train case he must’ve found in the trunk.
“Chan, that idiot,” Hyunjin smirked, “he didn’t think to give you these.” He opened the case, revealing a mess of costume jewelry, hair clips, and makeup. He then produced a small clutch purse from under his arm and held it out in his other hand. “You’re going to look amazing. Don’t overthink it.”
The appraiser pushed the case into the growing pile in your hands before heading back down the stairs to his room in the cargo hold. You were left alone with a lot to figure out. Dazed, you walked back to your cabin, lost in thought – when you ran face first into Jisung, leaving his room. He looked particularly cozy today, with a tank top and some shorts, with a backwards baseball cap holding his fringe back. It was still taking some adjusting to see him without the eyepatch. 
The pilot looked thoroughly caught, his eyes wide and his face paling, which interested you until his eyes shifted down from yours, down your collarbones and onto the dress.
“I, uhm,” you struggled to explain, “I have to name an escort.”
Jisung’s eyes lit up and he pumped his fist a little. “Fuck yes,” he cursed in celebration. “I fucking told Changbin. But… are you going to disembark? Like that?”
The look you gave must’ve been brutal with how Jisung clammed up. It didn’t help that, following your criteria, you were still pissed at him. “Er, I mean,” he babbled, reaching forward and brushing a tendril of your hair out of your face. “I just think you can do something nice, really look the part, you know?”
You continued to stare, confused. Jisung sighed helplessly and grabbed your elbow, herding you into his cabin and closing the door. He sat you down at his desk, where he had a small standing mirror that you could see yourself in. The pilot brushed his fingers through your hair, a bizarrely soothing sensation, and began parting it and sweeping your hair in different directions. When you were about to ask him what the hell he was up to, he pointed at the train case.
“What’s in there?”
Instead of answering, you simply clicked open the case and gestured for him to take a look. Jisung peered inside, stroking his chin, and then picked out a couple pins before grabbing a hairbrush. Now you could no longer hold back the question you were dying to ask.
“Jisung,” you pestered, reaching back and grabbing his hand, “what the fuck are you doing?”
“I dated a couple dancers before,” he shrugged. “You pick up a thing or two. And you deserve to look nice, don’t you think?”
Stunned wasn’t exactly the right word here, but it’s what came to mind. Jisung whipped your hair up into a casual updo with some loose tendrils framing your face, and then dug into the train case. He held up a few options before holding up two sets of simple earrings for you. When you picked the modest golden hoops, he grabbed a matching bracelet and slipped it on your wrist. You sat still when he applied some light makeup, adding just a little drama to your eyes and a hint of shimmering highlight. 
It was ridiculous, how your heart skipped a beat when you looked in the mirror. 
You reminded yourself to stay pissed at Jisung.
“Alright,” he nodded approvingly. “Now the heels.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” you stubbornly shook your head. “I haven’t worn heels in years–”
“It’s like riding a bike!” Jisung refuted. “Besides, look at these. Wide platform, ankle strap, chunky heel – you’re going to be perfectly fine. May I?”
You swallowed hard when Jisung knelt down and spun you in his desk chair so you were facing him. He pulled off your ratty sneakers and delicately slipped your right foot into the shoe before buckling the ankle strap, and then repeated the process with the left. Jisung’s gaze felt piercing when he looked up at you, and you caught yourself feeling all vulnerable again. He got up to his feet and stepped back.
“Well?” he asked. “Is it true? You can’t walk in heels?”
A small sigh escaped your lips before you got up.
You took a confident step forward–
But you over thought it. Your weight shifted weirdly, sending you stumbling over your own feet and into Jisung’s quick arms, where he awkwardly caught you but shifted you over so it looked more like he was dipping you during a waltz.
You blinked at him, haloed by the lamp in his room. “It’s too bad I’m still mad at you,” you joked halfheartedly, “because that was pretty smooth.”
“Yeah,” Jisung nodded, a little dazed. “It’s a good thing you’re still mad at me, because you look amazing.”
“Thanks,” you replied, trying to crack a lighthearted smile, “I just got my hair done.”
In a moment of terror, you realized that Jisung was leaning in towards you, and you pushed a hand into his face, smushing him back and off of you until you were properly standing up on your feet again.
You were both a little out of breath. “You, er,” you fumbled, “you didn’t formally pitch a plan to me yet, remember?”
“You’re right,” Jisung agreed, nodding and taking your hand in his. The tension was ballooning in your chest. “Can I talk to you?”
Your chin dipped in a weak nod while you leaned back to sit against Jisung’s desk, but he followed you, stepping between your knees. The following minutes were dead silent. Jisung tentatively kissed your cheek, which you permitted. He then brazenly slid his arms around your waist, and you gasped when he kissed your neck.
“I wanted to see if you’re interested in a plan of mine,” Jisung explained into your skin, his voice breathy and needy. 
“Yeah?” you replied, way too into this already. Your breath hitched when his teeth grazed your pulse.
“I know a guy, at the place I mentioned, Sunrise Casino–”
“How many guys do you know?” you teased. Jisung’s fingertips pressed tough into your waist, despite his muffled chuckle.
“I know a guy, okay?” he repeated. “He just works a door, but he’s a guy. And I haven’t heard from him in weeks–”
Jisung exclaimed as you grabbed onto his tank top, reeling him in and kissing him properly. He melted into you then, spreading your knees so he could slide between them. His fingertips found their way down below your waist, and you hissed out a curse when you felt him tease his touch inside of you. 
“Okay,” you breathlessly nodded while you pushed his shorts down under his erection, “so you haven’t heard from your guy. What then?”
You gasped into Jisung’s mouth when he kissed you again, his tongue hotly writhing against yours while he pulled his fingers out to massage the tip of his hard length against your entrance.
“What then, Jisung?” you repeated, teasing him to keep up with your little game. He sank into you then, pulling a full-bodied moan out of both of you.
“Then,” he groaned, “that means I have to rely on the one other guy I have at the moment, a jewelry dealer. He should have some direction for us to go and try to find the safety deposit box while we try to build some contacts on the inside, grease some palms and gather some intel– oh fuck–”
Jisung shuddered, getting a little distracted fucking you in earnest on his desk. He thrust into you hard, almost grinding his hips into you so he could really rub into your sweet spot. You kissed down his neck, sucking a little love bite into his collarbones. His eyes were squeezed shut, savoring the sensation of your walls enveloping his cock, and you reached up, cupping his face and encouraging him to watch you.
“Come on, tell me the rest,” you urged.
“Then, once we get a solid lead on the whereabouts of the payload,” Jisung panted, “we’ll have to decide if it’s smarter to go after it ourselves or try to make a deal–”
“That is the simplest, most run-of-the-mill plan I’ve ever heard,” you giggled, but cried out when Jisung kissed you hard again.
“It’s harder when I don’t have a guy, okay?” whined Jisung. “I gotta start all over again, do some groundwork–”
“Then I can help you,” you offered, whimpering when Jisung started pounding into you at just the right angle.
“Then I did it?” he asked eagerly. “You’re not pissed at me anymore?”
“No,” you shook your head, “I’m not pissed at you anymore, just make me cum, holy shit–”
Jisung nodded obediently, desperately grasping onto your hips and consistently thrusting into you at a steady enough rhythm. Almost risking ruining it, he sucked a thumb into his mouth before leaning you back and caressing your clit. You tensed then, grabbing onto his arm and crying out when you hit your climax. You were seeing spots, you finished so hard. Jisung came a moment afterwards, pulsing inside of you and practically collapsing, limp, on top of you where you were uncomfortably half-reclined on his desk.
The two of you took a minute to catch your breath, with Jisung’s lips buried in your neck and tickling you when he breathed. At some point, his ball cap fell off, and your hands ran through his hair and massaged the back of his neck.
“I guess that just means you need to name an escort then,” he mumbled against your skin. 
Even though you were dazed, you still tried to consider this.
But you were still seeing spots.
Well, no you weren’t. 
You saw a spot.
A light. On Jisung’s talk box by the door. 
Someone was listening to you.
Your eyes widened in horror at this realization, but you kept this to yourself. 
You were landing soon, and you needed to name an escort.
And some asshole was spying on your conversation.
You considered your options again. Jisung was an obvious choice, but it made sense to widen your resource pool. There was Seungmin, obviously. Even though he had business on the Station, maybe he’d actually help you if you named him. There was also Hyunjin, who was a clear wealth of knowledge despite being a gossip. You even humored the idea of naming Jeongin, who was green enough that you knew he’d help you with little to no arguing. Chan was an option as well, you supposed. He had skills and experience, and maybe naming him would help you keep a close eye on him. And there was Minho, obviously, a delightfully funny idea that’d stun you if it actually worked. Getting Minho’s help and getting him out of his cabin? Who knew what that would get you. And, of course, that left Felix and Changbin. A duo that already had a valuable reputation on Sentury, and knew the ins and outs better than the whole crew, most likely. Even though they’d hardly be able to accompany you anywhere, you considered that you could accompany them wherever you wanted. You wondered, for a brief moment, if you could name two escorts.
Sentury Station wasn’t too far off by now. All that you had left to do was choose who to name.
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best-underrated-anime ¡ 10 months ago
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Best Underrated Anime Group K Round 2: #K7 vs #K3
#K7: A story of children who want to be acknowledged
#K3: Space boy crashes onto Earth, learns about living
Details and poll under the cut!
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#K7: Terror in Resonance (Zankyou no Terror)
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Painted in red, the word "VON" is all that is left behind after a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility in Japan. The government is shattered by their inability to act, and the police are left frantically searching for ways to crack down the perpetrators. The public are clueless—until, six months later, a strange video makes its way onto the internet. In it, two teenage boys who identify themselves only as "Sphinx" directly challenge the police, threatening to cause destruction and mayhem across Tokyo. Unable to stop the mass panic quickly spreading through the city and desperate for any leads in their investigation, the police struggle to act effectively against these terrorists, with Detective Kenjirou Shibazaki caught in the middle of it all.
Propaganda:
The big thing to this show is that the directors are Shinichirō Watanabe and Yoko Kanno, aka the team behind Cowboy Bebop. But in all seriousness, the show still haunts me and the music can still bring tears to my eyes. The art is incredible, and the characters are tragic. The story is partially about hope and largely about kids wanting their pain to be acknowledged.
Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Suicide
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#K3: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (Suisei no Galgantia)
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In the distant future, a majority of humans have left the Earth, and the Galactic Alliance of Humanity is founded to ensure the prosperity of mankind. However, a significant threat arises in the form of creatures called Hideauze, resulting in an interstellar war to prevent humanity’s extinction. Armed with Chamber, an autonomous robot, 16-year-old lieutenant Ledo joins the battle against them, but he loses control during battle and is cast out to the far reaches of space, crash-landing on a waterlogged Earth.
On the blue planet, Gargantia—a large fleet of scavenger ships—comes across Chamber and retrieves it from the ocean, thinking they have salvaged something of value. Mistaking their actions for hostility, Ledo sneaks aboard and takes a young messenger girl named Amy hostage, only to realize that the residents of Gargantia are not as dangerous as he had believed. Faced with uncertainty, and unable to communicate with his comrades in space, Ledo attempts to get his bearings and acclimate to a new lifestyle. But his peaceful days are about to be short-lived, as there is more to this ocean-covered planet than meets the eye.
Propaganda:
I believe that this show should be considered for the running because of what it accomplishes with the character development in the standard 13 episodes. It lays out the uncertainties of life and situations while also having that exist in the backdrop of a massive conflict that would make this seem minuscule. The main character is also exposed to new ideas and concepts that are alien to him and are initially inconceivable, such as empathy and compassion for others. In other words, it is him becoming ‘human’ again. There are also certain aspects of creativity such as how the worldbuilding functions on a world that is all water and how the characters interact with the world around them via various means. For the time it was released, it was a very unique anime with interesting takes that was overshadowed by some of the bigger ones at the time (Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Devil Part-Timer).
Trigger Warnings:
At one point, the main male lead says something akin to ‘why isn’t he dead’ concerning a chronically ill child (eugenics). The main male lead is 16 at the time of the show, and the characters he interacts with the most are around the same age. Various things, which can be considered as child abuse, happen to them. The show also has sequences with flashing lights.
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possiblylisle ¡ 5 months ago
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ANOMALY: Early History
Despite the hilariously disastrous outcome of the first ANOMALY poll, I have been given a first topic to explain courtesy of @leahpardo-pa-potato and do not worry @humbleartspawn I will write about your requested topic next.
From Andromeda, With Love
The important early history of the milky way ironically enough does not start in our home galaxy, but rather in our rapidly approaching galactic neighbor, Andromeda.
For an unknown amount of time, one species had been building a galactic empire in the Andromeda Galaxy. This species (who has never officially been named in the setting but I always refer to as the Alukari) found themselves hungering for power and total domination of more than just their own galactic home.
In the common human year of 270 BCE, the first Alukari ships arrived in the Milky Way and they quickly got to work destroying or enslaving any advanced species that posed a threat to their expansion.
Their initial attempts at colonization were half-hearted as the high command of the expedition was more concerned with domination that colonization. It would be during this time of domination that the more forward thinking members of the expedition began collecting genetic samples from their various new slaves.
A Better Breed of Slave
With the domination of the systems near their insertion point progressing favorably, the Alukari began to set down bases of operation on the planets that suited their tastes. One such planet would become the main center for the genetic construction experiment.
On an unnamed planet littered with dense rain forests and jungles, the Alukari would begin constructing the first prototypes of a completely obedient slave species.
The Slave species would be an amalgamation of a hundred different alien species' genetic code, fine tuned by geneticists to make them the perfect slaves. The first few attempts were terrible, as the Alukari understood nothing of the default genetic make up of life in the Milky Way.
The first successful subject would eventually be completed after a few decades worth of testing. This success would then be replicated through means of cloning with further tweaks. Within a few more years, the Alukari would have millions of their perfect slaves and would then completely wipe out the other, Milky Way native, species who they had been using before the completion of their genetic slaves.
Unspoken Rebellion
All would not remain perfect for the Alukari. They too foolishly believed their new species of slave would be perfectly obedient.
The Slaves, being cognitive beings, loathed the purpose of their existence and the suffering they were made to endure. And despite their purposeful lack of ability to speak, the slaves were able to communicate amongst themselves. This unspoken language would never be detected by the Alukari until it was too late.
After years of enduring the terrible, communicating amongst themselves, and setting plans, the slaves of one planet rose up in one quick movement. They stole implements of war from their masters and destroyed any others they could not carry. Their rebellion would spread beyond its origin and would move throughout space in stolen ships to liberate or join up with other factions of their freed siblings.
A decade into their war of emancipation, the slaves have made good progress and have begun to scare their old masters. The Alukari, knowing they can't beat an angry force of slaves wielding stolen Alukari weapons, would enact their one failsafe.
Death and Rebirth
The main perk of having a genetically constructed species of slaves that are all exactly the same is that you can easily create a biological weapon that targets that specific genetic makeup.
The bio weapon was unleashed on every known slave base of operations along with any ships that were boarded during space combat. This bio weapon was a disease and it spread like a raging wild fire. Soon, to the Alukari and any other outside observers, it looked as though the slaves had been completely wiped out.
But they had not. The jungle planet upon which the slaves had been created was one of the first planets liberated by the revolution. It was during the course of the war that the slaves took to creating genetically diverse versions of their species and, as the genetic weapon spread, these new slaves were engineered with an immunity to the disease.
One year after the believed conclusion of the war, the slaves attacked again. A new force of genetically strengthened slaves began slaughtering the Alukari. Terrified that their fail safe no longer worked, the Alukari raced to create a new weapon, but it was too late. The new slaves had joined up with a faction of old gene slaves who had chosen to hide amongst the stars and quarantine when the disease first arrived.
The Alukari began to make plans to flee the Milky Way, but few would escape in time. All others would be slaughtered with great prejudice as the slaves began to build their own society.
Much later in the history of the galaxy, when the freed slave species would make contact with humanity, they would identify their species as the Shaza, an Alukari word that presumably means 'slave.'
That is all I will write for this first part on the early history of the ANOMALY timeline.
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mrs-gucci ¡ 2 years ago
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canon Mills is the winner 👨🏻‍🚀🦖
honestly, he was so far ahead at this point that I just decided to close the poll early haha
so, I’ll be writing a full-length Mills story (likely about 2k words) over the next week or so and I’ll be publishing it here on Tumblr. keep an eye out for it!! I’ll likely be posting a teaser at some point too :)
I’m super excited for this and I hope y’all are too!
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here’s the general story concept I've decided on, for those of you who may not have seen it on the poll:
Bodyguard AU (kind of) - Mills is assigned to escort a young politician (Reader) to a galactic conference, they’re on the ship for several days together. They don't like each other at the beginning (Reader is quite opinionated and he can't stand it) but they eventually come around to one another. I anticipate a bit of action (ship to ship combat, pirates, etc) and of course, a lot of delicious tension & smutty goodness...
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gun-witch ¡ 1 year ago
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OK so I have a fun thing I wanna try out. I'm gonna explain the footnotes about the factions in my worldbuilding project, and end with a poll, and I want people to vote on which faction they'd most support if they lived in this world, and optionally share why. I honestly hope this breaches containment because my friend group would pretty much exclusively support two of them and I'm more curious about people on Tumblr as a whole. There's not many and they're pretty simple ideologically, with the member planets having some variety so even if you don't entirely agree with a faction you can probably find a member planet that matches your exact beliefs.
ESA
The ESA is a regional alliance centered around Sol (our solar system) in the Orion Arm of the galaxy. Planetary governments range from moderate socialism that could be argued to be social liberalism to hardcore Communism. Homelessness and inequality are almost entirely eradicated, and the ESA Navy keeps their territory exceptionally safe. There's also heavy government transparency, with the IAC (think SCP foundation) as the most secretive group, still publicly known to exist, and publishing records on their operations once they're complete. War crimes and corruption are heavily punished, and advanced bioengineering has allowed people full freedom in their appearance and identity.
The Republic
The Republic is a libertarian alliance centered around the fictional Valderna system in the Cygnus arm (connected to Orion to make up Orion-Cygnus). Originally an ESA colony that declared independence to free itself from socialism, the Republic has adopted a meritocracy where financial success directly translates into political power, "vote with your wallet" in a literal sense. Those in poverty as well as criminals are given second chances through a rehabilitation program, in which a person is subjected to advanced biological and neurological restructuring which allows them a guaranteed position in the company handling their case. Their navy is on par with the ESA and has most of the same ship designs, albeit with some different weapons.
Iris
Iris is a secret society organizing anarchist systems and pirate crews throughout the Galactic Bulge (yes this is a real place in space, in universe we renamed it to Sagittarius for obvious reasons) l. Iris uses a heavily decentralized structure in which leaders are simply the people others listen to, and laws are replaced with public opinion. Despite their political nature, Iris boasts one of the most advanced fleets due to their willingness to salvage ancient technology that other groups consider too dangerous or even heretical to touch.
The Nexus
The Nexus is a council of the remaining Veneran royal families who have yet to abandon monarchy in favor of joining another alliance. These houses unite under the Veniha religion, which teaches that the Veneran species are protectors of the universe and must use their unique psionic abilities and technology responsibly. They are not, as many think, supremacist, and modern Veniha welcomes converts from all species (though many choose to convert to the Veneran species, this is discouraged as much as encouraged). The Nexus keeps their footprint small, building settlements on singular planets to cover entire regions of territory, which they often leave to the other factions living there, choosing instead to simply observe and protect from catastrophy. Their navy is powerful but entirely pacifistic, though they don't judge violence in other groups, their technology allows them to subdue attackers with harmless psionics, and solve things as diplomatically as possible. When that doesn't work, there's always turning them into woodland animals.
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galact1c-ambition ¡ 1 year ago
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FINAL ROUND: SPLATOON EDITION
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myfaveisfuckable ¡ 1 year ago
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obi wan/grievous: Ok so this is a HUGE crackship and some people are not going to agree but like, Obi-Wan is what comes to mind when you think of the jedi and Grievous hates the jedi as a whole because he believes them to the cause of his mutilation and the suffering of his people, but the jedi are not the ones who did this. Grievous is a pawn in the game of the sith and he doesn't realize that his mind has been altered against his wishes or that he will be desposed of as soon as the war ends. Obi-Wan is a compassionate man and is able to consistently go toe to toe with Grievous, making him a rival Grievous can't help but respect in a weird way (his people are warriors, for all we know, fighting could be a method of flirting to his people yaknow? And obiwan genuienly flirts as a way to throw off his enemies, think of the comedic potential if Obi-Wan didnt realize how MUCH hes been a flirt or if Grevious acctualy gets flustered by it because obiwan is such a competent fighter and IF ONLY HE WASNT THE ENEMY-) If Obi-Wan knew what happened he would have tried to make amends and help his people, and if Grievous learned that it was Dooku (a former jedi turned sith) who turned him into a monster against his will, he'd probably be willing to team up with Obi-Wan to bring down Dooku and the Sith plans for Galactic domination to avenge and to protect his people, and they would be an absolute powerhouse since they are already familiar with eachothers way of fighting and from a writers point of view its filled with so much potential angst and drama, and hijinks, and even enhances the plot and creates parallels between the two that the franchise has never bothered to make and it has so much potential even if they don't fall in love they could be really good friends/partners/allies and if order 66 goes as planned they would be badass rebels its such an overlooked possible dynamic PLEASE 🥺
Sephitoph:
I made this one up as a joke but now i'm invested. ummm i'm just gonna c-p the rant I made on discord
ME:
they both have bright green eyes....
that's it, that's all i got ...
you probably won't like me for this, but i think it's funnier as a ship
SISTER:
...okay, explain 😂
ME:
er, not even funny, like i think they could make a good couple!
or at least an entertaining one
two ways you could take this, depending on whether you go w/ pre-breakdown Sephiroth, or post-breakdown, sadistic alien ghost who just wants to burn the world and torment cloud
for the latter, that's crackier but i'm just saying Toph is down w/ dramatic villainy and destruction
[insert: I AM MELON-LORD *maniacal laughter* gif]
(ok maybe not for real, but it would make a funny crack fic)
but pre-Nibelheim Seph (with the caveat that my understanding of his character is 90% from fanfic) he kinda personality of Zuko, circumstances of Azula
eh,,, ,that's not really on the mark
but anyways I know Zuko/Toph can be a great ship, i've seen it.
i think you'd could write a similar dynamic here
Sephiroth had his whole life laid out for him and he excelled at everything he was expected to do, but it's never been really about what he wants, like he's never really gotten to express himself. Or, like, develop a personality?? He's very isolated.
Toph also grew up very isolated, but she had kinda the opposite, where she utterly discarded the expectations people set for her (dressed up pretty helpless doll) and established her own person, wants, and goals very early on so they've got "coming from similar places but approaching things very differently", would lead to some very interesting interactions i think plus they're both down to work out emotional problems by sparring
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celtfather ¡ 6 months ago
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Sci Fi Drinking Songs at Gen Con 2023
We’re taking a journey today as I share the story of how I found myself playing Sci Fi Drinking Songs at science fiction conventions around the nation.
This is Pub Songs & Stories #284
0:15 - Marc Gunn and Jesse Ferguson “Molly Malone” from Come Adventure With Me
2:52 - WELCOME TO PUB SONGS & STORIES
I am Marc Gunn. I’m a Sci F’ Irish musician and podcaster living in Atlanta, Georgia. This show is for fans of Celtic music and science fiction and fantasy.
I create Celtic-inspired music. In fact, I also host the multi-award-winning Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. I’ve done that for nearly 19 years now. But I also love science fiction and fantasy. I started playing at Dragon Con, the largest fan run sci fi convention in 2002 and in 2007, I started playing at Gen Con, the largest gaming convention. Both have been super instrumental to my music and career over the years. And today, I’m gonna share a live concert from Gen Con 2023 of Sci Fi Drinking Songs, where I not only share some of my more popular songs there, but I also share how I got here in the first place.
If you’re new to the show, please subscribe. You can do that PubSong.com or Just send me an email to follow@celtfather.
I’m currently working on a new podcast series where I highlight my very first solo album, Soul of a Harper, which is 20 years old this year. I hope to release that series this summer. But I thought I’d give you a live show as you await the next series.
New Poll: Come Adventure With Me
Merch: Come Adventure Album Pin, Poster, Songbook and CD
5:34 - UPCOMING SHOWS
JUN 8-15: Celtic Invasion of the Isle of Man, UK
JUNE 22: Nerdy Wonderland at The Lost Druid, Avondale Estates, GA
AUG 1-4: Gen Con, Indianapolis, IN
SEP 28 - OCT 5: Celtic Invasion of Scotland's Whisky, UK
OCT 18-20: MultiVerse, Atlanta, GA
NOV 15-17: CONjuration, Duluth, GA
7:26 - The Gothard Sisters "Nightfall" from Dragonfly
On Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #656
11:38 - CELEBRATE THE THINGS YOU LOVE
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12:26 - SCI FI DRINKING SONGS SHOW FROM GEN CON 2023
If you are an official member of the Gunn Runners Club on Patreon, then you can also download all of the individual songs in this show. You can also just buy the songs on Patreon as well.
13:17 - “Intro”
13:56 - “Jedi Drinking Songs”
19:01 - “Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits”
24:23 - “Reavers, Malcolm, Reavers”
30:35 - “Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster”
35:28 - “The Leprechaun”
38:56 - “Come Adventure With Me”
43:46 - “Doctor of Gallifrey”
47:26 - “Close Your Eyes”
51:24 - “A Drop of Vulcan Blood”
56:48 - “Breathing”
1:03:31 - “The Mining Ship the Red Dwarf”
1:09:11 - “Naked”
1:12:27 - “Kilted For Her Pleasure”
1:15:16 - “Don’t Blink”
1:19:45 - “Ring of Hope”
1:23:56 - “Mingulay Boat Song”
1:30:29 - “You Are My Thor”
1:35:10 - CLOSING
1:35:29 - CREDITS
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trickstertime ¡ 1 year ago
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For the record I'm on the 'they're both twinks' side.
Yes Howl played rugby, hell he even fights in the war, but if that disqualifies him then you have to account for the fact that Luke flew fighter ships, fought hand to hand with swords, fought in a galactic war and successfully completed an extremely dangerous bombing run on a military megastructure. Like, if you count his appearance in the mandalorian he is a terrifying machine of destruction and death. They're both fighters, they both have tough sides, but they're both twinks. Luke is the OG twink and that holds a lot of sway. Howl is also the twinkmost cuz of how he is and how he dresses.
The problem with this pairing in the poll and why its so decisive is cuz it's not comparing like for like. Its trying to ask 'which is nicer, a sunrise or a sunset?'. They're both the sun and the only thing that changes is how its viewed.
They're both the main twink. But for different reasons
The thought of Howl being a twink is so funny, he plays rugby for fuck's sake
You don't put twinks in rugby, it's a game played by human pitbulls
(Everything you need to know about rugby players is that wheelchair rugby teams are mostly made up of people who wound up in wheelchairs due to injuries from playing rugby.)
God I know right I'm so offended
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brideofkylosolo ¡ 2 years ago
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Writer Wednesday 13: 5-25-22
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Too Hot To Handle
Pairing: Ben Solo X Aria Lyons (OC) (SW Sequel Tril.)
Synopsis:  Ben and Aria take a well-deserved break on a remote planet.
Warnings: Smut, Sex, swearing.
     “Let’s go to Carosi XII.”
     Aria looked up from her personal datapad at her lover and bondmate, her eyebrow arched in amusement.  “Carosi XII?”
     Ben nodded and put his arms around her slender frame, pulling her close.  “Yeah.  I mean I heard they have an amazing hot spring there that I’ve always wanted to check out.”
     “Have you now?” she asked with a mischievous grin.  She knew full well what he was implying.
     Honestly, she had wanted to visit the legendary hot springs on the planet of Carosi XII for years as well.  She had heard that they possessed healing powers that rivaled even the best bacta tanks and could generate more Force energy than any place in the Galaxy.  It was definitely a place on most people’s bucket lists.
     Aria pretended to be deep in thought.  “I dunno.  It would be a long way out of our way.”
     Ben chuckled at her.  He knew she had always wanted to visit the hot springs on Carosi XII for a while.  He also knew she could be a brat when she wanted to, this time clearly being one of those times.  Luckily, he knew how to play along.  “I’ll make it worth your while.”
     “Will you now?” Aria's eyebrows shot up at that remark.  “Alright then, Solo, we can spend a few days there.”
     Ben smiled; he got her.  He kissed her head.  “It’ll be fun, Moondust.  I promise.”
     It was Aria’s turn to chuckle at her bondmate.  She knew he was right.
     The couple finished up their order, making sure all the loose ends were tied up before heading to Carosi XII, a small planet in the Outer Rims.  Ben pulled their cargo ship into the hanger of Thermosen, the local resort city.  They opted for the deluxe package: a five-night stay that included a lavish hotel suite that overlooked the breathtaking scenery of the mountainous planet, all their meals, and their own private hot spring pool.
     After dropping off their bags, they decided to make good use of their private bath.  They put on their robes and headed down the path to the small bubbling pool hand in hand, taking in the landscape as they walked.
     To say the terrain of the planet was plain was an understatement, to say the least.  Although the planet was covered in ice for most of the galactic year, the time it wasn’t the planet was quite relaxing.  While not lush by any means, it still had trees, various plants, and patches of green grass dotting the landscape as well as the numerous hot spring polls that dotted the land; it was actually grand in its own way.
     “This is nice,” Aria mused as the couple settled in the hot water.
     Ben nodded.  It had been a long overdue break.  The two of them had been doing cargo runs nonstop for the better part of the past few years and while it made them good money, it left very little time to relax and rest.  It was starting to get to the both of them.
     As Ben closed his eyes, he put his arm around Aria’s shoulders, pulling her close.  She rested her head on his shoulders, her eyes half-closed as she gazed off into the distance.  The two of them sat in relative silence, enjoying the tranquility of their surroundings.
     It was this sort of calmness that attracted many people to Carosi XII.  That and the fact that the waters had supposed aphrodisiac powers.  It was rumored that if a normal person sat in the waters for any more than an hour, they’d be, well, horny as all get out.  Of course, Ben and Aria were not normal people, both of them being extremely Force-sensitive humans so they could probably last much longer.  Not that Ben would complain if they didn’t.  Hells, any bit of intimacy with his lover was always welcome.
     The young couple sat in silence for the better part of half an hour, just enjoying each other’s company.  Aria idly ran her hand up and down Ben’s thigh, her gentle touch sending a wave of bliss up his spine.  He leaned down and kissed the top of her head; Aria responded by kissing his jawline.  Then his cheek.  Then his lips.  Deeply.  Really deeply.  She shifted her body so that she was straddling his lap, her hand threaded in his thick, dark hair.  She moaned into his lush lips, cupping his face.
     Ben chuckled into her lips and placed his left hand on her slender hips.  His right hand went to her breasts, his large fingers gently palming it in his hand.  He ran his thumb over her nipple, the tiny nub perking up at his touch; as did his member.
     Aria noticed this and reached in between them.  She gently grasped his shaft in her hand and began to caress it.  It fully sprung to life in her hands.  It made her giggle.  “You’re excited.”
     Ben could only nod.  He began to subconsciously pump his hips, his hard-on begin to leak pre-cum.  Aria guided his organ to her opening and rubbed it up and down her slit.  She then placed the tip at her entrance and slowly pushed it inside her, sighing as she settled. 
     Once she was as adjusted as she could be (holy hell, was he ever big) Aria slowly began to raise and lower her hips, Ben’s erection sliding in and out of her channel with ease.  It felt absolutely heavenly.  She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him close.  She felt their life forces begin to meld together, becoming one.  She couldn’t explain it but it felt right, natural, like it was meant to happen.  That it should happen.  She loved it.
     “Yes,” she murmured into Ben’s neck.  “Oh yes!  Oh, right there.  Yes!  Yes right there!  Right there!”
     Ben didn’t, or rather couldn’t, respond.  His mind was a blur, the only thought was that he wanted to release himself into his lover.  No, he needed to.
     Before long, he felt his member twitch in anticipation.  His breathing increased as he neared his climax.
     “I’m coming,” Aria breathed, her pace increasing.  “Oh, oh, oh…”
     She let out a throaty moan as a mind-blowing orgasm racked through her body.  Moments later, Ben followed suit.  He bucked his hips upwards and emptied his seed inside her with a grunt.
     “Fuck,” he said, panting hard.  “That… that was fucking amazing.  I love you so much.”
     “I love you, too,” Aria replied.  She was really glad they had decided to visit this place.  They might have to make a yearly trip of this.
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starr-fall-knight-rise ¡ 5 years ago
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Humans are Space Orcs “Animal Planet.”
I had the sudden desire to do one of those documentary style episodes today, so that is what you are going to get. This will probably have one or more episodes, but it should be fun. Hope you all like :)
“Ok, ok ok, everyone listen up!... QUIET DOWN PLEASE…. Ok very very good. Now we have been cordially invited to interact with a very special group while they are being quartered here on our planet.”
“Don’t you mean you pestered begged and threatened?”
“You know what, you, you can shut up.”
‘Why are we doing this anyway. Humans aren’t all that interesting anymore?” 
“That is where you are wrong! Universe-wide opinion polls state that, behind the drama with the LFIL, humans at large and the most sought after topic in the galaxy. My other sources tell me that only 5% of the galactic population has ever even seen a human. You should read some of the rumors about them, it is quite stimulating. 
“How did you even get this to work?”
“The humans seem to want good PR as much as we want good entertainment. Alright everyone! GET YOUR CAMERAS READY!” “Do you want us to turn on the translation software?” 
“No, of course not, well for everyone accept humans.”
“Why.”
“Well the public won’t exactly get a great thrill from them if they think they are intelligent speaking creatures now will they.”
“But they are?” 
“Shut up, and get ready.” 
“Three….. two ….. One.” 
“HELLO EVERYONE! I am Mendex of the Tesraki, and today on my journey through the universe to meet some of the most dangerous species known to the galaxy, I have taken a stop back on my own planet for a rare opportunity. Now my researchers have come up with a few statistics I would like to share with you before we begin. According to intergalactic poles only five percent of the universal population has ever met, in person, one of these creatures. Number two, since their introduction, these creatures have been the cause for a 15% incline in death rate and a .2% drop in life expectancy for your average dweller of the GA. They can digest metal,, and reports say that they evolved to run their prey to death….. A slow death towards exhaustion.”
The camera pans slowly over the face of the Mendex, his light brown fur accented by a scruffy red scarf around his neck. They are walking up a grassy pathway, though the grass comes in shades of purple and blue instead of green.
“Now as I said before, I have been given a rare opportunity to interact with these creatures in their own environment. Now based on the concerns of some of my producers, we will not be allowed to go in alone, but have connected with an Expert who will take us through safety. Now as I understand it, this expert has left society to spend entire swaths of time with these creatures. He claims to have been incorporated into their pack and has enough social standing with them that he will be able to protect us while we interact.” 
The ground grows steep for a moment as the camera moves up a hill and over the other side.
“Ah, there it is, their hive. Look at it. Now not much is known about how they build such complicated structures, but we do know that they enjoy the use of very hard sharp lines and corners. “ They trundle down another hill and towards the ship sat crouched in a field. Overhead clouds pass over the star.
“Oh, and there is our expert, waiting for us at the entrance to the hive.
The camera cuts for a second, and when it comes on the Tesraki and a Vrul are sitting side by side at the base of the hive.
“No more suspense. It is time for me to tell you what we are going to be seeing today….. HUMANS. Yes that’s right everyone, I have been given access to a human pack and the expert who has been living with them for the past few cycles now.” He turns to the Vrul sitting by his side, “Why don’t you tell us a little about yourself and your research, Docotr.”
The little creature glances up at the sun and then back towards the cameras, “Well I am Dr. Krill, and I have been working as a surgeon for as long as I can remember.” “As A surgeon, how did you end up here?” 
“Well, that is actually an interesting story. I was working at the Thevel-1 Andromeda Trauma center, when a human ship actually called in for an emergency landing. One of the humans had been involved in some sort of freak accident on board, and they required immediate medical attention, so I men them in the trauma bay, and, I will leave the details out, but as it turned out one of the humans had a metal rod logged in his brain, through the orbital socket.”
“No, you’re kidding me?”
“Not even a little. I had never seen anything like it. Accidents like that result in visits to the morgue, not the hospital, but the human was still alive, so I removed the object and watched his recovery. Now at this point I was so fascinated that I couldn’t just let them go. There was so much for me to learn.”
“So just like that, you hopped on a human ship, and went gallivanting across the galaxy.”
“I know, sounds strange every time I hear about it, hardly something I would do.”
“What was that like, first day aboard a human ship, surrounded by predators.”
“Terrifying as you might imagine. I was convinced that I was going to get eaten or worse, but of course I never did.”
“Now why don’t you tell us a little about humans.
“Well, Mendex, the first thing you should know about humans is how social they are. Humans generally require SOME contact with other humans weather it be in large group units or at least one other human that they can interact with. It is such a big deal in fact that isolation can drive a human to madness or worse. They are very perceptive to social situations, and that is what made my first day so terrifying because the humans have many social rules that are expected to be followed that just never crossed my mind.”
“And how dangerous would you say a human is?”
“Well that depends entirely on the human and the situation. If a human thinks they are in danger, they will either run or they will fight. Humans have a special hormonal response that, during times of extreme stress, can allow them to life objects up to 500% their own body weight. For most of us a human, even the weakest humans, have the ability to maim, injure or severely mutilate.” he held up a hand, “however, I am not saying that to make you wary of humans, they are generally very friendly and curious creatures, and as long as they don’t feel threatened they will at least be tolerant of you.”
“Why are humans so dangerous?”
“Well that is a funny question, it actually stems from the simple fact that humans aren't actually all that dangers…. At least not on their planet, on the basis of raw power or predatory instincts.”
“Fascinating, what do you mean by that?”
“I mean that humans were not originally a predator species, in fact they are actually pretty poor hunters compared to most everything on their planet. In fact prey animals have been known to maul humans if provoked. Humans are probably the LEAST durable species on their planet. They adapted to survive in a world where the prey animals were dangerous and the predators could decimate them with the sweep of a paw.”
“Is that why they are a pack-creature.”
“Precisely, you see, a single human has a very low likelihood of being dangerous on their own planet, but together they can hunt creatures three four five times their own size if not more. You see comparatively to other animals of their planet, humans are slow, weak, with a poor sense of smell, hearing and even sight, but they had the one thing that sentient life is known for, and that is intelligence. This intelligence allowed they to group together and create a strategy for surviving in a hostile environment. That then led them to the building of weapons and machines to the point that survival was no longer an issue, and hunting even the most dangerous of their previous predators had become laughable.” 
“That is fascinating, to think that a creature that dangerous could be so weak on their planet….. Have you met any of these other dangerous species?”
“Actually, yes/ Humans are so social and pack oriented that they have the ability to bond with non-sentient animals. They call it domestication, and it requires an animal to be, pack oriented, easy to feed, and have a short gestation period. The humans then take that animal and only allow the breeding of animals with specific desirable traits. In fact, they took a similar pack predator, and used their natural sociability to integrate them into human packs. The humans keep them as pets and began to use them as hunting partners considering their new pack member was faster, stronger, had a better sense of smell and hearing, but was now loyal to its human companions.”
“That doesn’t sound real.”
“Oh but it is. We have one aboard the ship.”
“And this creature could rip the humans apart?”
“Oh pretty easily, especially if she had the element of surprise.”
“Amazing, so what do we need to know before we get on the ship with you, you know for our safety and security.”
The doctor shifts in place. He is making a strange expression that seems unnatural for a Vrul, “Well you have to be aware that the humans have a strict hierarchy. When you get on the ship you are immediately assigned a specific sort of guest place in this hierarchy. The human pack alpha that runs the ship is higher than you as well as the betas below him and their immediate underlings. You can assume that your comfort is more important than the low ranking humans but you MAY NOT order them around since it is not your place and you have not been accepted into the pack. Generally speaking though, a human ship is a relatively safe place as long as you are polite, apologetic, and willing to do what is asked of you. Now the humans are likely to be very curious, try not to show signs of fear, but if you do they aren’t going to attack or anything. Depending on the human they may or may not gently mess with you, they may playfully try to dominate or scare you for their own amusement, but don’t worry they aren't likely to attack. Do not make any disparaging remarks or insult the humans.”
“Are humans very sensitive to verbal attacks?”
“Some are and some aren’t. In the case of insulting a human, I have found that it is not generally the human you have insulted that you should be afraid of, but the other humans around the human you have insulted. You see many humans have no issue in making an insult, but will not tolerate one directed at one of their pack members. They are very protective of each other, especially the alpha. It is also a good idea not to insult objects that belong to humans. The human bonding instinct is strong enough that they will bond to objects. So the ship for example, do not offend the ship. I made that mistake on my first day and thought the alpha was going to tear out my throat.”
There was a shifting amongst the crew.
“What are the rules on touching.”
“That is complicated, it also depends on the human. The general rule is not to go up and touch a human without permission. If a human approaches you first, you may make contact with them. Generally hands and arms are acceptable to touch though I would suggest avoiding any other part of the human anatomy for the sake of their privacy. Humans are very very serious about their personal space and their personal privacy 
“Are there any warning signs that we should be aware of, just in case.”
The doctor nodded, “Well there are a few things. Humans have a warning call they use to indicate to other humans that something is wrong, it generally indicates pain or immediate danger and is specifically designed to get attention and bring other humans to assist. This involves a high pitched sort of keening, it is very loud and very powerful, and will hurt your ears if you aren't careful. Generally though, I have only ever heard it used on a few occasions. As far as more subtle things to look at. If a human gets into a defensive posture in your direction it isn't a good sign. They will bend at the knees and have their hands up to protect their face. Their chins will be lowered to cover their necks. Another important signal to look at is the face. A frowning human could either be thinking or they could be anger. That is when the mouth sort of dips on either end like this…. Yes…. yes like that. But the important thing to look at is the eyes. The eyes will always give them away.”
“What is so important about the eyes.”
“Well, human eyes are enormously expressive. I swear by them personally. Humans have this habit of pretending one thing but meaning another, and looking at the eyes can tell you that. Eyebrows slanted down is generally a good indicator. A frown mixed with slanted eyebrows and…. Its hard to explain. If you look into the eyes and feel as if their expression could kill you, you probably want to stop doing whatever you are doing. Also sudden silence isn’t entirely a good thing either. Humans love talking to each other, there is always someone speaking, most of the tie, but if you are in an area with many humans and none of them are speaking there is either something wrong, or they have been ordered to behave that way”
“What is a good indicator of a happy human.”
“It seems strange, but showing their teeth is a good sign most of the time. A curious human is generally a happy human. They like learning and interacting with their environment, so encourage curiosity and the showing of teeth. Also there is a strange sound they make, sort of a repetitive revving noise that comes from the back of the throat or the chest. That means that the human is amused, and that should also be encouraged.”
“Alright…. Do you think we are ready.”
“I think so…. Follow me.”
The crew gets up and the feed cuts to black.
This episode will continue after the break.
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