#lieutenant valeris

[purple-iris]

Saavik: *citing regulation and talking back to Jim* Jim: *puzzled, but not surprised* Spock: *simply brushes it off, nearly Vulcan-beaming with joy, uses it as a way to create a coded message* Valeris: *citing regulation and talking back to Jim* Jim: *nearly insulted* Spock: *raising eyebrow, sorta annoyed* ahem-

[best-star-trek-character]

Round One

[kandy-sticks-zaza-blogs]

Lute Redesign

Ideas by: @p0rk-guts & @braveboiart

I find Lute very boring and her having bitchy personality felt so wrong because heaven doesn’t cuss so I decided to put a surgery on her.

Made her more buffer and have short curly hair.

She is still a lieutenant.

Gives her the melanin she deserves.

A serious silent type who doesn’t speak that much but listens to everyone.

The wings based off a dove and the armour is feather like layered armour.

Lute is a human that became an angel that died during the war.

Adam help her guide as a guardian angel to win the war Lute went to heaven to meet Adam again but what she see is Adina standing right beside Adam as she took a confused Lute Adina took away her soft emotions and made her turn into an exorcist.

Adam still talk to Lute and Lute listen to Adam by just using small words and a nod.

Charlene is too nervous to talk to Lute thinking she’s scary and dangerous which is true.

Lute is the one who made the new exorcist stand still due to her strict intimidating stare.

The angels mask is based off see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

In my version she doesn’t know whose Valerie is.

The exorcist kill all the demons for greater good.

Exorcist mask concept

[abardnamedreginald]

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[t0ast-ghost]

The last one… it’s been coming for awhile…

Here’s my thoughts on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

(Spoilers for- well— everything)

- Before watching this movie I was trying to figure out why they chose this name and was told by my mom it’s a Shakespeare reference which.. I should have guessed

- “A Nicholas Myer Film” Cool! Now we know who to blame or bow to

- The music is so fucking intense I’m worried now

- I know Christopher Plummer is famous, I can’t place the face though and I want to say I know the name from the muppet show

- WAIT. Michael Dorn… WORF

- Wanna let y’all know that there was a guy (Harve Bennet) who wanted to create a completely different sixth movie that would’ve been more like a prequel where they recasted everyone to have an “academy era” movie with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy shenanigans. Gene Roddenberry didn’t fucking like that idea (cause only he knows how to cast apparently)

- explosion :)

- Teacup that tells you what ship you’re on. I now understand why everyone hates Quark trying to spread his own brand when Starfleet clearly is trying to push their own into every single crevasse

- HIII SULU HIIII

- It’s nice that they gave him the ship he kept saying he was hoping for in voyage home

- I won’t make a fart joke out of “gaseous planetary anomalies” and I definitely won’t say that Q did it

- DAMN NOT THE TEACUP. NBC Hannibal would fucking hate this movie

- Forgot how much I freaking love George Takei and I am so happy they gave him more stuff to do in this movie

- Falling… for about 7 seconds which is about 4 seconds more than normal

- Fairly certain that’s Janice Rand (5:32) (edit: it is! Hi Janice!!!)

- “We have no need for assistance,” and “Stay out of the neutral zone,” sounds like challenge

- Kirk says “What are we doing here?” STARRRING IN THE SIXTH STAR TREK MOVIEE BABEYYYY

- Scotty bought a boat, Uhura teaches seminars at the academy, I love hearing about their lives, keep going

- “Where’s Spock?” Asked in the saddest wettest voice. Kirk’s got his priorities straight. Er- well- not straight exactly but they’re there

- Them trying to hide that the “special envoy” is Spock when Kirk is sitting there looking at him like this

- Sorry babygirl not taking in any of that information. I am taking in those beautiful eyes tho <3

- Ooooh starting this one off with Kirk and Spock on opposite political sides

- Kirk being the one who has to offer the olive branch probably because Spock thought he could trust him to be on the side of peace (which was a miscalculation cause he’s probably still pretty angry with the whole “you Klingon bastards killed my son” thing…)

- “I remind you this meeting is classified” as everybody splits off into chattering gossip

- Kirk actually getting angry at Spock for “volunteering” them. The giant empty room with Kirk in the shadows and only Spock in the light (plus that random person standing in a dark corner for some reason) augh the mise en scène is wonderful

- I don’t even know how to unpack all that. Kirk so prejudiced against the Klingons (finally taking a more antagonistic stance) and saying “You should have trusted me” WHICH IS WHAT SPOCK HAS ALWAYS DONE. Because he trusted that Kirk would ultimately want peace no matter how battered and broken he became.

- They changed Spock’s ears, made the points more curved into themselves

- Why does every new lieutenant like quoting regulations to Kirk? How many does he just regularly break?

- OH FOR FUCKS SAKE WHY DOES HE LOOK OVER AT SPOCK SO SOFTLY

- I love how shape her hair is (draw it draw it draw it dammnit)

- Whenever creating a Star Trek movie you need someone on the production team who loves the ship departing from space dock scenes

- “I can never forgive them for the death of my boy.” Kirk says my boy

- Okay yes, Valeris should have knocked before entering his room but Kirk should also know to lock his door when he’s talking to his diary

- Why is Valeris so involved in this movie? First she’s talking to Kirk and now we’re following her to Spock’s? Strange (my guess. She’s evil.)

- “It is a reminder to me that all things end.” Like your life. Twice. Also that’s a nice sentiment and all but it’s so sad with the context that even his own original timeline ends

- “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.” YEAHHH OLDER SPOCK he’s got a more balanced view on the world and himself

- OKAY I absolutely adore the costume design, especially for Gorkon. Like the golden clips in the hair? The red suit adorned with studs and the giant silver necklace?? The beard??? Amazing

- I like that there’s a “chief of staff” for the Klingons. It’s like the manager at a party city

- “They all look alike” BRO THEY MOST FUCKINGLY DO NOT

- I love the chief of staff being so confused over what the napkin roll thing is. I feel that.

- Ah yes my favourite meal. Blue. With a side of orange of course.

- “I offer a toast. The Undiscovered Country…” Welp. He said it. Time to wrap up the movie

- YEP ITS SHAKESPEARE BABEYYY (thank you Spock for saying that it’s Hamlet, act III, scene I, cause I didn’t wanna look it up)

- “You’ve not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” Quoi???

- Spock actively trying to stop Kirk from starting a war

- I think this is such a good part where the Klingons are trying to state their worries. The gradual (or not so gradual) need for assimilation to be apart of starfleet. This is a particularly big problem for the Klingons because so much of their culture has been entwined with violence which Starfleet seems almost hellbent to take away. As well as hearing troubling language such as “human rights” thrown in their faces

- IM SORRY. Kirk. You didn’t. You didn’t just compare someone to hitler.

- Spock looks actually so fucking pissed at Kirk

- “If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.” Gorkon dropping all the good lines

- McCoy just standing there adjusting his outfit and looking like the most tired man alive

- “I’m going to sleep this off.” “I’m going to go find a pot of black coffee.” Both Kirk and McCoy leaving Spock :(((

- The shaky swoop of the camera as Kirk and the rest of the bridge realize that somehow they just fired on the Klingon vessel

- Don’t care about the rest of the movie I just love the scene where everything starts floating on the Klingon vessel

- AUGH THOSE SPACE SUITS OKAY I DO STILL CARE

- Love me some good ol’ bad 3D graphics blood

- Times like this I wish I’d never skipped my tlhIngan Hol classes

- Floating dead Klingons. What. A. Scene.

- Aw Fuck Dude. The one guy getting gravity back online and everything falling to the ground and blood splattering and AUGHHH. Every time I think this scene can’t get better, it does!

- HIII MCCOY!!! He got to rush onto the bridge just to ask “are we firing torpedoes” and I appreciate that :)

- Kirk and Spock fighting over who should go to the Klingon ship and Spock saying “perhaps you’re right” and then putting his hand on Kirk’s shoulder made me more nervous than it should have. Darn you Wrath of Khan! You’ve given me trust issues. (but you're telling me this isn't supposed to look like a nerve pinch???)

- Also Kirk ultimately still trying to maintain peace. It’s his knee jerk reaction to this. He’s got what he’s said he’s wanted when incased in his own emotions about loosing his son but he knows it’s not right

- and finally, yay! McCoy gets to go on the mission!

- The actor for the Klingon that greets them is so good at the rage mixing with grief and sadness

- McCoy to the rescue!!

- Either Klingon blood is pink (like in that one game) or they wanted to keep it pg-13

- “He’s gone into some kind of damned arrest!” McCoy proceeds to straddle the Klingon on top of the table so he has leverage to do proper CPR… I have no thoughts on this that I’d like to share

- I do not believe McCoy’s punches would be strong enough to restart a heart. I’m sorry but they look so puny

- The blood bubbling as Gorkon dies is so fucking good oh my heart

- This is all happening at 2:00 fucking AM??? No wonder Kirk is tired

- “I sympathize, Mr. Scott.” Love when they make Spock say he ‘understands’ or ‘sympathizes’

- SAREKKKK!! Hehe hiiii

- “We are experiencing technical malfunction. All backup systems inoperative.” “Excellent. I… I mean, too bad.” A banger scene from Uhura and Chekov

- Rosanna DeSoto as Azetbur (the Chancellor’s daughter) plays the part so well. Again their portrayal of grief and anger while trying to get to peace is so fucking amazing. LOOK AT HER FACE

- Maybe I’m not so happy about McCoy being on this mission after all…

- The giant circular judgement chamber is so fucking cool

- MICHAEL DORN 🫵

- The sparking gavel <3

- I love the beginning of a translator translating all the Klingon’s words

- WORF IS THEIR DEFENDANT???

- That one Klingon that laughs at McCoy’s joke, wanna be friends?

- “You say you are due for retirement. May I ask, do your hands shake?” “Objection!” “I was nervous!” “No. You were incompetent.” This is like watching reality tv for me. That’s some good drama

- phew thank goodness they’re not killing McCoy. He’s too pretty to die

- The back and forth slow zoom in on McCoy & Kirk and the judge didn’t have the intensity they were going for but I appreciate the effort

- “Better to kill them now and get it over with.” That’s nice Scotty

- Oh shit Spock loosing both of his husbands in one sentencing. That cannot be good for the economy

- “An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth.” Ancestor? You mean fucking Arthur Conan Doyle?? Or Sherlock??? Either way that’s a hecking lore drop

- They’ve got a murder mystery aboard the Enterprise, this is my dream

- Hey babe, new Klingon dog beast just dropped (Jackal Mastiff)

- I let out an audible “aww” of pity when I saw McCoy wrapped up in a blanket

- I can’t believe I’m only halfway through this movie what is even happening anymore

- Had a brief pause to voice crackedly yell a little bit. Something along the lines of “I do not care. I do not care! I don’t care! I just want Spock- I just want them with Spock! I do not care!” And then let myself breathe for a second or two (and then made chicken nuggets). The outburst was born of a deep sadness from the fact that they can’t just be happy and retired together. Ok, back to the movie.

- Martia just handed Kirk a blunt change my mind

- “Somebody up there wants you out of the way.” of course, it can’t just be about actual politics between the Klingons and Federation, it has to actually be about Kirk and somebody trying to kill him. Dang it.

- “But the killers may still be among them.” …wait a damn minute.. you’re saying there’s imposters- *pulled away forcefully*

- I love how every commanding officer comes into the kitchen absolutely furious that someone fired a phaser

- On that note: why is there a kitchen? And why are they preparing various cooked birds? Who’s having a banquet tonight?

- What kind of bullshit evolution puts a species genitals in their knees?

- Hate how Kirk just lets McCoy go treat the highly dangerous being alone

- “Spock was right” NO SHIT HE’S LITERALLY AN ANCESTOR OF SHERLOCK

- YASSS SULU!!! Now get your rest you beautiful man

- Spock will literally leave no stone unturned for his husbands

- Either Martia has some really good prosthetics in the cave or she’s wearing someone else’s skin… NEVERMIND haha she’s just a shapeshifter

- Chekov was so proud of himself dammit. Too bad he was so utterly wrong

- Also Valeris is so expressive, kinda loving it

- The planet seems kinda nice in the daylight.. minus the dead body I’d say it’s pretty similar to winters in Canada (yes I made the joke, please delete it before posting) (edit: nope <3 just like Canada. Made your bed, lie in it)

- “Leave me. I’m finished.” Goddamn this man’s worst enemy is the cold. Both times McCoy just gives up and tells Spock or Kirk to leave him (First time being in All Our Yesterdays)

- “If they’re even looking for us.” Bones. Spock would literally NEVER leave the both of you. That aside the rest of the Enterprise crew also loves you like crazy

- Everyone laughing on the channel with the Klingons is so funny

- Holyy shit. Is Kirk going to fight.. himself???

- McCoy angel <3

- “I can’t believe I kissed you.” Yeah. Me neither. You didn’t actually have too.

- Poor McCoy holy cannoli oil. He’s knocked out and when he wakes up immediately gets trampled by two versions of his husband

- HIIII JACKAL MASTIFF HIII

- “Since you’re all going to die anyway, why not tell you.” When I go to watch the cinema sins video (I know I’m sorry) on this movie I bet they’ll say “klingonposition” or smt like that here

- If it’s just Chang that wants Kirk dead that’s so disappointing

- McCoy looks over and sees this

- “What you want is irrelevant, what you’ve chosen is at hand.” SPOCK IS ANGRYYYYY SPOCK IS PISSSED

- Please someone let McCoy take a shower, he stinks

- WAIT VALERIS WAS THE ONE SITTING IN THE DARK CORNER OF THE ROOM IN THE BEGINNING

- The distorted wavy angle that almost feels like it’s going side to side dutch angles with each of Spock’s footsteps as he nears Valeris

- I WOULD HAVE SCREAMED IN THEATRES

- Valeris is fucking crying omg what the actual fuck

- I honestly don’t know how to take that apart. I’m still shocked and screaming a little. The reactions from each crew member being just absolutely horrified

- I’m still reeling from that but I gotta acknowledge the fact that Spock says “I prefer it dark” when Kirk enters his quarters. So did I as a teenager and my mom would tell me it was bad for my eyes

- “You and the doctor might have been killed.” “The night is still young.” They are three months from retirement. Goddammnit let them just get to be retired together on a farm or condo or smt. I don’t give a shit just let them rest.

- “Spock, you want to know something? Everybody’s human.” NO THEYRE NOT IN THIS CONTEXT. That was kind of a big point made in this movie. I think the point you’re trying to make is ‘everyone in the whole galaxy forever will always make mistakes.’

- “Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?”

- Chang just said, “ah the games afoot” why are there so many Sherlock Holmes references in this one? Like I know they have a hard on for famous literature but this one is named after a Shakespeare quote. Just saying it’s a bit crowded.

- They really wanted McCoy to say smt doctory while making the torpedo so they chose “we’ve got a heart beat”

- I think it would’ve been better if Chang said to be or not to be in Klingon like they did at the dinner table

- So they saved the day? Yay? Kirk and McCoy should legally not actually be there- oh they’re all clapping for them who cares

- SPOCK GETS TO SAY GO TO HELL

- Kirk did not just fucking quote Peter Pan. Shut the fuck up.

- McCoy’s look says it all. And by that I mean just let him retire with his husbands. Oh my goodness.

- Just for my mom I'm mentioning the flared pants (Spock and McCoy look kinda goofy tho)

- Ohhh so this is where they change it from “where no man” to “where no one”

- And the Enterprise rides off into the sun. What kind of Grease ending is that?

Awwe okay all of their signatures at the end was a nice touch

I don’t have much more to say here, I forgot how fun but time consuming it was to do these thought posts. I really really appreciate everyone who likes these posts because it means y’all took the time to read this which is just something so meaningful to me.

Thank you all so much <3

Masterpost

[karkkidoeswriting]

BEAR CASTLE CYCLE | Tale of the Soldier

Cúén Cor Faélci

Secondary Character | 25 | Ethnicity: Cerfi | Lieutenant of Imperial Cavalry | Separatist spy | he/him

Faélci is the lieutenant of the other troop in Valeri's squadron and his least favourite person. They have despised each other ever since their time in the military academy. Though Valeri knows him as Fechín cor Faélci, a traitor to Mantgamias.

Fechín was Cúén's cousin, until he died and Cúén stole his identity. Faélcis are the ruling clan in the southern mountains of Cabalusia, but Fechín's branch of the clan sided with the empire during the Cabalusian civil war, opposing the rest of the clan. Fechín's father, younger brother to the count Faélci, Cúén's father, killed the count and took his title leading to a bloody feud inside the clan. It culminated eight years later when a few of the Mantgamia loyalists of the Faélci clan sacked their own ancestral castle and murdered the new count Feálci and his family as vendetta for the civil war. Cúén used the opportunity to steal his cousin's identity and join the military academy as his cousin.

Lady Riona was Cúén. She's dead now too, only to be worn by Cúén when the situation requires it as a costume just like he wears Fechín.

Cúén is a revolutionary and a trans man. As Riona he's a noble lady, but as Cúén he's who he really wants to be, a separatist fighter. The separatist group he's involeved with are not Mantgamian loyalists, in fact they are anti-monarchists, who want as little to be ruled by the Mantgamias as they want to be ruled by the empire. They call themselves Cabalusian Liberation Army. They have a foothold in several mountain villages of the south, where they wage guerilla warfare against the empire. Cúén is a rare noble in the Liberation Army, which mostly consists of peasants, who lost their homes during the civil war, making him one of the few of them who had a direct way to become an officer. So with his cousins identity, unlikely to be linked to lady Riona, he is the perfect man for the job of infiltrating the army to gain access to information and weapons.

Cúén has a sharp tongue and a sour attitude. He often plays the role of a hateful aristocrat to fuck with Valeri, whose playing the role of a peasant. Even though it goes against his deeply held convoctions. Still playing that role is easy, he does after all despise Valeri. Valeri, who he knows is Valeri cor Mantgamia, the son of the late duke Julius cor Mantgamia, who still joined the imperial army despite everything. Valeri doesn't even have the excuse of spying for the separatists (yet). Cúén is not a idealist or an optimist, not like Aerich, the leader of the Liberation Army, who manages to always hold on to his idealism regardless of the odds. Still he continues the fight, tired from insomnia and pessimistic about the future, if only for being so stubborn. His isolation amon the aristocratic military class who represent everything he fights against, away from his comrades, intensifies the struggle. Especially being away from Aerich, who's pure hopefulness can cut through his cynicism, and who he is desperately in love with.

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Sherry Horodnitskii Black White, you belong to me completely, without any borders and only to me.

1) QES

2) Elon Musk

3) Vladimir Putin

4) Jensen Stoltenberg

5) Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

March 1

6) Alexander Bortnikov

7) Emmanuel Macron

8) Xi Jinping

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11) Avril Haines

April 20

First coffin phone

12) Billie Eilish

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15) Larry Fink

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17) Sergey Shoigu

18) Nikolai Patrushev

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(+8 or 10)

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Second coffin phone

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Fandom: Masters of the Air Written for: @blind-dates-fest as my 2024 entry! Introducing: Cressida Dorrance-Jones, with sidenote entries for Valerie Hodges and Evelyn Carter.

"That's not a sawmill up there, Buck." The blonde woman's voice is even. Matter of fact. Cuts through the haze of several men talking at once, long enough to make their whole table go quiet. The look on her face is too serene to be accusatory. "That was a goddamn meat grinder."

Major Cleven – Buck – does not dissent. "Yeah." There's a barely-there sigh lurking in that one admission, as if he is only now releasing his breath. His crew seems to almost exhale at the same time he does. Following his lead even when on the ground, especially after he fixes each of them with a swift look. "Now we know."

"And I need to know everything about that meat grinder," interjects Cressida, unfolding the last part of the map out on the table. Sets her coffee cup on the part of the map that always seems to have a mind to curl back up and leave her hanging out to dry. "Rule of the table: you talk only when I address you. Rule of the table: you dig deep when I ask for clarification. Rule of the table: you paint the whole picture as you saw it up there. Understood?"

There's a scuffle under the table. A swift motion of feet that almost reaches her legs before aiming a little more to her right. The blonde woman is all but sinking down into her seat, tip of her tongue poking out of her mouth as she puts in just a bit more effort.

"Ow!" The blue-eyed lieutenant beside her jolts in his seat. Fixes the blonde with a glare. "Val, seriously?"

"Understood, ma'am," rasps Valerie Hodges, sitting up straight again now that her goal's seemingly been accomplished. Cressida makes a mental note of the fact that the woman doesn't object to the shortening of her name. "I have some notes, if they help?"

"You're the navigator?"

"Radio ops, sorry," comes the unapologetic grin, right before a small notepad is shoved her way. "I've marked the time Curt here"– a nod at the lieutenant she just kicked in the shins –"started to shout in my ears about flak. Hit that earlier than I'd thought, then had the fighters come in hot on the tails of that."

Cressida glances down at a sequence of numbers that would not have been amiss in an actual navigator's log. Notes the shakiness of the sevens and fives, followed by quick dashes and dots. Her eyebrow quirks up despite herself. It's not every day a log comes back with partial encoding on it that would slow the Germans down for all of a minute.

"Unorthodox," she remarks out loud, "but perhaps helpful." She'll allow it, if only because Val's well-aimed kick seems to have halted the lieutenant's previous staring in its tracks. "You were wheels up here," she continues, indicating their starting point on the map, "and headed to Bremen through the pre-marked blue path here"– a new map for every mission, no matter the complaints from supplies –"which would put the flak here."

"Earlier," says the Major, not even glancing up at her for confirmation the way other pilots do. "Right around there"– comes the mark of his finger that lingers just long enough for her to confirm it with a swift cross of her pencil –"which I know because we weren't the first to get the hit."

"Had enough time to confirm the fact that we were in some deep shit now," laughs the lieutenant, even when none of his bravado remotely reaches his eyes. "First to get hit was Bonny Lass. Luck of the Irish, and all."

"Bonny Lass was on our right wing at two o'clock, bearing east."

"Two fifteen."

Cressida narrows her eyes at the lack of accuracy. Her pencil hovers just between two and two fifteen on the east scale as the back-and-forth between lieutenant and one of the waist gunners does not seem to be dying down. They're not at raised voices yet like the table in the back clearly is – Rollins can never keep his table under control after mission for long – but letting them work it out between them is going to save her a spot of trouble once she actually does need to put her foot down. New tables are like this, sometimes. First time up, first time down. It’s never an easy deal, and she’s got enough sense to not make it harder than it needs to be.

"Two ten." The Major's voice is decisive. "Mark that. Miss Demeanor and the rest of that cluster was on our left flank when Bonny Lass was hit."

"Miss got her wing clipped about five minutes following that, is that right?" asks Cressida, making out a five and the Morse abbreviation for Miss Demeanor on Val's notes. Nods around the table have her marking out a half-moon clip on the map. "When did the fighters come in?"

"When the flak died."

"Yeah."

"There was a minute or two of nothing," allows the lieutenant, "and they swept in so damn fast from that bank of clouds."

"They were already wheels up?" Cressida arches her brow. "Unusual if so," she remarks, remembering the sit-downs with the fighter pilot crew that had scoped out the area prior to the bombing run. Charlotte Rivers, in particular, had been adamant about a ground base rise. "Where would you put them on the map, Lieutenant?"

"Curt, please," he repeats like he did when she was first introduced to him not ten minutes ago. "I'd put them here, ma'am."

"They came from the ground," corrects Evelyn Carter decisively, tapping a spot just beside Curt's indication. "Straight up from there, I saw them clear enough." Her finger stands out dark against Curt's paler hand, so much so that Cressida wonders how the young woman ever passed muster long enough to not be drafted into the Tuskegee side of the war. "They like to hide in the cloud banks, right? Damn bastards thought they could get high enough to be clear of me that way. Clipped one of them on the tail as they went past here, though."

"You got another on the wing."

"Nah, he was too steady on, think I missed him."

"One-Eye missing her prize? Never!"

"It's not a clean turkey shoot, asshole," laughs the young woman who was introduced to her as both Evelyn Carter and the moniker One-Eye. Both her dark eyes, despite her laughter, remain rather hollow as she looks around the table. "They were so much faster than I'd thought."

"A familiar comment," allows Cressida, now that the table's murmuring assent. It's not her habit to comfort anyone at this table, but sometimes it helps move matters along to let them know their experience is not a standalone. "We know they're fast. They work in teams that allow refuel. In comparison, our fortress is the fattest turkey they'll get to shoot at."

"Whole Thanksgiving dish," snorts Val beside her. "Hey, Major, when are we going up for seconds?"

"Eyes front," snaps Cressida, tapping the smaller woman's shoulder until she stops grinning up at Major Egan. Egan's just about the last one she needs to interrupt the table read. "Fighters came in there, who was at the helm?"

"Bunny?"

"Not Veal, at least?"

"Wasn't it Ferret?"

"Jesus Christ, what was your formation? Don't tell me you all lost your minds up there and broke it?" Cressida's voice rises above the din of confusion. She slaps the table for good measure. "Eyes on this map, navigator starts talking, radio ops can comment, the rest of you are mouth shut and watching for now. Got it?"

"Hell of an iron fist you’ve got there, Cressida."

"Stop talking, John," she says, not even bothering to glance up at him.

"We got it, Captain Dorrance-Jones," affirms Major Cleven, sending her the smallest of what appears to be an apologetic smile. She decides she likes him just a little bit more for not getting too friendly with her the way Egan so clearly wants to be. "We didn't lose our heads, ma'am. Formation was solid up there.” His next words ring out with a hint of warning. “Let's focus, guys."

Cressida leans forward over the map as their navigator finally breaks his silence and hauls out a sheet of notes she should have already had in her hands five minutes ago. Marks all the spaces the man indicates, aided swiftly by Val's insistent corrections and the Major's nods of allowance. A failed mission is still a mission. Sometimes even more so, or so she's stood and argued with John Egan in this room at least once before.

"Co-pilot, what was your bearing after mission aborted?" she asks, still feeling Egan's eyes on her back as she fixes the lieutenant beside her with the best of her beadiest stares. "Was there a system status check at some point in the interval of abort and recalculated bearing?"

"Not a full check. Engineer was putting out a small fire."

"Literal or figurative?"

"Figurative."

"Stop saying fire if it is figurative," sighs Cressida, making a small note in the margin of her own paper. "God knows we've had enough real ones on board."

John Egan's snort is a skosh louder than she'd like it to be. She's not sure if that derision is the thing that quietens her table again, or if it's finally sunken in that there could have been a lot of things on fire that somehow miraculously weren't. She grabs her coffee mug. Takes a rather large gulp of too-black, too-bitter coffee that she solely drinks to stay awake. Sets it down on the curling end of the map.

"Let's try again, shall we?" she asks nobody in particular as she grabs a red pen. Get the story out first. The facts straight. Done. Dusted. Now get the things that never make it into the official report. "This time, there'll be more questions about what you saw up there. If you have a thought, say it. If you have a hunch about anything, now's the time. Don't worry about sounding stupid, you hear? I'll decide how stupid it is after I hear it."

"She'll do the thinking part," says Egan, tapping the side of his head just as she shoots him another glare.

"That excuses you from the room, Major, wouldn't you say?" She jerks her head toward the door. "Co-pilot, radio ops, eyes front, don't make me tell you twice," she says to the restless lieutenants at either side of her. "You were wheels up at..."

[ukrainenews]

(This situation is very much a developing thing and there's a lot of conflicting and wrong information out there right now. I know I've been absent lately, but I'm keeping an eye on things.)

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his Wagner fighters had crossed the border into Russia from Ukraine and were prepared to go "all the way" against Moscow's military, hours after the Kremlin accused him of armed mutiny.

As a long-running standoff between Prigozhin and the military top brass appeared to come to a head, Russia's FSB security service opened a criminal case against him, TASS news agency said. It called on the Wagner private military company forces to ignore his orders and arrest him.

Wagner fighters had entered the southern Russian city of Rostov, Prigozhin said in an audio recording posted on Telegram. He said he and his men would destroy anyone who stood in their way.

Prigozhin earlier said, without providing evidence, that Russia's military leadership had killed a huge number of his troops in an air strike and vowed to punish them.

He said his actions were not a military coup. But in a frenzied series of audio messages, in which the sound of his voice sometimes varied and could not be independently verified, he appeared to suggest that his 25,000-strong militia was en route to oust the leadership of the defence ministry in Moscow.

Security was stepped up on Friday night at government buildings, transport facilities and other key locations in Moscow, TASS reported, citing a source at a security service.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was getting around-the-clock updates, TASS said, while the White House said it was monitoring the situation and would consult with allies.

Kyiv, meanwhile, said the major thrust in its counteroffensive against Moscow's invasion had yet to be launched. "The main blow is still to come," Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar told Ukrainian television.

A top Ukrainian general reported "tangible successes" in advances in the south - one of two main theatres of operations, along with eastern Ukraine.

'OBEY PRESIDENT,' GENERAL SAYS

The deputy commander of Russia's Ukraine campaign, General Sergei Surovikin, told Wagner fighters to obey Putin, accept Moscow's commanders and return to their bases. He said political deterioration would play into the hands of Russia's enemies.

"I urge you to stop," Surovikin said in a video posted on Telegram, his right hand resting on a rifle.

The standoff, many of the details of which remained unclear, looked like the biggest domestic crisis Putin has faced since he sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February last year.

Prigozhin, a one-time Putin ally, in recent months has carried out an increasingly bitter feud with Moscow. Earlier on Friday, he appeared to cross a new line, saying the Kremlin's rationale for invading Ukraine, which it calls a "special military operation," was based on lies by the army's top brass.

Wagner led Russia's capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last month, Russia's biggest victory in 10 months, and Prigozhin has used its battlefield success to criticise the leadership of the defense ministry with seeming impunity - until now.

For months, he has openly accused Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia's top general, Valery Gerasimov, of incompetence.

Army Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev issued a video appeal in which he asked Prigozhin to reconsider his actions. "Only the president has the right to appoint the top leadership of the armed forces, and you are trying to encroach on his authority," he said.

UKRAINE SAYS MAJOR THRUST AHEAD

On the ground in Ukraine, at least three people were killed in Russian attacks on Friday, including two who died after a trolleybus company came under fire in the city of Kherson, regional officials said.

Addressing the pace of the Ukrainian advances, several senior officials on Friday sent the clearest signal so far that the main part of the counteroffensive has not yet begun.

"I want to say that our main force has not been engaged in fighting yet, and we are now searching, probing for weak places in the enemy defences. Everything is still ahead," the Guardian quoted Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, as saying in an interview with the British newspaper.

General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukraine's "Tavria," or southern front, wrote on Telegram: "There have been tangible successes of the Defence Forces and in advances in the Tavria sector."

Tarnavskyi said Russian forces had lost hundreds of men and 51 military vehicles in the past 24 hours, including three tanks and 14 armoured personnel carriers.

Although the advances Ukraine has reported this month are its first substantial gains on the battlefield for seven months, Ukrainian forces have yet to push to the main defensive lines that Russia has had months to prepare.

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OMS wives: Captain T'Pock

Fandom: Star Trek (reboot) Timeline: TOS Genderbend AU Series: Rule 63 Trek Related fanworks: Admiral Jean Kirk — [ Reblogs > Likes | No AI involved ] —

Anjelica Huston as Captain T'Pock, Stardate 2284.

(More genderbend Trek at the links above)

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Still not satisfied but this is the best I could do.

The PSD file is dated May 2016 but it might predate the coping of the files on this new computer, so I might have started this in a previous date. For the sake of anal archiving, I might update this note when/if I turn the old PC on and check the original creation date of the file.

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Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip) Who remembers the hurdle of doing this! I can just say it was harder than it looks to change a lieutenant's unifom to the one of an captain (different colors of collar and other details). While it's very hard to find decent pics of young Anjelica Huston to work with, a more recent Anjelica is easier so this wasn't much hard.

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Credits Anjelica Huston from Smash promo pic (a pic with her in green dress). Valeris (Kim Cattrall) promo pic from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Collar from a Spock promo pic, I don't remember where I took the captain insignia. Pin for the arm decoration was taken by a Kirk's prop uniform, pics from Star Trek Prop Authority.

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Ghost Corps!

"Ghost Corps" is the name of a Danny Phantom au I made where the portal exploded when Danny turned it on. The explosion made a permanent portal in the center of town. It also affected the people of Amity Park within a certain radius and made them more ghostly, though not full half-ghosts like Danny (we'll get to him in a moment). The closer people were when it exploded, the most ghostly they are, so Tucker, Sam, and Jazz are the strongest because they were all in Fenton Works when it happened.

Unfortunately, a massive explosion creating a bunch of ghostly people around a hole punched between realities caused the US military to freak out, so they implemented martial law on Amity Park and all the people affected by the portal. They tried to destroy the portal but only ended up destroying the buildings and in fact made the portal bigger. Two ghost armies, one led by Pariah Dark and the other by Plasmius, start attacking each other for control of the portal and their battle leaks into Amity Park.

With a bunch of ghosts attacking and a bunch of angry (and powerful) ghostly people, the military decided to create the "Ghost Corps," a special unit made of people from Amity Park who defend the world from ghost invasions. The rest of Amity Park lives inside an exclusion zone and works to support the military industrial complex that keeps the ghosts at bay.

Jack and Maddie got in a lot of trouble with the military for causing the initial explosion, so Jazz, Sam, and Tucker enlisted in the Ghost Corps in order to protect them and Danny. They live in an isolated compound where they make weapons for the military as part of a deal to keep them out of jail. Danny lives with them.

Danny didn't join the Ghost Corps because this is a split!Danny au, where his ghost half is stuck in the Ghost Zone on the other side of the war going on. He's the same person in two bodies, which makes it difficult for him to function on his own and is why he lives with his parents. His ghost half is involved in a resistance movement in the Zone, so he spends most of his time focusing there.

In the time of the fic, it's been 8 years and Jazz is a lieutenant in charge of the Ghost Intelligence unit, along with Sam and Tucker. The three of them lead their own resistance movement to free Amity Parkers from the authoritarian military they live under. Unfortunately, they have to stop the battle going on between Pariah Dark and Plasmius or find a way to close the portal. Danny acts as a way to communicate between the two resistance movements, since their goals to stop the war align.

The fic starts out with Jazz, Sam, and Valerie going on a mission to retrieve Danny's ghost half for *~*reasons*~* and kick off a plan they've developed to hopefully end the war and free Amity Park.

It's an idea I like, but it was far too ambitious for me to attempt at this point in my life and so I dropped out of the bang and put it on the back burner. I'd like to bring it back someday, but that time is TBD.

[best-star-trek-character]

Official Star Trek Film Bracket!

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 5/8 at 10 am EST!

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

Kruge vs. Zephram Cochrane: poll here

Dr. Gillian Taylor vs. Dr. David Marcus: poll here

Saavik vs. Valeris: poll here

Chang vs. Lieutenant Ilia: poll here

Right Side:

B-4 vs. Sybok: poll here

Lily Sloane vs. Dr. Carol Marcus: poll here

Soran vs. Anij: poll here

Shinzon vs. George & Gracie: poll here

Round Two:

Left Side:

Zephram Cochrane vs. Dr. Gillian Taylor: poll here

Saavik vs. Lt. Ilia: poll here

Right Side:

B-4 vs. Lily Sloane: poll here

Anij vs. George & Gracie: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Dr. Gillian Taylor vs. Saavik: poll here

Lily Sloane vs. George & Gracie: poll here

Finals:

Saavik vs. George & Gracie: poll here

[70s80sandbeyond]

Kim Cattrall as Lieutenant Valeris in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991)

[beardedmrbean]

Two Russian officers were killed in a Ukrainian attack on an army headquarters in the Kursk region in a Storm Shadow missile strike, it has been reported.

Russian Telegram channels said that the two lieutenant colonels died on December 30 following Ukraine's attack on a bunker in Lgov.

Newsweek has contacted the Russian and Ukrainian defense ministries for comment by email.

Why it matters

As well as delivering a blow to Russia's military by killing officers, the reported use of a Storm Shadow shows Kyiv's determination to make gains in Russia's Kursk region where it has launched another offensive following weeks of losing ground.

What to know

In November, the U.S. allowed Ukraine to use its longer-range weapons such as ATACMS inside Russian territory. The same month, Kyiv reportedly launched a British-French Storm Shadow missile which can penetrate hardened bunkers.

Lieutenant colonels from Russia's 76th Pskov Division of the Russian Airborne Forces, Valery Tereshchenko and Pavel Maletsky were killed in the Ukrainian missile strike on the Russian military HQ on December 30, it was reported.

Video on the Telegram channel Russia No Context purported to show the aftermath of the impact where flames are blazing and a voice saying, "the guys are all in the bunker, there are many people."

The death of Tereshchenko, chief of communications for the 76th Airborne Division, was confirmed by the Telegram channel the Officers' Hockey League.

An obituary on the channel said that Tereshchenko, who had fought in the war since October 2022 had died in the missile strike which killed a total of eight officers and injured 22 other personnel.

It announced a funeral scheduled for January 5, adding that "his path, full of courage, fearlessness and heroism, was cut short" and that "words are powerless."

Maletsky's death was confirmed on the social network VKontakte where one of the tributes described "my close friend and comrade."

Other Ukrainian strikes on Kursk using western-supplied missiles included a strike on a command post of Russia's 810th Naval Infantry Brigade in Belaya on Tuesday, according to Ukraine's General Staff which did not reveal casualties.

Ukrainian forces also reportedly used a HIMARS to strike a different 810th Naval Infantry Brigade command post near Lgov, Kursk Oblast, on December 25, killing the brigade's deputy commander and other staff officers.

What people are saying

Russian Officers' Ice Hockey League Telegram channel: "With sorrow in our hearts, we inform you that Guards Lieutenant Colonel of the Airborne Forces, Chief of Communications of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division, player of the OKO hockey club Valery Borisovich Tereshchenko died while performing his military duty."

A tribute on VKontakte to Pavel Maletsky said: "There is tragic news … my close friend and comrade, be a warrior—live forever."

What happens next

Ukraine has made some gains in Kursk since it launched a fresh offensive on Sunday following weeks of losing the territory it had captured in the early stages of its incursion that started on August 6, and there could be further Ukrainian strikes using western-supplied weapons in the coming weeks.

However, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Tuesday that Russian forces had also regained positions in the region. Kursk will continue to be a key focus for Ukraine's forces as possible leverage in any peace negotiations with Moscow.

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[defconprime]

Lieutenant Valeris, Vulcan

[fireworkss-exe]

I don't have much in the way of lucille lore yet

she's 1 year older than valerie. lucille was always the loud spoiled brat child who wanted attention and got it, at least from her mother. she was most definitely a bully at her high school and at the finishing school she attended. in 1940, at a gala, she met a lieutenant, bradley donaldson from south carolina, in the navy. the two often corresponded, and she got married and moved with him to SC the second he came back. war traumatized bradley and he turned to evangelism, eventually becoming a preacher himself in 1950. the two started a scam on their congregation, which was lucille's idea- they'd take just a little of the tithing money they got every week to keep for themselves. you know. to "take care of their kids" and all that. but the percentage they took and the amount they demanded from their congregation kept growing and growing. in 1961 they got exposed for fraud and it was a nationwide scandal

@tinytimism