#my starship babies

[unvexes]

my weed smoking girlfriend

[vampiremuney]

[petesaporta]

D...d....Daddy?...

[thresholdbb]

Of course Tom Paris can turn on a 1936 Ford no problem while I have issues getting an unfamiliar shower to work

[sungtaro]

GROOVY - JAPANESE VER. CRAVITY (2023)

[youngpettyqueen]

🖼️ share an inspo picture

🏠 tell me about a place in one of your wips

(also 💜💜💜)

funny enough I dont really do inspo pics BUT a WIP of mine that im keeping very hush hush spends a lot of time in this lab/sickbay type. thing. so ive been looking a lot at Her (DS9 infirmary)

and ive been looking at Her because I cant find any references at all for what a Klingon lab/sickbay would look like

as for a place in a WIP to go to a completely different (but still Star Trek) WIP- have I gushed about the USS Athena lately because im love her

the Athena is a Galaxy-class starship with a crew compliment of 5k (working number), as well as a decently-sized civilian compliment. she's meant for very long deep space voyages, and was specifically commissioned to fly into the Gamma Quadrant on a 5 year mission of exploration. she's fully equipped for both research and extended living, having fully functioning school programs and teachers, recreation decks that have small shops, and top-of-the-line long-range comms tech to keep in touch back home

the Athena is noted to be a bit larger than the average Galaxy-class ship. she has all the bells and whistles of the average Galaxy-class, but her recreation facilities are larger, and her schooling programs cover a lot more. she was designed this way because wormholes, even stable ones, are unpredictable, so if anything should've happened to the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, the Athena would've been able to be pretty comfortable during a long journey back

she's also got very advanced combat capabilities. even though theres peace between the Federation and what once was the Dominion, any ships meant to travel the Gamma Quadrant were outfitted to be ready for space combat. the Athena will get plenty of use out of those combat reasons, but perhaps not for the reasons that Starfleet originally thought she would ;)

[falloutgirlboy]

happy valentines day here's a gabey for all ur needs

[cryscendo]

kurt hummel in every performance

3x21 - Nationals

Starships - Unique Adams + Vocal Adrenaline

“You gotta move through that fear and expectation. At least that's what real stars do.”

[clubnate]

eye twitches if you're gonna call gabe a genius for cobra starship you better also be calling ryland and alex geniuses because they wrote the majority of the music and while the cobra lyrics are iconic they wouldn't be as good if not set to some incredible music made by those other 2 men

[c4nnibalgl0w]

gabe brainrot Owo

[ofalltheginjoints]

being a cobra starship fan is all fun & games until you accidentally slip up and call your employee named gabriel “gabey baby” 😬

[thatrando13]

LOOK AT THE CHUBBY CHEEKS <<<333

-> Frieda

Daniel's chubby little cheeks requested by anonymous

[petesaporta]

OH MY GOOOOD...

[coldhands-sunkeneyes]

Avoiding my brother fighting with my parents by blasting good girls go bad like I’m living in a bad sitcom

[gffa]

One thing that caught my attention while watching The Phantom Menace in the theater, a movie I didn't expect to find anything new with after how many times I've seen it and analyzed it, was that Sidious mentions multiple times that he has to change his plans to fit the new circumstances. It got me to thinking about how Palpatine gets credit for his carefully crafted plans, but often times not for how flexible he is in changing them on the fly, especially in time travel fics where someone destroys one of his plans and that's the end of it. Which, I'm not advocating against, I love a good Take That Wrinkled Walnut The Fuck Down However You Gotta Do It fic and I don't want them to change! But in canon Palpatine makes note of things he's not expecting, like:

When Valorum sends the Jedi as ambassadors, it's not part of Sidious' plan: DAULTAY DOFINE: This scheme of yours has failed, Lord Sidious. The blockade is finished. We dare not go against the Jedi. DARTH SIDIOUS: Viceroy, I don't want this stunted slime in my sight again! This turn of events is unfortunate. We must accelerate our plans. Begin landing your troops. NUTE GUNRAY: My lord, is that… legal? DARTH SIDIOUS: I will make it legal. NUTE GUNRAY: And the Jedi? DARTH SIDIOUS: The Chancellor should never have brought them into this. Kill them immediately!

On the Trade Federation ship, after Queen Amidala has disappeared from Naboo, Palpatine originally planned that she would be forced to sign the treaty, and then brings in Maul to deal with this. DARTH SIDIOUS: And Queen Amidala, has she signed the treaty? NUTE GUNRAY: She has disappeared, My Lord. One Naboo cruiser got pat the blockade. DARTH SIDIOUS: I want that treaty signed. NUTE GUNRAY: My Lord, it's impossible to locate the ship. It's out of our range. DARTH SIDIOUS: Not for a Sith. This is my apprentice. Darth Maul. He will find your lost ship.

On Naboo, after Padme allies with the Gungans: NUTE GUNRAY: We've sent out patrols. We've already located their starship in the swamp....It won't be long, My Lord. DARTH SIDIOUS: This is an unexpected move for her. It's too aggressive. Lord Maul, be mindful. MAUL: Yes, my Master. DARTH SIDIOUS: Be patient... Let them make the first move.

Palpatine's plans aren't static, they adapt and change with the events that happen, just as the other characters react to new information and head in new directions for it, so too does Palpatine and I think it's interesting to note that part of what makes him such a good villain is that he has an outline for what he wants to do, he sets up the dominoes of what he needs, but even when they don't fall precisely into place, he generally gets what he wants. He originally intended that Padme would sign the treaty, the Jedi wouldn't be involved, and that would lead to a vote of No Confidence to oust Valorum, using the sympathy for Naboo as a way to boost himself into the position. But he didn't really need her to sign it and still managed to use the sympathy for Naboo to get elected, it ultimately didn't matter what happened to the planet, so long as it was in danger while he needed it to be, he could use it either way. Nor, honestly, do I think he ever planned for Anakin Skywalker's existence, he had no idea they would find such a boy on Tatooine or how useful he was going to be, that was another way he changed his plans once the opportunity arose. Or a lot of his plots in TCW--he has Cad Bane steal the list of Force-sensitive children and kidnap them, bringing them to Mustafar for some sort of program to use them probably not too unlike how he uses the Inquisitors later. That plan is foiled by the Jedi, the babies are returned to their families, and Sidious' plans fall through, but that doesn't really change the outcome. tl:dr: I don't think Palpatine gets enough credit as a villain whose plans shift and change along with the new events that happen, just as much as the heroes' plans shift and change when new things happen. Yeah, he's a great villain because he creates an impossible trap for people, but also because the thing about him is that he's incredibly charming and charismatic and he knows an opportunity when he sees one, that any one given plan might fall through, but it's not necessary to his overall plot.