#p/t

[lilvoyagercomics]

The warp core is ready for Christmas, are you?

[pilots-and-protons]

Re-watched "Drive" and I feel like many people seem to miss that half the point of the episode is not that Tom is a bad boyfriend or that he and B'Elanna are a terrible match.

The point is that relationships take work and communication, the latter of which B'Elanna isn't very good at. It's a recurring theme throughout the series that she has difficulty sharing her feelings and being vulnerable - and the first thing she does is hide her disappointment from Tom and not tell him how much work she put into planning their weekend together. Neelix, as a giver of good advice, is right to point out that because she is upset, B'Elanna is isolating herself from Tom and setting him up to disappoint her again - which doesn't help either of them.

(It honestly reminds me of people whose love languages aren't the same; if they don't tell each other this, both would just think the other person doesn't care enough because they aren't receiving love in the way they think is best.)

For all his (very adhd-coded) flaws of getting side-tracked, Tom is the one trying to communicate throughout the episode. He tells her about the race and admits that he forgot their date. But it's important to note two things: he doesn't know how much time and energy B'Elanna put into making it happen, and he says he can back out of the race. Yes he starts rambling about how excited he was, but that sounds like trying to justify why he forgot (it's important to the aliens running it for peace, its one of a kind and therefore he got really excited, etc.) It didnt come off to me as trying to guilt B'Elanna into letting him do it, because thats not the kind of person he is. I fully believe that, even if it disappointed him, he would have put B'Elanna first and backed out of the race, like he said, if she wanted him to - because we see this is exactly what he does later in forfeiting the win to talk about what has been upsetting her.

For as much as B'Elanna says that Tom doesn't seem to prioritize her, a lot of the issues in the episode are from B'Elanna feeling ignored but being unable to communicate what she needs. Which is completely reasonable! Because it's hard! Especially when you're feeling vulnerable and unappreciated, the one thing you don't want to have to do is put in more effort to communicate what you need. But of course that's not how relationships work (because people aren't mind readers), and of course they do have to properly talk it out together.

Anyways I just think that B'Elanna has some lovely vulnerability and emotional growth she has to go through in this episode, and it feels wrong to write it off as just "well they clearly aren't good for each other".

[lesbiancalkestis]

I think one of the wildest things about the influx of off the chain Tom Paris hate on here is that a couple of years ago there was a core group of people saying that B’Elanna was abusive and mistreated Tom in their relationship. All this is to say that I love living in a permanent No Nuance November on tunglr dot cong.

[hopecomesbacktolife]

I recently read the novelization for Day Of Honor, here’s some excellent highlights:

Harry Kim immediately shutting down some anti-Borg sentiment from a colleague to defend Seven, he’s the sweetest, I love him

Tuvok + Neelix exhibiting Spock & Bones behavior

Klingons recognizing Doctoring as a noble warrior’s pursuit and and extremely honorable calling, 10/10, no notes

Janeway and the Doctor having a beautiful philosophical discussion about humanoids needing religious practices, rhythms, and communities + shared beliefs throughout myriad societies and how the Doctor is not in any way lesser for finding his own, and also how they don’t have to be religious to be cultural practice, just all around excellent scene

and since it’s Day of Honor, I of course had to share The Moment TM between Tom and B’elanna ♡

I really enjoyed this novelization and definitely recommend it, it’s such a good read especially for P/T shippers!

[marymoss1971]

I wrote some Voyager fics

Voyager's been on my mind lately due to the upcoming 30th anniversary. So, here are a few very short fics.

a missing scene from the end of "Fair Haven"

2) Janeway gets a comm call from the head of Starfleeet Medical about why she'd select a helmsman as chief medic.

3) and I P/T five plus one drabble

[hauntedmoonchaos]

Tuvok catching them

Is funny embarrassing

I'd die of shame tho

[rosiesh0w]

I said it before and I will say it now. the night we met by lord Huron is faces coded

[jbarkerstargazer]

WIP

Leaving this for tonight. I'm happy with the line work so just needs colour

@lisam100 @byrcca

[medicaldoctordana]

HC that Miral is obsessed with The Doctor and tells stories of their time together much like The Doctor tells stories. After a playdate or regular call to just talk, Miral forces her parents to sit on the couch and listen to her recount his stories he told her nearly word for word, inflection for inflection. meanwhile, Tom and B’Elanna are smiling through clenched teeth muttering, “it’s like we never left the ship.” “Are you sure he didn’t download his holomatrix into our daughter’s brain?” “I can’t take one more second of this, Tom, I’ll decompile his program for real this time.”

[pawjobss]

Just to put into perspective how small I really am 🤭

[pilots-and-protons]

On the one hand, it's ridiculous that the writers didn't think it made sense for B'Elanna, an engineer, to join Tom in his Greasemonkey program.

On the other hand, I find it hilarious to imagine Tom doing the 24th century equivalent of asking his rocket scientist girlfriend to help him fix a broken horse-drawn carriage.

[lesbiancalkestis]

I would pay good money to see a recording of Robbie and Roxann performing Love Letters at whatever con that was.

[eternvlsound]

Neon street lights to guide you home

ig: space.ram

[smolpotatoo]

stop looking dad 😭

[risestarkiss]

Rise Ramblings #41

He's petty, your honor.✨

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