okay I don't really know how to frame this. but like. funniest way to confirm Dean is Ben's dad is
20 year-old Ben takes a genetics test for fun or whatever, and the results he gets back are just batshit insane. it's like. oh hey. my biological father is a known serial killer who's still on the FBI's most wanted list and has been found or thought dead multiple times. and my uncle. and my grandfather. and my grandmother. and my--
Did you know that Mandela catalogue has a website? I didn't even know until like 2 weeks ago, it's pretty groovy stuff.
A small headcanon of mine: If the preacher wasn't an alternate trying to sneak-kill Adam while he slept, I'd like to imagine she'd be a mother figure to Mark, Adam and Jonah, like how Six is a father figure to Mark.
I think it'd be funny if Tuvok was from some isolated town where everyone loved him and he hated it.
Like, to be clear NO ONE outside of his hometown has heard of him but for some reason his family is important in the town and only this one town [perhaps they're religious leaders due to his strong spiritual ties] and so whenever he's there he's treated like a local celebrity. People stop him to talk in the street. He gets discounts at any local store without asking. If he's visiting with his kids they'll get showered with toys and candy. They love it but Tuvok's grumbling about how this is why he moved...
I just think it'd be funny if Tuvok came from a very niche-ly privileged upbringing that he treated like a dark backstory. You don't want to see his childhood hometown....it's fucked up...it was like hell, living somewhere where you were popular and everyone doted on you...you'd never understand his pain. He was voted class president every year and didn't volunteer once. He didn't even show up to a single meeting one year and they still voted him in the next year.
When he returns to his hometown after the Voyager incident he finds that nearly everyone in town came to greet him and is logically mortified. Janeway or whomever is like "Tuvok this is such a sweet gesture" while Tuvok's glancing around for a cliff to jump off. He has a plaque dedicated to him at the local temple when he didn't even serve there.
Guy who wants to be left alone vs Entire town of people who love and respect him
and i don't know what i'm scared of, or what i even enjoy // sotd is "—about the least progressive word in the english dictionary, and it's called 'yes.'—"
A Gathering of the Gods in the Clouds - Cornelius van Poelenburgh // The Combat of Mars and Minerva - Jacques-Louis David (detail) // Bethlehem - Semler
Cap's got a new voice claim! feat. a tiny bit of Sparrows n her's unchanged vc because 1. it's cute to hear them together and 2. I snorted. The vibes are so different
[songs: So Familiar by Jean Castel and Driving Myself Home by Rose Betts]
my page is for the girls and gays who grew Protestant and didn't have any friends growing up because they thought you were weird and grew up wanting to be an Exorcist because you get to wear large crucifix Necklaces, for the girls and gays who were cropped out of group photos and was picked last during gym class.
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
If it's meant to be then it will be,
so I met him there and told him, "I believe", singing "if it's meant to be then it will be",
I forgive it all as it comes back to me.
my thoughts for the new year, 2024.
Susan Sontag, "Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963" // Joan of Arc, John Everett Millais // Ethel Cain, "Sun Bleached Flies" // @davidshrigleydrawing, found on Twitter // Taylor Swift, "You're on Your Own Kid" // Unknown creator, photo from Pinterest
i'm still fucking thinking about faulkner silt verses i haven't stopped all day. i just keep intermittently replaying parts of the ep and working my way thru the transcript. just now i was trying to explain to rafi how elated i was about everything that went down during this ep and rafi, horrified, was like "BUT I - I DON'T WANT HIM TO BE SUICIDAL????" and i was like "rafi. listen to me. i cannot express enough how much the suicide attempt was POSITIVE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT."