So my impressions of ds9 characters so far are as follows:
Benjamin Sisko: he’s fine. i like the man. sometimes when he talks about baseball his eyes light up and it’s adorable but the rest of the time he’s a good captain, but i’m not intrigued
Kira Nerys: look, i am gay and i am weak. i love her so much. she’s hot as fuck and she has a complex moral backstory. she’s affronted by everything. i would die for her
Miles O’Brien: he’s an angel and he’s the only reason this space station hasn’t fallen apart. deeply under appreciated. that is all.
Odo: he’s so grumpy and his lack of patience for any humanoid bullshit is pristine. want to adopt, 10/10, no comments
Jadzia Dax: another one where like, she’s fine. i like her plenty, she’d probably be a delight to work with, but at the moment I feel no strong connection to her as a character. i hope they give her more storylines, or let her at least kiss women she used to love as Curzon Dax. i also wish men would stop being weird to her, i hate that it’s a recurring thing.
Julian Bashir: he’s an asshole, he’s a baby, he’s a brat and i adore him
Quark: i would eviscerate this man on sight. he’s despicable. i hope he’s in every episode
Garak: look he’s only been in one episode so far but he was a delight. absolutely incapable of not acting incredibly suspicious or weird
Jake Sisko: baby. baby boy. same with nog. their friendship has cleared my skin, watered my crops, etc, etc
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the men and boys are innocent too.
we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.
I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.
I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.
I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.
I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.
the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.
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"hey why are all the barrier garments like linen shirts or chemises or combinations going away?"
"oh we have more washable fabrics now! you don't need to worry about sweat reaching your outer clothing when you can just chuck it in the washing machine!"
"cool!"
[100 years later]
"so uh all of those new washable fabrics are leaching microplastics into our water, and the constant machine-washing wears garments out faster. they're also not really sturdy enough to be mended, so we keep having to throw them out and now the planet is covered in plastic fabric waste that will never break down. also it turns out that the new washable fabrics hold odor-causing bacteria VERY well. so could we get those barrier garments back please?"
"sorry babe linen now costs $100000/yard and since it's been so long without them, nobody knows how to adapt barrier garments to the current styles anyway"
"..."
"maybe try this new $50 undershirt made of Special Sweat-Wicking Plastic Fabric! :) :) :)"
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kendrick lamar wrecked drake’s shit so hard he’s trending number two on the white fujoshi website 😭😭
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seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
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completely obsessed with this. partially inspired my slavic breakfasts. i’m planning a vampire dinner where everything i cook is going to be red.
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As someone who works with social history for a living, I feel like I’m the aggressive opposite of an anti-vaxxer
I fucking LOVE vaccines, friends. Give me the science stab. I’m so ready. it’s a beautiful day to not die of a Bajillion and one diseases that carried off like half the population before they had even reached age 10, and a significant portion before they made it to old age, 150 years ago
I go to the old cemetery. I see the vast numbers of infant and child and young adult graves. And then I go to my doctor and get injected with Potion of Fuck That Noise. This is beautiful and miraculous and I do not remotely understand how some people can reject it – not just for themselves, but for their children
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