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collegepack · 26 days ago

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Halloween 2038 | Erik Barrett-Todd & Aria Romer

Erik - 16

Aria - 15

Kimmy - 17

Isaiah - 15

Levi, Logan, Chelsea, & Lennox - 11

Zahra - 10

It was another year, another party at the Madison’s house. Erik always felt out of place at these parties. They were always so loud, with so many strangers, and so hot. Ever since the older kids left the “playing” and “trick or treating” phase of their childhood, the parties became more popular. Kimmy always had invited several of her friends, and they were always really touchy with Erik, but he didn’t know why. And for some reason lately at parties she would invite friends, and then just ditch them to make out with Isaiah in her room - even though Mr. Madison made a strict rule that no one was allowed in any bedrooms at all. Part of Erik wished they could go back to their trick or treating days, when everything seemed so much simpler.

As he stood in the corner of the room, a red Solo cup of cider in his hand, he fiddled with the collar of his polyester Wolverine costume, trying to allow for some air in the skin tight suit. He was watching the party unfold before him, but had little interest in joining the festivities. There were so many things to do, and yet the overwhelm kept him from doing any of them. If he had tried bobbing for apples or pumpkin carving, he might have run into the triplets anyways, and he made it a goal to avoid them however possible tonight. They were so rambunctious, especially with the addition of Levi and Zahra, that it just would have made him even more anxious.

He sighed, unsure of how to approach the night. Several other teens the Madison’s invited danced in the clear of the floor, but Erik couldn’t dance, and he wasn’t going to try on his own, that was for sure. Instead, his eye was caught by another attendee, sitting on the couch and scrolling through her phone. He could tell it was Aria, dressed in a Wednesday Addams costume, and thoroughly unimpressed with the party. Erik pushed himself off of the wall and walked over to her, sitting down next to her and taking a sip of his cider.

“You look like you’re having fun,” he attempted to joke, a nervous laugh leaving his lips. He hadn’t really spoken to Aria in a while. They used to be close as kids, but they grew apart as they got older; different friend groups and interests or whatever.

“I’ve seen you over there,” she replied, eyes not leaving her phone, “I think you’re having just as much fun as I am.” She set down the phone and looked over at him, propping her arm up on the arm rest.

“Touche,” he conceded, slinking back into his seat.

Aria noticed he was just trying to make conversation and turned to face him a little more. She gave him a small smile and cleared her throat. “I love your costume. You look really good.”

Erik smiled back softly, “Thanks, I love yours, too. Addams Family is one of my ‘rents’ favorite Halloween movies. We watch it like every year.”

The brunette girl nodded slowly, trying to think of something to say next. They hadn’t actually had a conversation in a long time. Aria also wasn’t exactly a huge fan of small-talk either, so it was proving to be difficult for her.

Trying to fill the silence, Erik spoke up again, “Parties really aren’t my thing. I never know what to do. Especially at Madison parties. There’s almost too much to do.”

Aria chuckled, “Yeah, I can see that. Like who bobs for apples anymore? Or is it just there to take up space?” Aria moved a bit closer to Erik. The dark haired boy noticed her get closer and swallowed hard. “You should bring a date next time,” Aria added, playing with the bottom of one of her braids, “Might be a bit better to sit with someone else than to sit alone.”

“Well, if I brought a date, I wouldn’t have been able to just come over and talk to you,” he said, a blush on his cheeks.

“Daddy, we weren’t doing anything,” Kimmy yelled in the background, stumbling down the stairs to her friends, Isaiah following closely behind her. She huddled up with her friends, pulling a bottle of something out from under her dress and bringing a finger to her lips to hush them. Isaiah hugged her from behind as she uncorked a bottle of some kind of liquor, taking a huge swig before passing the bottle to Isaiah who took a small sip, shaking his head, dissatisfied.

“We could go see what Kimmy’s sharing,” Aria offered, and she could see Erik practically go pale as a ghost. Erik, as mentioned before, was not one to break the rules. The idea of drinking with his parents upstairs almost made him sick on his own. “C’mon!” Aria grinned, hopping up off of the couch and walking over to Kimmy and Isaiah, grabbing a cup from the table and taking a splash of the mystery liquor in her cup.

Erik wanted to stay put. He wanted to be the good boy his Mama and Renny expected him to be. But also…maybe it would help him loosen up a bit. Maybe it would make the party just a bit more bearable. So he gave in to the peer pressure.

He walked over to the bottle and had Kimmy pour some into his cup. He could tell Kimmy had snuck a drink or two at some other point as she poured an excessive amount into his cup with a small “Oopsies.” Erik felt the knot in his stomach as he looked down at the distinct separation of cider and alcohol in his cup, swirling it around to give it a mix before taking it and beginning to chug.

“Erik! Erik! Erik!” Isaiah began chanting, soon the group was following his lead and a whole group of teens was chanting his name as he slowly, but surely finished the large amount of alcohol kimmy had given him.

It was absolutely vile. He felt himself gag a little bit at the taste mixed with the burn in his throat.

“That was a lot!” Aria said over the music, a smile on her face as she started to sway to the song on the speakers.

And it was a lot for him. Within the next 15 minutes, Erik was giggly and dancing with the rest of the teens, despite his sway being off beat. Aria couldn’t help but laugh at him and she grabbed his hands, attempting to correct his rhythm, which proved to be a hard task.

“How are you feeling?” She asked, feeling light and floaty herself. She only had enough to get tipsy, but Erik? Erik was drunk.

“‘m feelin’ goo’- good,” he slurred, looking down at the 5’4” girl, comparatively shorter to his 5’11” stature. He continued to sway with her, holding her hand and twirling her. “I could prolly even go for round two,” he smiled wide, holding his cup back over to Kimmy who had been sipping straight from the bottle, against Isaiah’s warning. Kimmy poured Erik some more, and he drank the new cup down, this time filled with just the clear liquor.

“Maybe you should slow down a little, tiger,” Aria giggled.

He pulled away from his cup taking a sharp inhale, “Actually, I’m Wolverine.” It got a laugh out of Aria as she took the cup away from him and set it down on the table.

“Isaiah, I’m fine.” Kimmy slurred herself, feeling her stomach flip suddenly.

“You’re not acting fine, you said you were only going to have a little bit, what if your dad comes downstairs?”

Aria was watching their spat from the corner of her eye as she continued to sway with Erik. She was suddenly equally as concerned about parents as Isaiah was. When she refocused on Erik, however, she could tell something else was on his mind.

Erik was looking down at her, a goofy grin on his lips. His hands left her grasp and moved to her hips. Aria’s heart beat began racing. Before she could pull away, his lips were on hers, much to her surprise. A wave of ‘ooh’s from the crowd sparked at the sudden kiss. She pulled away after a few moments, moving his hands off of her hips as well. “C’mon, let’s go sit down,” Aria offered, bringing him back to the couch.

He chuckled like an idiot, “Okay.” Once they got to the couch, he was making another move on her, leaning in for another kiss. Aria dodged the second kiss, not entirely sure she was ready for it. The kiss just moments before was her first one, and she was torn about it. While she was thankful it was Erik, she was also upset that he had to be intoxicated to do it.

“Erik, you’re drunk.” She said plainly.

“That doesn’t mean we can’t kiss,” he grinned.

“It does, though. You’re not in the right headspace to consent to this,” she made up an excuse.

From the corner of the room, retching was heard as Kimmy was bent over a trash can, hurling up every last drop of alcohol in her body. Isaiah was holding her hair, trying to decide if he needed to go get Dave or Sage to come check on her.

“Should I go get your mom, Kimmy?” Isaiah asked, rubbing her back in small circles.

“No, not my mo-” She was cut off with another wave of nausea. “Maybe my dad though…Am I gonna die?”

Isaiah sighed, “No, Kimmy, you’ll be fine, let me go get Dave.”

Erik watched the scene play out before him and snickered to himself, “‘m glad ‘m not her…” Aria smacked his shoulder, “Don’t be an ass, Erik.”

“Please, can I kiss you just one more time?” He asked again, forgetting the entire conversation they were just having.

“That’s it!” A loud voice boomed from the bottom of the stairs. Dave Madison stood there with Isaiah behind him, an angry look on his face (which was taken less seriously by the pirate costume he had on). “Somebody better step forward and hand me the bottle of alcohol, now.” A random teen held up the now empty bottle, handing it over to Kimmy’s dad.

Erik’s face went white again, this time his own stomach doing flips. He couldn’t get caught. He couldn’t disappoint his parents. Suddenly, coming clean was a better idea than getting caught, and he stood up quickly, toppling over when he did. He stumbled his way to the stairs, Dave catching him before he could fall again. “You too? How many drunk teenagers are in my basement right now?”

“Ugh, I think I’m going to be sick,” Erik said, his own nausea making an appearance.

Dave turned Erik around, leading him to the bathroom quickly before he had the chance to get sick on the floor. “You wait here,” Dave coached, “I have to get Kimmy to her room, then I’ll be back for you.”

After Dave left, Erik sat on the bathroom floor, heaving into the toilet. It wasn’t long before he heard a soft knock on the door, “It’s Aria.”

“Don’t come in,” he said, trying to hold in more sickness.

“I’m sorry I pressured you. I hope your mom and ‘ren are a little lenient.” She added, through the door.

When Erik felt his nausea ease away, he opened the door and noticed Aria sitting on the floor by it, waiting for him. He gave her a small smile, “It wasn’t you…entirely.” He laughed a little bit, “I kind of just wanted to have more fun…I’m sorry for kissing you…”

“It was my first kiss, you know?...Don’t be sorry.” Aria offered a kind smile.

“Okay, Erik,” Dave said, having come back down from taking care of Kimmy, “How ya feeling now, bud?”

“A bit better, thank you…” Erik replied, still ashamed of his actions.

“Did you drink anything?” Dave asked Aria, who nodded sheepishly.

“Okay, well, parents know now, so when you’re ready, head up stairs, I think they’re gonna take you guys home for the night.”

“Thank you, Mr. Madison,” the two said in unison, standing up from their respective spots. After Dave left, they looked each other in the eyes, unsure of how to say goodbye.

“Text me some time?” Aria asked, a smile on her lips.

“Of course, we’ll have to hang out. No alcohol next time.” Erik said before pulling her in for a hug, which she happily reciprocated.

Erik let go and pushed past Aria, more than ready to go home now. As he stumbled his way up the stairs he noticed Jude at the top and sighed, “I’m so sorry…”

“I’m not the one you’re going to have to apologize to,” Jude said, pushing a stray lock of hair away from their son’s forehead.

“Is Mama gonna be mad?” he asked.

“Well, right now she has three tweens covered in shaving cream from their own festivities, so we’ll see.”

Erik groaned, feeling the punishment already beginning.

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oceanusborealis · 1 year ago

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – TV Review

TL;DR – An interesting episode on its surface narrative, but even more intriguing once you think about the ramifications. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Paramount+ streaming service that viewed this episode. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review – If there has been one thing that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has excelled at, it is making the most out of its ensemble…

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#Adelaide Kane #American Television #Canada #Carol Kane #Christina Chong #Eugenics Wars #Paul Wesley #Sci-fi #Science Fiction #Science Fiction Television #Space Opera #Star Trek #Star Trek: Strange New Worlds #Time Travel #Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow #Toronto

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anotheruserwithnoname · 1 year ago

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Star Trek SNW finally settles decades-old canon issues (spoiler commentary for S02E03)

(Image credit: Startrek.com)

I say spoiler right in the headline, and I mean it. Read no further if you have yet to see Star Trek: Strange New World’s latest episode, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. (The image above is a publicity image and is also in the trailer, so it’s not really a spoiler.)

The TL;DR is: one single line of dialogue fixed nearly 30 years of canon issues. I am not exaggerating. More under the break. And this will be a long one:

To “cross the streams” a moment, it is undeniable canon (not shipping wishful thinking) that not only did the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who have feelings for Clara Oswald, he even considered her not his companion, but his girlfriend. That was made undeniable canon in a couple lines in “Deep Breath” when the Twelfth Doctor said “Clara, I’m not your boyfriend,” Clara replied, “I never thought you were.” and Twelve said “I never said it was your mistake.” That was in stark fact. One line of canon dialogue confirmed what many speculated and the show hinted at. This is separate from what came after, any retcons later writers did, and all that.

Well, one line of dialogue from a guest character in last night’s episode of Strange New Worlds put into canon something I and many others have felt not only about SNW, but the current breed of Trek shows and indeed there were signs of this going back to both Star Trek DS9 and Star Trek Voyager in the 1990s.

The Romulan time agent, Sera, played by Adelaide Kane who some may remember from playing Mary Queen of Scots in Reign, states that the Eugenics war involving Khan was supposed to happen in 1992, but was delayed 30 years due to temporal wars and other interference from the future. (To be precise she’s likely referring to Khan’s birth since he was in his 30s or 40s by the 1990s, the time TOS established the Eugenics Wars took place; here he’s a kid - possibly even a Canadian kid! The war itself is still some years away.)

That explains a lot. Why since DS9 the Eugenics Wars were redated to the mid-21st century. Why SNW’s pilot episode last year confirmed the Eugenics Wars were part of WW3, not a separate conflict. Why the Voyager episode where they go back to Earth on 1996 featured no mention of the Eugenics Wars. Why Kirk and everyone else already knows the name Noonien-Singh (even if La’an hadn’t introduced herself by name to “Prime” Kirk at the end, he would have seen her testimony about being Khan’s descendant at Una’s trial. There is no way in this timeline that Kirk, Spock or anyone else would not recognize Khan’s name instantly when the events of Space Seed happen. Heck, even the fact the SNW Enterprise doesn’t match up with the 1960s designs that were also featured in TNG, DS9 and Star Trek: Enterprise. Or even stuff like people like Uhura knowing who T’Pring was years before they were supposedly first introduced to her in “Amok Time”. It even gives wiggle room for the fact this time-travel episode actually breaks canon with the time-travel-based episodes of Picard Season 2! (Laris would have known about Sera and stopped her, right? Sean at TrekCulture had a gripe about this in his Youtube review)

Sera basically admitted that because of people farting around with time and the temporal wars (recall that it was strongly implied in Enterprise that the Romulans were involved if not responsible for that) that the timeline has been changed.

It can’t be denied anymore and it’s such a liberating thing. Now, SNW is free to truly tell reimagined stories (like the retelling of Balance of Terror last season, albeit that was another alternate timeline), to make T’Pring a vital character and build her, to accelerate the Spock-Chapel romance that was only hinted at in TOS. To truly let Paul Wesley develop his own version of Kirk, not to mention Ethan Peck’s Spock and whoever next plays McCoy (you know they will bring him in eventually and if SNW avoids the fate of Prodigy and lasts a few years, they’re going to have to start getting lined up for a new TOS-era series). Hell, the door is now open for Kirk and La’an to establish a “prime-era” romance - imagine a retelling of Space Seed with La’an in the picture (or at least Kirk remembering her).

This will be a hot take for some. But my rebuttal comes from Doctor Who: “Time can be rewritten.” Finally, nearly 30 years after what was thought to be an erroneous dating of the Eugenics Wars in a throwaway line in an episode of DS9 (I believe the producers even said it was a goof back then), and 22 years of people griping about how the prequel series were not lining up with what came before, either esthetically or storyline-wise (Enterprise, Discovery, SNW, and Picard S2 to a degree), we have a firm, canonical explanation. People will still gripe about politics, general quality, casting, whatever, of shows - that’s a separate argument - but at least in terms of canon, this has changed everything. In a good way.

I only wish they hadn’t killed off Sera. I got very strong Sela vibes from her (Sela/Sera? Coincidence?) and I would have liked to see her become a recurring nemesis. Then again, as I just said, time can be rewritten.

#star trek: strange new worlds #tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow #star trek: strange new worlds spoilers

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kirk-laan · 1 year ago

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Paul Wesley and Christina Chong with Adelaide Kane (@ trekcore)

#edit #star trek snw #paul wesley #christina chong #a fodder for AUs!#la'an noonien singh #james t kirk

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sunnydaleherald · 2 months ago

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