another-normal-anomaly asked: 1: What is the best and worst purchases you’ve made? And 3: What is the craziest thing one of your teachers has done?

another-normal-anomaly:

evolution-is-just-a-theorem:

1: What is the best and worst purchases you’ve made?

Already answered, but I’ll add that deciding that whenever I think of something it would be useful to have I will just buy a bunch of it on Amazon has been an incredibly good decision that hasn’t cost me much money. Strongly recommend to anyone with an income, moderately recommend to anyone with good runway / expectation of an income.

Some example purchases: a ton of zip ties, a set of screwdrivers, a set of small plastic drawers to keep things organized, a bunch of power strips, various cleaning supplies that I needed at least once, a large pack of pencils and pens.

3: What is the craziest thing one of your teachers has done?

Asked me, and I fucking quote: “But what about the possibility of a collection consciousness”.

Fuck you and your shitty off-brand new age continentalism.

Maybe they just wanted to talk about the Borg :(

In the Voyager episode “Drone”, the Borg (or rather, disconnected Borg nanoprobes acting autonomously, but presumably with standing orders from the Collective) create a drone using a genetic sample and whatever tech they could scrounge up and convert into implants and a gestation vat. The being comes into existence already Borg-ified (still without a live connection to the Collective, but with a homing beacon).

I think this indicates that the Borg *can* have kids if pressed, though prefer to reproduce via assimilation.

(yeah, the kid was made with heavy technological assistance, but they’re *Borg*, they do *everything* with heavy technological assistance, so I don’t think that stops it from counting)


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#Star Trek #Voyager #reply via reblog #tangents


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With Beautiful Reluctance

warp6:

“I trust your Garden was willing to die…I do not think that mine was—it perished with beautiful reluctance, like an evening star—”

—Letter written by Emily Dickinson, 1880 

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They do not know who they are or where they come from. They do not know how they came to be here, in this overgrown garden with its crumbling observatory. They do not even know their own name. But a series of alarming discoveries–a child’s abandoned toys, a woman’s frantic recording, a smoking ruin–sends them on a desperate quest to unravel the mystery of what happened here, the fate of these vanished people, and the truth of their own identity.

Read on AO3 (In Progress):

Chapter 1: The Observatory
Chapter 2: The Ruin
Chapter 3: The Forest

Gen / Kathryn Janeway, Other(s)
/ Mystery, Character Study, Unreality, Suspense, Found Family

 

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Chapter 4: The Green
Chapter 5: The Desert

 

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Chapter 6: The City
Chapter 7: The Train

 

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Chapter 8: The Cove
Chapter 9: The Ring

 

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Chapter 10: The Theatre
Chapter 11: The Starship

 

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Chapter 12: The Inferno

 

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Chapter 13: The Grey
Chapter 14: The End
Chapter 15: The Stars
Epilogue

Added tags: Action/Adventure, Injury, Psychological Trauma, Hurt/Comfort, relationships, Introspection, Angst with a Happy Ending

 

cosmic-llin:

Folks, I’m not kidding when I say this is one of the best fics I’ve ever read. I can’t even explain why it’s so amazing without spoiling it because discovering what it’s about as you go is one of its many joys, but please take my word for it that it’s just REALLY GOOD and if you love Kathryn Janeway then you should read it. (Note the content warnings as you go, though.)


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#Star Trek #Voyager #fanfic #recs #amnesia cw #I read this recently #it was amazing #and it felt…extremely Voyager #like if it weren’t for how logistically difficult it would be #to do something that spends this much time inside a character’s head in video format #I could absolutely see this as an episode

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cosmic-llin:

OK, this is seventeen different kinds of adorable.


Tags:

#so I was looking through my archives #and this is still hilarious #so I thought I’d bring it back #Star Trek #Voyager #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(not a duplicate because my first reblog predates the use of that tag)

ds9vgrconfessions:

radarsteddybear:

Anyway if Admiral Janeway had never gone back in time and the show had stayed on the air for the additional 16 years it took for them to get home Voyager would have ended this year.

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#interesting #Star Trek #Voyager #(I tried double-checking the numbers on this) #(and because of rounding issues it’s hard to tell if it’s right) #(I think if it’s off it’s only by one year)

ds9vgrconfessions:

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[I’ve been watching Voyager for a while and I’ve come to a conclusion that they beam everything onboard. “Well, we have no idea what this is! BUT YOLO! Let’s beam that strange dangerously looking thing here and study it!” And then they have problems with it. Though this can been seen in other series too. ]

And when investigating a Mysteriously Deserted Spaceship (which they simply must do in-person, of course), they take off their spacesuit helmets as soon as they’ve determined the atmosphere is breathable, before checking for pathogens or anything.

(Oddly, this mostly doesn’t come back to bite them. But only mostly.)


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#Star Trek #Voyager #but really pretty much any show with spacesuits and Mysteriously Deserted Places


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