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I continue to believe that Steve and Peggy banged after Bucky's death, and that's part of how and why he's suddenly Mr Smooth Suave Fella in that second scene.
I really truly do not understand what it is about Israel/Jewish people that makes everyone loose any semblance of compassion or critical thought. Like I know Jew hate makes you stupid and I know it has always been like this. Maybe I can never really understand it because I am not Jewish, but it just boggles my mind. It's like everyone has a chip in their heads that activates when ever they see something or someone Jewish. Like vandalizing Jewish restaurants and calling them "baby killers", are you that stupid and dense? You really cannot introspect and see why that's fucked up? Or how everyone hates Gal Gadot because she's Israeli. Like ok, I thought xenophobia was wrong? I thought that was like progressive 101. Remember Trump's Muslim ban? We can agree that that is fucked up right? It's the mind chip, it turns of higher brain function when interacting with something or someone Jewish. Y'all don't punch Nazis, y'all like to pretend that you do. It's all about how yall want to be perceived. It's always been popular to hate Jews. Yall are just the latest morons to jump on the bandwagon. History will remember you as that.
Antisemitism is in everything, and once you start looking for it you will never stop.
It is in Christianity -- the Catholic Church, yes, I feel like I don't really need to get into the antisemitic history of the group behind the Spanish Inquisition, but Martin Luther was one of the most influential antisemites in Europe, and a direct line of thought can be traced from his ideas to Hitler's.
It is in Islam -- which says that the day of judgment will come only when the Muslims kill the Jews (and also apparently one type of tree will hide us as the others are ratting us out because that type of tree is Jewish, which is weird).
Those two religions are followed by a majority of people in the world. In the West, most people grow up in a vague culturally Christian hegemony, even if they're not actively Christian.
But there's more!
The Corpus Juris Civilis has had massive consequences and underpins many legal systems today. It is foundational in so much Western law.
It also codified the principles that Jews weren't citizens, that we couldn't testify in court against Christians. It banned Hebrew prayer and conversion to Judaism.
So many famous people were deeply antisemitic. Ezra Pound was a Nazi, yeah, but it's just...everywhere. I've talked about Bram Stoker a lot, but it's also other people: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Cicero, Oscar Wilde, a random "humorous" book of joke definitions that I was only able to read through the AR's because it said Arson was derived from the Hebrew (see Insurance) or something which references the myth that Jews set fire to things for the insurance money. It is all over literature and cabals come from kabbalah and hip-hip is from the chant of the rioters in Germany and Denmark as they attacked Jews for daring to maybe want some rights and you try to go into botany and are confronted with the Wandering Jew plant and and and.
And to undo that would require serious, concerted, effort that would almost certainly make Christian and Muslim students uncomfortable, and that just didn't happen. There was some reckoning in Germany, imposed upon them.
Nowhere else. Antisemitism didn't go away, it just went underground, and we patted ourselves on the back and thought that this time we would be safe and this time we'd finally be able to settle down and it's starting to look like we were wrong.
There are two thousand years of antisemitism screaming to blame the Jews for being capitalist or communist or loyalist or revolutionaries or xenophobic or xenophilic or white or nonwhite or liberal or conservative or rich or poor or this or that or whatever they think makes us worthy of being killed that they apply to us and only us, and not even eighty years of kinda sorta sometimes thinking that was bad.
And sometimes these things are so old that nobody even recognizes them anymore and you sound crazy for bringing it up, but leaving it alone allows the dehumanization to continue.
See: droopy eyes are sneaky, "sallow" skin is a sign of dishonesty, pointed hats on witches come from sumptuary laws aimed at Jews.
ALSO:
Sometimes we share these negative stereotypes with others--Italians get hit with the sallow skin one a lot--but it's never "stereotyping someone based on skin color is wrong," it's "you shouldn't do that because they might be Italian, not Jewish."
didnt realise that this piece of common sense wasn’t too common but if you want your content to be accessed by all sorts of demographics you need to make it yk accessible to all sorts of demographics.
subtitles/captions on videos, readable fonts, good contrast between background and text colour and dont make it tiny asf. and thats barely the bare minimum honestly
this doesnt just affect disabled people, its also just fucking annoying and hard to understand/read if your font is yellow on a white background, three pixals tall and in a font never seen since the bronze age
if understanding the content of your posts is a privilege to only a select few, you can’t be surprised when only a select few interact with it
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Corporate Glossary: every Friday, learn the secret meaning of common corporate words
“They’re trying to discharge her constructively. Do you know what Constructive Discharge means?” She asked.
As soon as I heard the term ‘Constructive Discharge,’ I knew I’d never seen it on a vocabulary quiz.
“No. What does it mean?” I asked.
She explained.
“Constructive discharge is a fancy way of saying “being forced out.” It’s not good. And if you’re not a lawyer or in human resources, you’ll probably learn what it means when it’s happening to you.”
“Oh my God. I’ve seen this my entire career and never knew it even had a name.” I thought.
You’ve seen constructive Discharge too. You may have experienced it. We’ve all made choices to avoid it.
Constructive discharge defined
“We can’t fire you, but we’ll make you so miserable you’ll quit, and then we won’t have to pay your unemployment.”
Then there’s the textbook definition:
“A constructive discharge occurs when your employer has made working conditions unbearable, forcing you to resign.”
Or as one person put it.
“I didn’t get handed a pink slip, but when you’re not wanted, people have a way of letting you know.”
HR isn’t always the secret police.
Employees aren’t always victims of evil-doers.
However, employers push employees out all the time to maintain and protect the, “We didn’t do anything wrong, YOU did,” power structure.
Constructive Discharge looks like this:
— Meeting invitations slow to a trickle, and you’re excluded from emails and generally looped out of what’s going on.
— People stop talking to you or stop talking when you walk in.
— Your emails don’t get answers, or they arrive too late to be of value.
— Suddenly, your work is not good enough, though nothing about your work has changed.
— Reviews, once good or even glowing, are now mediocre or bad.
— Instead of a bonus, you get a Performance Improvement Plan.
— Warnings and write-ups start so they can justify your eventual termination with documentation of your “poor performance”
— Your work, clients, assignments go away, or they overwhelm you with work.
— The words “Set up to fail” were practically invented to describe this scenario.
Constructive Discharge is illegal
It isn’t easy to prove you’re a target, and it’s even more challenging if you don’t even know constructive discharge is a real thing.
If you’ve ever experienced this and don’t fully understand what’s happening to you beyond knowing you’re in the process of being excommunicated, it can be hell. It’s not uncommon for the experience to leave long-lasting scars.
Talk to anyone who’s ever been through it. They’ll tell you.
Knowing constructive discharge exists and how it’s used gives you power to predict what’s coming and to protect yourself.
Seeing the endgame helps you in two ways.
You know what to expect. Having a sense of what’s coming next is enormously empowering.
You can go on the offensive and protect yourself. Constructive discharge works to crush your ego, making you feel you did something wrong and deserve this treatment.
Without strategy, you end up being a miserable pawn in your employer’s endgame.
Remember, they’re almost certainly building a case to fire you in the event the hellscape they create for you doesn’t persuade you to quit.
If you’re getting pushed out, and you know what to look for you can prove constructive discharge and you can get unemployment benefits, be released from payback obligations on a signing bonus, and protect your mental health.
You’re not crazy, incompetent, or a failure. This is real and it’s carefully executed to leave you holding the bag and feeling like you did something wrong.
If they force you out, in addition to feeling horrible, you lose your paycheck, benefits health insurance, and possibly owe them money.
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I got this extremely snotty angry reply to one of my gardening related posts once that was to the effect of “the only people who garden are wealthy because it’s entertainment and you don’t have to survive off it” from a communist catgirl anime icon haver and I just looked at my foodstamps-funded collection of garden vegetables in the back yard and fucking screamed at the top of my lungs
just remembered one of the times this happened, I can't remember if it was a communist (even though they are usually the ones who get mad about gardening, for some reason)
anyway they forgot the word "gardening" completely and said I was "larping cottagecore"
Sometimes the other Vulcans wonder how Spock managed to obtain such an exotic bondmate, and sometimes Spock wonders himself.
Spock Didn't Join Starfleet / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Explicit
Words: 17,748 Chapters: 4/4
cast out fear - By s0mmerspr0ssen
Kirk saves Vulcan from Nero at high cost to himself. It falls to Spock to pick up the pieces.
AOS Canon Divergence
Rating: Mature
Words: 42,268 Chapters: 7/7
Purr-suasion - By iknewaman
Perhaps staring at the man who jogged past his house every morning wasn’t the most productive use of Spock’s time, but to be fair, he had little else to occupy his time with when working from home.
Except, maybe, when a cat pulled a breaking and entering into his house.
Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 3,997 Chapters: 1/1
Moving Fast - By yaoichan12
"Mother, Father," Spock said. His arm was around the blonde next to him. "I would like you to meet Jim. My bondmate."
Amanda and Sarek stared at their son and Jim.
"We were only gone two months," Amanda said.
Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 4,789 Chapters: 1/1
Sha Ka Ree - By ThereBeWhalesHere
The year is 2258. Jim Kirk is a Lieutenant on the U.S.S. Farragut, Spock the science officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. When the ships come together for a priority landing party, these two strangers find themselves fighting against the odds for a chance at life in an alien world, and the only way they'll make it through is by relying on each other.
Different First Meeting AU
Part 1 of Sha Ka Ree
Rating: Explicit
Words: 180,505 Chapters: 18/18
The Exhale - By ThereBeWhalesHere
Sarek attempts to understand his son. Though it may take time, work, understanding, and a few deep, steadying breaths.
Part 3 of Sha Ka Ree
Rating: General Audience
Words: 8,167 Chapters: 1/1
Through the Ages - By scalpturio
The Federation Councillor from Andoria comes to the Enterprise with a matter of urgency: a stolen cruiser carrying sensitive information has escaped. Jim realises that he's seen that cruiser before, wrecked on a desert planet, three years (or two thousand) in the past.
Or, Jim and Spock revisit a place they've known, and they learn that home is not just about the place, but about what the place has given them.
Inspired by ThereBeWhalesHere's amazing story Sha Ka Ree.
Set in the 'Sha Ka Ree' Verse
Rating: General Audience
Words: 14,665 Chapters: 1/1
Helloooo, Nurse! - By lalazee
Jim Kirk is the only male nurse on the Enterprise. He’s also the only one with any experience with Vulcan biology. You can guess who he’s been assigned to.
Different First Meeting / Nurse!Kirk AU
Rating: Explicit
Words: 9,291 Chapters: 1/1
Leave No Soul Behind - By whochick
If you're Starfleet, you spend your whole life wishing you never see an EPAS uniform right up until the moment they become your only hope. Whether you're dying a slow, cold death in space, or a long painful one on some godforsaken planet, they're going to come for you. So count your last breaths, son, and hold on tight. They leave no soul behind.
Different First Meeting / Emergency Rescuers!AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 258,951 Chapters: 44/44
Ten Degrees Below Zero - By kianspo
After a serious incident aboard a starship, Commander Spock is demoted and transferred to a remote base where he must now serve with other "undesirables." He adjusts to his new rank and duties, and, while the future does look bleak, he is not ready to give up on himself or Starfleet yet. There is work to be done and hope to be found, especially as he begins to get to know his new colleagues, particularly one intriguing engineering officer James Kirk...
Different First Meeting / Lois McMaster Bujold's "The Vor Game" Inspired AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 56,054 Chapters: 3/3
The Spock Trials - By HDDrabble
Within the inimitable Spirk fic Ten Degrees Below Zero by Kianspo, Jim has to go through an offscreen "ethics seminar" assigned to him by Captain Pike. He must endure Spock dying gruesome deaths via simulation to prove their emotional compromise will not detract from his captaining abilities. The last simulation leaves Jim totally wrecked, and his defeated whisper to Spock of "I passed" absolutely destroyed me.
Ever since I finished the fic, I haven't been able to stop wondering—why was that last simulation even worse than the ones that came before? What finally let Jim "pass" this test? So, this fic is my answer to those questions. And my excuse to put Jim through the angst of watching Spock continually die.
Set in the 'Ten Degrees Below Zero' Verse
Rating: Mature
Words: 9,284 Chapters: 1/1
K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk -By branwyn
Jim wrote a romance novel just to prove he could. Then someone leaked it on the public Starfleet server, and suddenly his embarrassingly smutty and sentimental Human/Vulcan love story is all over campus. Luckily for Jim, no one knows that he’s the author. Unluckily for Jim, someone forwarded the novel to the staff of the Vulcan embassy. Now, every Vulcan in San Francisco is reassessing the logical merits of taking Human bondmates.
Spock reads a Human/Vulcan romance novel because he can hardly avoid it. Suddenly, he is consumed by the need to locate the author, ascertain their wellbeing, and instruct them in the way of Vulcan mating bonds. Luckily for Spock, it doesn't take long to identify the author as Jim Kirk. Unluckily for Spock, Jim is unconscious and surrounded by interested Vulcans who also read the book.
Different First Meeting / Academy AU
Rating: Not Rated
Words: 103,984 Chapters: 22/22
Telsu - By s0mmerspr0ssen
Throughout his childhood, Spock suffers from 'emotional seizures'. It takes his healers and parents years to understand their cause - a special telsu bond: t'hy'la.
Different First Meeting / Academy AU
Part 1 of Telsu
Rating: Mature
Words: 27,606 Chapters: 8/8
Kah'ru - By s0mmerspr0ssen
“Ancient scrolls from distant planets making up tales of predeterminism are no basis for a relationship!” Or: Jim and Spock have to learn what it means to be t’hy’la.
Part 2 of Telsu
Rating: Explicit
Words: 22,838 Chapters: 6/? On Hiatus
Textual Beginnings - By iknewama
A few days ago Spock’s number had been scribbled onto the bathroom wall in the Madame Kussaru building, and it had taken two days before the vandalism had been discovered. It was immediately taken down, and Spock was pleased to know that he had not received any unsolicited calls or messages since the incident.
Until now, it seemed.
Different First Meeting / Academy AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 11,493 Chapters: 1/1
Measure of Happiness - By writeonclara
When Spock chose Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy, he had not anticipated cohabiting with the most illogical, irrational, emotional human he ever met.
On the flip side, Jim never asked for a Vulcan chaperone, especially one as snotty as Spock, son of Sarek.
A Starfleet Academy AU in which Spock adapts to human life, Jim learns very, very quickly never to play a prank on a Vulcan, and there are far too many people after Jim Kirk's life.
Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 38,282 Chapters: 11/11
My Beautiful Human - By LadyTauriel
Jim is an extraordinary human. He exceeds expectations constantly set for him in all areas of his life. His leadership abilities, his quick thinking, and his intellect are contributing factors to his potential for becoming a great starship captain. His fair colouring and symmetrical features are striking, making him stand out in a crowd of even the most aesthetically pleasing individuals. His mind is like a beaming sun, a warmth that Spock has missed on this cooler planet, pulling him in with all of its promising radiance.
When Jim smiles at Stalek, however, it is his heart and his love that make Jim the most beautiful human whom Spock has ever encountered.
Parent!Kirk / Academy AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 12,210 Chapters: 1/1
In Another Life - By IvanW
Jim and Spock have known each other since Jim was eight and Spock ten as Jim's mother was stationed on Vulcan for five years. When Winona Kirk's assignment is changed, they are separated, but they vow this will not be the end for them. After all they are bonded.
Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 36,350 Chapters: 28/28
A Perfect Fit - By ThereBeWhalesHere
It was a running joke on the Enterprise, that Captain Spock went through first officers like tribbles went through quadrotriticale. Spock found no humor in it, however. Six people had come and gone from his side over the year and a half he had been captain.
But a captain needed a first officer. And for now, at least, Spock needed Commander James Tiberius Kirk.
Captain!Spock, First Officer!Kirk / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 7,097 Chapters: 1/1
Still Life - By dogpoet, garryowen (dogpoet)
Traumatized by his experience on Tarsus IV, Jim Kirk runs away to Vulcan to undergo kolinahr.
Different First Meeting AU
Part 1 of They Met On Mount Seleya
Rating: Mature
Words: 39,814 Chapters: 1/1
Family Is Where You Find It - By dogpoet, garryowen (dogpoet)
Jim thinks he knows what Spock means. Life is full of shitty situations that seem like no-win scenarios. Sometimes you have to make horrible decisions like giving your life so your son and wife can live. Or going on the run and killing someone so you and four other kids can live. Or hauling a baby around in your body so it’ll have a future. Jim has always hated the future, but he’s also always acted with the belief that there should be one. Sequel to Still Life. This will not make sense unless you read that first.
Part 4 of They Met On Mount Seleya
Rating: Mature
Words: 39,826 Chapters: 6/6
Blooming in the Desert - By ThereBeWhalesHere
Spock has been assisting a new Vulcan colony in its agricultural efforts, but nothing will grow in the colony's desert. He seeks the advice of Dr. James Kirk, renowned botanist, at one of Kirk's lectures. But Spock's interest in Kirk quickly becomes personal, rather than professional.
Though the concept of "love at first sight" is deeply illogical, of course, Spock and Jim Kirk share an immediate connection, and it could change the trajectory of their lives.
Botanist!Kirk / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Explicit
Words: 10,913 Chapters: 1/1
First Contact - By triedunture
AU where Earth isn't warp capable when we should have been. Spock & Jim meet as children during First Contact and forge a strange kind of bond, but they're torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. Fast forward to adulthood: Jim's made it to space, but with Starfleet out of his reach, his life has taken a very different path. And yet, that path crosses Spock's again....
Late Space Travel Development AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 20,318 Chapters: 1/1
we have not touched the stars - By prouvairing
Sometimes they’ll also ask him why he hasn’t gone out and chased his soulbond yet.
Jim will point to the sky, and say, “The moon’s always there, babe. Don’t need to go chasin’ after her.”
It is January, year 2063. Humanity has quietly achieved interstellar travel, and Jim Kirk’s soulbond stretches into the stars.
Soulmate / First Contact AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 7,144 Chapters: 1/1
Once Upon a Time (A Fairy-Tale Love Story) - By littlebirdtold
In a universe with no Federation, where First Contact never happened, Jim Kirk is your average popular guy. On Christmas Eve, thanks to a series of strange events, Jim finds himself in a parallel universe where the Milky Way is under the control of an alien race and ends up as a servant in the residence of the Royal House of Vulcan. As he starts adapting to his new life, Jim's curiosity fucks everything up—but hey, Vulcans shouldn't have told him that he isn't allowed to enter this wing of the palace; Jim has never been good at following rules.
Or,
This is the story of how Jim Kirk became a Princess ("Prince Consort, Bones!") of the United Planets of Vulcan Kingdom.
No First Contact / Royalty AU
Rating: Explicit
Words: 47,461 Chapters: 6/6
To Be Wed - By ThereBeWhalesHere
"With a human ruling alongside King Sarek, it makes sense that they would want a Vulcan to rule alongside you. Look on the bright side. At least it's not Sybok."
Prince S'chn T'gai Spock and Crown Prince Sam Kirk are pushed by their families into an awkward courtship, sure to become an awkward marriage. Meanwhile, the younger Terran prince just wants to make sure his future brother-in-law feels comfortable in his new home. But unfortunately for Jim, the road to hopeless, unrequited love is paved with good intentions.
Royalty AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 49,610 Chapters: 6/6
Paper Tigers - By ThereBeWhalesHere
Thirty years ago, the war between Earth and Vulcan ended with a shaky armistice. Now, Earth's monarchs hope their volatile neighbors might formalize peace and ally with them against a growing Klingon threat. But Vulcans are fiercely independent, and are currently fighting their own war against a rebel insurgence. An alliance remains unlikely.
In spite of this, the two planets' sons, Prince James Kirk of Earth and Dorli Kahr-lan Spock of Vulcan, find themselves passionately drawn toward each other the moment they meet, and their own private alliance could change everything.
Royalty AU
Rating: Explicit
Words: 92,106 Chapters: 9/9
Papers in the Roadside - By kianspo
Jim owns a small bar in Chicago, keeps on picking up strays and taking care of everyone no matter how hard it makes his own life. Spock is a journalist writing feature articles for the Chicago Tribune; he depicts the world with uncanny skill, but hides more than one personal drama and is possibly under surveillance from the Vulcan royal family. They meet by accident just before their lives start to spin out of control.
Non Starfleet AU
Rating: Explicit
Words: 49,637 Chapters: 1/1
Refuge - By ThereBeWhalesHere
AU: In a less powerful, less united Federation, Romulus takes an opportunity to attack Vulcan and Federation planets begin taking in Vulcan refugees. One of these refugees, a young Spock, stays with the Kirk family on their farm in Iowa. Everyone thinks it's temporary, but after a few years Earth becomes as much a home to Spock as Vulcan ever was, and the Kirks-- especially Jim-- become family.
Refugee!Spock / Different First Meeting
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 70,138 Chapters: 12/12
The Promise - By coffee666
As children, Jim and Spock promised they would get married when they grew up. Jim thought it was just a silly joke between kids.
When they meet again upon the Enterprise, Spock still expects Jim to fulfill that promise.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Bonded - By TenSpencerRiedPlease
Jim hates Vulcan but he’s stuck here while his mom works. When that’ll be up he doesn’t know, but that means Vulcan school and of course Vulcan schools involve a whole big pile of Vulcans.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Not Rated
Words: 35,197 Chapters: 4/4
Rating; Not Rated
Words: 207,872 Chapters: 9/9
In Your Mind - By Bam4Me
When Spock first met Jim, he was tiny. Very tiny. It wasn't his fault that that tiny human was also clingy, with an apparent, addictive personality. It might have been his fault that they got married though, but, it was Sybok's fault that they stayed married.
Everyone is slightly at fault here, and slightly worried. It might turn out for the best, though.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Part 1 of a bond so bright, it makes you squint
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 12,865 Chapters: 1/1
The Relationship Hiatus (Sort Of) - By Bam4Me
Iowa is boring as fuck, Jim doesn't even know why he decided to live here, but, it probably says something about the fact that he's only truly happy when Spock comes to visit. Good thing he's also stubborn!
Part 2 of a bond so bright, it makes you squint
Rating: Mature
Words: 5,233 Chapters: 1/4
Daffodil Time by ladyblahblah
Because the kid who’s coming is Vulcan, for heaven’s sake. There’s nothing fun about Vulcans. They’re logical and boring and, if Jim’s being completely honest, just the tiniest bit scary. And this is the boy who will be in his house, sharing his room, sleeping in his brother’s bed. How is he even supposed to start trying to make friends with someone so . . . well, alien?
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 88,568 Chapters: 18/18
Destiny - By foreverandeveralone
3-year-old Spock met Jim Kirk for the first time when Jim was born.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: General Audience
Words: 14,292 Chapters: 9/9
Adventure Is Out There - By notfreyja, Straight_Outta_Hobbiton
Regardless of her feelings about parenthood, Winona will be dead before she leaves her last remaining link to George on Earth.
Jim is just the average, everyday, Starfleet-brat boy genius. His time is split between the mostly-Vulcan engineering crew and raising hell on the rest of the ship. If anybody (including Jim) knew the details of what occurred during his first trip to Vulcan, they wouldn't be surprised.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 12,922 Chapters: 4/4
THE SUM OF BOTH OF US - By spicyshimmy
Jim Kirk is nine when a massacre on Tarsus IV leaves him without a family and without a home. Spock is twelve when a strange boy in the desert saves his sehlat. Families aren't born; they're made.
The look in mother’s eyes at his correction remained a mystery long after the colors of the night sky and the complex patterns of distant nebulae had become translatable by means of distinct and relatively straightforward equations.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: Mature
Words: 207,623 Chapters: 43/43
I Will Have This - By orphan_account
Just as she finished adding a small box of sweets to her items, she felt a tug on the sleeve of her robe. Turning, she had a smile prepared, and a praise on the tip of her tongue for whatever item her son had chosen. That turned into a sharp gasp when she realized that carefully ensconced in her son’s arms was not any item for sale in the shop, but a very human baby.
“Mother, I will have this.”
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: General Audience
Words: 15,541 Chapters: 8/8
Sticky Fingers - By EstuaryOrange
James T. Kirk, the lone human student in a predominately Vulcan preschool, is causing chaos, yet again. Instructer T'rila is forced to discover the source of the problem when the child's bondmate, Spock, does not immediately come to her classroom the moment the tears begin.
Kid Fic / Different First Meeting AU
Rating: General Audience
Words: 2,158 Chapters: 1/1
“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone
So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!
A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:
The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:
[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]
And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:
Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:
And since Serenity was mentioned too…
Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.
And for those interested in a visual comparison:
(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)
TLDR: The Millennium Falcon is pretty dinky, so I propose *true weed bus status* goes to the excellent smuggling ships of Serenity and La Sirena. The Falcon is herby demoted to man on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gun
(to be clear the monkey is Solo)
This is something that actually gets brought up in the Star Trek canon, since it’s standard Federation policy to state that they do not make warships. They make diplomatic and science vessels, and then they arm those science vessels purely for self defence, because it’s a dangerous universe out there. The Federation, as a matter of policy, does not have a navy, they have an exploration fleet. Starfleet is - they will take great pains to stress - a purely scientific and diplomatic organisation.
To which every other civillisation immediately calls bullshit, because “Yo, what the fuck bro, your ‘lightly armed science vessel’ can go to toe-to-toe with our top of the line warships!”
And the Federation’s response to this accusation can more or less be summed up as “You’re absolutely right, our lightly armed science vessels can go toe-to-toe to with your best warships… Which means you probably don’t want to find out what happens if we actually start building warships.”
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Hi everyone! I found an interesting article about ADHD. Apparently according to one study, sleep waves seem to appear during wakefulness. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
“Frequent forgetfulness, careless mistakes, or difficulty sustaining attention and resisting distractions: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects about 2.5% of adults, yet its biological mechanisms remain poorly understood.
In a study published in TheJournal of Neuroscience, an international team suggests that the symptoms of this disorder may be linked to the intrusion of slow waves—usually observed during sleep—into wakefulness.
This phenomenon, known as “local sleep,” could explain the fluctuations in attention and the drowsiness often observed in people with ADHD.
To reach these conclusions, researchers compared the brain activity of 32 adults with ADHD who were receiving medication with that of 31 neurotypical adults, while participants performed a task requiring sustained attention.
The result: “Adults with ADHD show a significantly higher density of slow waves, which are usually observed during deep sleep. These waves are not trivial: the higher their density, the more participants make inattentive errors and show slower or more variable reaction times,” explains Thomas Andrillon (Inserm), researcher in the DreamTeam at the Paris Brain Institute and senior author of the study.
Participants with ADHD also reported more episodes of “mind wandering” and “mind blanking,” two states directly correlated with these local sleep intrusions. In addition, the level of fatigue reported by participants increased as slow-wave activity accumulated during sustained attentional effort”
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains poorly understood from a biological perspective. An international study led by scien
after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline
This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright
“My interest in Boy Throb started out with finding them endearing and their goal of being with their friend really sweet, and it’s grown into being a genuine fan of their music,” [a fan named Nat] said. “I don’t think they would have gotten as popular as they did if there wasn’t so much bad stuff happening in the world right now, especially in the U.S. I think they skyrocketed partially because their entire persona is so uplifting and fun, which is a refreshing break against the backdrop of corruption and turmoil in the world right now.”
In our latest, Kayti Burt writes about Boy Throb, the pink-velour sweatsuited, *NSYNC-esque boy band who made getting one of their members, Darshan Magdum, a U.S. work visa a central part of their narrative over the past year. (Last week, he finally got it!) For many fans, the immigration angle was a major draw—as was the band's relentless positivity in the current political climate.
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Was the boy band’s fame a result of Darshan Magdum’s visa, or was his visa a result of the boy band's fame? Yes.
I think it's really important to point out one of the major flaws in that highway analogy:
Eminent domain requires payment.
The government cannot come in and merely seize your land under eminent domain and pay you nothing. There is a process & they have to pay you market value for your land and the buildings on it. A couple of my former clients went through this about 15 years ago when the 202 Bypass went through in Montgomery & Bucks County in Pennsylvania. Their houses and land were taken via eminent domain so that the highway could be built, but, I need to say this again: they were paid.
They were paid and there was a process in which they were informed ahead of time. They didn't just drive home one day and find out their home had been snatched, too bad, so sad, no money for you, you should have put your house in a bank vault.
Just taking someone's shit like that without compensation has a name, and it's not eminent domain or anything like it:
It's fucking theft.
(I'm not interested in hearing the same tired shit about how copyright is inherently bad and only protects corporations, because as someone who deals with protecting my livelihood from scammers and scrapers via copyright every goddamned day, this isn't a fun mental exercise/philosophical debate for me, and you're absolutely wrong. Fucking save it for someone ignorant enough and with time to waste on that.)
The highway argument is also disingenuous in that ignores the very real harms caused by the systems that decide which neighborhoods to target and who precisely is going to be displaced. From numerous historically black neighborhoods being demolished to farmers being displaced and left with no livelihood. There has been a great deal of harm done in the name of public good.
https://historyfortomorrow.org/story/eminent-domain-and-the-displacement-of-black-communities/
https://thenarrativematters.com/eminent-domains-devastating-impact-on-communities-of-color/
There have long been worries about the abuse of eminent domain, and the AI scraping model is far closer to the abusive aspects of eminent domain than any supposed public good aspect.
https://ij.org/issues/private-property/eminent-domain/eminent-domain-history/
https://www.purdybailey.com/blog/2020/january/5-famous-cases-of-eminent-domain-abuse/
Anytime someone brings up an argument that states something is for the greater good, always ask yourself "for whose greater good?" Who benefits most, who gets harmed the most, what are the actual harms when you think through the logistics and future implications of the harms and not just the immediate harm, is there remuneration for the harm being caused, is it sufficient?
These are all things that must be asked before proceeding with any so called public works plan. Anyone who tells you otherwise is scamming you.
Oh, completely agreed. I only didn't go that far bc, like, you don't even need to before the argument entirely falls apart. But yeah, if people don't know about how eminent domain has been used to destroy Black neighborhoods in particular, they should read up and ask the questions.
So chronologically there's probably a very real chance that Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe is the first big (well, relative to the size of the pond these fish are swimming in) setting to really do the total very specific feminist victory thing where the horrifying slave-economy space empire doesn't even really have a concept of discrimination on the basis of sex, which now feels almost more common than not in a lot of spec fic.
...though admittedly in this case it's less 'sexual harassment isn't even a thing' and more 'diversity win! the awful old monster in senior management coercing a 17-year-old intern into incredibly traumatic sex is a straight woman!'
Further diversity win! This incredibly codependent, quasi-incestuous pair of horrifically traumatized young men (one of whom is a legal nonperson and the conditional property of the other) are explicit queer representation!
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finally watched project hail mary this weekend (previously read book). Which means I can finally do my post that only works for movie verse! So! You know the fandom road trip conversation where Grace tearfully confesses to being a coward who refused to save the Earth? and you know the fandom road trip conversation where Rocky awkwardly confesses to being a pervert whose been nude and eating in public like a freak the whole time they've known each other? Yeah, same conversation. They both were delicately building up to it for several agonizing weeks. A lot of beating-around-the-bush questions where they non-specifically confirmed that both of them had failed to mention or lied about about some aspects of themselves with the belief that they were never going to see each other again...and now they're going to be spending the rest of Grace's life together so... probably good to get it out there.
When I say same conversation, I mean same conversation. Like I kid you not, they both keep chickening out so theyeventually they decide to blurt it out at the literal same time. That also doesn't work (they keep catastrophizing and backing out) so then they decide to each record a confession while the other is sleeping, then play them back at the same time.
Grace: What do you mean Eridian's wear clothing the same way humans do? Like exactly the same way? It has the same social context? It can't be exactly the same, right? Question?
Rocky: Current Grace Quiet! Past Grace can not get to the fucking point, let finish.
Grace: I - just stop the video, okay! my confession has nothing to do with yours! Let's unpack one thing -
Rocky: [distressed warbling]
Grace: okay, too late, never mind, I — I was — okay, can you just answer the clothing question first?
Rocky: Rocky hate human Stratt! Rocky kill human Stratt!
Grace: Buddy — it wasn't —
Rocky: This is not confession! This is sad sad sad sad backstory!
Grace: I guess it — I mean of course it's sad, and I'm angry, but you have to admit she was right about me being a coward —
Rocky: Rocky does not have to do anything! Grace save Earth and Erid! Not coward now!
Grace: Ah. Well. so speaking of Rocky not having to do anything —
Rocky: Human try to murder Grace!
Grace: I can't — I don't want to talk about — just — when you say eating is "taboo" do you mean ,like, masturbating in public taboo or shitting in the streets taboo? Is this a sex thing or are you being gross?
Rocky: ...what's difference?
Grace: I. right. One hole. Holy shit Rocky, what the actual heck!
Rocky: Grace not hate humans who kill him? Question?
Grace: Please can you put pants on.
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