i'll decide tomorrow

All those years I watched you working with Adar. You were always so quiet, so polite, so dignified. I never thought you'd fit in with the bare-knuckle, backstabbing politicians. I guess I was wrong.

SG-1 4x5 Divide and Conquer vs. Stargate: Continuum

#OTD in 2012:

Andrea: “Meanwhile, I have some news about Rusty Beck.”

Sharon: “Oh?”

Andrea: “As you know, Rusty's DNA ended up being in the mask he pulled off Phillip Stroh. In our follow-up, the lab found a familial match to the boy in our criminal database.”

Sharon: “You're saying Rusty has a relative who's a criminal?”

Andrea: “Paul Dunn. He was arrested for dealing cocaine in San Diego about six years ago. Looks like Rusty's paternal Uncle. Paul has an older brother, Daniel Dunn who, I bet, will test out as Rusty's biological Father. And I found the birth certificate, listing Sharon Beck as Rusty's Mother, Father unknown. It's from a San Diego hospital.”

Sharon: “Is there any physical evidence saying that was...”

Rusty: “Sharon, what if I got my license so that I can drive myself home instead of being picked up by Patrol cars all the time? It just...it looks weird, my always riding off with the Police.”

Sharon: “Where you gonna get this car?”

Rusty: “Okay. What about a bus pass then?”

Sharon: “And who would look after you at home when I'm at work?”

Rusty: “Oh my God! Other people leave their children alone all the time! It's not like I'm a little kid. And isn't it illegal for her to be asking Cops to pick me up from places?”

Andrea: “You're a material witness in a murder trial.”

Rusty: “In a murder trial that never begins!”

Sharon: “Believe it or not, Rusty, you are not the only issue the City of Los Angeles is dealing with this afternoon. I'm assuming you have homework.”

Rusty: “They're making us read Hamlet."

Sharon: “That should take some time.”

Andrea: “Look, what you tell the boy is up to you. I'm not sure the Father has any legal standing. And he may know as little about Rusty as Rusty knows about him.”

GILLIAN ANDERSON in Playing by Heart (1998)

The first time that Adama tells Roslin he loves her.

The Second time he does.

The third time.

That episode where imaginary Elosha slaps Roslin upside the head

The first time she tells him

The second time (going off the in-universe timeline, not the episode)

third...

Fourth

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.