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When Quark was a kid, his father wasn't a good businessman. We learn over the course of the show that he's a lot more like his mother. She's brilliant with managing finances and gaining profit. Rom is much more like their father and for that reason Quark initially keeps him on a short leash. Rom's already been screwed over by his first wife and Quark feels like he has to protect his brother, even as he also tries to be a good ferengi by exploiting him.

Nog, raised with his father and uncle as his primary guardians, is acutely aware that his father has no real business sense. And while Nog is his father's son in many ways... he's also Quark's son. I doubt Quark would appreciate thinking it's his influence on Nog that leads him to join Starfleet, but Nog does inherit his uncle's intelligence and realizes that while he doesn't want the same life his father has... he doesn't want the life Quark has, either. Chasing profit and having it never be truly fulfilling enough. Nog's smart enough to figure out what he wants his own path to be, however, and he applies the lessons of their culture in ways that might not gain Quark's approval but does often gain his respect. (And inspires his father to eventually chart his own path too.)

Quark may never outright say it, but the way he feels at heart is pretty clearly that Nog is his kid too; we see him act parental, concerned... perhaps treating Nog at times the same way Ishka treated Quark and Rom when they were younger. Quark takes an interest in Nog's schooling when he's young and while he thinks Starfleet Academy is a mistake, still takes pride in being part of Nog's send off. Quark often 'mothers' Nog; I'm not really sure how else to put the way Quark will hover over Nog when he worries about his nephew, but it's definitely behavior Quark learned from his own mother. And when Nog is injured so badly during the war that he loses his leg, Quark nurses his nephew and even sets aside his own ideals to pick up a weapon in defense of them both from the attacking jem'hadar.

From the script of Accession:

geralt: you say "weeds” i say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences"

yennefer: The dandelions aren't gonna fuck you bro

all of them dress in black. all of them say offputting things at events. everyone is like 99.99999% sure they’ve all killed at LEAST three people. they REGULARLY hold court events in their graveyard with VERY unsettling comments about, “oh it does save time later, just having everyone here from the start” 

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Jaskier: Mr. Rivia, thank you for coming on the show. Your viral video is causing quite the frenzy!

Geralt: *looks deadpan* Ciri’s video is not contagious.

Jaskier: The dilf has dad jokes. How fitting.

Geralt: The what has what now?

Jaskier: The entire world has fallen in love with your charmingly named mare, Roach.

Geralt: Yeah the asshole is acting like a real diva now, *looks at camera* so thanks for that.

Jaskier: Would you like to bring her out to do a replay of her trick?

Geralt: I would, but she bit three members of your staff when they tried to get her out of the trailer. I told you she’s an asshole.

Jaskier: *puzzled* then…why are you here, Mr. Rivia? What will we do?

Jaskier: Yes, Mr. Rivia, ask me! *stage-whispering at the audience* ask me what?

Geralt: *looks like he wants to die*: Ciri…

Jaskier: Did you just say you think I’m hot?

Geralt *a second away from commiting harakiri*: My daughter thinks I think you’re hot.

Jaskier *blushing*: And what do you think, Mr. Rivia?

Geralt: I think that should be your last name.

Jaskier: …

Ciri: *facepalms*

Jaskier: Did you just propose to me?

Geralt: Depends.

Jaskier: On what???

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.

Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.

Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.

All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.

Paragraphs which contained two or more instances of the same adjective have had their adjectives updated to accurately reflect a player’s vocabulary inventory.

Minor time traveling issues have been resolved, all characters should now exist in the same tense.

Punctuation has been improved. Commas have been reduced by half.

Characters sighing has been reduced by 30%.

Characters looking at things or people during conversations has been reduced by 40%. To make up for this, characters thinking about the conversation has been boosted and descriptive narrative has been added.

The question of "is the requirement for kosher slaughter removed if the meat was never alive?" gets fancy. Maybe if the meat that they scanned to produce the Meat Data from was kosher slaughtered, that would suffice? This is, I feel, an argument going on in the background of every star trek show.

went on a rant abt this the other day.

jewish friends and i consider it the “gentile holiday”, as it is the one that makes them feel as though they are being accommodating and respectful of our culture because we have the potential to take off for christmas which is “basically chanukah, and their most important holiday too”

it is a minor holiday celebrating a war victory and an oil miracle.

but of course, we never talk about the other minor holidays. because they don’t intercept with christian holidays.

ironically, this is the holiday that ended up getting assimilated so thoroughly. that people think it’s our most important holiday.