Exit, pursued by a trilobite.

i just saw someone on bluesky allege that captain benjamin sisko is the only cishet on ds9 and i must reassert my firmly held belief that the only reason jadzia hit on him in fascination is that she holds the memory of that one time ben and curzon explored each other’s bodies

Avery Brooks also deliberately changed one of Sisko's lines in Rejoined (the one with Dax's wife + big-ass lady-kiss), which he directed, from "the woman I [theoretically] fall in love with" to "person," so. I feel like that's a pretty strong indicator right there.

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

A wedding should NEVER occur before noon. It shouldn’t be too late either. You want to get married at 1-3 pm so everyone starts drinking early and is so drunk they are hauled home at a reasonable hour.

I dunno, we did a morning wedding and an intentionally limited amount of alcohol so that Certain Parties we were required to invite but were not fond of would go away in a timely manner. It seemed like as good a way as any to avoid a pitched battle at the reception.

The setup in TPM before the boonta eve race has you go 'oh god. Anakin never even finished a race?? Oh, we're fucked. Why did we trust the 9 year old with this.' and then by the end of the race Anakin wins which is HUGE of course. But also. The winner was the only one who finished the race and that was not remarked upon at all. Like, that's normal. At least half the contestants are dead and all of the pods are trashed. I see why 'Anakin didn't horribly destroy his own body & the pod in the race' is such a big deal now. Thank you.

They kidnapped Koudelka!!!!! (Deserved™) I fucking love this book

aral vorkosigan really is one of the most characters of all time. he’s bisexual. he watched the dismemberment of the emperor and the killing of most of his immediate family when he was eleven years old. his first wife cheated on him so he challenged both other men to a duel and killed them both. it looked as if they’d killed each other so nobody ever investigated and he got away with it. his wife then killed herself. he went on a years-long bender and had a very public affair with his dead wife’s brother. he dumped his dead wife’s brother thus initiating a ~20 year long toxic yaoi situation. he helped lead the invasion of the nearest planet and was dubbed "the butcher" of said planet after a subordinate initiated a massacre against his orders. he killed said subordinate with his bare hands. he met his second wife after his crew mutinied on a near deserted planet, and also after her entire party was killed. he fell in love with her at first sight because she was throwing up in the dirt while wearing pants as a woman. she helped kill his ex boyfriend. he proposed marriage to her in the middle of a war while she was considered a POW. he plotted with the emperor to kill the heir to the throne and all his significant supporters. he’s an adrenaline junkie who enjoys drunk driving his lightflyer through canyons at night and definitely has a death wish. and he's bisexual. all of this is information available in book 1 of 17

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

He does so to dodge the draft

Kirk is better at chess than Spock