WritingGoblin

Those who have used a palantir

* a few days

* a week

* a few weeks

* a month

* a few months

* a year

* 1-5 years

* 5-10 years

* over 10 years

* it’s complicated

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Person: "Have a good day. Actually wait a minute. You missed a bug, but I got you home boy. Hold on." he picks a bug up and throws it next to the frog.

Frog: turns around and eats the bug.

I am subjecting Ryland to a new kind of torture: being coworkers with Julian Bashir <3

Julian breaks up with Garak because Garak is 20 years older than him and Julian is going through a quarter-life crisis. He dates a 20-year-old doing a gap year for a few episodes.

Garak breaks up with Julian because Julian left wet towels on the floor and now his place smells like mildew. He did consider just assassinating Julian, but breaking up is the smarter if not the most satisfying path.

Julian breaks up with Garak because Garak doesn't like his friends (Miles)

Garak breaks up with Julian because Julian doesn't respect his culture (subjugating others for the good of the State)

Julian breaks up with Garak not because Garak has a secret file on him but because he thinks it's kind of hot that Garak has a secret file on him and he's supposed to be an enlightened Federation citizen with normal fetishes, like being into feet.

The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.

The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.

I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.