A woman in a world of art. 🎨🎭🎵🎥 🖊

this is everyone @ kathy at every step of this journey

chakotay is going through it, man

a puppy!!!

q recognizes that kathy is the best humanity has to offer and I wholeheartedly agree

case in point: oh my god

and, since the crew was indisposed and missed out on sleeveless kathy, they threw a luau to keep up with the attire theme

this man is in shambles

and, of course, some very important neelix appreciation because he's the best

Janeway: Would you care to flirt over breakfast? Chakotay: Why wait till breakfast when we can just flirt right here in the corridor? Janeway: I like a man who thinks on his feet. And we can flirt again later on the bridge

Neelix: Surprise! I’ve opened a restaurant. I accept tips, compliments, and emotional validation. Janeway: The fuck Neelix? This was my private dining room! Neelix: Well now it's my kitchen. You'll have to flirt with Commander Chakotay in public now! Janeway: …I'm gonna go organise an away mission so I can replicate stuff and stay away from whatever the fuck is stinking out this room Neelix: Can I come too?

Chakotay: Away team, stay close to me. Neelix: Absolutely. I will immediately do the opposite.

Kim: Sir, he’s wandered off. Chakotay: Of course he has. Why do I even bother..

Neelix: Hello? Who's there? I bring with me only enthusiasm and zero caution!

EMH: His lungs have vanished Chakotay: That's kind of neat, I didn't know Talaxians could do that. Does this mean he'll be quieter from now on?

Kes: Can’t he have artificial lungs? EMH: Well that's a stupid idea... but actually…

Janeway: We’re going back down there with phasers, cos I'm hella pissed. Tuvok: Captain, the rock wall is fake. Janeway: Shoot it until it stops lying.

EMH: With hololungs he might live forever in a tube, unable to move, unable to leave this room. Kes: So… like a very sad houseplant. EMH: Precisely.

Neelix: Kes, Tom Paris is trying to steal you from me. Kes: Neelix, he’s literally just standing there. Neelix: Where? All I see is a big, ugly hormone looming over you

Paris, flying into the asteroid: Captain, this tunnel is getting narrow. Janeway: Use your judgement. Paris: My judgement says ‘no.’ Janeway: Override your judgement.

Tuvok: We appear to be in a hall of mirrors. Paris: I’ve always wanted to drive a starship through a funhouse. Chakotay: Let’s fire phasers at minimum power and hope for the best. Janeway: That is the most Starfleet sentence I’ve heard all week.

Janeway: Hey you, yeah you, ugly. Return Neelix’s lungs. Dereth: We can’t. We’ve installed them in my friend. Motura: But we'll make sure to give his species a good review on trustpilot Janeway: I sympathise with your disease, but if you steal organs from my crew again, I will personally end you. Motura: If is makes things better we can save Neelix's life. All it'll cost is another member of the crew a lung

Kes: I volunteer as tribute

How should I deal with blogs like that? Do I report them? Block them? Should I do anything at all?

Because I commented on the first fic asking if its ai and they blocked me so I cant even protect anyone else from reading that because I forgot their name

And on the second fic I commented I asked the same thing and they suddenly deleted all of their post but they had a full ass masterlist

Is asking about ai an insult now? Cuz i dont want to blame this people out of the blue Im asking, but they are quicker to get offended then to defending "their" work..

Am I the crazy one??

can I be honest? you are in the wrong here. I stand with the two authors, and I’m glad they blocked you.

you said you “asked if their works are ai” which means the authors did not specifically said their works were ai-generated, meaning you guessed, based on vibes, and then you threw an accusation at them. I have already talked about why it’s rude, entitled and insulting for someone to ask a writer if their works are ai-generated here, here and here.

and I have said time and time again that “ai witch hunt, speculation and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more”.

so whether or not you know it, you are harming the writing community — just like ai does, if not more — by going around asking random writers if their works are ai, as if writers owe you anything (fun fact: they do NOT owe you anything).

every “ai telltale” is something human writers write. what do you think ai was trained on? what do you think it was trained to mimic?

“how do I deal with this?” by curating your own internet experience. block them if that’s what you want (you can block anybody for any reason). it’s not your problem or your business how a writer writes, whether or not they use ai.

no, I am not a fan of ai, but I can accept that if someone chooses to let ai write everything for them, then that is their business. do I agree with them? no. will I harass them for it? no. will I call them out? no. what they do is literally none of my business.

also no, it’s not your job or your business to “protect anyone from reading their works”. you are not their parent. if someone reads their works and if they think it’s ai, then they can make their own decision on whether or not they will continue reading it.

if you think their works are ai, you can choose not to read them. you can block them if that’s what you want. but

1. writers do NOT owe you anything

2. yes, it’s absolutely valid for a writer to NOT want to be asked if their works are ai — them deleting their works after you asked them if their work is ai is NOT proof that they used ai. they could very well be devastated that something they worked so hard on was accused of being something it’s not, and if that’s the case then you should be ashamed of yourself. (if they did use ai then that’s still their choice, their business and something they have the rights to do — even though I don’t agree with them, I will never condone harassment.)

3. I have already seen enough writers step away from posting their human-made works online BECAUSE PEOPLE KEEP ASKING IF IT’S AI. and it can be very disheartening for them. (me personally I don’t care if someone asks me this, because I know I don’t let ai write for me and I never let strangers’ negativity affect me, but I understand why some other writers care.)

3. no, you cannot know “for sure” if a fic is ai-generated. unless the author says so themself, you can only guess based on vibes. as I’ve said before, every ai telltale is something human writers actually write, otherwise ai would never have been able to mimic it at all.

4. harassment will never ever make you the good guy.

also you cannot report them for being ai, let alone because you personally suspected that it’s ai, because ai-generated works are allowed. it’s allowed on ao3 (here’s what ao3 said about ai-generated works on their platform), and since tumblr as a site itself, just like every other social media platform, also promotes and uses ai to help them run the platform, I guess it’s fair to assume they allow ai-generated contents on their platform too.

again, I am not a fan of ai fics, but I condemn harassment, ai witch hunt and speculations more.

respectfully, do better.

The Semifinal Match

The Killing Game (S4E18+19) vs Scientific Method (S4E7)

Which episode will take the prize for third place in this tournament? Will it be white suit Janeway or adrenaline spiked Janeway? White suit Janeway does not know that she’s the captain of a starship, and she does not know that she’s on the holodeck. All the voyagers have forgotten who they are, and their Hirogen captors have found a way to play with their prey. But why are the Hirogen doing this? What could the holodeck technology mean for the Hirogens?

Adrenaline spiked Janeway does not know that it’s not the stress causing headaches, it’s actually invisible alien intruders driving needles into her skull. It’s clear that Janeway’s not herself but she’s not the only one who’s changed. Seven and the Doctor manage to expose the alien intruders, but ultimately it doesn’t change the fact that these aliens can kill them all if they don’t comply. When a crew member dies from an experiment, the aliens face the consequences from another experiment. Adrenaline spiked Janeway has had enough of these alien intruders, and she will fly Voyager through a binary pulsar to get rid of them!

Spoilers for the Mosaic novel, if you haven't read it (and if you haven't you really should)

We know that Janeway is very cautious romantically, almost pathologically so. A lot of that can be attributed to losing Justin and how she fell apart after that. She understandably doesn’t want to end up back there. It’s later compounded by losing Mark. She’s been in love twice and lost that love twice through no fault on anyone’s part. But... I think there’s even more to it.

Her first boyfriend in Mosaic (Cheb) was utterly toxic, and she was so besotted with him she couldn’t see that. Yes, she was young, but for all her intellect, many other girls the same age would have seen him for the gaslighting, narcissistic bully he was. The next we see of her love life is her literally running out on Will Riker. Yes, she had to work on her thesis proposal, but it’s also obviously a convenient excuse to get out of a situation with a man who reminds her physically of Cheb. This is towards the end of her time at the Academy, so after that her romantic life is Justin, then Mark... then she’s in the Delta Quadrant.

And the first time we see her really flirt with anyone in the Delta Quadrant, it’s Gath. Yes, she is playing the diplomatic game with him, but she’s obviously also attracted to him, and while it’s obvious to the audience that he’s a slimeball, it takes her a scene or two longer to fully realise that. Even though by the time he refuses to help Voyager she's figured him out, she still acts somewhat wounded by his actions.

After this, we see her noticing Chakotay’s feelings for her and getting confirmation that he’s fallen in love with her in Resolutions, which is also where we see that the feeling is mutual, and where leaving New Earth becomes such a sore point for her. She tries to keep barriers around herself, to 'define parameters', but she cannot hide how she feels, no matter how hard she tries.

Then, a couple of years later, Mark (formerly her safe place) breaks her heart from afar with the Dear John letter. Again, she was expecting it, but it still hurt, and it makes her even more romantically defensive.

After that comes Kashyk, and while it was all a ruse, she is once again clearly very attracted to a man for whom becoming a sleazeball would be an improvement. He’s a piece of fascist shit but she’s clearly into him, more for his charm and charisma than anything else. She knows she should hate him, but she clearly loves the game they play, until she wins, and he leaves, and she suddenly feels even more alone – and extremely disappointed in herself.

The next time we see her flirting is with Michael Sullivan, who is supposed to be a harmless piece of fun... but he’s a married piece of fun... delete the wife! And she’s so controlling with him: altering him to suit her needs (and making him more like Chakotay), getting in way too deep with what should just be some fun, and feeling she’s embarrassing herself in front of the crew even though none of them are judging her. (Because almost everyone on that ship has probably had some “fun” with a hologram - Chakotay basically admits to it - so why is the Captain making such a big deal out of it?!)

After that there’s nothing. She still flirts with Chakotay on the very odd occasion still, but after Michael she seems to shut down romantically...

Until Jaffen.

And in Workforce, the episode instructs us to view Jaffen as a nice guy, even though his actions tell a different story. Jaffen is forceful (Janeway is clearly a little uncomfortable with his early advances, but that doesn’t stop him), possessive (he’s clearly not happy when he sees her talking to ‘Amal’), and controlling (either he forced Janeway to call the authorities on Chakotay, or he did it himself with her knowledge). After they sleep together, it clearly means a lot to Janeway - you can see how happy she is - but Jaffen honestly looks like he couldn’t care less. She’s invested in them as a couple, but I get the distinct impression that he just wants to possess and control her. He’s absolutely in charge in that relationship, and it’s a harsh echo of the young Janeway who fell for Cheb and got walked all over before she realised her inner strength.

But it also speaks to a pattern in Janeway. She hasn’t always had the best taste in men, and she can’t easily weed out the “good guys” from the actual good guys. And who knows what happened between Cheb and Justin, how many other men abused her trust and questionable judgement during those formative years. Even Justin himself wasn’t Mr. Perfect - he was hostile and argumentative and a bit of a social misfit, who initially only stresses her out until she gets to understand why he is how he is.

I don’t think she trusts herself romantically. She doesn’t trust her tastes or her judgement, and she’s been let down by people she’s let in, even a little. As soon as the knowledge of the harsh romantic lessons of her past are taken from her in Workforce, she’s back to repeating those same old mistakes with Jaffen. It’s really no wonder that when Chakotay - who, in my opinion, is Mr. Perfect for her - appears on the scene, she doesn’t trust herself enough to formally start a relationship, even when it would have been the best thing for her. She holds him back, even while letting him in. And Chakotay isn’t the problem - she is, and she knows it.

There’s also the issue of how she lets men interact with her. It’s obvious from adolescence that Mark is besotted with her. He finds every excuse to be in her vicinity even when she’s a complete brat to him. She’s clearly aware of his attraction even if she doesn’t acknowledge it, but she never attempts to ‘define parameters’ with him and tell him she's not interested. Mark isn’t pushy, but he is very persistent.

Then there’s Cheb, who seems to have been the one to decide they’re dating. She’s initially just taken aback by the attention because at this stage in her life she has a very poor opinion of herself. So it’s not really a case of “Oh, I like this guy, and he likes me back”; it reads more like “the popular guy noticed me,” and only after that does she become infatuated.

Then there’s Justin, who crucially does not pursue her. In fact, he seems to put up barriers to keep her at arm’s length until he rescues her from the Cardassians and, in the aftermath, can no longer hide his feelings. It’s only after that that they get together.

Then he’s gone, and maybe a year later she re-encounters Mark, who has grown up somewhat but is clearly still very interested in her. And she knows in her heart he’s a good man, and she kind of settles for him because of the safety he offers... and then she starts to love him.

Then there’s Chakotay, who, a little like Justin, doesn’t pursue her, but for different reasons. Justin didn’t want to let her in, while Chakotay is open and honest and wants her to be the one to decide. He doesn’t put that pressure on her, and she doesn’t quite know what to make of it. I think if Chakotay had pushed at all after New Earth, she’d have let him take the lead, but because he loves her too much to add to her stress, they remain stuck somewhere between friendship and romance, to the point that domesticity becomes their norm.

Gath pursues her. Kashyk pursues her (kind of). Jaffen pursues her. In each relationship she’s almost passive, except for Justin - but even then, he sets the pace. He’s the one who holds back initially, hides his feelings and gives her reason to get pissed off with him. The men in her life are almost always in control.

Except for Chakotay. It’s only Chakotay who offers her unconditional love without setting the tone. Even on New Earth he’s only ever open and honest. There’s no agenda, no manipulation. It’s simply, “I love you, and I can’t control my feelings, but I can at least control my actions.”

The ball is in her court, and that’s completely new for her. Her love life is the one area of her life where she struggles to have agency.

And she freezes. She freezes for five whole years after New Earth, only ever showing any sort of initiative beyond a little bit of flirting once - in Timeless. The rest of the time she flounders because she can’t trust her romantic judgement, and Chakotay doesn’t follow the script set by the other men in her life.

Round 6 - Match 4

Scientific Method (S4E7) vs Resolutions (S2E25)

The Doctor’s treating Janeway’s acute stress, and then suddenly he gets an influx of patients who’ve had their DNA altered. He discovers that aliens are onboard Voyage, undetected by the crew. With Seven’s help the aliens are exposed, but it’s too late… right? They will terminate their experiment and destroy Voyager if the crew does not cooperate, but they chose the wrong Captain to mess with… because she’ll fly between a binary pulsar to stop these aliens from killing anyone else on her crew!

Chakotay and Janeway were alone on an away mission together for… reasons. Now they’re both doomed to live out their days alone on a planet together or die. How terrible… right? Janeway’s determined to find a cure to their disease so they can rejoin Voyager again, but Chakotay’s busy making a new home for them. What happens to the parameters of their relationship when the command structure of Voyager disappears?