#Disgruntled World

[wickedzeevyln]

Walk Ahead

I’ll be long gone when you chance upon this letter, far from earshot enough not to hear the groans of a disgruntled world, maybe a little less distressed for I no longer swim in the pool of living filled up with the viscous goo of the daily grind. Should you find days where moments used to sit, scarce of our conversation and orphaned of the talks we have, falter not, for the world you live in is…

[muaka-safari]

If Teridax had accepted the Toa Metru when they presented the Great Disks, instead of discrediting them as imposters, his life would have been so much easier

Esp if under the guise of Turaga Dume he had convinced the Toa to help in small, subtle steps that seemed logical at first ("metru nui is too dangerous atm for matoran, they need to be gathered together" "toa lhikan was seen in this place, go eradicate the threats to find him") that are all individual pieces of his plot

Basically, you could have ended up with this situation:

(Original from a dnd campaign on reddit)

[quietwingsinthesky]

once again. i am thinking about an alternate end of time ending where the master joins up with the doctor on the tardis, but now specifically, an au where the doctor still ends up regenerating and crashlanding in amy's backyard. au where the doctor doesn't show up 12 years late because two timelords piloting a tardis is (marginally) better than one, and now amelia pond is going on adventures in time and space in the care of the two least qualified being in the history of the universe to take care of a seven year old.

[lalizah]

Liz does NOT want to turn or become a vampire under any circumstances. So when it is forced upon her...

[lulublack90]

Prompt 10 - World

Wolfstar, February 10, word count 818

Previous part First part

Remus finished up his shift and started his journey home. He was glad he’d sorted out the mountain of laundry. He was sure that if he’d taken even one more day, the hotel would have run out of everything. 

He stopped off at the shop on the way home and got a few things to add to the dinner he’d planned, as he guessed Barty would more than likely still be at his flat. He rounded the corner and walked up to his front door. He had to shove it with his shoulder to get it to open, and he walked up the short flight of stairs to get to his flat. 

Sirius and Barty were talking intensely on the sofa. Remus put his bag down, and they both jumped. They looked up at him, looking a bit sheepish. “Hey guys, what's up?” Remus asked, the hairs on the back of his neck prickling at the odd tension that had suddenly taken over the room. 

“Nothing, nothing.” Sirius waved his arms dismissively as he jumped to his feet to help Remus with the shopping. 

“Well, actually,” Barty began, but Sirius shot him a look, and he quietened down, becoming very interested in the DVD collection Sirius had gifted Remus. Remus raised an eyebrow at Sirius, silently questioning him. Sirius took a deep breath. 

“Look, there’s something, but can I tell you later, when we’re alone and Barty doesn’t try to be helpful?”  Remus looked into Sirius’s eyes and saw the pleading in them. He nodded. 

“Yeah, sure.” He let his face soften and started getting the shopping out of the bag. Sirius moved to stand beside him and help. 

“Thank you, Remus,” He said with more feeling than Remus had expected. It didn’t make him feel any more relaxed, but he pushed away his feelings. Sirius would tell him what was up later. For now, nothing in the world could keep him from the fajitas they were about to start making or the nachos. He’d bought the ingredients for them at the shop. 

Soon, the entire flat smelled amazing. Sirius had opened the window to let some of the heat from the cooking out, and they settled around the coffee table with all the food laid out so they could make their wraps.

“What’s all that noise?” Barty asked as he took an enormous bite of his fajita. Remus shrugged. He was used to some noise from below, but this was excessive. Sirius and Barty raced over to the window, hanging out precariously. 

“Remus, Remus, you have to come see this!” Sirius laughed, waving at him without taking his eyes off the scene below. Remus took another bite of his food and reluctantly left it. 

Outside the kebab shop was a crowd of angry customers. Rufus was gesturing wildly. 

“Why are you so mad? I make kebab exactly the same as always?” 

“We only came in because it smelled so good from the outside,” one man protested. 

“Yeah, so did we!”

“What did you make it with; old car tyres?”

“Oops, I think our cooking put Sweeny Kebab in a spot of bother,” Sirius snickered. 

“Sweeny Kebab?” Barty asked, giving Sirius a quizzical look. 

“Sirius is convinced that poor Rufus down there is actually luring unsuspecting folk into his shop late at night and making them into doner meat, which is why they taste so bad,” Remus explained. Barty snorted. 

“You’re not serious?” He groaned before he’d even finished his sentence. 

“No, but I am,” Sirius cackled. That got the attention of Rufus. 

“Hey, pretty boy upstairs, you explain, smell comes from your flat, not my shop!” All three of them yanked their heads back, and Sirius slammed the window shut. 

“Remus, the door is locked, right?” Remus gave him a quick kiss. 

“Yes, Sirius, I locked both doors,” Remus reassured him. 

“I can stay here, right? I don’t want Sweeny Kebab snatching me in the dark.” Sirius shuddered beside him. 

“Hey, what about me?! I don’t want to be tomorrow's pita filler!” 

“Not a chance,” Remus laughed. Barty looked stricken, then his face took on a flirty look. 

“Threesome?” Sirius and Remus looked at each other and, without saying a word, grabbed Barty under his arms and threw him out of the door. “Please let me back in. I’ll behave, I swear. Please!” He yelped, banging on the door. They let him sweat for a few minutes before letting him back in. They finished their food, and somehow, Barty talked Remus into letting him sleep on the sofa. 

When he and Sirius were in bed and saying their goodnight's, Barty called, “Goodnight,” through to them. Remus turned his head over his shoulder and growled back. 

“It’s not too late to put you out, y’know,” He heard Barty gulp. 

“Night,” He said softly, and they didn’t hear another peep out of him for the rest of the night. 

Next part

[cantsayidont]

Despite its protestations of progressive values, STAR TREK media has always explicitly presented (and, with only fleeting exceptions, consistently celebrated) the Federation as an expansionist imperial power, engaged in a large-scale project of colonialism.

The usual apologia/rationalization for this, both from the franchise itself and from its fans, is that the Federation is also a post-scarcity socialist utopia. However, that is expressly not the case in TOS, despite the attempts of the later series to insist otherwise.

Indeed, the plots of some of the most famous and acclaimed episodes of TOS are specifically about resource extraction and ensuring the Federation's access to crucial resources, including lithium (in "Mudd's Women"), pergium (in "The Devil in the Dark"), and dilithium (in "Mirror, Mirror," et al). We are told repeatedly that the Enterprise has a mandate to use force to secure these resources if gentler methods fail. Moreover, while the Federation has a strategic interest in these resources, it's clear at various points in TOS that their extraction and exploitation are, to a significant extent if not exclusively, overseen by private interests for profit. For instance, in "Mudd's Women," Harry Mudd remarks:

Well, girls, lithium miners. Don't you understand? Lonely, isolated, overworked, rich lithium miners! Girls, do you still want husbands, hmm? Evie, you won't be satisfied with a mere ship's captain. I'll get you a man who can buy you a whole planet. Maggie, you're going to be a countess. Ruth, I'll make you a duchess. And I, I'll be running this starship. Captain James Kirk, the next orders you're taking will be given by Harcourt Fenton Mudd!

In "The Devil in the Dark," Kirk ultimately takes a regulatory position — he will not permit the pergium miners to kill the Horta or continue to destroy her eggs — but at no point does he suggest that stopping the pergium production that threatens the Horta is a viable or even acceptable alternative. The accord he proposes is contingent on the Horta's agreement that she and her children will support the mining efforts on her planet, since Kirk emphasizes that "a dozen planets" are depending on the miners to supply needed pergium. (What would have happened to her if she hadn't agreed is not stated, but the episode strongly suggests that she would have been severely punished for noncompliance with Kirk's mediated solution: forcibly relocated to some kind of Horta reservation away from the main mining operations, perhaps.) When the Horta does agree to this proposal, Kirk assures Vanderberg, "you people are going to be embarrassingly rich," which once again suggests that while the miners may have contractual agreements to delivery pergium to Federation worlds, they are still a private, for-profit business, not a Federation department or nationalized entity.

Profit is also Ron Tracey's motivation for breaking the Prime Directive in "The Omega Glory": He believes that he's discovered a "fountain of youth" that he can own, monopolize, and exploit, and that the value of that resource will be enough to buy his way out of legal trouble for his regulatory violations.

We mostly don't see the Enterprise crew handle money except on away missions in other cultures or times, but there are a number of indications that the Federation in this era has not abandoned money: For instance, Harry Mudd's list of past offenses includes purchasing a space vessel "with counterfeit currency," while in "The Apple," Kirk rhetorically asks if Spock knows how much Starfleet has invested in him, which Spock begins to answer, "One hundred twenty-two thousand two hundred …" before Kirk cuts him off. More tellingly, in "I, Mudd," we have the following exchange:

KIRK: All right, Harry, explain. How did you get here? We left you in custody after that affair on the Rigel mining planet. MUDD: Yes, well, I organized a technical information service bringing modern industrial techniques to backward planets, making available certain valuable patents to struggling young civilizations throughout the galaxy. KIRK: Did you pay royalties to the owners of those patents? MUDD: Well, actually, Kirk, as a defender of the free enterprise system, I found myself in a rather ambiguous conflict as a matter of principle. SPOCK: He did not pay royalties. MUDD: Knowledge, sir, should be free to all. KIRK: Who caught you? MUDD: That, sir, is an outrageous assumption. KIRK: Yes. Who caught you? MUDD: I sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesizer. KIRK: And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.

Whether Deneb is a member of the Federation at this time is unclear, but Vulcan certainly is, and so we may assume that Vulcan and presumably the Federation itself are also part of "the free enterprise system."

The first indication that the Federation does not use money is in STAR TREK IV, and it's not obvious there if Kirk's remark that "They're still using money" is talking about money more broadly or just physical currency, which the Federation may have phased out even if it still uses credit or electronic transfers of monetary value. (Certainly, McCoy's attempt in STAR TREK III to charter a starship indicates that he had some means of paying for passage, since the captain of the ship specifically demands more money upon learning of the intended destination.)

If we accept at face value the assertion of TNG and DS9 that the Federation has genuinely abandoned the use of money, rather than simply going cashless, the most reasonable Watsonian explanation is that this has been a relatively recent development during the 70–80 years between the TOS cast movies and TNG, most likely related to the development of replication technology (which the Federation did not yet have in Kirk's time).

Of course, from a Doylist standpoint, we could chalk up some of this incidental dialogue to the franchise's evolving construction of its own setting, in the same manner as anomalous references to Vulcans as "Vulcanians." Roddenberry and his apologists might also insist that he always meant to depict a socialist utopia, but was prevented by the nattering nabobs of negativity (i.e., the network's BS&P); I'm very skeptical of such claims, but the writers were acutely aware that depicting what Earth is like in Kirk's time would be opening a can of worms, which is why we didn't actually see 23rd century Earth (even briefly) until the movies.

However, the focus on resource extraction and its ramifications is such a load-bearing story element in TOS that the revisionist assertion that the Federation was already a post-scarcity socialist utopia in Kirk's time (as both DISCOVERY and STRANGE NEW WORLDS have attempted to claim) would require really substantial retcons of the original show, perhaps to the extent of insisting that some of those events never took place at all, or happened radically differently than what's in the TOS episodes most STAR TREK fans have seen. For me, anyway, that crosses a line from willing suspension of disbelief to "don't trust your lying eyes," and suggests a frustrating and somewhat disturbing determination to insist that TOS is something much purer and nobler than it is rather than grapple with its actual conceptual flaws and ideological shortcomings.

[whatsaudreythinkingabout]

get scruffed idiot

[richonnefan50]

Oh brother 🙄 Martin 😒. Insane to act like movies or art in general has not been political. Like Norma Rae or All The Presidents Men or any war movie or movies about the holocaust etc bro .Also it hilarious acting like washed up dudes like Mel Gibson or Jon Voight who own daughter outranked him in every which way including star power has any pulled of influence in Hollywood these days . Anyways Jane get it .

[dnangelic]

oh god

the molting

[gumy-shark]

what do you MEAN world domination arc??? As someone who has only observed the show through you, I am shook to learn this exists XD WORLD DOMINATION ARC?!?!?!?

oh yeah did i mention that one of the main antagonistic forces in mob psycho 100 is a psychic terrorist organization that tortures adults and kidnaps children with powers in order to grow an army meant to take over the world? i could’ve sworn id said something about that at some point

[juhollamago]

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

My dad coming inside with his Meaningful Sigh: honey, it is twenty-five degrees out and the garage door is wide open. We are heating the world. I mean—

My mom: oh, yep, that was me—

Dad, carrying on: you need to talk to the kids about this, because I don't—

Mom: honey, that was my fault, I will work on it.

Dad, subsiding: all right. Okay.

Me, in very innocent tones: hey Dad, I was in the hallway outside your room earlier and there was a frigid wind blowing under the door!

Dad: well yes, that's because I had the window open—

Mom and me: *uncontrollable giggling*

Dad, not amused: listen. That was a different situation, because someone left the door closed and it was seventy. Degrees. In there. You know how I know that? The thermometer.

Me and Mom: *still giggling*

[sunb0ts]

LISTENING TO THE CLUB PENGUIN PIZZA PARLOR MUSIC WHILE EXPLODING WITH AA4 HEADCANON BIRTHDAY NONSENSE INTO A WORD DOC TYPEA NIGHT 🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥️

[notfunnyislike]

that law that requires commercials on tv to be at the same volume as the programming REALLY needs to be extended to streaming services man. like certain leagues on espn+ are super quiet for whatever reason so I always have to turn the volume way up, but then halftime starts and the ads are AT LEAST TWICE as loud as the game, like. what the hell.

[kaiju-naut]

mannn artist i like had a take abt asexuality i dont fully agree w/ day ruined

[keeper-of-gates]

recently I saw your Poppy Playtime Escaped Au, and I was wondering how Boxy Boo would be in the au?

Yes

but considering i created the au on a whim after many people liking it, and that i created it way before Boxy Boo was introduced in Project Playtime which is like mayybe 5 to 6 months after?

I do believe all toys would be saved/escaped in this au, this is way before chapter 3's influx of aus where Dogday is saved.

I am planning on writing my own other interpertation of the au itself, alongside throwing my router up the wall so, its going smoothly :)