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I would cosplay as wedding dress Jadzia

Was rewatching Deep Space Nine and was quickly reminded of the beauty of Jadzia's wedding dress and how much I loved it.

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I really need to finish the Del Rio rant I have in my drafts somewhere.

Hot take 1: Sarah Palmer is a poorly written Susan Ivanova. In my B5 crossover these two are BFFs.

Hot take 2: I like TV Cortana’s character progression better than Game Cortana’s.

Hot take 3: The last several minutes of Forward Unto Dawn never happened. Tom and Chyler are married and Chyler is lurking in the background of Halo 4-Infinite.

Hot take 4: Makee is the most interesting departure from game canon in the show.

I’ll come back with more later.

Halo Hottakes

I'd like to hear 'em.

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My Angel-117 stories are entirely TV-show based. They’re great if you want some hardcore emotional devastation 😂 just might not work if you’re imagining Game Chief in the starring role. But then, sometimes we don’t need things to work we just need devastation 🤣🤣🤣

MWAS is post-Forward Unto Dawn AU and won’t make sense unless you watch that. Which you should before you get to Halo 4. Everyone should. Again, you can go ahead with it if you want, just beware there are major FUD spoilers.

Including my tags for both AUs because both of them as especially Angel-117 have more stuff here than on AO3 ⬇️

Oh my goodness, so I'm playing through Halo (Masterchief collection) with another person and I'm trying to get fully absorbed in the lore. Do you have any recommendations of videos I could watch or any personal headcanons or lore dumps that you could give me so that I get attached to everyone?? Whenever you get the time, it would be really helpful!! (and perhaps emotionally devastating?? D.D idk I'm not past Halo 2 yet. :/ On that note, I would appreciate any warnings for spoilers but I understand that it's an old series so that's on me, ha ha!) <3 <3

For videos to watch - This one!

For Fic Recommendations:

Angell-117 and Married With A Super-Carrier by @authortobenamedlater.

My Stuff: A Star-Spangled Man..., Bride of the Reclaimer, The Early Years and Anthologies One & Two.

The Vaz/Naomi Collection by @makowrites.

Brevity, Seeing Triple and Homecoming by @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask.

For Visual Media: Paramount's Halo: The Live-Action Series, Halo Legends, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn and Halo: The Fall Of Reach.

For Books: First Strike, Silent Storm & Oblivion, Halo Evolutions, Ghosts Of Onyx and The Kilo-5 Trilogy.

Hope this helps!!

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@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @empresskadia @makowrites @threshergm @thearbiterthel @naranghim @mrtobenamedlater and others I will tag when my brain remembers you. I found more. I think I wrote this as a little “get it out of my head” scene and forgot about it. Lead-up is Chyler is in a bit of a state and Tom is unconsciously distracting himself from his own state by taking care of her. He leads her over to the shower and the following scene happens. Get your mind out of the gutter; they aren’t thinking about that after escaping with their lives and nothing else. And you should all know by now I keep their shower and bedroom antics entirely G-rated 🤣🤣🤣

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“I, um…my hand…” Chyler sighed. “I can’t wash my hair.”

This was even worse than forgetting her towel.

“OK,” Tom said. “I’m gonna get April.”

“No,” Chyler said quickly. “You do it.”

She heard him go still. “Chyler.”

“It’s fine,” Chyler assured.

“I’ll get one of the nurses,” Tom bargained.

“I don’t—” I don’t want one of the nurses. I want you. “Please?”

Tom was silent a long time. Then, “Are you sure?”

“Yes. Just hurry. Before I run out of hot water.”

Tom took a breath. “OK.” His fingers paused on the curtain. “I won’t…I won’t look. More than I have to, I mean.”

“You’re really worried about that after today?”

“Yeah.”

Chyler closed her eyes and remembered their first real meeting. Tom standing behind the shower curtain in the co-ed barracks, offering her his towel, when so many other guys at Corbulo would have taken the opportunity for an eyeful. Or more.

“I’ll face the wall,” Chyler offered. “And I’ll sit down. If that helps.”

“It…yeah,” Tom said. “Let me know when you’re…you know…all set.”

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I’ll have to continue this. First maybe I should write the considerable amount of what happens between the opening scene and this one.

The towel and first meeting references are from this fic.

@rainintheevening @threshergm @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @thearbiterthel @stitchlingbelle You asked.

(This is rough and subject to change without notice)

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“Don’t talk.”

Tom looked quizzically at the Master Chief’s visor.

“Don’t talk to each other about what you saw,” the Chief elaborated tersely, still aiming his rifle out the Pelican’s open bay. “You’ll need to get debriefed once we get to the ship.”

“What ship?” April asked.

“Yeah, where are we going?” Sully added.

“UNSC Mercy Seat. Medical frigate,” the Chief answered.

Tom glanced at Chyler. She was silent and unmoving against his shoulder. She hadn’t said a word since boarding the Pelican.

She’s not OK.

“Chyler.” Tom nudged her. “Look.”

Chyler blinked slowly. “At what?”

“The sunrise. Just look at it.”

Chyler stared out the open hatch. “Why?”

“Because someone should.” Tom took in the golden glow over the snowcapped mountains. “Someone should remember it. And we’re the only ones left who can.”

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There is of course more to this story. I’ll see how long I want to make it.

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Thank you the jeans was my first thought 😂 for real, denim is stiff and confining and heavy and the WORST thing for any kind of physical activity.

“This was the most physically taxing of all the film because of the lightsaber duels. Everytime I wasn’t shooting, I was rehearsing. Something that took weeks and weeks to shoot, even though it only lasts a few minutes on film. So it taxed me to the limit.”

MARK HAMILL “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back” BTS › 1980

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I don’t mind laundry too much so I’ll keep that one.

Roomba vacuums about a third of the house already so I kind of have that one.

(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

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I always end up with a title in search of a fic or a fic ready to put on AO3 in search of a title.

Why are titles such a pain to come up with???

Ughhh

I'm writing Raya's, and the title is connected to a line she says near the end but it's long???

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Me too 🤣😭🤣😭 if I can ever get off Madrigal I’ll be unstoppable

if you see this reblog with a fun fact about your WIP (world-building, lore, characters, anything!)

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I thought for sure I was misreading those years 🤣🤣

My WIPs are all over the place these days, and most of them are barely even in progress, but I’ll play anyway. Tagging anyone else who wants to play.

For my Halo S1 novel, I want to bring more focus on John and Cortana’s relationship (to no one’s surprise, I’m sure) because I want his attachment to her in S2 to feel more earned. That’s what I tell myself. The real reason is I just really really love writing them and will take any excuse to do so.

Some of what I want to do here I’ve already written. Two Corpses In One Grave is how I’ll end the fic should I ever get that far. I have plans for a whole chapter about the time jump on Eridanus between E4 and E5 and I need to stop myself from going ahead with it before I’m even off Madrigal.

For MWAS, I’m trying to hammer out the time from Circinius to Tom and Chyler meeting again and getting married. I know I’ve alluded to this in a lot of fics but here’s what I have:

The two of them lose touch after Circinius. Tom does not handle the fallout of the attack well and reacts by going dark. He spends the ensuing four years at some other academy (I named it in a fic but don’t remember right now) keeping as busy as possible so he doesn’t think about anything and feeling increasingly guilty for ghosting his fellow survivors, especially Chyler. He’s also not on good terms with his mom during this time.

Chyler is at some other other academy and obsessively searching for Tom, but he’s nowhere. Yes, I know you can surely find anyone by the 26th Century. I’m taking dramatic license. Sort of like how AOS Kirk couldn’t get Uhura’s first name over the course of three years. Her friends convince her to go on a few dates, but all potential suitors have the same problem: They’re not Tom Lasky.

Our happy couple run into each other when they surreptitiously get assigned to the same ship. They pick up where they left off pretty quickly and try to keep their relationship under wraps. They do a terrible job.

They break up and get back together twice in the next year. The first time happens after they fall into bed on shore leave. Chyler thinks this marks some next level in their relationship; Tom gets scared and bolts. As an aside, this is why falling into bed with people is a bad idea.

I don’t know what happened the second time, just that there’s dispute about who initiated it. Tom thinks it was mutual. Chyler thinks it was all Tom. They never resolve this 😂

Then one day Tom decides he and Chyler should get married, documented in this fic.

After this, of course, there’s the tale of how they almost got divorced which I can never get out of WIP hell. I keep having competing ideas for how it goes down.

This was fun! I needed a chance to put that timeline to words a little.

if you see this reblog with a fun fact about your WIP (world-building, lore, characters, anything!)

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To everyone following me for hockey/Bruins commentary, you’re welcome here just be aware I only hockeypost for a very intense two weeks-two months a year.

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I’m late to this party but if you’ve got an hour this is a good overview of the Council of Nicaea:

if they don't affirm the Nicene Creed, they are not Christians. if they claim to be Christians but they don't affirm the Nicene Creed, they are 9 times out of 10 a cult.

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Brad Marchand is now the Bruins’ all-time leading playoff goal scorer. I remember when he was just the Little Ball of Hate.

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Sure why not

reblog for your followers to anonymously tell you what characters you remind them of

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What is more stressful, tornado warnings or playoff hockey?

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Anytime I hear sighing about “we need to get back to the early church” I immediately know this person has never really read the New Testament.

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if you follow the right people you don't have to imagine what tumblr political discourse would be like in star wars

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Six. Don’t really need that many anymore but they are left over from my pre-baby days when I had an office job.

this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby