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I came up with this three-way table to help me (and now you, if you want) to rate things out of 5 stars. I was thinking of books and films when I made it, but you can probably use it for other stuff.

The idea is that you rate the thing on how much stuff you loved and how much stuff you hated, and those things weight against each other. There's only one way to get 5 stars or 1 star, so those should end up as the rarest ratings, wtih 3 stars being the most common.

'Spicy' means that the thing inspires emotion, whether positive or negative, while 'bland' means it doesn't affect you much either way.

An example of a 3-star (spicy) - for me personally - would be the Twilight series, because there's plenty of garbage in there but also some things that are like crack to me. I can't think of an example of a 3 star (bland) because by nature they don't stick in the mind.

(This also assumes giving 0 stars isn't allowed. That'd throw it out of whack...)

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In 2024, scientists discovered seven new species of frogs in Madagascar. Because the whistling sounds these species made resembled the sounds of communicators from the Star Trek universe, it was decided to name the species after the seven legendary captains: Boophis kirki, Boophis picardi, Boophis siskoi, Boophis janewayae, Boophis archeri, Boophis pikei, and Boophis burnhamae. [Source]

So, meet the Boophis kirki I needle-felted for this year's Winter Fandom Kombat! ✨

Link to the original post on AO3

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Mother Horta needs love too

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chicago pope seems chill all things considered, I was worried we were due for a Kai Winn pope after Pope Francis' Kai Opaka spiritual leader vibes

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i love the conclave. what do you mean the entire world has tv cameras trained on the chimney of an old italian palace waiting for days or weeks until the color of the smoke changes and we find out who’s been elected as the next supreme dictator of catholicism

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For @mcspirkevents month 2k25 bonus prompt: Time Travel

Don't be so grumpy Spock, it's not such an illogical name after all, right?

View on AO3 for a bonus thigh closeup 👀

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behold....TASQMASTER

[references under the cut]

shoutout to @taskmastercaps for their blog organization so I could find these as easily as using trek-core for the star trek references

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Ever since finding out that Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating have a podcast together, I can't stop thinking about Tucker & Reed having a podcast. Recording it on the Enterprise, bugging everyone on the crew for an interview. Pholx volunteers before they even ask him. Travis is super into it. Hoshi is absolutely flattered. Archer feels a lil weird about it, but starfleet eggs him into it for outreach reasons. T'pol is their white whale. Apparently such a frivolous exercise is an illogical use of crew time, but Trip is sute he can eventually convince her

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Happy May Day all. Solidarity and all that jazz.  For your brain, some history on May Day and how it came to be: 1. The Zinn Education Project:  May 4, 1886: Haymarket Tragedy

2. IWW Historical Archives:  The Brief Origins of May Day

3. NPR : What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism

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Meditation Lessons

For @mcspirkevents McSpirk Month 2025: Day 1 NSFW prompt "Have to Stay Quiet"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65111113/chapters/167451538

Jim sees something he doesn't think he was supposed to see - and isn't sure he understands it either. OR: Meditation can be masturbatory and masturbation can be meditative, the digital art + fic collage

Rating: Explicit

Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series

Relationship: James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock

Words: 1,005

Chapters: 2/2

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It's a new era on the ISS Enterprise, and everyone knows it.

View on AO3

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get it because he brought him back from the dead

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Bonus scene from into darkness/where no man has gone before

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Remixing Into Darkness: Where No Man Has Gone Before

aka the movie we deserved

fin.

Bonus scene

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Transcripts from Chrissie's Transcripts, STID screenshots from TrekCore

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I love that Tumblr ads feel like signs you would see someone holding near the subway entrance in a dream