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I have so many memories with listening to The Beach Boys; some from many years ago, some more recent. Brian Wilson was a genius!!

If you’ve never heard a Beach Boys song, start with their Pet Sounds album. It is truly wonderful!! 💖

Fun Fact: The Beach Boys were at one point bigger in popularity in England than the Beatles. When The Beach Boys went to England to promote Pet Sounds and tour, The Beatles were able to get a sneak peak. They fell in love with it and knew that their own album would never be able to compare.

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Hmm… this is interesting…

My theory isn’t so much a deep dark secret… When Margo loves someone or something, she love it with her entire being. From NASA to tootsie rolls to Aleida to Sergei. It not always romantic or friendly love, it can be giving respect, no matter if they are a janitor (Octavio) or the president (Ellen). To Margo, love is very much a verb.

If you cross paths with her, though, she will let you know real quick.

Decreeing today to be Fan Theory Friday!

Margo Madison is not only the Queen of NASA, but is also queen of keeping her personal life under lock and key. Is her name even actually Margo?

So let’s share our theories on what Margo’s super deep dark secrets might be. It can be anything from the mundane to the spicy to something absurd or worse than treason.

I mean really, what if the Tootsie Rolls are just a red herring?

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Fic number tag game

I was tagged by @youreorangeyoumoron. I'm sorry it took me a little longer to do this.

Rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words (feel free to interpret however you would like; if not on AO3, can be on Tumblr or FFNET!).

I'm choosing to only use the fics I published on AO3. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been on ff.net. I don’t even remember my password. A lot of these ended up being the same story, so I changed it so that each section is a different fandom. 

Most hits (Star Trek Voyager): Temptation - Janeway, Chakotay, and an alien orgy. That’s it. That’s the premise of the story. There are some feelings, too.

Second most kudos (Call the Midwife): The Nun - An AU where Shelagh, a prostitute known as The Nun, meets and falls in love with Dr. Patrick Turner. This story was over a year and a half in the making. It's what really got me in writing AUs. I wish I could finish the sequel, but I think the time for that has come and gone.

Third most comments (For All Mankind): Amsterdam - I loved this one so much! Instead of the Americans and Soviets meeting in Houston, they meet in Amsterdam. It is there Margo really gets to know Sergei before knowing that he is the lead engineer for the Soviets. 

Fourth most bookmarks (Gilded Age, Stargate SG-1, 9-1-1, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel): A Conspiring Universe (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) -  It’s my guess on how Rose and Abe could have met in the 1920s. They are so dang cute together, their relationship, fascinating! I actually had a lot more written, but I could not finish the story, so I posted up to a good stopping point. 

Fifth most words (Gilded Age, Stargate SG-1, 9-1-1, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel): Secrets (Gilded Age) - This was originally going to be about a secret relationship between Luke and Ada, but it turned into more of a character exploration for Ada. With the new season coming out soon, I hope we learn more about her and Agnes' past. 

Fic with the least words (all): Merry and Bright (Call the Midwife) - Genuinely, this is crack cocaine. It was meant to be a silly version of how Patrick and Shelagh spent their first Christmas together. The first 2 chapters equal 111 words. The third is a sneak peek to The Wife, which was a sequel to The Nun.

I'm gonna tag @miss-ute @ddagent @sparkleplatypuswriter @thatginchygal and anyone else who would like to play along.

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Skygazing 🌤️

A while back I shared a hypothetical "stargazing series" (one of my personal all-time favorite artworks) and as I was going through my files I realized that I had never shared the daylight/sunset versions of the same! As much as I like the stargazing moonlight effects, it's also fun to see the bright colors, so here they are!

Enjoy! ❤️

I'll let you decide what they're looking at (at least in the first one 🤭!)...

Feel free to save them to your phone or computer and rotate them to change who is "right side down"! 🥰

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This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time. —Emily Wilson, Introduction to The Iliad

@voyagerweek day 4

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malort pope.

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Margo, I wanted to ask, will you be at the ICSE conference in the UK this summer? I’m not sure. Why?

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i dont even know where i would post a star trek meme tbh so im just dropping it here

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#SHORT QUEENS Quinta Brunson and Sabrina Carpenter during Quinta's opening monologue for Saturday Night Live | 3rd May, 2025

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ME: "I'll just write this quick little fic to get the idea out of my system."

SPONGEBOB CUTSCENE VOICE: "One hundred thousand words later..."

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da south.

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Bobby Nash might be dead on ABC, but he’s alive and well on AO3.

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people are literally so boring a male character will kill 10000 people and steal candy from babies and theyll be like omg thats my king! but a female character is rude once and theyre like i hope she dies violently

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Margo/Sergei AU: There has, and will always be, a huge rivalry between Apollo State and Soyuz University. Whether it's football or physics, the rivalry is intense and every student knows where their loyalty should belong. But after a joint project brings Margo Madison and Sergei Nikulov into each other's orbit, school loyalty doesn't seem as important as working the problem together.

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Happy freedom weekend to all who celebrate!