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quark and rom shenanigans

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Fortress (1992) D-Day

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LaVar Burton in his 1983 pilot episode of Reading Rainbow.

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I was looking up stuff for a kink scene and realised why the ~Mad Scientist~ costumes looked so familiar.

… The S31 ones are even black latex too. Incredible.

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are you eating poisons? deadly poisons? and youe didnt share? can i have some of your poisons. Can i have some of your deadly poisons

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Enterprise Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jonathan Archer/Thy'lek Shran Characters: Thy'lek Shran, Jonathan Archer, Erika Hernandez Additional Tags: Jealousy, Misunderstandings, Lack of Communication, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alien Cultural Differences, Andorian Culture & Customs, First Kiss, Getting Together, First Time, like their first time, not overall, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Alien Biology, Biting, Marking, Blood, a bit - Freeform, Cuddling & Snuggling, Not Beta Read, yet - Freeform, but will be soon Summary:

Shran is getting ready for a date with Archer, but when he finds him missing their date, and flirting with a woman, he finds out things are not how he thought they are.

The first chapter is rated T, the smut will be in the second chapter. So, if you want to skip the smut, you can just read chapter 1. Chapter 2 will follow as soon as I got it back from my betareader. She has the whole fic at the moment, but I decided to upload the first chapter, because I’ve been talking about it on tumblr for months now.

The second chapter is now online! 

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wont give that much context bc what if spoilers. for a 30 year old show. smiles from a far off distance.

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

End Transcript.]

Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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Is it just me or does “Future Imperfect” Admiral Picard look fucking majestic?

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Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

End Transcript.]

Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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Klingon Dracula wld be like. I don’t drink…bloodwine…

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just some funny little David Gale clippings ✨

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au where Odo and Lwaxana never reveal it's a fake marriage. she moves into his quarters and sticks around throughout the pregnancy. they're seen walking down the halls, Lwaxana's arm looped through Odo's and chit-chatting like besties (well, Lwaxana chats and Odo grunts at her but is happy to be included), meanwhile Quark has to witness what he thinks are loveydovey newlyweds. at the wedding he was bursting with the joy of celebration (and lucrative afterparty at his bar), but now in the aftermath he's SEETHING with jealousy.

it would be one thing if Odo seemed miserable and awkward about it, but he isn't. he's HAPPY, the bastard. he swings by Quark's on his usual rounds, but spends the whole time mooning about how he felt the baby kick, or something funny Lwaxana said last night (presumably while they're cuddled up in bed together, Quark assumes). Quark has a little satisfaction from "i told you so"-ing Odo that he needed to engage with humanoid connection to not be such a sourpuss, but it curdles more and more as it sinks in that that connection will never be with him.

while Odo's on duty elsewhere, Lwaxana's often at the bar, meeting with dignitaries as ambassador, making her way through the holosuite catalogue, gambling and cavorting, etc etc. it burns how much Quark actually *likes* her, someone who knows how to have a good time and let loose, once she's not accusing him of stealing from her. He concocts fancier and more elaborate mocktails for her, because she's a very good tipper as long as she's treated well.

...at some point Quark overhears Lwaxana loudly flirting with some vedeks, going on and on about how she won't be on the station forever and her business is almost concluded here, and then she'll be free as a bird, and wouldn't he enjoy a lovely vacation with her to Risa? their childcare is as excellent as their pleasure activities for adults -- Quark can't believe his ears (but of course he can - he's Ferengi). He can't bear to imagine the way this will crush Odo's heart, but surely he deserves to know and better to hear from Quark than secondhand... He rushes off to break the bad news to Odo that she's flirting around and planning to leave him, but Odo just looks at him "Hmph. Is that all?"

anyway hmmm I think throughout all this Lwaxana is catching onto their weird quodo relationship and trying to set them up.... She's not a subtle person, but I think they've got to be so so deep in their repression they don't even notice her overt attempts at matchmaking... it ends with her basically shoving them together, and tittering to Odo about how such a dear he's been these past months, but she can't stay here forever and the legal case with her kid has been resolved thanks to him, and she couldn't bear to think about him sad and alone without her, so WHY can't they just accept their love for each other???

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atheist vorta: *points at founder* you expect me to believe in this shit?