#in which chekov is me

[star-trek-shallot]

Sulu: Makin' my way downtown

Sulu: Walkin' fast

Sulu: Walkin' a little bit slower so my steps match up with Pavel's because he's short

[timechange]

Marty can’t help but smile when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees @ensnchekov stretch and yawn.

“Hey, Pasha,” he greets, gesturing with his free hand to the sky just starting to lighten, his other hand keeping snugly hold of the truck’s steering wheel, eyes fixed on the highway ahead. “We still got a while if you wanna go back to sleep.”

[panharmonium]

covid has finally visited my apartment (no, i don't have it yet and hopefully my sister and i will be able to avoid catching it from my roommate) and my brain, which was already on thin ice due to unrelated things, has entered a sort of stress shutdown and the only thing i have managed to do besides work and worry about who touched what surfaces when is re-read for the first time in years my oldest and most favorite star trek books in a vaguely comforting daze...possible star trek blogging incoming

[mkstrigidae]

Apparently, the solution to my APWH writer's block was just opening up a new word document and rewriting the whole damn next chapter.

[banannabethchase]

Don't look at me I have no idea what this is I just hope you enjoy it

~

Cherry Garcia (also on AO3)

Pairings: Matt/Danny, Matt/Hangman

Rating: T (relationship hall passes, mild innuendo, smooching)

@wrestleprompts

~

It’s surprising, is what it is, Matt decides.

“It was you the whole time.” Even to his own ears, his voice sounds betrayed, heartbroken. Almost defeated.

Danny Garcia freezes, spoon halfway through his mouth, the pint of nondairy Cherry Garcia in his hand. Matt’s pint of nondairy Cherry Garcia.

“You’re the ice cream thief.” Matt should have known, is the thing. He should have figured it out sooner. Of course it’s this petulant, overtalented kid. Of course it’s one of Jericho’s crew.

Of course it’s somebody Matt’s had a half crush on for longer than he’d care to admit.

Danny makes eye contact with Matt as he puts the spoonful of ice cream in his mouth, tongue curling around the metal. The way he sucks on the spoon, pulls it out and gives it a few good licks can’t be unintentional. “What are you gonna do about it?” Danny asks, and there’s that stupid smile, a cocky grin borne of being the best at something before your frontal lobe is developed, and Matt is only a man.

He walks up to Danny and steals the spoon and the ice cream from Danny’s hands, takes a step back and glares. “You steal my ice cream again, I’m gonna kick your ass.”

“Promise?” Danny’s stupid little smirk’s gone a little dirty.

Matt just blinks. It hadn’t occurred to him until this very event that the crush could ever be reciprocated. He doesn’t even know how to respond.

“Come on, I bait you for weeks, and all I get is this?” He steps into Matt’s space, looking at Matt with soft eyes. “Not even a kiss?”

Matt huffs, blowing hair out of his eyes. “God, you’re annoying.” He sets the spoon and the ice cream down on the table, grabs Danny by the collar of his stupid polo shirt, and hauls him in for a kiss. Danny’s demanding as he kisses, tongue pressing into Matt’s mouth without a second’s hesitation, and Matt gets a little weak in the knees with it. Danny grabs at Matt’s hair, plays with it a little bit.

When he pulls away, Matt just stares at him. “Oh.”

Danny smiles, something soft and unbearably sweet. “Um. I’ll let you go – go back to your ice cream.”

Matt nods, feeling warm and cozy and strangely calm. And then he remembers Adam, and the hall pass deal they made: anybody on the hall pass list for either of them was fair game, as long as they told each other everything about it after.

He makes his way to the locker room, a little fidgety. When he peeks in, Adam’s getting dressed, and he’s alone. Matt figures lingering, watching a little, couldn’t hurt.

“Hey, Matty,” Adam says, lighting up. “You look,” he studies Matt’s face for a second, “pink.”

Matt makes his way into the locker room. Actually talking about it, saying it, makes him feel a little hot in a strange sort of way. “I gotta tell you something.”

“What’s up, baby?” He turns around, finishes pulling on his shirt, and Matt is truly upset about it for a second.

“I kissed Danny Garcia,” Matt says, feeling his face burn red.

Adam raises an eyebrow as he settles onto a bench. Matt can see the smile trying to escape from the corner of his lips. “Did you, now?”

“Shut up,” Matt says, sitting in his lap and burying his head into Adam’s shoulder. “Shut up.”

“When you asked for a hall pass, I didn’t expect it to happen so soon,” Adam says, pressing his lips to Matt’s hair. “Care to explain how this happened?”

Matt recounts the whole thing, speaking into the collar of Adam’s shirt. When he’s done, Adam is shaking. “Are you – are you laughing?!”

“I’m sorry,” Adam says, his eyes crinkling in that pretty way that makes them sparkle, “I just – now you kinda see what it’s like for us to deal with you, ya know?”

“I am not that annoying,” Matt says. And he isn’t pouting. He isn’t.

“Aw, baby, you are,” Adam says, “but that’s why I love you.” He leans in and presses a kiss to Matt’s nose.

“Love you too,” Matt grumbles, but he leans in to kiss Adam anyway.

“Was it fun?” Adam asks, nuzzling at Matt’s cheek.

Matt leans into it. “Yeah. I just can’t believe he’s been the one stealing my ice cream the whole time.”

“Aw,” Adam says, laughing again, “come on, he was just trying to pull your pigtails.”

“He could just pull my hair like a regular person,” Matt says. Adam blinks. “Okay, not what I meant. But, yeah, like.” He shrugs. “That too.”

Matt leans in for another kiss, and he’s really getting into it when Adam pulls away.

“Wait a second,” Adam says, and Matt’s worried this is it, that Adam just realized he wasn’t cool about the hall pass thing actually taking place. Matt should have made his third hall pass Roman Reigns like he’d thought about because it’d never really happen, “did you forget to put the ice cream in the freezer?”

“Crap!”

Matt runs back to the kitchen, and hears Adam’s laughter follow him as he goes.

~

Hall pass in this context: A clause in an established relationship where there is a person or people that both parties decide that one or both people in the relationship can hook up with.

Mini playlist (it's very mini this time I am Sleepy) Ice Cream - Blackpink and Selena Gomez

[dubiousdisco]

in love with the parallel here

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Volo gives me strong Hugh Fitzcairn vibes.

[teamfortresstwo]

When lyrics *sound* like they could be referencing something but aren’t it’s so INFURIATING

[vulcanhello]

[achievementhaunterss]

love everyone going “this fnaf character actually being a human looking robot? not a thing.”

meanwhile the books keeps screaming “HEY LOOK AT THIS HUMAN LOOKING ROBOT. SUPER CRAZY THAT THESE ARE REAL AND A DEFINITELY A PART OF THE LORE, HUH?”

[nosignalformiles]

my one line review of the new hocus pocus: There were no real stakes, not one cat or child died on screen, pathetic.

[star-trek-shallot]

[ordering a pizza]

Receptionist: Hi, this is Sergio's Pizzeria, what can I do for you?

Chekhov: Um, yes, hi, uh...

Chekhov: Do you all sell pizza?

[aughwl]

Spoilers for Glass Onion: A knives out mystery:

Holy shit that was a fun movie. It was really well woven together with so many little details and callbacks, every line seemed like it connected to a greater whole. I really liked:

Constant references to someone being killed over something before we know when the murder happens ("Welcome, gang. A few cocktails before I'm murdered.")

The way it seems like the case can be solved as an elegant puzzle, but actually the way to solve it is to smash it into pieces

Benoit Blanc's Columbo act with pretending to not know why he's invited to the island while actually being very aware of what's going on

Miles is Elon Musk

Birdie just constantly doing problematic things out of her own ignorance ("please tell me you did not think sweatshops are where they make sweatpants.")

Why do they contantly mention Miles' tits

Duke Tate got what he deserved tbh

It's really funny how getting someone elected is equated with getting someone a twitch platform

Miles' speech about disruption mirroring the glass-smashing scene where he desperately protects 'that which no one wants to disrupt (The mona lisa)'

Among us

The 'oh god damnit' moment when Blanc sees a knife missing

Benoit Blanc seems to be more mad about Miles' plagiarism than the actual murder

Chekov's pineapple allergy

Derol genuinly never had anything to do with the murder and just smoked weed in the background the whole movie

If the legal system doesn't have your back, you can always just fuck things up like they get away with fucking up your things

[dragonmuse]

Keep It In The Box : An Essay on OFMD Season 2 and the Failure to Heal

(here in is my season two reaction. It contains many many spoilers. It's also about 3k words long so you know what you're getting into.)

“See, I have a system for dealing with all the terrible things I've seen. There's a box in my mind, and I put the things in the box..” -Frenchie, Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death

…..and then he never opens it. Chekov’s locked box has no key in season two.

On first watch, it seemed clear to me that Frenchie’s declaration was a narrative plant. Clearly the whole season would be about that box of pain and trauma being opened, sorted through and at least the beginning of healing. The show had developed a reputation after season one of being kind and focused on queer narratives of healing from childhood. Ed and Stede’s parallels in their childhood traumas were frequently on display through season one and were repeated in flashback throughout season two. Jim’s season one arc about becoming someone who doesn’t think just of revenge and can now forge meaningful connections was profound, beautiful and often funny. Izzy is an antagonist because he doesn’t want Ed to move on or stop acting like the trauma-response version of himself. The antagonist wants to stop healing. The point is to grow, to change, to learn how to love. It’s one of the things that made season one work for me at the time, despite reservations about pacing and tone.

So naturally season two should follow suit. It’s a kind show! About healing and falling in love!

For the first several episodes, the remaining crew on the Revenge go through a gauntlet of trauma, forced to do and receive violence at Ed’s whims as he careens from self-destructive behavior to self-destructive behavior. This is the wounding setup. It was dark, but it seemed like it would have a payoff and at first it did.

Perhaps one of the most beautiful moments of the season comes in one of the small respites in those early episodes as Jim recounts Pinnochio to Fang to soothe him through his grief. That was the show that I expected. The kindness of that moment struck me very deeply. It gave me some understanding of Archie too, who seems to fall for Jim right at that moment.

That scene is the show season one promised. Season two led with packing Frenchie’s box full to bursting. Here is the fight to the death between lovers, there is a first mate who is mutilated and rotting in the very walls (the rot of the Revenge itself), and there is the storm of Ed’s rage and pain that threatens to consume all of them.

So surely these remaining episodes would concentrate on finding the humor in healing from those moments. That is the setup. Frenchie has a box. The box must eventually open.

Except time and again, all the characters who suffered are told that the only way to deal with what they’ve been through is to stick it in the box and never open it again.

Pete tells Lucius that he’s unable to move on and needs to let it go. Izzy has a story about a shark. Ed’s apology to the crew which doesn’t even contain the words ‘I’m sorry’ is just…accepted. I kept waiting and waiting for a meaningful apology to the people Ed had hurt the worst with his actions, but it seems all we get is Fang saying ‘eh, no problem, I got to hit you back so I feel better’.

The playful theme of ‘pirates are just violent sometimes’ from season one becomes a grinding horror machine in season two when every atrocity visited on someone is forgiven because the narrative needs it to be. Ed and Stede spend more time making amends with each other over the bloodless night on the beach than either of them spend trying to repent for their actions towards anyone else.

And let’s talk about Ed. Arguably this season pivots on his narrative, on his path to healing and growth. A path that starts at a very low point. His moment in the gravy basket, deciding he wants to live because there are still things to live for is so great! So one might assume that what would follow would be him pursuing those things, making amends, making connections. He and Stede have a wonderful moment, talking about being whim prone and how they’ll work to avoid that, build a relationship by going slower.

Yet, at no point do either of them stop following whims. They never heal or learn from what’s happened to them. They both keep running from thing to thing, particularly Ed. It’s a whim to sleep with Stede, it’s a whim to run off to fish, and the finale gives us just more of their whims. Ed drops fishing as fast as he picked it up. He finds those leathers in the ocean, murdering the symbolism of leaving them behind. Even the inn is a whim, one of those things Ed decided he’d be good at without evidence. And Stede joins him in that without a single on screen conversation about it ahead of the moment.

Ed needs to heal himself and to do that he needs to confront what he’s done and do the work to heal the wound. Instead, he doesn’t meaningfully apologize to anyone, besides Stede and Fang. Despite Izzy’s dying words (we’ll get to that), not only do we never see the crew caring about Ed, working to make him family in the same way they do with Fang and even Izzy, he also doesn’t choose to stay with them. So what is the point? Where is the healing? Or does even Ed, beloved main character, have to live with it all stuffed in a box?

He ends the season in the leathers he threw away, in a relationship that’s barely stabilized, going to live in a house which we are told by the narrative (in that they are very very clearly paralleling Anne and Mary with Ed and Stede or why do we even get that whole Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? episode) will only end in them setting fire to each other to stay warm.

But Vee, I hear you cry, it’s a ROM-COM. This is all meant to be ha-ha funny and you are taking it so seriously!

Cool beans. Then why the hell isn’t it funny? Healing is often filled with comedy because people deal with pain with humor. You can heal and laugh at the same time. The finale especially is almost entirely devoid of laughs, almost entirely devoid of joy until the last minute for that matter. The episode that should show off with a flourish how far everyone’s come, mostly serves to show that no one has grown.

Okay that’s Ed. I want to talk about Lucius next. Our former audience surrogate (that’s taken away in season two when he doesn’t get enough screen time to perform that role and no one takes his place) really goes through the wringer. He experiences many many terrible things, including sexual assault (which is made into a grimace-laugh line that doesn’t take away from it’s seriousness because oh hey, that can be done as it turns out). He’s nervous, he’s smoking, it’s clear he’s suffering.

There’s a beautiful moment where Pete tells him ‘hey, I was also in pain. I grieved’ and that’s great. It’s good that Pete sets a boundary about Lucius not obsessing over the past to the point of occluding their future.

We even get our comedic moment where Lucius pushes Ed off the boat (still not apology, but I’d lost hope for that by then) and that doesn’t help enough. So Izzy comes in with a shark and the advice that you just have to move on.

Just…you know. Play pretend. Forget.

Shove it in a box. Ed didn’t take my leg, a shark did. Ed didn’t kill you, a shark did. Live with the person that tried to murder you because it’s your fault you dangled your leg over the side of a boat. That is the show’s message. I thought on first watch, that surely this would also come back up and be explained that you can’t live that way, that that is no way to heal. That it would become clear that this was no way through. You cannot make everything into sharks.

Lucius can move forward and still carry pain. He can still want a meaningful apology and still want to talk to his lover about what he’s dealing with while moving forward toward a brighter future.

And what of the flirtatious promise of relationships and connections being the way to heal? Look to Oluwande and Jim, whose heartfelt romance from season one was relegated to the bins of history in favor of a narrative that made him a brother Jim once had sex with. They could have had Archie AND Oluwande, who in turn could also have Zheng, but that never seems to be an option. With a single short conversation, they are broken up with, despite a brief tease at the birthday that they still ‘dance’ together, it never actually manifests. Jim and Archie never talk about what they went through. It’s swept under the rug as fast as knives are lowered.

Lucius also no longer flirts with other people, the solution to his pain is to propose and get married (but not too married, lest we forget that they’re two men, they don’t even get to be husbands or even the more respectful mates, no. They’re mateys.) This season proposes that the only happy endings are monogamous ones, where no one talks about anything painful that went before.

To ensure that message, beyond assuring the success of Oluwande and Zheng’s relationship, Jim and Archie almost entirely disappear from the narrative. Sorry you guys were given layers of trauma and no growth and not even much to do this season, we need to make sure that everyone remembers Oluwande is the break in Zheng’s day so when he says that to her five minutes later we know exactly what he’s referencing. No time for Archie to learn what an apology is or for Jim to get one line in with Oluwande that isn’t affirming their newfound broship. Must do more flashbacks to things we just did two episodes ago!

The show even dangles the conversation of the Revenge being a safe space. Why would any of them ever feel safe when the man who tortured them is allowed to walk among them and they are expected to forgive and forget? What’s safe about that? The ship is never made safe for any of them, but that’s never addressed.

And Zheng! Amazing, hysterically funny Zheng! She loses her ships, her entire way of life, the kingdom she built for herself and then…she doesn’t even get to captain the Revenge. We don’t know what becomes of her fleet, of her plans, her ambitions. Don’t worry about it, she has a romantic partner and isn’t that what every lady wants in the end?

(But Vee, I hear you cry again, there will be a season three! Maybe it will be All About Zheng! To which I say: then why did they present us with the most series finale feeling episode ever? If there’s more, I have no idea where it’s going. BUT VEE: BUTTONS AS SEAGULL ON THE GR- Fine. It’s time.)

Let’s talk about Izzy Hands.

Izzy manages more healing than anyone else this season. He reaches his lowest point, suicidal in the bowels of a ship that’s become a prison (very much in contrast to Ed’s suicidal low). The person he loves most in the world has shredded him physically and emotionally (and if you’re in the camp that thinks Izzy deserves the abuse that Ed gave to him, I would really like you to sit quietly with yourself and ask why you think there is ever anything anyone can do to deserve that treatment). He’s low, he shoots Ed to protect everyone, and then seems to plan to drink himself to death, mourning his losses.

And then another beautiful moment! The crew move past their own pain to help him. They work together for the first time and it’s to give Izzy mobility back. He treasures it. He cries over it. He uses that kindness extended to him to reach a new understanding of Stede and help him succeed, doing the work to make real amends. He sings in drag, he’s vulnerable and beautiful, celebrating the side of himself that he must’ve loathed in the first season. He’s an elder queer man, coming into himself.

He never gets an apology though. (‘Sorry about your leg’ without eye contact is not an apology. There is no responsibility taking, no acknowledgement of the weeks of torture that came with it.) Izzy also never really has an honest conversation with anyone about what it means that the man he loves punished him so severely for the crime of trying to protect the crew (yes, lest we forget, Izzy lost his leg because he was trying to keep Ed from re-traumatizing the crew and himself).

Izzy does all this work, but even he’s not allowed to take it out of the box. It’s a shark, not Ed. Ed is just ‘complicated’ (the language of abuse here is so upsetting and I think not even intentional).

And then he dies. His last act? To apologize to the man who tortured him and shot at him. To have done all this work, to take on all the blame. And then die.

In a rom com.

This show ends in a profoundly unfunny moment of telling the audience: this is the one character that did the work, that made amends, that tried his hardest to accept the parts of himself that he had a hard time embracing and formerly embittered him. He’s fully accepted his queerness and turned it into beautiful music. He’s disabled, and he worked hard to accept that. The man he loves will never love him back, so he worked hard to make Stede able to meet Ed on an even playing field. The Giving Tree gave up its limbs and its trunk, and it’s not even allowed to be a stump to sit on.

Kill the queer elder, who has managed to figure out how to live and in his own way how to heal. Kill him before he manages to teach anyone else how to meaningfully move forward (he almost gets it with Lucius, almost, but it’s meant to be rule of three, you know. Cigarette..shark…and then…and then fuck it, Lucius doesn’t even get to say a word at his funeral).

The message of this season again and again is that there is no healing, just moving forward. Like a shark. Like a bird that never lands.

That is not a kind show.

Season two is not a kind season.

It splinters people up and jams them back together without purpose or reason. It tells everyone who experiences pain that they should shove it in a box and not deal with it. No one who really needs one gets an apology of any sincerity. No one puts in the work to gain forgiveness. (Ed wearing a onesie is not The Work. Ed fixing a door is not The Work. Ed broke people that the show wants us to care about. Ed never does the work of making those amends. He fires off a Notes app apology at best. After all, it’s what he told himself via Hornigold in the gravy basket: you move on or you blow your brains out! Good thing he took his own advice and therefore had to change nothing to get his just rewards.

I would’ve taken just fifteen minutes of Ed trying to actually make amends. It could’ve been hilarious! Imagine awkward Ed trying to dance around what he’s doing with Jim and the two of them having a knife throwing competition about it. Or him and Frenchie attempting to make music together, writing a song about the raids they went on! It’s not just the crew robbed of their healing because of this, it’s Ed himself. He never meaningfully changes or makes amends. How is he any different at the end of the finale then he is standing on the edge of that cliff with Hornigold? He hasn’t moved on, he hasn’t healed. He tried one thing (fishing) that doesn’t fucking work and then he runs right back.

No one leaves this season better than they went into it. They’ve lost an elder queer, they’ve lost their joyous and queer polyamory, they’ve lost a chance for meaningful reconciliation with Ed and Ed lost any chance of looking like he gave shit if they did. Stede grows enough to accept the crew’s beliefs as important and then leaves them behind without a care.

Izzy gets a beautiful speech about piracy being larger than yourself. Ed and Stede, within twenty minutes of that speech, leave piracy. They are incapable of giving themselves to something bigger, apparently. They haven’t learned to be a part of a community. They haven’t healed from their childhood trauma or their fresher wounds. They are still just following their own whims.

Zheng’s life work is in tatters, but it’s fine, she has love. Oluwande and Jim aren’t together, but it's fine because they both have dedicated monogamous partners. Lucius was deeply scarred by what happened, never recovers much of his first season personality, but hey he got-well it’s not married exactly- but you know good enough!

Frenchie, who has a box forever locked in his head, is captain. Because the key to success is to lock it all in a box and never open it. What a message. What a show. Conceal, don’t feel. Smile because it’s a happy ending. Don’t mourn the dead, don’t try to tell people what happened to you (they will literally run away or cry too hard to listen and really you’re just bumming them out), and any meaningful change you make is only rewarded with death.

Frenchie is now a pirate captain with a box in his head full of trauma that’s never been opened, leading a crew with more wounds than scars. Wonder how that could turn out? Wonder how many years before he might want to retire and then happen to run across a gentleman pirate. As if no one learned anything at all.

[lostyesterday]

I was curious about which Star Trek shows had the most human vs non-human characters, so I made this graph. I counted all major characters plus characters who were in at least 10 episodes of each respective show (with a few exceptions for incredibly minor characters who are technically in more than ten episodes but have barely any/no lines). A full list of characters included is below the cut.

TOS:

Part/Non-Human: Spock

Human: Kirk, Mccoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Chapel

TNG:

Part/Non-Human: Data, Troi, Worf, Guinan

Human: Picard, Riker, La Forge, Crusher, Wesley, Yar, Pulaski, O’Brien, Ogawa

DS9:

Part/Non-Human: Kira, Odo, Quark, Jadzia, Rom, Nog, Garak, Dukat, Worf, Weyoun, Martok, Leeta, Ezri, Damar, Female Changeling, Winn

Human: Sisko, Bashir, Jake, O’Brien, Keiko, Kasidy, Ross

VOY:

Part/Non-Human: Torres, Neelix, EMH, Tuvok, Kes, Seven (part Borg counts as not entirely human to me), Seska, Naomi, Icheb

Human: Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, Kim

ENT:

Part/Non-Human: T’Pol, Phlox, Soval, Shran

Human: Archer, Reed, Tucker, Sato, Mayweather, Forrest

DIS:

Part/Non-Human: Saru, Tyler (debatable but I’m counting him as partly non-human), L’Rell, Book, T’Rina, Nhan, Rillak, Linus, Zora, Adira (again, debatable, but they’ve got a symbiont so they’re not entirely human to me), Gray

Human: Burnham, Stamets (complicated case but I counted him as still human), Tilly, Culber, Lorca (mirror universe characters are still human, I think), Georgiou, Detmer, Owosekun, Rhys, Bryce, Cornwell, Airiam (she’s still human), Pike, Jett, Nilsson, Pollard, Vance

PIC:

Part/Non-Human: Picard (for part of the show at least), Elnor, Soji, Narek, Seven, Laris/Talinn (I am just pretending they’re the same character for simplicity), Jack (I guess???)

Human: Musiker, Jurati, Rios, Adam, Riker, Crusher, Shaw, Sidney

LWD:

Part/Non-Human: Tendi, Shaxs, T’Ana, Barnes, Kayshon

Human: Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, Freeman, Ransom, Billups

PRO:

Part/Non-Human: Dal, Gwyn, Zero, Rok-Tahk, Jankom, Murf, Hologram Janeway, Diviner, Drednok

SNW:

Part/Non-Human: Spock, Una, Hemmer

Human: Pike, La’an, Uhura, Chapel, M’Benga, Ortegas

[thebibliosphere]

Hi hello i just finished Hunger Pangs and i am so mad I don’t have any more to read now?? Pls let me know how the second book is looking i am very much in Need and in Must Have for this book pls i beg.

I loved the 3 main doofuses and i loved the little book puns and easter eggs (Lydia and Kitty Collins is it i see you i see what you’re doing), i loved the little pepperings of politics and doom that made it into what was mainly a romance book until they just went WHAM PLOT NOW

Also there were several things that made my chekhov gun spidey sense tingle and i NEED TO KNOW WHICH ONES REALLY ARE CHEKHOV GUNS PLEAAASEEEEE

She's in the slow cooker still, but we're getting there.

And thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and want more. As for the Chekov guns, it's probably all of them lmao. I am not subtle 😅. (Except for puns, and even then not really.)