#oros discovery

[chillychive]

Episode 13

i again forgot.

ooof mirror stamets

(the amount of power from the network can power the Charon, but could it also power Tarka's device to get to Oros??? Because it should be able to)

oh goshhhhhhhh

oh goshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

what a choice

oh goshhhhhhhhhhhh

saru's speech!!!!!! CAPTAIN MATERIAL yoooo

vulcan nerve pinch but not as strong- nice michael

ahh wholesomeness paul showing tilly he's proud of her/respects her yayy

hell yes michael she's so strong

This fight goes on for so longg ahhh

noo Emperor Georgiou noo. Its so weird how she seems reasonable and almost kind here but the Prime Universe she's unreasonable and borderline psycho.

ahh go paul goooo dont die guys

im not crying what

love that these get progressively more incoherent lmaooo.

oop the one spore on tilly

fuck this can never be easyyyy

welp. klingons won. everybody's dead. party's over. go home people.

[rrr-nightingale]

Universes Apart || A Promise Kept. Ruon Tarka/Oros [digital art]

First I drew the angsty piece because I saw some excellent reference screenshots, but tbh I simply couldn't leave them without fix-it. So now it's a series of two drawings.

[best-star-trek-character]

Round One

[alltrekvarnews]

Los Globos de Oro 2024: Revisamos La Lista Completa de Nominados...

[federsturm]

This has Oros energy

[fortheloveoflatinum]

I posted 81 times in 2022

That's 81 more posts than 2021!

50 posts created (62%)

31 posts reblogged (38%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@most-beloved-star

@captainsolocide

@leehallfae

@weepylucifer

@federsturm

I tagged 74 of my posts in 2022

Only 9% of my posts had no tags

#star trek discovery - 40 posts

#star trek - 39 posts

#ruon tarka - 35 posts

#star trek disco season 4 - 28 posts

#ruon tarka/oros - 24 posts

#oros - 23 posts

#tarka - 21 posts

#star trek disco spoilers - 17 posts

#star trek ds9 - 15 posts

#ruon tarka & oros - 13 posts

Longest Tag: 39 characters

#yes i am implying they should go to bed

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

This is the first chapter of the Ruon Tarka/Oros fix-it fic I promised!

Summary:

Oros rescues Ruon Tarka from a certain death with a transdimensional gyroscope that pulls Ruon into his universe at the last possible moment.

Oros has been alone, in a universe called the In-Between. It's a universe of scraps, offerings, obols, lost things, and various assorted bits of detritus from other universes. He is furious with Ruon, but saves him nevertheless.

This is the story of how they come to terms with the years that have come between them and the things Ruon has done in the name of getting back to Oros. It's a story of penance and redemption and a love that never died.

15 notes - Posted March 19, 2022

#4

Star Trek Goes to School

So happy that I got to mention Star Trek in a uni assignment today. There are few things that are more fulfilling in this life.

16 notes - Posted August 25, 2022

#3

Some Thoughts

So I’ve basically just spent the entirety of the weekend writing rare!pair fanfic and obsessing over the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery. 

🌟 First of all, I’m kind of disappointed in this season of Discovery, both for side-lining Tilly, and for their treatment of The Galactic Barrier episode.

🌟 On the latter point, Tarka calling Oros his “friend” is not inherently problematic and is, in fact, very in character for someone who has spent his whole life being closed off and giving away information only on a need-to-know basis. It’s how he’s survived the Emerald Chain.

🌟 HOWEVER, the mainstream media’s treatment of the issue left a lot to be desired. Continuing to call Tarka and Oros “friends” once it has become clear that there was more to their relationship? Not cool.

🌟 I am totally on-board with an asexual Tarka. I see some people posting about it, and I totally support you.

🌟 BUT friends do not usually lie in bed tracing mathematical equations on their ceilings, heads pillowed on one another’s shoulders. Friends do not make each other the kind of promises Tarka and Oros exchanged. Book acted out of love when he agreed to stand down; Tarka acted out of love, too, more specifically - love lost, and the possibility, no matter how remote of recovering that love.

🌟 A romance between Tarka and Oros isn’t quite canon, but it damn well should be.

🌟 And I think a lot of us are rooting for Tarka at this point. His ‘tragic backstory’ shone a very sympathetic light on his character. Sure, he’s been a jerk to Stamets (and Saru), and it’s true that he stands for everything Starfleet usually stands against, and yes, he’s manipulating Book, and he is doing everything he does for selfish reasons but I still want him to get his happy ending no matter what.

And that’s that.

16 notes - Posted February 27, 2022

#2

Small Tarka/Oros Things

Imagine....

🌠 How it got so cold in their shared sleeping space that they decided to share a bed one night, and never stopped.

🌠 Tarka squeezing Oros’ hand to calm him down when the sirens sounded again, or some other, small, little thing - a kiss to his temple, a hand on his shoulder...

🌠 Oros proving to be a worthy partner for Tarka, and teaching him something for once and Tarka being so glad to have met his equal but also being a dick about it because no one ever matched his genius before...

🌠 Maybe they fought once and it almost broke them and they agreed that they’d never again raise their voices or go to bed angry.

🌠 And in the middle of the night, when they were tracing equations above them, how they completed each other’s work and were of one mind and Tarka knew that he would never find anyone who would understand him that way again...

🌠 Or they even that had some tiny, private symbol of love that they would sign to each other in Morse code or Binary when the Emerald Chain guards took their anger out on one or both of them....

Just sayin’.

31 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

There Is No Such Thing As Too Much Star Trek....

I seriously just want a whole day to do nothing but watch Star Trek, read Star Trek fanfiction, write Star Trek fanfiction, and save Star Trek fanart to my screensaver.

Who am I kidding? I would probably be content doing nothing else but Star Trek for like, a decade straight.

108 notes - Posted March 4, 2022

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[knightotoc]

Season 1: 23rd century, mutiny, Federation-Klingon War, T'Kuvma, Ash/Voq, L'Rell, Captain Lorca, giant tardigrade, Sarek, logic extremists, Vulcan Expeditionary Group applications, Admiral Cornwell, time loop Harry Mudd, Pahvo, Mirror Universe, Captain Killy, Culber dies, Emperor Georgiou

Themes: betrayal, trust, good vs evil

Season 2: Captain Pike, Red Angel, seven signals, Spock's nightmares, Jett Reno, Terralysium, Amanda Grayson, L'Rell and Ashvoq's baby, Section 31, Leland, the ghost of May, the Sphere's data, Culber gets better, Kamina, Talos IV, Control, Airiam dies, Klingon monastery, time crystals, Queen Po, jump to the future

Themes: motherhood, secrets, corruption

Season 3: 32nd century, the Burn, Book, trance worm, Aditya Sahil, Zareh, Captain Saru, Tal, Adira, Gray, Trill, Admiral Vance, seed archive, Nhan, Ni'Var, Qowat Milat, T'Rina, Kwejian, the Emerald Chain, Osyraa, Carl, goodbye Georgiou!, Su'Kal and the holograms, Burnham demoted then promoted, dilithium deliveries

Themes: grief, scarcity, transphobia?

Season 4: Captain Burnham, President Rillak, the DMA (cough covid cough), Kwejian destroyed, Gray resurrected, J'Vini, cadets stranded on the moon, Ruon Tarka and Oros's parallel universe, Felix and the orb, Gray and Zora play a Trill board game, Species 10-C, Book's betrayal, hydrocarbon emotion math language

Themes: misunderstanding, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" references

Season 5: Progenitors, Moll and L'ak, solving riddles to make a map, Q'Mau, Fred, Rayner, Lyrek, Adira and Gray break up, Jinaal possesses Culber, time bug, the Breen, atheism on Halem'no, racer Tilly, Ravah, Ruhn, Eternal Gallery and Archive, Hy'Rell, Tahal, wedding and finale

Themes: romances, religion, power

[fatehbaz]

[M]onk seals continued to live in large herds along the largely unexplored Atlantic seaboard of northwest Africa. It was not until 1434 that Portuguese explorers landed on these [supposedly] untamed coasts, and discovered thousands of monk seals. Almost immediately, an intensive and lucrative trade in skins and oil was established [...]. Constantly vying with Spain [...], Portugal was determined to increase its sphere of influence in Africa. While Spain eventually became preoccupied with Columbus’ elusive vision [...] [and] his celebrated 1492 expedition [...] Portugal’s colonial influence in Africa was reaching its height by 1500. The first expeditions to Africa’s Gold Coast were recorded for posterity by an official chronicler, Gomes de Zurara [...]. In his book [...] he relates how the Portuguese Infante [royal prince], eager [...], dispatched explorer Afonso Gonçalves Baldaya in a cargo vessel to make contact with the mysterious “moors” or “pagans” who were believed to inhabit the region (Zurara, 1437).

“But these are people, no matter how beastlike they may be,” proclaimed the Infante, “and they need to be governed... I command you to penetrate this land as far as you can and that you work in order to learn about those people, perhaps taking one captive, so that you may become acquainted with them.”

It was in “the year [...] one thousand four hundred and thirty-six” that Alfonso set sail [...]. [T]he barinel eventually reached the shores of the Gold River, the Rio de Oro, situated at the Bay of Dakhla in the western Sahara. [...] Afonso and his crew sighted their first seals. Literally thousands were suddenly in their field of vision. [...] “Upon seeing on a reef at the mouth of the river a large number of sea-wolves,” relates Gomes da Zurara, “which, according to the estimates of some, amounted to five thousand, he ordered killed those that could be killed and had their furs loaded onto the ship [...].” Despite the windfall in skins and oil, Afonso was still dissatisfied, having failed to take captive any of the elusive natives. He therefore ventured a further 50 leagues “to see if he could capture a man or at least a woman or child in order to satisfy the will of his master.” [...]

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[In] 1437 [...] another Portuguese ship was dispatched to the Gold River to fill its hold with the furs and oil of the sea-wolves. [...] In 1441, [...] the Infante ordered his young wardrobe keeper, Antão Gonçalves, to captain a small ship and return to the Gold River. [...] “[T]he reason for this voyage, as instructed by his Lordship,” writes da Zurara, “was none other than to load that ship with a great quantity of hides and oil from those sea-wolves.” It appears to have been a lucrative undertaking. “ [...]

Antão Gonçalves had fulfilled the command of his master, his ship’s hold brimming with hides and casks, but the young man was eager to pursue his adventures rather than return home as ordered. He assembled his 21-man crew on deck, and addressed them with a rousing speech: “Friends and brothers, our cargo is complete, as you can see, so the principal aim of our mission has been accomplished, and we could well return should we wish to limit our toil…” He then proposed an adventure that would gladden the men’s hearts, providing relief from the laborious and tedious task of hunting, skinning and melting-down seals - a hunt for native slaves [...].

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These first tentative expeditions to the Gold River paved the way for hunting on a more intensive, industrial scale, with 15th century Portuguese explorers dividing their time between lucrative massacres of seals and the equally profitable slave trade [...].

Indeed, within a few years of the sea wolf discovery, a purpose-built installation to process seal hides and oil had been constructed on Ylha de Lobos [...] in the estuary of the Rio de Oro [...]. Around Cap Barbas [...] no less than three sites once bore the name of the sea wolf [...]. [T]he [French and British] colonial plundering of the region [in the early twentieth century] [...], like [...] [Portuguese] conquest before them, were also portrayed as essentially idealistic endeavours. Just as the conquest of the Rio de Oro by massacre and slavery [...] “proves anew that the pursuit of disinterested geographical knowledge [...] were never the only motives of colonial conquest, so the slaughter [...] [today] would today be called “rational exploitation” [...]”,

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All text above by: William M. Johnson. “Monk Seals in Post-Classical History: The role of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) in European history and culture, from the fall of Rome to the 20th century”. Mededelingen 39. The Netherlands Commission for International Nature Protection. 2004. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[wufflesvetinari]

lkwajelkrjewar fine. FINE. i'll do it MYSELF goddamn it

tarka was only good in 1.5 episodes in canon so i am not surprised the writers had no specific interest in "unhinged asexual from planet pound town" as a concept (thank you ruon tarka tag from 2 years ago lmao, i'm obsessed)

unfortunately, i am interested in "serious for-real character from risa, specifically." and i have COVID and my brain has run stupid little circles around the concept. my thoughts are as follows:

some of the frankly bad writing where various protagonists were willing to trust him and/or let him do risky things despite his blinking "I AM NOT TRUSTWORTHY" high beams could be attributed to risian pheromones--but not, like, in a sexy way. like a charisma bump in the rpg sense where the other person doesn't have to come out LIKING you at all, you are just more of a PRESENCE. stamets certainly didn't like him but look at the stupid experiment he let happen on the discovery for no reason lmao

i think this would mostly work on species with a close genetic makeup to risians, like humans--it did not specifically work on saru for instance. it also does not work on oros. i think Certain Tourists to risa have an idea of the pheromones as a kinky sex thing but risians themselves do not. it's just a part of the social language

it has been pointed out that 5 years in solitary is probably worse for someone socialized on Planet Touchy/Sexy/Expressive. tarka thinks of himself as Not Like Other Risians but he WAS raised there and imo the shot of oros pillowed on his arm would be within tarka's cultural comfort zone even if they are not romantically linked

speaking of: "Risians have a more permeable understanding of romantic vs. platonic relationships" is good, but to make it more Alien Sociology i think it would be fun if the species outsiders see as "fluid/open/label-less" instead just have way more categorizations based on specific feelings towards others that can be combined lego-style into each specific relationship: so rather than "eros vs. philia" we have "Type A Love + Type B Love + Type M Love and that's how i relate to my newest partner." and fifteen million definitional words spring from that. everyone just kind of knows them and the relationships do change over time

agree that tarka feels very asexual if you read his relationship with oros as romantic. however i don't prefer the read that this causes him particular trouble on risa. instead, it's the intensity of his relationship with oros that would be nonstandard/queer on risa. a risian would look at tarka and go "holy christ, chill out. balance your fucking humors"

[lithugraph]

What’s been new in writing? / Talk about a WIP you’re working on!

Oooh that’s a big ask, lol!

The thing I am most actively writing right now is the next chapter of The Book Smuggler. I’m about halfway through it. The fic as a whole is so close to being done, but I also have other projects/ideas I’m working on and will place them below the cut:

Hetalia

Other than The Book Smuggler, I also have been slowly working on the next chapter of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Again, it’s another one that is almost done — maybe 1-2 more chapters. And I think if I don’t finish it before I finish The Book Smuggler, it will be my next priority to try and wrap up.

I’m working on the outline for a boxer!AU featuring PruAus, with a side of Spaus and maybe some Prumano?? It was inspired by @edel-scribe’s boxer!au. Posting my moodboard because I love visuals:

Once the other two are wrapped, I think this will be my next project. That, and continuing to write We Are Not Ourselves 😅.

Vikings

Savages: I’ve been tossing around the idea of a one-shot featuring Athelstan, Aethelwulf, and king Ecbert following Athelstan’s time in Wessex after the crucifixion scene.

Star Wars/The Bad Batch

Mors Tua, Vita Mea: Writing a fix it fic of sorts…aka how I think the last season should have gone.

Star Trek: Discovery

King of Fools: One-shot featuring Ruon Tarka and Osyraa. How he was captured by the Emerald Chain and his betrayal of Oros.

[rrr-nightingale]

A Risan Vacation. Oros/Ruon Tarka, AU, friendship/love [digital art]

"You sure it's a local tradition?" "You bet." "And these… petals, too?"

[arkipelagic]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Archeologists from the University of the Philippines (UP) have unearthed ancient artifacts dating back to 3,000 BC in Alubijid, Misamis Oriental, a town 25 kilometers from this city.

Lee Anthony Neri from the UP Archaeological Studies Program said that they discovered the site in Calumat, Alubijid.

The archeological find sits on top of a hill overlooking the town proper and the national highway. The hill could be a natural fortress as it has a 360-degree view of the area. Adjacent to the site is a house and communication and water towers.

(..) But what was surprising was that their discovery was not only limited to the Neolithic age – it also included artifacts from 500 BC, and the 13th to 15th centuries.

Pieces of [Sa Huỳnh-Kalanay] potteries dating back to 500 BC as well as fragments of Chinese porcelains were found at the archeological site.

“This proves that the Calumat site was continually occupied by early men,” Neri said.

[nokneepadsnoproblem]

New discovery: El Potro de Oro 😍

[las-microfisuras]

J870 (1864)

El hallazgo es el primer acto

El segundo, la pérdida,

El tercero, la expedición en busca del vellocino de oro

El cuarto, ningún descubrimiento-

El quinto, ninguna tripulación-

Al final, ningún vellocino de oro-

Jasón, un impostor también.

J870 (1864)

Finding is the first Act

The second, loss,

Third, Expedition for the “Golden Fleece”

Fourth, no Discovery -

Fifth, no Crew -

Finally, no Golden Fleece -

Jason, sham, too -

- Emily Dickinson. Versión: Isaías Garde

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Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo es la primera novela del escritor mexicano Juan Rulfo, publicada por primera vez en 1955. El autor comenzó la obra a finales de los años 1940 y, tras recibir una beca del Centro Mexicano de Escritores, logró finalizarla y, más tarde, publicar adelantos de la misma de 1953 a 1954 en diversas revistas mexicanas bajo los títulos preliminares de Una estrella junto a la luna, Los murmullos y Comala. Es la primera novela de Rulfo, así como su segunda obra después de El llano en llamas; una recopilación de cuentos de la que tocó los temas de la muerte, la ruralidad y la pérdida de esperanzas tras la Revolución Mexicana. Asimismo, anticipó su segunda novela, El gallo de oro, escrita entre 1956 y 1958 pero publicada recién en 1980. En España, la dictadura franquista prohibió la obra por contener, a juicio del censor, «descripciones crudas de hechos y situaciones inmorales» en diversos pasajes. La censura del régimen no autorizó la distribución de la novela hasta catorce años más tarde, en 1969. Actualmente la obra forma parte de la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en español del siglo XX del periódico español El Mundo. Además, se han realizado traducciones a más de treinta idiomas, varias adaptaciones cinematográficas y una teatral.

Lee más sobre esta novela en Wikipedia.

Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo is a novel written by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. The novel tells the story of Juan Preciado, a man who promises his mother on her deathbed to meet Preciado's father for the first time in the town of Comala, only to come across a literal ghost town. That is, populated by spectral characters. During the course of the novel, these ghostly inhabitants reveal details about life and afterlife in Comala, including that of Preciado's reckless father: Pedro Páramo, and his centrality for the town. Initially, the novel was met with cold critical reception and sold only two thousand copies during the first four years; later, however, the book became highly acclaimed. Pedro Páramo has been translated into more than 30 different languages and the English version has sold more than a million copies in the United States. Gabriel García Márquez has said that he felt blocked as a novelist after writing his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of Pedro Páramo in 1961 that opened his way to the composition of his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Moreover, García Márquez claimed that he "could recite the whole book, forwards and backwards." Jorge Luis Borges considered Pedro Páramo to be one of the greatest texts written in any language.

Read more about this novel on Wikipedia.