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Follow the money. #CitizensUnited

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Generations of unserious stupid gave us MAGA.

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@wholesome-animal-images

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Sheridan: women.

Ivanova: absolutely. however, have you considered: women in suits.

Sheridan: that’s great. I think we need to consider: women with swords.

Ivanova: I see that and I raise you: women in suits with swords.

Sheridan: that’s why your my second-in-command. that’s genius. that’s beautiful. good job. I’m proud of you.

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babylon 5 cutting back and forth between the long coming death of a genocidaire and black gospel music might not be the funniest scene on television, but it’s certainly up there

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The thing is while the whole "get your butt in the chair and write the dang thing." is tragically the end all be all of writing advice, "if you want to write, you have to write" has another layer to it.

You have to get comfortable with the process of externalizing your thoughts. Worse, you need to externalize them in a way that's recorded. Writing total nonsense now and then will help with it. The more you write, the more you write.

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Ramblings on Kathryn Janeway

I hate it when people criticize Kathryn Janeway by calling her inconsistent thus incompetent. She was not. She was new to the job.

People who are new to something have a lot of growing pains before they come into their own, even if they've done a similar job for years before.

Voyager was her first solo command assignment, and her first mission was supposed to be low hanging fruit. All she had to do was run into the Badlands in this state-of-the-art ship that, in theory, should very easily be able to catch the banged up Ford Pinto of a ship captained by Chuckles.

There was never an intention of sending her on some extended mission in which she was isolated from literally every person in Starfleet Command.

New-to-the-Job people leaders are not left alone to solo command in a vacuum because they still need mentoring and training on the job. Like all people in new positions, they need oversight as they learn and grow. Like all people in command positions, they should have easy access to counseling so they can further develop their emotional intelligence.

She had NONE of that.

What she had was a history in which she was raised by a career Starfleet officer and officer's wife, a solid Starfleet career of her own, and the ethics and morality that comes from those two things combined. In the world from which she came, which was post TNG but pre-Dominion War, she was exactly the right officer to be promoted to captain because she strongly held onto the belief that the Prime Directive was to be followed, exploration to be expected, and people above all else.

However, as she progressed through the Delta Quadrant, she had to learn and come to terms with the fact that all three of those things were no longer absolute in their truth. We see those growing pains in episodes like 'Tuvix' and 'Equinox'.

She wasn't inconsistent. She was floundering because what she thought she knew didn't align with her actual reality, and she had no one to turn to for guidance, mentoring, or support.

The Kathryn Janeway we know at the end of Season 7 is not even close to the Kathryn Janeway of Season 1. The older Janeway is road wary, jaded, a little cynical, and, while she still believes in the Prime Directive, exploration, and her people, she has learned through trial and error that all of those things live in a gray area, that it's all relative. It is not an absolute. She hits that stride around Season 6, and that's when you see her start to make command decisions not just on the ideals and principles of Starfleet but on her own judgement based upon the experience she's finally gained as the CO.

In the seven years we watched her, what we saw was her growing into her rank. You don't get promoted and are immediately a well-seasoned, strong, agile commander. A lot of that comes with time, experience, and mentorship. She had two out of three of those things.

All things considered, she was a damned good captain and extremely competent.

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gowron is my favorite klingon im always hooting and hollering every time he shows up and not even cause i have any particular strong feelings on his personality or character, but just because he looks like this:

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The corruption is the norm, the default.

Look at each situation: how does it benefit voters vs. how it lines Trump's pocket.

The projection onto Joe/Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton is obvious. Every MAGA accusation was a confession.

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Trump ethnic cleansing is obvious.

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#SouthAfrica

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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | 2.10

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Fandom theory: The reason that women find sad/injured fictional men attractive is because we are fundamentally attracted to the combination of strength and vulnerability. A fictional guy who collapses into a puddle of angst at the slightest provocation gets tiring because he is all vulnerability and no strength. A fictional guy who is a perfect stoic is admirable but not as attractive, because he is all strength and no vulnerability. The man who has demonstrated his strength by enduring the vicissitudes of the plot and now is in need of comfort is catnip to fans because he has proved his ability to protect, but is not so strong as to not need someone to love and care for him.