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Stay on brand. You've got excellent taste.

Head empty. Only Una Chin-Riley.

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The short one wants to be in charge. The tall one is laughing and ignores the death glares coming his way. The other two are taking bets from the sideline.

Aaaaaand why not - SG-VOY-1 … cause we all knew it was bound to happen :P

With that I promise to stop for now (and finally write the project proposal I’ve been procrastinating with for the past 2 weeks - I’m writing, I’m writing, hay ho, hay ho…)

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Love this!

I have noticed that there is a significant overlap of STVOY | SG1 fans here on Tumblr, which, of course, in turn made me go down a rabbit hole xD

I present to you Colonel Kathryn Janeway of Stargate Command :P

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Oh yeah! Next SG1 x Voyager crossover I write, I get Sam to wear a Trek uniform. Promise.

Maybe a darker style of uniform? It would fit better with the overall theme of SG1VOY? :D

Captain Carter :)

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I will accept this new canon.

the Magic of a Seven Coming Out story

a.k.a. the most wholesome content that has ever come out of my brain

Voyager gets home, and Seven is all like “this is fine, I’m fine”, but she has Chakotay by her side all the while parties and debriefings are going on so it is fine

but then a few months go by and things aren’t right

the crew has all kinda split up, but Seven has Chakotay and Icheb so maybe this is fine

but then Chakotay goes to his home planet to visit

and Seven has to stay on Earth because she has to help explain Borg tech to Starfleet or something like that

and while Chakotay’s gone, Seven’s all “what???? I don’t really miss him????”

like yeah, she misses him, but in the same way when Janeway left to visit Tuvok on Vulcan, or when Tom and B'Elanna went to Kronos

but Chakotay is her boyfriend???

so of course, Seven goes to the Doctor

she says to him “I don’t believe I have a romantic attraction in Commander Chakotay.”

and the Doctor is all like “that’s okay, now we’re back on Earth, there are plenty of fish in the proverbial sea!”

Seven responds “I do not have your optimism, I have met many men on Earth and none seem to fit my requirements for a mate.”

so this is when the Doctor realizes he messed up

he asks, “Seven, you know you don’t have to date men, right?”

*cut to all the queer couples that have been around Seven both on Voyager and on Earth*

*cut to Seven doing the Pikachu shocked face*

so Seven leaves and begins thinking

she wonders how she never noticed how many amazing women there are in the world

she goes home and googles “am I gay?????”

and Seven realizes she is a lesbian fuck r*ck b!rm@n

when Chakotay comes back to Earth, Seven sits down and breaks up with him

Chakotay takes it well because he was planning to end it because he knew the relationship wasn’t going anywhere and he wants to profess his undying love for Kathryn Janeway

our sweet baby gay Seven goes out into the world, single and ready to mingle with the ladies

and maybe somewhere down the line she meets a woman or non-binary person who sends her head over heels

so Seven arrives to Voyager’s one-year-since-they-got-home party, with this incredible person on her arm, and the whole crew is line “omg Seven is this who you are dating now?”

and Chakotay and Kathryn announce that they are engaged

and they all live happily every after :D

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I do like your analysis skills. Totally with them. Gross to see hurt KJ being sexy. Totally.

I need more gifs when she does that again. For deeper analysis purposes.

Why?

WHY?

WHY???

is injured Janeway so HOT?

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Ridiculous, what do you mean by ridiculous @angrywarrior69 ?

Why?

WHY?

WHY???

is injured Janeway so HOT?

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Was too late for LJ, but i've found the couple of Discord servers i am a member of very well moderated, fun to be part of and dedicated to their fandom. Tumblr is a fun, and frustrating, adjunct.

I went on a long rant at @ohemgeeitscoley the other day about how tumblr is too much of a social media to actually be an effective fandom space and I’m gonna try and recap most of it cause I liked my points.

My first introduction to fandom was a combination of fanfiction.net, forums, and livejournal. Of the latter two—because fanfiction.net basically just….hosted fanfiction—both of them had something really important in common: mods.

One of my first interactions with fandom was a Narnia forum on a website that I don’t think exists anymore. It was moderated by no small number of members, and members knew that if something went on that was a violation of the rules, they needed to get a mod involved.

If you were on livejournal in the… idk, 2000-2010s? or maybe even before the 2000′s, you had a personal journal, and then you were probably part of communities. Communities which had moderators. Communities which had rules. Break one of the rules? Yeah, your post was probably going to get deleted. Try again next time. It mostly depended on who the mods were, but there were certain communities and certain lines that just got you banned outright.

You want to join a community? A lot of the most common ones often wouldn’t admit you unless you had so many posts on your livejournal and other people who were mutual friends. You also had to agree to play by the rules. What were the rules? It depended. Most of the time it was like: “play nice, no spoilers unless they are under a cut until a week after the episode airs, here’s how our tag system works, etc.”

Here’s the thing: If you ‘misbehaved’, the mods had the authority to ban you. If you broke the rules of posting, the mods would delete your posts. Did mods get paid? Nope. They loved the community, so they agreed to moderate it. They reached out for volunteers to mod as communities grew bigger.

Say you didn’t like the rules of one community? You could always create your own, or find a different one that suited your needs. Maybe one of the fic communities for your favorite ship doesn’t let you post fic tagged above a M rating? Create your own community. Or find one. It probably exists. But there’s no need to scream at the community that already exists that they need to let you post your explicit fanfiction. Their community members don’t want to see it (or maybe they do and they’re members of both that community and the one that lets authors post E rated fic).

Or say you were in a community and the mods weren’t running it well, you could leave. Go somewhere with more experienced moderators. Start your own community. Lots of options there. 

Fandom, as it exists, doesn’t have that ability to self-police anymore. There’s no “adults/mods/person-in-charge” generously stepping in and reinforcing the guidelines. All there is now are text posts circling around with unenforceable suggestions for how to behave or how something should be done.

Tumblr doesn’t create communities, and it never has. It creates echo chambers. It creates a system of “tags” that do nothing to bring fans of them same thing together. Instead of creating positive spaces, the only recourse is to just keep scrolling, or to individually block people.

Tumblr is not a good platform for fandom space. It’s actually probably one of the worst possible platforms for fandom space. I don’t think it can be changed to make it what it needs to be, and I think the toxic nature of the spaces Tumblr creates is only going to continue to get worse and worse.

When kids or teenages end up in fandom, there aren’t any mods to nudge them in the direction of fandom etiquette. There’s no mature ‘i have been here and see shit’ people watching to delete inappropriate posts or warn someone that if they keep being a dick they’ll get banned. There’s not a list of rules to post in the tag. Do whatever you want. Say whatever you want. Send anon hate. Bitch about ships you don’t like.

Where will fandom end up after that? Who knows. But God I hope it’s somewhere that actually fosters a sense of community and somewhere that fandom can create and enforce it’s own rules.

But that’s just never gonna be tumblr.

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I can see you all at the edge of your seats, waiting for the next two performances! And here they are:  * @gijane-7702​ presented you with Recitation, because who cannot melt at Robert Beltran, sorry, Chakotay, reciting Pablo Neruda. 

* While BlackVelvet42 showed a much more private side of Chakotay (again!), for an audience of one in Felt By Heart. Get the tissue box ready. One more fic and the curtain will fall over the 2020 Talent Night Extravaganza! 

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Haven't seen this for a few days --> reblogging for the benefit of the rest of the universe.

6.11 Fair Haven

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Talent Night Extravaganza is steaming ahead. Check all those performances fics on AO3.

So far in the week, performers included: 

Songs and more songs with @bizships  Life is a Cabaret

@amoderngirl preferred dancing with the girls in Shake That  

While @coffeeblack75 went for calm and peace and Quiet  

Let’s not forget @mia-cooper’s offering, Apfelschuss: The Killing of Kathryn Janeway. Because you’ve obviously got a death wish. 

Still to come: @gijane-7702, BlackVelvet42 and @caladeniablue.

Get your tickets ready ! Valid until the evening of the 2nd Feb 2020, whichever timezone you are.

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Talent Night Extravaganza is steaming ahead. Check all those performances fics on AO3.

So far in the week, performers included: 

Songs and more songs with @bizships  Life is a Cabaret

@amoderngirl preferred dancing with the girls in Shake That  

While @coffeeblack75 went for calm and peace and Quiet  

Let's not forget @mia-cooper's offering, Apfelschuss: The Killing of Kathryn Janeway. Because you’ve obviously got a death wish. 

Still to come: @gijane-7702, BlackVelvet42 and @caladeniablue.

Get your tickets ready ! Valid until the evening of the 2nd Feb 2020, whichever timezone you are.

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I won't reblog. I won't reblog.

Shit. I did.

Talent Night Extravaganza (fic)

“But you keep insisting you’re unable to,” she let her glance tick slowly downward until it rested on his crotch, “perform. What could you possibly do to impress me?”

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Apfelschuss: The Killing of Kathryn Janeway (T)

A story of true love, talent and betrayal, in the finest Shakespearean tradition (i.e. there’s Drama™, black humour and Major Character Death)

For @caladeniablue​​, because she explicitly banned character death and lizard babies from her Coda fic collection, Voyager Talent Night Extravanza, and who am I to resist such a challenge? I am an asshole, that’s who.

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The third instalment in the Voyager Talent Night Extravaganza by a newcomer to the Voyager fandom who is already making her mark!  

Days before Voyager’s annual Talent Night, a strange occurrence leaves everyone lost for words ...

Please go, read, comment, leave kudos, applaud. Do it.

@coffeeblack75​

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You've got it in a nutshell.

Viewed several episodes of Voyager yesterday to get Seven of Nine’s backstory before I watched Picard and I have this to say about Voyager as a whole:

Janeway hotttt

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Our second act for the Talent Night Extravaganza week is a B'Elanna -Janeway friendship fic, where those two bond on something else, for once, than engineering stuff. Because we never have enough of F&F friendship.

]]Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kathryn Janeway & B'Elanna Torres Characters: B'Elanna Torres, Kathryn Janeway, Megan Delaney Additional Tags: Friendship, Talent Night, Dancing, Mentorship Summary:

Talent Night is back and Lieutenant B’Elanna Torres has a big problem…

Thank you @caladeniablue​ for the wonderful moodboard and the insightful beta.  @voytalentchallenge​ Day 2 is here!

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]]Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kathryn Janeway & B'Elanna Torres Characters: B'Elanna Torres, Kathryn Janeway, Megan Delaney Additional Tags: Friendship, Talent Night, Dancing, Mentorship Summary:

Talent Night is back and Lieutenant B’Elanna Torres has a big problem…

Thank you @caladeniablue​ for the wonderful moodboard and the insightful beta.  @voytalentchallenge​ Day 2 is here!