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DS9: Chimera

So I’m watching DS9, and one of the 100 Changelings is discovered, named Laas. He’s older than Odo, and hates humanoids. When he and Odo linked, I noticed it seemed to have subtle tones of the time Odo had sex/linked with the female Founder. Their heads even moved closer like a kiss.
Then Laas starts criticizing humanoids and talking about how much he dislikes them.
He then asks Odo to link with him in public in the promenade, to which Odo refuses. I thought it was interesting because it was kind of like a PDA. Odo says he doesn’t like to draw attention to him not being a humanoid and that “[he doesn’t] go out of [his] way to point it out”. Laas asks if he’s afraid of being rejected. Odo says “that might make them uncomfortable.”
Suddenly it clicked. This episode is a gay metaphor. Odo can pass himself off as a humanoid alien, but never quite right. Laas is older and has been shapeshifting for longer, that is, he’s been out of the closet longer. Odo doesn’t want to hold Laas’s hand in public. He doesn’t want to remind people he’s different or make them uncomfortable. Why have I never heard of this episode before?!

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These arrived about a week ago, but I’m lazy, so I just now took a picture. I love them and they are a perfect addition to my nerd room (formerly my office). I’m not sure why the wall looks white in this pic, as it’s actually blue and looks really...

These arrived about a week ago, but I’m lazy, so I just now took a picture. I love them and they are a perfect addition to my nerd room (formerly my office). I’m not sure why the wall looks white in this pic, as it’s actually blue and looks really good with the paintings.

They are all beautiful, but especially the Garak, which has these splotches of red that make me think of blood and Garak in scary assassin mode. You can see them closer in ladyyatexel’s original post.

Thanks again, ladyyatexel! 

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We Have a Cold

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Here’s what history says we should do:

1. Chicken soup is “an excellent food as well as medicine,” says 12th c. rabbi and physician Moses Maimonides. The consumption of a chicken (not one too old or too fat, mind you) will also alleviate symptoms of asthma and sexual dysfunction.

2. Cover our noses and mouths when we sneeze lest our soul escape and leave us nothing more than a walking bag of bones, as warned by theologians of the Medieval era.

3. It’s 1753 and you’ve got the sniffles? Here, an easy for DIY cold tablets from The Compleat Housewife, or The Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion:

Take pearls, crab’s-eyes, red coral, white amber, burnt hartshorn, and oriental bezoar, of each half an ounce; the black tips of crabs-claws three ounces; make all into a paste, with a jelly of vipers (Ed. note: where do we find this!?), and roll it into little balls, which dry and keep for use.

4. How can we get our hands on a bottle of Radway’s Renovating Resolvent, a 19th c. patent medicine that cures “hacking dry cough, gout, female complaints, bleeding of the lungs, and syphilitic ailments”? Oh, it’s just water mixed with alcohol and a few drops of morphine? Nevermind.

We could go on about the bloodletting, the ingesting of unpronouncable animal parts, the prayers—so many prayers—but we think we’ll stick with modern medicine on this one.

Got a problem you’d like us to solve with history? Just ask!

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ok where are my chicken testicles

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