bytesizedshorts
The Aran Family — Let’s just say I’m looking forward to playing a new Metroid game :)
knithacker
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bladesandstars
irrevocably-delicious
Ao3 authors will literally post under any fucking circumstances
transgender-rex
suffer-my-beloved-mutuals
When you’re a DM and accidentally do a crit on one of your players, making them give you That Look of Betrayal
i forgot that singular dice are called die and this still made sense
mirekat
Okay, being reminded that Jadzia has shelves of memorabilia from her past lives has plunged me into a sudden fever of speculation about Trill property law. I mean, I doubt new host/symbiont systems would inherit the former system’s major assets–that would seem to violate the spirit of the reassociation ban. But what about personal property? Do things like boots and bat’leths (or shipments of gagh) get passed automatically to the next host? Do they have to be specifically willed to the next host by the former one? If so, there must be a kind of weird symbolic negotiation that happens between an ailing host and their family, a ritual of choosing grave goods the host/symbiont will, in a very literal sense, carry into the next life.
And as a corollary, does each host undergo a ritual legal and social death pre-joining? Are there cultural ways of memorializing that process? Like, the Jadzia story from The Lives of Dax suggests that the families of future hosts do have to go through an emotional separation process, but it’s also clear hosts don’t ‘renounce the world’ in a monastic sense. So there must be a lot of loose ends to tie up.
I guess this is as much as to say, the more I think about it the more convinced I am that Trill society isn’t really built to accommodate joined Trill. I mean, the very first Trill-themed episode of DS9, ‘Dax’, establishes that the legal personhood of symbionts themselves is murky at best. And Ezri’s wrangling with her family in ‘Prodigal Daughter’ suggests that there’s no clear process for separating host/symbiont system from their former life absent the mediation of the Symbiosis Commission. In general, joining seems governed more by taboo and convention than by law, and so when convention breaks down there just…isn’t a civil structure to fall back on.
shiftythrifting
My neighbors had a yard sale in our joined driveway and they were selling… Whatever this is.
dankmemeuniversity
himeno-ran
arcticflakes
