[startrektofinish]

My favourite Star Trek trope is aliens talking about how annoying and condescending the Federation are

[spock-here-captain]

“They had it coming, they had it coming, they had it coming all along.”

Here’s the sequel to All That Jazz that no one asked for but that I couldn’t resist doing anyway. Garak deserved the chance to do Cell Block Tango. I’ve decided that in my verse, Julian took Garak to see the performance of Chicago, and afterwards Garak hums this song quite more often than Julian is altogether comfortable with.

Julian has no idea what hit him and is both scared and aroused.

[sylverdoodles]

some doodles from twitter, them boys!

DS9: behind the scenes? :)

[kronette]

If you’re interested in these, I’ll ship them to you. I’m only asking for postage, but if you only have a couple of bucks or you’re overseas, then we can do another type of trade so we don’t have to mess with conversion costs. Share with whoever you think would be interested! I belonged to Siddig El Fadil (Now Alexander Siddig)’s fan club from 1994-1997 or so, and I think I was in Andrew Robinson’s for awhile there, too.

The fan club hosted “Lunch with the Doctor” in Minnesota in 1995. We decided to embarrass Sid by throwing underwear at him on stage. These are some the photos I’m willing to part with.



This was a Vulkon or other convention in Atlanta, I think 1996. I remember John de Lancie and Majel Roddenberry were there, too, but these pictures are of Sid and Andy on stage together and separate. When they were on stage together, they did a play as Bashir and Garak…you can see the script sticking out of Sid’s back pocket in one of the shots. Again, some of the pictures I took and some are from other fans, but I don’t know who.

[unflatteringcatselfies]

This is my great uncles cat, shes fat and has EXTRA TOES!!!

[highpriestcrankypants]

Terry Pratchett was made an honorary Brownie and this pleases me to no end.

[persephinae]

“ Not many men can say this,’ Terry says, proudly, ‘but as a result of The Wee Free Men I was made an honorary Brownie for writing a proper girl in a book. I’ve got a woggle and everything. No kidding.

‘Anyway, the Brownies wanted to kidnap someone famous and they decided on me because they liked Tiffany Aching. But they didn’t know how to go about it. And I thought, “All we need is a signing queue, two little girls and a yellow rubber chicken.” (I don’t know why it hasn’t been established before, but a yellow rubber chicken is the secret of all humour.)’

‘So, it’s all set up and I tell the two little Brownies, “You stand on one side of me and you on the other and just look at the camera, all sweet and innocent. Then without looking at me, one of you must raise my hat and the other has to hit me over the head with the rubber chicken. Then the first Brownie should place my hat back on my head as I slump down in the chair.”

‘The only problem was that people saw me apparently doing a signing and a massive queue built up. So then we had to explain to everyone that I wasn’t in fact doing a signing, but I would sign their books if they wouldn’t mind waiting until these two little girls had knocked me out. It was one of those surreal moments that you just treasure.’ “  (x)

cosmictuesdays asked:

So in a DS9/Vorkosigan saga crossover, would Bashir be Betan or Cetagandan? I'm leaning towards Cetagandan, myself.

eponymous-rose answered:

Ooh, good question! Except, for some utterly bizarre reason, I picture him as being Jacksonian, and really frustrated about it (to the point where he goes out of his way to make people think he’s Betan). I think, in a universe where a certain amount of genetic engineering is pretty much expected, you’ve gotta find your conflict in how it was done, and for a Jacksonian, that answer is almost sure to be “illegally and immorally”, which maybe parallels Bashir’s case a little more than the others would. (Was he engineered with the expectation that he’ll get a clone’s brain at some point down the line? Something like that.) Cetaganda’s got the whole gene-splicing thing going on, and goodness knows Bashir’s got the haut-look about him, but there’s something a bit too distant and removed and self-satisfied about that process for it to fit Bashir’s case, IMO. And Beta just doesn’t quite have the conflict inherent in it. Hmm. Yeah, Jacksonian, I think!

[cosmictuesdays]

Technically, anything done on the Whole is lawless, not illegal. A fine but important designation.

And like I said - this gives me the good kind of shudders. Bashir walking around knowing someone wants to stick their brain into his body is exactly the proper tone of creepy.

[crisisoninfintefandoms]

I mean, if you wanted to go for REALLY fucked up, you could actually have it that Julian’s parents already had a brain transplant performed on him.  Like, maybe he had a traumatic brain injury, or was just born “mentally impaired” so they had another brain grown and then put into his body, throwing the other one out.  Or, the other way, he had some physical disability, either born or acquired (maybe kind of like Miles, actually) and they had his perfectly good brain transferred into a clone’s body at a young age.  And his parents wouldn’t have to be Jacksonian, they could be from somewhere else where something like that would be illegal and went to over there to LawlessVille to get the procedure done, which would kind of parallel the show where they had to go somewhere outside federation space.  And so Julian has all the same guilt going on about the clone that died in his stead.  

Sorry, I’ve been low key following this stuff and I think it’s so cool, sorry for barging in.   

Anonymous asked:

Thank you so much for running this blog! I didn't see a search function, but I did my best to go through your drowning tag. What I can't seem to find anywhere (including google) is how much liquid it takes for a person to drown. The scenario is captured MC can control water but is new to it, and there isn't that much around so the plan is to have the villain breathe in the humidity but not let him breathe it out. Just trying to figure out how long it would take.

scriptmedic answered:

Hey there nonny! First, all Tumblr-native blogs have a search function; on ScriptMedic it’s at the top left of the page (browser) or the top right of the page (app). 

However, I’ve never answered an ask quite like this one, which makes it really exciting! 

The volume it takes someone to drown can be deceptive, because something called a dry drowning is possible! That’s an event where the character is going to drown, and their body actually snaps shut the larynx – the voicebox. Laryngospasm keeps water from getting in, but it also keeps air from getting in or out, and they can suffocate from this even if they’re out of the water already. 

There’s also secondary drowning, where a character can survive a near-drowning for a few hours, then drown in their own fluids. What happens is that the lungs get irritated by the water that’s in them and the capillaries dilate, and the lungs flood themselves with fluid. It’s called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or ARDS. 

However, you talked about using humidity to drown a character, and I think that’s a really interesting idea. Unfortunately, I’m not entirely certain it would work. 

The human body really wants the air it breathes to be humid. It’s very important, because the inner lining of the airways needs to be kept moist. Part of why we breathe in through our noses is that the turbinates not only filter the air, but they warm and humidify it, too. One of the biggest components to being a respiratory therapist – the people in hospitals who manage ventilators – is that because we bypass this vital system when we intubate somebody, they actually have to work very hard to make sure that the air that enters an intubated character’s lungs is warm and humid to the correct level. 

But I don’t think you can drown anyone with humidity. 

Here’s why. Air will only support so much water dissolved into it; water is heavy, and air is a gas, and there’s a saturation point at which the humidity simply falls out of the air as water. I simply don’t think even 100% humidity is enough water to drown someone. 

As to the actual volume of water needed to directly drown the lungs – if, magically, water came into the airway below the larynx and started to fill it? There are a few numbers this could be, but I can’t put 100% truth to any of them. 

Humans exchange gas along about 6 mL/kg of space within the alveoli, or about 480mL in an 80kg adult (176lbs). There’s also what’s known as anatomical dead space, which is basically the amount of a breath where no gas exchange occurs, and that’s about 2mL/kg, or 160mL in an 80kg adult. Total volume is something like 640mL. 

But I would wager it would take only half of this to actually cause enough drowning to significantly impair gas exchange to the point of death, immediate or eventual. That’s about 320mL, or about 11 US fluid ounces. 

Basically, a can of soda will kill this character, but it can’t simply come in by inhaling steam, mist, or humidity. 

Best of luck, nonny! 

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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cosmictuesdays asked:

So in a DS9/Vorkosigan saga crossover, would Bashir be Betan or Cetagandan? I'm leaning towards Cetagandan, myself.

eponymous-rose answered:

Ooh, good question! Except, for some utterly bizarre reason, I picture him as being Jacksonian, and really frustrated about it (to the point where he goes out of his way to make people think he’s Betan). I think, in a universe where a certain amount of genetic engineering is pretty much expected, you’ve gotta find your conflict in how it was done, and for a Jacksonian, that answer is almost sure to be “illegally and immorally”, which maybe parallels Bashir’s case a little more than the others would. (Was he engineered with the expectation that he’ll get a clone’s brain at some point down the line? Something like that.) Cetaganda’s got the whole gene-splicing thing going on, and goodness knows Bashir’s got the haut-look about him, but there’s something a bit too distant and removed and self-satisfied about that process for it to fit Bashir’s case, IMO. And Beta just doesn’t quite have the conflict inherent in it. Hmm. Yeah, Jacksonian, I think!

[cosmictuesdays]

Technically, anything done on the Whole is lawless, not illegal. A fine but important designation.

And like I said - this gives me the good kind of shudders. Bashir walking around knowing someone wants to stick their brain into his body is exactly the proper tone of creepy.