Talk Street Magic To Me

Thought experiment: the crew of a hypothetical Star Trek style TV show that’s been deliberately contrived to cause as many arguments as possible between canon-conscious fanfic authors.

A chief engineer whose facial appearance is apparently shockingly unusual, but whose face is never actually seen. The engineering deck is often obscured by steam, and their responsibilities frequently require them to wear a full-face protective shield, while any time they’re encountered outside of engineering they’re shot exclusively from the back, or with some foreground object conveniently blocking their face. There’s a running gag where any time someone tries to describe them they just can’t seem to come up with the right word.  

A tactical officer who may or may not actually have a name. Unlike the chief engineer, above, no conspicuous concealment ever occurs; the show’s plot and dialogue are simply structured so that their name just happens never to come up, in such a way that a given audience member might not notice until someone points it out to them. The character is, of course, one half of the show’s primary canon ship. The show’s supplementary material is likewise phrased in such a way that the character’s name is never stated, with the character’s actor being credited as “also featuring”.  

A chief medical officer who manages to deploy a strangely topical anecdote from their implausibly extensive prior career in nearly every episode. These anecdotes are careful never to directly contradict each other, but in aggregate form a personal history which cannot conceivably be true. The possibility that they’re just spinning tall tales is ruled out by the fact that their anecdotes are frequently corroborated by comments from other crew members who’ve either heard about the incident in question or were present themselves for some (generally unspecified) reason.  

A communications officer and a science officer who are played by the same actor. They’re never seen on screen together, even while off duty. (e.g., at any gathering where one of them appears, the other “couldn’t make it”.) The circumstances that prevent them from ever being in the same room are often set up to lead the audience to suspect that they’re looking at one character pretending to be two separate people for some unspecified reason, but only characters who aren’t members of the crew ever notice the fact that they’re identical apart from the colour of their uniforms; the other crew members simply don’t see the resemblance.  

The captain, who appears in every single episode and often plays a central role in the plot, yet has no regular actor, being portrayed by an endless parade of guest stars. Their age, gender, and overall appearance is usually wildly different from episode to episode, though they always wear the same distinctive headgear in order to allow the audience to easily recognise them. This is apparently a diegetic phenomenon, as other characters will occasionally comment in passing on the captain’s current appearance, but the phenomenon is otherwise so unremarkable to them that its significance is never discussed.

I've started to actually get excited for school starting, I spend a lot of time online reading scientific papers about my favorite weeds, and I think I want to study weeds forever.

Apparently it's an ongoing mystery why dandelions in North America are so diverse, when all dandelions that have been found so far are apomicts that reproduce only by cloning themselves.

However, any given site will have many distinct dandelion genotypes, with many different traits.

For example, a site might have one dandelion strain that blooms primarily in fall, and another that blooms primarily in spring.

One theory is that there's new genetic information constantly coming in from Eurasia somehow. Apparently dandelion seeds can spread on the wind 150 KILOMETERS! Perhaps some are just blown across the ocean in a storm? But if that's the case, why weren't dandelions found all over North America already when European settlers came?

The other theories are that there are sexually reproducing dandelions here that we just haven't found yet, and that they somehow make new diversity very rapidly purely through mutations and recombination and such.

Getting Spiritually Unstuck

I think this is something that a lot of people go through. Sometimes it is like hitting a brick wall, and sometimes it is waking up realizing you’ve actually been stuck for days. The latter is how I realized I was stuck. Life got busy and I hadn’t even noticed what happened until I felt emptier than usual. Then the light bulb went off.

They way I see it, once you realize that you are stuck, you can do one of two things:

A. You can continue doing what you are doing. or B. You can do something different.

Here are some of the things I plan to do:

Meditation- I plan to meditate in general and specifically on envisioning what being spiritual looks like for me.

Reading- Sometimes books just spark something within. I plan to revisit some of these books and maybe check out some new ones.

Spend some time decompressing- This will look different for everyone. For me this could range from taking a long shower to playing video games.

Change your environment- For me, this means rearranging things or going out in nature. Sometimes this can mean taking a vacation or trying a new shop in town.

Get insight and clarity- I plan to use some of my decks to help me to gain insight and clarity as to why I am stuck and what I can do.

Do your spiritual or religious practices anyway- For me this is going to be about finding a set of practices that I can stick with.

Some other things may include:

Interacting with spiritual or religious individuals- Sometimes they can be a source of inspiration or motivation.

Praying or speaking to the spirits or deities in your life.

Eat healthier.

Exercise.

Seek guidance.

Seek inspiration.

And many others!

I may make individual posts to go into each of these- what I do and how I find that it helps me.

i have proof that not only norrington, but jack and will, are bisexual and it's this scene

ok so here's my sources:

1. all three men are sword-fighting. sword-fighting is a euphemism for touching tinkies

2. elizabeth says "let's just haul out our swords and start banging away at each other". banging is another word for shagging. which is to say. fucking

3. the scene is literally called melee à trois when you go to select the scene on the dvd like ménage à trois do i actually have to say anything more

All words are spells in one way or another.

(via ladystardvst)

Blender - mingling with others; stirring up energy

Cookbook - Book of Shadows, excellence, virtue

Cookie Tin - sweet things in life; pleasure

Crisper - invigoration and restoration

Cupboards - storage; savings; supplies; providence

Dish Towel - determined precision

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