The Question I've Been Asking Is Why Sandra Newman Decided To Go With Julia Instead Of Winston Smith's

Today I started separating my 2900+ likes into various sideblogs just so I can keep track of them all, and I appear to have accidentally created an architecture sideblog.

Befitting my WWI obsession, I’d kill for a chocolate cake in the shape of a British Mark V. I want a goddamn rhomboid prism of cake, and I want it now.

I want a T-14 cake for my birthday sometime. I think the T-14 is among the more cake-like modern tanks, and also I am a Russian nationalist,

I’m not gonna lie; I got a little caught up when I saw that Picard had kept that banner in the Picard trailer.

Ah, but you see:

1. Any man can go out and buy one cake and spend something like US$12 on a cake, but it takes a man of true genius and cunning to steal US$480 worth of cake and not even get a police reprimand.

2. For Lex, it’s not enough that he has forty cakes. EVERYONE ELSE MUST HAVE ZERO CAKES!!!

And That’s Terrible!

I’m just reblogging this to tag on a recommendation for Gemma Files’ novel Experimental Film, a horror story about Lady Midday and the forgotten world of hobbyist silent filmmakers at the dawn of the 20th century. (Plenty of female characters to boot as well!)

The ray of blazing, scorching, devouring sunshine.

This is excellent commentary, but I would argue about your interpretation of Mirror Garak. In her series of blog posts about DS9 @abigailnussbaum argued that one of Garak’s central tragedies was that he was someone who believed in the ideals of his society, but was smart enough and cynical enough that he could never believe in them wholeheartedly. I would say that Mirror Garak is someone who either never had those doubts or taught himself to ignore them, becoming the good little soldier who steadily advances in rank even if his society marches him off a cliff. It’s not for nothing that Mirror Garak is a boilerplate Cardassian military goon instead of an Obsidian Order agent. (Additionally, Andrew Robinson noted in the DS9 companion that he played Mirror Garak as a “toady opportunist,” and he never had that much affection for that iteration of the character.)

One thing I treasure about this parallel in TOS is that it reminds us that being a “good person,” while it can ultimately become part of our being, is a series of constant, difficult choices. We are shaped by our experience and circumstances, and choosing to do good is more difficult in some situations and for some people than others.

It’s much more admirable knowing that Jim makes the choice over and over again to do the “good” thing, despite everything that has happened to him, so that he becomes the person the people who know him best think of as having an unassailable goodness, rather than just making a simple claim that some people are born to goodness and some are not. This extends to every character on the show, and into our own lives.

Goodness is not who we are, it’s what we do. Eventually, those actions become “what kind of people” we are. Knowing the other choice was possible makes the decision more meaningful.

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

Daily Kuvira #46 - memes never end

When you can’t remember if you locked your giant killer robot.

In my mind, this is the main theme for the late-’90s modern-fantasy real-time strategy game that depicts Kuvira’s campaign to unify the Earth Kingdom.

Legend of Korra - Kuvira theme song | cover by ForTiorI

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Jeremy Zuckerman forwarded me this badass, modern metal cover of his Kuvira theme by ForTiorl. I’m confident a certain badass, modern metalbending militaristic dictator would dig it too.