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I don’t know much about opera in general, but I always thought stories about power struggles in the Kremlin in the days of the Soviet Union would make good opera fodder. Larger than life personalities, plots and counterplots, occasional bloodshed; how could it miss?

Hey, there’s an opera about Nixon’s visit to China; anything’s possible nowadays.

Weird Operas

What are some things you think would make good opera plots?  Pull from whatever source- anime, pro-wrestling storylines, telenovelas, whatever.  What’s the season program for the Martian Opera House?

Incredible, but true: @coppermarigolds deserves to have a good day today.

Not only that, but if you don’t enjoy the podcast you’re probably a prokaryotic organism.

If you’ve never listened to an anime club podcast please try to listen to the Wixoss podcast. I know Betterman was definitely a hard sell, but Wixoss rules.

But also go back and listen to the Betterman podcast sometime. If you don’t I guarantee your T-Cells are fucking weak,

I thought my parent’s cat Archie was really serious about his breadmaking, but this is a whole other level. (His brother Claude, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to knead that much.) Also, Bodhi is getting so big!!! <3

I remember back in the day when this blanket used to be mine…

Something to keep in mind when watching ENT is that Archer is a contemporary of all those starship captains from the late 22nd and early 23rd century that got their crews killed or committed horrendous Prime Directive violations that Kirk and Picard had to clean up a century or two later. Hell, Archer’s probably the one who gave the Iotians that gangster book.

Captain Archer’s smugness is so annoying. Especially because he is so wrong. They go down to the planet and all get high and paranoid off some chemicals in the air, and Trip tries to kill T’Pol.. You know, chemicals that they might have detected with a probe, but fuck caution you know

“Order.

Kuvira is driven by a fierce desire to protect and guide the citizens of the Earth Kingdom and persistent on achieving national unity through the use of military force. She displays mastery in the use of metalbending, and also demonstrates considerable physical strength.” Art by KDEJ.

The mirror universe, transporter accidents, other parallel universes, time travel, cloning technology operated by unscrupulous doctors and scientists, the holodeck...the list goes on and on.

The “would you fuck your clone?” question is so uncomfortably real in Star Trek because of the Mirror Universe.

RULES: answer 30 questions and tag 10 blogs you are contractually obligated to know

@coppermarigolds​ tagged me for this a few days back, so here we go!

Nicknames: My dad used to call me “Booder” (”Büder”?) when I was a little kid, but I haven’t heard that in years. I suppose either a contraction of my first name or my middle name could be used as nicknames, but I’m a stickler for my full first name. Gender/pronouns: He/him.

Star sign: Taurus.

Height: About 5′ 8″, or 173 cm.

Time: 1904h.

Birthday: April 24th. Favorite bands: mind.in.a.box, VNV Nation, Nine Inch Nails.

Favorite solo artist: Moby.

Song stuck in your head: “Hell March 2″ by Frank Klepacki. Kicks as much ass in 2018 as it did in 2000.

Last movie you watched?: The Prophecy, a weird movie about a second war in Heaven from 1995 that spawned a bunch of crummy direct-to-DVD sequels. It’s not very good, but it’s worth it to see Christopher Walken ham it up as the Archangel Gabriel along with Viggo Mortensen as the malevolently prissy Father of Lies himself.

Last show?: I actually don’t remember, it’s been that long since I’ve watched a series.

Why did you create your blog?: I wanted to get in contact with someone on Tumblr and find a way to keep track of all the nice pictures/meta I found.

What do you post?: I’m more about collecting than creating on this platform, so I really only post the occasional reblog.

Last thing you googled?: “Cryostasis digital download.” Still no longer available. I fortunately bought it on DVD when it was still in stores, but it kinda sucks to not have a backup option. :(

Other blogs: I spend most of my time on a more traditional blog, but since it’s in my real name I won’t be linking it here. I am thinking about starting up some other tumblrs in the near future just to organize all my likes into something easier to sort.

AO3: “karakhan,” with only one story (for the moment).

Do you get asks?: Nope.

How did you get the idea for your URL?: There’s a Ukrainian horror shooter called Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason set on a haunted Soviet icebreaker that I like to play this time of year. My URL is a combination of the protagonist’s last name, meteorologist Alexander Nesterov, and the year the game takes place, 1981 (or 1969...it’s complicated).

I follow: 99 tumblrs and 28-30 blogs.

Followers:  1 person and 3 invisible pornography robots. :p

Average hours of sleep: Between 6 and 11, which really isn’t very good.

Lucky number: 4.

Instruments: Back in middle and high school, I moved from the French horn to the clarinet, and then to the piano, and for the longest time I was working on the bagpipes. Unlike my siblings, I eventually drifted away from music entirely, and in retrospect I wish I had taken drama instead.

What are you wearing?: Ratty blue sweatsuit.

Dream job: Seriously, a novelist who can support himself through writing. Less seriously, revolutionary autocrat who is both worshiped and feared by all. ;)

Dream trip: Oh, so many. There’s the trip to Moscow, because it’s Moscow. There’s the trip to Minsk, just to see a place that looks a little more like the old Soviet Union. And finally, there are trips to see the tundra and the desert which don’t have set destinations, though the desert will probably be

Favorite food: A tossup between ribs and burgers, with deviled eggs wedged in there somewhere. I have very proletarian tastes.

Significant other?: I wish.

Last book I read: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, because it was Christmas.

Top 3 fictional universes: I’ve always found the strange totalitarian world George Orwell built for Nineteen Eighty-Four to be fascinating on an intellectual level, even though I’d never want to live there. On a more optimistic note, I also love the TNG-era Star Trek universe and the world of The Legend of Korra, even if my opinions and ideas about that one differ wildly from Bryke’s. :p

Once again, I will forgo from tagging because, as I’ve said, I don’t know anyone here.

Very disappointing. That’s nowhere near enough shuttlecraft for Voyager. I demand at least 42 shuttlecraft crammed into that bay. Oceans of shuttlecraft. Shuttlecraft without end.

Star Trek Voyager Game Project