Star Trek: The Next Generation // S05E02: Darmok

“God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.” - Nerv

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“Breathe. You’re going to be okay. Breathe and remember that you’ve been in this place before. You’ve been this uncomfortable and anxious and scared, and you’ve survived. Breathe and know that you can survive this too. These feelings can’t break you. They’re painful and debilitating, but you can sit with them and eventually, they will pass. Maybe not immediately, but sometime soon, they are going to fade and when they do, you’ll look back at this moment and laugh for having doubted your resilience. I know it feels unbearable right now, but keep breathing, again and again. This will pass. I promise it will pass.”

— Daniell Koepke

Sauce: https://xkcd.com/2444/

Sadly relevant.

Let's keep going.

Ben, think about your daughter.

Think about her as a teenager. And she comes to you. "Daddy, I need your help. I'm pregnant. And it was an adult you know."

Or think about her as woman, happily married and she tells you that you will be a grandfather. But several months in, the fetus isn’t viable. "Daddy, I need your help, the doctors won't do anything until I'm the one dying." As she's left in pain for hours or days as her body rejects the fetus without medical support.

And the only response you have is, "I did this to you too."

Or like a hypocritical coward you run her to a state that protected her body autonomy because you made yourself rich bamboozling people into your toxic rhetoric. At the end, your daughter still suffered your actions.

I love NaNoWriMo. Been trying since 2008 on and off when time allows. I haven't won it yet but I just enjoy the exercise of writing new characters and settings. Had to get the notebook for the art and for sending some money to a cool organization. I'm debating some new ideas for NNWM this year...

I just wanna be the bad girl who makes the good boys bad

anyway my hot take is that the modern night-of live reporting model is bad and probably should be illegal. democracy is not a spectator sport and the fact that news outlets are allowed to exploit partial vote counts for ratings is ghoulish. there is nothing you can learn the night of a major election that has greater value than waiting the several days to a week that it will take, and always has taken, for the final vote totals to be established

I used to love writing magical girl stories. Discovering powers and figuring out how to use them.

Mysterious side characters. Could they be enemies? Could they be friends? I usually don't know until we get there lol

Writers/Authors, what are your favorite tropes to write and why?