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"So, as a former intelligence operative, here's what I'm seeing. This isn't paranoia. Her fear is genuine. This woman is out of options and she is asking you to help. Only you. Damn it. You have to go."
- Laris
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While time cannot give us second chances, maybe people can.
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Pixie Recaps Picard | The Next Generation
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Exterior: Chateau Picard. Sunset.
Jean-Luc Picard is walking up through the vineyard toward the house. Beverly Crusher and Jack Crusher trail behind him.
Number One (canine) barks and bolts down from the porch to meet them, bumping and Jean-Luc's knees as he chuckles fondly. Beverly's eyebrows raise with pleasant surprise.
The door opens, and Laris comes out to Jean-Luc, takes his face in her hands, presses their foreheads together. Inhales. Exhales. Looks up at Jack. Looks back at Jean-Luc.
Beverly stands back, hesitant, guarded. Exhausted.
"Laris, this is..." but she's already past him.
Whips her shawl off her shoulders and around Beverly's in one smooth motion. Takes her hand and guides her up onto the porch and toward the open door.
"Come, I've made some tea."
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Laris/Jean-Luc Picard, Beverly Crusher/Laris/Jean-Luc Picard, Beverly Crusher/Laris, Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard Characters: Beverly Crusher, Jean-Luc Picard, Laris (Star Trek) Additional Tags: They’re a triad., it’s so fluffy! Series: Part 12 of Picard Later Universe Summary:
Jean-Luc knew, now, what true happiness was, and they all wore it quite well.
Source: archiveofourown.org
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Imagine being such a lazy and incompetent writer, that you not only forget to give one character closure but at least two.
Rant incoming:
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PROBABLY
...Laris is probably still out there
...Laris is probably still out there
...Laris is PROBABLY still out there?!
...LARIS IS PROBABLY STILL OUT THERE
WHAT DO YOU MEAN PROBABLY YOU ABSOLUTE POTATO
I know you forgot she existed for all of season three but what's with the PROBABLY
I mean you spent all that time building up a romance between Picard and his HOUSEKEEPER awesome former spy lover and you so thoroughly forgot she existed you're not even sure she's alive anymore?!
YOU POTATO
article quote from here
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Remember when Picard and Laris lived happily ever after and then she was completely forgotten forever after the very first episode of the following season?
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Orla Brady as Laris in STAR TREK: PICARD
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Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around
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“The seeds of today’s political division and reporting began with Ronald Reagan. While lying to the press, Reagan also set out to destroy it. He himself was quoted in the New York Times on Oct. 6, 1985, saying, “A substantial part of the political thing is acting and role playing and I know how to do that.” Of course that’s literally all it is today. What else is different? Well, the press itself is different too. Reagan destroyed the FCC’s “fairness doctrine” and encouraged media consolidation. Decades later, as social media rose to take the place of the corporate media’s diminished role in providing vetted information, the slide accelerated. People hiding behind anonymous handles rather than their actual names hurled insults and threats. Twitter offered “verified” names as a way to combat that — until Elon Musk took over and turned the verification process upside down, once again making anonymous insults and trolls fashionable. Every tool used to legitimize and verify information in the last 40 years has evaporated under the push to make money. Fewer companies own most of the corporate media. Fewer independent news platforms exist — and they often get lumped in with bloggers and trolls. The end result is chaos. Confusion.”
Source: salon.com
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Reblog if reading someone else’s fanfiction has helped you get through a hard day
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You mentioned in a post on my dash that you were old enough to experience real seasons unaltered by climate change. What was that like?
I was young, so it feels like something I read in a book sometimes. I remember how chilly it could get at night in the summer, which doesn't seem to happen as much anymore.
That's actually the thing that seems to keep popping back up in my mind - that like, it was really chilly in the mornings in summer even, and it would warm up, and it seems to just kind of... stay warm all the time.
I dunno. The seasons were more distinct, there were bigger temperature swings on individual days, and like... weather was more predictable on a seasonal basis, if not on a daily basis.
Like... the kind of seasons you read about in Olde Tyme Books? They... were real things. We didn't always have snow on Winter Break, but we had a pretty predictable number of snow days?
And it almost feels silly to talk about it. "What were normal seasons like, Uncle Spider?"
But yeah.
Watch seasonal-based movies made before about 1975 -- ones set around Easter, or Halloween, or New Year’s -- and pay attention to what people are wearing. Late October? It got cold when the sun went down, like ‘put on a jacket’ cold and I’m not talking northern US, I’m talking Georgia.
Today (Aug 18) is only a week before the start of most public schools in the US. A week from now? Back then, it’d already be chilly in the morning, enough to need a windbreaker on the way to school. By midday it would’ve warmed up, but even in Georgia the mornings had a nip to them by end of August, start of September.
And in northern Virginia, not sure about now, but the schools used to plan for ten snow days a year. I recall one year we had eleven days off thanks to a foot or so of fresh snow every two or three days. Even in years we didn’t use all the snow days, there were still frequent late openings and early closings. It wasn’t all that uncommon for summer vacation to start a week later, because those days had to be made up, somewhere.
Locally, this summer has (despite the terrible heat elsewhere in the US) been a strange bit of callback to my childhood. Excepting two nights all summer, every night it’s dropped to 72F at the highest, but most often in the 60s -- with the caveat that it sometimes took half the night to get there. It’s not a sharp drop like I remember, as a child. But at least it has been cool enough to leave the windows open and a fan on -- and that’s the kind of summer I grew up with, in Alabama and Georgia (regions significantly warmer, otherwise, than the mid-atlantic where I live now).
That sharp drop was the reason my dad installed a whole-house fan every place we lived: because the evening air would legitimately drop a good 5-10 degrees as the sun set. Enough to open the windows, run the fan, and the whole house would cool right down by dinnertime.
Now? If we go by last summer, even having a house set up perfectly (central open staircase) for a whole-house fan, what’s the point if the temperature stays just as high after the sun goes down, as it was before?
Yeah, I remember having to wear a coat over my Halloween costume (and being seriously angry about it, because what’s the point of the costume if no one can see it?) and having the windows open in the evenings. Now I don’t dare leave the windows open overnight because it gets so hot so fast in the morning.
I'm in the pacific northwest and while we've had some really freaky weather this year in particular (like, February levels of cold happening in June levels of freaky), overall it has been getting hotter and hotter every year. And yeah, it doesn't really cool down in the evenings in summer anymore. It can be 2 in the morning and still too hot to sleep, and it starts getting unbearably hot before the sun is even all the way risen.
Yeah it was 85 degrees at midnight on Tuesday in Portland this week.
I grew up in Houston in the 1980s.
I was on the swim team and in June, the pool would be chilly at 8am. And we’d freeze at swim meets once the sun went down. July was much hotter. July and August were the only times we’d see it over 100 and those were rare enough that I wasn’t allowed to play outside.
In the winter, freezes were rare and never lasted long. That’s not nostalgia—I remember some years we wouldn’t buy heavy coats.
The weather IS worse. Hotter in the summer and colder in the winter.
Oh yeah. It WAS cold at swim practice in the morning, wasn't it? I was in MD when I was little, but it was like... it was chilly. You really had to stretch and warm up so you didn't hurt yourself from the cold water.
It's still regularly hitting the 90s and even 100s where I'm at. This IS a more deserty area of the state than some others, but it's still not normal for it to stay this hot this long.
I remember having regular WEATHER as a kid. By that I mean sometimes it just rained, and sometimes it just snowed. It wasn't all big storms. We didn't constantly track (and break) records of "when" and "how much."
yeah it wasn’t that big storms didn’t happen - i’m from the midwest, and they certainly did - but there was a predictability to the rhythm of them that feels lost now? i feel like every season anymore i’m wondering will this be a hot winter or is it going to rain at all this spring when it used to be pretty solidly predictable when the leaves would change, when the first snows would hit, when you’d get the spring storms, etc etc. obviously there was always the occasional exceptional storm or season, but… not like now.
It’s not just temperatures, it’s other weather as well. I grew up in central NJ and live in suburban Philly now, and we have had at least a half dozen tornado warnings in the last year and a half. I am 50+ and have never been subject to those before in my entire life living in this area. I used to joke that there’s always a hurricane on my birthday (in mid-September), but looking back there have been at least ten tropical events (tropical storm, depression, or full-on hurricane) on or around that date in my lifetime, which isn’t really that long climate-wise.
My fears, we are well and truly fucked.
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i think i’m gonna b sick i gotta lie down…
Source: twitter.com
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Spock could not accurately describe the sensation he was experiencing. It was new to him. It was as if he had suddenly stepped into the circumference of enveloping warmth. There was a strange tugging wanting to pull him forward, and if he had to compare it to something he might say it was similar to the gravity belonging to a star.
Jim’s mental presence had never felt like this before. What was happening?
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SPOCK in STAR TREK (1966–1969) & STAR TREK (2009)