Me to myself when the writer’s block clears.

DOCTOR WHO — The Pilot (S10E01) directed by Lawrence Gough | written by Steven Moffat ››› Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)//dir. Jacques Tourneur

Red Dwarf // S01E05: Confidence & Paranoia

#same, buddy, same

For the purposes of this poll, I think long-term leases count if you're the primary person on the lease.

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An ad for your deepest desires :)

You know what I just admire the graphic design on this

It FEELS so much like a real ad I expect to be sold some sort of car tyre or something but it’s just about biting

1000/10 excellent job

9-1-1 | 5x09 "Past Is Prologue"

Nana Visitor on "MacGyver" (1985)

March 20th - Faramir meets Éowyn in the Houses of Healing

So, how did they keep these clean?

There are millions of windows in Atlantis and, whenever somebody looked through them, I saw no signs of the water stains I currently see adorning my recently washed windows.

As I completed this onerous task I wondered…

There don’t seem to be any windows at SGC, probably not many at Area 51, and Antarctica, well I don’t fancy that job even if there are any.

So, who has clearance? Are there Airforce window cleaners? Or did they put out an ad, ‘Window washers wanted, must like adventure, travel and preferably have no links to Earth’?

Did they have to be multi-taskers? Window washers who were crack shots with P90s or have the ability to solve quadratic equations or broker trade deals?

Why did we never see these people? There had to be rather a lot of them.

I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks about stuff like this. Not window washing per se, but the logistics of running Atlantis. The original group of explorers who were chosen to come had to include more than just soldiers and scientists but quite a few support staff.  I have a feeling that there’s a lot of multi-tasking going on. Peter Grodin, for example always struck me as part admin staff and part scientific staff. I’d assume that the kitchen staff are all military and that almost all of the clean up, after the initial ‘get these 10,000 year old dead plants out of the hallways please’, is a military staff chore. KP is a thing in all branches right? 

Actually, I can’t  see too many of the Marines complaining about washing windows from the outside. A lot of them don’t seem to have balconies so there’s lots of repelling and other feats of daring do, before the buckets are lowered down and they have to get down to the suds and scrubbing.

Now I want a fic darn it. See what you’ve done!

I’m sure there’s lots of complaining happening. Sleep doesn’t seem to be something Marines get often. :)

My first instinct, honestly, was to go the window-washing robot route, but extreme squeegee-ing sounds like a lot more fun. Death-defying squeegee duels right up to staging mock battles. “Oops, the rope holding my bucket slipped.” Spiderman the Window Washer. Pulling faces at the people in the gate room.

And the chore going from the one no one wants to the one everyone wants, because we’ve got enough morale problems, thanks, they can have some fun. Just this once.

You know, thinking about it I’d like to think it was Ford who started the tradition of extreme window washing. John assigns the duty roster to him and Ford didn’t want the guys to think he was shirking so he gave himself and maybe Markham the window washing duty but Ford’s just a kid, as John has pointed out, and they end up having a water fight. And it just kind of evolved - from ropes to bungee cords to outlandish outfits to pranks, etc. Then when Ford was gone they carried on in his memory.  The newbies who show up with Everett but end up staying in the city at first only know Ford because of his violent actions at the end of the siege, but eventually they find out what a kind, funny, goofy kid he really was because there are videos and stories filled with laughter. John doesn’t talk about him much at first, doesn’t share stories, but he does wash windows once a year on Aiden’s birthday. (And one year he does it dressed like Batman because Rodney’s stuck in the infirmary and he wants to cheer him up because he was sad he was going to miss what’s become a traditional way to celebrate Ford’s memory.)

Now look what you’ve done! Atlantis window washing feels. Who’d a thunk it?

Do you want to write this or is it open to all comers? Because my homework is only going to take a couple of hours and I’m waffling between the typical Ford window-memorial (which would be a city-wide holiday) and an anonymous letter to Caldwell penned during the bug!John fiasco defending their window washing practices.

Totally open to all. Ideas are easy, application is hard. (Both of your ideas sound terrific.)

5.11 ⋄ The Drawing of the Dark

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES season one | episode twenty-five; the devil in the dark Mister Spock, you are second in command. This will be a dangerous hunt. Either one of us by himself is expendable. Both of us are not. Captain, there are approximately one hundred of us engaged in this search, against one creature. The odds against you and I both being killed are 2,228.7 to 1. 2,228.7 to 1? Those are pretty good odds, Mister Spock. And they are of course accurate, Captain. Of course. Well, I hate to use the word, but logically, with those kind of odds, you might as well stay.