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1. Tom gets stuck in a hotdog costume at a ship's baseball game, and the usual nonsense ensues.


2. Title: Angel's Deadly Spurt


3. Tags: Im shit at rating shit but it has sex in it :/, Abrupt Ending, like theres a missing part


4. There is mention of butchering dead livestock (briefly), so if you're PETA, no real animal was harmed in the writing of this story.


5. Disclaimer: Same as always. M/m, Paramount, high oak tree, necktie party, broke as a church mouse, need a life, wish I was God Emperor of Dune, satisfied with little, needful of therapy, could lose a little weight, voted in the last election, got some back on the income tax, facing menopause with a brave smile, seeking enlightenment, wishing I had a handicapped parking sticker, glad I don’t need one, thinking summer isn’t for sissies, waiting for Godot, wondering who the hell he *really* is, not taking any wooden nickels, wondering if I could find any on ebay, wishing I was in Rome, knowing I’ll always have (Tom) Paris, and considering a tattoo. On my tongue.

1. Warnings: Not sure yet


2. Will probably have more holes in the plot than a Swiss cheese and more mistakes than usual.


3. Summary: A short tale of hot bodies for hire, lust crazed jealousy, a wager that goes wrong and most importantly, chocolate.
   


4. Summary: The BDSM is imagined at the very most! I couldn't write a BDSM if my life depended on it.
   Warnings: BDSM


5. Don't read if you like fluffy, Canon based characters

"Everything you are is a threat to us... the Kazon fought long and hard for their independence from uniforms like yours"

"Your uniforms... your laws... your technology... you are not welcome here."

Executive producer Michael Piller was displeased with the depiction of the Kazon in Biller's first draft of the episode; where they were supposed to be analogous to street gangs in Los Angeles, they were instead "coming across as warmed-over Klingons." In addition to J[e]ri Taylor's already extensive notes on the draft, Piller suggested Biller get in touch with actual gang members or a police officer who could better clue the writer into street gang culture for the episode. Instead, Biller picked up a copy of Monsta, a book by convicted murderer and former gang member "Monsta" Cody. The book's insight into gang life and culture was a guiding light for Biller's second draft, which he worked up with Piller, endeavoring to set the Kazon apart "from Romulans, Cardassians, and Klingons."[8] wikipedia

Michael Piller commented, "Here we were, on the first day of prep and Ken started rewriting that script based on my feelings that we had to get to the guts of what drove the Kazon and they had to be different from Romulans and Cardassians and Klingons." Piller concluded, "It was a choice of settling, or doing what I considered excellent work. The bottom line is we had a better show, because Ken did research."

[...]

This episode's story itself was a problematic one for director Winrich Kolbe. He explained, "Storywise it was not the most interesting show I've ever done. It was a push. My problem with the Chakotay character was that I wanted to forget the Indian aspect and make him the Maquis that he was supposed to be. I knew Chakotay would have to eventually cooperate on the ship, but I hoped he would do it unwillingly most of the time. I talked to the writers about it, why we weren't playing that conflict. They went with the Indian thing, which was kind of intriguing, but in my opinion, never paid off because it was done too subtly." memory alpha

1. [tags] some anal sex [Ed.: waxjism and I had an entire conversation about when this tag could be useful. Like, if you don't want anal sex, any amount is bad, and this will still trigger the filter. So is it for people who want anal sex, but only TONS of anal sex?]



2. [tags] fic about pepsi cola and mentions of others [Ed.: I haven't read it, but I like to imagine the "others" are other colas. Like, Coke and then a couple of different store brands.]


3. [End Notes:] see, this is part of a different thing, so it might not make sense (esp. with the thing about dave and john and stuff.) sorry about it. i`m not gonna answer any questions about it, because i might post it later.


4. [End Notes:] *Note that I have no idea the mechanics of dick piercings or sex with them so...yeah*

• Great Ladies of Jazz and Great Ladies Sing the Blues, my favorite compilations (That's my actual #1 and #2 desert island record, and has been for ~15 years)


• My Chemical Romance (TBP & Danger Days) & FOB (Folie a Deux & Save Rock and Roll)


• The Killers - Battle Born, Day & Age, and Hot Fuss


• Janelle Monáe, Florence and the Machine, Ellie Goulding, Marina & the Diamonds


• Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob


• Alex Winston - King Con (Detroit indie retro pop)


• Gold Motel (this is Greta's post-Hush Sound solo project, and my phone contains all the tracks except a couple of covers)


• I:Scintilla - Optics and Dying & Falling (Chicago indie industrial metal electronica)


• Kent - En plats i solen, Jag är inte rädd för mörkret & Röd (Swedish rock band) (Oh apparently they have a new album I should buy)


• Chisu - Kun Valaistun & Vapaa ja Yksin (A Finnish pop singer-songwriter)


• A Tribe Called Red - A Tribe Called Red and Nation II Nation (3 Canadian NDN djs who remix native music, it's awesome)

• Higher education (every other first-world country manages for it to not be a giant scam)


• The prison system (for-profit prisons, racial inequality, prisoner abuse)


• Law enforcement (racism, misogyny, corruption)


• The entire criminal justice apparatus (i.e. further gaps between reported and prosecuted crimes, jury verdicts like the Trayvon Martin case)


• Any and all types of social security (i.e. it is almost nonexistent)


• Military spending (why is it greater than the next ten biggest spenders put together and why is it STILL INCREASING)


• Disgracefully shitty treatment of actual military veterans (even more nauseating when you look at the amount of faux-patriotic jingoism spewed by the same conservatives who don't want to care for vets)


• Gun control (every other first-world country is managing a lot better)


• Campaign finance (enough said)


• Banks (Wall Street, discriminatory loan practices)


• Real estate market (still horrifyingly enforcing segregation)


• Public education (it sucks, it's under-financed, and all the test-focused policies are just making it worse)


• Regulation of food and food labelling (meat and milk pumped full of antibiotics and hormones, shoddy hygiene and inspection, known carcinogens that are used anyway and which manufacturers aren't required to warn about)


• Medicine (hospital management and doctor salaries but also the med school system)


• Public transport (largely missing)


• Minimum wage (outrageously low)

I saw a post about the mass shooting epidemic, something like "There's nothing we can do, says the only country where this regularly happens", and it got me thinking... this attitude is basically true of almost every area of public policy I can think of.

After having lived in Finland for 10 years, I can only think of 3 areas of public policy where the US is better:

• The US government will not stop you from naming your child what you want to name it, even if it's a non-traditional name. The Finnish government, in contrast, doesn't allow made-up names or names of the wrong gender and you have to make a case to a judge sometimes even to borrow one from another language or country.


• US public schools do not have bible school. But on the other hand, Finnish schools only give this schooling by default to children whose names are already registered by their parents with the church (by virtue of having been baptized there). I mean, I still don't think they should do it; I highly doubt that the elementary teacher education conveys enough expertise to qualify the average teacher to teach it, but if it did, the awful anti-Semitic textbook would be automatic fail anyway.


• A murderer sentenced to life in prison in the US is less likely to be released back into society where he can kill again. This is mostly a side-effect, though, of the fact that he's likely to be put to death (which is bad). There is no such thing as life in prison without parole in Finland (or Sweden or Norway for that matter). The maximum sentence here is... I forget, 20 years or something? The prison/hospital for the criminally mentally ill is the only way and I'm not sure it's even guaranteed. ... And murderers aside, the US tends to let violent and dangerous criminals out to stab and assault again all the time, even though the prisons are stuffed with young black men innocent of anything but, like, driving while black or possessing weed. Plus domestic abusers who attempt to kill their spouses, or who do kill their spouses, tend to be released quickly (or let off scot-free), so it's not like the system actually works in any systematic way.