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S2E25: Bread and Circuses ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹
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THIS IS SO TRUE LMAO... every time
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imagining your otp doing the forehead touch is literally the most important thing in the whole world. everybody take a second and stop scrolling and imagine your otp doing the forehead touch. okay. you can move on now.
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You know how in some fics they have Spock getting drunk from chocolate or sucrose and so when someone gives him hot chocolate or candy, he just gets fuckkkked up. I really want to read like a reverse(?) version of that trope where they go to Vulcan and Spock gives Jim or Bones a random vulcan fruit but it turns out the human body converts that fruit into ethanol. And it's just like the humans are happily eating a fruit salad, and then suddenly they're like wtf is happening why am I drunk 🥴
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“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend
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the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating
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T'Pau: no, spock, I will not allow any more vulcans to marry aliens. you see what happened to your father
Spock:
T'Pau: I will make an exception, he looks very polite
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At first, I thought you were a constellation
I made a map of your stars, then I had a revelation
You're as beautiful as endless
You're the universe I'm helpless in
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spirk as professors at starfleet academy would be just like that one married professors story where spock never discusses his personal life and kirk always yaps about his husband and every student is completely shocked when spock casually after month mentions 'my partner, Professor Kirk-' because first of all youre married? second of all its KIRK?
I think of my attention as little ants surrounding a slice of butter. My ants are unified. They attack one piece of butter at a time.
Anyway, this butter is about two seemingly contradictory books: Grit by Angela Duckworth (given to me by my dad in my early 20s) and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert which was recommended by Marie Kondo who I really like.
Grit is a very serious book, based on studies conducted by the author herself as well as her esteemed colleagues. Here is some advice from Grit:
- Cultivate a single passion so that you can become an expert in your field and find purpose.
- It does not matter if you are talented. Talent may be helpful at the beginning, but hard work and loyalty to a passion surpasses talent every time.
- You must not be intimidated by your passion. Instead of thinking about a pot, and fussing over the pot’s design, and what materials you will use to make the pot, make a pot. Make a thousand pots without trying to make the best pot in the world; just enjoy yourself. Your ten thousandth pot will be an impressive pot. Much more impressive than the pot you spent years fussing about.
On the other hand, Big Magic suggests that becoming an expert in your field should not be your goal. She uses a tragic example of Harper Lee who wrote one novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and nothing else for more than five decades. In 1962, when Lee was asked how she felt about the possibility of ever writing another book, she replied, “I’m scared.” She also said, “When you’re at the top, there’s only one way to go.” Oh sure, then why bother creating anymore? Gilbert argues that creative living is the vocation, not the success or the expertise. “I wish that, right after Mockingbird and her Pulitzer Prize, [Lee] had churned out five cheap and easy books in a row—a light romance, a police procedural, a children’s story, a cookbook, some kind of pulpy action-adventure story, anything. You might think I’m kidding, but I’m not. Imagine what she might have created, even accidentally, with such an approach.”
The butter is the slight overlap of these two interesting books: the vocation to fearlessly churn out 10,000 pots for the fun of it.
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The Ring of Soshern
Hey! I'm really interested in fandom history and archiving, so when I heard of The Ring of Soshern (by Jennifer Guttridge, glory to mother slash) I was like 'ooh! yes! this sounds great!'
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find anything- until I stumbled upon this tumblr post by @princenimoy which contained a dropbox file of a scanned copy of the fanzine Alien Brothers, published in 1987, which contained an unauthorized copy of TROS. I acquired the Alien Brothers zine file in its entirety, which I'm saving in my own personal archive.
I don't know how true-to-form this copy is, since the zine editor, Helena Seabright, said that she did edit authors' works before publishing the zine, and since it was an unauthorized copy, Guttridge obviously never got to review the final copy. HOWEVER, it is a copy, which is much better than nothing.
I am currently transcribing it into a more readable (and screen-reader accessible) format, which might take a while. I'm making minor grammatical edits, but no edits which would actually change/affect the story. I will post it here when I'm done, in whatever format I figure out to be the best for sharing it.
As princenimoy says in the original post, the actual zine is (as far as I know still) archived as
Alien Brothers #1 [Seabright Publishing: H. Seabright, ed., 1987]; Box #51 of the “Media Fanzine Collection - Fully Processed, 1967-2016″. Kelsey Reading Room, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives Texas A&M University, Main Campus (room access is by appointment only) as I have a four-day weekend, the transcription should (should!) be done by Monday. I make no promises, but I will try to hold myself to this.
huge thanks to princenimoy, btw, I probably never would have found this if not for them.
A transcription would be super helpful to people who are blind. I wish there was a central place to host it like ao3 (I have tried) but because the author 1) never gave her permission for RoS to be in Alien Brothers in the first place and 2) is now deceased with no known next of kin, it makes things very complicated. And even if there was a way to get permission from her next of kin, there is the additional layer of how unethical it would be to "out" Jennifer as a Spirk writer to her likely oblivious offspring.