My brother asked me what Deep Space Nine is about, and none of the sane answers I could give (family? war? terrorism? hijinks?) were wrong. But how could I tell him it's about Benjamin Sisko (it's all about Benjamin Sisko) existing in the moment Jennifer dies just as he exists "now", whatever "now" means. It's about Benny Russell being real and imagined and the dreamer and the dream. It's about the Prophets existing outside of time it's about God's plan really being God's map, because if time isn't linear and everything happens at once then a Prophecy is just a History we can't yet see. It's about a parallel "mirror" universe based on a single interaction between a single human and a single Vulcan happening differently and sprouting a different history with different prophets and different prophecies. It's about Sisko being a human and a prophet and an emissary to a people he hadn't heard of until he joined the space navy. It's about a dead father phasing through reality to say hi to his son. It's about the son killing himself and turning back time so both he and his father will live. It's about Ben leaving his pregnant wife to go save the alpha quadrant, which he'd already done and had yet to do. And it's about him promising to come back, tomorrow, yesterday, a hundred years from now, and all are true and none are true because It's Not Linear.

I told him it's about baseball, mostly. I think that sums it up.

I Will Tell this Story to the Sun Until You Remember that You are the Sun, Erin Slaughter

So stay with me, I need all the heroes I can get.

did you ever consider becoming a literary writer rather than a fantasy writer? w

I don’t think I ever wanted to be anything more than a storyteller and a writer. Other people can decide where the books get shelved.

he’s doing his best

I know a lot of people think of Cardassians as being reptilian, but I don't think there's anything specifically in canon saying that, so consider:

Scales

Prefers heat

Apparently mammals

My suggestion:

You are welcome for any mental picture you may now have of Garak curling up into a ball when threatened.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on…when in your heart you begin to understand…there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep…that have taken hold.

- twenty seconds earlier -

engineer: do you want me to beam you to the bottom of the stairs, captain?

jim: no, beam me to the middle of them. i want to make a dramatic entrance

Luke Skywalker + the struggle

The Force is with you, young Skywalker. But you are not a Jedi yet. - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

BRENDAN FRASER as RICK O’CONNELL ⤷ THE MUMMY (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

ITS A SPIN OFF OF STARGATE SG1 WHICH WAS A TELEVISION REBOOT OF A 1994 MOVIE. YOU SEE AN EXPEDITION IS SENT ON A ONE WAY MISSION THROUGH THE STARGATE TO FIND THE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS IN A DIFFERENT GALAXY. THE MAIN CAST IS A SCIENTIST THAT SEXUALLY HARASSED A BELOVED SG1 CHARACTER, A DIPLOMAT WHO HAD TO BE RECAST BETWEEN SG1 SEASONS, A MAYBE NOT ACTUALLY BROODING BUT CLEARLY TRAUMATIZED CHOSEN ONE, A WOMAN WHO CAN KILL YOU WITH HER BARE HANDS, AND AN ANGEL BABY THEY WRITE OFF AFTER ONE SEASON. OH AND JASON MOMOA. THE MAIN VILLAINS ARE SPACE VAMPIRES THAT SUCK YOUR LIFE FORCE OUT WITH THEIR HANDS AND MILES O’BREIN. IT’S ABOUT FOUND FAMILY BUT ACTUALLY MOSTLY ABOUT COMMITTING WAR CRIMES

Okay finished The Mummy Returns. Thoughts are as follows:

Not as good as the first one but it still SLAPPED

It was a delightful change for the main couple in a sequel to be married and happy with a kid and still VERY in love with each other

Evy and Rick's kid is SO them, with a little bit of Jonathan sprinkled in (not unlike how I picture Jacen Syndulla)

Ardeth Bay 😍

But seriously that man is so gorgeous he uses guns and a sword and has an accent and a hawk and stayed behind to help Rick find his son I love their dynamic and I love him

ODED FEHR as Ardeth Bay The Mummy Returns (2001) dir. Stephen Sommers

Oded Fehr as ARDETH BAY — THE MUMMY (1999) & THE MUMMY RETURNS (2001)

ACQUIRED

Daniel Jackson moments that are  👀 😳 💦