i'm not sure if this is bias from someone whose only seen voy+ds9 or if it's maybe more due to the setting of ds9 (a place people visit instead of people who visit places) but it is soooo delightful seeing all the PEOPLE!!! all of these unspeaking extras all dressed up in weird costume and extraordinary makeup. all of these aliens so different from one another and yet blending perfectly and harmoniously into the background, entirely irrelevant but no doubt leading unique and interesting lives. that probably sounds contradictory to love seeing the people when the show is no longer about Exploring To Meet People but idk something about ds9 feels different. feels alive and intriguing. maybe ds9 simply cant throw in human extras and call it a day like on a starfleet vessel because that just Is Not The Setting but also maybe ds9 does it willingly. happily. look at all of these different people. so many good unique character gimmicks get used in ds9 namely related to business owners/local workers and we are only so blessed with getting to know a few of them. a spy from the planet of state servitude who is drawn to the mundane and hedonistic self gratification owns a tailoring shop because hes banished from home. a bar tender who gets blackmailed into staying and his cop-vs-criminal dynamic best frenemy the Unknown Sample butt heads every day. all of the bajorans and their religious sites!!!!!! the school!!!!!! a worker from Capitalism Planet forms a union and then quits his job to be a freelance engineer and his sex worker wife who he loves very much. a guy from some sorta warrior culture who instead works as a chef serving live worms to his patrons who'll also burst into song during downtime. all of the shady visitors dealing in illicit substances and goods. all of the weird shapes and colours on these visitors from races whose names we may not even know. one of the starfleet crew guys gives birth to litters and he does this multiple times and some longterm professor on the station has a transparent skull and all this & more is conveyed to us strictly thru crewmembers gossiping about all the strange new different People around them because this show is all about People
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transitioning from a job where it was safe for me to be out and was affirmed every day due to the use of my actual name and pronouns to a job where it isn't safe for me to be out and am constantly deadnamed and misgendered is one hell of an experience
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my anxiety has been like. really bad lately (by lately i mean the last couple months lol) like i am just CONSTANTLY expecting the world to (literally) end and its exhausting and terrifying and then on top of that my cat is stuck inside until her stitches dissolve so she's all antsy and stressed which is making my anxiety worse bc usually i can comfort myself by being like "oh well she's not acting weird so the world isnt about to end" yknow but then she's not acting normal (for very normal reasons) so im like AAAAA and then i think bc im anxious its making her even more antsy so its just a feedback loop of AAAAAAAA
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for the songs would say high school is killing me, bully the bully, bury the bully, go go nighthawk, nerdy prudes must die, hatchet town are my faves
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neighbours "own" a black kitten that they let just roam around the street by itself, no collar, constantly dirty/has mysterious substances stuck in her fur. i doubt she's even chipped or registered. is it ethical for me to steal her when we move out
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