I’m great in bed

Captain Picard has an artificial heart because a member of what species stabbed him?
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Who built C-3PO?
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What does Major Carter give as her cover story for the subject of studies being conducted at Cheyenne Mountain?
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if you want to know where these come from, here are the links (spoilers for a lot of things);
star trek trivia
star wars
stargate: sg-1

way back in jan. of 2019 tumblr cracked down on adult content. a lot of people were looking for a place to go & came here to DW, but thought it was for serious posts only^tm. so sara suggested that the month of febuary be for frivolous posting (more on that in my post here).

it is not mandatory & i'm probably the only person still doing it, but the tradition continues.

this year's theme is star trek, star wars & stargate: sg-1 trivia/quiz type questions that are most likely true. unless someone messed it up.

Who was the first actor to play a member of all three of the major alien races in Star Trek?
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What's the name of Boba Fett's ship?
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In typical situations, what is the longest period of time that a stargate wormhole can be sustained, "give or take a few seconds"?
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the randomizer thing gave me;

understand each other vs. problems of secondary interest

well, i think a lot of our problems in the world come about because we don't understand each other. (sorry, that's kind of serious for a sh*t post).

i could also get into the fandom feuds; star trek vs. star wars, babalon 5 vs. star trek: deep space nine, old star trek vs. new star trek, star wars original trilogy vs. star wars prequel trilogy, the munsters vs. the addams family, marvel vs. DC, everyone vs. furries.

and one could argue those are problems of secondary interest.

on the second episode now, it's still interesting.

i find it hard to believe the girl playing leia is 10. she looks more like an 8 year old. admittedly, my exposure to 10 year olds is limited to when i was 10, being around my classmates and when my brother was 10 3 years later.
according to google, the average height of a 10 year old girl is 4'1" to 4'9". jimmy smits is 6'3" (according to google) so, according to this height comparison site, she would be at least nearly up to his elbow. but in the first episode she looks barely hip high. it doesn't help that they have it so when she runs from the bad guys she can duck and run under things that adults can't, like a 6-8 year old.
and she looks really young too. i don't recall my classmates (or myself) looking that young. of course there was more pollution, kids' parents smoked & there was more chemicals in food then.
i realize that not all 10 year olds are the same, but i keep thinking; "she's 8." while watching the show.

and i don't think that was frank oz voicing yoda in the SW prequel recap in the first episode. he don't voice miss piggy in any muppets thing anymore because he didn't like what disney was doing with the character. so they probably dubbed in someone else so they didn't have to pay him.
speaking of paying people, i wonder if any of the other people in the clips they had in the recap got paid. i doubt it, even tough there's a rule about that now.

from rthstewart this is back from march because i don't check out her DW often.

If you’ve not followed the epic rants on Twitter, a white male pro author (who is apparently pretty good) and the Guardian suddenly discover Narnia fan fic and wildly praise his scintillating tale of the years before Jadis’ rule and the creation of the Stone Table. The article and a separate opinion piece bemoan that this brilliant story cannot be published nor the author compensated for his amazing work because there is that crotchety thing known as property rights in copyrighted material, in this case owned by the Lewis estate. But, the praise continues, this fan fic is SO good, maybe it's time to re-examine copyright laws!

Oh such a tragedy. Men extolled for writing fan fic (so much so that his friends start lobbying for the law to be changed) and women mocked.

she suggested that those who have written fan fic for a long time (or in my case, just dabble a lot) write a "few hundred words extolling your virtues as a fan fic or other creator in fandom."

so i did

portrait of an obscure writer by jo king

you may have stumbled across her work, but may not know her name. i met up with the the internet user known as archersangel at a local panaera bread where i find that she has entered into a self-professed "goth phase" dressed in all in the requisite black; tail coat, t-shirt, leggings, socks, converse high-tops & a piece of black lace holding back her long, wavy, chestnut hair sprinkled with silver. including round, black frame glasses. plus a fair amount of silver jewelry.

aangel, as she is sometimes known, got her start writing in the old sg1_five_things community, a.k.a the pentangular gate on live journal in in august 2007. "started as an anonymous poster & then used my blogspot open-id." where she would write 195 "more or less, i messed up on the numbering." pieces. mostly sg-1, but on occasion something for atlantis or universe. she was devastated when the community folded in november 2012 "i'd pour one out, but i don't drink." she commented sadly.

she admits that she was not the most popular poster, with a disregard for punctuation, capitalization & grammar. "i did get some nice replies & one person admitted to tearing up over 2 recurring dreams & 3 recurring nightmares janet fraiser has so i guess that was something."

during her time posting 5 things in 2009 aangel got a dreamwidth account and stumbled across synecdochic 's challenge to put her original character of jd neilson (the young clone of sg-1's jack o'neill from the episode fragile balance) into other fandoms while hitchhiking. she wrote 2 such stories, numbers 7 & 22 on this list.

after her five things run ended, archersangel resigned herself to never posting fic again. but then discovered a 3-scentnce fic-a-thon run by rthstewart in early 2013 and later that year one run by .caramelsilver aangel confesses to stretching the rules a little. "a run-on sentence is still a stenence." she has written about 3 dozen between the two over the years in a long list of fandoms; star trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, but as of now not ENT) star wars (the original trilogy & the prequels), stargate: sg-1, harry potter, the mummy (1999), a the mummy (1999)/amelia peabody crossover, real person fic "more like historical fiction really.", greek myth, batman (TAS & the burton era movies), buffy the vampire slayer tv series, little women (novel), & even a laura ingalls wilder/wild wild west (tv series) crossover.

after she comes back from refilling her black iced tea, i ask archerangel what other fandoms she might try her hand at. she thinks a moment while tapping a finger with an ebony colored fingernail against ink-stained lips. "maybe the mrs. murphy series by rita mae brown, the midnight louie series by carole nelson douglas, the cat who... series by lillian jackson braun, the sarah kelling series by charlotte macleod, the roma sub rosa series by steven saylor. ncis: new loreans, quantum leam, pehaps the amazing race." she shrugs her shoulders & shakes her head. "and whatever else catches my interest. i guess we'll see."

yes. i'm sure we will.

what can i say that has not been said by others, and better too i'm sure.

i've been thinking of adding some of her books (the princess diarist & surrender the pink) to my ever-growing list of stuff to read some day. i should see if booksfree (now called book lender) has them.

twistedchick has heard that star wars episode VIII is all about leia, which would be a nice tribute. at the very least they need to write a nice dedication of the movie to her.

goodnight sweet (well perhaps not very sweet) princesses.

like it says in the title, the disney princesses as jedi.

by mamalaz 
the modern AU adventures of leia, han, luke & [spoiler] spoilers for the force awakens, if you have been spoiled or seen it yet.