How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like “mysterious pathogen takes down whole crew” on them? It happened twice in season 1 of TNG & we got it in episode 2 of SNW. (It’s one of my favorite Trek tropes.) 🖖🏻📺
Mood update: the leaden feeling in my heart has been joined by a similar feeling in my stomach.
“As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care about my feelings, Captain, so I don’t waste my time having any.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Memento Mori” 🖖🏻💬
The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to congresspeople.
I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for CaringBridge about the most recent impact of chemo on my mom. My heart is leaden today. At least there’s adaptive technology for sewing without using your feet.
I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of existential threats he faces even as I know he is playing life on easy mode. I struggle with where to begin to take action.
Self-soothing by typesetting my 9 year old New Girl fanfic and it actually looks like a book.
The world is very dismal and I am heartbroken, but my husband is on a meeting talking to people about how he was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream twice. I really love him very much.
Me “well actually"ing last week’s Fansplaining in the car on the way to pick my kid up: “But Elizabeth the ‘In sleep he sang to me’ part is really low, even lower than you sang it. It gets obnoxiously high later.’” 🎙️🎵🎭👻👩🏻🏫
I have extreme MCU fatigue so I’m only going to watch the stuff clearly and closely inspired by comics I’ve actually read and enjoyed. 🍿📺🗯️