Seven of Nine asks B'Elanna Torres for personal assistance. Never knowing the perfect Borg to need assistance of any kind, B'Elanna is intrigued and agrees. What she discovers changes everything she thought she knew--about Seven, about herself, and about life.
ive attempted to draw so many different covers for this fic since i first read it and finally was able to create one i truly loved 😖 this is most certainly my favorite b7 fic ever
aren't you almost 30? it is weird when people over 30 watch shows aimed at teens and 20-somethings. but you even said you stopped watching it, so it's fine :).
ohmygod please don’t be one of those people who thinks when you’re thirty you’re suddenly ‘old’ and can’t enjoy things that give you nostalgia because 'they’re for teens!’. guess what, a switch doesn’t flip when you hit a certain number that means you stop enjoying things you did before. this attitude will only make yourself miserable
this is hilarious
i’m in my 50s and i will do whatever i want. i will consume media for kids, for teens, for adults. i will listen to songs i like whether they were released in 1980 or 2022. i will jump in puddles and balance along walls and swing at the park. i will work hard and write complex python code and do my taxes. i will wear pink and black and glitter and well ironed slacks and cardigans and sequinned doc martens and dungarees with dinosaur print. i will eat icecream for breakfast and steamed vegetables for lunch and nap in the afternoon and watch let’s play videos on youtube at night. i will peform regular maintenance on my car and pay my bills and go to the dentist and listen to music really loud when i’m driving and tell myself fairytales before i go to sleep.
please, for the love of god or yourself or the universe, don’t give yourself ridiculous limits and make your life any more grey than it has to be in this world.
Be like Old Loki. Build your glowing dream Asgard. Live in a bowling alley. Keep an alligator as your best friend. he got it. he understood the assignment.
I am 52 years old and I will consume any media I want, wear whatever the fuck I want, and do what I want. All those fucking stupid articles about Things Women Over 50 (or 40, or 30) should never wear, can go die in a fire. Do what makes you happy and ignore people who are all But YOU’re tOo OOOOOLLLLD for that. No. You’re too nosy for that and you have no say over my life. If I decide my fashion dream is to wear Gothic Lolita, PVC dresses, or a fucking pikachu onesie, you can just stfu and deal.
Exactly! Galaxy Rangers are forever.
(rolling eyes) And don’t make C. S. Lewis tap the sign again, ffs.
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
(and these days he might add to the put-away list “the fear of appearing cringe”.)
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u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit
i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall
edit: i guess i should have clarified: hand-bound books for PERSONAL use, not for profit or resale! i think that's something obvious to me as a bookbinder but not to writers/artists so i thought i'd clarify
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I am very sorry for how relatively quiet this blog has been but I've been dealing with a very unpleasant situation the last few months, and now I need help.
Essentially, I tried to help someone out, and she took advantage of me, and I have no way to recoup my losses.
Earlier this year, I moved into a new house. Before we sold the old house, a Now-Former friend ran into some trouble and was about to become homeless with pets and a small child. Not wanting them to be on the street, we offered to hold off selling the old house so she could stay there for a little while, if she could pay the cost of the mortgage on that house (because I could afford one mortgage but not two) while we helped her find somewhere more permanent.
I was not making money from this- since I was still paying the utilities and property taxes, I was actually losing money, but willing to soak that in order to help her save up and get her on her feet.
Instead, she:
Never Paid a Dime towards covering the mortgage costs like she agreed ($12,000 for the nine months she was there)
Trashed the house ($500 dump fees for the trash alone)
Let her pets piss and shit all over the house ($1,500 bio hazard cleanup, $4000 to replace the carpet and other damaged flooring)
Caused an electrical issue in the garage ($900 to repair)
Broke the washer, dryer and refrigerator ($2500 to replace)
Broke the fence ($1000 to repair)
When I told her I could no longer financially support her and that I needed to sell the old house, she illegally squatted there for a solid three months and I had to hire a lawyer and actually take her to court to get her to leave ($2,500)
The resulting stress has been, as you can imagine, stressful.
So stressful, in fact, that it aggravated a the medical conditions my husband had and made him extremely sick. He had to go to the hospital and take time off work to recover. Now the health insurance is trying to weasel out of paying his short-term disability claim.
So net, this woman has managed to cost me around $25,000 and that's not taking into account the missed paychecks and medical expenses. I do not have $25,000, and until at least $13,000 of that is spent to repair the damage she did, I legally cannot sell the house to even begin to recoup my losses.
Theoretically, I could sue this woman, but she doesn't have any money and it would be me paying even more money I don't have to get... Nothing. So I'm asking for help to cover the costs of getting the old house ready to sell, my husband's medical expenses, and other expenses incurred by this debacle:
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