S5 + Duality (the Monstrous and the Mundane)
Cain, José Saramago – translated by Margaret Jull Costa // 5.05 No Place Like Home // 5.13 Blood Ties // 5.19 Tough Love // The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector – translated by Giovanni Pontiero // 5.02 Real Me // 5.19 Tough Love // 5.14 Crush // 5.19 Tough Love // 5.01 Buffy vs. Dracula // 5.03 The Replacement // "Kharraqani's marriage," Rumi – translated by Coleman Barks
parallel chosen one journeys
benjamin sisko & buffy summers
bonus until star trek stops being a coward:
well…
Ben Sisko’s Non-Linear, Non-Binary Arc in Deep Space Nine’s “Emissary” Saved All My Lives | Tor.com
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Avery Brooks in the DS9 What We Left Behind documentary.
“One of the things that attracted me about Star Trek was that I’d be human. Completely human - and brown, too.”
♫ vision still clear a benjamin sisko fanmix
i still talk to god vision still clear in my broke mirror (spotify / lyrics)
01 v.a.l.i.s. bloc party; 02 miles jamila woods; 03 lazerray tv on the radio; 04 trouble the new respects; 05 troubled mind adia victoria; 06 cut me moses sumney; 07 flowers to my demons nnamdï; 08 so here we are bloc party; 09 what makes a good man? the heavy; 10 dreams solange; 11 godspeed frank ocean; 12 gagarin moses sumney; 13 closing: the chosen ones solange.
Kummakivi - a 500,000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on top of another rock for 11,000 years.
Source: facebook.com
When your boyfriend no-shows your date because he decided to sneak off to Bajor to get some gemstones.
These two are on voice call and still making those soft lovey faces.And what’s with that romantic soft pink lighting and lens flare in the last panel? Hmm… xD
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The above is from this article from The Guardian. The images are from MYA Network. The caption on their website reads:
Source: ‘When a sperm and egg get together, the body creates tissue in order to support the developing pregnancy. Here are photos of that tissue from 5-9 week pregnancies. This is called the gestational sac, and it’s like the “house” for the pregnancy. Inside this sac there are cells that have the potential to become a fetus but there is no visible embryo at this stage. We rinsed off the blood and menstrual lining (decidua) for these photographs.’
The published images sparked a lot of debate, leading to the story being picked up by other news outlets. For example:
Source: ‘Last week, the Guardian published images of pregnancy tissue after abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The small size and appearance of the tissue were shocking to many. We have all absorbed, knowingly and unknowingly, the pervasive anti-abortion narrative that a pregnancy resembles a tiny baby starting in the earliest weeks. Though an early embryo can be seen under the magnification of ultrasound, it can take months for it to be perceptible to the naked eye.’
Source: ‘People have responded in disbelief, citing the (magnified) images they’ve seen on ultrasounds. […] ”Think of the illustrations on pregnancy and medical websites. The Mayo Clinic, one of the preeminent medical organizations in the country, shows week-by-week illustrations of embryonic and fetal development without any context of scale, like the rulers in the MYA photos.’
As stated in the article, whilst people talk about a ‘heartbeat’ at 6 weeks, there is no heart developed at this stage - only a group of cells that will become part of the heart.
Source: ‘But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a “fetal heartbeat” at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case. Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect “a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby,” said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future “pacemaker” of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said.’
It should also be noted that the images show an embryo, not a fetus, until the 9th week.
Source: ‘In human pregnancies, a baby-to-be isn’t considered a fetus until the 9th week after conception, or week 11 after your last menstrual period (LMP).’
The co-founders of the MYA Network responded in a New York Times article.
Source: ‘Many people, even those who support abortion rights, did not believe the photos were accurate. Some insisted we had deliberately removed the embryos before taking the photos. The images weren’t consistent with those often seen in embryological textbooks, magnified on ultrasounds or used in anti-abortion propaganda; these enlarged images are not what you see with the naked eye after an abortion. A Stanford gynecologic pathologist has validated our photos, but many people could not believe the pictures were presented unaltered.
People on here always talk about if they were in the star trek universe what part of Starfleet they would want to be in and??? I don't know about you but all I wanna be is this guy from ds9
I want nothing more than to be a Klingon man who owns a restaurant and sings folk music for my customers on the promenade. What a life.
“We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lone Ranch Beach, Oregon; 1/1/2023