#Ignisgalaxia

[coffee-in-that-nebula]

How about mood boards for the prodigy characters?

Ah, thank you for this idea! I'm definitely gonna go ahead with that tbh. What's your favorite character from Prodigy? Give me something to start!!!

#ignisgalaxia #ask #you're getting so tagged on prodigy moodboards!!!

[baylardian-1]

Ok I need to know when Janeway has the “oh shit” moment in terms of her feelings about Chakotay. Like when does she realize she loves him and then things stop being awkward between them?

This is such a great question and quite honestly I love hearing about so many people's different impressions of when this would be. I can't even say that I hold my own opinion as "doctrine" for our AU because I love keeping this moment open and up to interpretation.

Like I love what I'd imagine to be the most instinctive response to this which would probably be Resolutions in which we see Kathryn slowly begin to accept and almost find content in her circumstances of living a rather stagnant, domestic, and mundane life with her First Officer; but to me Resolutions is SO EARLY and so much that happens between them later on in the series I find tends to work against the idea that she'd carry lasting and resonating feelings toward Chakotay at that point in time. If anything, Resolutions works to me as a metaphorical "planting of the seed" where she might briefly humor herself with the idea of settling down with this man, but is quick (Yet pained!) to set it aside once they are rescued from New Earth and resume their formal airs with one another on Voyager.

In talking with Riley (and-to-you-its-just-words) who at least in regards to her Threshold AU content has it that the two develop a relationship breaking certain "parameters" while onboard Voyager and inquiring after her own thoughts on the matter, I thiiiink she said it'd happen around the season four area of time surrounding some pretty pivotal circumstances like Scorpion and Killing Game where the two have been seeing each other be thrown into some life-threatening situations and have to chew on the repercussions of that. That's also around the time that Kathryn forcefully has to give up on the idea that Mark is still in the picture (Which, he is not). In tickling with this idea I fancied the thought of Night in season five, where Chakotay consoles her that she's not alone in her guilt and grief and inevitably she is pulled out of her slump. I could easily see them picking up a relationship around that time. :)

When it comes down to it though, I am QUITE HONESTLY most inclined to believe that this moment happens after she's already lost Chakotay (To Seven) and in that, all chances of getting him back. Because I think she is THAT STUBBORN with herself. So post-Endgame. Like I think it would take her future self telling her she loses Chakotay in more ways than one, and then beginning to experience it herself, followed by her feeling some odd, seemingly unprompted frustrations and projected anger toward him without really knowing why. Like I think she'd have to sit on this for a while. It does not click to her why seeing him and Seven together makes her act and feel the way that she does. I think she'd go so far as to fall into her work so deeply, impulsively accepting promotion and maintaining the busiest and most occupying schedule she can hope to achieve. All to avoid ruminating over her very unprofessional feelings toward her shipmates' relationship. I don't know when exactly it'd hit her, but obviously if we're following book canon this goes so far as to having her never confess her feelings to him EVER (Prior to book events in Full Circle). I think she'd be scared to, for how long it's taken her, I think she'd fear he doesn't love her anymore or never did, 'cause she's a LITTLE oblivious. They are simply the closest of companions after all and she wouldn't want to tamper or break their bond by making things awkward between them.

I think they are simply awkward people at heart. And unfortunately you have a very stubborn, headstrong, and oblivious lady, who unknowingly loves a IMMENSELY patient guy who dotes and fawns over his super crush to such a degree as not to pressure her or scare her away with FEELINGS, so they are basically two rocks who wanna kiss but they are rocks. They'll get there they're just slow. :)

(For future reference for all reading this please feel free to direct Threshold AU asks to @voyagerihardlyknowher! That way me AND Alice can both have access to looking at stuff instead of just me! You can send multiple asks I love sitting on asks for 5000 years. Can be questions about the AU or things you'd maybe like to see us draw; no promises on responsiveness obviously haha.)

#thank u for this ask GOSH sorry it took me so long HAH #i just wanted to wrap my head around it for a while! :D #i was admittedly pretty UNCONVINCED on JC for a veeeeeery long time watching the series my first runthrough! #like i saw glimpses but the inevitability was that they were not the intended relationship and so i saw it as such haha #not that it rlly matters IM HERE NOW :) #but i do really enjoy how the books have gone about it.......... though greedily i always crave a little more confrontation/discourse hehe #Ask #Ignisgalaxia #Headcanon

[startrekswimsuitspecial]

Can multiple people do the same character for the Halloween zine?

Yep!

#ignisgalaxia #did you SEE how many jadzias we got on the swimsuit zine

[25daysofvoyager]

Sign Ups Close on 12/1

Check below to make sure we’ve signed you up on the correct days. We welcome multiple sign ups per day so if you think you’d like to create a fanwork - reach out by ask, reply, reblog, or by DMing the fest coordinators @elephant-in-the-pride-parade and @gijane-7702. We know December is a busy month so don't stress - belated submissions for the day(s) you sign up for are accepted.

Who’s Signed up for the 25 Days of Voyager:

@gijane-7702

@elephant-in-the-pride-parade

@70thousandlightyearsfromhome

@seemaunbound 

@rrr-nightingale

windwillow69

@theredheadedcaptain

@70thousandlightyearsfromhome

@baylardo

@elephant-in-the-pride-parade

@i-belong-to-too-many-fadoms / @divinemissem13

@katlovefanfic

@katlovefanfic / @maliciousalice

@theartmeg

@a-little-squirrely-sunshine

@ignisgalaxia

@pixiedane / @madamairlock

@commandermeg

@jellybeansarecool

@gmo-fruit

@elephant-in-the-pride-parade

CAMIR

@lipstickonmylabcoat

@gijane-7702

@coffee-in-that-nebula

#25daysofvoyager #25daysofvoyagerandprodigy #25 days of voyager #25 days of voyager and prodigy #star trek #star trek voyager #star trek fandom event #star trek prodigy #star trek voyager fanfic #star trek voyager fanart #star trek voyager fanvids #star trek voyager fanworks

[faithoftheart]

J/C

@ignisgalaxia asked for Janeway/Chakotay.

Symbolism? Dream? Gravity failure? I dunno, I just thought it would look cool. 😊

#fan art #janeway x chakotay #valentine's day #vd prompts #prompts #star trek #star trek voyager #ignisgalaxia #kathryn janeway #chakotay

[silvermoon424]

Do you think there are/could be more asteroid senshi? I find it hard to believe that the Amazon quartet are the only ones since there are so many named asteroids irl

That’s a really cool concept! Naoko Takeuchi chose Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Juno because they’re the biggest asteroids in the belt (although Ceres is now classified as a dwarf planet), but they’re far from the only significant ones. This handy Wikipedia article gave me some more ideas and examples for asteroid Senshi:

Hygiea

Interamnia

Europa

Davida

Sylvia

Euphrosyne

Eunomia

Patientia

Cybele

Bamberga

Psyche

Thisbe

Fortuna

Iris

Aurora

Aletheia

Hebe

Metis

Definitely some great names up for grabs! I’d love to see Sailor Fortuna or Sailor Iris.

#Sailor Moon #ideas #Amazon Quartet #Sailor Quartet #ignisgalaxia

[lodessa]

ignisgalaxia

  Finales that were better than this penultimate...

Lord it must be bad if you say it’s worse than Endgame

Endgame at least remembered  multiple characters’ primary goals and motivations.  Endgame resolved Voyager’s initial problem/question. Endgame at least had room for fixits to be added on.  Endgame could be edited pretty simply into something not terrible. 

This was so much worse.  

#ignisgalaxia #traitor canons #got season 8 #got wank

[ignisgalaxia]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway Characters: Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay (Star Trek), The Doctor (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Drabble, Fluff Summary:

Chakotay ended up in sickbay again. How does Janeway feel about it?

My submission for @25daysofvoyager. Not related to the holidays in any way but I had to submit something so here you go. 

#my posts #my fanfiction #star trek #voyager #janeway x chakotay #fanfic #25daysofvoyager

[kathrynjanewayneedsahug]

THANK YOU!

The Kathryn Janeway Needs a Hug Fest is officially over. And what an epic 12 days or so it has been!!!! Our wonderful Captain has received hugs from all directions and from so many, many loving people!

I’ve been floored by the response to this fest – the huge number of entries and the huge heap of positivity flowing around – I hope everyone who has participated feels like they’ve received a hug right back. <3 Thank you to everyone who wrote or drew her a hug and thank you too to everyone who read/enjoyed the beautiful, positive love sent Kathryn’s way!

And remember – if you want to write/draw Kathryn a hug you are still most welcome. The AO3 collection, which will remain open indefinitely, is here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug – please also use the tag ‘Kathryn Janeway needs a hug’.

And for fanart, if you’re only posting to Tumblr, please be sure to use the tag ‘#Kathryn Janeway needs a hug’.

Without further ado, here are all the hugs (so far!) in all their glory – make sure you check them all out and share the love far and wide. (In alphabetical order by title.)

(Please message me if I’ve got any of your handles wrong, people – I know that some handles are not the same across platforms.)

“A hug for Kathryn and a hug for captain Janeway” [fanart], by @jane-dee01 https://jane-dee01.tumblr.com/post/619349986671476736/a-hug-for-kathryn-and-a-hug-for-captain-janeway

A Life Worth Living, by @jemabean-blog https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24328456

Blue Sky, by @coffeeblack75 https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24453994

Cutting It Close, by @curator-on-ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24457648

Darkness, by @carter-sg-1 (Areneth) https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24468745

Five Times Kathryn Janeway Didn't Need a Hug and the One Time She Did, by @SeafoamSoul https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24410035

Future Closeness, by @trekflower https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24272212

Grab Your Fire, by @bizships https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24371176

Half My Life, by @traccigaryn https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24352231

(and podfic version: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24352315)

“Happy Birthday Kathryn!” [fanart], by @carter-sg-1 https://carter-sg-1.tumblr.com/post/618615071409651713/happy-birthday-kathryn-d-day-1-of-the-kathryn

... plus these three other beautiful, beautiful hugs: https://carter-sg-1.tumblr.com/post/617299800803753985/kathryn-janeway-deserved-more-hugs-from-chakotay https://carter-sg-1.tumblr.com/post/616952826215743488/this-is-what-happens-when-i-am-allowed-to-binge https://carter-sg-1.tumblr.com/post/616575766491250688/coffeeblack75-and-i-believe-that-kathryn-should

I’ve Missed This, by @chakochick https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24473161

“In your arms, I feel safe” [fanart], by @ignisgalaxiahttps://ignisgalaxia.tumblr.com/post/619123436695994368/in-your-arms-i-feel-safe-i-apologize-for-how

Into the Light, by BlackVelvet42 https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24293050

Light and Dark, by Quadrantje https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24375250

Missing a Hug, by @caladeniablue https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24334189

Nightfall, by @Starbuck0322 https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24481783

“she’s the perfect pick up size” [fanart], by @doodletrek https://doodletrek.tumblr.com/post/619465722061553664/shes-the-perfect-pick-up-size

Solace, by @prophetic-nightmares https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24394480

The Funeral, by @refusetoshine https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24433468

The Light at the End, by Quadrantje https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24303049

The Monster, by @curator-on-ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24307522

The Shelter of Your Arms, by @thesadchicken https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24320197

Things I’ve Never Imagined [Fanvid], by @funkylittlesisterhttps://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24422938

Too Close, by @mia-cooper https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24346048

Touching the Stars, by @amoderngirl https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24299173

Watching The Rain, by @jadethe2nd https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24405310

What Happens ..., by @gijane-7702 https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KathrynJanewayNeedsAHug/works/24474634

And finally, humble apologies for not being able to get out there and comment on all these incredible works myself yet – rest assured I’m working my way through! ❤️

Lots of love and hugs, @coffeeblack75, event host

PS. If you enjoyed this fest, keep an eye out for the XOs for the XOs first officer appreciation fest that I’ll shortly be launching! This one will take place in September. 😉

#kathryn janeway needs a hug #she deserves all the hugs in the universe #star trek voyager fandom event

[admiralkatcornwellfan]

Instructions: Tag 10 people you want to know better!

I was tagged by the wonderful @ignisgalaxia​! Thank you so much! 

Name: Amanda

Starsign: Capricorn

Height:  5′4.5

Hogwarts House:  Self-Identified Ravenclaw even if pottermore is telling me I’m a slytherin

Sexuality: Demi-heterosexual

Favourite animal: Wolves, Huskies and Cats. 

Average time of sleep: chronic oversleeper. can’t function without minimum 7 hours of sleep

Current time: 01:22 pm

Dogs or Cats: cats

Blankets you sleep with: I haven’t slept with an extra blanket since winter but mine is blue and have cartoon elephants on it.

When you made your blog: february 2018

Followers: 520

Why you made your blog:  

Reason for your url: 

To all who like to participate.

#Q & A #i was tagged

[coffee-in-that-nebula]

Harvest, amber, cinnamon for the autumn ask

Harvest: What fictional character do you most identify with? Why?

I’d say, Kathryn Janeway. For many, many reasons but basically for living on coffee, for not liking cooking but also for not being very good at it, for not having a sense of danger, for being crude but also sensitive, for being irrationally stubborn sometimes, for not giving up easily - even if I should do it. Also, we do have the same attitude toward doctors. Bad, bad thing. :’) Also I’m sexy as hell like her.

Amber: Share an unpopular opinion that you may have.I don’t think that Chakotay is hot as hell as the most people in the VOY fandom think! *runs away* Ok, he’s hot in s3 and I’d let him do me or I’d peg him. But only in season 3. And whenever he wears the leather stuff. Or I’m just infatuated with the leather stuff, idk.

 Cinnamon: If you had to live in a time period different than the present, which would you choose and why?

I’ve never put much thought in that but I think Greece in ‘60s. Art back then was dope, people were poor and they were still trying to rebuild their lives after the war, but there was hope, faith and support. Things were getting better. But mostly for the art. Culture, cinema and theatre back then in Greece were so fucking cool. I’d die for that.

Thank you for the asks!!!

#star trek #but non-trek also #kathryn janeway #chakotay #star trek voyager #ignisgalaxia

[baylardian-1]

Girl I’d just name the kid Kolopak for Chakotay’s father. C’mon they can call him Kole for short IT’D BE SO CUTE

Aw we definitely talked about it early on but we've pretty conclusively landed elsewhere hehe. :3 I love all of the suggestions we've received though it's very sweet and encouraging that people are interested in him as a concept! <3333333

#Ask #Ignisgalaxia

[worthagrand]

J/C Photo Prompt Fic Fest Update 8

Current claims for the J/C Photo Prompts Fic Fest!

July

1. @manalyzer13/pic #17 Consecrated in Copper

2. @bizships/Pic #11 The Explorer

3 Mary S./Pic #2  Comfort

5 @laney1728/Pic #19 A Wish Your Heart Makes

7 @ignisgalaxia/Pic #22 Feels Like Home

8 @ignisgalaxia/Pic #28 Unrestrained

9 @trinfinity2001/Pic #29 Aladdin’s Lamp

11 @bizships/ Pic #63 Feeling Good

12 BlackVelvet/Pics #20, 28, & 41

13 @admiralkatcornwellfan /Pic #58

14  @laney1728/Pic #6

16 Chakwayalltheway/Pic #14

17. @manalyzer13/Pic #39

20. @sonnenscheinchen1986/Pic #47

22 Captain_Susanne/Pic #50

23 @entireoranges/ #48

24 Elephant-in-the-pride-parade/Pic #55

25 Caladeniablue/Pic #23

26 @grace-in-the-stars/ Pic #49

27 @trinfinity2001/Pic #43

 28 @trinfinity2001/Pic #57 

30 @mia-cooper/Pic #53

31. @bizships/Pic #38

We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, pictures can be worth as many words as you want! Welcome to the Janeway/Chakotay Photo Prompt Fic Fest! I’ve got a whole bunch of great photos that will hopefully prompt lots of great stories! Some Manips, some screencaps, some landscapes; all of the photos are begging for stories to be told around them!

The stories will be posted in July. All you need to do is choose a picture and choose a day in July that you’ll post your story. An A03 collection will also be created for this Fic Fest.

Photos may be claimed more than once, and you may claim multiple photos/days to write multiple stories. **Screencaps should be taken at face value, not at context value. (in other words, write about the specific image you see, not the context/meaning of the scene depicted.)

The Photo Gallery is Here. It is a Google Docs page.

Just DM me the number of the Photo you are claiming and the day of the month of July you will publish your story!

Signal boost at will!

#wordsofjc #janeway x chakotay #Photo Prompt #july fic fest

[25daysofvoyager]

25 Days of Voyager 2019

Well that’s a wrap on another year! Thank you so much to everyone that contributed for 25 Days of Voyager this year! It was so much fun and so many wonderful Voyager gifts! Plan on being here next year for another round!!

_______

The Complete 2019 List:

Day 1:  Teambuilding by @carter-sg-1

Day 2:  Home for the Holidays by @admiralkatcornwellfan

Day 3: The Captains’ Tour by @traccigaryn

Day 4: Snowed In by LadyArreya

Day 5:  Dark Blue Liquid by @janewaystolemyheart

Day 6: In His Arms by @kate-coleman-writes  (More Chapters have been posted!!)

Day 7: Escape Velocity by Shayney L (@70thousandlightyearsfromhome)

Day 8: Pride of the Conn by @carter-sg-1

Day 9: caretaker by bevcrushers (@cptnprotons)

Day 10: Christmas with the Janeways by @trekflower

Day 11: Under the Duvet by @that-geek-in-the-tardis

Day 12: Long Lost Family by @bizships

Day 13: Plain Grey by BlackVelvet

Day 14: Christmases by @caladeniablue

Day 15: By George by @kathrynchristie   -----and-----   Reunion by @gijane-7702

Day 16: December 16th by @killermanatee

Day 17: On A Quiet Christmas Morn by @bizships

Day 18: Until They Break by @curator-on-ao3

Day 19: A Study of the Messy Perfection that is D7 by @voyagers-resident-catholic

Day 20: Wine Appreciation by @ignisgalaxia    -----and----- Home by @coffeeblack75

Day 21: Voyager Cross Stitch by @theredshirtsarecoming

Day 22: Maccabee by @fencingfox

Day 23: I Thought I Knew You  by @curator-on-ao3

Day 24: Linguistics by @killermanatee

Day 25: On This Merry Christmas Night by @bizships     -----and----- Magical Winter Getaway by BackVelvet

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You can find the entire 2019 Collection here.

I have it on good authority that we may be getting one, possibly two, late submissions that didn’t get finished in time. If and when those get posted, they will be posted here!! 

Thank you again to everyone that participated! And to all the followers and readers! Be sure to leave some lovely comments and kudos on the fics/gifts! It drives these writers souls! Haha!

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!!!

#25daysofvoyager #voyager #star trek voyager #voyager fic #voyager art #wordsofjc

[devoverest]

Getting to know me: a novel

@ignisgalaxia @imaginationdrift @bizships @lodessa and @streepmulgrew  have all tagged me for this, and I just can't take the peer pressure any longer. However, I'm so long-winded everyone will surely be very sorry that you five ever asked me. I will try very hard to put most of this below a "read more" link, but my mobile app doesn't play nicely with that feature any longer, so I truly deeply and sincerely apologize if yours doesn't either and you get a callus scrolling past all of what follows on your way to the gifsets you're on Tumblr to enjoy.

1. Relationship status: married -- legally and everything. It was the mid-'90s. I was considering having a religious ceremony but forgoing the state-recognized marriage license part, in solidarity with same-sex couples who at the time and for many years afterward were denied that privilege. However, my father absolutely put his foot down (something he almost never did with me, especially in my young adulthood) and insisted on the marriage license. He supported marriage equality, but he was thinking of my economic security in case our marriage didn't last. He was right to do, as I ended up taking many years out of the paid workforce to raise children, which I hadn't planned on doing when I decided to marry.

In case Tumblr is stupid, right here is where I’ve inserted a “read more” link as I’m writing this post. I tried. 

2. Lipstick or chapstick: Usually neither. Actually, never literal Chapstick because that stuff is made out of petroleum and isn't good for your skin. I learned that when I was playing a lot of flute in high school and college and had to take extra special care of my lips to play well. If the weather gets really cold and dry, which it rarely does where I live, and if I can hang on to any of the half-dozen tubes I buy every year but which invariably get swiped and then lost by family members, I use a Burt's Bees lip balm. I seem to have a knack for finding them barely-used in the bottom of my purse during the warm months and then never having one at hand when I actually need it. I think I own one lip pencil currently and I'll sometimes use that to outline my lips when I'm doing some sort of special-event public speaking kinda gig but I don't wear any make-up normally. My husband claims that I knew full well it was a date the first time we got together socially because I wore make-up. I have never admitted to him that he is correct, but he is.

3. Three favorite foods: Too many to narrow down to just three. I enjoy and appreciate a wide range of foods. Things I enjoy and appreciate perhaps a tad more frequently than I ought to in the strictest interests of nutrition are chocolate in almost any form, ice cream (especially that of the chocolate persuasion and most especially any form of peanut-butter/chocolate), and Starburst brand jellybeans, which my son and I share somewhat ritualistically most evenings after dinner (which is somehow not the same thing as for dessert.) Why yes, I do have a sweet tooth -- why do you ask?

4. Song stuck in your head: Currently "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive (I had to google that.) I don't know why but suspect it was on TV this evening, which makes me fear that it may be the campaign song for some politician I would never vote for. Which reminds me -- US citizens, please double-check that you are registered to vote and make a plan for voting in the upcoming midterms! This will probably the most important election of your entire lifetime, past or future, no matter what your age, and in many races in many states, voter turnout will be the single deciding factor in who controls the future of our country for a very long time to come. Please vote!

5. Last movie you watched: "Crazy Rich Asians," with my husband, unwisely just two days after I had minor (but surprisingly butt-kicking) surgery. We went to the first matinee showing on a Saturday and actually arrived at the theater before it even opened, a sure sign of mature middle age if I've ever heard of one. We both loved the film -- it was glitzy, funny, extremely well-written and -acted, got all the Chinese cultural details right, offered caricatures but no stereotypes, was very female-centric and multi-generational, and of course starred the exquisite and inimitable Michelle Yeoh who also plays Philippa Georgiou on Star Trek: Discovery. Laughed until my belly hurt (literally, sadly) and then went home and slept the rest of the day.

6. Top three shows: This will sound really strange for someone who is on Tumblr because of TV show fandom, but I don't watch TV. I grew up with Star Trek TOS reruns and movies, then TNG in college & grad school, then Voyager until extended stays abroad made it impossible to keep up with (back in the days before streaming and VPNs.) I reconnected with Star Trek in summer 2017 when I was home alone for six weeks and binged all of Voyager and then started digging up fanfic for all the reasons all the Voyager fans turn to fic -- to fix what the show's writers mutilated -- and now here I am, but I don't watch TV, and when I do it's the nightly news or whatever sports my husband is watching and then it's just because I feel like sitting in the same room with my husband at that particular time. The one exception to this fact about me is that I did watch Star Trek: Discovery as it was being released last year, and even got my teenager into it. (He is a Netflix addict but never watched any Star Trek anything before that. I don't know where I went wrong with this child.)

7. Books I'm currently reading: Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer because @voyager-book-club; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (audiobook but I'm counting it); Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. LeGuin, Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations by Margaret Benefiel; Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; and Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools: Improving Care and Outcomes by Catherine Watson Genna. Except that the last three books on the list are ones I have at hand and keep wanting to read but haven't so much as opened yet. But including them gives you a more complete sense of my interests.

8. Last thing I googled: "you ain't seen nothing yet lyrics" because #4 above. Before that, "instant pot beef stew recipe." No need to look further back in my search history (she said during a break from writing smut.) *whistles innocently*

9. Time: 10:30pm as I write this. No idea when I'll post it or when you'll read it. This seems like a silly question to include for a post of this nature.

10. Dream trip: India. But I've also never crossed the equator and really feel I should someday, so who knows, maybe I'll find a way to drop in on all the Australian friends I've made in Voyager fandom. Now wouldn't that be lovely?

11. Anything you want: Anyone who knows me in real life (and anyone hanging around the Voyager Book Club discord server) knows I never shut up about breastfeeding support and advocacy. But I always try to make it clear that I'm not preaching at parents about how they should feed their babies; rather, I'm working to help parents who want to breastfeed overcome any challenges they encounter. I save my preaching for the folks involved with policy and institutional barriers to breastfeeding, and when it comes to the unethical and demonstrably harmful advertising practices of the infant formula industry, my preaching leans hard toward the hellfire and damnation variety because that is some truly evil shit, folks -- the advertising practices, not the formula milk itself; let's be very, very clear about that.

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Here I shall echo @imaginationdrift: "(Really?! That sounds like a number chosen by an extroverted maven.) / Ok, here goes. / FEEL FREE TO: never complete this. I won’t be disappointed, promise." Also, apologies to those who have already responded -- feel even freer to ignore. 

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[lodessa]

ignisgalaxia replied to your post “are you going to finish “Stumbling”?”

Oh yes please finish Stumbling I love that fic and am anxious to know what happens next! But also take your time I know writing doesn’t come easily :)

Nice to hear you like it so much, but yes sometimes fics don’t write themselves so easily and that one’s been a especially difficult... partially because I am making it difficult for the characters (more so than usual).  

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