Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
In a universe in which soulmates exist, it probably wouldn’t be something like a mark or a song or a few words on your skin in the Star Trek universe.
It’d be a resonance on the molecular level or something. Can you imagine having to have this incredibly deep scan on your body and then trying to find the resonance of someone else?
How would they even discover it? How would it change their perceptions of things?
I personally think it’d be less a ‘soulmate’ thing and more of a ‘compatibility’ thing. And most species would ‘sense’ it differently. Like a sixth sense that doesn’t quite present itself obviously. Like intuition, subconscious attraction.
Imagine that when you meet someone, there’s a slight buzz between you and sometimes that buzz interlocks and you just know this person will be important to you, but you don’t know how.
And then they discover the resonance and realize it’s like a compatibility thing and everyone starts throwing around the term ‘soulmate’ and now the entire Galactic Community is in an uproar.
Julian gets curious and starts using medical scans of himself to compare against his friends, after getting permission. Garak refuses to give permission and it drives Julian insane.
He keeps bringing it up until Garak is like ‘It almost seems as though you want to know we’re compatible, Doctor’ and that creates a tense, embarrassed silence in which Garak regrets saying it out loud.
And then Julian, very quietly, just says, ‘Don’t you?’
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Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.
unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol
Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.
You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.
Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.
And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.
The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country.
Bosses: If you don’t like how we do things, don’t work here.
Our Man Bashir reverse AU where Bashir breaks into Garak’s secret holoprogram he won’t tell anyone about, only to discover that it’s a hospital soap opera roleplay
That’s a shetland pony! They’re essentially little bricks of muscle and fat and unlike pugs they’re quite strong for their size and breathe very well (so long as they are not allowed to become obese, which they’re quite prone to). They’re small and strong because they were bred as coal ponies, to go down mines and pull carts!
These days, they’re generally used to teach very small children to ride, or for children’s horse sports, because they’re about the right size for a toddler. Watching a bunch of 3-6-year-olds play polocrosse on these things is adorable.
Also, for those wondering, this lil buddy is not obese. They’re just naturally round like that. The legs are thick because they’re full of heavy-cart-pulling muscles.
This little guy is particularly fit-looking but those proportions are the same as every shetland I’ve ever known. I think the person with the camera is just tall.
English Shetland ponies (which actually originated in Scotland) are different from American Shetlands! The pony in the video is an English Shetland, which were indeed bred in huge numbers as pit ponies.
When the breed was imported to the US, it was bred with other breeds to create a taller and slightly leaner version able to be driven, and ridden by children.
By weight, Shetlands are the strongest horse breed and are also ridden by children - they can carry close to ~60kg/130lbs on their back, and pull over 450 kg.
