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sunnycosmology:

Omg I’ve never seen a photo like this and I’m officially obsessed

Oh… Its very busy here

southaway:

The Lord of Rivendell

I was just re-reading LOTR and remembering how Elrond is my favorite character from anything.

It ended up rougher around the edges than I’d like, but I’m more or less happy with it.

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Ranks and roles on DS9

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion in the DS9 fandom about the ranks and roles of the characters so I though I might repost here this short guide I compiled a couple of months ago on Discord. I admit that this is a little pedantic since ranks below Captain rarely matter in Star Trek, but since rank affects the way characters are addressed onscreen it’s something I give a lot of thought to. All information comes from Memory Alpha. (Roles and ranks are capitalized for clarity, but they’re usually written all in lowercase.)

Benjamin Sisko: Commander ⚪️⚪️⚪️ in seasons 1-3, gets promoted to Captain ⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ in 3x26 “The Adversary” and is one until the end of the show. He is the Commanding Officer on DS9.

Kira Nerys: Major of the Bajoran Militia in seasons 1-6, promoted to Colonel in season 7 (she already is one in 7x01). In addition to her Bajoran rank, she receives a Starfleet commission with the rank of Commander ⚪️⚪️⚪️ in 7x21 “When It Rains…”. She was appointed the position of Bajoran Liaison Officer on the station, but she is for all intents and purposes Sisko’s first officer, until she assumes command of the station at the end of 7x25 “What You Leave Behind”.

Jadzia Dax: Lieutenant ⚪️⚪️ in seasons 1-3, gets promoted to Lieutenant Commander ⚪️⚪️⚫️ offscreen between seasons and is one in seasons 4-6. Usually addressed as ‘commander’ from then on. She is the (Chief) Science Officer aboard the station.

Ezri Dax: Ensign ⚪️ in episodes 7x01-03, gets promoted to Lieutenant junior grade ⚪️⚫️ at the end of 7x03 “Afterimage” and is one until the end of the show. After the promotion she assumes the role of Counselor on the station.

Julian Bashir: Lieutenant junior grade ⚪️⚫️ in seasons 1-3, gets promoted offscreen between season 3 and 4 and is a Lieutenant ⚪️⚪️ from season 4 until the end of the show. He is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) on DS9.

Worf: started out as a Lieutenant junior grade ⚪️⚫️ in the command division on the Enterprise-D, then assumed the role of Security Chief and Tactical Officer switching to the operations division. He was promoted to Lieutenant ⚪️⚪️ offscreen before season 3 of TNG, and was one until the end of the show. Worf was promoted again to Lieutenant Commander ⚪️⚪️⚫️ prior to the events of “Star Trek Generations” and retains that rank for his assignment on DS9, switching to the command division again and assuming the role of Strategic Operations Officer at the end of 4x01 “The Way Of The Warrior”, until the end of the show. Usually addressed as ‘commander’ on DS9.

Miles O'Brien: there is a whole subsection on Memory Alpha about O'Brien’s problematic rank history, but his rank on DS9 seems to be Senior Chief Petty Officer, and he is usually addressed as ‘Chief’. He was Transporter Chief on TNG, then promoted to Chief of Operations on DS9.

Odo: is usually addressed as Constable, but this is only a nickname since there’s no such rank in the Bajoran Militia (in which he is officially commissioned, although we don’t know which rank he was appointed). The title was first given him by Kira when the station was still under Cardassian administration, and eventually fell into common use as his unofficial title. Odo kept the title of Constable even after Cardassian forces withdrew from Deep Space 9. He has the role of Chief of Security aboard the station.

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roachpatrol:

prokopetz:

I’ve seen a lot of videos going around of urban-dwelling critters coming to humans for help with various problems, ranging from boxes stuck on their heads to young trapped down a storm drain, and it’s gotten me to thinking:

On the one hand, it’s kind of fascinating that they know to do that.

On the other hand, setting any questions of how this sort of behaviour must have arisen aside for the nonce, does it ever strike you how weird it is that we’ve got a whole collection of prey species whose basic problem-solving script ends with the step “if all else fails, go bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they’ll fix the problem for no reason”?

well, come to think of it, we’re at the top of the food chain but we almost exclusively hunt and kill prey out in the country. 

raccoons and possums and foxes and crows all succeed in an urban environment because they’re opportunistic and observant. and almost none of them would have observed us pounce on one of their species and then start eating it, you know? a lot of them would have observed that we scream and chase them out of wherever we don’t want them to be, but other animals are territorial too. but there’s a number of situations where humans feed whoever’s bold enough to take them up on the offer, and we do tend to pull garbage off of other animals as soon as they slow down enough for us to catch. ‘a human got me but nothing bad happened’ is a much more frequent thing than ‘a human got me and tried to eat me’.  

anyway like, we’re masters of our environment, we make weird shit happen all the time, we have lots of great food and sometimes we share, and we almost never eat someone. it makes sense for urban animals, over the last century or so, to just keep an eye out for opportunities to use us, and to pass the habit on to their kids. 

It really is a weird, funny thing. Like yeah, technically they’re predators, and they get pretty screamy, especially if you try to take any of their stuff… but given the chance it seems like they’d rather help us out and sometimes they’ll just randomly give you food, so???

I mean, I guess in fairytales and myths we’ve got our fair share of stories about dangerous people/creatures who might well kill you or otherwise ruin your life, but to whom people nonetheless turn for help in desperate circumstances. So it’s not like the perspective is exactly a foreign thing to our own mindset, really… It’s just that, y’know, we can’t actually go make a deal with the faeries when there’s something we can’t figure out.

(Which brings me to an interesting thought about the ubiquitous rule about never eating the faery food lest you find yourself forever unsatisfied with anything in the human world - and the potential parallels to the dangers of feeding wildlife human food lest they become addicted and too tame and dependent to be safe for either themselves or us. Hmm.)