today in trekfiles: biblical references! cults, kind of? searches for paradise that end in death! and... very little else in common.
( detailed thoughts )
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I think all of my trekfiles documentation to date has been on microblogging platforms, so to sum up the concept: my sister makes me watch an episode of The X-Files, and then I make her watch an episode of Star Trek. We’re approaching the eighty episode mark now, five or six years after starting this venture. (It went a lot faster when we were still living in the same house.) We plan on going through all Trek in air order, and while I know she does have plans for shows to bring in after we run out of X-Files I do not know what those shows are.
I like to think over the episodes after the fact, see if there’s any common feeling or coincidental similarities. And also just to reflect on my memory of watching these Star Trek episodes back in 2009/10 versus rewatching them now, because Dang, My Memory Of The Bad Stuff Is Patchy.
( If there’s a theme today, I’m afraid it’s ‘men thinking they know better than a woman what’s best for her.’ )
I like to think over the episodes after the fact, see if there’s any common feeling or coincidental similarities. And also just to reflect on my memory of watching these Star Trek episodes back in 2009/10 versus rewatching them now, because Dang, My Memory Of The Bad Stuff Is Patchy.
( If there’s a theme today, I’m afraid it’s ‘men thinking they know better than a woman what’s best for her.’ )
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trope_bingoImagine a world where pairs of people are literally perfect for each other.
I don't mean they have no conflict, or that they're identical in every way; nor do I mean that they argue constantly, or that they're different in complementary ways. The most important relationship in a person's life can't be generalized that easily. I just mean that for whatever reason, they are vital and necessary to each other's life. It need not be sexual, or romantic - it is simply an essential connection, without which their lives are somehow, indescribably, less.
If you're a romantic person, you might be thinking, "Okay, but how is that any different from our world?"
The difference, you'll find, is that they have physical proof: a marking, a band around the base of the fourth finger of your dominant hand. It's called different things in different cultures, but the most common name for it is a True Ring, and it develops spontaneously the first time your soulmate looks you in the eye.
( More details - including speculation/near-fic about how living a world with True Rings might have influenced events in stories you already know - below the cut. )
I don't mean they have no conflict, or that they're identical in every way; nor do I mean that they argue constantly, or that they're different in complementary ways. The most important relationship in a person's life can't be generalized that easily. I just mean that for whatever reason, they are vital and necessary to each other's life. It need not be sexual, or romantic - it is simply an essential connection, without which their lives are somehow, indescribably, less.
If you're a romantic person, you might be thinking, "Okay, but how is that any different from our world?"
The difference, you'll find, is that they have physical proof: a marking, a band around the base of the fourth finger of your dominant hand. It's called different things in different cultures, but the most common name for it is a True Ring, and it develops spontaneously the first time your soulmate looks you in the eye.
( More details - including speculation/near-fic about how living a world with True Rings might have influenced events in stories you already know - below the cut. )
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