I Have Understood So Many Things About Online Leftist Culture By The Fact That When I Said "your Local

no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder

I'm fine.

one trek headcanon I have is that plomeek soup is a chai tea situation. plomeek is just the vulcan word for soup, actually. on the first enterprise, having to make do with mostly earth ingredients, t'pol hashed together a simplified version of a comforting soup native to her region of vulcan and one thing led to another and now that regional variation of a single soup recipe is called soup soup by the federation

personally i can’t believe we don’t bully julian more for OBVIOUSLY going thru a magic phase in high school

Omg we like your autism, is that a reference to Lieutenant-Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation which aired from 1987 to 1994 and was a successor to the beloved then-30-year-old "Star Trek", created by Gene Roddenberry

me at work rn

Listened to röyksopps junior and senior albums that you mentioned in a post as fitting Julian and Garak - first of all thanks for introducing me to the band, and boy so these albums fit the characters!

(most beloved anon, I read this in the final like two hours of usa election night, and then I proceeded to HOARD this serotonin to myself, I’m so sorry the response is so late)

this makes me SO glad, they’re one of my favorite bands of all time!!! I have been streaming these two albums on repeat thinking about how perfectly they fit julian and garak, i can’t put into words how glad I am to share the brainworms :’’)

brain’s been rattling nonstop about how my favorite album duology was waiting for me to discover garashir, because it IS about them.

röyksopp (acclaimed & iconic norwegian electropop synth artists, my beloveds) put out an album in 2009 called “Junior”. it’s a delight. it’s bright and optimistic, it’s uptempo even when it’s sad or conflicted, there’s a deep sense of drive and a pull towards the future. the duo brings in like half a dozen collaborating artists on lead vocals (robyn! karin dreijer!) and the result is so profoundly vibrant.

this is the julian album. this is the julian-as-he-projects-himself-outwardly album. julian surrounded by friends and moving too fast to think twice about what’s happening internally. julian while he’s still young and golden and nothing’s crashed down around him.

then in 2010, röyksopp releases “Senior” as a direct counterpart to Junior. it’s their only all-instrumental no-vocals album, and the tone has shifted. Senior is downtempo and sparse, it’s ambient and contemplative and dissonant even if the melody stays uncannily warm.

the sense of deep sadness and isolation in these instrumental tracks is so on the nose for garak it’s a little wild. tracks with names like “the drug” and “the alcoholic”. the empty stretching synth pads of “a long, long way” sounds like what the station must’ve felt like the first night after every other cardassian left.

It’s not a strict binary ofc, shades of both are in both albums, but the contrast between youth and experience, between unabashed optimism and tired reticence….. it’s sustaining me.

please listen to these albums and tell me what you think please

little green men is better than oppenheimer

experimentation with data