Dean and Hikaru meet for the first time on one of the worst days of Dean's life. He's stuck in the crash webbing of the transport shuttle, splattered with the blood of the dead man beside him who folded in half under the weight of a ripped support beam. Dean's a medic and Hikaru's Starfleet, and they both know what it says about him when Dean has ( Read more... )

I grew up on an orchard for a little while when I was younger, when my parents and I were living with my mom's sister's family. The earliest memory I have is of riding through the orchard trees on a motorbike with my uncle, the two family dogs chasing along after us. I thought for many years that this was a dream, until my dad told me it had ( Read more... )

I was going to talk about my thoughts on gender and my own gender identity, but I think before I do that, I need to talk about a novel I read when I was in high school. I read this book in my developmental years and it legitimately changed how I perceive not only myself and the world, but how I perceive gender restrictions, to a certain degree.

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I think it's incredible how we can wonder 'how does x work' and 'why is x the way it is' and now we can simply go and look it up online. I honestly believe this is one of the biggest reasons I don't go to libraries anymore, because it's not like I don't read, or do research or any combination of pursuing the infamous 'why'. It's simply easier to ( Read more... )

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