I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.
The Waimakariri River flows for 94 miles (151 km) across the South Island of New Zealand, beginning in the Southern Alps and emptying into the Pacific Ocean. In the mid-19th century, it was briefly named the Courtenay River before reverting back to its traditional Maori name, which means “river of cold rushing water.”
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when the unresolved psychosexuality of the relationship is way better than whatever resolution it might hypothetically have and actually its own being unresolved is the crux and the paradigm of what the characters have going on between them:
ID: An image of David Lynch saying “People who like Twin peaks are party people.” End ID
Tal Rosenzweig "Tal R" — Adieu Interessant (Yellow) mixed media on wooden panel, 2005-2008.
INTERFACING - You fuck it up. Your juvenile glee at finding a slide leads you to swing down into the pipe far too fast.
INLAND EMPIRE - Like the child you used to be.
AUTHORITY - But you are not a child any more.
ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY - Fuck that shit, bomb it down there and scream the whole time!
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - We can take it. We can always take it. PAIN THRESHOLD - Pain, radiant and sharp, jolts through you. You can not, in fact, take it.
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REACTION SPEED - You fly out of the slide, propelled by your weight and your enthusiasm.
ENDURANCE - The metal jars against you, then you're sliding over the harsh ground instead.
COMPOSURE - You land heavily at Kim's feet, and begin to whine like a child with a scraped knee.
ESPRIT DE CORPS - His infinitesimal regard for you as a normal human being is so dead at this point he's not even surprised.
KIM KITSURAGI - "Normal people, when they go down a slide, they're fine."
AUTHORITY - He's questioning your authority!
VOLITION - Sitting on the floor and crying after being beaten up by a slide, you have precious little authority to question.
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New Star Trek headcanon just dropped: Geordi and data regularly hang out in the dark and Geordi sometimes forgets that people need light to see
This is so incredibly important how dare you hide this in the tags /lh
Pov you walk into a pitch black room and you see two creepy glowing android eyes, two flashing red lights, and the fucked up thing cats' eyes do in the dark
Further hc that Data can't actually see in the dark either.
He's just never thought to mention this because he has a photographic memory and direct neural access to all of the Enterprise's schematics, and therefore doesn't actually need sight to know where everything is.
okay no cause like i love this.
Ok but imagine the Enterprise goes to help people on this planet where everyone lives underground in the dark because of radiation or something. Like it's bad enough that hundreds of generations have lived underground and, over the course of time, have adapted to the darkness so well that light sources actually hurt them. So Picard has to figure out how to help them without sending people in with lights.
And the obvious answer is to send Geordi down, but the settlements are so far down the communicators cut out and Picard isn't sending anyone into that alone.
"Data and I should be able to handle it," Geordi says. "Neither of us need light to see and Engineering can manage fine without us for a few hours."
Picard nods and is on the verge of sanctioning the mission with his trademark, "Make it so," when Data speaks up.
"Actually, my visual sensors are designed to be as much like the human eye as possible," he says. "They only process information transmitted by the reflection of light off physical surfaces. My ability to function onboard Enterprise in unlit spaces is due to my memorization of both the ship's schematics and the design preferences of those whose quarters I visit regularly."
Behind his visor, unbeknownst to the rest of the crew, Geordi blinks as he tries to process this new information. He's almost about to apologize to Picard and Data for the assumption when Data continues.
"However, I would be able to integrate the information from our tricorder scans to navigate without much difficulty. I could accompany Geordi to the settlement and provide some level of assistance."
Picard looks a bit confused at the correction, but nods. "Make it so."
Later, when they've beamed down into the caverns, Geordi asks why Data never mentioned that he couldn't actually see in the dark. He would've turned the lights on if he'd known.
"I did not need it," Data answers simply, as if that was explanation enough.
"Data, most people like the lights to be on, even if they don't need it," Geordi points out. "It's a comfort thing. And polite, too, I guess."
Data pauses, processing. "I was not uncomfortable, nor did I find the lack of light to be rude. I enjoy our conversations in the dark."
"Huh." Geordi stops, watching as Data continues down the tunnel a bit further. "But you keep your quarters dark sometimes, too."
"Spot is nocturnal," Data explains. "I have read that it is important for cats to maintain a sense of routine, including a regular day and night cycle."
"You do your work in the dark for Spot?"
"For my friends."
