The View from T'Khut

Nov. 27th, 2025 02:23 pm
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The View from T'Khut (5776 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Spock/Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk/Spock, Sarek & Spock (Star Trek), Spock & Spock Prime
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Spock Prime, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, T'Pau (Star Trek), Sarek (Star Trek), Vulcan Characters (Star Trek), Crew of the Starship Enterprise
Additional Tags: Vulcan Culture (Star Trek), Vulcan Mind Melds (Star Trek), Vulcan Language (Star Trek), jj abrams should be ashamed of himself, Vulcan history, Vulcan mythology, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, symbiotic red algae
Series: Part 1 of The View from T'Khut
Summary:

Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.

Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.

Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.



This story was a very long time coming. I have had the title for it for over a decade, and this summer I realized what story went with that title. It is complete but being posted in parts over the next few weeks and runs about 50K words all told.
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Read Minimum Wage, Minimum Effort: Thanksgiving Edition

Me: "It's just, I already had Thanksgiving booked off and approved. The trip is booked and paid for."
Boss: "I don't know what to tell you. You read the new policy. There's no guarantee that you'll have your time off approved."
Me: "Even though it was already approved?"

Read Minimum Wage, Minimum Effort: Thanksgiving Edition

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Posted by Etai Eshet

Some neighbor stories are sitcom material, minus the laugh track. One house, two driveways, endless chaos. The neighbors are parked like they are inventing new Tetris moves, blocking the start of the driveway and forcing episode after episode of waiting games just to get home. Even when a car finally moves, there is another one blocking the split in back or sitting smack in the middle of your precious parking spot.

The new low blows have come fast. Now they are dropping garbage on your turf, not just small things either, but three mattresses. Bulk disposal on someone else's property is peak community energy. Security cameras catch almost everything, but invisible boundaries do not seem to matter. The laundry cart incident is still fresh in the memory. One neighbor needed it, took it, and apologized in shaky translation. No harm meant, but also no warning.

Every request is met with more confusion than malice. If anyone just asked to use a spot or toss some bulk on your curb, there would be compromise and shared frustration, not silent theft and property party tricks. It is not about language. It is about basic neighbor courtesies and asking first. English, Spanish, or a phone app is fine. Mutual respect is not limited by dialect.

Now THAT Is Some Fowl Play!

Nov. 27th, 2025 06:45 pm
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Read Now THAT Is Some Fowl Play!

Customer: "Excuse me, I need that turkey."
Me: "It’s mine. I already reserved it."
Customer: *Rolling her eyes.* "Well, I’m hosting fifteen people tomorrow, and you don’t look like you’re feeding that many. You can find something else."

Read Now THAT Is Some Fowl Play!

taking stock

Nov. 27th, 2025 12:53 pm
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Ive been thinking about this for a while. I'm going to make each of these stages a tab. Id love your thoughts on where you think we are.

Stages of Collapse

Stage 1: Financial collapse. Faith in “business as usual” is lost. The future is no longer assumed resemble the past in any way that allows risk to be assessed and financial assets to be guaranteed. Financial institutions become insolvent; savings are wiped out, and access to capital is lost.

Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that “the market shall provide” is lost. Money is devalued and/or becomes scarce, commodities are hoarded, import and retail chains break down, and widespread shortages of survival necessities become the norm.

Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that “the government will take care of you” is lost. As official attempts to mitigate widespread loss of access to commercial sources of survival necessities fail to make a difference, the political establishment loses legitimacy and relevance.

Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that “your people will take care of you” is lost. As local social institutions, be they charities, community leaders, or other groups that rush in to fill the power vacuum, run out of resources or fail through internal conflict.

Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in the goodness of humanity is lost. People lose their capacity for “kindness, generosity, consideration, affection, honesty, hospitality, compassion, charity” (Turnbull, The Mountain People). Families disband and compete as individuals for scarce resources. The new motto becomes “May you die today so that I die tomorrow” (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago). There may even be some cannibalism.
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Norfolk's first capybara café opening in Toftwood, Dereham

That's right. An area which has had FORM for escaping invasive large semi-aquatic mammals: see this article by a guy who dealt with the coypu menace in the Broads.

Animal rights and protection orgs are already up in arms:
FOUR PAWS strongly opposes the keeping of wild or non-domesticated animals, such as capybaras, in settings where their complex welfare needs cannot be properly met.
Freedom for Animals has united with our colleagues at Born Free Foundation, Animal Aid, OneKind, World Animal Protection, and RSPCA to strongly urge the operators, and the local authority, to halt these plans before they get underway.
RSPCA criticises new ‘capybara cafes’

Apparently there is a whole thing of cafes where you can embrace cuddly animals in Asia: Cuddling capybaras and ogling otters: the problem with animal cafes in Asia: A boom in places offering petting sessions is linked to a rise in the illegal movement of exotic and endangered species, say experts:

Capybaras breed rapidly, can withstand a wide range of temperatures, and have a flexible diet of grasses and aquatic plants. “There is a high risk for them to be invasive,” Congdon says.

I will cop to have looked rather wistfully at a place in Australia which offered encounters with WOMBATTS, but a) that was in their native land and b) it looked like this was a sanctuary and they were rescue wombies, and thus one would be supporting the mission. (While interacting with ADORABLE WOMBATTS.)

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And because tradition: this is one that I haven't iterated overmuch:

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Nov. 27th, 2025 12:36 pm
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I am about to run out of room in the former bullet journal and so it is time to transfer necessary information to the new one, including the Friend Book - the list of friends and their preferences that I keep in the back. Even if you only know me from DW, if you count us friends then you are welcome to submit answers to questions about how I can be a good friend to you. This also, ideally, means updating old information, if you are already in there. So here are the current version of my questions for you to answer, or not, as you choose.

What are your special interests and things you love to talk about?

What are your favorite kinds of drinks and snacks for hanging out? If I come to your house, what kinds of things am I bringing for the purpose of spoiling you?

Do you have any allergies/sensory sensitivities/trauma triggers/pet peeves/other bad stuff I should know about? How do I keep you safe?

How do I comfort you when something big goes wrong/you are overwhelmed/you are having a panic attack? Do you want to be hugged, to be helped, or to be heard - and in what order do you want them if there are multiple?

What are your favorite types of parties/get-togethers? How do I invite you to things you will like?

What kind of gifts do you like: frivolous, purposeful, experiences, perishables like baked goods, donations in your name, some completely other thing? How do inspire you to feel like I appreciate you?


If you don’t want a list of your likes and vulnerabilities floating around in the world, I get that. But if you think this information is safe with me, I would be grateful for guidance on how to be a good friend to you. Feel free to DM me if you have answers, questions, or concerns.
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Posted by Brad Dickson

Family gatherings. Something we looked forward to every year as a kid, excited for all the time you were going to spend playing with your cousins, with everyone together and warm cozy vibes supported by good food and conversation.

Blissfully oblivious to the planning, the coordination, and the cost of everything. When dinner was called, all you had to do was grab a plate and dig in.

But, where did all of that food come from? Sure, Mom would get up at the crack of dawn to start the day-long process of cooking the stuffed turkey, but aside from that and the apples you peeled for apple pie, you really took all of that for granted.

If you've ever cooked a meal for four or so people, you know how much work and how expensive even a simple meal can be. (When did food get so expensive?) By the time you account for all of your extended family, numbering 10 to 20 people, it's an exorbitant cost that one person couldn't possibly shoulder. 

While you can get away with freeloading when you're a kid, by the time you're an adult-sized kid, you need to contribute beyond peeling the apples. Still, you can't just go blindsiding people with costs, especially in this economy, and just because you decided to splash out on food for the holidays doesn't mean that everyone in your family is going to be able to match you. 

Who is in the wrong here? It's hard to say, but I think the poster gets the edge on this once since she wasn't privy to the expectation of cost. Still, how much does a plate for a whole extended family cost these days? I'd be shocked if it wasn't somewhere north of $50.

30 in 30: Marvel X-Men

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:19 am
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AO3 Link | Ladies to the Rescue (150 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men [Comics]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rogue [X-Men], Jubilation Lee | Jubilee, Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde, Laura Kinney, James "Logan" Howlett | Wolverine
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half
Summary:

Wolvie needs a rescue






Rogue looked away as Jubilee set off a light show in the dark of the power going out. Kitty had definitely delivered on that, and everyone they were facing was dazzled. They had waited just long enough for the night vision goggles to go on, after all.

Rogue let loose, drawing all attention to herself, letting Kitty have time to get back — and their fourth member to sniff out where the man they'd come for actually was.

No one had to guess when X-23 found him, as father and daughter cut a path back to this point.

"You look like hell, sugah," Rogue called to her long-time friend.

"You look like the cavalry," he said, before shorting out the one robotic enemy with a well-placed claw-punch.

"Time to exit!" Jubilee called out, and while the few standing tried to stop them, they were no match for Wolvie and his girls.
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Posted by Remy Millisky

Food allergies are taken very seriously on flights, but this passenger seems confused about what medical issues she actually has going on. 

Any allergies should be taken seriously, but not all are created equal. For instance, maybe you're a little allergic to a hair product that makes your skin itch when you wear it, so you just avoid it. Or maybe you know that if you eat shellfish, you'll break out in hives, so you keep that out of your diet. But some people have extremely serious allergies that can be life threatening, and even if you don't have one, you probably know someone who does. Nut allergies are one of the most common ones. If you went to school with just a single kid who had a peanut allergy, your school may have banned peanut butter all together. It's just not a laughing matter — for some folks, even a scent of their allergen can cause their body to start the allergic reaction, sending them to the hospital. 

For those with allergies that severe, traveling can be nerve wracking. Luckily, airlines do take this kind of thing seriously, and they can keep passengers with special requirements safe while traveling if they know about these allergies ahead of time.

However, this person claims to have allergies, and maybe they do…but their self-typed note about it is just bizarre, as you can read below. Read it for yourself, then see if you agree with what the commenters are buzzing about too. 

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Read Happy Thanksgiving – From Not Always Right!

Please enjoy our roundup (of roundups!) of Thanksgivings past, to remind us that like most holidays, Thanksgiving is a crazy time of year for retail workers, especially when you take into account what day comes next...

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Read She’ll Probably Run Into This Problem Vegan And Again, Part 5

Enter my cousin, back from her first semester away at college. She took one look at all of the frantic activity happening in the kitchen where my sister, our mom, and I were hard at work, wrinkled her nose, and asked in kind of a snotty tone of voice if anything was vegan.

Read She’ll Probably Run Into This Problem Vegan And Again, Part 5

Happy Wanksgiving!

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:04 am
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I posted 10 drabbles to the Wanksgiving fest, which is currently anonymous. If you didn't get me to write for you, and you spot something in there that you think was me, leave me a comment with an "I think you wrote this!" and a request and I will follow up with you when I am not mid-giving-thanks.

Community Recs Post!

Nov. 27th, 2025 10:45 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fancrafts/fanvids/fanart/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here
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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

Living the adult life means that, unfortunately, you can't have a "day off" from your responsibilities, least of all from your job, whenever you want. No, being an adult means that in order to have a day off, you have to request it in advance and get it approved. Sometimes it even takes months of planning just to get one day of peace and quiet. 

When the hardworking project manager in the story below decided to take one day, just one day, off work, they didn't want to be bothered whatsoever. What is the point of a day off if you have to answer calls or think about work? 

However, this manager's coworkers clearly didn't think the same way, as they had no problems texting and calling the project manager while they were away. So while this PM was having lunch with their family, after months of being devoted to their job, they had to turn their phone off just to stop it from ringing. 

When they finally called back to see what was so urgent, they were met with passive-aggressive remarks about wanting to be left alone on their day off…

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

IT people–can't live with them, can't live without them. They have so much power in their hand, they make sure we know it, but they are always there when we need them. They deal with a lot of, let's call them… technically challenged people, and they do it with a smile on their face. 

But that doesn't mean they can't also make your job unnecessarily complicated as well.

In most companies, when you need something from IT, you must submit a ticket, and they will take care of your request when they can. Will they do it as fast as possible, or in the most efficient way? In the case of the employee in the story below, the answer is absolutely… not.

This employee needed access to a folder containing a lot of information about a product of the company, so they sent a ticket to IT to gain access. IT, however, claimed that the employee must file a different ticket for every subfolder within, which ended up amounting to hundreds of tickets.

Wanted to do right by the hardworking people of IT, this employee complied, and within an hour, flooded the IT department with tickets to access the data needed. It wasn't long before IT realized the flaw in their demands…

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