70,000 Light Years From Home

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 0489 7675 1649!

Please add me on pokemon go, ppl. I need to get rid of gifts. 😁😁😁 I just started playing today so my obsession will probably last for the rest of this week

Don't miss this unique opportunity

PS I'm a European babe

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Garrett Wang is apparently really into Pokemon GO. He has two accounts.  One of them is “TheHandsomeKim.”  (Referring to a young fan who grew up with VOY, and assumed everyone was calling Harry “Handsome Kim.” She didn’t realize it was “Ensign Kim” until she grew up.) The other is “EternalEnsign.”

Awhile back, he was looking for people to trade with, though I don’t know if that’s still true. 

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ensignjamie

just spent half an hour meticulously searching for how many photon torpedos voyager used up because they claimed they only had 42 but definitely used WAY more

caladeniablue

So?

It's called recycling.

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I remember this being a thing back when VOY was in production. There were web sites that kept track of the number of photon torpedoes used. And also the number of crashed shuttles and lost crew members. 

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faithoftheart
faithoftheart: “Flying“Dad took me up in an old S class shuttle. Two seats, no warp drive, manual helm controls. I was eight years old and I was scared out of my wits.. But then came this moment of clarity, when suddenly everything made sense. I was...
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Flying

Dad took me up in an old S class shuttle. Two seats, no warp drive, manual helm controls. I was eight years old and I was scared out of my wits..

But then came this moment of clarity, when suddenly everything made sense.

I was flying. No matter how many starships I’ve piloted since then, I’m still chasing that feeling.

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“Alice” is not one of my favorite episodes. I remember being particularly disappointed that we actually get inside Tom’s head…and find out he really loves flying. Wow, what a revelation.

Though looking back on it…you could see the memory described in this episode as a seminal moment in Tom’s relationship with his father. Tom fell in love with flying when he was eight years old, perhaps in part because his first flight was such a good experience with his dad. One where he did well and made his father proud.

And his father may have seen Tom’s love of flying, and assumed that meant he wanted to join Starfleet. Of course, Starfleet isn’t the only career possible for a pilot, but it’s probably the first most people think of. Just like today, people who want to be pilots often think first of the Air Force, though it’s not the only possibility. And Owen wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, and maybe saw only what he wanted to see.

We see Tom has that tendency himself. He assumes that what he wants is what everyone wants. He doesn’t ask Harry or B’Elanna what they want to do, he just assumes they’ll want to do whatever he wants to do. (Which is usually true of Harry, and usually not true of B’Elanna.)

I could see Owen being the same way. Maybe he assumed Tom wanted to join Starfleet — and Tom probably did, at first — and didn’t recognize it when Tom changed his mind, as children often do. He assumed the pressure he put on his son was helping him achieve his dream, the way parents sometimes have to do. Not realizing Tom no longer had the same aspirations he had when he eight.

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Anonymous asked:

hi! i need help. i've got an idea for a fic i've been sitting on for a while now, but it's a bit of an ambitious au that requires research and an actual plot that makes sense. i don't know where to start, and i'm the type of person who bases their worth on their productivity (something i need to work on, i know). i've had lots of free time, but even then i haven't written anything. any tips on where/how to start? or not feel shitty about this? thanks ✨✨

ao3commentoftheday answered:

Bear with me for a moment while I talk about something that might seem totally unrelated: project management methodology.

There are two major ways that I’ve encountered for managing a project. One way is called Waterfall and the other way is called Agile. In Waterfall project management, you basically build the whole thing and then release a finished product. This is useful in a situation like baking a cake. Giving people the uncooked batter probably won’t go over well.

In Agile project management, you build something that’s referred to as the minimum viable product. This is a sort of stripped down version of the final product. It still does whatever it’s meant to do, but it doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles on it. If you play video games, you’ll be familiar with this. They release the base game and then add more functionalities and levels over time, but meanwhile people are buying and playing the game and those sales help to finance further development.

So what does this have to do with writing a big fic? Well, writing longfic is its own kind of project management. Depending on your own personality, either a Waterfall or an Agile approach could work for you.

Based on this ask, I think you might want to take an Agile approach. Look at the overall story and think: what’s the core story I’m trying to tell? That’s the minimum viable product. You can add in all of the world building and the subplots etc. after you’ve got the main thread figured out, but that main thread is what you should focus on first. Any research on the main thread gets priority. Any research on the side stuff can wait for later.

And this can also be a way for you to get feedback as you write. That’s another core of Agile development - getting feedback from the stakeholders (in this case your audience) throughout the development process so that the final product fits the need. You can do this with a beta reader or by participating in things like Six Sentence Sunday.

You can also break your huge story down into a series of smaller stories that can be posted separately and grouped together in a series on ao3.

Decide what the most important part of the story is that you really want to tell and start there. Once you’ve got that part, you can build on it.

How do the rest of you figure out a huge story like this one? Can you offer anon any advice?

70thousandlightyearsfromhome

I’m more likely to take the waterfall approach, but that’s just me. I tend to re-write a lot, and don’t like to be locked in by posting. I know you can still change stuff after posting, but it’s confusing and a pain if you make major changes, like I often do. 

My suggestion is to break things down into small pieces. Maybe make a list of little things that need to be done, and pick one item off the list each day. Do that one thing, and you don’t have to feel guilty about this project. You can do more if you want, but you don’t have to. 

You might start with the research. For me, that’s an easy, non-threatening first step, and often, it will show you the plot or give you ideas for scenes, etc. If there’s a lot of research, break it up into different topics, and make each one a separate task. Other things to do might be to write a specific scene, choose a title, solve a plot problem, pick a name for an original character, write 100 words. You’ll think of more tasks as you go along.

Eat the elephant one bite at a time. 

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