18 Bookmarks by somethingwithghosts
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Lost in Translation (Patching the UT) by sayler_antimony
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
30 Dec 2023
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A look into the Personal Logs of a Linguist on Deep Space Nine, who is uncovering the funniest and sweetest translation errors, and trying to patch the UT along the way.
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And if you had asked Lieutenant Wittgenstein, who was currently tasked with the next report on the use of the UT on Deep Space Nine, which was a special case, what with all the Gamma Quadrant languages mingling in the matrix now, nevermind the decidedly casual language the UT was being exposed to at Quarks, she could have told you a number of things. The UT memory bank transcripts, heavily encrypted and for the linguists’ eyes only, of course, were littered with missed moments, lost meanings, and mix-ups. For instance…- Language:
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07 Jan 2026
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Based on DS9's 'The Muse', where Odo and Lwaxana get married to free her from her controlling Tavnian husband.
Tavnians had a very different way of expressing 'love' to the languages Odo knew. His native Bajoran had several words, some ambiguous (one form could refer to a friend just as easily as it could to a sexual partner), others with unmistakeable clarity (the word used to express parental affection for small children, for example, or the form used in love poetry). The Cardassian terms were neatly partitioned, with a simplicity he'd appreciated conducting questionings on Terok Nor: love for Cardassia, love for peers, love for spouse, love for family (younger and older). Federation Standard, for a language that prided itself on clarity, had one maddeningly ambiguous word that could mean damn near anything it wanted to.
Tavnians also only had one word, but it was far more specific. It was only to be used in the 'strong masculine' register, and could refer to any prized possession. That possession sometimes happened to be the speaker's wife.
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04 Jan 2026
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The Universe Was Suddenly Ours by same_asiteverwas
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek
27 Sep 2025
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“That’s right. And I’ve got a proposition for you all. It’s a big ask, I know, but I’ve been thinking about it since they locked me away. I want to start a magazine of our own. I’m calling it Defiant.”
“A new magazine?” Kay breathed.
“The kind of magazine that’s not afraid to publish stories about Negro captains and strong heroines,” said Benny. “One not beholden to the likes of Pabst and the owners. We’d be the owners.”
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03 Jan 2026
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When the universal translator mysteriously stops working, it turns out the DS9 crew have fewer languages in common than they might have expected.
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03 Jan 2026
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I’m Gonna See The Folks I Dig (I’ll Even Kiss a Sunset Pig) by 0MissE0
Fandoms: 紅の豚 | Kurenai no Buta | Porco Rosso (1992)
10 Jan 2024
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Fio pushed down the trigger on the shift, and frowned when it clicked, but didn't fire.
"Watch it," muttered Porco, "it's still loaded."
Or, Fio stays.
Or, I didn’t like the ending of the movie, so Porco becomes a dad
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24 May 2024
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GHAZAL WHERE I'M BEGGING YOU TO TOUCH ME by igneousbitch
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
29 Apr 2021
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You had your body and I had mine, and it was a miracle. Your hands against my face were a miracle. The rest of your meat attached to your hands was a prayer answered and a promise broken, but we were flush and gasping and alive, and Harrow—I really thought you might’ve kissed me then.
But I felt it happen. The way your breath suddenly stilled, and your body locked up beneath mine, remembering. How with splintering gentleness, you pushed me away.
“I’m so sorry,” was the second thing you said upon waking.
The first thing had been my name.
Stranded in a safehouse on an Edenite moon, Gideon and Harrow try to put themselves back together.
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- Part 1 of at the end of the world
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30 Apr 2024
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Neil and Pitts own the bar, Charlie drinks the bar, Knox consistently gets stood up at the bar, and a new regular changes nothing and everything.
[also known as, select scenes from the dead poets pub]
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28 Oct 2023
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it's the light (it's the obstacle that casts it) by bibliocratic
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
01 Apr 2019
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It's like having a curtain pulled back on something he wasn't expecting to see. A surprise punch-and-judy at an up-scale restaurant, a lobster thermidor when he's ordered an ale.
Crowley's gleefully trying to wrap his head around the fact that Aziraphale is speaking Polari. Because of course he is.
Or: The Patron Saint of London's LGBT Community is real, and he lives in Soho.
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19 Aug 2023
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How To Wreck A Schedule In One Easy Step by valleykey
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
13 Sep 2022
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No, Kunikida thinks with dimmly rising horror, I will not let the mom jokes be how I find out I’m a woman.
“Aaaa how scary~!” Dazai is saying, hand to his chest, dramatic dip to his tone, “Kunikida-kun’s really gonna get even worse with the mothering if this goes on, you know! Call someone something enough times and they’ll really become it! Look, he...no, she’s about to scold us already!”
Kunikida’s pen breaks.
/// Kunikida's egg cracks on an innocuous Monday morning at approximately 10:36AM. It's awful for her schedule.
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- Part 3 of Author's Favorites (BSD)
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14 Aug 2023
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Four avatars walk into a bar and gossip about the Distortion's love life.
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28 Dec 2022
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the body that stands apart from itself (remains standing) by thestartofnothing for facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
19 Jun 2020
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Sometimes a family is a ragtag gang of teenagers in a small town who use the same gender neutral pronoun.
Or, Warlock Dowling asks The Them about gender. Amongst other things.Bookmarked by somethingwithghosts
27 Dec 2022
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Mystery Work
Part of author's dogshit
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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27 Dec 2022
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Sometimes, the most horrifying thing of all is what might have been.
Somewhere, Jon could swear he heard a crowd laughing.
Or: in which Jonathan Sims is forced to swap places with his alternate self – a tall, chivalrous hero extraordinaire, who knows neither fear nor nuance – and is sent to the aggressively straight alternate universe the Magnus Archives was never meant to be.
“Whatever place this is,” Jon announced, “I just want to be sure it knows I hate it.”
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06 Dec 2022
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Fired Inside a Broken Mold by shadowsapiens for robot_drawings
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
01 Nov 2021
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He sits at the bar, and Rashoumon tightens around his waist as if to hold him together. The backs of his teeth are sweet with blood.
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04 Dec 2022
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Basically: Black Lizard's shenanigans, lots of Tachigin (I mean, this was prompted by Tachigin week... well, prompts) and a bunch of headcanons not-so-subtely introduced. That's mostly it.
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05 Sep 2022
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04 Sep 2022
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still, a great deal of light falls on everything by s0dafucker
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 Mar 2020
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i got so fucking romantic, i apologize- let me light your cigarette
she’s molten inside, he can feel it. the eye is vicious, viscous, a malevolent static in his ears, but he shoves it aside in favor of watching her breathe, draw breath into lungs that aren’t quite lungs anymore. / michael kisses him and it isn’t kissing, not really, not anything you could call kissing if you saw it- / ‘i heard you beat the shit out of leitner,’ annabelle says.
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04 Sep 2022
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Judge Roberta Field eyed the next case on the docket balefully. She’d known it was coming. As soon as she’d seen it appear in her schedule she’d cursed and debated “breaking a leg”, since it had been too late to have another baby as a way out. She’d convinced herself that was too extreme, however, and lulled herself into a false sense of security that she must be misremembering and it wouldn’t be that bad. So she’d decided to keep working and let it happen. And now it was here.
The Bouchard-Lukas divorce.
Again.
It had been three years since the last one, which had to be a new record.
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Elias and Peter are divorcing again. In trying to decide the division of their marital property, they need some witnesses to assist their respective cases. This is unfortunate for Jon and Martin, who would really rather be elsewhere.
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04 Sep 2022