If you could spend an entire day with any member of the Voyager crew, who would it be and how would you spend it?
It could be set in any time frame (Present day or in the Trek Universe), and money is not an option.
And if you can’t pick just one member…list each member and how you would spend your day with them. Because let’s face it, I couldn’t choose just one either 🙂
*tilts head and hums a moment*
Chakotay or Janeway or Seven of Nine.
Chakotay – before 2369, just something quiet, maybe camping, hanging out and enjoying the quiet of a nice day. Possibly geeking out about history, because. Get a hug before the end of the day, because I bet he gives the best hugs.
Janeway – sometime during the journey through the Delta Quadrant, probably after Scorpion and before Equinox. A day on the holodeck, doing something that gets her out of her head for a while. Possibly make pointed observations about her chemistry with her first officer, and why certain Starfleet regulations are honestly not good for her mental health on a long journey like the one Voyager is on, and that her crew needs her not to be neglecting her mental health just for the sake of some regulations.
Seven – get her dragged out of her own universe and spend it here, and introduce her to some friends and possibly to some specific stuff that I think she might find helpful in figuring out how to people that might not be available to her in her own universe and time.
Push off a cliff: …. Fuck that. Kiss: Godric, just ‘cause. Marry: Hrodwunn, with the acknowledgement that if either of us ever is interested in bedding someone, there would be discussion/seeking of permission beforehand Set on Fire: Why do I have to set any of them on fire? I don’t want to set any of them on fire. Wrap a Blanket around: Nizar and Salazar and Severus. Because they all need it. Be Roommates with: Helga, ‘cause she is awesome and terrifying and wonderful.
…tbf, Godric kind of seems like the sort of person who would put a flame-freezing charm on himself and jump on a bonfire, just to see what it was like. Then spend the rest of the evening jumping back and forth over it, because wheee.
My complete and total inability to keep anything clean or tidy for any amount of time is a symptom of my depression. I may never be able to do this. It’s important that I remember that and forgive myself when I clean something out (like my car) and it ends up trashed within a week.
Depression IS A DISABILITY. Requiring accommodations is okay.
Medications don’t make you better, they don’t cure your depression. They serve as an aid. Their purpose is to help you get to everyone else’s minimal level of functioning.
Depression can cycle through periods of inactivity. This doesn’t mean it’s gone away.
The reason I don’t feel like other people understand me is because … well … other people DON’T understand me. They can’t. They don’t have my disability.
Paranoia is par for the course.
Depression can and will interfere with your physical mobility. Forgive yourself when you can’t physically do something.
It’s entirely possible that I may never be able to live by myself. I can’t take care of myself. I need help to do it. And that’s okay.
As someone who suffers from depression and who experiences all these things as well I think this is important and needs to be reblogged. Depression is a very difficult thing, not only for people who suffer from it, but for everyone who knows a depressed person. My family doesn’t know how to deal with it, my friends try their very best to support me and I have tried to pretend I was fine until I was in ninth grade.
Everything makes so much more sense
Depression is a disease of the brain. The brain is an organ. When organs are not functioning properly, you are advised to see a doctor and get help. So why is it so hard to understand that the brain can suffer as well, and that we need help for it?
The brain controls the body. A sick brain means a sick body.
…. Shit.
Don’t disregard it as just sadness. Depression is life threatening.
The day I rebuked someone for saying “depression is in your head” with the comeback “Yes. And there’s an organ in your head called the brain – or at least in MY head, sounds to me like you don’t have one at the present moment – and a brain is a physical component of the body, therefore depression is a Physical ailment”…
that day was the day I took my first step toward accepting it as a disability and forgiving myself for having to live with something so stigmatized
and;
when people attribute depression to being “all in your head,” what they’re really doing is connecting your illness to an expectation of sufferers being virtuous and having enough willpower, almost making it an issue of personal integrity, as if fostering and growing those is the only – or even the most effective – “cure,” and if you’re weak in those areas and not persevering hard enough, then it’s a moral failing
it’s not
I do all this and regularly forget it can be the depression and fall back into berating myself. Its good to remember
Also, you will be exhausted. You cannot work long hours no matter how much you’d like to because it will start pulling on your immune system and physical health a lot sooner than it does for other people. So stop comparing yourself to other people when it comes to how long you can work and start listening to how long it takes before you are exhausted. The added benefit of doing this is, when you find a medication that works, you will suddenly notice yourself getting more energy.
Depression is “all in your head” like hepatitis is “all in your liver.”
Its important to note that most bouts of major depression last no more than two years constant, if you have reoccuring depression it may not be major depression and idk that was a big thing for me to discover. I was always confused because other people I knew had gotten better and I just didnt… I had periods of being ok but at most a few months to a year then I was back to being depressed again.
I’m just starting to come out of another major crash I think… I hope.
If you can and are comfortable, if you have reoccuring depression, or treatment resistant depression it is worth talking to your doctor about any concerns for how long its been lasting.
Note: – Im not saying if you’ve felt depressed for more than two years on the go you arent depressed, Im saying the type of depression it is may not be what you originally thought. Dysthymia is a form of long term low-level depression, that is often treatment resistant though not always.I suffer from Dysthymia with bouts of major depression.
I have beaten myself up over and over again to a very dangerous place because of the fact that I don’t have my own place. I had to move back in with my folks when things got so bad I ended up homeless. I suffer from G.AD. (generalized anxiety disorder), depression, and bipolar and I get scared and still do with the reality that I may never be able to live alone. How do you cope with that, especially if you might possibly be asexual and will may not have a partner or family member to help you out?
I had about the same reaction when they turned the mirror universe from “look what we are capable of if we don’t control our savage side” into “look what Other People can do to us if we aren’t aggressive”
Oh dear fuck, yes. *screams into a pillow*
I refuse to watch those episodes of DS9 because there’s only so much rage I can deal with at a time. Just. It’s not what a mirror-verse is supposed to be. Add to that the way they decided that the way to emphasize mirror!Kira’s evilness was to dress her up in bondage gear chic and make her blatently bisexual, and in so doing neatly demonizing bisexuality and kink in the process. *makes emphatic and rude gestures at the episodes*
(There’s an episode of Voyager that isn’t technically a mirror-verse, but Voyager through someone else’s historical lens, and just. Guh. That is what a mirror-verse should be, and it’s fantastic, and I kinda want to take it and play with it, ‘cause I made such happy squeaks while watching that episode.)
You know what the best thing about writing alternate universes is?
Fuck canon, I do what I want.
And the best thing about writing alternate histories is?
Fuck canon, I Do What I Want.
Good alternates do require an intimate knowledge of the fandom/historical period you’re breaking, but still.
Fuck. Canon. I do what I want.
(This brought to you today by screaming crankiness about the Borg and the alterations to canon brought about by Star Trek: First Contact, and putting a female face and a social insect facade over a forced-assimilation-into-the-dominant-culture, might-makes-right, one-true-way, military-imperialism-and-white-supremacy terror. FUCK. CANON. *gets out a metaphorical sledgehammer and goes after canon with it*)
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