Opal

New American teacher came today. She's older, 50ish, has experience and will probably leave my crazy school as soon as she can. They're firing Isaac, the turkish guy I work with because they're racist and he's middle eastern (i.e. not american enough). He's very sweet but he's here working illegally and it's kind of messy.

I know have three house plants, Freude, Gertie and Phebe. They're awesome.

I also have dragons because I needed some. *hugs lanna_kitty*

Looket!

Imagine you live in a place where everyone around you has exactly the same hair color. You all have the same eye color, basically the same body shape. There are variations, but they are subtle. Squinty eyes versus round ones. Flatter chins, rounder chins, but they're all slight.

Each city here is barely over thirty years old. Their written language is one that has been repressed by the Chinese, several times, and now they seek out the west.

It's a point of honor to speak like a native speaker of English. American clothes, American food, American television...they're all here. Chinese movies aren't here. Indian cinema is just as big and it's not here.

Being white is special. Seen as better. Women here have their noses changed. Their chin's filed into points. Old men buy me strawberries and press them into my hands with toothless grins because they remember the Korean war. I barely know anything of it.

Korean mothers push their children towards me with little gifts and ask me to help them. If they speak English well, propaganda says they will have good jobs and be respected.

No culture is better, is it?

Title: Synthesis
Author: Oparu
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard
Warning(s): smut
Summary: missing scene from Fair Trade. Life on a starship. Plotless. Banter. Smut.
Thanks all mistakes are mine, but lanna_kitty helped me greatly.
Disclaimer: Star Trek does not belong to me.
A/N: Couldn't fit it in the story. Couldn't get it out of my head. If I had a DVD, I'd stick it on there. On the commentary I'd say this one of the better sex scenes I've written. In my biased and entirely nonobjective opinion.


( and on the DVD release )

http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/8787/colortest.swf

Try this it's fun! It hurts your brain a little.

I also desperately need emergency betaing of my fixit fic. I'll owe you and do things for you. *nods* I can even mail you strange korean things if you want. It's on the prompt Elizabeth and John are captured together by the Asurans. It's kinda smutty and has Teyla/Sam friendship. 4500. Yes, I procrastinate...but I'll owe you.

Title: Fair Trade Epilogue
Author: me!
Rating:PG-13, technobabble, blood, angst
Notes: Remember that clip I was obsessed with? The one with Beverly's crazy hat? Yes, well... Link to TNG clip

Betaing & thanks:miriel helped me with the idea and gave me happy thoughts when I got stuck. **lanna_kitty** the hallowed and loved, betaed this like there was nothing else going on in her crazy life. She helped with characters, plot, grammar...everything!!! She rocks. (and kept me sane while the headpeople made their silly silly demands)

Summary: When Captain Picard disappears on a shore leave on a nonaligned world, the away team goes under cover to try and find him. Worf uses an unorthodox cover story and it spirals out of control. Crusher/Picard with significant Riker/Troi leanings. (yes, I wrote another damn babyfic...)

|| part one || part two || part three || part four || part five|| part six ||
part seven ||

( Epilogue - Missed calls )

Title: Fair Trade part 6
Author: me!
Rating:PG-13, technobabble, blood, angst
Notes: Remember that clip I was obsessed with? The one with Beverly's crazy hat? Yes, well... Link to TNG clip

Betaing & thanks:miriel helped me with the idea and gave me happy thoughts when I got stuck. **lanna_kitty** the hallowed and loved, betaed this like there was nothing else going on in her crazy life. She helped with characters, plot, grammar...everything!!! She rocks. (and knows her dialogue)

Summary: When Captain Picard disappears on a shore leave on a nonaligned world, the away team goes under cover to try and find him. Worf uses an unorthodox cover story and it spirals out of control. Crusher/Picard with significant Riker/Troi leanings. (yes, I wrote another damn babyfic...)

|| part one || part two || part three || part four || part five||

( Chapter Six - If we're going to have this conversation )

Title: Fair Trade part 4 (yes, I'm all spammy tonight, sorry!)
Author: me!
Rating:PG-13, technobabble, blood, angst
Notes: Remember that clip I was obsessed with? The one with Beverly's crazy hat? Yes, well... Link to TNG clip

Betaing & thanks:miriel helped me with the idea and gave me happy thoughts when I got stuck. **lanna_kitty** the hallowed and loved, betaed this like there was nothing else going on in her crazy life. She helped with characters, plot, grammar...everything!!! She rocks. (and has a needy kitten)

Summary: When Captain Picard disappears on a shore leave on a nonaligned world, the away team goes under cover to try and find him. Worf uses an unorthodox cover story and it spirals out of control. Crusher/Picard with significant Riker/Troi leanings. (yes, I wrote another damn babyfic...)

part one || part two || part three

( Chapter Four - Matters of record )

Title: Fair Trade
Author: me!
Rating:PG-13, technobabble, blood, angst
Notes: Remember that clip I was obsessed with? The one with Beverly's crazy hat? Yes, well... Link to TNG clip

Betaing & thanks:miriel helped me with the idea and gave me happy thoughts when I got stuck. **lanna_kitty** the hallowed and loved, betaed this like there was nothing else going on in her crazy life. She helped with characters, plot, grammar...everything!!! She rocks. (she really does)

Summary: When Captain Picard disappears on a shore leave on a nonaligned world, the away team goes under cover to try and find him. Worf uses an unorthodox cover story and it spirals out of control. Crusher/Picard with significant Riker/Troi leanings. (yes, I wrote another damn babyfic...)

part one

( Chapter Two - No sleep and no Picard does not a happy Crusher make )

So, I was reading grammar rants on havocthecat's corner of the world about advanced English grammar. I basked in the moment of advanced English grammar.

( Just for today? No is )

On an unrelated happy note? I went to the movies, midnight show is $3! and SUPER nice. I'm sitting in front of two Korean children and mom and dad, young, 3-6ish. Children can say "hello" and "this is for you." The say hello, giggle, sit in their seats and then, for the rest of "Princess of Moonacre" Not spectacular but fun and blissfully in English, every few minutes they tap me on the shoulder and soulfully hand me pieces of popcorn. "This is for you." They don't seem to understand no. "Thank you" amuses them. They smile and wave and giggle harder because I wave differently. Mom and Dad are totally at a loss because even hello is beyond them but they smile! They don't stop the children. They actually smile and let the kids give me popcorn. They let smallest kid pull on my jacket, drag me down to her level and grab my cheek as if she'd never seen anything like it.

Oh humanity, you do love me, don't you?