The story behind the elevators is my strongest childhood memory of DS9 is Odo and Lwaxana stuck in the elevator, and one of my strongest memories from childhood with B5 is G'Kar and Londo stuck in an elevator.  

The ‘joke’(?) has then become 'Why was Little Lady so fucking fixated on elevators?’ and, just as bafflingly, “How has Larger Lady managed to not write constant fic and draw constant art about being stuck in them, given Little Lady’s apparent deep-seated attraction to the setting?”

themyskira:

A while ago, for fun, I started doing some reading on some of the stranger naming choices made by the Puritans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. (Yes, for fun. I am a dork.) Here are a few of my favourites:

A Sussex jury roll from the 1600s includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton, The-Peace-Of-God Knight, Stand-Fast-On-High Stringer, The-Gift-of-God Stringer, and Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith White, Obediencia Cruttenden, Called Lower, Hope-For Bending, More-Fruit Flower and Meek Brewer. Some other wonderful Sussex names around this time include Safely-on-High Snat, Mortifie Hicks and the marvellously-named Humiliation Scratcher. And let’s not forget Be-Stedfast Elyarde, Faint-not Dighurst, Hew-Agag-in-pieces Robinson, Swear-not-at-all Ireton and Obadiah-bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-in-irons Needham.

Here’s another good naming method: There was a tradition among some Puritan villagers of opening the Bible and selecting the first name their eyes landed upon, which led to some interesting christenings. One poor child was landed with the name Ramoth-Gilead as a result of this method, reportedly leading a rather bemused parson to ask, “Boy or girl, eh?” There’s some evidence that certain parents, whose reading was perhaps not the best, would simply open the Bible and choose a word at random - hence the existence in Connecticut of Maybe Barnes and a girl by the rather unfortunate name of Notwithstanding Griswold. One child in England was christened Sirs, the parents insisting that it was a Scripture name and citing as proof the passage “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Another Puritan named his dog Moreover after the Gospel passage “Moreover the dog came and licked his sores.”

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You can send the color meme things as asks!  That’s easiest for everyone to keep track of, I think!  

But requests for Vir and/or Lennier in 13, and one for Vir in 15 noted~

i’m trying to reinstall my damn tablet, or I’d be well into G'Kar in white already (which I’m sorry to report will probably not be silly? I keep thinking of really lovely things so I think I’m going that route for a bit!)

blinkpinkinc:

fun fact: my goal is to be that house in all the kids in the neighborhood point at and whisper ‘the witch lives there!!’ with horror and the knowledge that they can still go there for full sized candy bars on halloween.

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I thought my hand was bleeding, but it was watercolor~