This one hurts a lot. I grew up on TNG, and Picard was the wisest and most ethical character in television for decades. Just an incredible career, and an influence on so many SFF writers of my generation.

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Everyone is sharing their favorite Picard moments, and I’m fond of “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

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“Gothic horror but on cocaine” is a fantastic one-line description of @tkingfisher.com’s “Wolf Worm”, I gotta say.

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oh god is Mad Scientist's wife the one screaming in the cicada-vampire oubliette? What the fuck, Ursula, were you all like "Gothic horror but on cocaine"?

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ME, attempting to explain the relative sizes of mushroom fruiting bodies to STEPKID: Okay, so imagine that the vast bulk of a tree was underground but it occasionally grew a hat for sex. STEPKID: ……. ME: *shrug* STEPKID: Makes…sense…? ME: I missed my calling as a science communicator.

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