Tiffany Crystal's Forecast for the day:

It’s getting about that time where I usually forget to post on here, but I swear that’s not what happened this time. I’m working on something for someone else and I’ve been editing, so I ran out of time to actually write up a blog post before I left for work. I’m home sick with a cold today, so I went ahead and wrote this up so I don’t forget later.

May will be a very quiet month here. Work is going to be busy with resets that need to be done before inventory, then the actual inventory, itself, and then dealing with the inventory truck. Instead of posting on here, I’m going to be using the time before/after work to create content for when the new site layout goes live. Mostly flash fiction and/or microfiction. I’m still tweaking the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ idea to make it work, so that may or may not make its debut soon. 

If anyone has some favorite prompts, feel free to share them and I’ll see if any of them sparks off an idea. 

Picard

Spoilers for Picard: Don’t worry, I didn’t forget

I guess hoping for Jack to become the borg king was too much. Maybe it struck the Picard writers as too similar to Jurati’s Queen status, but I still say it would’ve made a nice twist. It’s fine though. I did like the show, even if I saw a lot of what happened coming a mile away. I’m just annoyed we have too many loose ends that didn’t get tied up.

Whatever happened with Soji and her Romulan ex-boyfriend? What was Jurati guarding against? Since Q is living on borrowed time now (I don’t know why people thought he was dead…did they not watch Season 2 all the way through?), how much longer does he have left? What’s going to happen now, between Laris and Picard, with Beverly and Jack in the picture? What about Seven and Raffi? What’s going to happen there? How well will Jack listen to Geordi telling him to stay away from Sidney? 

So. Many. Questions.

Exactly what the label says. No brain. Oh wait, heart monitor results came back as “normal,” so now I have an appointment with cardiology. 

Now, unless you want spoilers galore for Picard, keep moving.

Picard:

**Spoilers**: No brain. Just Picard.

Okay, fine, the borg were involved, and isn’t it fascinating how they worked that in there. Well done, writers. Doesn’t quite explain why the changeling head thing is involved, but I imagine we’ll get there in the next episode. 

My roommate was convinced, going into Episode 9 that Data was going to be the one to save them all, and he might be right, but personally, I’m wondering if we might see the first borg king. Or, the true destruction of the borg. 

Picard tells Beverly that Jack got the best of her and the worst of him, but I don’t think that’s entirely true. Picard is the same man who fought back against the Cardassian trying to brainwash him and I have to wonder if we’re going to see Jack’s “There are four lights!” moment with the queen. 

Something my roommate pointed out is bugging me: what’s going on with Jurati’s borgs? We know she asked to stand guard at some sort of doorway at the end of Season 2, and now, she’s just…gone? No mention of them at all in this season and the closest we have to any sort of hint that Picard knows that there has been contact with borg in the last ten years is the look he gives Seven when it’s mentioned.

I wish this wasn’t the last season, there are so many loose ends I would love to see cleaned up, all the way from Season 1. (Also, I miss Elnor.)

I think I meant to post something, reminding people that I was going to be on vacation this past week and a half, but there’s been so much going on, I completely forgot. I will not be going into detail about everything, because frankly, this was the worst vacation I’ve ever had. Between all the bad news and then a tornado coming through…let’s just say, I’m ready for another vacation already. Won’t get one, though; we have inventory coming up at work. Just know that I am already looking forward to autumn, when I can take the next one. 

Things around here will be a little quiet in the next two months. I haven’t had any news from the doctor about the heart monitor yet, but I’m expecting to hear from them this coming week, and I’ll probably be lined up for all sorts of fun tests. That’s going to take up a good portion of my days off. When I’m working, it’s going to be prepping for inventory, which means my brain is going to be mush at the end of the day.

The only real “good” news I have, is that I am very steadily making my way through the edits for “Say ‘No!’ to Zombies.” I’m not even through the first “chapter” and it’s already changed so much. I can’t wait to get further into it to see what else I can improve. 

**Spoiler**

Picard:

Read more: Vacation’s over. Back to work 😭

The new and improved Data is the best and don’t even get me started on “passive-aggressive” Worf. Also, the scenes of Data handing his memories to Lore? *chef’s kiss* I knew what was going on, but it was still beautiful to watch. 

Everyone is tossing around ideas of Jack being somehow connected to the borg, but based off Vadic’s reaction to seeing him in person, the changeling’s head being obsessed with him, and the story Vadic told us of her time in Daystrom…I still think he’s connected to that. If what I’m thinking is right, it would also explain why he can jump inside peoples’ heads. I can absolutely be wrong, though. I can’t wait to see what’s behind that red door. 

So much to do, so little time to do it. I’ve been working on the site on my regular work days, trying to treat this as just another part of the job. I think it’s been working out pretty well. It gives me time to do what I love during the work week and my days off. On that note, however…

I’m almost done with the big revamps. The novels page is taking longer than expected because there’s just so much to it – individual pages for each work, chapter previews, etc. – but I’m expecting to done with it by the end of this work week. After that, it’ll be cleaning up the other pages and working on the layout, itself. I think I’ll probably work on writing while I’m working on the layout. It’ll give me something to focus on when I’m losing my patience with the stupid wordpress builder. Now, all I have to do is finish figuring out the rest of the details on my “super secret” writing project…and figure out how to mention it on Ao3 without them being all “ugh” about it.

No update this week. I’m taking a mini-vacation from work and…basically everything except writing and playing sims. We all need a little break now and then, and I am about to be rushing headlong into school, moving my store, and trying to write all at the same time. This is me time this week. ♥

Due to a (somewhat) minor emergency, there will be no update of “Don’t Feed the Trolls” this week.