New Voyages RPG Has Extended App Deadline!

new_voyages will be accepting START-OF-GAME apps until 10/31, which means you have the whole rest of the month to apply! Send your applications into new.voyages.mods@gmail.com if you're interested! We want to read as many apps as possible, so don't think you can't apply just because you think someone else might have applied before you.

[An important note: Apps will not be closed indefinitely after the deadline on the 31st. We're hoping to get the game up and running by November, and our start-of-game deadline is for those who wish to join the game at its very beginning.]



What Is New Voyages RPG?

New Voyages chronicles the missing years of the five-year mission of the starship Enterprise and her crew. Discover the final frontier, explore the galaxy, seek out strange new life and new civilizations, boldy go where no man has gone before - and, oh yeah, remember to have a word with that cheeky ensign who tried to flirt with you in the hallway. From Captain James T. Kirk himself to Redshirt #9, these are the lives - and the voyages - that continue to boldly go where no man has gone before!

Sounds Great, How Do I Get Started?

1. Read over our rules
2. Take a look at our application guidelines and our sample applications
3. Fill out your application
4. Send your application to new.voyages.mods [at] gmail [dot] com
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!!

ALL CHARACTERS ARE AVAILABLE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NURSE CHAPEL AND DOCTOR MCCOY.

There's a reason you shouldn't CAPSLOCK RP with a friend at midnight after listening to Shatner of the Mount.

( He wants to make love to the mountain. )

Yeah. Yeeeeah. There's a very definite reason you shouldn't let two geology/geography nerds CAPSLOCK RP at midnight after listening to Shatner of the Mount.

First. I have to share this fanvid I made.



Next, I have to direct you all in the direction of the BDC! page - that is, my new webcomic, which updates Mondays and Thursdays (count on it!). Badly Drawn Comics! Badly drawing what no man - what no one has drawn before! (Actually they probably have. And anyway, I am no man.)

View the pilot comic here and win a FREE* e-cookie - and then be sure to catch the first actual comic, posted today. No need to join the community - if you like the comic, just add it to your friend's page! And tell everyone about it!

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*Subject to availability. In order to redeem free e-cookie okay but seriously who reads the fine print anyway, am I right?

Title: A Healing Touch
Pairing: Spock/McCoy
Summary: Spock's hands are injured in an incident on an away mission, and it's up to McCoy to save him.
Warnings: Blood. Lots of it. Also contains sex. Rough sex. But no blood and sex. I promise.

( No one was entirely sure… )

Title: Operation: Annhiliate!
Pairing: Spock/McCoy
Summary: If he'd only waited a few minutes more, Spock wouldn't be blind. It was his fault. His fault, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it.
Warnings: None

( Knowing that it had been a calculated risk... )

40 Star Trek related text icons
The text for these icons are quotes from Star Trek novelizations, Star Trek songs, a few TOS quotes, and a few that are simply Trek-related. Enjoy. If you have a question as the origin of a particular quote, just ask, and I'll be happy to share.

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( You just pushed Mr. Spock's logic button. )

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Journal is semi-friends-only. Important fandom stuff is pretty much unlocked. If you want to hear me whining about real life, friend me. :D

In case you all hadn't heard.



Star Trek tattoo. I has it.

Dear Internets:

I have a headache. It's 4:18 in the A.M. and I'm hungry. I haven't slept. First I was RPing and got all caught up in my threads, especially the one with Doctor McCoy and his daughter. (Which makes me laaaaaaaawl because his daughter's name is Joanna and those of you who keep up with my RPing stuffs know I play Johanna Barker and so McCoy is now SPACE SWEENEY in my head and he runs around brandishing hyposprays and declaring that his arm is complete again and also you all know that in Sweeney's day all the barbers were barber-SURGEONS and McCoy is a SURGEON NOT A PSYCHIATRIST so THIS UNHOLY CROSSOVER FROM HELL was clearly MEANT TO BE.)

I have just finished downloading screencaps of Star Trek XI. I have at present at least 10 folders of ToS caps, and I'm working on a new set of icons all in lovely sepia tone.

I kind of want to buy a tribble from ThinkGeek but I already made one for myself. Granted mine doesn't purr and coo and move. But it's still freaking adorable.

The party post in ontd_startrek is making me giggle. And I snagged some yummy .gifs.

KARL URBAN'S NOSE ANNOYS ME. B| For the longest time I couldn't decide what it was about his face that annoyed me but I knew there was SOMETHING and I finally figured it out. He has a very strangely shaped nose and it bugs me. :/ Okay, I admit it though he's still hot.

I think I freaked this guy out at the grocery store the other day. I had *just* bought my KHAAAAAAAAN shirt earlier that day so I was pretty pumped. This dude in line ahead of me looked at my shirt and was all "Who's that on your shirt?" to which I replied, "WILLIAM SHATNER AS ADMIRAL KIRK IN THE WRATH OF KHAN YOU KNOW KHAAAAAAAAAAAN WHICH IS POSSIBLY THE MOST PARODIED MOMENT IN MOVIE HISTORY EVAR." He smiled at me after that and went about his business and I facepalmed at myself because is it really that difficult to just say "William Shatner." REALLY SELF. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO A RABID FANGIRL 100% OF THE TIME. 99.98% OF THE TIME IS QUITE SUFFICIENT.

B|

Excuse me while I boggle at the fact that it is now four forty one. I think I'm just going to stay up a while and go to sleep when I get home. Possibly I will also take some medicine for my head which still is paining me. Or maybe I'll just watch some GQMFing ToS. Or stuff.

If I fall asleep now I'll never want to wake up at the time at which I am supposed to wake up. CONUNDRUM.

So the other day at work we were discussing time travel. I think I managed to BLOW MY COWORKERS' MINDS with my talk of FOUR DIMENSIONS and HYPERCUBES and suchlike. Theoretical physics are fun :) but it makes me cry that things can't travel faster than the speed of light. And that only light can travel at the speed of light. SPEED OF LIGHT: NATURE'S ULTIMATE TRAFFIC COP.

I downloaded a voice alteration program today.

I CAN NOW MAKE STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GODS YES.

I should buy a good microphone for my computer so I'm not stuck with the shitty built-in mic I have. But it will do for now.

I AM EXCITED.

I AM SO ADDICTED TO STAR TREK. AND THUS, THERE ARE ICONS. MANY, MANY ICONS.

Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TAS
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( He'll die, Jim. He'll die. )

Title: The Mirror Crack'd
Genre: Sci-fi/Adventure/Star Trek
Summary: When Captain Jane T. Kirk and her crew investigate the far reaches of Federation territory, they find something more than they bargained for.
Warnings: None

( Chapter One )

Star Trek: TOS
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( Seek out new life... )

♥ Textless icons are free to use as bases
♥ Comments are love and credit is appreciated

Edit: I fail at counting. Sorry for the double icon, it's fixed.

Would anyone on my flist be interested in beta-ing a Star Trek: TOS AU fic for me? I mostly need some information about the Star Trek universe; I'm pretty up-to-speed with characterization, but I've only just got back into the fandom and I've forgotten a lot of things I used to know.

I'd be much obliged.

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( Boldy going where no man has gone before )

♥ Comment if taking! Comments are love :3
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♥ Credit to eddiesteddy4711

Couldn't find TOS Season One anywhere. Everyone only had Seasons Two and Three or the 3-season box set.

So we got The Animated Series instead. Icons coming soon.

IT IS SO CHEESY AND OBVIOUSLY 70S AND SO AWESOME. THE TRIBBLES ARE FUCKING PINK.

So I realize I just posted like two minutes but OMG it's BURGERS AND BOOZE NIGHT AT BAEKA'S HOUSE AGAIN TONIGHT FUCK YEAH.

I am so pumped you guys don't even know. Last time we had Burgers n' Booze night it was the BEST SHIT EVER THOSE BURGERS WERE SO FUCKING GOOD HELL YEAH.

I apologize for the excessive capslock of AWESOME it's just that I've been reading ontd_startrek and they've got those macros where it's like "FUCK YEAH LOOK AT THIS GUY KIRK" etc etc and they've invaded my brainmeats.

BUT OMG STAR TREK AND BURGERS AND BOOZE AND HOT ALIEN WOMAN FUCK YEAH HOW COULD THIS DAY GET ANY BETTER I ASK YOU.

You know what I think? I think I should eat at the BK tonight so I can get my hands on some nifty Star Trek glasses whut.

Also I need to buy TOS Season 1 for Alex. I shall demand that she take me to either Barnes & Noble or Best Buy and not tell her why and then she shall be surprised and I WILL BE THE MOST AWESOME PERSON EVER FUCK YEAH.

The Star Trek fanbug has bitten her rather hard, I'm afraid. BUT THAT IS OKAY. WE ALL NEED A LITTLE TREK IN OUR LIVES, Y/N?

I got a new tat!



Funny story, everyone I've showed it to tells me it looks like a butterfly. Repeat after me: RABID'S INKBLOT TAT LOOKS LIKE A BUTTERLY. A PRETTY BUTTERFLY. LOL.

Because, you know, Rorschach tells his psychologist that it looks like a butterfly. So that makes me lol so hard you don't even know guise.

I'm going to add Dr. Manhattan's symbol, the hydrogen atom, on the right, under my collarbone and it's going to be colored in blue, and I'm going to add Comedian's smiley face (complete with blood spatter) on the left, and then the text "We do it because we are compelled", in between the symbols. "We do it because" between Manhattan and Rorschach, and "we are compelled" between Rorschach and Comedian.

In other world news, I saw Star Trek today, yey! It was fabulous. It was fantastic. I adored it. I almost stayed to watch it twice. I seriously wanted to watch it again. And again. And again. *flail* I was never really all that into Start Trek; I watched a few episodes every now and then but may I just say that as a prequel, STAR TREK BEAT THE PANTS OFF THE STAR WARS PREQUEL TRILOGY. SCREW YOU GEORGE LUCAS.

Feeling a bit bored. Trying to resist the urge to go and explore TV Tropes again. Got sucked in last and it's probably a miracle I came out alive.

Here's a question for you to consider! What does it mean when you look at a picture of the silhouette of a butterfly, and see an inkblot?

No lie, this actually happened to me this morning on the ride to the library. Saw said picture in the window of a frame shop and honestly thought it was an inkblot before I realized that no, it really was a butterfly.

Aaaaah, and now I know how to chase away the boredom! I shall go and investigate some pretty Rorschach inkblots (as in the, you know, blot tests that psychologists use, not the character and his face) to determine which of them I am going to get tattooed on my person.

Feel free to comment to this post with your personal favorite inkblot! I'm looking for one possibly a bit bat-like in appearance, or really any one that seems to invoke a darker sort of response. Alex suggested the 'dog with head split in half' one from Watchmen but while that's an interesting idea, I personally don't see anything in that particular inkblot except blotches of ink. And Rorsch's 'some nice flowers' inkblots looks like two bunnies.

Anway. The inkblot tat will be accompanied by the text "We do it because we are compelled" which, if you're not of the Watchmen fandom, sounds really deep and incredibly well-thought-out. Really I just want a nerd/geek stamp that will fool the rest of the population into thinking I'm ~cool~ and ~mysterious~ for having an inkblot tat.