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SOS. COMMANDER B SISKO, DEEP SPACE 9. STATION-WIDE ANOMALY. CREW AND CIVILIANS AFFECTED. AIRBORNE TOXIN SUSPECTED. RENDERS INFECTED UNABLE TO CONTROL CONSCIOUS SPEECH.
Or, the one where Julian tries to get some answers while Garak is incapable of lying and ends up with a lot more than he bargained for.
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28 Feb 2026
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After crash-landing on a stormy L-Class planet, Garak and Bashir begin to de-age rapidly. Now a scrawny pre-augment Julian must take shelter with six-year-old Elim, a tentatively murderous but desperately lonely boy. Julian can barely speak – and without functioning translators, Elim’s words are useless. But what they can do... is sing.
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31 Jan 2026
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Congratulations – The World Hasn’t Ended Yet (Or, the X-Men Throw a Party) by thatsrightdollface for CytosineSkald
Fandoms: X-Men Evolution, X-Men - All Media Types
02 Aug 2015
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Kurt Wagner got some weird looks printing out his and Kitty’s “Congratulations – the World Hasn’t Ended Yet” banners really big on garish plastic stuff, even with his image inducer on. Looks like the people milling around Kinko’s were in a judgey sort of mood. It was worth it, though. Kitty had scribbled adorable, teeny versions of ne’er-do-wells they’d recently crossed swords with all over the banner, and if anyone could snicker over a swirly-eyed doodle of his supervillain mom going “Mwahaha!” it was Kurt.
So, for my friend CytosineSkald's birthday this year, I wrote two short X-Men stories~ This is one of them, which I intended to base in the world of X-Men Evolution, a while after the series ends. As the title says -- the X-Men throw a party. This is intended to be a playful and family-based fic.
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Lost in Translation (Patching the UT) by sayler_antimony
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
30 Dec 2023
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A look into the Personal Logs of a Linguist on Deep Space Nine, who is uncovering the funniest and sweetest translation errors, and trying to patch the UT along the way.
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And if you had asked Lieutenant Wittgenstein, who was currently tasked with the next report on the use of the UT on Deep Space Nine, which was a special case, what with all the Gamma Quadrant languages mingling in the matrix now, nevermind the decidedly casual language the UT was being exposed to at Quarks, she could have told you a number of things. The UT memory bank transcripts, heavily encrypted and for the linguists’ eyes only, of course, were littered with missed moments, lost meanings, and mix-ups. For instance…- Language:
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As a linguistics nerd, this entire concept makes me vibrate at a frequency that may cause me to explode.
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but little do we know, the stars welcome them with open arms by MessOfContradictions
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
29 May 2024
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"Everyone who knew the two of them before notices there’s been a change between them, even if they can’t quite put their finger on what it is. They whisper in the back of classrooms, using words and phrases no one else can understand, and shoot matching glares at anyone trying to eavesdrop. They defend each other, fighting tooth and nail at the smallest insult, but only in ways that can never be properly explained to a teacher or get them sent to the principal’s office. They tell lies for each other with sincere convincing faces, and don’t even feel a little bit bad about it afterward.
'Dangerously codependent,' whisper the adults to each other.
'Creepy, like those kids from The Shining,' agree all of their classmates.
But Dipper and Mabel don’t care."
Or, the Pines Twins leave Gravity Falls at the end of the summer, fundamentally changed, and come back to a city where everything has stayed exactly the same. They'll need each other's support and understanding now more than ever.