4 Works by splendide_mendax
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A tutorial and helpful code for using the notetaking app Obsidian to back up your AO3 bookmarks in a stylish if overcomplicated manner.
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A non-specialist's guide to Greek and Latin literature for use in fandom.
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- Part 1 of Classics for Fandom Purposes
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What lustre can there be more bright by splendide_mendax
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
03 Oct 2025
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Tekeny Ghemor is on Deep Space Nine, trying to establish a democratic Cardassian government in exile. Enabran Tain is also on the station, trying to rebuild the Obsidian Order from his guest quarters.
Elim Garak has a decision to make.
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Carson on Vulcans: Eros the Bittersweet and the Vulcan Experience of Desire by splendide_mendax
Fandoms: Star Trek
15 Feb 2023
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When one takes desire on Carson’s terms, Vulcans serve as both a fantasy of escape from its inextricable bind and as evidence that, at least in the human imagination, such escape is not truly possible
Anne Carson explored desire in archaic Greek literature in her book Eros the Bittersweet; I took her definitions and insights and applied them to Vulcans.
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- Part 2 of Classics for Fandom Purposes