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It's not only Top Dogs--it's a number of Middle Dogs who like having somebody to feel superior to. There's plenty of low-income or low-status cis whites who comfort themselves by telling themselves "at least I'm not ___". My paternal grandfather was one such person.

Hmm, I don't see Grace really having a "genderfluid" mentality so much as an "agender" mentality. What I meant was that Elliot is the one person who could possibly relate to Tedd's internal struggle over what gender to be. Ellen has had a bit of gender dysphoria too, but she chose to go for fem and not turn back, so to speak, whereas Tedd and Elliot have wrestled with the question in more of a back-and-forth manner.

Elliot is also possibly the best person for Tedd to confide in, in this situation. Aside from them being best friends for half of their lives so far, Elliot is also the only person Tedd knows who would truly understand the whole genderfluid mindset--Elliot has experienced voluntary male/female transformations, and has recently accepted the girl side as part of self rather than alien.

So basically, Tedd is in a state of emotional shock, where the full emotional weight is compartmentalized away from the "logic" part of her mind?

Not just snails--retired Postal Service snails!

That would be in keeping with her patterns--even before she met Blaike, her favorite activity was getting mortals to entertain her in exchange for rewards of some sort.

Where does it say that the employment would be in the role of a cop? Does the phrase "The Italian Job" ring a bell?

Try one made out of burning thermite.

It's not recoil--it's because they were standing too close together when they grew larger, and thus collided when their bodies tried to occupy the same space. Anyway, I find it interesting that Rhoda releasing the disguise also resulted in the catgirl transformation being released from Catalina, given that It was Catalina who had cast that one.

Sure law enforcement people are territorial about jurisdiction--if somebody else is capable of doing their job, then it might lead to upper management deciding that they are redundant.

As for access restrictions on Starfleet computers, user authentication seems to involve voice print identification, with passwords/codes for particularly important stuff. We see a prime example of this system (and its chief weakness) in the TNG episode in which Data impersonates Picard's voice in order to hijack the Enterprise to reach his creator, Dr. Soong.

Yeah, it was titled "A Boy Named Charlie Brown", and I think that Charlie placed second or third in the finals?

Trying to imagine how drinking a piece of banana bread could be considered a good thing.

Yes, I rather doubt that a human's digestive system would be capable of processing more than about twenty kilograms of bananas per day at most...

Trek and Doctor Who are much more entertaining than documentaries anyway.

It's my understanding that the rats were fed an amount equivalent to a human consuming over a humdred grams of pure saccharin per day--dozens of times more than any human would ever eat. With an overdose like that, many common food ingredients become lethal--caffeine for example, or theobromine.

I do not see Tedd or Sarah being able to handle the aggressive physical and emotional environment of a military academy. That said, I could see out Main Eight attending a special training school for magical government agents...

Yeah, well we've seen that default male Sarah form isn't all that tall...

Sarah riding with Susan makes a lot more sense than Sarah using her spell while driving.

I think that beyond the "end of the world" is just infinite empty whitespace. If Sarah steps into it, since it's all in her mind and all, she may still have the illusion of breathing and a hard floor underfoot. She may also be able to turn around and see the simulated space from outside. That said, I do hope that she has (or can easily implement) some kind of "skybox" background overhead imitating a source for the sunlight as well as blue sky or clouds. It would be doubly disturbing if the entire overhead view were whitespace.

While I understand the need to avoid sugar, just about every artificial sweetener out there tastes like ass to me, to the degree that I would sooner drink raw sewage than most "diet" drinks. Instead, I go to stuff that isn't supposed to taste sweet in the first place, like unsweetened teas or just plain water.

To my knowledge, Tedd has a license, but does not possess a car. The only time that I recall it even being implied that Sarah drove anywhere was back when she took Grace to the mall and Grace first revealed her transformation power to her. AFAIK, here is what we know of the Main Eight and driving: Tedd: license but no car Elliot and Ellen: both licensed, share a car Susan and Justin: license, have own cars (also applies to Diane) Grace, Nanase, Sarah: no license

Steroids, or probably any non-magic/non-superscience method, would not produce a visible difference in the three days since Tedd was last seen at school. It's not just a matter of Tedd looking different, it's a matter of a change that takes months by normal means happening over a single weekend. Also, if Tedd takes gym as a senior, any body changes are going to be noticed more easily than otherwise due to changing clothes and locker room stuff. As for Edward freaking out about Tedd's spell, the fact that Tedd has the spell at all (and that it's clearly NOT a copy of Elliot's spell, which means that it's not Wizard-copying) is proof that being genderfluid is in Tedd's very nature--it's practically like having the literal Word of God on the subject. This punches straight through the top two arguments that are usually used against trans folks: First, that they are lying and trolling people, and second that they are mistaken/deluded and should just "get over" their desire to escape from assigned gender roles. The spell is proof that having a female body is an aspect of Tedd's True Self, rather than just something that Tedd does for sexy fun and to tease/troll people.

Well, the series did begin with them playing a tabletop RPG...

The battle in the Mutara Nebula was different because the nebula severely reduced visibility, which meant that hit-and-run tactics were more useful as opposed to the outright slugging match that would be favored in open space. Since both ships were being flown under manual helm control, it thus was sensible to approach from an angle from which the opposition was less prepared to quickly dodge or counterattack. Weapons firing arcs also do not cover all angles equally--with the saucer shape of the Reliant's hull, approaching from the ventral side meant that the dorsal-mounted weapons could not fire upon the Enterprise, whereas attacking along the equatorial plane would leave both dorsal and ventral weapons able to track it.