alphaflyer:

doubletranquility:

my favorite trope is the thing star trek does where when a character lists something and they’ll list real things/people but add 1 thats fictional, like “great writers such as shakespeare, robert frost, edgar allan poe and zaxar the giant rat man“

I love that trope too!!!  Did a thing once where I put a quote above each chapter – all real quotes, from Shakespeare to Machiavelli and Churchill, except I added in the Grand Nagus Zek and Kathryn Janeway and, like, nobody noticed.  Nobody…