My mother recently ordered the Autumn Fruits puzzle

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The description says: "This puzzle brings a collection of autumn fruits to life. There are figs, grapes, pears, and more. The fruits are amongst leaves and branches in this visually appealing, and tasty, image."

Unless I'm mistaken, the "and more" seems to be Italian plums, pokeberries, and mulberries.

I suppose pokeberries are technically an autumn fruit, though not one I'd recommend people eat*, but mulberries ripen at midsummer. By which I mean "the end of June". I may be wrong about the pokeberries, though I doubt it, but I'm pretty certain that those are definitely mulberries there. They can't be raspberries or blackberries because the leaves are completely wrong for those.

I'm not sure which part of this bothers me more - the fruit you shouldn't eat, or the fruit that's ripe at the wrong time!

* People claim that it's only the seed that's poison and not the fruit itself, and that if you eat the berries judiciously and spit out the seeds you'll be fine, but people say all sorts of things.

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ST: Voyager has come up surprisingly often in my reading today.

And it's only 4am, too.

Which reminds me of my perennial question I keep meaning to ask: Can anybody recommend a really good general Voyager fixit fic?

It *must* fix the following:

1. The Maquis/Starfleet relationship should definitely be more fraught.
2. Seska's character can't be screwed over like that. Geez, I get angrier the more I think about it. Such a perfect plotline handed to them on a freaking platter, and they tossed it away in favor of Seska backstabbing her way to the Kazon. WHY.
3. Neelix and Kes, if present, need to be... I dunno, better. However that looks.
4. If it goes on long enough, yes, Seven. I don't care about almost all Borg-y plots, but Seven is amazing and that show did not deserve Jeri Ryan's amazing acting.

(If I keep on listing things I'll never end, but those are the crucial parts.)