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God I’m trying not to get too worked up about the Doctor Who season finale but you mean to tell me the first black doctor got an incredibly short run and was overshadowed by reappearances from two popular Doctor Who actors and I’m supposed to be okay with this? I’m not supposed to be incredibly angry about this? I want to assume there was no bad intent behind any of the choices made but god it’s the principle of it all. I made a post several years ago explaining why the doctor being a person of color for the first time was so important only for it to feel like poc in Doctor Who are being tokenized and sidelined again.

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Goth Quark 🦇 cuz today's not a good day for profit.

However, it is still a great day to dress in black. So i'm giving this edition a little twist and call it FERENGINOIRFRIDAY

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There’s a certain school of Benjamin Sisko characterization - sometimes that even crops up on my own posts - that I’ll summarize in broad strokes as the “chill and unbothered” interpretation of him. This manifests in a few different ways, sometimes with the idea that he just wants to relax and do his hobbies without getting besieged by his responsibilities, or sometimes with the idea that his male rivals get homoerotically obsessed with him while he’s apathetic to them and baffled by their investment in him.

As for the former, it is true that Benjamin Sisko is heavily burdened and at times liable to break under the strain, and that’s part of what is so deliciously compelling about his character. He begins the show traumatized and world-weary and seriously considering resigning from Starfleet, and he goes through another dark night of the soul after Jadzia’s death at the end of season six (and I’d say there are indications it’s still haunting him through the first third of season seven). And the show emphasizes the massive toll that the war is taking on him on numerous occasions.

But the other thing that is deliciously compelling about him is the way he grabs onto his responsibilities with both hands and refuses to let go, even though his resolve is tested over and over. This is demonstrated in episodes like Behind the Lines, where he can’t stand being put behind a desk while the Defiant goes out on missions and feels a desperate need to be in the thick of things (a restlessness that drives him to put forth the plan to retake the station in the next episode). And while he intends to build a house on Bajor, he is not planning to resign his Starfleet commission - he tells Ross, “I will go wherever they send me. But when I go home, it will be to Bajor.” He is committed to his duties and believes in Starfleet’s ideals, very strongly. And while he is tempted to throw aside the role of Emissary in Accession, he is driven to seize it back because of his own values (and in Rapture, he gets to the point that he is willing to put his health and life at risk in order to understand the visions he’s having). He feels an intense amount of personal responsibility and is loathe to cede that responsibility, and he’s sometimes outright zealous in his manifestation of those traits.

And it’s precisely that need to take the reins that makes him inclined towards personal vendettas. This is very apparent in For the Uniform, in which his pursuit of Eddington is extremely personally motivated. He resents being taken off the assignment to catch him, because it’s a blip in a twenty-five year service record, and he’s absolutely furious that Eddington outsmarted him. It’s an injury to his pride and a loss of control that he can’t countenance. His conflict with Dukat is less a matter of pride, but after the events of Waltz, Sisko still sees it as his personal duty to defeat Dukat when the time comes, because of his moral disgust towards Dukat and his protectiveness towards Bajor. He tells Jadzia, “it’s him or me,” effectively picking up the gauntlet that Dukat throws down.

All in all, one of his defining traits is that he is very passionately invested in whatever he designates as his realm of responsibility. There are times when he wants to get away from it all, and when he feels torn in two by his competing commitments to Bajor and Starfleet. But he keeps choosing to recommit, over and over, and feels restless and unfulfilled without some sense of purpose driving him. And he hates feeling undermined.

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Got another Hamilton hater take cooking since folks think I'm giving them room on this

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was painting at the park with a friend yesterday and these little girls decided to join all of a sudden. #mademyday #feltseen

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let’s get on mama’s last nerve

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(via TABLOID TONGUE TWISTERS - Pulp International)

Glorch It Up?

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100 dracula sit-ups, hold franeksntein pose for 10 minutes, 150 mummy swipes, 20 wolfman chest releases,

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Damnnnn I kinda need to die of carbon monoxide poisoning and then get cryogenically preserved and then have the company that preserved me go bankrupt and quietly dispose of my thawed body in a local culvert where I get eatennnnnn by some armadillos yes armadillos as their native habitat is expanding ever northwards

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how can him go inside but me not

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what we need more than anything these days is a modern feminist retelling of the pacer test instructions with music by ed sheeran