#I AM EMOTIONALLY COMPROMISED

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Then all those years of building - were they worth anything? Yes - they're just hoping you don't realize it.

Rebecca Sugar going in for the kill with some sketches out of absolutely nowhere. Here's my best attempt at getting an okay-ish image out of a blurry vertical phone recording of a screen. Original video was posted on the official rebeccasugar account on TikTok - a big thank you to @jeejyboard for bringing it to my attention.

[grvning]

No wonder romance in other media feels dull.

Theirs is simply much more than that. 'romance' is an unfitting term for them. Spock felt Kirk's conscience from Gol, of all places.

The poets of old would have written much about them.

Picture taken from a TMP novelization copy, with a picture of TMP Kirk right next to it (the book was bound like that and the pictures are gorgeous). Might be coincidental, might not be.

Edit: Roddenberry's DELIBERATE decision to create a Vulcan term which he specifically used in this book was bold and telling, especially as it was used for the very first time to describe Kirk and Spock's bond. ''Screw censorship, I will get the gayness across no matter what," he might have thought. ''Let's give 'em fans some candy, but let's make it almost subtle.''

Almost.

Also, props to Shatner for making Kirk even more in gay love with Spock than Roddenberry's. Peak acting choice.

TMP might be my second favorite Trek movie of all time. While I do find immense delight in the Enterprise sensual sequences -- Scotty would be proud, the shift in dynamics between Kirk and Spock within the paradigm of their wrecked relationship hits deep. Many a one has published well-documented, detailed studies of their whole story from TOS, so I shall not elaborate on that further, as their works explain it all infinitely better than I ever could.

Ramble over.

[natedevereaux]

ok i'm catching up on severance now and 'i want to remember it' 'probably better we don't' 'i've never been loved before. not really' 'well now you have. how does it feel? 'i've never had this. my whole life. i want to. i want to have it. i'm ready' 'we can't' god!!!!!!! what if i die!!!

[foxglovecove]

I am sure I’m not the first person to post about this but I was watching a Newt Hermann compilation from Uprising, cuz those are really the only important parts, and noticed this when Hermann was grabbing the kaiju blood to show Newt and guys I am not ok

I dunno if this was something added by the person who made the compilation, or if it’s actually in the movie but…

Hermann has a little Polaroid of right before their hug at the end of PR 1 and I’m not gonna survive, Newt means so much to him AHHHHHH *flies into the sun*

[glomofnit]

what do you MEAN they filmed an epilogue where Kirk and Spock get to be together?? and I'm just supposed to go about my day and be normal about this?? while gay??

[bbcphile]

I cannot get over the fact that Di Feisheng and Li Lianhua briefly held hands!

SO MANY FEELINGS. They've just found Shi hun's autopsy record that will tell them when Shan Gudao is buried, and Li Lianhua still thinks that Di Feisheng had him killed, and yet, in this moment, before he finds out where the body is--the body he's been searching for and staying alive for for the last decade--he grabs Di Feisheng's hand and quickly squeezes it while taking the record. Because even though he blames Di Feisheng, he still trusts him enough to seek this moment of physical comfort. Because his touch is still comforting and safe, even after everything.

(Thanks to https://x.com/b7ndiz/status/1709466072402022439?s=46&t=aKCRNNJX_QIpIToNtAu98g for making me aware of the hand holding moment in the first place!)

Screenshot is from episode 12, 30:12.

[melancholic-pigeon]

SPN Rewatch s5e22

"Sammy, it's okay. I'm here. I'm not leaving you."

NOW KISS 😭

HOW IS THIS RIDICULOUS SHOW PLAYING SO CRUELLY AND CASUALLY WITH MY EMOTIONS LIKE THIS

WHY IS MY HEART BREAKING

THEY'RE SO IN LOVE

THEY FUCKING AIRED THIS

AAAAAAAH

AAAAAAAAAAH

[fyrewalks]

la'an appearing pregnant as part of the dream sequence in the song is fucking me up. she just wants to give love and be loved in return; to have a family.

[batfambitches]

which tragic character from ancient greek literature are you?

you are cassandra from the trojan women by euripides and agamemnon by aeschylus. people have tried to silence you one too many times, but you are resilient. your own dignity and agency have always come first, but at a great cost. you know yourself and your inner strength, but that won't ever stop you from feeling completely alone in the world. sometimes simply enduring the pain won't be enough, no matter how hard you want it to be. above all, you must never lose your unwavering hope in mankind, even as the world forsakes you. it is what keeps you human.

Tagged by @bludhavenbirder

Tagging @xtraterrestrials / @txkethefall + Anyone else feel free to steal

[inceprey-octisney]

I’ve been playing rebirth for the past few days and I’m like 20 hours in and I’m kicking and screaming and sobbing and wailing and crying

[pockysquirrel]

TFW there is exactly one fic in the tag that meets your specifications and it's an absolute banger.

@dangerouscommiesubversive , I salute you.

[ginpotts]

DOCTOR WHO 2.03 ✧ school reunion

Some things are worth getting your heart broken for.

[fruity-hub-blog]

If I had a nickle every time there was a morally ambiguous grey haired man who always wears a business suit with a red tie and has an affinity for the Packers Football team in a kids cartoon I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice.

[bbcphile]

I finished Mysterious Lotus Casebook and OMG AHHHHHH FEEELINGS!!!!!

I don’t want to spoil anything about it here, but if anyone wants to flail in feelings about the ending with me, send me a message!

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[unheald]

she still couldn't help but feel as though she was losing it, or had lost it. because she'd watched him die. she'd watched him be taken away from her in such a way that left no question of survival, of coming back. but now here he was, clear as day...

he looked just as beautiful as he had before... he sounded just the same... and she couldn't help but wonder if this was her mind playing an incredibly cruel trick on her.

but then he mentioned those words... the last words he'd ever uttered, words that had lingered almost hauntingly in her mind along with everything else about that night, and maggie felt a lump form in her throat. she felt her ribs constrict around her heart, felt her stomach twist and turn. sensations that weren't unusual, sadly, but were ones that she usually had to swallow down and push to the side because she had people to stand tall for, and a son to be strong for.

but right now? it was just her and glenn... or... her imagination, or...

the whole thing was so overwhelming in a way, not knowing what was real and what wasn't. not knowing what would be more confusing, if he really was here or if he wasn't...

but what tipped her over the edge was seeing him smile as he averted his gaze away from her. it was bittersweet but it was him. she had spent so long missing him, grieving him, wishing that things could have gone differently and it was tiring... so tiring...

and so before she even realised it, before she had time to stop herself, legs had carried her in his direction and hadn't stopped until she'd practically collided with him. until she could feel him, smell him, close her arms around him tightly as though he might slip away again if she let go.

" i've -- " if this really was real, there was so much she wanted to say. so much. and yet it felt so hard to find words right now, feeling so swallowed up by her emotions. " i've thought about you. every day. " is what she eventually managed to get out, though her voice sounded thick and raw with it all.

"honestly i... don't know how i can convince you it's real, maggie. i don't have some card i can pull here. i just--" he swallows thickly, tries to keep the weighted emotions at bay. he had to be strong-- for her. he knows she's been strong for too long, alone, in a sense. and god, does he want her against his chest. like somehow, that could protect them from everything.

"but i told you, didn't i?" he laughs a little, but it's a weak, bittersweet-- watery kind of sound. "i said i'd find you. guess it just took me a little longer than i'd hoped."

he thinks about how scared he'd been. not to die, but just... to face the fact that it was ending. that he'd likely never see her again. never get to see their kid. never get to grow old with her. never have-- this.

he turns his head, looking out across the beautiful view, and it's still bittersweet when he smiles.

"look at us... we got to be here in the end."