#RESPUESTAS

[anghraine]

#I can’t quite remember- was it livejournal luke/leia/han fandom or another fandom first?#so so glad our paths crossed ❤️ (via @venndaai)

I'm deeply grateful, too!! And yes, it was—and from there, Star Wars Skywalker fandom in general. I had deliberately chosen to cultivate SW fandom at the time because I was so burned out on Austen fandom's extreme heteronormativity (a particularly omnipresent pressure as a Darcy fan) and Byzantine backroom dramas, and found SW fandom more chill and relaxing (which kind of says it all lol). But still, there weren't many people who seemed to get the OT in the way I did and then I just stumbled over your lj—I was so impressed that it didn't click for several years that you must be quite a bit younger than me, and by then it didn't matter.

reblog game put in the tags how you found prev

[piafgodalhiworld]

“Mi alma fluye siempre hacia lo arcano e inevitable; vuela a pasos largos, sin rumbo fijo. Y esa interrogante incierta sobre mi existencia… no puedo canalizarla.”

[vodka-con-amor]

[anghraine]

#oh my god you can’t leave us with that cliffhanger!!#I wanna know what happens when S’paak sees Jessica#I appreciate that Sarek knows what’s up and seems to have S’paak’s wishes (whether spoken or unspoken bc I doubt she confessed) in mind#it’s always such a treat to read snippets from your yuri K/S so thank you! (via @alderaan-babe)

Thank you very much! I'm always behind but I did want something for Yuri Day :D

I feel it's not too much of a spoiler to say that you are absolutely correct and S'paak has never breathed a word to Sarek about the real nature of her relationship with Jessica or what she wants for their future. Sarek knows what the bonded cats behavior means in Vulcan terms (and of course, how important that is culturally!) and certainly knows and respects how intensely shameful Normal S'paak would find her current rage and violence and general emotionality. But she definitely has confessed exactly nothing.

I got my doctor's appointment and prescriptions (the doctor decided the best solution to my asthma misery was to nuke it from orbit with steroids lmao) and also wrote some more of the femslash K/S AU for WIP Wednesday!

This section is set quite late in the fic, a few months after the five-year mission, and more than usually spoilery (though no great surprises for K/S fans), so the excerpt and more detailed context are below the cut. However, this phase of the story is essentially a follow-up to the cut lines from "The City on the Edge of Forever" about Kirk recuperating on Vulcan.

Basically, after the string of horrors Jess goes through in S3 and after, S'paak invites her to take her mandatory leave on Vulcan and, now on better terms with her parents, asks Sarek and Amanda to host them. She explains her logic: "leave" for a Starfleet officer as extremely competent and dedicated as Captain Kirk is likely to be little more than nominal if she's easily accessible on Earth (especially if she's in San Francisco itself), and thus Earth seems ill-suited to recuperation from the strains of the mission, all the more as Captain Kirk is prone to handling the emotional excesses of those around her. On the other hand, if their superiors have to go through Sarek to trouble Kirk, disruptions seem less probable.

Amanda is like, "oh sweetie we'd love to have you and your best friend with us for—several months, you said? That would be wonderful! It's been so long! And yes, I'm sure you'll both find it so much more restful at home than back on Earth. And your father does owe Captain Kirk his life...what's her favorite food?" and Sarek's like "no intelligent being owes their life to another and Kirk did no more than her duty, but S'paak's rationales are sound, and the captain has a reputation for honor and reason; if her temperament inclines her to find greater peace and sanctuary in Shi'Kahr than San Francisco, logic suggests she will make a suitable guest."

And a couple months into the recuperation on Vulcan with the silver birds etc, this happens:

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Throughout the nearly forty years of her daughter’s life, Amanda had almost never heard S’paak raise her voice. She had been a quiet baby, and took readily to Vulcan disciplines in early childhood. And neither Amanda nor Sarek had witnessed her first pon farr three years earlier.

So when Amanda passed Sarek’s study, where she knew he and S’paak were meeting with several elders for their own purposes, she started violently enough to just about dislodge her hair pins when she heard S’paak shouting.

“No! I do not accept—I won’t let you take—”

Regaining some semblance of composure, Amanda hesitated outside the door, catching the sounds of what sounded unmistakably like a physical struggle. The others within the study didn’t cry out, didn’t say anything audible enough to reach Amanda’s ears, but she would not expect them to; despite S’paak’s youth and strength, Amanda couldn’t imagine her capable of overpowering four other Vulcans. But she also couldn’t imagine what would have angered S’paak to such a degree that she would lose all command of herself in such company. It must be a misunderstanding, somehow.

Amanda certainly had not been invited to whatever Vulcan conclave was occurring within the study, nor received any explanation of its purpose. In general, she preferred not to disrupt Vulcan matters or to interfere in Sarek’s and S’paak’s relationship, however strong or disastrously estranged it might be at any given time. But after a few seconds’ consideration, she decided that she couldn’t leave S’paak there, alone with Sarek and the elders and openly upset, without knowing what could have possibly caused it. 

She reached a hand towards the door—but before she could push it forwards, Sarek himself opened it from the other side, his figure blocking Amanda’s attempts to see S’paak. He closed the door behind him before she could peer around him. His face showed no more emotion than usual, but Amanda thought she detected lines of physical weariness.

“Sarek, what’s wrong?” she demanded. “Is S’paak—”

“Plak tow,” he said succinctly, glancing down the hall, as if searching for some change to its usual state. Nothing had changed, not outside the study, not even the placement of the ancient stone vases.

Amanda’s eyes widened. “Plak tow? But pon farr is only every seven years, isn’t it? It’s only been three—”

He just looked at her.

“I thought there’d be more time,” Amanda said, flushing. “Time enough to arrange a different betrothal, at the least. She’ll still die without a bond mate?”

Her voice trembled, but she didn’t cry, which she supposed was an achievement of sorts. Forty years on Vulcan at war with every instinct in her red-blooded veins.

“Yes,” he said. “She was already showing traces of the irrationality that mark the early plak tow, and we had hoped that assuring her of an arrangement to save her life would calm her. The opposite occurred. She turned angry and violent.”

“At the idea of being bonded again?” Amanda said, puzzled. “But she has to!”

“Indeed,” he said, his voice even more neutral than usual. He glanced around again. “Where is Captain Kirk?”

“What?” She could hear S’paak’s voice rise sharply again, though not the words. “What does that—is S’paak safe?”

Sarek raised an eyebrow, looking particularly intractable. He’d always had a remarkable ability to convey an impression of fraying patience without enduring the shame of actually losing his composure. Amanda sighed and relented.

“I’d imagine Jessica is in her room,” she said. “We talked a few hours ago. She’d had a bad migraine and I gave her some human medication for it so she could try to get some sleep. Should I keep her away when she wakes up? She might make the situation more difficult—she cares for S’paak, of course, but…”

Sarek, without saying anything or moving more than a few facial muscles, seemed satisfied.

“No,” he said. “Amanda, go wake her now and bring her here to us. I must remain with Elder Stavak to ensure appropriate arrangements are made.”

Amanda blinked.

“Kirk is the person most familiar with S’paak, and thus more likely to successfully communicate with her in her current state,” he added, which was more explanation than she had expected, if still rather puzzling. After an almost absent-minded ozh’esta, he turned back to the study, then glanced over his shoulder. “Hurry, but be discreet. S’paak may not be capable of shame in this moment, but she will register it later.”

[daffy-rimi]

[sendinoutsmokesignals]

debo de entender que también el silencio es una respuesta.

aunque duela aceptarlo.

[humanismo-nostalgico]

hola! que piensas de los hombres que teniendo pareja siguen siguiendo a chicas solo por su físico y que reaccionan a sus fotos con poca ropa?

Son inmaduros emocionalmente y moralmente a futuro. Es un hecho que no admiran su pareja, por ende es dudoso que haya un respeto y una empatía en la relación. Si esto lo llevas a un nivel de matrimonio con hijos, sin duda alguna, ese hombre no sirve como padre ni tampoco es apto para asumir las responsabilidades de un compromiso. El priorizar nuestro tiempo, energía y atención en metas constructivas, implica renunciar a aquellas acciones que nos degradan y además, estás con la persona que realmente amas (admiras) y no con la que deseas. El deseo es pasión y el amor es admiración, es elección. Si no valora ¿Para qué está en una relación?

[recorrertarot]

[equipo]

¡Los hilos de respuestas ya están aquí!

¿Te resulta difícil saber quién contesta a quién en las notas de las publicaciones? ¡Nos pasaba lo mismo! Hasta que buscamos una solución, claro. Ahora, cuando respondas a un comentario de otra persona, se creará un hilo muy bien organizado, con su formato sangrado y todo, como mandan las buenas costumbres.

Responde en cualquier hilo con el icono del bocadillo de diálogo que aparece en la parte inferior del comentario o usa el de los tres puntos para abrir el menú de opciones y, después, pulsa «Responder».

Puedes cerrar el hilo con la opción «Ocultar las respuestas» o cargar más, si las hubiera, pulsando «Mostrar más respuestas».

Los hilos no tienen subniveles: todas las respuestas a un comentario aparecerán seguidas, una debajo de la otra, a continuación del mensaje original.

Cuando alguien te conteste, recibirás una notificación.

De esta forma, las conversaciones estarán mejor organizadas y no tendrás que desplazarte por todas las respuestas para encontrar el inicio de un intercambio: ¡lo verás todo en el mismo hilo!

[petrcigarroa]

Si tienes que adivinar lo que eres para alguien, ya tienes la respuesta.

[piafgodalhiworld]

“Siento que fui alguien en otra vida, un ser que aún intenta decir algo, pero el lenguaje le es ajeno.”

[anghraine]

So I just discovered a cool conversation that spun off from one of my tag monologues on a gifset—I'd seen the initial tag peer review, but hadn't realized they'd gone further than that until @ladytharen tagged me. Yet again I didn't want to pester the original gifmaker too much, so I decided to respond separately to the part I found especially interesting.

For context, these were my original tags on the "This little thing? Just something I slipped on :)" Kirk captivity scene from "Tomorrow is Yesterday":

#captain gender strikes again! #i appreciate the read on this scene as 'captain kirk is a queer guy flirting with random 20th cent dudes holding him captive. bicon' #but personally my read is 'captain kirk is a queer guy deliberately leaning into effeminacy to fuck with hypermasc douchebros #from the very era in which the show was made irl. bicon' #it's definitely flirty but it is an aggressively feminine-coded flirtiness that's going to triply bother these kinds of guys #ngl i feel like kirk enjoys fucking with gender norms in all directions just because of who he is as a person (his true gender: diva) #but it's extra fun when it lets him troll ultra-military assholes neurotic about their own masculinity who are trying to intimidate HIM #(these guys aren't his type at all - christopher is much more that - but as usual that's not the point of the flirtation #k/s is nerd4nerd but also troll4troll)

I was really intrigued by this response from @mycroftrh, and thinking about it again on this inauguration of Pride month.

#yeah#in a certain context queerness and effeminacy are power#these are also unfortunately often the same contexts where queerness can get you hate crimed#but if you’re gonna be beat up/killed anyway…#you might as well make the homophobes maximally uncomfortable first

Yep, exactly. You can absolutely see the moment when he decides on exactly which side of his personality he's going to use for maximum effect on these gender policing, homophobic, ultra-military, paranoid bigots from the 60s:

I do think it's interesting that the full scene includes not only Kirk's bisexual chaos gremlin diva genderfuckery (enrichment for him!) but moments of fear and defiance:

He doesn't drop the flamboyance until he wants to, though. And the framing, lighting, angles etc only serve to emphasize their attempts to loom even more over him, aggressively get into his space, gesture right at his face to unsettle him, and his refusal to be intimidated by these fundamentally pathetic responses that are by no means free from real danger, just silly and contemptible nevertheless. It's not that he's too disdainful or amused at his own hijinks to understand how easily this could go very wrong. He simply has no respect for these men and enjoys leveraging their own hang-ups against them.

His eye make-up is also more than usually noticeable in the close-ups in this scene—even compared to other scenes in the same episode—which seems maybe not unrelated!

I think it's also worth pointing out that, TOS make-up aside, Kirk's navigation of gender performance in the original series is ... let's say, idiosyncratic. Most of the 23rd-century male characters are far more inflexible and singular about what gendered roles they're willing or able to inhabit. Kirk specifically is very deliberately fluid and versatile and theatrical about a lot of things, very much including gender performance and sexuality.

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2355- Disfruta las preguntas, porque abren muchas puertas. Olvida las respuestas, porque cambian todo el tiempo. Nunca entenderemos el milagro de la vida, ¿no es eso maravilloso?

[suenosyfantasmas]

"Las únicas respuestas interesantes son las que destruyen las preguntas".

Susan Sontag.

Arte: MAVi.

Sueños y fantasmas. El arte de soñar.

[meloncinconvinno]

118 ¿te ha gustado alguien del mismo sexo?

Fjdjdjdj seeeeeeep

Es que lo bisexual es de chiquita🫣🫣

Asi que siii