#objects in paradise

[condishawn-haver]

GUYS!! MY ART TEACHER SAW MY OBJECTS IN PARADISE CONCEPT ARTS AND OMGA!!! SHE SAID WE'RE GOING TO DRAW LIKE OSC COMICS FOR A PROJECT (to explain she liked my osc (oip and ii and bfdi) arts!) EEEE! *explodes with happiness in osc fan*

Edit:She told me were actually going to draw comics with osc like characters (she meant like were going to draw objects (mostly foods bc of the project) with limbs n face and make comics not all osc like) sorrry if i didn't explain it well :( but still EEEE! DRAWING OSC LIKE THINGS!!! Yippee!!

Edit 2: she said were going to do it next week dawg

[ask-objectz-in-paradise]

Please send asks I'm hunggy for asks/nf

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[paperbackparadise]

This bookmark and many other beautiful objects are available in THE PAPERBACK SHOP

[sketchpomzz]

OBJECT INVESTIGRAVE (SIG X OSC AU)

ELOQUENT COUNTENANCE

COLD FRONT

ELEVATOR HITCH

DEAD PLATE

MARRIED IN RED

ROT IN PARADISE

this will be updated if there's new sig games and also fanart of this au would mean so much to me!! :3

[lovertm]

plant pins by Occasionalish

[anghraine]

It's genuinely kind of baffling to me that Leila Kalomi so regularly is the Spock "love interest" invoked as proof that Spock can't possibly be gay he had an ex-girlfriend didn't you see the episode with his girlfriend he could be straight or maybe bi but definitely definitely couldn't be gay.

Anyway, this is Leila's description of their previous relationship in "This Side of Paradise":

ELIAS: Did you love him? LEILA: If I did, it was important only to myself. ELIAS: How did he feel? LEILA: Mr. Spock's feelings were never expressed to me.

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LEILA: Come back to the planet [with the docility sex pollen spores] with me. You can belong again. Come back with me, please. SPOCK: I can't. LEILA: I love you. I said that six years ago, and I can't seem to stop repeating myself. On Earth, you couldn't give anything of yourself. You couldn't even put your arms around me. We couldn't have anything together there. We couldn't have anything together any place else.

Like. Leila herself acknowledges that Spock would never willingly enter any kind of relationship with her unless drugged into it, even as little as taking her in his arms. And Spock, uniquely among the many people exposed to the spores, experiences physical pain in the transition to artificial happiness/belonging/"love":

SPOCK: No. LEILA: It shouldn't hurt. SPOCK: No, I can't. Please, don't! LEILA: Not like this. It didn't hurt us. SPOCK: I am not like you!

Early in the episode, she is very clear about how much she cares about what Spock would choose while fully functional:

ELIAS: Would you like him to stay with us now, to be as one of us? LEILA: There is no choice, Elias. He will stay.

Spock specifically asks her questions that would reveal the spore effect and allow him to make an autonomous choice. Leila refuses to answer until the spores painfully take him over. And even once she herself is freed of the spores' effects, her approach to Spock and his autonomy doesn't significantly change; it isn't really something she values about him.

Compare this to someone like Eve McMahon even in as terrible an episode as "Mudd's Women," in which Kirk is the one affected by the aphrodisiac and Spock is immune. Eve is strongly implied to be interested in Kirk, and she knows he's being affected by the drug that nobody has explained to the Enterprise crew; he asks her not to come into his bedroom, and she ignores that for a moment to carry out the seduction, but she knows it's wrong and is so horrified that she breaks it off and leaves. The even more ethically ambiguous Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind" also has an arc that leads to her insisting "This isn't right" when Kirk's autonomy is compromised, and reminding him of what's real. Chapel ultimately accepts in "Plato's Stepchildren" that Spock's no always meant no and could never be otherwise without some violation of consent that she finds horrifying. Leila is not uniquely terrible (Deela in "Wink of an Eye" is a lot more unambiguously chilling), but this isn't just how all women in TOS behave, either.

There's also an intriguing thread of very distinct mutual hostility and incomprehension between Leila and Kirk throughout the episode, in which neither comes off looking great, but Leila plainly cares quite a lot less about Spock's autonomy. A lot of this is mostly conveyed by performance (Shatner very convincingly bleeds jealousy as Kirk here), but Leila definitely doesn't get the nature of Spock's and Kirk's relationship even as it exists in S1:

SPOCK: Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. LEILA: Someone else might believe that. Your shipmates, your captain, but not me.

Kirk very much does not believe that, just to be clear. I feel it's worth mentioning that this episode was aired directly after the one that concluded with this—

—and right before the one in which Spock insists he's acting based on logic and probability and of course wouldn't leap into danger. Kirk's response is just this:

That is also the one in which Spock torpedoes all his scientific principles in pure panic over Kirk:

SPOCK: Captain, are you all right? Jim? Jim!

SPOCK: Kill it, captain, quickly! KIRK: It's not making any threatening moves, Spock. SPOCK: You don't dare take the chance, captain. Kill it. KIRK: I thought you were the one who wanted it kept alive, captured if possible. SPOCK: Jim, your life is in danger. You can't take the risk. KIRK: It seems to be waiting. SPOCK: I remind you it's a proven killer. I'm on my way.

Anyway, Kirk is immediately jealous and resentful of Leila and regards her as the problem. He doesn't know much of anything about Spock and Leila's previous relationship and certainly doesn't seem to know how ephemeral it was (Leila's descriptions of how limited it was both occur in scenes where Kirk is not present and she pretty obviously tries to suggest it was a real romance when he is there). So Leila doesn't know what the relationship between Spock and Kirk actually is like and how bizarre Spock's spore-influenced behavior is going to seem, and Kirk doesn't know what Spock's relationship with Leila really was like, so we just end up with this wild uncomprehending mutual resentment between them.

Even before Kirk knows what's going on with Spock, he seems to think removing Leila from the picture would fix things. While it's not quite true, when he does figure out how to break the spore haze, his first priority is getting Spock away from Leila and back at his side. Spock makes it extremely clear what drives his refusal to return to Leila and the artificial happiness of the spores, as powerful as it was for him:

LEILA: I can't lose you now, Mister Spock. I can't. SPOCK: I have a responsibility to this ship, to that man on the bridge. I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.

Like, this whole situation is so fucked-up and puts such an emphasis on Kirk's oblivious jealousy of Leila, her lol what consent possessiveness around Spock (combined with the repeated revelations about how extremely minimal their relationship was and remains without literally drugging him), and the spores affecting everyone in basically the same pleasant but unhealthy way (rather than the highly idiosyncratic and physically painless effects of losing inhibitions in "The Naked Time") apart from it being specifically painful for Spock as he begs for it to stop. The whole interest of the episode turns on the essential melancholy of Spock's position: his only options are a) artificially- and painfully-induced contentment that is his sole experience of happiness but foreign to him or b) the fundamental self-inflicted purgatory of life at Kirk's side that is nevertheless truer to what he really is (I am what I am). It is not remotely difficult to read all this in repressed gay terms rather than proof!!! of Spock's attraction to women.

The thing is, of all the obligatory Spock "love" interests in TOS, there are multiple other ones that you could make an argument for. The most obvious is the Romulan commander; he's in his right mind, she's not the source of the dubcon, they have fantastic chemistry even if Spock's manner is deliberately ambiguous, she's super cool and hot and his age, and he definitely respects her. I guess there's Droxine, too; their interactions aren't even dubcon, just strange and bad and don't go anywhere. Even Zarabeth is only mildly sketchy compared to Leila and has a much better motive. But for some reason, the "well akshually" responses to gay Spock posts always seem obsessed with But His Canon Girlfriend Leila in particular.

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[noomyguts]

ughhhh armand not wanting to turn daniel into a vampire cause he thinks daniel will eventually resent being turned, he thinks daniel is just with him to become a vampire, and because Armand genuinely is repulsed by creation and thinks a natural human life is more fulfilling, and that being a vampire means certain damnation.

Daniel depressed about armand not turning him cause he thinks he's just being used as a tour guide into the modern world and that his relationship is just a blip in armands eyes, and thinks armands refusal to turn him is due to lack of interest in him, and daniel has the fear that armand is going to leave him for louis or lestat or any other immortal he knows, or just wait till daniels dead to be with them.

the misunderstanding of each others intentions is driving me insaaaaaneeeeee!!! 🤪

[akkivee]

THEYRE ALL HERE

[br1ghtestlight]

ancient pride art of my ocs cuz i always forget their identities/flags...... most of this isn't even accurate anymore. i dont know why bubblegum wasn't included shes literally aroace LMAOO

[digitsofpie]

anyone notice how Old Souls starts with just piano and Phoenix's voice, which is how Winslow originally intended for it to be heard

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[condishawn-haver]

Me because I want to yap about my object show (objects in Paradise)'s lore but i don't want confuse people because i hadn't made a single episode/comic for this object show:

[vampzgraveyard]

·:*¨༺ ♱✮♱ ༻¨*:·

"Polly" polybius' Ref sheet!! (My other oc Project)

[lightnersdream]

i fully understand why the third board was cut (the two adventure boards that made it in-game can be kind of much depending on your tolerance/fondness for that particular kind of callback/game style) but Big City Board has 2 be my favorite of the board songs

[sketchpomzz]

sorry for not posting in a while... anyways.. funny object people hehe!!!

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[j-man-sets-fires]

Heya lovelies! My name is J and this is a silly little post to prepare all of the different silly stuff you can ask about in the ask blog, these are only summaries for now as each of these will get their own post!

Hell in Paradise

This is a silly little Just shapes and beats AU where you can ask the main characters [Cyan, Gold, Thicket, and Cider] as well as the corruptions [Blixer, Lycan, and Barracuda], along with silly little posts, we enter a world that I've been trying so hard to work on ]:.

Crime Kitchen!

Join two idiots named Quincy and Sam along with their father figure [Evan AKA the old man or gramps and another little friend who's name we can't mention for some publicity reasons... did we get a reason? And if I can convince them, the art styles of some close friends of mine ^^

The Lunar Project

Lunar, best of the best local therapist this side of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria! Little sad they're losing it just a bit...they called me socially inept ]:<.

Chemical Management

Anger issues is one thing, but working with a man who could very easily destroy your life's work and progress, that's another thing, and Sci knows this all too well, because Fell can't and won't keep his mouth shut.

House of the Subliminal

Well then, we're asking about me now are we?

And me!

Stay out of this Ody, as i was saying, this ask blog is all about me, well, my sona to be exact, as well as Annie [littlest sister], Orion [shut in loser], old man Nexus [he's insane] and...Odysseus, one of the worst people that lives in this house

Hey! ]:<

Defectives

My silly little object show ask blog where we follow the protagonist Pin and the other contestants for a prize to fix the problems they have, but is everything as it seems?

Anyways, that's all, hope you'll take interest in these when I get more info presented!!!

[anghraine]

It's honestly kind of funny to me that catapulting into Kirk/Spock shipping has launched my usual "meh, not into jealousy as a metric of romantic love" shipping tendency out the window and instead I'm genuinely charmed by the extent to which they reflect the same unhealthy seething jealousy.

This is most obvious with Spock, but you'll get McCoy joking about Spock falling in love with a computer (not an android, a stationary computer) and McCoy being A Normal Guy Joking About His Friend Having a Hobby is immediately contrasted with Kirk's barely repressed jealousy (you can all but see him thinking "time to talk another computer to death" while McCoy just laughs at his own joke about it). Kirk gets more and more generally insecure until Spock publicly declares that, while he does like an efficient computer, Kirk is irreplaceable and he doesn't want to serve anyone or anything else, and Kirk looks like he's about to kiss him on the bridge.

(Kirk still talks the computer to death, btw, for plot reasons. But big "Edith Keeler must die" energy.)

I also enjoy Kirk's horror/outrage at Leila Kalomi and her obvious gloating over "taking" Spock from him in the docility sex pollen episode and Kirk's willingness to do or say anything to get Spock back vs Spock bleeding intensity throughout "Requiem for Methuselah" as Kirk falls in love with Rayna, then Spock numbly listening to McCoy's speech about how he can never understand the glories or agonies of romantic love triangles or passionate love before waiting for him to leave and then wiping Rayna from Kirk's mind. Just two bros who are totally normal about each other!