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I love you star trek props please never improve <3

Say what you want about TOS props but at least they didn’t use a baby changing station as a weapons locker

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Honestly Sabrina Carpenter should let herself be freakier, kinkier, nastier. Get slutty. Why not. We're in a super conservative society right now, shock 'em dead

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Verrrrrry first episode of TNG, sent to my buddies last night 💯

The best Roddenberry invention was the skant. Of course it was the most attacked at the time, which was unambiguously homo/transphobia. He looked everyone asking "why do the women have to wear skirts in space? Isn't that sexist" dead in the eye and said: men wear skirts in space too

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I about forgot to share my pictures from Saturday - St. Louis showed UP 💯🙌 In true fashion, it rained, it got hot, it got humid, but we marched and shouted til we were red in the face. We shook a lil ass and bought some Modelos from some smart folks with a cooler 💯 And we protest again next weekend, just like we been doing. Every weekend.

Let me make one thing clear- if you agree with 47 and you in the Lou, GTFO. Our city was BUILT off the backs off immigrants. It's STILL built off the backs of immigrants. Not even the names- St. Louis, Florissant, Soulard, Sauget, Bellefontaine, Creve Coeur, Ladue, Frontenac. Bitch, Anheuser-Busch? Henry Shaw, the guy that founded our Botanical Gardens, was an immigrant from England. (And a slave owner). Gyo Obata, the man that designed the planetarium at the Science Center which we all know and love, was born in the United States, but his parents were immigrants, and his entire family except him were sent to internment camps during World War II for being Japanese- he only narrowly avoided it by leaving school in California and coming HERE, to Washington University, the ONLY school at the time willing to take Japanese students. Thanks to him, we have that planetarium, the National Air and Space Museum in DC, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

I'll be even more clear- if you EXIST and you agree with the shit that's going down, you can fuck right off. Ion careeeeeee that people are here "illegally" because over half you wouldn't be able to pass our own constitution test AND it shouldn't be illegal to exist in the so-called land of the free.

FUCK I have so much to say but here's the pictures- to summarize AMAZING how many people showed up and FUCK Maga FUCK trump

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Honestly if you saw my blog, and saw me posting MASH and Star Trek, and thought I'd never post anything political, that's really on you.

ANYWAY

ST LOUIS STILL NEEDS HELP FROM THE TORNADO so if you can donate to help rebuild, that'd be great. If you're local and can help on the ground, also amazing.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/recovery/tornado-2025/give/index.cfm

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Who out here, protesting today? No kings ❗️ no KKK❗️no fascist USA ❗️

*remember to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: today is going to be a big one. Practice protest safety. Have a plan in case you get arrested. And don't forget to clown on these motherfuckers that think they can silence us, deport our people, oppress our minorities, our women, that think they can do whatever they want. Let them see you chanting and laughing because NOTHING they hate more than joy. Queer joy, women's joy, black joy. Scream and chant and dance and fuck 'm all. I'll be in St. Louis, see you there 💪

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Reblogging as an American for numerous reasons

1) American Imperialism is continously harming other countries, watering down cultures, white-washing history, here and abroad. And that's a really uncomfortable thing to face, but we need to if we're going to change it.

2) Did not know it was considered International Pride Month! I definitely thought it was a country-by-country thing, maybe, like how plenty of countries have independence days, but they're obviously not all on July 4th. I mean, we even have Juneteenth to because our independence day wasn't independence for black people.

3) I appreciate that OP gave me a good starting point for research on Aotearoa's queer history. I know a little bit of German and UK queer history, but I admit that I fall flat pretty much everywhere else. We do need to learn about other cultures and lgbtq+ history, and work on de-centering us. It's our responsibility, since we control SO much of the media, and we do have so much influence worldwide. All-about-me-isms hurts.

And if you're a little offended by the idea that you might be perceived as someone who thinks American Queer History is more important than others, or if you're angry because imperialism "isn't your fault", well, just do better. Try. It's an institution that we are born and raised in, absolutely, but self reflect and take time.

I'm sure something I've said here, I'll look back and think "well that was tone deaf," or HOPEFULLY someone else will say so and let me know. Let it be known here I welcome constructive criticism with open arms.

Thank you OP and I'm sorry so many people are offended and lashing out by your correct and valid point of view. We do not have the right to tell you anything about your own lived experiences and perspectives.

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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Fr!!! He's SO good! He's calm, measured, capable, and it's like, damn, if only being a captain was what he wanted to do. He'd be so good at it. Uhura also kicks ASS when she takes over in the Animated Series!!

nobody is ever talking about how great scotty is while in command… or is that conversation already exhausted and i’m too late to the party?

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Woah mama I'm a shrimp

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people really seem to struggle with the idea that you can think something is dickhead behaviour and still not want it to be illegal

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"life's about seeking pleasure" "life's about seeking knowledge"

life's about saying dumb shit that makes your dog look at you like youre dumb

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I'm not showing my wife SHIT on my tumblr anymore 😭 She started SCROLLING (forbidden) and she goes "do you just have a doctor mccoy fan account"

...look.

SOMETIMES I POST MASH TOO

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this is a list (as complete as I can make it) of what we know about kirk's backstory in tos and the tos movies, with episode sources:

- he has a brother named samuel george kirk who he calls sam. sam has a wife named aurelan, three kids (one of whom is named peter), and a terrible mustache. (what are little girls made of? and operation: annihilate!)

- he was on tarsus iv and survived the massacre. we don't know his age or what he was doing there. we only know that he saw kodos, heard his voice, wrote down what he said about the massacre, and could tentatively identify him years later. (the conscience of the king)

- when security officer mallory dies, kirk says that mallory's father helped him get into starfleet academy. (the apple)

- he was a nerd in the academy. gary mitchell called him a stack of books with legs, and he admits to bones that he was a very serious cadet. he was picked on by a fellow cadet named finnegan, who he dearly wanted to beat up but never did. (where no man has ever gone before and shore leave)

- on a similarly nerdy note, he had a big history crush on abraham lincoln and could recite the constitution from memory. maybe this is a learned skill in american schools in this future, or maybe he's just a history nerd. (the savage curtain)

- he had john gill as a history professor, who he encounters in the series as the crazy old guy who made space nazis. (patterns of force)

- kirk did not meet but looked up to captain garth of izar, a starfleet captain and explorer who was eventually decided to commit genocide and was sent to an asylum. we don't know whether this happened before, during, or after kirk's study of him or how he might have taken the news. (whom gods destroy)

- he has a deep fear of being alone and unable to act or control his situation. (many episodes, but most obviously in and the children shall lead us.)

- at some point (we have no idea how old he was or if it was before or after the academy) he nearly died from vegan choriomeningitis, a made-up disease deadly enough to be used as population control when extracted from his blood. (the mark of gideon)

- he had some kind of relationship with areel shaw, a lawyer who later ends up questioning kirk in a court martial. (court martial)

- he had some kind of relationship with ruth. when he sees her again in season 1, or a representation of her, he says it's been fifteen years. (shore leave)

- when he took the kobayashi maru, he reprogrammed the test so it would be possible to pass and passed on his third try. (the wrath of khan)

- once he became a midshipman (a cadet training to be a commissioned officer, apparently never mention as a rank outside of this series), he became close with his instructor benjamin finney. at some point, finney named his daughter jame (pronounced jamie) after him. jame is a teenager when we see her in season 1. (court martial)

- he served aboard the uss republic, where finney made a mistake that could have been disastrous and kirk logged it, ruining finney's chances for promotion. (court martial)

- he served aboard the uss farragut under captain garrovick as part of a phaser gun crew, meaning he fired the ship's phasers from engineering, not on the bridge like chekov. he hesitated before firing on a creature which killed garrovick, and blamed himself for it years later. (obsession)

- at some point, he worked with janice lester and they had a relationship. she resented kirk for being a man and having his career goals easier to achieve (we are not given strong evidence whether this is true or false), and kirk says they would have killed each other if he'd stayed. (turnabout intruder)

- at some point, he and endocrinologist dr. janet wallace got into a relationship, though it ended because they were both dedicated to their careers. (the deadly years)

- at some point, he and dr. carol marcus had a relationship and conceived david. kirk knew david existed, but carol prioritised her career as a scientist and decided to raise david away from kirk's world. it's implied that david met kirk and knew that he and carol had a relationship at one point, and he calls kirk "that overgrown boy scout (she) used to hang around with". he didn't know that kirk was his father until the movie, though. (the wrath of khan)

- shortly before serving on the enterprise, kirk taught a class at the academy, which gary mitchell was in. we don't know what he taught, only that he had a reputation for making students think critically. mitchell admits to setting kirk up with a blonde lab technician, to which kirk looks aghast and says, "I nearly married her." we don't know whether this was janet wallace, carol marcus, ruth, areel shaw, janice lester, or some other unknown woman. (where no man has gone before)

- at some point, he and gary mitchell encountered "rodent things" on dimorus which threw poisoned darts at them. mitchell took one for kirk and nearly died. (where no man has gone before)

that's it! that's all we get. everything else -- including him being born in iowa -- was from other sources added later. I just realised there wasn't one good source that was specific to the original series (star trek wikis that don't differentiate between tos, other series afterwards, and aos drive me insane), and it might be relevant to someone else too.

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I think it would be really funny if someone wrote a fanfic about Doctor McCoy being a descendant to The McCoy Family, like from the Hatfield and McCoy feud.

Here's why

1) because I said it would be

2) the McCoy family carried a genetic disease called Von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes (mostly) benign tumors to grow throughout the body, and a common type is pheochromocytoma on the adrenal glands. This causes deadly levels of high blood pressure, anxiety, panic attacks, headaches, and it's thought to have been a fueling factor in the Hatfield-McCoy feud. It's thought that the Von Hippel-Lindau disease causes a natural disposition to being quick to anger, but I couldn't find any evidence to back this up. Though, I can see those that present symptoms of pheochromocytomas coming across that way, what with the persistent fight-or-flight response going on. McCoy has a lot of moments where his temper spikes and goes right back down, especially in high stress situations, so I don't think it'd be the biggest stretch, and maybe there's new future treatments for it!

3) feuding DOES seem to be in his nature (although more for fun and not for...uh, killing)

4) Could be part of his "I don't kill!" thing! Give that man a completely unnecessary complex he developed when he was like a teenager and someone dropped that family lore and completely freaked him out, even though they're literally...like, by the time the 5 year mission starts, that's 375 years after the whole thing was over. (1891-2266)

5) I don't have another reason, I just thought 4 was a stupid number to end on. Honestly someone has probably already done this, idk. For all I know, I'm beating a dead horse with the idea. But if not, I think someone really into history and medical science could have a field day with the concept and I'd have a good time reading it <3

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computer,,. show me every picture of leonard mccoy ever taken

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computer,,. show me every picture of leonard mccoy ever taken

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This sucks I’m going to (remembers jokes about completing Kolinahr upset my captain) …work through my emotions in… a healthy manner?

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