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I feel like incels should need to watch this until they realise that cat is a better man than they will ever be

My 11-month male cat lets my foster kittens nurse on him.

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personally i do think julian bashir is trans, but not in a way that sublimates his genetic alterations into a trans allegory. i think he's disabled and trans at the same time, but i think his rebellion against his parents--the symbolic death of his old self with the name change--that's not about gender, for him, at all.

it's about the incredible violation of autonomy he experienced as a disabled person under the knife of a eugenicist society. it's about the need to reclaim some, any, of the agency that was so completely stolen from him by his parents.

it's about discovering that his entire self was deconstructed and reconstructed, without his knowledge or consent, for the express purpose of being less of a burden on his parents.

because let's not forget that the death of julian's old self was not his decision. it was his parents who killed the old self and created a new one.

let's not forget that human society in star trek is still recovering from the eugenics wars--that just because it's post-scarcity doesn't mean it's a utopia.

let's not forget the multiple episodes where bashir is forced to confront the fact that his "success story" is truthfully a gross reminder of how deeply his society (and his family) hates disabled people, not only shown in how they tried to fix him, but also in the fact that the process so rarely works as intended, yet is still done anyway--and the failures and the ones too far gone to save are locked away! with no connection to general society, and only the bare minimum provision for their physical needs, with no privacy and no autonomy!

and let's not forget that julian sees these people and is torn between the empathy he has for them, and his urge to fix them. and he goes through with this urge on Sarina, "fixing" her to conform to his idea of what she ought to be, treating her as a problem to be solved, objectifying her via "my ideal woman was trapped in this disabled body/mind and i saved her," thus continuing the cycle of violence, because even he can't conceive of a world where the disabled do not need to be fixed. where the violence done to him was wrong. fuck man

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This is something I've been thinking about for a while: a list of who should have been at Worf and Jadzia's wedding.

Picard

Data

Geordi

Riker

Deanna

Sergey and Helena Rozhenko ( Worf's adopted parents)

Nikolai Rozhenko (Worf's adopted bother)

Any of Jadzia's family

I know the in universe explanation for them not being there is because of the war going on and in RL they probably weren't able to get all the actors, but I think it would have been cool.

Seeing Geordi, Data, and Nikolai participating in the Kal'Hyah with the other would have been fun. Data having no trouble with any of it, Geordi and Data reuniting with Miles, and Nikolai telling them stories from Worf was a kid.

Helena and Sergey meeting Jadzia for the first time. I think they'd like her.

I could see Sirella and Helena butting heads over a couple of things.

It would have also been nice if they could have incorporated some Trill and Human customs into their wedding. Maybe a Trill vow and an exchange of rings.

If anyone knows of a fic like this, let me know.

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Me with enby/bi/disabled/autistic best friend

Tweet by Heather Hogan:

Straight friend: Will you sensitivity read my book for my lesbian best friend character?

Me, two weeks later: The lesbian best friend is absolutely perfect. Here's 16 pages of notes detailing the incorrect things you said about Star Trek.

5:32 PM on 2/25/24

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Headcanon that there's a meme goes round the academy when Cardassians start trickling in in earnest, and it looks something like -

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Garashir shit posts pt.ii

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Doing the little bit I *can* do to help by signal boosting and donating.

I hate how little it, but these wee souls getting to eat means a lot.

Please Share Or Replog Or Donate to save my life

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I hope everyone can donate and share my story:

A call for help for yousef and Malak and my family in Gaza!!! All thanks and gratitude for your humanitarian stances with us, and we

assistance in this difficult time. Onw year of displacement and famine have exacerbated oursuffering and difficulties beyond belief. We used all the words of sadness and sorrow to describe the situation we had reached, but such words were not enough. The scale of the tragedy and suffering is much greater than what you may have seen or seen on several social media

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Signal boosting

Genocide flattens every discussion. There are no new conversations to be had about the destruction, death and cruelty. After more than a year, there is nothing left to be said about various media houses, corporations and international bodies of law aiding and abetting all that has been happening in Gaza, either. It is the banality of evil, it is colonialism. However even in this atrociously banal circumstance, I do think what still is a continued point of hope for Gazans and what still pushes so many of them to reach out to the world, is the support people around the globe have shown and still continue to show. Which is why I am here on behalf of the Shehab family ( @fahedshehab-new ) and requesting  you to help them survive through this winter. This won't take much of your time so please read: 

Fahed is currently supporting 13 family members in total- his own family and that of his sister’s.

He has to look after 8 children now, with the youngest being his son Yayha who is barely having anything to eat because the price of baby milk  is exorbitantly high in Gaza. 

The genocide has taken a toll on Fahed’s daughters. Sahar and Dana spent a whole year under the threat of bombs and right now instead of getting to be teenagers, they ask their father if they will survive. They have even said they don't want to live if they lose someone. 

The family right now immediately needs clothes to keep them warm throughout winter. Fahed’s family is from the north and has been displaced several times before they came south. Displacement is dangerous and a silent killer because often essential items are lost and cannot be replaced in time. 

Please consider that the weather has already turned colder around the world and that which is only mildly uncomfortable to us, presents a dire situation for Gazans. The families don't have a shelter and there is no way for tents to adequately protect from cold winds and rain. So right now the immediate need is for warm clothes and it can cost upto $400 per person. With THIRTEEN PEOPLE to take care of Fahed immediately needs to raise at least 5k to buy the required apparels. So please boost and donate. 

Currently at $66,248. He needs to reach $71,248. Please help however you can. 

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Please remember that every donation, even if it is 5 dollars, is a ray of hope for the families who have lost everything.

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kira as a daughter figure. kira seeking father figures and losing every single one of them, even sisko, and she's not even 35. what do you do with that?

she takes the father's place, again and again and again. she takes her first father's role in the bajoran resistance, she takes her cardassian father's role in the cardassian resistance, she takes command of the station when sisko is gone.

dukat took her mother, stole the place of a father in her life and ate it, and kira denied him the role of father-suitor when he demanded it of her--

and kira then stole his place as ziyal's father, giving ziyal space and resources and support that directly mirrors what ben provides for jake.

kira is a daughter who becomes a father. in this essay i will

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Lots of love for Star Trek: The Next Generation this week for the 35th anniversary... so here's a Deep Space Nine appreciate post! It's a random collection of my episode posters focusing on different characters.

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To me, and this is an entirely personal reading, while Data is clearly autistic-coded, Picard is also just as clearly autistic; just one with more capacity to mask (and the concurrent issues that go with that, like the need to compartmentalise his life and to isolate to deal with the overwhelm).

To me, the Picard-Data friendship has always read as a uniquely autistic friendship.

Data absolutely has broad Special Interests; he’s got none of the time and energy limitations us fleshy autistics have. But he seeks to connect with Picard through their *mutual* SpIns. You never see Data trying to bond with him through archaeology; it’s not one of Data’s SpIns, although he can absolutely absorb lots of knowledge about it when he needs to. But music, Shakespeare, ethics - he always goes to Picard about them, and Picard *always* makes time to engage with Data with his whole self about them, even if demands of duty mean he can’t do so at a specific time.

Connecting through love of SpIns is an *intensely* autistic (and AuDHD) way to connect with people you care about. I’ve been very lucky in that it’s how my Dad and I bonded from when I was a tiny child, and many of the most fulfilling relationships of my life have been this way. I absolutely adore seeing it in TNG, and seeing Picard and Data’s unique bond validated further in Picard.

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And you may ask yourself…