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The TOS Enterprise was a hotbed of hormones and bitchiness that would make any high school jealous 😜

Jim Kirk’s first thought upon meeting his new CMO and frequent workplace distraction.

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Ooooft

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hi

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do not stop talking about Palestine!

there are Shut It Down For Palestine actions planned for Friday, look for one in your area if you can. they're not all registered on the Shut It Down website, so check social media as well as their list.

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Awwww ❤️❤️❤️

Source: Out In America; A Portrait Of Gay and Lesbian Life , by Michael Goff and the staff of OUT magazine

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This is such a great scene.

I’ve read that Avery Brooks, who was an amazing actor and director in Black theatre and has now mostly retired to teach it, didn’t really want to star in weekly episodic TV and considered leaving pretty regularly, but one of the things that kept drawing him back was how the Jake-Sisko relationship was written and how he and Cirroc Lofton had the chance to play it.

Because this kind of parenting isn’t that common on mainstream TV, let alone when it’s a Black father parenting a Black son. So often, then and now, Black fathers were represented on mainstream TV as absent or feckless. Being able to play an active and incredibly dedicated Black father to a Black boy and young man who had a loving and tender relationship with him was incredibly important to him.

The Jake-Sisko relationship is one of the absolute jewels of an excellent show, to my mind. The way they show Sisko *actively* learning from Jake - his son who has grown up in a *very* different environment from the one he grew up in and has really quite different views on many things - is *so* important and still incredibly rare in TV. The episode where Jake is dating Marta the dabo girl and Sisko is every middle class parent before he comes to realise that, like most sex workers, she is a young women doing a very well-paying job to survive in difficult circumstances. The way he initially massively disapproves of Jake’s friendship with Nog - and then realises over several seasons that actually that’s pretty racist of him.

Jake is such an important part of the deconstruction of the Federation that takes place in DS9.

Deep Space Nine 2x16, “Shadow Play”

I just cannot get over what a beautiful job Avery Brooks and Cirroc Lofton do playing father and son on DS9. The deep love and mutual respect that glows between them makes me so happy, and I appreciate that the show takes the time to develop their relationship instead of just skipping straight to action scenes and expecting us to accept that they’re a loving father-and-son duo without ever proving it to us.

It means a lot to see a dad who never responds “because I said so, that’s why” when Jake asks him a question; a dad who cultivates a relationship with his son based on their mutual love of things like baseball while also encouraging Jake to be his own person.

Also, I hope this scene helped parents watching it learn what being a supportive parent looks like. Ideally, parents wouldn’t make any assumptions about what their kids will grow to be, because it’s clear that Jake feels pressured to join Starfleet. But even though Sisko made the mistake of assuming Jake would want to be in Starfleet too, when he realizes his mistake he recovers quickly. He’s quick to reassure his son that all he wants is for Jake to find his passion and do it well. He doesn’t protest that “surely you’ll change your mind, Jake,” or say he’s hurt by Jake’s comment that Star Fleet is “too much like you.” Instead, he is proud of Jake for saying he wants to “find what’s me.” He doesn’t expect his son to be a perfect little clone of him whom he can mold to fit his own desires – he is proud of Jake for striving to be his own person.

It’s just. pretty cool.

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Hey at least Uncle Sovar approves of Spock’s husband.

Any time the anyone in the rest of the family bitches about him he just quietly says “I most approve of Spock’s choices. His husband is a fine man. Excellent observer.”

With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar

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Sulu’s live-blogging Chekov account embarrassingly has more followers than the official Starship Enterprise one 😜

#same

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Oooft 💜🩷💙

(◍•ᴗ•◍)♡ ✧*。

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Always hitting that nail so perfectly it shoots out of the wood and bonks a Nazi on the head

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Me at 11-12.

Same with Princess Leia.

do i want her or do i want to be her

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i saw someone spread hate to Keiko bc they were a Bashir/O'brien shipper, and i do NOT agree with that.

why would you ever say such things when this was always an option?

this is obviously what's happening in the show anyways

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silly little comic about chronic pain

[image id: an 8 panel comic

the first panel has a conversation between two people. the one on the right is a light gray, and facing away from the viewer. they are meant to represent a generic person. they are saying, "wow, chronic pain sounds like it sucks." sucks is written in a dark pink. the person on the right has tan skin, a pink shirt, and pink hair. he responds "haha yeah."

the second panel shows the same two people, with the first person saying "how do you tolerate it? i'd go crazy!" tolerate is written in a dark pink. the second person responsed "um..." and trails off

the third panel shifts to a drawing of the second person sitting curled into himself. it is entirely grayscale, except for his pink hair, which is a little more muted. the text around him reads "i tolerate it because not doing so isn't an option". 'isn't an option' is written in dark pink.

the fourth panel shows him sitting and leaning against the left edge of the frame, with his legs stretched out. it reads "because what else am i supposed to do?" supposed is in all caps and written in dark pink.

the fifth panel shows a torso up drawing of him in the bottom right corner. the text reads "i can't hope for a day i'll wake up and be better." better is written in dark pink and all caps on the left half of the panel.

the sixth panel shows him sleeping, with a brown dog near his head. the text above him reads "all i can do is make sure i wake up." wake up is written in dark pink.

the seventh panel is all text, reading "i tolerate it because it needs to be tolerable". tolerable is written in dark pink.

the eighth panel shifts back to the conversation between the two people. the man finishes his response to the other person's question with "i don't know".

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Yuuuup.

Having been an autistic and adhd teen - and now an autistic and adhd adult - the “you’re too much” thing gets fucking old.

I did the robotic thing at school because that seemed to be what people actually wanted. If every reaction was “too much”, what could be better than nothing at all?

It wasn’t *actually* what they wanted, of course. They wanted a neurotypical person with neurotypical reactions. And ofc they read me as a girl, so mostly what they wanted was reflection of boys and men.

But I admit it was a big survival strategy for me. Don’t react. Stare straight in the face and raise a single eyebrow when someone says the most egregious shit and otherwise don’t fucking waste eye contact on them.

I will never, ever, lose my intense empathy for Spock because he was pretty much me throughout my teenage years. I desperately craved being able to feel nothing. Instead, of course, I was a stew of inconvenient emotions I had no idea how to process. I despised myself every time I gave someone a reaction because I wanted control so much and I had none. I have so much compassion for that kid now.

And it’s now utterly impossible to watch early series Bashir without seeing every moment as a study in coping strategies. Be brilliant because the brilliant kid, esp the brilliant boy, gets leeway. Put your whole identity into that. But you categorise things in ways neurotypical people don’t so your mistakes don’t make sense to neurotypical people - a pre-ganglionic fibre is absolutely nothing like a post-ganglionic nerve. Have no fucking idea how to talk to people you find attractive so lean into being brash af or you’ll never say a word to them. Care so much that you break your heart.

The running joke where other members of the DS9 crew say they like the subdued (/changeling) version of Julian better honestly makes me a little sad. It's a very common sentiment applied to autistic people, and it doesn't take into account the person's internal state at all. I'm sure it's "easier" for O'Brien and Sisko when Bashir isn't talking up a storm and forgetting to make the conversational give-and-take equal, but what it means is that Julian isn't acting like himself.