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dont worry. he will have your tire patched in a jiffy. yes, it will probably be with his own saliva and small twigs, but he will do a great job

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there is a subreddit on star trek reddit called like r/xenorelationship dedicated to inter-alien-races relationships and jim's secret account (u/adassperaspera) is a local celebrity there. his imput is invaluable as he has one of the most diverse ranges of experience. he is however only expert in human/vulcan relationships number 2 because, as he realizes with horror at some point, amanda is also on reddit

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I actually passed away quite a few years ago, but I'm a very private person and never told anybody.

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New 'Bootcamp' boyband.

According to sources a new boyband has been formed at Bootcamp with 5 solo contestants thought to be more promising as a group.

The boyband made up of auditionees: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik

(Liam being one of this years re-auditonee’s) The boyband are yet unamed.

Previous groups formed at Bootcamp have usually been doomed from the start and although usually making it through to the live shows don’t go much further. Futureproof, Hope and Miss Frank to name the most well known,

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One of those insidious little things I notice sometimes is how much the window of 'appropriate for children' content has shrunk within the past 20 years. The range of things it is socially acceptable to show a 10-year-old has never been more limited, and it's happened incredibly quickly.

Take, for instance, Star Trek: TNG. I grew up watching TNG. I was a little young for it as it was airing, but it got syndicated almost immediately and they would show an episode most weekday evenings on the Space Channel, and I'd watch it with my lifelong Trekkie mom. This was a very common thing. I was by no means unusual for watching Star Trek as a child.

Star Trek: TNG has lots of sex in it! It's never explicit (unless you have a particularly niche interpretation of some of the borg stuff) but on many an occasion you'll have a few characters doing a bit of making out followed by a closing door or fade to black, and then they wake up in bed together. If you know what sex is, you know that is what is being implied here. Even my 8-year-old self, whose understanding of the subject mostly came from books of ancient mythology that used words like 'ravish' and 'the pleasures of the couch' a whole bunch, could tell that what was happening was sex.

And I am not bringing this up as a 'see, I watched all this inappropriate stuff and I turned out just fine!'. I'm bringing it up to argue that TNG's level of sexual content is not inappropriate for children (I'm not using the legalese 'minors', because I think that lumping children and teenagers together in this conversation would make it nonsense. Star Trek is obviously appropriate for teenagers. Don't use 'minors' when you mean either children or teens, it just muddies the waters).

The point is that Star Trek: TNG was very obviously designed to be watched by children and teenagers. There's a whole character in the main cast whose role in the show is to be an audience insert for children and teenagers. The moral tone of TNG, its occasional dips into 'don't do drugs, kids' type messaging, and its general avoidance of graphic violence all scream 'we are designing this with an audience of children - but not just children - in mind'. It's a family show. It's supposed to be watched by the whole family.

Which means that, until at least the end of the 90s, this amount of sexual content was generally considered appropriate for kids to see. It's not pornographic - it's not even graphic. Maybe the very most conservative parents wouldn't let their kids watch TNG, but that might have had more to do with all the socialism and atheism.

So, why did that change? Why do we now have such a strong bullwark between 'things kids are allowed to know about' and 'things for GROWN UPS ONLY 18+ Minors DNI', and why have we relegated even the most discreet references to sex to the second category only?

And the next time you find yourself experiencing that knee-jerk 'think of the children' reaction, consider: would what you're looking at have been ok on Star Trek: TNG in the 90s?

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Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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Low priority but especially now that they don't have like. jobs as a point of attraction it does suck for cishet men that they don't have a good slutty clothing option. If you're masc and want to look hot for queer people you can swing from the boring but successful rolled up sleeves dress shirt all the way to fishnets and bodysuits. This is mostly downstream of like. I look at people's outfits a lot. I like clothes. The boys are often remarkably hot but they can't! Cheat! You need to be able to cheat your aesthetics! You can't be out here relying on pure luck you have to be able to wear something that makes your potential hookup do looney tunes shit.

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All "takes" on this blog reflect real policy that will come to pass in the dark era of my rule