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yeah im making disco tarot cards and suffering !!!! come suffer with me on twitter as I post more wips! @oceanyia

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star trek discovery has been on hiatus for exactly 1 (one) week and I'm already suffering from severe withdrawal. I desperately need the disco family back to sweeten my sunday nights. well, here's fun little poster I doodled the other day while musing about space travel #disco link for the tweet in case anyone wants to RT https://twitter.com/oceanyia/status/965041622407897094

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I love tilly a whole bunch so I decided to draw her pretty face. What's crazy is that Mary Wiseman herself replied to my tweet omg I LITERALLY dropped my mug. https://twitter.com/may_wise/status/963949722837766144

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As Star Trek Discovery season one finally met its end I figured it was time to create something as a little thank you note to the cast. Granted, I do believe some points of the narrative were not properly handled (I've been pretty open about that on my blog) but overall Disco positively surprised me. I absolutely adore the cast and fandom has been very much fun. I look forward to more! This piece took me 11h and I almost gave up halfway because my wrist was killing me but I love paul stamets too much. I want to feed him donuts. Vegan donuts because I'm pretty sure he'd be into that. If you could help me RT this on Twitter so it would get to the cast; that'd make my day! https://twitter.com/oceanyia/status/962814729700954114

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Full circle.

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Hit it away 

Meta Taro!

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Star Trek: Discovery - Season Finale || Hugh Culber apparently doesn't matter but he fucking should

Massive spoilers for Star Trek Discovery season finale so skip this post if you don't wanna see those

Well, where do I even START

I mean, first of all I should make clear that I like discovery and I feel like it's a good series that did a nice job in finding its own space in the franchise. I absolutely adore the cast, the disco fandom has been enjoyable and I truly appreciate the fun I've had these past couple months. That being said.

Hugh's arc, or its lack thereof, is bullshit.

I started watching Discovery 100% blind. I didn't read a single article, review, or watch any of the trailers before sitting down to see episode 1. I'm personally not very fond of spoilers (read as, I despise them) so that approach usually works for me. Needless to say, when I got to episode 5 and realized that oh ....OH..... THEY'RE NOT FRIENDS SHARING QUARTERS THEY'RE A COUPLE I might've freaked out completely. The idea of an interracial gay couple carrying out very normal lives seemed (and still seems) completely amazing and thoroughly groundbreaking when considering the context of the Star Trek franchise.

Watching their relationship unfold subtly (and to be quite frank, beautifully) on screen was marvelous. However, as the narrative progressed I couldn't shake off the feeling that they were going to put culmets in the blender. Granted, you can argue that's a way to include them in the major narrative, instead of making them sit on a pedestal (as that could be interpreted as including a LGBT couple solemnly for brownie points). That's a valid point of view but not one I totally agree with.

Episode 9 happened, Paul was in a catatonic state, Hugh was worried as hell. I thought our problems would be gone once Paul magically came back to his senses. The scenes where Hugh was taking care of Paul were heartwarming, and to be honest, that was enough angst for them. The point would be made. All couples go through a tough time. Yet they love each other a whole lot, so they managed to get around the issue. See?

And considering how Ash/Michael were also going through tough times, to single out culmets as the suffering-gay-couple trope wouldn't really fly.

Then Hugh died, in a scene that made little to no sense in the great scheme of things. Hugh's death was purely for shock value. It had virtually no impact on the long scale of the narrative, and that is blatantly visible in the way almost none of the main characters even cared to address the situation more than once. It certainly leaves a bad taste, the 1/2 of the gay couple (the latino guy at that) had to be the one to be tossed just to prove the point of how dangerous Voq/Ash was. Being frank, how different would it be if Ash had murdered a random crew member? A red shirt? That's how unnecessary Hugh's death was. It had NO impact besides the scene where he helps Paul get the Discovery back to the prime universe. "But Hugh's help was vital" Trek has always been about using technobabble to get around situations, it's obvious writers could've figured out a solution that did not involve using the ghost of the gay latino guy.

Performances were impeccable and I simply adore Wilson Cruz and Anthony Rapp, but god I'm frustrated and....hurt. Like it SUCKS to say this as I'm very much into trek but this fucking. hurts.

I understand how this is supposedly a very "epic love story" but those stories don't need gratuitous murder. It's very hard to market discovery as a series that does it job with LGBT representation when culmets had this fate. "oh so this show has a interracial gay couple and its awesome but the latino guy is dead dont worry he might come back though" doesn't have a nice ring to it.

Besides, casual fans don't really engage with the cast on Twitter. For a good chunk of viewers, Hugh's death seems very final. And to be honest, they can reassure us all they like, Hugh's still dead and will most likely remain so until well into season 2. It sucks that they pushed culmets as the "groundbreaking couple" when they literally met the same fate as many other LGBT couples with the bury-the-gays trope.

Again, they will most likely solve this on season 2. But this doesn't erase the fact that Hugh had to be the one to go. There's still one year left until season 2, and until then Star Trek's first gay couple will be well buried under the attempts to shock the audience with continuous twists.

(Feel free to yell with me on Twitter @oceanyia)

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2day my linguistics professor asked people to name some ships bc she was talking about morphology & how ship names were an example of blending and the room of 100+ people was completely silent bc who wants to expose themselves?? until this one person was like “umm johnlock” and i heard someone behind me go “oh my god……. i hate this”

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do you remember waking up from your blackout, kissing me ever so softly on the stomach, and saying “i love you bro. so much,” then passing back out?

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i napped for 3 hours and dreamt about:

a zen pencils comic with a bunch of people sitting in a waiting room and the receptionist calls “excuse me, is there a mr. racist here?” and this guy raises his hand and immediately starts getting beat on by everybody else in the waiting room and the last panel is a closeup of his file and it’s first name STOPBEING last name RACIST

trying to make the teenage mutant ninja turtles fuck

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I love you. I love you too.

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HELLO 

this is Captain Tilly

what the HE- HECK

HELL

WHAT THE HELL???

HOLD YOUR HORSES!

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theories to keep me distracted

Right now I'm sold on the idea that either Paul or Philippa are the emperor/empress. I mean, there has to be a reason why Paul keeps talking about a palace, right? My theory is that the spore drive scrambled his brain and somehow wired it to the mirror universe, hence why he called Tilly 'Captain' a couple episodes ago. So now that they are in the Mirror Universe for real, Paul is in that semi catatonic state because he can see through mirror-Paul's eyes. I would quite enjoy seeing Paul as an evil mastermind tbh

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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - Episode 1x10

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revolutionary take: an 'epic love story' can be written without gratuitous violence and pointless murder