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Anson Mount’s Captain Pike and William Shatner’s Captain Kirk wearing the green wraparound tunic

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 1x05 “Spock Amok” STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES 2x04 “Mirror, Mirror” | 2x06 “The Doomsday Machine” | 2x14 “Wolf in the Fold” | 2x15 “The Trouble with Tribbles” | 2x25 “Bread and Circuses”

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good evening today i am filled with affection for ed teach and how he literally has a guysona. ed asked himself “what if i was just a regular average normal dude” and he came up with jeff the accountant slash inkeeper. i love him so fucking much it’s unreal

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Leverage (2008) // eliot fighting for his life in the background

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writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

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Feel free to count series as one work instead of multiple, or use whatever metric you want, I'm not the fanfic length police.

bonus: tell me the fic in the tags!

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I wasn’t sure where that was. I thought Brokeback Mountain might be around where he grew up. Knowing Jack, it was probably some pretend place, where bluebirds sing and there’s a whisky spring . . .

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) Directed by Ang Lee Shot by Rodrigo Prieto

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Doll, doll

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david tennant really does own the word "well" he's always out there saying "well" no one else says "WELL..." quite like he can

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"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

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To just uncritically enjoy Strange New Worlds for a second... I love the way that they are intentionally and seriously playing with Pike's arc and specifically drawing out the implications of what it REALLY means to not be the protagonist in this story. It's all well and good to say that there are no no-win scenarios when you are, in fact, the protagonist, and you and your crew merrily sail along at the end of every hour-long episode. But they aren't writing a character from scratch. They're pulling from this one moment, really, where the TOS writers were like, lol what if we made this fucked up thing happen. And unlike the Kelvin timeline, they don't sanitize it down to "oh, he just uses a wheelchair and then is tragically killed womp womp." No. Here is a character who suffers, in perpetual pain, with little means to communicate, in a world with such significant medical advances as to make this injury one of the most profoundly isolating experiences possible. And Pike chooses it.

He doesn't choose it just once, the first time, when the vision is offered to him. It is something he chooses again, to save Spock's life, and then to save all the lives that Spock will save by ending the conflict with the Romulans, when he is granted that knowledge. And there's something really delightful in that they CAN'T bend this narrative. Spock really is that important. He's the protagonist. He has things to do, you might say. They've spent 60 years establishing this. And that puts Pike in this position of having to humbly step back, and choose something painful for himself out of his own commitment to service, sacrifice, compassion, and love--and be satisfied that it is the RIGHT choice, whatever it means for him.

And I think I also love that it then it kind of answers this mysterious question presented in "The Menagerie," which is, of course, why does Spock go to all this bother for this guy? And sure, it's one thing for Spock to say, "I just respect the hell out of this dude," but SNW is really making a point of solidifying that yeah, he does though. Christopher Pike has a heart so big it changed everything, actually. And that's a story worth telling.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Ghosts of Illyria”, s1x03

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forgive me. emotional transference is an effect of the mind meld. 

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captive prince(s)

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Here's the finished piece, hope your Friday was brills.

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Thanks @likephysics for the prompt of the boys, dressed down, making each other laugh.

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I like how from the outside, Charles and Edwin are unambiguously equal partners in the Agency, but if you dig into their psyches pretty much at all, you realize that there's a distinct possibility Charles thinks of himself as the Watson to Edwin's Holmes, the friend and follower of the brilliant detective, the guy who brings along a handy weapon - and meanwhile Edwin thinks of himself as the Merlin to Charles's Arthur, advisor and magician of the bravest and noblest of heroes.

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