#i guess. lol

[liskobot]

so that twitter takeover huh

[anghraine]

I was thinking about "Journey to Babel" for whatever reason, and about how I find Sarek and Amanda super intriguing both as Spock's parents and as a couple.

Like, before watching, I had the vague fandom-osmosis impression that Sarek is Spock's shitty, judgmental father who actually does care about him deep (deep) down and will come through in a pinch, but not much more than that. I'd gathered that his emotional world mostly revolves around being crazy about his wife while refusing to admit he has feelings about anything (and everyone sees through this).

I also had a vague fandom-osmosis impression that Amanda is the normal, supportive, emotionally healthy parent to Sarek's distant, disapproving one and that it's not entirely clear why she even stays with this asshole except some vague "well, she loves him, I guess."

But upon watching the actual episode, I was quite surprised by Amanda—not at first, when she does seem more or less as reported, but later, as the stakes rise and we end up with Spock anxious about Kirk's health (because he got stabbed nearly to death) and insistently upholding his responsibility to take up Kirk's role, while Amanda is anxious about Sarek's health (because he's nearly dead of a congenital problem) and insistently trying to use whatever influence she can bring to bear to save him (the parallel signifying nothing, I'm sure). And the way these collide is kind of heartbreaking, because "Journey to Babel" is entirely clear that her reason for staying with Sarek is not that she's vaguely loving but that she's every bit as insane about him as he is about her.

When she hits Spock for not risking his own life and that of hundreds of other people on board to donate a ton of blood to Sarek in an experimental procedure that may or may not even work and tells him she'll hate him forever if he doesn't do it, I was like... I mean, I get that it's a tough moment for her, yes. But also, what the fuck. This is your son, ma'am.

I don't hate her for this, to be clear. I was just surprised that Spock is such an obviously secondary priority to both of his parents rather than Amanda being The Normal One. Amanda has never been normal about Sarek a day in her life!

And ... I mean, Spock himself has repeatedly jeopardized the lives of everyone on the Enterprise for slim chances of somehow saving Kirk, well past the point when even McCoy was telling him to stop. Oh, and Spock led a different outside chance of saving Kirk that failed and left the Enterprise with only impulse power, and Spock's response was to keep going towards Kirk's location on impulse power and spend the 58 days it took him to get there barely eating or sleeping.

So, like, yes, I don't get the feeling that Sarek or Amanda are particularly good parents, though they love Spock in their very different ways. But I do kind of respect them for being the only TOS couple who I genuinely feel are absolutely unhinged about each other in the same way as Spock and Kirk. As far as TOS is concerned, I'd love to be a fly on the wall at their family gatherings.

[wishyoudwell]

epona: link im a real girl now

twi: do you remember how we used to run

[sarcophagid]

melly world

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

My recent artistic endeavours: Screenshot redraw and the rendered Atlantic sturgeon design

[birbwell]

thank you for my life doomstar requiem

[treycloverthirstclub]

happy eel's birthday

[everything-is-wonderwall]

Darling, you're a holy quarantine

Clusterhug by IDKHow <3

@kawoshinweek Day 7! Free day :)

[wirlibirb]

Can I request an armada megs doodle? (If that’s ok)

never drew this guy but i doodled him on paper. why is he so hard to draw properly for me 😭😭 but here you go

[anirritant]

screw it. oc art

receive my silly boy he's lookin a bit odd but i'm sure it's fine

[patron-saints]

Oh you know I'm giving you this question so you can show the world how wrinkly your brain is:

do you also write? if so, what have you been up to? spill the beans!

HI MADDIE. answered this one here but as promised i will post about something ELSE.

due to the posting and encouraging of @courtmartialme and also egged on by @littlewitchbee i have been working on an omegaverse fic.

for the first time.

for olizumi.

i started it like almost two weeks ago, it's in the editing stages now, and then i saw this week that the @fma-rareships event literally had omegaverse as a prompt and i was like, well now i can't not post it.

so, um, keep an eye for that oct 3 i suppose!

it really actually came from a desire to get to write about olivier's stone identity more in depth, and also a chance to revist their relationship again because i love them so much and think about them all the time!!! and it's been a year since i finished recognition, so it felt about time.

[mozzarellamint]

dont smush hot cherry tomatoes.

[hacemorra-death-gremlin]

they're in my brain fuzz

[once-in-a-half-life]

...

[pisshandkerchief]

finished the fall out boy jacket!!! idk how well it reads here but I did the crown/volcano logo in gold glitter paint. I'm also planning on putting my sending postcards from a plane crash pin on the front when it finally comes in the mail