#i'm honoured. i really am

[trek-tracks]

Screw Starfleet's carefully-maintained system of accurately colour-coding departments, I should be able to be a Communications officer who wears blue because I Like It Best and It's My Colour

[oppienheimer]

wait, wait, wait when grogu steps in between paz vizsla and axe woves so that they stop fighting and bo-katan tells din he taught his apprentice well and he replies to her that he didn’t learn that from him… was he implying he learned that from her ?! omg pls tell me he meant her, it makes so much sense because of the way she’s been trying to keep mandalorians together asdfghjkl they’re both raising that kid together at this point, just get married already

update: i’ve supported my claim your honour

[sysig]

I hope you blink before I do (Patreon)

[stuckwith-harry]

i fear i am experiencing university fomo and nostalgia whilst literally still in university

[creepychippy]

Already putting on my Party Hat and being ready to celebrate 10 consecutive Splatfest Losses in a Row for Frye- 🥳

[vcrnons]

woozi being literally heaven-sent in all my love.

[walkingstackofbooks]

Chapter 6 of Vision Awry is up! In which Miles tries his best to make sure Julian is alright. He isn't sure he's succeeding. And he feels a headache coming on.

For those of you who enjoy a caring-but-pretty-awkward Miles, I hope this chapter meets your expectations!

Quark came over again, no doubt to encourage them to get a second round of drinks, regardless of the fact they’d barely had time to get through their first. He’d obviously noticed Julian’s sideways, slightly vacant gaze into his drink, because it was Miles whom he addressed. “An ugly break-up?” he asked, nodding in Julian’s direction. “It’s a bad time for it. Poor Morn’s just been dumped by both his girlfriends.”

[mariana-oconnor]

Worrying that I locked myself out of romancing the disaster wizard by coming on too strong. But my alternative was insulting his relationship with Tara? But did I really have to ask if he likes having his belly rubbed?

[singsweetmelodies]

landoscar 🤭

OOOOHH!!!! thank you SO much for asking, dear anon - i am practically bouncing up and down with glee in my excitement to answer this one. landoscar: doesn't make sense, compels me. oh my god. it compels me SO MUCH.

and it's the weirdest thing, because like... they shouldn't work together? it shouldn't work. even six months ago, i was still saying "pffft, lando and oscar? as if." they are just such completely different people, and initially so very painfully awkward with each other, that i didn't think it'd ever get to a point where they made sense to me as a ship.

and yet here we are. and do you know why we're here? oscar "heart eyes" piastri, that's why. the way oscar looks at lando... oh my fucking god. and if you add to that the lore that oscar has been following lando's career for YEARS on social media (liking all his posts, mentioning him on twitter randomly, generally acting like he's got a massive fanboy crush) then it suddenly becomes so incredibly compelling to me. like. WOW. somehow oscar's calm perfectly balances out lando's craziness and weirdness? it doesn't seem like it should work, but it does. and yeah: they have taken over my brain more than a little lately.

(f1 ships categorisation meme)

[aerithisms]

one thing about doing my master's is it's made it very apparent how bad of a student i was in undergrad

[popsicle-stick]

I saw a trailer for a Renfield movie coming out in 2023 following, obvs, renfield, but in the service for his dark master Dracula. As the resident Dracula poster on my dash, i wanted to know your thoughts.

haha i've actually avoided talking about it bc the tag seems quite polarised and i do not want to attract debate lmao

a lot of people have had concerns about renfield as presented in the book vs this film, which is understandable, and i'm not gonna list them all here bc other people more articulate than me have already been posting in the tag. on the other hand, i genuinely really do like nicholas hoult as an actor and nic cage as (finally a non-romance novel) dracula is so fucking weird. chef's kiss. i think the overall vibes are a campy romp, with a self awareness that doesn't take itself too seriously. This is something i feel has been missing from the dracula ouvre for a while, yet at the same time this comes at the expense of, well, renfield's whole character. i think a comedy with canon renfield would be a very black comedy indeed and they've clearly gone for mass appeal and so it comes across that they've essentially invented a character for the film.

i think, overall, i probably will go to see it! on one hand it looks like a fun film that isn't supposed to be taken too deeply and on the other i wish this was a film about rm renfield from bram stoker's hit 1897 novel dracula, who has clearly been sacrificed in order to foster a lighter tone. there are other points i could be more articulate about, but at this point, jury's still out, and i'll try and withold judgment until i've seen it

[cherrygorilla]

"...as we danced in the night, remember

how the stars stole the night away..."

It's their dayyyyyy. Whether they know it or not, this song started it all for them. And I so wanted to have something proper to celebrate such a momentous occasion (at least for me anyway, especially since I also missed out on doing anything for it last year, and because, as you know, I'll take any opportunity possible to fangirl/obsess over our characters lol). But, because of uni, I'm nowhere near done with the next chapter of TMM yet. So instead, you'll just have to enjoy a little moodboard, and a snippet/sneak peak of their next conversation - with the moodboard featuring some rather fitting quotes from Stranger Things' very own Murray Bauman, who, I think, Miles and Carrie could really do with a visit from if my recent rewatch is anything to go by... Too bad he has no place in my plot outline lmao. Oops!

"Oh come on, you teed that one up for me." "Get to work, pretty boy... And work that blue shirt for some tips." "You're delusional." "I'm telling you, one wink from you, in that shirt, with that hair, and the juniors will be weak at the knees. I know I am."

[thebirdandhersong]

sorry marvel grumbling below

not to be like.... gross..... but GROSS. Why is it that objectifying, ridiculing, and (to use an overused word) oppressing men is fine in real life and storytelling nowadays (source of comedy, even), and why is it okay for a female character to openly speculate about someone else's (a STRANGER'S) intimate life?? Why is Steve's virginity such a source of Interest and Obsession, like that's a pitiable or pathetic thing?? and WHY is the Fleabag-Captain Marvel-Netflix Anne Elliot model the template for most female characters now???

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

it's so interesting to me that mental health and neurodivergence have long been interests of mine, and I've always looked at them from an "outside" perspective. not in a sense that I've looked down on them or thought they were "other" or anything like that, but I've just... always thought they were something I had no personal connection to? something that I had a mostly-academic interest in and no real ties to lived experience with.

but in the last few years, I've come to the slow realization that... I think mental health struggles and neurodivergence possibly run in (both sides of) my family?? and most of my extended family from previous generations would NEVER admit to it because they come from a time and culture where those things are kept very private and just not something you talk about. 

but like, I'm fairly certain that OCD runs through one side of my family. I know that tics/Tourette's do. I suspect that AD(H)D might as well. I also know there's at least one cousin who's already been diagnosed with autism, and I can see pretty clear autistic traits in multiple other family members on that same side of the family, including myself and my mother (some of the reasons I think this: I was speaking in full advanced sentences at about 18 months old, reading college-level literature at 8-9 years old, and at different points had to have sit-down conversations with my parents about needing to make a deliberate effort to make eye contact and refraining from "compulsively" talking about and comparing everything to a special interest. I was actually formally banned from talking about one media series I loved for a whole week, because it was literally all I talked about, and it was one of the hardest things I ever had to do at that point in my life. I struggled a lot with twitches/tics and repetitive behaviours when I was young; I still find it very easy to lapse back into those behaviours if I'm stressed or tired.) 

my mom has struggled with significant depression during various points of her life, as have I. at least one of my sisters has social anxiety; I suspect that my father does as well. I know one family member who likely has PTSD (due to experiences during military service) that's never been dealt with, and another (who was the victim of a violent crime) probably does, too.

and it's just... I've struggled to apply any of these labels to my own family because there's nothing official there. no doctors have assigned any titles or labels to us. I don't want to be the person who takes one college-level psych class and suddenly starts diagnosing everyone they know. but somehow, everything makes more sense when I start to look at the people around me, the ways they've been raised and have learned to operate in the world, and the ways that have in turn affected me, through these lenses? suddenly, we aren't just bizarre and dysfunctional, but our dysfunction has a rhyme and a reason.

and most importantly, I start to see hope. I see where the struggles and sins of my family members don't have to be repeated, where help can be asked for and received, because suddenly the real problems at the heart of all this mess have been uncovered, and instead of just trying to muscle through to prove my own worth, to show that I am worthy of a place in this world without needing any "special favours," I see where I can ask for grace and compassion and love and receive it.

[searidings]

my sister & i were talking about unending love, and i was immediately reminded of "i'll take the desert, you take the coast", so i pulled it up and read some of it to her, and i got to the line "even if she still can’t look at a bunch of fresh kale without a deep twinge of something she’d prefer not to define," and golly and knocked me over, i was tearing up about it all. so good. so all that to say, thanks for writing beautiful words :)

bro this message has fucked me all the way up i'm so 🥺 truly and honestly thank you so much for this

[welcometogrouchland]

Words cannot express how much I love the Gloucester brothers from King Lear