#we love a good parallel

[negrowhat]

Phu didn't know what he was doing here

But he for DAMN sure knew what he was doing here!

Also I love that Phu is wearing that same shade of blush pink in both scenes. Feels sort of like a full circle moment.

[lizzie-jones]

T'rina gives Saru a plant for this new office in the federation headquarters

✨️🪴💓

[tomsmusictaste]

Fall Out Boy // Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

Four Year Strong // What The Hell Is A Gigawatt?

[andanewday]

[livrelady]

#the choice to air these episodes back to back#and to have spock trying to help and comfort kirk after kirk is confronted with the agonizing deaths of four family members#even though spock is himself infected with the same agonizing condition... well. sure was a choice.#edith keeler#james t kirk#spock#otp: the premise#c: who do i have to be#c: i object to intellect without discipline#star trek: the original series#star peace#tos: s1#tos: the city on the edge of forever#tos: operation annihilate#gif (X)

“let me help” 1x28 the city on the edge of forever // 1x29 operation: annihilate!

[andanewday]

and i hope that whatever wind blew you together, will keep blowin' stronger each day and each year

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Sunrise, Parabellum.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[bairdthereader]

There's one in every friend group (and we love them).

Bonus--Confused Nick is confused:

[livrelady]

#kirk's look of innocence while describing both men as stubborn to /spock's mom/ ... incredible#the fact that they are talking about BOTH sarek and spock and it's amanda who coyly describes them as human is even funnier#and then kirk's delighted face at being on the same wavelength as spock's mother. i love everything about this moment.#(k/s brainrot brain says that's his 'oh so i'm going to get along with at least one of my in-laws :D' face)#amanda grayson#james t kirk#c: who do i have to be#star peace#star trek: the original series#sarek#spock#c: i object to intellect without discipline#otp: the premise (X)

[hinamie]

domain expansion

[seamayweed]

+ Bonus:

HWANG JUN HO & HWANG IN HO + being murder bros SQUID GAME — 1.03 // 2.06 & 1.05

[jollyparaphernalia]

*Inhales* Hey there, wanna see my 'In Stars And Time' AU? I call it 'Kingswap'

Hey, What's This?

My Brainrot <3 This is Kingswap: Also known as 'Hey lets swap The King and Siffrin's roles around in this play, and go from there'. There's more to it than that, but that's the premise. While 'The Guy Who Would Be Siffrin' has their life derailed in such a way that leads to them becoming the Main Villain, 'The Man Who Would Be King' likewise has his life play out in a way that has him in the shoes of a Saviour of Vaugarde.

WARNING This AU chatter post has spoilers for pretty much all of 'In Stars And Time', including stuff from 'Two-Hats'! and 'Start Again: A Prologue'. This is the Spoilers Zone. Also any Content Warnings that apply to In Stars and Time also applies to this post, just to cover my bases.

Let's Take a Look at The Stranger Who Could Have Been Siffrin:

Meet The Stagemaster. Potentially known as 'Sulking One'/SM/Don't Call Me Shirley Siffrin'. While the King and Siffrin in baseline ISAT woke up on a beach with no memories, i've decided it would be interesting to put 'Siffrin' in Corbeaux as a young adult when The Island disappears. He wakes up one day with no memories of his past, no name, and only a vague idea that he had a community in the city...that has forgotten him completely. He takes this Very Normally over the next 10 years (alongside some other...complications) and after some travelling, returns to Vaugarde to be a Menace.

He's also got some funny 'Craft Hands' that let him do things even when he has his hands in his cloak. These hands are also capable of conjuring wires/strings that allow him to physically bind/control people as an added bonus (For the Puppeteer motif) Watch the hands, Heroes!

But Wait, I thought The King Was Big, Why Isn't Stagemaster Big?

Because this tiny form isn't their 'true form'. THIS is what the Stagemaster ACTUALLY looks like, trapped in the House of Dormont by the Orb Door.

The Stagemaster...really isn't a person anymore. It's sort of debatable he was still human even before Big Mode. He can fly like this, and can control his cloak as though it's a part of himself (But he can still remove it) If you are looking at this going 'hey, he looks like a boss out of Kirby' then I did my job right. A theatre kid isn't very fun to watch unless seen, so, even before the Party gets to Dormont, it seemed fitting for SM to have a presence in Orbquest. So...Stagemaster controls a crafted avatar from afar - like playing a character in a game. There's a metaphor about disassociation from the self here. I personally love the idea of this nasty little guy interfering with the Orb Quest and antagonizing the Heroes - he is not NEARLY as powerful as his Big Form when he's Little Guy, so there's enough back and forth for Stagemaster to both be a threat, and also give some wiggle room for the Party to bully the Villain. Build up some rapport for funsies.

Stagemaster's a real piece of work. Imagine if Siffrin took all his self loathing, and then transformed that into outward loathing. If you took the WORST impulses from Loop and Act 5 Siffrin and put them in a blender, and then added a huge chip on his shoulder against the Universe, you might get the rancid creature you see here. Wet Meow Meow has transformed into a Feral Cat With Mange. And Rabies. And an impulsive urge to monologue. He doesn't even like puns!! Horrible!

The Party eventually calls him 'Smaster' for short before arriving in Dormont.

So if 'Siffrin' is in Kings place...Who or What is travelling with our beloved Party?

Meet Clovis (Named after an old King of Franks because I am very subtle). While Siffrin was a wet meow meow stray cat, Clovis is more a nervous dog. The King's explanation behind why he called himself The King seemed very utilitarian to me in ISAT, like he wanted to embody his role completely. So...here, Clovis puts all his eggs into his identity as 'Knight'. He doesn't serve anyone, he's just really into the idea of a brave, heroic persona. He's...very awkward and nervous, and often falls back onto 'what would a more brave, knightly sort do?' to make up for the fact his entire life was carved out of his skull with a spoon.

Look at this, took a perfectly good villain and made him a blorbo. Look at him, I gave him anxiety and sword autism. Like Siffrin, the party grows to love their weird wet dog. Mirabelle bonds over swords and anxious 'do it scared' behavior, Isabeau shares a 'battle bros'/'two bros sitting in a hot tub' dynamic, Bonnie treats him like a Substitute Teach ("yeah this is fine for kids c'mon lets go' 'uh, if you say so, boniface...') and Odile merrily bullies him (Paper beats rock)

Of course we need the Don Quixote reference. (He lost the fight, for the record.) Clovis is more than just a cute face, of course. Even he has his secrets.

Something is wrong here. Something wrong with him, maybe. Maybe he isn't supposed to be here.

Much like the King, Clovis also knows he's missing important things from his life, and has taken great effort (and personal injury) to keep what bits he can close to him - even when he really shouldn't.

The Party keeps Clovis from the Headache books not because they don't think they matter, but because the party doesn't want Clovis to hurt himself. They joke that he's an amnesiac prince from a far off land, but, well, at a certain angle, that's sort of the truth, isn't it? Clovis isn't a trap master like Siffrin, (or nearly as fast) but tends to walk as the lead of the Party because he's a Very Durable guy with some armor and protective Craft, so, any traps that explode in his face are easier to shrug off, and those that aren't...well, he's got quick reflexes.

But Wait! If The King is the looping hero, and Siffrin is the Big Evil Bad Guy, who does Clovis get as a Guide?

It's good ol' Loop! Our Loop, the Loopert we love and adore. SURPRISE! I fooled you!! This AU isn't meant to be a thought experiment, it's actually an overly elaborate way to give Loop as much psychic damage as physically possible!!

What's worse than having Another You take your place? Having a Tiny Version of your Nemesis take your place, earning the love and affection of your beloved family instead of you!

(They call him 'Princeling')

Needless to say, Loop and Clovis' dynamic is what we call in the scientific community fucking atrocious. Clovis wants to put his trust into this Guiding Star, and Loop is far, FAR worse to Clovis than Loop would be to a Siffrin. Loop may not be able to guess every single thought Clovis has, but any anxiety that is a reflection of Loop/Siffrin will be mercilessly picked apart with a smile. It's hate at first sight. At least Loop can take solace in the fact that Clovis is just as clueless as Loop/Siffrin was in their loops.

Clovis meanwhile is just intimidated. A guiding star of the universe?? And they hate him already??? 'Ohh...I really messed up already, haven't I? What'd I do???' Anyways, that's all for now. I just really wanted to get my initial brain worms out of my head and into the world. Please enjoy. If I do more posts like this, i'll prolly tag it as 'isat Kingswap au'. okay byyyyyyyyyeeeee thanks for reading! And thanks to the AU channel of the ISAT Discord for being so supportive of my brainrot!

[livrelady]

#going through my drafts and felt like op's incredibly big brained take on metamorphosis was needed on my blog <3#also in metamorphosis cochrane is repulsed and horrified about the companion loving him even though he's always found her harmless#and everyone is just like 'wow that's really narrow minded and reactionary. love is love my dude' and spock especially is ?????#and he pretty obviously lashes out at spock specifically- going on about how the future has men with 'no notion of decency or morality'#not saying it's a conscious homophobia metaphor but uhhh. it's pretty hard to ignore that possibility. esp combined with kirk's speech#kirk sadly talking about how her love for 'the man' will condemn him to an existence he finds unbearable... it sure feels a way#gif#james t kirk#the companion#spock#sarek#c: who do i have to be#c: i object to intellect without discipline#star trek: the original series#the search for spock (X)

I haven't seen a gifset about this in a while, so I made my own. Now my heart is filled with love too; of course, not as big as theirs.

[s2 e9 - Metamorphosis | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]

[bunbunism]

AHHH A TOTAL OF 50 SM HOURS IT'S DONE 🐡

I'm a bit late but like genuinely the last song made me bawl for hours, it means so much to me be represented, I barely see anything actually portraying bipolar, ocd, osdd, (lots of D's hehe) autism, pots yk all the crazy stuff I got and even if they are it's in an negative light, where they end up miserable forever or they'll some horrible person

Forgive me for the yap 🙏

( thank you on notes + reblogs on the sketch, made a grown man cry tears of joy fr)

[2009editingtips]

something about the night changing or whatever

[livrelady]

#THIS PARALLEL#nine is stopped by rose#(in my fav dw scene)#ten stops because he was created to love#and never would#dw#rose x doctor#tenth doctor#ninth doctor (X)

1.06 | 1.13 | 4.06 | 4.18

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