#where did summer go

[trek-tracks]

Thinking about the fact that, when Spock is sacrificing himself in Bones' place in The Immunity Syndrome (2x18), refusing to let Bones board the shuttlecraft and do the dangerous tests, he instead asks him to "grant me my own kind of dignity."

Bones then says to Spock:

"Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand?"

But then, in The Empath (3x12), when the Vians announce that, under their experiment, "There is an eighty seven percent chance that the doctor will die. And while Commander Spock's life is not in danger, the possibility is ninety three percent that he will suffer brain damage, resulting in permanent insanity."

(The worst, least dignified fate possible, for a Vulcan)

Bones flips the script and grants Spock his "own kind of dignity" --

by sacrificing himself in Spock's place.

[delyth88]

Okay, so I've been luckier than a lot of people with no damage where I live. I still have power and water. Whole regons are cut off from the rest of the country because the roads are damaged and tens of thousands of people have lost power. Flooding, slips, storm surges, trees down over roads, power lines, and houses. In some places chaos. In some places it's just a bit windy. The effects are really localised. Cyclone Gabrielle may have passed us, but we still have really strong winds here tonight (I can hear the constant low hum even with the double glazing), and now people further down the island are copping it. A national state of emergency was declared this morning (the third time its ever been in place - Christchurch earthquakes, Covid). People keep comparing it to the damage caused by Cyclone Bola in 1988.

C'mon Gabrielle - get a move on!

[lisaplant4]

It's freakin' June and I'm sitting here shaking hands with brass monkeys. What's that all about?!

[yeshellothisiscustomerservice]

Just realized that I don't actually have a lot of photos of myself from the entirety of this summer. I thought I took a lot of pics of myself so I'm surprised that I only had 1-3 and they were mostly group photos

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

Hello may 31th anon! Look at that, another year behind us and a new one to come. Have a nice day! ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

dnkinktober day 17: brat (taming)

….except i cannot use a normal color palate for the life of me

[rotisseries]

i wanna make a "you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" meme about..... events from summer 2022....... but I also don't want to acknowledge summer 2022. so those of you who were comrades in the trenches can hear about it and know this post exists conceptually

[daily-hanamura]

[emilyliuwho]

obligatory summer selfie

[stuckinapril]

Baghdad moodboard 🇮🇶🤍

[notsohehehahanow]

i think its absolutely funny that not even a character finn wolfhard wrote, directed, and played, yknow a character HE CREATED IN HIS IMAGE, can escape the queercoding allegations 😭

[captainkirkk]

Sangah gets separated from Dokja for a few days and suddenly she's black widow and is decapitating people?? HELLO?

[musette22]

Hi hello friends, greetings from Liverpool! 💛 I just arrived in the UK for a vacation (l know I only just got back from a trip but that one was a sort of last minute, and this one has been planned for ages 🙈) and I'll be doing a UK roadtrip over the next week or two, finishing next weekend in London, and then going back home on the 20th. I'll be on the road a lot, but I'll definitely drop in from time to time! I'd miss you all and the boys too much otherwise 🥰 Hope everyone has a beautiful weekend ahead, sending lots of love!! ✨️💖🌈

[l0ganberry]

Wally got a bit too excited and fully prepared himself for summer. He does look very happy though.

[queerheremydepressionissevere]

Half of my block is missing. Not half of the people, half of the actual block, apartments and all. Which I could ignore except one of the buildings that decided to disappear is Mrs. Malley’s, and I might actually go rogue if I don’t get a coffee in the next hour.

At least the Chinese restaurant was left, because no one wants to actually cook dinner when Gotham is Gothaming.