*cue aggressive Beethoven in the distance*
there's smth about torpes outfit that screams "wearable" to me (I love most pjsk designs tbh-)
uhhh zoomed bits under the cut
:3
53 notes
·
View notes
Prompt 258
Halfas are like selkies. Or more like they’re similar to many animal spouses of myths and legends, trapped in (mostly) human forms should they lose their cloak.
That at least, Vlad warned Danny about within the first time of realizing what the other was. It’s a line neither will cross- not even the timeline where Dan came into being. An unspoken acknowledgement of not crossing such a boundary no matter what happened.
Even after his parents’ deaths. After Jazz’s near-death and coma.
It’s not exactly something Danny thinks of, really, especially not that he’s now survived highschool and practically moved across the country. Not to mention the fact he has Ellie and Jordan to care for. But it definitely comes to mind the moment Dan- only five at the moment- screams for him. And he’s not going to let anything happen to his kids
689 notes
·
View notes
The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.
Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits.
Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict.
Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-
1K notes
·
View notes
wxs started as “omg cute little autistic theatre kids” and now it’s “we all have our individual dreams to achieve, we can’t stay forever together and linger on the bond we’ve created. it’s never been that way, there’s not much we can do to fix that. eventually, we’ll drift apart and leave each other. eventually, we’ll forget that we’re somewhere out there in the world and we’ll all be just a memory, but before then, i want to show you all you can be. i want to tell you that you are worth something, i want to show you how much you mean to me. as much as it will hurt when it happens, i will help you achieve your goals. i will be your backbone, and you can always rely on me”. and that is very not wonderhoy to think about
170 notes
·
View notes
You ever just see people talk about the Percy Jackson books and know somewhere, deep in your heart, that none of these people have understood that this is a series made for middle schoolers. And that fandom will very frequently lie to them like, all the time. No, that character probably isn’t ooc, you’re just thinking of what the fandom turned them into. No, this book isn’t a horrible stain next to the others before it, literally all of them were like this. It’s Percy Jackson. It’s cheesy and occasionally makes a very questionable writing decision.
You gotta be in this for the long haul or jump ship my guys. Be cringe and free or be gone
905 notes
·
View notes
10/25/2022
teehee it's him it's my boy tenma tsukasa look at how insanely pastel i made this for some reason-
*squinting* jeez luis it's super light
57 notes
·
View notes
So, in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds timeline, NOBODY knows what Romulans look like...
... except CHRISTOPHER PIKE!!
66 notes
·
View notes