Hugh deserved better

Star Trek sideblog because I have a lot of thoughts about these guys.

[gratefulturbot]

i DON'T need them to kiss i need them to come to the sobering realisation that their souls are merged and no part of them is extricable from the other anymore

[spevvy]

Oh you mean Spirk?

[misfitmiska]

The failed marriage ever. <3

[ID: Drawing of Spock and T’Pring from Star Trek the original series. Spock’s thought bubble reads: « Not being attracted to my betrothed is completely logical as Vulcans do not experience attraction or sexual desire. I am such a good disciple of Surak ». T’Pring’s thought bubble reads: « I need to fuck Stonn ». /end ID]

[thetimetostrikeislater]

I finally put all my ‘One regular character in a world of muppets’ edits into a single post. 😂

Enjoy.

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[youngpettyqueen]

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(also im in it hehe)

[boophisburnhamae]

Oh, terrible singer Spock wasn't something I knew I needed

[boophisburnhamae]

Terrible singer Chekov as well

[afistfullofdatas]

This hilarious but also! I love Leonard Neimoy's music so much that the idea of Spock being considered a bad singer makes me sad :(

[nymphoutofwater]

fuuuuck that is my circus. are those…? yep… those are my monkeys….. goddammit.

[managerie76]

[beechicory]

I know this must already be on Tumblr here somewhere but I can't freaking find it, so:

Siddig at a con saying, "They put Bashir with Jadzia because that was expected, but we didn't spark on screen. And then there's this man...who is a lizard...that sparks all over the place."

Amazing, show-stopping, spectacular.

[afistfullofdatas]

Oh my god I was there! I witnessed this! It was awesome!!!

[jennelikejennay]

You know what I think t'hy'la means?

It's not an ambiguous term, like it could mean three different things. But I also don't think it always means all three. I think it's a singular concept that we don't use on Earth, but maybe we should.

You know how some people's number one person is their spouse, while other people, married or not, have a best friend who's the one they really tell everything to? You know how you might have a queerplatonic relationship but whether or not you have sex with them is just ...not an important question?

I think t'hy'la means your number one person. And humans don't have a word that says most important without distinguishing whether we're blood-related or whether we're having sex.

Vulcans do. So I don't especially like the idea that all t'hy'la pairs have to be lovers in a sexual sense. It's not that at all. It's that they have this deep bond that transcends everything. You could have that with your brother. You could have it with your friend. Or if you're attracted to that person, you would probably be lovers.

Kirk and Spock love each other deeply; everyone who knows them knows that. The word they use for each other doesn't say whether they're having sex because Vulcans don't care about that. Humans are all "weird, the dictionary definition won't tell me whether they're boning, which is information I'm used to having publicly announced!" Well, too bad. Vulcans have arranged marriages usually, and some of them have sex once every seven years. So I just don't think sex is the defining point that makes a relationship serious to them.

If a Vulcan says "this is my t'hy'la" that lets everyone know they are bonded in the deepest level of the katra and any arranged spouses or temporary pon farr surrogates they might have don't even rank, by comparison. That's uncomfortable to humans.

Now Kirk and Spock are definitely having sex, but Spock doesn't consider that to be the fact that makes their relationship serious and primary over all others. So that's why he chooses a word that is about the soul bond, not the flesh.

[novice-crow]

I'm not the first, and with out a doubt not the last, but I edited Amanda and Sarek into a bunch of vintage paintings/illustrations your welcome. (I made way too many but whatever lol)

The Whitman's add is my favorite but I think all of them turned out pretty okay.

[marxistgnome]

Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases

[firstofficerkittycat]

star trek is about. .,the sixties

[delirious-arts]

”what’s your favorite TOS ship?”

obviously it’s the spirk one

“that’s such a basic bitch answer-“

ALRIGHT YOU WANT A REAL ANSWER JOEY??? ALRIGHT

ITS THE MAGIC CATGIRL AND LESBIAN WOMAN FROM THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF S2 EP26 ASSIGNMENT EARTH. ALRIGHT???

I’m weirdly obsessed w them also sorry it’s so small click for better quality i guess 😭

[yaoiblackmold]

Why are all the Vulcans always scientists or ambassadors or some kind of high ranking government official, where's my girl T'Sara who works at Shi'kar Bucks or my guy Skorn who is an accountant, Staal who works santiation on a starship and doesn't understand why his human coworkers finds his name amusing.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

Would you care for a scone?

[cipher-fresh]

My proposal for a new Star Trek character is a Vulcan who has decided to stop practicing perfect logic, but they had for so long that they often have comedically delayed emotional reactions to things

[firstofficerkittycat]

au where eberytjings the same but they have to go to five guyd

[chazchaschad]

spirk except I have art block and dont like drawing kissing so they’re sock puppets

[etherealspacejelly]

more unification thoughts because uhhhh yeah its all i can think about rn but

theres a lot of layers to this for me because. like. i dont think they should have made this. i think its kinda weird to use a dead persons likeness in something they didnt agree to create or be a part of.

also. i dont actually think it makes spirk canon. at least, not any more canon than it was before. as many people have already pointed out we saw a nearly identical scene to this one in tmp

however. with all that being said. i think it is really fun to go crazy on the internet talking about it with other people. its fun to make spirk canon jokes. it has inspired a new wave of fanart and fic and amvs and memes and meta and discussion in a fandom that hasnt really had any new material to work with in years (specifically meaning tos, i know the characters of kirk and spock have shown up in other things since but. not in their original forms)

so yeah im gonna keep talking about unification because im having a good time and lord knows we need that right now. and im gonna avoid interacting with negative posts about it not because i disagree with their points (because a lot of the time i dont disagree) but because i just wanna have fun playing with my touys for now