Yasmin Khan is on the aroace spectrum

I will write the essay one day. Icon credit: thingsbydiana.tumblr.com

[pansy-picnics]

been thinking abt like early pearl and garnet because they have such a funny dynamic to me. Like garnet’s the leader and we see especially in s1 how high of a pedestal pearl holds her on and she’s like constantly clinging onto her but garnet Wasn’t always like that. When we see her rejuvenated shes very naive and innocent and has no clue whats going on ever and she was GENUINELY terrified of pearl when they first met. I feel like for a while they had this dynamic that was like the scene from tangled w eugene and rapunzel right after raps left the tower

[bumi05]

some old doodle.

poor pearl.

[lost-in-a-nebula]

delta quadrant kiddos

[automatonwithautonomy]

greatest dynamic in the world IS strange, eccentric asshole and their normal and polite friend who on closer inspection is actually worse in deeply weird and unexpected ways

[ray-marisha]

[rose-tyier]

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[dementedspacetramp]

[startrekladies]

Ah yes, my latest adventure in Paris...

[ssaalexblake]

Doctor Who Season 12 

[sirellas]

Well, this should help.

[queerthasmin1-deactivated202205]

[limnaea]

Watching real tv is you scrape and claw for character backstory that they made cohesive on accident. Dana Scully!!!

She has this amazing internal drive and is an amazingly strong person, but also thinks that she has a desperate need to prove herself. She keeps her walls up, even when she doesn’t want to. She’s the third child in a family of six with a homemaker mother and a doting, perpetually absent father. She thinks she has daddy issues, and she does, but she never gives herself enough credit. “I want to be praised” girl it’s human to want to be recognized. She struggles with the feeling of cycles, of staying in place, of never really changing. She has this complex that I like to call the “Starbuck complex” (named for her childhood nickname, given to her by her navy captain dad, referring to the first mate in Moby Dick (she called him Ahab the captain from Moby Dick)) where she LOVES to play second fiddle and step up to the batting plate. Mulder forges ahead and she follows him, and she charts their course as they go. He drives, and she has the map in the passenger seat. She LOVES that— when it doesn’t grate at her to not be seen. If Mulder saw her, it would be okay. And he does see her, for who she is, but not always what she needs in their interpersonal relationship. They’ve got issues!!

One of Scully’s earliest memories is that of her hiding a rabbit kit in a metal lunch box after her older overbearing brother Bill says that he’d kill it. Of course, she leaves it in the lunch box, and comes back to find it dead. There’s this innate part of Scully here — the kindness, the protector. I think this is the instance that incited her desire to become a doctor. And there’s this other part of Scully, even while small, who keeps her walls up to protect herself and what she holds dear. She didn’t tell her family about the FBI until she was sure she was doing it. And they disapproved, and she had to go on knowing they did. She never explained her and Mulder’s relationship to her family, who always seem astounded when they display their characteristic normal levels of Mulder-Scully devotion. She keeps her cancer to herself, and learns that it’s okay to reach out to people, but she keeps her walls up because she’s afraid. She’s afraid to believe.

Like the previous example, Scully’s first encounter with morality and the question of who she wanted to be was when she caught and killed a snake in the backyard with her bb gun when she was six. She was playing with her brothers, and was caught up in it, but regretted it immediately after. It spurs her to realize the effects of her actions and consider who she wants to be (and also there’s Catholic guilt in here and Scully’s desire to protect and heal, which is very good). It’s a foundational experience for her.

Thirty years on, she’ll have a snake in the ouroboros tattooed on her lower back. “Everyone gets the tattoo they deserve.”

Dana Scully, physicist, doctor, agent, spends her life searching for the answers of the universe. She comes full circle to find the truth. She wants a normal life, but she doesn’t want your normal life. When considering the paths not taken, had she had a normal life, she says “what I would have missed.” She heads for adventure because she wants to. Reason and faith in harmony. And no matter her self doubt, she knows what she’s about. Reason, faith, justice, truth, love, the greater good, and the pursuit of knowledge in the face of the unknown.

[hellynz]

Deadloch seems pretty cool from your reblogs! I might check it out sometime. How'd you like it so far? (no pressure to answer this)

ITS SOOOOOOOO GOOD im trying not to reblog too much spoilery stuff because its actually so good, the plot is so interesting and deals with such real and complicated stuff and its SO fucking funny constantly and genuinely moving (YES I CRIED AT POINTS IN THE SEASON 1 FINALE) and its like. i really dont want to spoil it but it handles some complex shit in such a nuanced way and ALSO its all centered around the friendship between two queer women who both have so much wrong with them theyre insane i love them so much soooooo much characters of all time

im only halfway through the second season but ive been told by trusted sources (friend who likes the same shows as me LOL) that its just as good, its kind of so good that i cant even comprehend writing fanfiction about it lol its that kind of show, im totally obsessed with it, highly highly recommend!!! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK IF YOU WATCH IT

[aroaceyasminkhan]

ooooo i'm definitely moving it too the top of the list then! queer women with something wrong with them are the characters of all time.

[jedijune]

Jedi June 2026

A creative fandom event dedicated to appreciating the Jedi, taking place during the entire month of June! Each week will feature two prompts, around which people can create fanwork (of any kind – fic, art, cosplay, edits, anything you can think of) or meta focusing on the Jedi and the Jedi Order. All eras and continuities are welcome; OCs, established characters, doesn’t matter – it just needs to be about appreciating the Jedi!

Rules:

If you are participating, please tag your work/meta with #jedi june and/or @ this blog so that I will see it and reblog it here. All work must be your own. Feel free to crosspost it off-site.

This is an appreciation event, focusing on what we love and enjoy about the Jedi – not what we don’t. This is not the place to air your grievances with the Code, take potshots at the Council, prop certain Jedi/certain eras of Jedi up at the expense of others, or disparage the Jedi Order or their philosophy (including the concept of non-attachment) and way of life in any way. You are free to do that on your own time if that’s your thing, but it has no place within this event.

AUs and crossovers are allowed, with caveats: again, the purpose of this event is to appreciate the Jedi as Jedi, so sticking your favorite Jedi characters in something like a modern AU or making them all Sith or Mandalorian is not really within the spirit of this event. However, AUs such as making a non-Jedi character a Jedi, having a character survive their canon death, giving a character a different teacher or padawan, or killing Palpatine off-screen in an unspecified yet embarrassing and painful manner, would all be perfectly fine. Use your best judgement to determine whether an AU fits the spirit of the event or not.

On non-attachment: in a general sense, attachment refers to grasping, clinging, possessiveness, jealousy, and the "I can't live without you"/"I will burn down the galaxy before I risk losing you" attitude. See this post and this post for more information. A romance can certainly exist without these things, so you can certainly write Jedi in relationships for this event!

Please tag any spoilers up to two weeks after the relevant content has aired.

Following the prompts is encouraged, but not required. Any sort of pro-Jedi content is encouraged all year month long, and if tagged (and following the rules), will be reblogged.

We also have an AO3 collection!

Prompts:

Week 1 (June 1 - 7):

Prompt 1: Resilience

Prompt 2: A Choice Not Taken

Week 2 (June 8 - 14):

Prompt 1: Compassion

Prompt 2: The Jedi Code

Week 3 (June 15 - 21):

Prompt 1: Interconnected

Prompt 2: Life, Death, and The Force

Week 4 (June 22 - 30):

Prompt 1: Lightsaber

Prompt 2: Jedi as Family

Bonus (any time):

Prompt 1: Memory

Prompt 2: Master Learning from the Padawan

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask! I hope you will have fun participating!

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[paksthestoic]

currently thinking about how any time a member of the Voyager crew is kidnapped/missing, Janeway descends with either diplomacy or guns, but a near 100 percent success rate (RIP Hogan and Carey).

This is both out of the simple fact that Voyager can’t afford to lose too many people or it stops functioning, and also Kathryn Janeway has so much guilt that it’s basically walking with her in lockstep everywhere she goes - her albatross, her skeletons in the closet, her constant shadow? Just pick an analogy for inner darkness that appeals and you’ve got her guilt described. She HAS to get them home.

It may seem out of character, then, that any time a member of Voyager wants to leave Voyager voluntarily (See Kes, the Doctor, Neelix), once she gets past her initial stricken grief, she allows it every time. If Voyager can’t afford to lose too many bodies, she should theoretically refuse any attempt to leave with just as much gusto as she puts into rescue missions. Maybe you could skirt that with Kes and Neelix, but the Doctor was undeniably mission critical, and she WOULD have let him go if he hadn’t changed his mind.

Except that it’s perfectly in character because her guilt supersedes the minutiae of running a starship every time when it comes to her people. Every time. She knows full well that she trapped them there. She offers everyone chances to leave the ship (the 37s) or, at the very least, leave her behind (Night). She can’t fathom anyone wanting to stay trapped on her ship of the damned.

So even though she needs all hands, even though she would argue and reason and - depending on the person - plead, any person who genuinely wants to leave Voyager is going to get the patented “eyes full of unshed tears and a smile she doesn’t mean” look and her well wishes. because she’d rather ground the ship and disappear into the sunset like an old dog putting herself out to pasture than keep even one person trapped in a hell she views herself as making for them.

…this has been a ramble. but I think that the main point is that I really believe she’ll hold anyone and anything at gunpoint for the sake of her crew, even if that occasionally means pointing the barrel at her own wants and the ship’s needs.

[ameeliapond]

DOCTOR WHO | RACE TO THE TARDIS CHALLENGE

>> JODIE WHITTAKER being her adorable self (FEAT. MANDIP GILL)

[lesmiserabelles]

the keystone? what, here?