Etc.

They/them. Biracial. If you are the op to a post I did an id for please feel free to take it and add it to your original post and make edits as necessary.

[cleonxxiv]

[id: 14 gifs from season 3, episode 7 “civil defense” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show gul dukat, kira nerys, elim garak, julian bashir, jadzia dax in ops in various places.

1st gif: a wide shot showing everyone, gul dukat is attempting to teleport off the station, “i’ll be back… in, say, 25 minutes. dukat. one to transport. energize.“ nothing happens, he fails to transport.

2nd gif:  close up of gul dukat, “energize.“ he tries to transport off again.

3rd gif: the camera cuts to show everyone minus dukat, a recorded message starts playing, “dukat, if you are seeing this recording,“ everyone turns to watch the screens in front of them as.

4th gif: the camera shows the recorded message playing on screen, it features a seated cardassian, “it means you tried to abandon your post while the station’s self-destruct sequence was engaged.”

5th gif: the camera comes back to dukat, “that will not be permitted.“ the recorded message continues. “this is outrageous!” dukat exclaims in shock.

6th gif: the camera cuts to show kira, she looks at dukat then return to continue watching the recorded message. “you have lost control of terok nor,”

7th gif: the camera cuts to garak, his attention is on the screen, “disgracing yourself and cardassia.“

8th gif: the camera returns to the recorded message playing on screen, “your attempt to escape is no doubt a final act of cowardice.”

9th gif:  the camera comes back to dukat, he looks shocked as he hears the cardassian relaying, “all fail-safes have been eliminated.“

10th gif: the camera cuts to show kira, she looks up from the screen, to look at dukat “ your personal access codes have been rescinded.”

11th gif: the camera comes back to dukat, he is twiddling his thumbs as he hears the cardassian relaying, “the destruct sequence can no longer be halted.“

12th gif: the camera returns to the recorded message playing on screen, “all you can do now is contemplate the depth of your disgrace,”

13th & 14th gif: a wide shot showing everyone, the recorded message ends with “and try to die like a cardassian.“, everyone turns to look at dukat/end id]  

[cleonxxiv]

[id a group of tags from the post, “GET DUNKED ON IDIOT”, “ha! get fucked dukat”, “kira is having the time of her life in the 6th gif love that for her”, “it is so fucking funny how much this man sucks and everyone hates him”, “this is one of my favourite sequences in all of star trek, dukat beaming in for no other reason than to gloat, and then THIS happens, golden”, “get fucked dukat”, “Dukat gets a whole scene building himself up and then a recording says “have a nice death. coward”“, “get rekt” /end id]

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[bumblebeebats]

“Frances and I were considering attending a Lesbian/Feminist conference this summer, when we were notified that no boys over ten were allowed. This presented logistic as well as philosophical problems for us, and we sent the following letter: Sisters: Ten years as an interracial lesbian couple has taught us both the dangers of an oversimplified approach to the nature and solutions of any oppression, as well as the danger inherent in an incomplete vision. Our thirteen-year-old son represents as much hope for our future world as does our fifteen-year-old daughter, and we are not willing to abandon him to the killing streets of New York City while we journey west to help form a Lesbian-Feminist vision of the future world in which we can all survive and flourish.”

— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response." (This essay in particular was apparently first published in 19-fucking-79, which is how long this conversation's been going on.)

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[pathos-logical]

[VD: A Tiktok by @/okkeijapanese of two East Asian men singing about how romaji, hiragana, and katakana are fairly easy to learn but kanji is difficult. They demonstrate by going around Japanese streets and pointing at different kana before changing to pointing at kanji and asking "Nani kore (What is this)?", then proceeding to list the various readings of the kanji 花, 手, and 生.

花 is "hana" and "ka", 手 is "te" and "shu", and 生 is sei, shou, zei, jou, i, u, o, ha, ki, fu, and na, and nama. One asks "Why?", the other shrugs, and they walk away in despair. End VD]

Instagram link to the same video!

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[trek-tracks]

I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.

When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.

Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.

What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.

[hazieash]

Star Trek Lower Decks S4 Ep2 is iconic for many reasons and the workout attire is one them

[starrynightsxo]

[questionablyfictional]

[Text Transcript: You Need to Learn to Relax or the Stress Will Fucking Kill You Before the Thing That is Supposed to Kill You Gets the Chance /End TT.]

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

excellent suggestion @flyingkoalaandsloths

[coquelicoq]

this is a great time to get into writing IDs on your own posts btw!

because i've already seen etiquette posts going around saying that we should all start rbing directly from op so that op can see the engagement on their own posts.

but what's gonna happen is that now if there's a post with an undescribed image, a person who wants to reblog that post but also wants to be accessible is going to have to ask themself, do i just not reblog this post because it's not accessible? or do i add an ID in my reblog, knowing that this will reduce op's ability to see the notes on their own post? either way i'm leaving somebody out. but this problem is completely avoided if the original post itself contains any necessary descriptions!

if you are new to image descriptions and feeling overwhelmed, here are some things to know that might make it less overwhelming:

a "bad" or very general ID is better than no ID. if you made a beautiful painting of a sunset and know it would take you forever to describe it, well, there's a reason they say a picture is worth a thousand words! you can seriously just say "painting of a sunset" and that is so much better than nothing. even something this simple tells you what it is not. this short post by @mightyoctopus about the importance of adding even a simple ID says it really well.

for screenshots of text, there are handy programs that can convert images of letters into plain text! i don't use one so i can't really speak to this, but i'll link to a post in which @pathos-logical has linked to her favorite OCR tool.

or if it's easy for you to just copy and paste text into the post directly rather than taking a screenshot and then describing the screenshot, that might be less complicated. i know it really depends on how you're using tumblr, though - i imagine this is much easier on desktop than on mobile.

i have never encountered an ID writer who would be upset if op "stole" their ID and added it to the root post. in fact most ID writers actively encourage and even beg ops to do this. so if you do have a post that you posted without an ID and then someone adds one later, the next best thing is to copy and paste their ID into your original post. ID writers also do not mind at all if you edit their ID. and my sense is that it's also completely unnecessary to credit or @ the writer. just steal it! we don't mind!!

i'm not an expert on IDs so i will leave it there. and i do think it's possible to write IDs if all you know is the information in this post! it doesn't have to be intimidating, and it can improve not only other people's ability to engage with your work, but also (with this new tumblr update) your own ability to see that engagement.

if you are past the initial intimidation and want to learn more about the best ways to write IDs to accommodate the different ways people use them, i will just link to my image descriptions tag where i have collected the posts other people have made about this that i have found personally useful when writing IDs.

i have to run, hope this is helpful, bye!!

[spectre-squared]

if the app hasn't updated for you yet:

go to the google play store. click on your profile picture in the top right corner. click "manage apps and device" and then at the top of the screen, go to the Manage tab. select the tumblr app, and click the three dots in the top right corner. there will be a check box for "enable auto update" and you want to un-check it.

[veritablesexpervert]

Just by holding his hand, I can feel his emotions. That smug superiority. Possessiveness. The urge to dominate. And a sudden glimpse of tenderness.

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Gifset from 10Dance where Sugiki leads Suzuki into a dance posiiton with his back leaned back. "How was it?" Sugiki asks, "Do you feel like a princess?" We see Suzuki processing that. End ID]

[natsumisato]

Mia. I've come up with an incredible idea.

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Gifset from Two Husbands One Wife. Shinpei and Mia are at Mia's friend's wedding. Shinpei says to Mia, I might be able to handle marriage if it's not two people." "What?" she asks.

"It doesn't have to be male and female, it doesn't have to be two people, right?" he continues.

"Um. Wh-What kind of logic is that?" Mia asks.

"An odd number is better, right?" Shinpei asks. He points to the chandelier which has three lights. "I wouldn't want too many people, so... Three. A marriage of three might work for me." End ID]

[raypakorn]

alexa, play "un-break my heart"

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Gifset from La Pluie. Lomfon is yelling at Tien, soaking wet from the rain, "I want to know my heart. I want to know who I like. What does that have to do with you?"

Tien satres back at him pissed and heartbroken. "Because I like you. Because I like you, asshole. I thought you felt the same." Tien turns around and walks away. End ID]

[tanrak]

raffy’s comment on him finding dirt on dean is soooo fucking funny to me

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Raffy smirking and shaking his head with a small shrug. End ID]

[gael-garcia]

The Time That Remains (2009), dir. Elia Suleiman

[gael-garcia]

reminder that you can watch this through the Palestine Film Index

[gael-garcia]

youtube

[wormpton]

[ID: Ten slightly slowed GIFs from the 2009 film "The Time That Remains". The first GIF is of a man in a sunny forest slowly turning his head while blindfolded.

The second GIF is of a man in a suit sitting on the edge of a bed and smoking, a woman in a yellow dress walking up behind him.

The third GIF is of several people kneeling in a forest blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their backs.

The fourth GIF is of a man staring at something just below camera, standing against a clear blue sky as white clouds of some substance pour in front of him.

The fifth GIF is of several cops occupying the house of a family as they sit in the sitting room on a couch.

The sixth GIF is of an elevated corridor lined with windows and positioned above the entrance of a hospital. Inside the corridor, a conflict takes place between soldiers and civilians.

The seventh GIF is of a man taking out garbage. As he does so, the gun barrel of a nearby tank follows him.

The eighth GIF is of an elderly person sitting at a table on a porch overlooking a city, porcelain dishware containing a beverage of some sort sitting on the table as the person looks at a photograph.

The ninth GIF is from the perspective of a door frame as two men stand facing one another, one placing his hand on the shoulder of the other in a seemingly friendly manner. As he finishes doing so, however, a set of arms reaches out to grab the man who has just been placated, yanking him from out of the view of the doorframe.

The tenth GIF is of a man pole-vaulting over the West Bank barrier. End ID]

[adiraofthetals]

Ash Tyler Heart Locket

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Heart Locket meme with the heart opening to reveal a photo of Ash Tyler smiling with text that reads 'Ash Tyler Our Beloved'. End ID]

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

Machida Keita as Sugiki Shinya 10DANCE (2025)

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Gifset of Sugiki Shinya from 10Dance getting emotional as he watches Suzuki Shinya dance. He tears up and a tear falls down in cheek as he watches in awe. End ID]