Nothing To See Here

Nah-tasha not doing stuff

[blurry-bluebird]

Jeez deliberate dating is stupid. Like, what am I supposed to do, ask him what his favourite movie is? And ignore the shocking fact that he doesn’t like Northern Europe? I mean, I already wasted a day on the texting, do I call it quits because he’s not into socialism (literally wouldn’t cast a single glance if I heard it from a cute boy during a lecture)? The guy has such gorgeous eyes AND FOR WHAT. Can’t I have a normal irl meet-cute in a library or on the bus? A decent roommate romance? A tumultuous enemies-to-lovers thing with an annoying peer on a group project, where we grow on each other and fall in love before we know it? Fuck this shit I’m out…

[blurry-bluebird]

Not exactly taking my words back cause IT WAS awkward and stupid, but also kinda 100% worth it since i now have the absolute most adorable boyfriend and it's even better than touching grass or drinking tea from cute ceramic mugs, i swear to god they write books about that sort of thing

[blurry-bluebird]

daily miracles

goddd what a day

the first rain of the year, i haven't even realized how much i missed the sound of it

A short visit to a ceramics fair. Enchanting

And above all, i made a wish and it came true

i made a wish and it came true

life is ok

[blurry-bluebird]

Jeez deliberate dating is stupid. Like, what am I supposed to do, ask him what his favourite movie is? And ignore the shocking fact that he doesn’t like Northern Europe? I mean, I already wasted a day on the texting, do I call it quits because he’s not into socialism (literally wouldn’t cast a single glance if I heard it from a cute boy during a lecture)? The guy has such gorgeous eyes AND FOR WHAT. Can’t I have a normal irl meet-cute in a library or on the bus? A decent roommate romance? A tumultuous enemies-to-lovers thing with an annoying peer on a group project, where we grow on each other and fall in love before we know it? Fuck this shit I’m out…

[el-im]

[blurry-bluebird]

Just finished the Magnus archives and jeeeesus wHAT am I to do now… either way, STATEMENT ENDS I guess

[principleofplenitude]

“The first note known to have sounded on earth was an E natural. It was produced some 165 million years ago by a katydid (a kind of cricket) rubbing its wings together, a fact deduced by scientists from the remains of one of these insects, preserved in amber. Consider, too, the love life of the mosquito. When a male mosquito wishes to attract a mate, his wings buzz at a frequency of 600Hz, which is the equivalent of D natural. The normal pitch of the female’s wings is 400Hz, or G natural. Just prior to sex, however, male and female harmonise at 1200Hz, which is, as Michael Spitzer notes in his extraordinary new book, The Musical Human, ‘an ecstatic octave above the male’s D’. ‘Everything we sing’, Spitzer adds, ‘is just a footnote to that.’”

— “Symphony of a Thousand Millennia“ from Literary Review

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

“I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need.”

-David Wajnarowicz

[garaks-padded-bra]

Garak Lady Gaga Tribute

[garaks-padded-bra]

MONTHS

[blurry-bluebird]

Just remembered that i legit wrote "a skilled knitter and an amateur ukulele player" on my masters cv ...

Also told one of my professors today that i like bees more than i like computers

damn what a person i am

[mysharona1987]

Monica Byrne

[xenobotanist]

If you won't look at me like I'm the highlight of your day

Then don't waste my time

[missmacfire]

[your-name-is-jim]

Man, I fucking love Star Trek V.

Screenshots dedicated to me and the other fans with great taste :D

[womeninspace]

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.

Photos: Karen Nyberg, via CollectSpace

[samvelg-likes-things]

THIS IS SO CUTE AND IS MAKING MY SCI-FI CRAFTER ASS SO DAMN HAPPY

[dyskomike-deactivated20250901]

Crafting in Space!

[kindaokmemes]

It’s that time of the year again :)

[daisyneptune]

#GOD I WATCH ALL OF THESE EVERY YEAR#WONDERFUL DEEP SPACE NINE IS THE BEST ONE BTW

It is a crime that I did not know this existed until today

[blurry-bluebird]

The only celebration I’m doing is waiting for emails and maybe watching some of that and isn’t it brilliant

[lizardsfromspace]

Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

[philosopherking1887]

The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

Emphasizing this because there seem to be a lot of people who have only watched DS9 and are missing the point: they think that DS9 presents the Federation as an evil expansionist imperialist power no different, no morally better, than the Cardassians or the Romulans or even the Borg or the Dominion -- the only difference is that they conquer with bribes of resources and the promise of protection from the other powers. (Nice planet you got there; it’d be a shame if something happened to it...) They seem to think that the Federation is just the 20th/21st-century US/ NATO/ The West with better technology, with the same dishonest self-interest and cultural arrogance, without having learned anything or done any work to live up to its ideals.

You will not understand DS9 if you don’t understand that it also believes in the ideals of TOS and TNG, but has a more realistic view about how hard it is to maintain and fight for those ideals in a complicated world. It is NOT trying to make the point that the Federation and the vision it stands for are “Fucked Up Actually.”

[nonasuch]

I think it’s important to remember that DS9 was the first truly serialized Trek. It bridged TV’s transition from mostly episodic shows to longer-form narratives. That kind of storytelling didn’t really exist in TV, before.

I don’t even really think of DS9 as being particularly dark. It’s just that it’s the first Trek that got to follow up on things that would have been one-episode plots on earlier shows. DS9 was able to show us the cost and the consequences of Federation idealism, because it had a structure that made those stories possible to tell.

[fairydrowning]

"You're asking me what I want for breakfast and I'm telling you about how when the worst thing happened, I didn't even cry. You're handing me a receipt from the laundromat down the street and I'm passing you a bundle of letters that I wrote to God when I was fourteen and scared. You're passing me the milk after you drip it into your coffee and I'm half laughing about my psychiatrist's office and how there's actually a couch and it's made of blue tweed. You're trying to do the normal things and I am throwing up dull pieces of truth onto our kitchen table. I can't lie anymore. These are the things I've done and they're mostly sad. These are the places I've been and they're mostly awful. This life has woven itself into the notches of my spine and I hear it creak every time I stand."

– "Dull Pieces Of Truth" by Fortesa Latifi