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@captain-let-me-help
🌻"It's beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me. I'm not bored or unhappy, I'm still so strange and wild."🌻
Had to add some to the Bones's Baby Girl Joanna Angst club. (I think a lot about a little kid in Georgia we've never seen. Has she watched him on the news? Read his work?)
kukalaka, i love you
Will the transporter ever work correctly?? smh…
They replicated tiny uniforms. (* v *)
"There certainly have been some wonderful people I have been close to, people I know I could rely on, but as far as speaking openly and revealing that which is most troublesome and most secretive, secure in the knowledge it will remain as buried in their breasts as it is in my mine, there was only Leonard."
Leonard by William Shatner
Star Trek TOS S01E28 / Star Trek TOS S01E29
"Let me help." "I love you."
I am normal about this. (They had to know what they were doing. It's literally. the. next. episode.)
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of course spock is jewish, spock is jewish just like his mother is, but his father isn't, and the vulcan philosophy he's raised in is too ritualistic and too symbolic and looks to figureheads too much not to be a religion and the guilt from it reminds me too much of catholicism to ignore and there's something about the dramatic and harsh visual of simultaneous minimalism and ancient, almost medieval looking design and I'm pretty sure the matriarch of spock's vulcan lineage is revered to the point of holiness– I just get similar vibes from vulcan culture as I do the catholic or most rigid protestant church in all the ways that they share flaws and have the most beautiful, terrifying, all-encompassing presence of deep-seeted spirituality hidden under the layers and layers of religious obligation the significance is placed on. and I know, I know vulcans are supposed to be jewish-coded, but it's spock, who is jewish, and he who has a human jewish mother. he's jewish because he's human, not because he's alien.
Need to see more fics where Spock finds out about Kirk’s terrible childhood and is just dumbfounded.
In Vulcan society the idea of inflicting physical abuse upon one’s child is unheard of. Utterly illogical. So after Spock learns about Kirk's shitty stepfather, he has a crisis trying to comprehend the idea that a parent would hurt a child and also that someone would hurt his husband. From then on anytime Jim makes a joke about his abuse he notices that Spock tenses and gets angry and he's just like "???" and then later in the quiet of their quarters Spock just softly tells him that he'd murder Kirk's stepfather if he ever came across him. Kirk is half freaked-out, half touched at the sentiment.
I think this also goes for any other Vulcans hearing the idea of child abuse, if they were to overhear a conversation between humans being like “Yeah I remember when I broke the screen of my Dad’s new tv and he hit me so hard I think I blacked out haha” “that’s nothing compared to the time I told my mother to her face that I hated her cooking, she brought out the chancla on my ass lol” the Vulcans would just be downright horrified and spread this news back to other Vulcans about how savage some human parents can truly be and soon enough any human who mentions any type of violence in their childhood is receiving the highest level of comfort Vulcans can offer to a stranger: A hand to the shoulder and intense eye contact 😐🖖
This ties in so nicely to my personal headcanon that Vulcans are incorrigible matchmakers. (Tl;dr - You grow up watching your parents, aunties and uncles freak out that they only have 7 short years to find a newborn a suitable mate. Then you hit Pon Farr and suddenly YOU GET IT. Now you're Team Find That Baby A Mate, and you stay there for life. Culturally, Vulcans get twitchy when they meet an unmated adult, logic be damned.)
It's well established in beta canon and Fanon that Vulcans are intensely loyal to their children and clan. (Sarek is an outlier.)
If you accept that Vulcans are only fertile during Pon Farr (I can go either way on this, depending on the story you want to tell) AND they historically were a terrifying, warrior race, then you'd be in a position where one targeted strike to your clan's creche could easily wipe out an entire generation.
So I HC that in pre-Surakian culture, adoption was common. Maybe even competitive. You see an orphan and you don't even bother to ask if someone else is going to take care of them. They're yours now.
Meandering back to OP's post - if a Vulcan who tolerates (much less actually likes) you finds out you're from a shit background you WILL end up quietly, thoroughly, and irrevocably adopted.
They probably won't tell you, because Vulcans are weird about privacy. You think gosh, how nice of my Vulcan friend to keep inviting me to clan dinners and family holidays. I guess they really need someone to keep them company! Meanwhile, the entire family is getting to know you before eagerly going through their Space Rolodex, plotting to set you up with someone of an appropriate species and gender from a loving family who will treat you right.
Yes, they will make it look like a meet-cute. No, they will not tell you. You will not realize your loving marriage and wonderful in-laws were a setup until the birth of your first child, when your adopted Vulcan elders present you with a list of acceptable clan names.
saw some people talking about this:
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
- part of shakespeare's sonnet 57
and yeah, it's historically gay as shit:
there's some parallels in the sonnet, such as the subject's "sovereignty" since spock is basically vulcan royalty. or in the song amounting to his pov/response: ⬇️ especially in previous context of the sonnet's focus on the youth of the subject, or how the man is not ready to be with him yet...
"Take care, young ladies, and value your wine
Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime
Deeply, they'll swallow from your finest kegs
Then swiftly be gone, leaving bitter dregs"
because it's straight-up telling young women to be careful of men who will love 'em and leave 'em, like spock is being very cautious about pursuing captain jim "new girlfriend every episode" kirk.
jim kirk is slave to waiting on spock to accept his love despite spock's family standing and hesitant nature. spock holds back to avoid ending up one more in a long line of kirk's lovers, as opening up emotionally is a much bigger ask for him than it ever could be to one not raised in vulcan culture.
there's probably also something to be said about the homoerotisism of life-threatening emotional expression being ripped out of spock, him being literally homicidal over jim being put in danger of being harmed by him, in men crawling around on the floor or riding each other while neighing, or in being forced to kiss women to entertain others, but that's not even subtext, so where's the fun?
Thought I'd share my Tarsus survivor!AOS! Jim edit here, too. On that note, can we please talk about the matching flinches and the same exact expression of utter distrust on his face as both Frank and Spock Prime move toward him. I've been dying about this parallel (included in my edit), and I guess the reason that nobody notices it is because Frank is only shown in the deleted scene. I know there's debate on whether Frank physically abused Sam and Jim– in addition to the emotional abuse on screen– but this reaction is all I'd need to be sure of it. It also makes me assume he'd probably never expect anybody to make a move for his face other than to hit him.
I know I've mentioned before about Pike and Scotty being latch key kids and having dealt with food insecurity in the past and whatnot and in the bit I'm editing Jim mentions that Scotty knows about Tarsus which did get me thinking about how that would have come up.
I think there is some strong evidence of Scotty having food related trauma in the films, in Beyond the first place he takes Jim when he asks for a tour of the Franklin is the mess hall. Even when we first meet Scotty there's a lot of implications going on.
Immediately he's going off about having to "live off protein nibs", when Spock Prime calls him by name he responds "Unless there's another hardworking, equally starved Starfleet officer around", and his reaction to finding out Spock is from the future is "That's brilliant! Are there still sandwiches in the future?".
Now this can be interpreted as the first time Scotty's done without, but I don't think it is. In part because of his reaction to Keenser saying that he's the equally starved Starfleet officer. "You can eat, like, a bean and you're done! I'm talking about food, real food."
To me, this is an indication that the protein nibs probably were enough for Keenser or at least more filling to him than to Scotty. Which brings me to Jim's conversation with Scotty.
The thing with Jim is he always going to try and level, he is always going to try to avoid isolating and cornering people. That's especially true when it comes to things that are similar to his own traumas. Even moreso because there is a stigma around food insecurity trauma.
I tend to think that Jim got together with Scotty and sat down to file a formal complaint about the time between food shipments to the outpost and the quantity and quality of said food along with the protein nibs situation. And it's in conversation about this that Jim let's him know why he's wanting to do all of this. He let's Scotty know about what he's been through to ease those feelings of isolation and to let him know he wasn't alone in these types of experiences, to validate that it was a thing to be upset about, it was a thing that was traumatizing to him. And that Jim understands and that he's never going to judge Scotty for having trauma responses about the subject. He tells Scotty that he and Len always have protein bars and the like on hand and helps him set up a few places around Engineering to stash snacks. And he goes out of his way to make Scotty as comfortable as he can be, because he knows what it's like when there isn't that support and he never wants anyone to face what he did in the aftermath of it all.
