Bonjour Mon Capitaine

I love Star Trek with a burning passion and there aren't enough people in the real world my age to talk to about it so I thought I'd give tumblr a try and then became upsettingly obsessed. It is definitely an issue in my life. I also have become obsessed with Marvel and just started reading the comics, beginning with young avengers and it is fantastic and a problem so message me if you want to talk Young Avengers or have suggestions for what I should read next

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[crown-princess-carrion]

I think it's a sign of good media when you have to reread or rewatch it to get the full experience. First time is for getting your brain blasted by the story and being confused second time is for knowing who's who and what's what and willingly getting your brain blasted again.

[leseigneurdufeu]

One thing i respect about Star Trek tos is that if they wanted to shoot a movie about Macbeth or a ww2 espionnage epic they just did it they simply added ten minutes at the beginning to explain the enterprise was orbiting a relevant planet and slapped pointy ears on leonard nimoy. And then they did their macbeth or their ww2 espionage epic.

[vbartilucci]

[raisingneurodivkids]

Let me start off by saying that as a recent transplant to the city of Minneapolis, I am fucking furious about what is going on here; and as the neurodivergent parent of 4 neurodivergent children, I am operating at about 98% CPU, baseline, on a good day. But. Tonight I was praying. And the Lord reminded me, He said, "Didn't I get you to Minnesota, didn't I help you find a house to live in?" And I said, "Okay, Lord, I'm here," and I felt peace for the first time in a while. And it doesn't mean that we don't have a lot of work to do here and a lot more to go through before it gets better. But tonight I was reminded that his eye is on the sparrow and He's watching over all of us. Much love and peace to you.

[gabagoofs]

[pileofknives]

[recursive-wizard]

Don’t forget that the US civil rights bill only passed after six weeks of rioting that were the direct result of MLK’s murder. Peaceful protest paved the way, but violent protest got it over the finish line.

[flipocrite]

It’s understandable why the state would not want you know that, but that’s also why it’s imperative that you do.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

king's family doesn't "believe" the FBI killed him, they know it for fact because the FBI admitted to it in a civil case brought against them in the early 90s. the court documents are a matter of public record. read them yourself. the king family won that suit against the united states fucking government for assassinating martin luther king jr

[hightownquccn]

REBLOG if you are team Sharon Carter.

[doctorprofessorsong]

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[spirkbitch]

They keep trying to make trek for modern sensibilities but they’re just making tos look excessively slutty

[spirkbitch]

Exhibit A

[spirkbitch]

I liked these tags but I had something to say about it

I already assumed that the dresses were a choice made by the female crew, mostly for my own sanity. They do show (very infrequently) women in tos wearing pants

And they show men wearing dresses in tng, but only ever in the background (unless you count the dress uniforms)

And obviously I like that these were included, but they were clearly a cop out decision.

“Yeah see men can wear dresses, women can wear pants. They just don’t choose to” reads as “of course I’m not sexist, women just like wearing tiny little dresses in the future”

And thinking about it from a late sixties perspective, many women did see more revealing clothes as an empowering choice to make. Men wanted women covered and modest, understated makeup, only exposed or done up for male enjoyment. Some women took that in the opposite direction and chose to wear more extravagant makeup, revealing clothing, and brighter colors. It was a progressive time, and some of the choices made in an attempt to highlight that in the show did not age well.

But at the same time, you can clearly see that some of these “progressive” points were only added in as a write off.

[anghraine]

And thinking about it from a late sixties perspective, many women did see more revealing clothes as an empowering choice to make. Men wanted women covered and modest, understated makeup, only exposed or done up for male enjoyment. Some women took that in the opposite direction and chose to wear more extravagant makeup, revealing clothing, and brighter colors.

I think it's worth emphasizing that this very genuinely is the main reason for the "sexist" miniskirts. IRL, women were often not choosing between sexy miniskirts and non-objectifying pants, but long skirts (respectable) and short skirts (rebellious). Deliberately wearing short skirts as rebellion against patriarchal control that mandated long skirts or maaaaybe loose slacks on a good day is still hardly unknown among girls/women leaving conservative communities in the USA, and was only more commonly coded that way at the time.

Sally Kellerman, the actress for Elizabeth Dehner, found the close fit of the supposedly more feminist pants uncomfortable and is often given something to hold in front of her because she was so intensely self-conscious about them. Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) loathed the more "proper" initial look and worked with the (gay) costume designer, William Ware Theiss, to design a different, more daring and cool-looking aesthetic for women of the future that appealed to her personally. That was what resulted in the miniskirt uniform design. No doubt it served the objectifying tastes of various straight men involved, but literally zero of them were responsible for the design of Whitney's and Nichols's uniforms.

Not only did Nichelle Nichols not consider herself suffering from the miniskirt, she admitted later to sometimes deliberately lifting the skirt even higher at Uhura's station to show off more of her legs because she hadn't worked so hard on her body to not show them off. Meanwhile, Jill Ireland, the actress for Leila Kalomi, was nervous that she might have to wear the kinds of revealing costumes so many other TOS actresses did, and Theiss instead designed her the comfortable overalls she wears as Leila in "This Side of Paradise."

The kneejerk backlash against short skirts (in decidedly more reactionary eras of both Star Trek and US culture) led to both the large-scale disappearance of the skirts and the snide commentary on them throughout later iterations of Trek, with zero consideration of the fact that they were designed by a gay man to suit the preferences of the leading actresses at a time when they commonly represented rebellion. The Berman-era Star Trek productions tut-tutting at the old costumes while actually putting actresses in uncomfortable, form-fitting uniforms they disliked is ... uh, something else.

Even while the female Starfleet costumes shifted towards pants (and militarism) in the movies, btw, Nichelle Nichols insisted on getting to wear skirts as Uhura—because she liked them and she had little patience for 80s respectability.

[loveridden1999]

bring back shame

[novelmonger]

Wow, a recommended post crossed my dash beginning with "I hate Sharon Carter," and I have never blocked someone so fast.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek II & Star Trek VI

[teaboot]

Idk who has to hear this today but sometimes the devil doesn’t need an advocate. Sometimes the devil is already winning

[teaboot]

Saying this as a recovered devil’s advocate btw, that bitch didn’t need my help he just wanted the exposure

[sevdahalma]

One thing I hope gets addressed eventually in feminist circles is how the west has used feminism as a tool for empire building and invasion, and how that has led to huge pushback against feminism in communities like my own.

Western feminists love to sit and critique oppressive regimes without spending a moment to consider that those oppressive regimes or groups were often funded and armed by your own countries, then subsequently bombed and invaded in the name of “saving women” from problems you armed, funded, and helped to create.

[bright-eyed]

The whole “male loneliness epidemic” thing is so crazy because feminists have been talking for decades about how gendered socialization has many negative consequences for the psychology and personalities of men (literally what the term “toxic masculinity” refers to) but now we’re letting the alt-right misconstrue this “epidemic” into something New so that they can blame feminists for it and make it about how Actually we need to Go Back to rigid heteronormative patriarchal gender norms in order to Save Men, even though that’s exactly what was making society miserable and lonely in the first place! It’s so screwed. Can we ever actually confront, address, and resolve societal issues like as a species or are we just doomed to misunderstand the assignment forever. Why do the dumbest most bad-faith operators in every debate get to hijack every last earnest attempt by smart and well-meaning people to improve human welfare. Why do we live on a planet of adult toddlers

[happilyshanghaied]

💯

[faggottt]

Social experiment: if you know what this is don’t say anything just reblog