science fiction and whiskey

"da woist" -kris straub "you just created a real spider situation you witch" -also kris straub

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[neaq]

Just look at her, isn’t she magnificent?!

[currentsinbiology]

Yes, she sure is!

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happy first contact day 😭🖖🏼 only ➡️4️⃣6️⃣ more years until 👽👋🏼 we meet the vulcans 🌋😳🚀

[feministfilmclub]

Jasika Nicole on ‘Underground,’ Representation and Rewriting History

A good character introduction is one of the greatest joys television can offer, and in the March 8 “Underground” season premiere, viewers were treated to two of them. Harriet Tubman (Aisha Hinds) m…

“When character descriptions say something like, ‘Her father is black and her mother is white,’ that makes me know that’s going to be integral to who this character is,” Nicole notes. “Somebody has thought about this. When I think about my life growing up as a biracial woman in Alabama,” there were very few TV shows that she could identify with. 

 “I also know that I’ve gotten way more opportunities than black women who have darker skin than I do, because our skin color is still currency,” Nicole adds. “But when I see that [writers are] specifying those things about the characters, that makes me think they’re willing to have a dialogue, they’re willing to have those conversations. That almost beyond my comprehension.”

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I wanted to share this interview I did with Mo at clexa con last month- it was such a delight to speak with someone candidly about my experiences in the tv/film industry, and I am so thankful for the space we created together to talk :)

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Chuck Berry

Rock n Roll was originally Black music.

[king-emare]

thank you

[mentalhealthfemme]

Yes, him and little Richard never get their due smh

[missarrozcongandules1991]

except…chuck berry didn’t invent rock n roll…

Sister Rosetta Tharpe predates both chuck berry and little richard by quite a few years

Two of Tharpe’s hit songs were released in like 1944-45 when Chuck Berry was a) incarcerated and b) still a high school student, Tharpe basically discovered Little Richard, and she’s referred to as the godmother of rock n roll

lol just

throwin that out there

[christel-thoughts]

^^^EXACTLY

but Sister Rosetta was a woman and queer… so Black men will totally overlook her.

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

rock music was created by a black bisexual woman

[cheeseburgerdeathpunk-blog]

Sister Rosetta new idol

[williamcubed]

Sister Rosetta Rocked the world

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Spread the truth and dead the lies

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 KICK ASS BLACK BISEXUAL MOTHER OF ROCK AND ROLL <3

[ashermajestywishes]

I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS WOMAN! MUSIC NERDS - EDUCATE ME NOW!

[wicked-bitch-of-thewest-deactiv]

I’m almost positive this is the same woman who actually sang “You Ain’t Nothin But A Hound Dog” first before Elvis stole it…

And her version was BETTER

[ashermajestywishes]

WAIT! WHAT? He didn’t sing that first? I need air and music. Someone tell me more.

[forgotmysafeword]

Big Mama Thornton recorded Hound Dog in 1952.  She is the first.

[violent-darts]

See this just makes that song actually make sense to me for the first time so you know, hat-tip for that, too, you have relieved my endless puzzlement I’ve had since I was a small child. 

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

Wonderful documentary on her life & legacy in rock n roll

Today, March 20th is her birthday so can we just take the time to list some of her amazing accomplishments

- she was one of the very first great gospel artists who crossed over into r&b, rock n roll, and gained mainstream success

- she frequently performed with a racially integrated band

- guitar playing was seen as a “man’s” skill, but that didn’t stop her from beating out many guys in guitar battles at the Apollo

- she may have been one of the first successful black artists to even have a tour bus with her name on it

- this woman literally turned her wedding day into a rock concert for over 20,000 fans

- openly bisexual in her private life

- she sang with little richard in what would be his first public performance at her concert

- she held a successful tour in the UK during the early 1960′s well before the “british invasion” of rock n roll

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[garkgatiss]

I meant to reblog this last night when my MPDG name would have been Freekeh Cerave, the most hippie granola child ever water-birthed into a navigable waterway

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Wheaties Aveeno

[weirdtrek]

[borgcast]

O’Brien- “I don’t know why Captain Sisko insists on having me here,”

O- “I’m not a senior officer”

Bashir- “He wanted to see you in your dress uniform.”

B- “It shows off your figure.”

O- “Why, thank you.”

[tolkiensource]

Orlando Bloom shares never-before-seen behind-the-scenes Lord of the Rings photos to mark anniversary (x).

[whats-up-beaches]

[mcgroovin]

in which data is accidentally programmed with 21st century slang

based on this post

[methedras]

this is the best thing i’ve ever made 

[ommanyte]

Tis the season of pumpkin omanytes (ompkins)

[tuttieroi]

I’m watching a usa made documentary. The music effects and the narration are so dramatic lol why It makes things look laughable even when it’s not the case

[pope-pius-xiii]

​American documentaries are awful

[pdove]

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[stunningpicture]

$180,000 Aston Martin killed by $200 pink car

[marlbororedgirl]

aesthetic

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Class war.

[queerlaurabarton]

Jurassic Park is so quality like the little girl is the hacker, the main woman is sensibly dressed & smart & allowed to have agency w/o people being like “no women can’t do that thing”, and Jeff Goldblum is the one who’s shirt is sexily open & who’s injury causes him to lie in a strategic model pose to his best advantage. Plus of course the cgi & robotics are incredible

[catbountry]

And the dinosaurs are all girls #strongfemalerolemodels

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@intoxicatingtouches

[intoxicatingtouches]

#alltheclevergirls

[fromtheash]

Jurassic Park is 🙏🏼

[willidleaway]

[luminousfinn]

Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?

[livelongandgetiton]

The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo

[ameliacgormley]

How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”

[elljayvee]

Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS

[chandri]

James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

[ellidfics]

Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.

It was written and aired in 1969.

It probably couldn’t air today.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

[geekygothgirl]

Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”

[prokopetz]

It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.

The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.

[fuckyeahsources]

For a summary of those points, see “Star Trek’s Underappreciated Feminist History” by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Becker’s “Space and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininity”.

And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

Originally posted by zidlersdiamonddogs

[moandkatelive]

There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

This is my favorite post on this website because it features so many of my favorite things: Star Trek, important social issues on television, Lucille Ball…

#ILoveLucy #ILoveStarTrek

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