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24 | Poland | Funny things | Too many ships | Pan | Ao3 writer | Writer perhaps | I used to be introvert but now I'm just confused

[scarymoviesss-deactivated202410]

[onesevensevenfiftythree]

i hope shein gets shut down i hope ai projects get shut down i hope billionaires go bankrupt i hope public transportation expands fast i am so tired of the world’s bs

[decentmonster]

I had a dream last night that tumblr came up with a pride flag for closeted gays and it was just a light blue flag with a shrimp on it. People would also wear shrimp pins on their lapels for some Reason???

and the vegan gays started Discourse because shrimp deserved more respect

[decentmonster]

Wth that's brilliant

[gay-vampire-with-a-violin]

like this?

closeted queers, you now have a discreet pride flag. wreak havoc.

[decentmonster]

EXACTLY LIKE THAT

[themummersfolly]

Pride flag for closeted queers and people who are just done with explaining themselves to randos.

[queermarzipan]

WAKE UP BABE NEW PRIDE FLAG JUST DROPPED

[marlinspirkhall]

A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

[taken-aurally]

It’s years before anyone explains it to him.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

[whetstonefires]

The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That’s a word, it’s his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they’re putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.

It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.

Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.

[thesaltofcarthage]

Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).

And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.

The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down. 

Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city. 

And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families. 

There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride. 

[shinobicyrus]

YES IT’S BACK ON MY DASH AT LAST

For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.

Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”

A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.

Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.

Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.

And he’d probably remember them too. “Welcome back, Eliza.”

[departmentq]

“…Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so logically happiness must slow it down…”

Will reblog every time it crosses my dash 🖖🏾

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (November 14th, 2020)

[marlinspirkhall]

Periodic reminder that the compiled tag I use on AO3 is “Stork The Vulcan (fanon)” and so far there are 5 fics featuring him:

Heed The Stork

There’s Always A Chance and

Not Logical by MarlinSpirkHall (hi)

What Stork Brings by AfterIWake @mousedetective

One (1) Daily Shoulder Pat by Android_And_Ale @android-and-ale

Various iterations of this thread ^ have also been bookmarked under the tag for future reference 🖖

[tricky-pockets]

so, did I ever tell you guys about the time my roommate accidentally simulated gender dysphoria in VR?

[tricky-pockets]

too bad, i’m posting it anyway

My roommate is a cis man who sometimes makes lady characters in video games because why not? So when he started a new VR game and made a lady character, he didn’t think anything of it.

But then he heard the NPCs talking about him with fem pronouns. He got miss/ma’am’d - and indeed, milady’d. This had never bothered him in non-VR games, but in VR it’s much easier to feel like you are actually in the room. They’re not talking about the avatar you control; they’re talking about you. They’re looking at you.

Then he happened across a mirror. He saw his pretty lady character instead of his internal picture of what his body looks like. He moved and saw his avatar’s body move in sync.

And it was so unsettling that he started over with a new character. He asked if that was what dysphoria was like. I told him “yeah, that’s def in the ballpark” and he was floored, like, “HOLY SHIT, how does anyone deal?”

And sometimes I wish I could shove people into a VR headset and give them that experience. 

[tricky-pockets]

also yes, of course I tried the game with a male character. I went straight for the mirror and it sounds silly but I was honestly awe-stricken and almost cried. Yet another “yep, definitely trans” moment.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Birds are Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are not Lizards

None of this is a matter of opinion or debate

Get over it

Love

A Paleontologist

[anawkwardblue]

🤔

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Please don’t, I’m too tired

The mistakes of 19th century paleontologists should not prescribe our understanding of nature

[vickysaurus]

They're terrible lizards because they're terrible at being lizards.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Only correct response

[belladonnaprice-deactivated2025]

[trolleybusaberrations]

I’m sorry, you fucking drew this?

[ajarofpickledtears]

The Collage Atlas on Steam

Lovingly crafted with pen & ink, by one person over 4.5 years. In The Collage Atlas your presence, your gaze, your movements all matter.

[animentality]

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

also “most are decent” wow what a ringing endorsement of Men

[guerrillatech]

[vincentspork]

Fred Wright

[gearsmoke]

When I talk about the value of work vs. the wages the worker gets, this is exactly what I’m talking about.  And today, more of that value winds up going to the shareholders than even the business owners.

[cenospire]

Cretaceous Characters - Quetzalcoatlus meets a sub-adult triceratops. Just a silly paleoart cartoon thing of mine.

[akwagazod]

[iggykoopa666]

[whycantiuseunderscore]

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Hi! This is a rickroll. Please visit youtube dot com, type "never gonna give you up" in the search bar, then click on the first video that comes up. Thank you for your consideration.

[avatar-of-the-blank]

Ah, alright, since you asked so nicely.

[avatar-of-the-blank]

God damn it, you all won't believe what just happened.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[kestrel-tree]

Well someone displeased the sky gods didn’t they

[augustdementhe]

My first thought was someone pleased the sky gods, because this is a SHOW. 

[madmaudlingoes]

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

[talesfromgringolandia]

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

why is this fire quote from a tumblr post

[mythopoeticlicense]

Because tumblr is the real world equivalent of infinite monkeys using typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare.

[marythetokenaroace]

[injuries-in-dust]

Comic by PetFoolery

Hands up if you'd also adopt that little noodle! ✋

[the-sighs-of-sunset]

Tags by @interstellarvagabond

[injuries-in-dust]

THERE'S A SEQUEL!

[theanishimori]

MR. NOODLE

[injuries-in-dust]

The adventure continues!

Awesome dad is awesome.

[raimagnolia]

Hopefully the mother will get used to it

[injuries-in-dust]

Mom finally warmed up to Mr Noodle.

Made by PetFoolery

[thememedaddy]

[memewhore]