The Trekkie Convert

Christine. 18. Scottish. I love Star Trek! A fairly recent conversion; finished TOS and now making my slow but surely way through TNG. Otherwise I am an electronic and electrical engineering student! (I am basically Scotty.)

[dugongs-deactivated20200101]

IT TOOK SO LONG TO FIND BUT HERE IT IS. PLEASE WATCH THIS, IT IS TEAR-INDUCINGLY BEAUTIFUL. 

[chrisdefish]

Lived Long and Prospered

Like so many, I am very sad to hear of Mr Nimoy's passing. You inspired the lives of many during your life, and indeed, will continue to do so long after.

It was an honour to be your honorary grandchild.

[frontier001]

[vulcandroid]

moment of silence for all the star trek promos that look like awkward prom photos

[hokage]

priorities 

[kirk-spock-in-the-impala]

[frontseatpocket]

Tumblr isn’t going to revert back to the old dimensions.

They changed the format to earn money. They’re not going to change it back simply because the fandom side of Tumblr writes up a petition or strikes for a day.

The choice is then to either start using the new dimensions or continue using the old dimensions. And considering that you cannot upload a graphic larger than 500px without Tumblr re-sizing it back down to 500px, this aspect of the new dimensions is faulty. Graphic makers will be unable to upload 500px graphics without them being blurry.

So it is in the best interest of everyone to use the old dimensions.

Install this style script for your browser and your dashboard will revert back to the original photoset dimensions. Copy and paste this style script to your theme html to revert back to the original photoset dimensions.

It kills me that we have to fix this ourselves. But we are capable. We can stick to a united front: one that acknowledges this change is terrible and that we don’t have to adhere to it. 

I love fandom and I love graphics and I want to continue to be a part of a community that shares them. So please, please, save not only the hard work fandom has put into graphics in the past but also the chance to create more in the future. Thank you.

[copperbadge]

Here’s a concrete thing anyone who doesn’t like the new format or who wants to help avoid Tumblr becoming a YouTube competitor can do:

Don’t post videos.

The Fortune article, which I linked to about a week before the changes went up (and thus was…darkly unsurprised about the code changes) mentions that the reason Yahoo is interested in making Tumblr into a video platform is that video posts on Tumblr are growing at twice the rate photo posts are.  

Yahoo wants to encourage people to post videos, and the new format was explicitly designed to do that. So don’t post videos. Every time you wanna post a video? Post the video as a link. Preferably to YouTube, but I’m sure Vimeo wouldn’t mind the traffic either. If the new format means video posts drop and literally all Tumblr users seem to be doing is linking to external content, there will probably be a very interesting discussion held in the Yahoo.com management offices. 

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[chrisdefish]

They told us to talk for five minutes about anything.

[spones]

kirk and spock + loss/reunion

[spicyshimmy-blog]

somebody you didn’t know likes star trek says they like star trek

[godofmischievoushobbits]

[chrisdefish]

Instantly being drawn to anyone wearing red plaid shirts, because of the Star Trek TOS episode 'The City on the Edge of Forever'.

Yes, the one where James Kirk is ridiculously cute.

Just look at him, though.

I can't help it.

[logicalspock]

[chrisdefish]

Got my exam results today, and I am officially going to Strathclyde University!! So excited that I want to express it on all forms of social media, even though this tumblr is and should be dedicated to Star Trek.

bUT I am going to be doing engineering. I am also Scottish. I'm going to be like Scotty from TOS.

Fricking Scotty.

Scotty

[wiseyoungravenclaw-deactivated2]

I forgot about this, but back during Christmas Break, I put Star Trek in front of my cat to see what he would do. To my surprise, he actually did watch it. However, he only seemed mildly entertained - that is, until Scotty started talking. Then my cat actually paused the episode and stared at him. He just stared at Scotty and wouldn’t let me press play for, like, four or five minutes. After that, he watched for a while, but gradually lost interest and started dozing, only looking up when he heard Scotty’s voice.

Can someone please explain to me why my cat loves Scotty so much? Was James Doohan secretly some sort of magical cat whisperer? What is this?

[janeway62]