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“She smiled at me when she withdrew. Her red lipstick was smudged, just a little, at the corner of her mouth. I did not think before I reached out and removed it with my thumb.”

fic illustration for @elendarelamshin

#omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg #ahhhhhhhhh #omg omg omg omg omg #j/7 #fanfic #living witness

dunno-rambles

b7 sleepy cuddles (and a lil rough sketch teehee)

#b7

deepspaceniners

janeway is a secret fanfic writer

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What if as part of her post-Voyager rehabilitation, she takes up “creative writing”:

But whatever therapeutic effect it’s supposed to have is undid by wife’s beta-reading:

captainkatie42

#lmao #j/7

lost-in-a-nebula

trying to break art block with some texture

#b'elanna torres #so tangible!

lonely-night

it isn't right that humans can cause this hell.

Salma Deera, Letters from Medea: Poems

#j7 #weeping

elleldoe

absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

raktajinocappuccino

2.26 Basics, Part 1

#that expression when they snatch her badge…#kathryn janeway

cigaradd

Tried a new brush, but I don't feel like drawing so here's B'Elanna sketch

#b'elanna torres

kuviraissues

things keep happening to them

#prev:#you say as if you are not the one doing it to them #exactly!!!!#yes!!!!#j7 #j/7

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A ‘I have never seen Trek’ guy’s reaction to Star Trek: Voyager’s Dark Frontier.

Not mine, it’s © Kettlinger

EDIT: As a note, I will take this down the moment the artist objects. Favorite the original here.

threeofeight

I DON’T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND. This has been my favourite comic for like 4 years. It’s actually perfect,

#lmao #j7

jennelikejennay

If you're going to create an alien culture, giving them our human complexes and bigotries is about the most boring thing you could possibly do.

Like, I adore Amok Time, but "oooooh in Vulcan society women are property!" isn't what you'd call creative, now is it?

Our human biases are accidents of our unique biological and cultural development. There's nothing natural, logical, or necessary about them. Having them appear over and over in other species would suggest there's more to them than there is. Homophobia, for instance, isn't even universal on Earth, so I see no reason for it to be duplicated all over the galaxy.

Now the second most boring thing you could do is simply write a utopia. The really fun thing is to give them their own cultural problems, completely untethered from anything we do. And make them a culture in flux, different from place to place and from time to time. Maybe the people on this continent rank people by smell, but people on this other continent left that prejudice in the dark ages.

And that's why I simply ignore any canon about Vulcans I don't like. My justification is that humans have often misunderstood what they were doing, ascribing human categorizations and motivations to them which were never very accurate.

It's just more fun to say "oh yeah they've never heard of homophobia. But they do think men are unsuited for the priesthood because pon farr destabilizes their telepathy," or whatever.

lost-in-a-nebula

delta quadrant kiddos

sparrows-trekblog

Big fan of whatever the fuck these two have going on

#j7 #j/7

thediktatortot

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

violettenouvel

Let OP talk, they’re absolutely right.

lokihiddleston

urbanhymnal

It really is crazy how fast people burn through things now. I saw people saying the Arcane fandom was dead only a few *weeks* after the last episode aired. Imagine being a fic writer working on a big fic for the show and seeing that. Or an artist working on a fan comic. Like, c’mon, people.