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"Rainbow" Mixing Bowls
I love vintage advertising. It has so many laugh-out-loud moments that it's a form of comedy unto itself. And yes, I've got the Primary Colors mixing bowls. I think they're some of the best components of my very vintage kitchen.
I wonder if she's friends with Major Nerys?
And I always thought Rittenhouse Archives had someone kicking around to at least get the names right. I'll be adding this to my End Simultation File.
Ummm...
No, Romulus got fried in a supernova and the Romulans wound up couch surfing for a while before taking over Vulcan's sofa. They swear they're going to move out when they get their next paycheck from 7-11.
Star Wars Usually Isn't My Thing, but This was Begging to be Made
So, I was drifting around ebay and saw an image that gave me inspiration.
Last night, I was looking for Star Trek Mego figures and this randomly showed up in the returns. I honestly thought they'd released a Barfing Rey Pop! They've got every other weird incarnation over there in Funko Land. Turns out I was seeing things but came away with a funny.
Moar ReBoot! Part 2 of 2
Moar ReBoot! (Part 1 of 2)
Adm. Kirk has a new lease on life. . .
Part 2:
What is AXANAR?
A Star Trek fan film and the brainchild of this guy. Alec Peters is Fleet Captain Kelvar Garth of Izar. Garth was originally played by Steve Inhat in the TOS episode "Whom God's Destroy"
This is his ship, the USS Ares. It's armed to the teeth and totally badass.
Space battles! The Prelude to Axanar short film was released in 2014 and is really cool. It's on YouTube and features Tony Todd, Gary Graham, Kate Vernon, JG Hertzler and the late Richard Hatch. It was released to hype up a 90-minute "Independent Star Trek feature film" about how Captain Garth won the war against the Klingons (remember, this was before Star Trek: Discovery came along with it's version of the Klingon/Federation war). Fundraising commenced, and it was even endorsed by George Takei.
Unlicensed Star Trek merchandise! Model ships, uniform patches, promises of an anthology book (to be written by actual Trek authors), uniforms, coffee table art books, official Axanar licensed coffee (yes they were licensing Star Trek out to others) and more. All perks as part of the Axanar fundraiser, which raised more than $1.4 million. They weren't technically sold, they were "given away" when you donated certain amounts.
And best of all, fans weren't donating to make a Star Trek film, they were donating to fund a film studio where the first third of the movie would be shot. That's right, they were using Star Trek to solicit donations for their own buisness venture. Genius. Except, CBS and Paramount Pictures noticed and sued.
Once the lawsuit hit, Alec changed his tune regarding the salary he paid himself from fan donations, desperately trying to rewrite history. Unfortunately, nobody told him that the internet remembers everything. Details emerged in court filings about salaries and perks for himself and his Axanar friends, about attempting to sell Axanar to Netflix (even though Axanar is set in the Star Trek Universe, features Star Trek characters and Peters has no legal claim to Trek whatsoever). Many people publicly fell out with Peters, including Tony Todd (citing lack of financial accountability), his publicist Mike Bawden (who is suing him over another coffee-related failed buisness venture), his tech guy Terry McIntosh (lawsuits were threatened but never followed up on), his co-writer on the feature script Bill Hunt, and Robert Meyer Burnett, who was to direct the Axanar feature (Peters did try to sue him, but botched the filing spectacularly and it went nowhere. And Burnett replaced Prelude director Christian Gossett who left because he didn't like Peters' studio-funding plan)
A year passed, the last of the donor money dried up and once the judge ruled that Peters had made profit from the Star Trek name, he settled with CBS/Paramount. New fan film guidelines were established to prevent others from doing similar, much to the chagrin of fans who were enjoying the likes of Star Trek New Voyages and other full-length fan episodes and movies like Of Gods and Men and Horizon. Axanar was to be made not as a 90-minute "Independent Star Trek feature film" but as 2 15-minute shorts which are currently (as of 12/30/19) in production with a planned release in summer 2020. All the details, court documents and whatnot are on the Axamonitor site for all to see.
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What was the planned Axanar movie gonna be like?
The script for the 90-minute feature was leaked by would-be director Robert Meyer Burnett when he (like almost everyone else involved) fell out with Peters. Without the cool documentary format, it's Alec Peters self-insert Best Captain Ever fanfiction. The Axanar Sporkings shreds the script, and it's far more entertaining than reading the script itself. Some highlights:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
So there's the ultra quick, super condensed version of the Axanar Drama™. Please don't donate to anything involving Alec Peters.
And in the lastest Axanar twist, Paul Jenkins has left the project (the third Axanar director to leave, following Christian Gossett and Robert Meyer Burnett) citing accountability issues. On the left is Jenkins' statement, and on the right Alec Peters'. There's something of a contrast in tone between them😂
Update! A fan film of an unmade fan film has been released. Axanar: Interlude picks up immediately after Prelude to Axanar and gives us a look at Alec Peters as Garth of Izar in (mostly) a live action, non-documentery format. It's very much a fan film, and in no way "professional, independent Star Trek" as Axanar was hyped as years ago.
And of course because it's Axanar, there must be ridiculous drama. Paul Jenkins (Axanar director #3 who left the production and is being sued by Alec Peters) had a cameo as an engineer
And yes, a coffee cup was very obviously put into his scene, perhaps as a reference to Game of Thrones doing the same. Also, because of his lawsuit with Peters (which all started after he filmed the cameo) he insisted on having a disclaimer at the start of the film saying he and his company do not endorse Axanar or donating to Axanar in any way. They refused to co-operate and a dispute was raised with Youtube leading to this:
Yes, Youtube blurred his face. His scenes have since been reshot with a different actor and the short is being re-released.
I'm really looking forward to this, the documentary about the clusterfuck that was Axanar.
Here's the link to the documentary's page: Into the Wormhole
Hearing RMB tell his parts of this story makes me glad I'd not heard of this project until long after it bombed.
How Have I Not Seen This?
You know how there was always this notion that Gene refused to make shots where ships might have used a different axis or artificial horizon to decide which end is up? It was easiest and looked nicest to keep everything on the same up/down orientation. Apparently, this has been making the rounds for the last four decades. . .
Let's give credit where credit is due--Regula 1 has flipped its lid as well.
I can verify that this is real. I own a copy.
@hc1701, I've seen this book off and on for my entire life and it's like the heavens opened up and whacked me in the head with a putter, showing me this delight. It's one of a handful of TOS fiction books from the 1980s that I don't actually own. I'm going to have to source a copy for my collection.
How Have I Not Seen This?
You know how there was always this notion that Gene refused to make shots where ships might have used a different axis or artificial horizon to decide which end is up? It was easiest and looked nicest to keep everything on the same up/down orientation. Apparently, this has been making the rounds for the last four decades. . .
Let's give credit where credit is due--Regula 1 has flipped its lid as well.
Dear teen girls,
Stop abusing your boyfriends and yes what you are doing is abuse.
Stop:
Yelling at him in front of his friends
Hitting or slapping him when he does or says something you don’t like
Telling him he doesn’t have a choice when it comes to decisions that involve both of you
Telling him he can’t hang out with friends because you don’t like him
Telling him to not talk to other girls even if they are his friend
Forcing him to spend every moment with you
Belittling him and pointing out all his flaws
Calling him stupid or making fun of him for making a mistake
Threatening to break up with him if he doesn’t do what you want
Being emotionally manipulative and crying until he does what you want
Accusing him of cheating every time he’s not with you
Blow up is phone if he doesn’t text you every five minutes
Telling him you are the must thing that has ever happened to him and no one else will love
Physically attacking him when ever you are mad
Forcing him to have sex despite that fact that he said he didn’t want to
Invading his privacy by going through his phone
Getting mad at him for changing his password and demanding he tell you what it is
If a guy did any of these things to a girl it would be considered abuse but since its the other way around its considered normal. Throughout High school I saw many girl treating their boyfriends like shit. Sometime even physically abusing them in the hallways and no one trying to stop it because its a girl attacking a boy.
Boys: If your girlfriend does anything on this list leave her. It is abuse and you deserve better.
Girls: if you find your self doing anything on this list to your boyfriend you need to knock it off because you are being abusive.
!!!!!!!! My brother was abused by his babies mom and it started like this and escalated to child abuse and neglect.
You don’t deserve to be screamed at, ignored, or assaulted.
Not showing affection when she wants or not hugging her before class) or missing a phone call doesn’t warrant getting cussed out or hit.
Lol, I lost 5 followers from reblogging this. That’s fine, y'all can go
Whole lot of grown women do this too.
Just wanna throw these in too
Being passive aggressive with him when he wants to spend time with friends or doing other things
controlling when he’s able to go out with friends
Breaking up his friendships with other girls just because you’re insecure
Making him feel like his opinions in decisions that affect the both of you are irrelevant and don’t matter
SENDING HIS NUMBER TO STRANGERS TO TEST IF HE’S LOYAL OR NOT
testing him in anyway in general without his knowledge or permission (example: catfishing! it’s manipulative and weird don’t fucking do that)
taking money/credit cards without permission to spend on things without his knowledge ( had an ex friend do this constantly to her boyfriend and she’d always condone it because “he’ll get over it” )
guilting him for hanging out with friends/family over you and making him choose between you and friends/family
telling him “you don’t love me if you *insert harmless activity he wants to do here* “
being rude or mean to him in front of others to assert dominance or power over him
downloading apps to spy on his phone activity (yes, this is a thing “”regular”” people do) or snooping on his social media to see who he’s talking to
hitting him, slapping him, punching him, shoving him. literally how do people not understand slapping your male partner is bad. people tend to find this funny in media and society and its weird. KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR PARTNER WITHOUT PERMISSION.
I come from a family of very forward and manipulative women and i see it in media all the time. it’s fucked and people need to not be accepting of young girls acting like snot-nosed, abusive shit heads that think they can get away with manipulation and cruelty because they happen to be girls.
and let me add this. ABUSIVE TEEN GIRLFRIENDS TURN INTO ABUSIVE GROWN ASS WOMEN GIRLFRIENDS WHO TURN INTO ABUSIVE WIVES.
if you have an abusive teen or young adult gf right now fellas, leave. don’t let her use you to get her shit right. you’ll be so fucked up by the time she gets it together if she ever does and believe that most likely she won’t. evil toxic behavior by women is normalized in our society so it’s extremely doubtful she’ll ever change. just…
My dad had felt that it was best to stay with my mom because he didn't want me to be from a "broken" home. It finally took my crazy-ass mom threatening to stab him because he put half an unwrapped onion in the fridge. That's not the way she did things! When was he going to fucking learn!?!
Part of the reason it took so long to get the fuck out, barring my spot in the equation, was that he'd never been exposed to a genuinely psychopathic person before. He was in his early 20s and lacked the experience to see the trouble he was in at first. Sometimes, when you're raised to be a decent person, it bites you in the ass.
You just don't know what to look out for and if you encounter a charming manipulator like my mom, you don't know you've stepped into a snare until it's too late. What if next time that onion doesn't come with a warning threat?
ReBoot!
I've clearly got too much time on my hands, but it's been fun.
Well, That Was Interesting
I went onto Amazon last night to see if anyone else thought there was something odd about the Pride Oreos. I'd wanted to ask, given the prices, if anyone knew why there were so few cookies in the box? The reviews were about what you'd sort of think:
*These are just plain Oreos! Ripoff!
*This box of cookies turned my truck gay and it's wanting to get gay married to my dog! Agenda!
*****Cookies
**Nothing special.
****Now, that's what I call pandering. My choc-o-holic side is most pleased. Yum.
Rose-tinted Something or
Other. . . When Boomers whinge about how perfect the 1950s and 60s were, I raise them this:
Mouth watering, amirite?
Paramount Home Video has announced that they’re releasing a deluxe box set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director’s Edition), complete with reproduction stickers and promo material, an all-new booklet and more. This limited edition collection will also include the Theatrical Cut of the movie and the edit I had on VHS as a kid, the Special Longer Version that was created for ABC’s broadcast of the movie in 1983.
This is in addition to individual 4k releases of the films featuring the original crew and a complete set featuring all six films.
You can get more details on TrekMovie.
(Last year, Paramount released a set featuring just the first four films in the series, leading me to assume they were going to do two more sets with three films each to cover the entire Prime timeline series. They could have The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, and Generations in the second set to show the handoff to the TNG crew and then package the three TNG-only films together in such a way that people might actually pay money for Nemesis again. Silly of me to believe they’d do something that made sense!)
Ha! That's the original VHS cover for Wrath of Khan. I love it.
Speaking of Nemesis, I might just have to ask my friend if I can't post her description b/c she tells it way better than I do, but we were at a special screening there on the Paramount lot. When the house lights went up, crickets. The suits in the room knew they had a turkey on their hands and we all just kind of shuffled away. I've never seen the film since and I own it (b/c when someone remembers that Uncle Joe likes the Star Trak Wars and finds something in the $2.50 bin and calls it xmas). It was one of the few times I've considered asking for a refund and then remembered, crud, the Paramount Suits can't give me those hours of my life back.
I'm desperate for a laugh right now
*pre p.s., my dyslexia is a pain to the point it took me three tries to get the phone number in this funny paper right. . . maybe. . .
Welcome to ReBoot!
Hey you know how I said I was going to make a workbook on the kind of bullshit you need to do when someone you love dies? I actually did that.
HERE IS THE VERSION WITH LOTS OF SWEARING AT THE USELESS, SHITTY SITUATION YOU’RE IN.
HERE IS THE VERSION WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF BLACK HUMOR BUT NO CURSEWORDS.
Featuring Helpful Sections such as:
Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and how to get them
Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone
What the Everloving Fuck is Probate
Some Simple Dos and Don’ts
Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and Memorials
How to plan a non-religious death party
So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some shit
This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.
It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.
I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.
Good luck!
(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)
I've got a very close friend who works for a medical examiner. She thought this was fantastic because she sees a lot of families who just don't know what to do in this situation.
