anachronistic gay nerd

premed + psych student here to ramble about fandom nonsense with the cadence of a victorian asylumee

[ghostbees]

The Illustrious Client

“He gave no explanations and I asked for none. By long experience I had learned the wisdom of obedience. But when I had left his room I walked down Baker Street, revolving in my head how on earth I was to carry out so strange an order.”

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[viperfang254]

Ive never watched the other Star Trek stuff, just the original series because my parents are fucking old and I enjoy older media.

That being said, this Pride Month, pay homage to Spirk, please. Whether you ship it or don’t, it’s at least somewhat partially the reason all of these others exist. Your old man yaoi? It at least partially exists because some housewives had Star Trek playing on their TVs and had the thought to be like: “This is such a nice show! …but they seem almost…together?” I wouldn’t say Spirk is the oldest gay ship in “modern” media, far from it. However, it got to big enough popularity to where people discussed it in the newspaper. Teenagers and kids wrote fanfiction of it in their diaries that they thought no one would notice or see. Everyone saw the unique relationship Kirk had with Spock, and some saw a spark there.

Even Spock’s original actor, Leonard Nimoy, supported the LGBTQ+ community. He supported all of his costars regardless of sexuality. When the Star Trek reboot movies came out (regardless of your opinions of them), Zachary Quinto took over the role of Spock. He actually met Leonard Nimoy, and when Quinto came out as gay in 2011, Nimoy supported him completely. They developed a very close bond over not just the character of Spock, but over everything else a good friendship in the often cruel industry known as acting needs to survive. It’s beautiful what Star Trek and the actors associated with it, especially the original, have done for the world.

Spirk walked so all of these MLM ships now could run. So pay tribute to James Tiberius Kirk and S’Chn T’Gai Spock, please. They may not be your favorites, you may not ship them, you might not even know what the Star Trek fandom is. Just know that in 1966, kids obsessed with sci-fi might’ve been writing fanfiction in their diaries about their favorite gay ship the same way kids did the same in 2026. Sixty years, sixty whole years, all thanks to them.

Have a good night, everyone, and Happy Pride!

[archiveofjox]

guuuuuys why do each of their home planet match the other's signature colour 🤨 and why are they complementary colours 🤨🤨 what is going on

[gravesofmyfrenemies-oldacc]

sometimes i think abt how spock chose to be on a human ship and completely remove himself from vulcan society while simultaneously completely rejecting his human aspects and it doesnt make sense to me.

sometimes i think about how my nonbinary friends prefer being misgendered the way thats not their originally assigned pronouns. because at least its a different sort of wrong than the one they’ve been stuck with every day before finding themselves.

right now im thinking about how spock just wants something different, hes too vulcan for humans and hes too human for vulcans but hes been too human for vulcans his whole life and by being a green-blooded, pointy-eared alien on a ship, surrounded by humans and even openly racist humans who call him slurs-AHEM AHEM mccoy looking at you COUGH COUGH— at least his vulcan side is being acknowledged and belittled instead of his human side.

sometimes i think spock intentionally eggs mccoy on at times, his usage of logic that makes mccoy feel small, although i dont think spock means to make mccoy feel small i do think that he recognizes certain actions trigger mccoy’s hatred for vulcans. i think it does something for spock. hed rather be a vulcan and deemed cold and logical and unfeeling and called slurs by humans than be viewed a human by vulcans and deemed emotional and weak because thats what his whole life has been spent experiencing.

i think kirk plays a beautiful role in his complicated feelings about his heritage. kirk is accepting of spock and how his brain works and his half-human and half-vulcan ness in ways nobody else on the enterprise is. you see kirk in a lot of ways not categorize spock into a species binary the same way others do, you see him know that spock is emotional, and know that spocks logic and cold clinical demeanor is a mask, and even play with it at times, smiling when the mask falters.

yet simultaneously kirk is gentle with him, he doesnt push spock when it matters. when he knows it would be too far in any manner. sure, kirk is human and gets angry at spock’s detached nature- but i think that that anger is just as much about kirk knowing its a mask that hurts spock, a mask that spock refuses to let go, as it is about the behavior itself. kirk allows spock to be spock, human and vulcan, and doesnt point out or make jabs at him like mccoy does, he smiles and asks teasing questions to try and tell spock “you’re safe with me.”

you even see when spocks parents come on board and disrespect spock, kirk stands up for him without even knowing those are spocks parents, he talks back when they dare insult his *first officer* because how dare they? that science officer is my malewife ill have you know, you stuck up vulcan guests.