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fandom kids these days really be out here pretending like fandom wasnt invented by housewives that were super into star trek

socksual-innuendos

They were also kinky bitches.

Sex pollen? Trekkie house wives invented that trope.

Going into heat? Tekkie wives said were gonna write it.

Fuck or die was basically trademarked in Trekkie fic

Any common lewd or ship trope in fandom existance? Thank some 25yo+ ladies who were really into Star Trek.

Mary sue is literally named for a (i believe) self insert into Trekkie fic.

These bitches ran so you could bitch about people walking while you crawl.

monster-bait

Never forget

fiction-is-not-reality2

To source it:

Sex Pollen: 50/50 credit between canon Poison Ivy and Star Trek (1966/1967)

Heat: Star Trek’s Pon Farr, but also canon elements of Sime-Gen (which, haha still draws from Star Trek)

F/uck or die: see Pon Farr again

Mary Sue: was coined in 1973 by Paula Smith who wrote a parody fic entitled “A Trekkie’s Tale” in her zine Menagerie, basically as a rant response to a trend in characterizations.

“Any common lewd or ship trope in fandom existance? Thank some 25yo+ ladies who were really into Star Trek.”

Absolutely accurate. Star Trek fandom really had it and made it all.

autisticexpression

These are all great points but it’s Sherlock Holmes fandom erasure.

autisticexpression

To clarify, the Sherlock Holmes fandom originated:

Bullying the author into changing canon.

Shipping a non-canon couple until everyone thinks it’s canon (Sherlock Holmes x Irene Adler)

Crossover fics (with characters like Arsene Lupin and Nero Wolfe and pretty much everyone else).

Bizarre crack theories (way too many to list).

Getting way too emotionally-invested and extra about fictional characters. These people openly mourned Sherlock Holmes before they bullied the author into bringing him back and this was Victorian times so there was a whole outfit for that.

Contriving overly-elaborate explanations for the minutist continuity errors or throwaway lines (Mrs Turner is the name Sherlock uses for his land lady when they check into hotels to have sex because they’re totally doing it).

The very concept of canon as it pertains to fictional works.

Just generally being obnoxious entitled assholes to the point where the author hates their own work.

Basically the nice Star Trek ladies invented all the fun parts of fandom and the Sherlock Holmes people invented the annoying cringy shit. Except the crossovers were pretty cool.

goodmorningawfulbye

Not to mention, as regards the Star Trek fandom beginnings re: cons, zines, etc., I reblogged a post last night elaborating on the fact that a lot of the people who were building fandom norms in its infancy were neurodivergent women specifically.

Kinky adult neurodiverse women.

thewheezingwyvern

your interests don’t just suddenly go away as you get older.

flamingbluepanda

Star Trek also coined alternate universes!! See Mirror Mirror (season 2 episode 4) for edgy grimdark universes and A Piece of the Action (season two episode…. oh god, 6?) for the first ever mafia au

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bone-and-brawn

official-lucifers-child

no no that’s a bop, i love it

theartofanimation

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joshuu-nutboi-higashikata-deact

neurospicybirb

Fun fact! Water actually turns “blood red” when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egypt’s environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.

vampiregirl2345

WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THE PLAGUES WERE PROVEN

kvothe-kingkiller

if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:

basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues

1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red

2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river

3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched

4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die

5) pestilence: toxins again

6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils

7) hail: the storm again

8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.

9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun

10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies

the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.

another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest

some sources: X X

wigmund

The volcano wasn’t ON Santorini - it WAS Santorini, then called Thera. It completely blew away the Minoan settlements on the island and was one of the largest eruptions in human history.

The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.

The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.

The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.

orville-redenbacher-space-hero

this is blowing my fucking mind

missmagooglie

I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating “the sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt” which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.

sciencebelongstoallofus

Maki Naro @ The Nib

mistertotality

There’s a lot of misinformation going around about the Covid-19 vaccines, so now is a good time to bring this back.

transgenderhelp

Quick science note: of the Covid vaccines currently approved/pending that I’ve seen, none contain live or weakened viruses.

There’s not a whole virus in this particular vaccine; it’s just a little strip of genetic code that cues your body to make one of the identifying proteins of the COVID-19 virus. Your body uses up all these instructions, produces some marker proteins, realizes these proteins are foreign, and produces immunity against them. So whenever a virus that has this spike protein invades, your body already recognizes it and has a defense prepared.

kineticpenguin

biglawbear

Hey this is a perfect example of how taking something out of context is some fuckery

McConnell attached two poison pill amendments to the $2000 checks that caused Democrats to vote against them: 1) setting up a “commission” to investigate “election fraud” (which is a bunch of bullshit) and 2) repealing Section 230 which prevents social media companies from being liable for what users post (which would in turn cause the companies to censor their users like crazy)

It was not a “clean” bill for $2000 checks

So why is the OP of the tweet and OP of this post deliberately obfuscating the reason why Democrats voted against $2000 checks? What is their motive?

Is it to turn people against Democrats, who have actually been arguing for more direct payments since May? And actually passed numerous bills in the House?

Don’t trust like that. Read shit yourself. This post is bullshit.

thekristen999

People who get their news from social media need to do their own research. Most won’t, but this is a simple demonstration as to why.

secretdazedragon

pianjeong

come on brain yip yip

corviday

my full piece for @raindancezine ! wanted to draw my fav gator 🐊✨

deactivationgocrazy-deactivated

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

roach-works

the education system traumatizes nearly every student and this is a feature, not a bug

fomysquad

#BlackPride #YouSmart #BlackExcellence

solitaryfossil

necrodivergent

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat

Hey remember how you guys kept saying “why not just go to another bakery”?

sushigal007

dollsonmain

theunitofcaring

I don't get seasonal depression, I just get slightly sleepier and more irritable and mopey when I don’t get any sunlight, but when I said this to my doctor she was like “you should still get a lightbox” and I did and now I have way more energy. The moral of the story is, if you spend time thinking to yourself “well I don’t actually have [diagnosable problem], I have [milder version that I can just ignore]”, you could instead of just ignoring it get the accommodation for the problem and see if it improves your life. I do not expect to remember this next time I “don’t actually have the real problem”, but maybe eventually I will learn.

glorious-spoon

We treat accommodations like something that you can only have if you’re really really desperately suffering and cannot function at all without them, but that’s… really really not the case. Or at least it shouldn’t be.

comp-lady

Not to uuuhhh highjack this post, but I have some experience with this. Not only does it corroborate the above but I have found that even you don’t have any need for whatever accommodation that also shouldn’t bar you from getting one if you just…

want it

see years ago my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, and as happens with progressing cancer her mobility was drastically reduced. To help combat this and allow her to retain independence at home Papa (my grandfather) got a shower chair. This is about as self-descriptive as it can get, it is a chair made of metal and plastic that sits in your shower or bathtub. I’m sure those with physical disabilities are already quite familiar with them, for those of you that aren’t just google it.

Eventually my grandmother passed. A couple years after my dad had to stay at Papa’s house for a couple weeks, for his own medical reasons. While there he discovered that Papa had kept the chair. And while Papa was old he was hardly infirm, he didn’t use a cane or have any severe mobility issues. Certainly none that would have affected his ability to stand in the shower. The conversation went more or less as such:

Dad: Why they hell did you keep the shower chair, dad? You don’t need it

Papa: Kevin, you wait until you use it. Then you’ll know why I kept it.

My dad was disbelieving tbh, to him chairs in showers when you don’t need them was a thing that like. Lazy rich people had. wtf could be so great about being able to sit in the shower? Why would an able-bodied person even need to? it’s a fucking shower? wash urself and then get out. Then he used the chair, and according to him it was like he’d had a proper religious revelation. Shortly after his return home (tbh the amount of time it took for him to take a shower sans chair) my dad went out and bought a shower chair.

The ensuing conversation with my mother went as such:

Mom: Kevin why did you buy that? We don’t need it!

Dad: Just use it once, this will change your life.

And it did. After using the chair for the first time my mom straight up wanted to know why they had never thought to get a chair for the shower before. Ever since we have had a chair in the shower.

It has proven itself invaluable.

Exhausted but covered in grime from yardwork so you HAVE to wash before doing anything else? shower chair

Don’t have the spoons to stand in the shower? shower chair

Leg/hip/back injury slowly getting worse over time making standing for long periods a difficult matter? shower chair

Home from work and just want to shower but your feet are killing you? shower chair

can’t keep your balance when masturbating in the shower? shower chair

want to write fic in ur head without your feet starting to hurt because you maybe spent a little too long standing there in spray? shower chair

disassociating? shower chair

gotta shave your legs? shower chair

crying because you’ve now realized how much easier being able to sit down and prop up a leg makes shaving while in the shower? shower chair

I have no current mobility issues, and yet if I had to move house tomorrow a shower chair of my own would be one of the first things I purchase for my own home.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of “this could make my life easier but do I really need it?” And y’know what maybe you don’t need it. Maybe you don’t need that accommodation, but maybe it would make your life easier anyway. When it comes to things that you keep in your home for personal use does it really matter? Besides there is always the very real chance that buying it now, when you don't’ need it but can afford it, will save your ass down the line when you suddenly do desperately need it.

melredcap

I would also like to point out: if able-bodied people start using things that were originally designed as disability accommodations, they become normalised. They become acceptable. And then all of a sudden they’re widely available, they usually become cheaper, and disabled people don’t get shit for needing them.

Buy the damn shower chair. Get a JarKey so you don’t need gorilla strength to open the pickled onions. Install soft-touch taps. Revel in your newly comfortable life while also making the world a slightly more disability-friendly place.

biglawbear

*banging fist on table* CURB CUTTER EFFECT

thatfunkyopossum

Nobody ever talk to me about the catholics going off with stained glass again because not one window of jesus has ANYTHING on the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque

Click through this link i’m losing my mind its gorgeous

royalhandmaidens

i absolutely love seeing people’s reactions to the pink mosque 😂

the style is called “orsi” and is unique to iran

and stained glass traces its roots to south west and west asia, developed in ancient times and well before the europeans and the roman empire saw it and said “hey i like that, i’ll be leaving with it”

royalhandmaidens

and while we’re talking about mosques in iran, may i present persian mirror work?

yes, these are real places! it’s a different mosque in the same city as the first picture (the shah cheragh mosque in shiraz)

every time someone tries to talk to me about western churches and architecture and their superiority to that of “third world countries” i have to laugh a little at the ignorance, especially when our mosques look like this

autisticexpression

The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.

Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.

Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.

Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.

In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.

Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.

Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.

Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.

Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!

Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.

At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.

oziraphale

Y E S !

goblinshell

please help save my cat

Hi my name is Gem and I’m a mentally ill gay enby who has been unemployed due to COVID-19. I have been unable to get in contact with the unemployment office and I haven’t had any luck getting a new job. I am officially broke and my cat Nimbus still needs a $1500 surgery to save his life.

What little money I had saved was spent on an emergency procedure to drain Nimbus’s bladder when his FLUTD caused a blockage.

The above procedure was only a temporary fix. Nimbus still experiences pain urinating and could have another blockage any day now. The surgery he needs would expand his urethra and effectively cure his FLUTD. I’m asking for donations to help pay for this surgery. I’m really ashamed about having to ask for help but I love my cat and its breaking my heart to watch him suffer.

venmo @gemblast

$25/1500