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Raven // any pronouns // 20s Probably reblogging everything post-canon Cardassia related If you are wondering why a Star Trek blog is following you I accidentally made it my main because I don’t know what I’m doing Header by @dorimi-3

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[fairycosmos]

t shirt that just says WHATEVER YOU’RE READING INTO MY FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY LANGUAGE YOU’RE MISINTERPRETING

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 4

Abby Anderson (The Last of Us) vs. Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Abby Anderson

Deanna Troi

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Abby Anderson:

Abby exhibits all the same flaws (incredibly central to the overall story of the game) as Joel and Ellie do, but Joel gets a pass 'cause he's the beloved man and Ellie barely gets a pass because she's at least at "our" side. Meanwhile Abby is afforded no such grace. Her being muscular only makes things worse because looking "unattractive" to a general boring male audience is a crime even worse than killing their blorbo (while said blorbo can surely kill whoever he wants and the theme of the narrative is just irrelevant I suppose). Plus those same muscles lead to any femininity she has (and she has notably more than Ellie) being denied to her, 'cause. Booo, muscles. Manly.

Abby starts as a traumatized revenge-obsessed girl much like Ellie then becomes in turn. As the plot goes on she displays actual compassion over and over. She shows that she's not a monster. The way she helps Lev and Yara, the way she takes Lev under her wing. (The way she's never transphobic to him either). The way she ends up sparing Dina despite narratively having every "right" to take that life(s) for a life(s). She does that growth before the other people in the narrative do. And she deserved so much more grace, if not love, than she got.

Death threats to the actress, massive temper tantrum online, endless debates about how her physique isn't realistic, compilations of her in-game deaths going viral with comments all saying how much they hate her….. People will straight up be so smug about how "wow the game is telling me revenge is bad I already knew that" and then bullied several actual human beings as revenge for a fictional character's death. Like maybe y'all do need to have someone sit you down pre-K style and explain that revenge is bad ¯_(ツ)_/¯

A) she's jacked as hell B) her gameplay is amazing C) yeah she killed everyone's favorite meow meow but I support women's wrongs ❤️ D) I don't even need to support women's wrongs she was kind of right

Deanna Troi:

She has spent nigh on 30 years relegated to the mom friend soft girl empath dungeon when she's actually a pretty well rounded character who can be mean, snarky, and even wrong sometimes.

She is kind and smart and funny and she has mommy issues!! She refuses to marry just to make her mom happy, she commands respect even when she is one of 2 women in the room, she reminds the humans to be respectful of other cultures and species, and she has long been under-appreciated

[macnronii]

gee voyager how come you get TWO bizarre love triangles???

[aphrostiel]

star trek (tos) studies

[junkdrawertales]

Andy Robinson and Siddig El-Fadil spent thirty years campaigning to kiss each other on the mouth for TV and they did it not from attraction but for the love of the game. they genuinely believed that being gay would improve the show. nobody else in Hollywood has done it like them and I don’t think anyone else ever will

[covid-safer-hotties]

Hi! Hello! Happy Disability Pride Month! Wear a mask to help keep disabled people safe from airborne diseases like Covid, flu, and RSV which we're at higher risk of hospitalization and dying from!

[aphrostiel]

Q's favorite starship

[sixtiesgogobootz]

i drew this back in january when i first started watching ds9, just realized i forgot to post it! 💖💖

[animentality]

[ober-affen-geil]

Ok extra context from your friendly neighborhood Master's Degree holding archivist:

Archives are "curated" according to what's called a "collection policy". That means a policy that dictates what you collect; usually along a theme. For example at the university I used to work at the collection policy was to collect archival material pertaining to the local area and its history/important figures. At the historic home I currently work at, the collection policy covers materials pertaining to the person who lived at the house.

AO3 collects fan works and original writing. That's it. That's how they "curate". They don't allow a copy paste of published works (for legal reasons) and they don't allow commissioned works (for legal reasons) . Everything else that falls under fan works and original writing is part of their collection policy. Everything. That's how archives work.

[pitviperofdoom]

Librarian for 6+ years with an archival background, the entire premise of the initial argument is laughably untrue anyway.

Like yeah, a master's in library science is a prerequisite for most existing library/archival jobs, but any ham-and-egger who wants to start their own archive is allowed to do that, there's no High Council of Archivists who's going to swing by to check your credentials and shut you down if you're not properly licensed. The creators of the archive are highly qualified with the academic credentials to back it up, but even if they weren't Oakly would still be wrong.

[pippinstook]

oh ezri dax i could never hate you.........

and a plain one cause idk how i feel about the comp...

[wouldyoutrustthemtodoyoursurgery]

Would you trust Dr Julian Bashir from Star Trek: deep space nine to do your top surgery?

Would You Trust Them?

Yes, undoubtedly

Yes, with some hesitation

No, but I can see why others might

No, never

I don't know this character

Voting ended onJul 2

[emilinqa]

"Cardassian Settler Colonialism and the Bajoran Struggle for Decolonization" in A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine by David K. Seitz

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

[aromanticduck]

You have to read all the books in your bedroom before you can leave. How long will you be trapped?

There's no books in there, I can leave immediately

Less than a day

1-3 days

4-6 days

1-3 weeks

4-7 weeks

2-3 months

4-6 months

7-11 months

1-2 years

3 years or more

Results

Voting ended onJun 27

You can't die from hunger or thirst or lack of medication etc.

It doesn't matter which books you've already read. You have to read them all, starting from now.

Physical books only - if you have an e-reader in there you don't have to read your entire digital library.

[ezradrawsstuff]

Worf because I haven't posted anything trek related in a while

[blumoonbow]

Spot 💛🤍🧡