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i think banishment is the funniest possible spell you can cast on someone. like i'm not even going to fight you. YOU'RE going to leave. you have no choice.
a guy i banished to the desert 10 years ago finally tracks me down after years of plotting his revenge and i immediately banish him to the desert again
i hate high-budget star trek you have no business with that. put a unicorn hat on a cocker spaniel. wear felt
star trek should be about three things
1. a hopeful, if complicated, future
2. the most batshit insane gay subtext youve ever seen in your life
3. sequins
What if Scotty is not actually Scottish, though?Â
Like, what if his name just happens to be Montgomery Scott, so all of his friends started calling him âScotty,â and then every time he was introduced to a new person, they would be like âOh, are you Scottish? My uncle was Scottish!â
And finally, he just gets sick of explaining the situation, so he starts replying with âaye, laddie!â But then it turns out that the person he said that to was Captain Kirk, and he doesnât want to admit that he lied to his new commanding officer, so he has to keep speaking in a ridiculously over-the-top brogue and commenting constantly on how much he loves drinking Scotch, and by the time that he realises that Kirk would have found humour in the situation, heâs in too deep and canât stop pretending, and it gradually just becomes his normal speech pattern.
Then, years later, the Enterprise is being inspected by a Starfleet engineer whoâs actually Scottish, and Scotty takes him on a walking tour of his warp engines and is all like âAuch! Here be me wee bairns!â and the other engineer is just like âwhat the fuck is wrong with you?â
I take the fact that James Doohan is Canadian as evidence of this theory.
Scotty hacking into his Starfleet personnel file to alter his place of birth.
Scotty soundproofing his quarters on the Enterprise so that no one can hear him teach himself to play the bagpipes from instructional videos.
Scotty making a great show of taking a shuttle down to Aberdeen to âvisit his familyâ every time the Enterprise is in Earth orbit and then, once on the ground, discreetly site-to-site transporting himself to Vancouver or whatever.
None of these things are out of character or beyond his technical ability.
Yeah, but also in character: Jim Kirk has known since Day 1 that Scotty is not, in fact, Scottish, but is just sitting there waiting to see how far Scotty is willing to go to keep the story going. It started out as an âenough ropeâ situation but now itâs one of Jimâs greatest ongoing sources of entertainment and he wouldnât admit at gunpoint that he knows.Â
Honestly, Kirk would actively claim to have met Scottyâs Extremely Scottish Family/visited them in Aberdeen just to keep it going.
Frankly, as someone whoâs paternal side is all Scottish, I simply canât see any Scottish person not seeing this situation and running with it. Next thing Scotty knows, half of Scottish Starfleet is claiming to be his brotherâs sister-in-lawâs half cousin twice removed and the Loch Ness Monster has been painted on the door to his quarters. Kirk is busy dying of laughter.
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From what I recall, the first time I saw 'rainbow capitalism' from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.
It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn't take it down. They were unapologetic and didn't try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.
And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.
Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases
Can't believe the Borg queen had Seven of Nine's assimilated dad standing in the shadows, waiting to bring him out mid conversation with Seven.
Daytime talk show host behaviour.
Did she assimilate every episode of Maury in the Federation database or something?
"Today on Unimatrix 01, my drone was separated from the collective, and she refuses to listen to me"
"Well, we've got a big surprise for you tonight, Seven: All the way from Unimatrix 616, Grid 77361, please give a big Borg welcome to Eight of Eleven, Ancillary Subprocessor of Cube 12118--Formerly known as Magnus Hansen!"
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Iâve said all this before but I still love this pop culture liminal space star trek occupies where like.. Itâs iconic. Itâs massively influential. Itâs genre defining. It holds historical significance. Everybody knows about star trek. But it also takes a certain type of nerdass to actually actively participate in Liking Star Trek
I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than likeâŠcanon can. If youâre in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you canât make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.
And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldnât expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirkâs old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, Iâm not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirkâs backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirkâs character that heâs a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question âwhy did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?â With ââcause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.â A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is âbecause he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasnât taken.â BUTâand this is significantâeven the TOS canon movies canât really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead itâs fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk Iâve only read 2 trek books, if thereâs one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say âIâve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but itâs not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.â And thatâs interesting! Thatâs meaningful! That canât happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and thatâs a strength of fic, I think.
Instead of making up shitty racist headcanons about Miles shoplifting join me in headcanoning him picking up ballet because he thought Gwen being a ballerina was super neat and it would help him in his spiderman job
Spider strength he canât control + Lifts = Hilarity
Miles, muttering to himself: do not yeet the ballerina. do NOT yeet the ballerina
Jumps. JUMPS.
Miles frantically googling âHow high can normal people jump??? How high can ballerinas jump?????? I donât think Iâm supposed to be able to jump straight up to the ceiling and also I keep getting stuck up there please helpâ
Once Mileâs spider sense pinged lightly about a balcony set and he told the crew master he had a bad feeling about it. The balcony collapsed later. No one was hurt, but now Miles has to go over sets and pronounce them clear of âbad feelingsâ
Heâs not even good enough to be in shows yet, but nothing goes out without his seal of approval
honestly I have known so many stage managers and props department people who are Exactly This Superstitious. (And hell, in this case theyâre not even wrong he literally has magic danger powers)
Iâve also known a few dancers, and without exception the reaction to finding out this boy can effortlessly hold them in a single arm lift or YEET them dozens of feet in the air (And catch them after!) would be PURE GLEE.
âOkay, Glynda, look, we all know heâs Spiderman. Kidâs terrible at hiding it. But imagine this. None of us tell him we know and none of us tell him how high ballerinas can really throw their partners. And each class we just keep on pretending like weâre impressed with how fast heâs improving but, y'know, heâs still got further to go.â
âUhuh, yeah, I see that look in your eyes Glynda. You know exactly where Iâm going with this. How high do you think Spiderman can throw you?â
âOkay, Glynda, stop giggling, the giggling is creepy. Dessie, please make her stop giggling.â
This is wonderful
One day, in the middle of ballet class, there was a robbery going on a block away, so of course Milesâ gotta rush over there to help out. He grabs his mask, but doesnât have time to put on his whole suit because he said he was going to the bathroom and itâs be weird if he was gone for so long.
Cue Spider-Man kicking ass in pink ballet shoes and leggings.
This actually increased his popularity severely, and lots of people suddenly gained the interest in ballet; boys too, because if someone as cool as Spider-Man does it, everyone can do it.
When heâs back the instructors donât comment on the rip in his shirt, the dirt on his shoes, or the smear of paint on his leggings. They make sure to treat the class afterwards. After all, itâs not every day that Spider-Man stops a bunch of bankrobbers and manages to do a high pirouette without crashing through the ceiling this time!
This keeps getting better!
Someone: *Attempts to comment on how weird it is that Miles can throw Glenda high enough she can touch the roof with her palm*
The Stage Manager:
Ballet companies starting rumours that Spiderman doesnât actually has super powers, heâs just classically trained
You too could scale buildings if you would just practice regularly and focus on your core
It's pretty wild how I like pretty much only see trans women point out that boyhood or amab childhood or whatever you wanna call it is like a deeply traumatizing ordeal where everyone around you just sexually assaults you all the time. Like it wasn't until I started talking to trans women/transitioned myself until I started looking back on things like "oh maybe it's like actually super fucked up that boys started calling me a faggot in 3rd grade. Oh maybe all the sacktaps and titty twisters weren't just horseplay but rather fairly traumatizing sexual violence to inflict on a kid lol. Oh maybe all the homophobic bullying I experienced counts as 'sexual trauma'" etc etc. Like that recontextualization didn't happen until after realizing I was trans. Wonder what's going on there
AI generated art is bad for everyone
So many people are asking, will ai replace art - thatâs the wrong question. It already has. Not like in the sense that all art from now on will now be ai- but look at how many people rushed to download an $8 app.
And now whatâs worse is now the tech industry has that data, that in one day lensa ai made over $1 million. So now we know ai art isnât going anywhere. They have the proof that itâs worth it financially to use ai
What corporation is going to pay 10k for an illustrated ad campaign when they can spend $8 and $20 for someone of Fiverr to edit out that extra third hand.
Ai is bad for union makeup artists in film. Disney has already announced they plan on using AI instead of âexpensiveâ old age makeup.
Itâs bad for everyone & what they will come to expect in both immediacy & cost of creating art.
Itâs bad for any artist who has their artwork on social media in any way. Who now have to worry about their art being sampled without their consent or compensation.
This has absolutely changed the art industry.
Just ate an entire pear that was so good and so juicy i started gnawing on it with both hands like an animal and the face my supervisor made when he passed by my desk while I was absolutely consumed by my pear fueled bacchanal was Something i have never seen someone look so tired and also so upset and also also so envious
Had another pear today it was even JUICIER than the pear I had yesterday and had to eat over my trashcan so I didn't get juice all over myself and while I was hunched over lost in the sauce I heard the deepest sigh and when I looked up my supervisor was standing over me like
Called out in the company group chat
What the fuck kinda job do you have that you can't partake in the joys of pears. Capitalism is evil
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