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#plague poems #covid #covid 19 #still coviding

It’s always “phones are ruining our brains” and never “the virus known for post-viral cognitive decline, which causes short term memory loss, brain fog, and decreased spatial reasoning, that we let run rampant through our communities for years is ruining our brains”

hopeforyouyet

It’s both.

Truly.

Gotta get off of the phones/screens, back to reading books, back to exercising, back to sleeping well, and all the while, gotta clean the air, wear N95s, get vaccinated every 6 months, and stay home when sick. This means not eating with others except those you live with. It means significantly changing one’s life. But not necessarily forever… influenza was silent during the winter of 2020-2021! We can do that again, make Covid stop circulating. And sterilising vaccines are coming!

#covid 19 #still coviding #long covid #covid conscious #covid

impossibletruths

#wait sentinel aus are based on an actual show???#I thought they were just one of those inexplicable Fandom Things - im WHEEZING, i love this so much

never Once have I ever seen a reference to an actual extant intellectual property, it’s always “what if we had this super complicated codependent pseudo-magic sci-fi thing going on” and then just running with it OTL

theroseandthebeast

i do not have the spoons to FULLY get into it, as it demands, but the one with the military haircut (he’s a cop, a “protector”, c’est la vie) is Jim Ellison, former Army Ranger, repressed fool. curly haired bb is Blair Sandburg, an anthropology grad student who realizes Jim is a Sentinel of legend, latches onto him like a remora, and Jim basically leans on Blair like a crutch all the while pretending he doesn’t care for him in a very “I made you a friendship bracelet” “ugh gross” “well you don’t have to---” “shut up I’m gonna wear it” way

they were handsy

HANDSY I SAY

they STARTED handsy

they moved in together in like. ep one.

they become partners in the cop sense, they do a lot of gift of the magi shit for each other, every time I start to think of the stupid shit they do for another I remember More Weird Shit, codependent fucking weirdos

drunktuesdays

Okay, I absolutely MUST chime in For The Sentinel which NEVER gets the respect of its peers just because "the plots were a little convoluted" and the "central premise wore a little thin as the seasons went on." those men were in love. THOSE MEN WERE LOVERS!!!!!

What you need to know about The Sentinel is that the very first episode is about Jim Ellison acquiring mystical powers. YES I want to be clear, the way he acquires these powers is "problematical" and "not great, respecting indigenous cultures wise" but okay, so he's got these powers that make all of his senses amped up to dangeous levels. he can hear things no one else can hear, he can see things like he's fucking legolas, you get the deal.

so he goes to the doctor to be like "i feel weird" because of course, and Blair Sandberg, twink anthropologist to the stars, BREAKS SEVERAL LAWS to get in Jim's exam room and say—i know how to help you. i know what's wrong with you. i know how to make life better. and jim ellison looked at the little twink man and said yes....YES to love YES to life YES to living in a 1 bedroom LOFT apartment together. YES to being soulmates and life partners! YES I'LL MARRY YOU!!!!!!

This is the ORIGINAL big gruff german sheppard/lil yapping chihuahua pairing. And fandom looked at this show and said "this is good. i will build a kingdom upon this land. from now on, these are the two genders: big, angry, powerful, forced to their knees by circumstances beyond their control AND small, jokester, has skills INVALUABLE to Big, bad self worth. And then so the sentinel/guide aus RULED the pervert community, and everyone rejoiced.

And then SPN looked at this, and said "but what if the guides also had wet butts" and u kno what? innovation is CRUCIAL.

crimsonclad

my friend had Sentinel VHS tapes acquired from someone on the internet and basically every episode featured tough military man Jim being driven to his knees in agony verging on madness bc of his mystical senses being overwhelmed and tiny commie academic Blair soothing him and healing his agonies by touching him (and communicating with him via psychic leopards????) so they could save lives and the show wasn’t GOOD but my god it was something

meret118

It's also the little black dress of AUs for other fandoms - Mulder/Scully, Clark/Lex, Derek/Stiles. It goes with everything! :)

fritokal

So today I learned that The Sentinel was a show, and so what is the term for when you get un-Goncharoved?

I THOUGHT IT WAS A FANDOM TROPE LIKE OMEGAVERSE

cesperanza

God this was such an important fandom to me. My Sentinel friends are my family now, more than a quarter of a century later. Merryish, who first offered my fanfic a home* in —1997? 1998?—taught my kid to snorkel 20 years later. Flummery are my kid’s fairy godmothers. I basically married astolat 25 years ago. And every time I see one of you Sentinel people online (waves to a bunch of you who reblogged this) I feel like I’ve run into someone from the old country! That fandom literally changed my life.

But also, fannishly, so inventive! Some of the first vids I ever saw back before there were computers –VHS vids, wonderful ones. (Shout out to GloRo!) Great great fanfic and art. I still have gorgeous zines from this period. And the loft tape! Go to fanlore and look up the loft tape you guys!!

*before the AO3! When you needed someone to host your fic! This is part of why we built the AO3! So many (so many!!!) Sentinel people involved in building the AO3! Astolat built the Sentinel archive, 852 Prospect, a decade before the AO3, that was our first practice archive software. That software was adapted and used in other fandoms like due South. Seah and I were both DS archivists. This is all part of the story of how the AO3 came about. The sentinel/guide trope is the least of it. The Sentinel’s impact on fandom is totally outsized considering what a minor show it was. But it had a great concept that it did not fully exploit, which I think is in fact, what an amazing fandom needs.

hopeforyouyet

I happened along just after The Sentinel was a thing, just after Highlander crested, and about twelve years before I then found all the AOS bar denizens. But oh, reading Sentinel fic was fun.

#i’m old #fandom history

aquato-blog

getting a note on a super old post

estel-and-agape

possibly-emu

reblog to slap op with some paper in the wind

leupagus

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I need everyone to go read this right now - even if you've never watched Strange New Worlds, even if you're not a huge Trek fan, this fic is literally what they mean by "transformative works" and I cried (and laughed) a LOT. It is so good that I am suing spqr for emotional damages.

hopeforyouyet

I’ll go take a look

#procrastination thru fanfic like I’m 35 again

kaelio

my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice

kaelio

the tag game on this post is so strong

mikkeneko

#a lot of the time this happens because someone in their 40’s got into 1 new thing and threw a fic at it before resuming business as usual#like sorry gang they’re not a youth who’s weirdly into your mom’s shows they’re your mom who played genshin impact

cesperanza

Luke, I am your mom.

sdreamersc82

OMG!

🎥 TV Insider

hopeforyouyet

Ugh

#ugh

bloodbending

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bots, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

curliestofcrowns

where's that speed skating gif

yeppppp

Wow. Truth.

Keith Haring painting a mural at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1983.

mobius-m-mobius

I was following you // No, I was following you

ruinedchildhood

Man Uses Cardboard to Create His Own Sci-fi World

rylandsgrace

#Icon

section1rules

😂😂😂😂😂

itreallyisthelittlethings

Two things that happened on the same day:

Captain Kirk recorded this:

“Captain’s Log, Stardate 2263.02. Today is our 966th day in deep space - A little under three years into our five year mission. The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins. It can be a challenge to feel grounded, when even the gravity is artificial. But while we do what we can to make it feel like home, the crew, as always, continues to act admirably despite the rigors of our extended stay here in outer space, the personal sacrifices they made. We continue to search for new lifeforms in order to establish firm diplomatic ties. Our extended time in uncharted territory has stretched the ship’s mechanical capacities but fortunately our engineering department, led by Mr. Scott, is more than up to the job. The ship aside, prolonged cohabitation has definitely had effects on the interpersonal dynamics. Some experiences for the better and some for the worse. As for me, things have started to feel a little episodic. The farther out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we are trying to accomplish. But if the universe is truly endless, then are we not striving for something forever out of reach? The Enterprise is scheduled for re-provisioning stop at Yorktown, the Federation’s newest, most advanced starbase. Perhaps a break from routine will offer up some respite from the mysteries of the unknown.”

and Spock Prime died:

On the same day that Kirk made allusions to shifting ‘interpersonal dynamics’ and gave voice to feeling lost, disconnected and without purpose was the same day Spock Prime died.

demonkidpliz

#Look- I’m not saying its space husbands but#space husbands#and I’m not saying that they had a mind link#but it is canon that Spock prime melded with a version of his t’hy’la that he hadn’t seen/felt for 90+ years#at the same time he was dealing with hearing the death screams of 6 billion Vulcans#and if there was ever a time for an accidental bond to be created…#and I’m not saying that Kirks feelings came on in just one day#I’m sure he gave voice to these same concerns in his private logs#The disconnect#(what kind of stress is placed on the body and mind when there is a mental link but no acknowledgement of link?)#Feeling lost#(we don’t know how Spock died other than it was natural causes was the link fading as Spock lost awareness?)#Without purpose#(what must it feel like *knowing* he belongs on the bridge of that ship with Spock at his side#but having to live with Spock choosing someone else’s side?)#definitely not saying he wasn’t feeling these things before#but there had to have been a tipping point#to say these things in his ‘official for the record’ record#sad kirk#spock prime always makes me cry (via @itreallyisthelittlethings)

suedescripture

What if that day, or the night before, what if that was the day after shift, Spock met the Captain to play chess, and he noticed the captain was having an alcoholic beverage, and on asking why, Jim responded that he just felt a little odd today and wanted to relax. And things with Nyota have not been ideal, Spock has also felt stressed in a way meditation has not helped, so why not. Instead of getting tea, he replicates hot chocolate. And so they drink, and play chess, and talk around everything, and then as they reset the board, their fingers accidentally touch and they both feel something, and it’s the weirdest, most palpable sense of simultaneous loss of self and being found at the same time.

Spock is a scientist, curious and thoughtful, and Jim is lonely, so lonely, and still reckless, still willing to leap without looking, even at 30. One thing leads to another that night.

They’d been drinking. It wouldn’t happen again. They’re both professionals, and anyway, they have a mission to complete. So they are cordial, they are polite, and they will pretend it didn’t feel like the closest thing to home either of them had ever known.

No please, after you.