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writing fics and crying about my favs for 30+ years. chaotically reblogging in fits and tangents of hyperfixation the way god intended. born on the internet, will die on the internet.
Star Trek // Hannibal // Detroit: Become Human // Disco Elysium // The X-Files // Horizon
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I’m a sorceress, not a village herbalist.
So can we talk about the scene in The Search For Spock when Kirk and co. have gotten onto the Enterprise and are about to steal it
And Kirk tells them they can back out and everyone says, of course, hell no
And we get this most adorable album cover of smiles
And then Kirk with this look of utter adoration tells them to get to their stations
And everyone else goes off to a console to actually do something
But Bones just immediately walks over to stand next to the Captain’s chair and offer commentary, because he clearly considers his “station” to literally be that of Kirk’s right-hand man
and it’s where he belongs <3
Okay, but …
… you know, I just gotta say …
Usually McCoy stands on his left and Spock on his right
Kirk has two hands and Bones is responsible for both of them right now
So here’s the interesting thing about where McCoy stands (and I admit, I seized on the “right-hand man” pun without fully thinking about McCoy’s usual stance).
McCoy stands on Kirk’s left side, and the left side of the captain’s chair, most of the time.
But there are some exceptions.
Most of them have something to do with a disruption to the natural order of things (Kirk in the middle, McCoy to his left, Spock to his right). The first kind of disruption is when Kirk isn’t captain at the moment.
When Bones is fighting with the idea of Spock as leader (the middle of The Tholian Web, The Galileo Seven) he tends to stand on his left. It seems to be a visual representation of McCoy refusing to relinquish his traditional spot on Jim’s left side, and thus refusing to accept a change in leadership.
When McCoy is supporting Spock as temporary captain while Jim is in peril (The Doomsday Machine, the end of The Tholian Web, Arena), he stands on Spock’s right side.
The clearest example of this is in Arena, where he starts in his normal spot and moves over when he fully registers what’s happened; he literally invites Spock into the chair, and then moves to Spock’s normal spot.
At the end of The Tholian Web, he’s still to Kirk’s left, but to Spock’s right.
The second type of disruption occurs when Spock is in danger. When Spock is out of the picture, or when McCoy is extremely worried for Spock, he tends to stand on Jim’s right, where Spock should be. This happens both on the Bridge (Operation: Annihilate!)
and elsewhere (A Private Little War).
This also happens when Spock is taken over by an alien entity, such as Kollos (Is There in Truth No Beauty?) You can see McCoy saving Spock’s rightful spot here.
When Spock has been taken over by Henoch (Return to Tomorrow) and is in the captain’s chair, McCoy is desperately trying to save his life: again, standing at his right side.
The best representation of the “Spock in Peril Switch,” though, is in The Immunity Syndrome. After Spock leaves the ship, McCoy stands at Jim’s right - both by the Captain’s chair and everywhere else.
It’s like he’s keeping Spock’s spot warm; he always has hope that Spock will return, and speaks to this perhaps more directly in this episode than any other (until, of course, his speech to Spock’s comatose body in The Search For Spock). “Spock. Is it me, Jim? Am I so sentimental that I just have to keep believing that he’s still alive in that mass of protoplasm?” Even Spock makes a joke that McCoy is out of order, calling him “Captain McCoy.”
But as soon as they find out Spock’s alive and they’re pulling him to safety? Watch McCoy move.
So, yes, upon more thought, that seems to be what Bones is doing here. He’s keeping hope (and Spock) alive, standing in his place, and keeping it safe for him.
And I still have Feelings about it.
Happy 40th anniversary to The Search For Spock (June 1, 1984), one of the movies of all time (and position)
Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum
This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.
I think this middle aged mormon software engineer turned game show host would fit in on this webbed site send post
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
Edited down a long tweet. (x)
That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science
Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?
Me when Drakka inevitably shows up in Horizon 3 even though I always kill him in my Forbidden West playthroughs
Omg why do you kill him everytime?😂
He hates Meat, which is a crime punishable by death
I think the reasons that parts of Star Trek Enterprise didn't work are fairly obvious, so let's skip over them to the good stuff. This is vibes-based so limited spoilers but suffice to say, if you're willing to put up with about half the episodes frankly failing at Star Trek, what you will get is, to me at least, really worth it:
The crew feels more like modern humans as they are much less altered by centuries of fully automated luxury gay space communism
This absolutely still works as Star Trek because in the best episodes you can feel the writers screaming GROW DAMN YOU, GROW YOU MARVELOUS FUCKED UP MONKEYS
Captain Archer basically has to live with this kind of brilliant awful weight of starting out with this joyful Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations image of meeting aliens and then like 80% of the time it's running into assholes who got warp travel while being like WAY bigger jerks than humans are in the 2150s
Like it's a very specific flavor of melancholy and Scott Bacula did a good job of portraying it slowly weighing him down on a deep spiritual level
This having a profoundly FUCKED relationship with how Vulcans always seemed to think Humans "weren't ready" especially given how very personal the show makes that point for Archer in particular
Sometimes it's legitimately peak Star Trek, especially when it leans into its relationship with TOS more than, say, the TNG era.
Dr Phlox aka it's me, this character is literally me
When Vulcans are being handled correctly they are handled AMAZINGLY. Sometimes it's bad, but when it's good it RULES
Also the relationship between Vulcans and Humans is really developed in interesting ways that feel perfectly in line with what we have known about them outside of Enterprise
This show literally reinvented Andorians in a way that took them out of the TOS back catalogue and made them into an amazing addition to the core canon races
Tellurites get their due? Finally??
Like if this show had been able to have more of its own identity and more time to grow it would be WAY more widely respected than it is now, like if you haven't seen it maybe look for a skip list first, but by all means give it a go, ESPECIALLY if you were fond of TOS.
Edit, OH AND ALSO:
The galaxy without the Federation is portrayed very intentionally as in kind of a dark age, lots of brooding, miserable conflicts and long-standing injustices. Kind of like the other end of the bookcase with Academy.
Sometimes the show truly, truly executes on understanding its own identity and what that means for trek and sometimes that means a powerfully impactful medical mystery episode and sometimes it means Archer is forced to put a mop on his head and apologize for letting his dog piss on a tree in the Sacred Grove.
I barely believe they managed it but the new Zephram Cochrane canon from the TNG movie was threaded into the story flawlessly
I cannot stress enough how much fun Dr. Phlox is. His entire thing of being simultaneously ridiculous, profound, witty, charming, a lil freak, very normal about animal-based medicine, polyamorous and just slightly a dick about it to monogomous species, and every once in a while shockingly badass in a way that fits inside his natural limitations of being a Good Soft Boy is a masterclass in how you get me to bestow the title of The Character on someone
just like there's lots to rant about
holy shit have you evver tried this new substance called album in order
it magically turns songs you don’t like into songs you like!!!
Brushes with Death
in the age of repression and purity culture, getting more perverted is the only morally correct course of action
#(thousand-yard sex-disinterested aroace stare) cool opinion. love seeing this same sentiment 10000 times a day on this website
im also aroace. being disinterested in sex and romance is still sexual perversion in the eyes of the state. get more perverted in whichever direction fills you with the most joy!!!!!!
how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english
"miss"
"miz"
other
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really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll
i am losing my fucking mind
#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so
"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)
"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)
"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools
Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.
I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"
That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.
I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.
Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.
I'm in my 50's and have been married for over twenty years. I did not change my name when I got married because I did not want to. I use Ms. because my marital status is no one's business but my own. Ms. (pronounced MIZ) has been a standard honorific my entire life.
If you've never heard of it, then you grew up in a bubble. Climb out and look the term up instead of flaunting your ignorance.
I'm gonna be honest, I've never heard of it, but I'm not native to an english language country.
We don't get teached Ms. in class, I guess because it's a popular word not yet regarded as offical? (I trully have no idea).
I also haven't seen in used in books nor in media, and I think that should be done. I don't get to consume a lot of street level english outside reading it in here or pieces of fiction.
This made me realize that my comment, which I was directing at what I presumed to be other native English speakers, was unnecessarily harsh to folks from other countries/cultures/languages. My apologies.
The term Ms. has actually existed in English for quite a long time. It's used in TV and movies fairly regularly, but depending on the speaker's accent, could easily be confused with Miss.
But in English,
'Miss' (mis) is used for girls or unmarried women.
'Mrs.' (mi-səz) is used for married women.
'Ms.' (miz) is used for adult women whose marital status is irrelevant.
The most common way that Ms. is used is actually not for "my marital status is irrelevant", but for divorcees and widows. Aka people who had been married but no longer are, and neither Miss nor Mrs really apply. I have met a lot of divorced women and nearly every single one switched to using Ms. when she got divorced after using Mrs. while she was married
Hey, no, that's incorrect. As was explained several posts up from the chain you re logged, Ms. came widely into use during second wave feminism in the US specifically as a means of removing the association of a woman's marital status from their identity. It IS, in fact, used primarily for this reason. This is also how it was taught to me (and many others per this thread) in elementary school when we learned about titles and honorifics.
In fact, the way it was specifically explained to me by my teacher as a child was that it was the female equivalent of Mr. Mister does not change with the man's marital status, so why should a woman's honorific have to change with hers? Now, divorcees and widows may have a particular reason that they would prefer to use "Ms." rather than either Miss or Mrs. given their circumstances, but I've known many women who were not those things who used Ms. simply bc it's nobody's business if they're married or not.
“Sometimes i think you love your people more than god loves them, Kathryn.”
bringing together all my kathryn janeway terror/voyager crossover sketches into one place because @fate-motif keeps torturing me with this idea (originally based on this post)
the thing about this setting is that it can be a true Terror/Voyager crossover AU but in my mind it's more of a holonovel that Janeway has been running ever since her father and fiance died on the ice planet of Tau Ceti Prime, in which she could have saved one of them but didn't act fast enough, so she lost both of them and then fell into a deep deep depression.
the Doomed Arctic Exploration holoprogram is her way of dealing with the black dog on her back. It's a self-flagellation device, a torment nexus of her own design, her own personal Kobayashi Maru. The point isn't that haha Janeway could bring Terror and Erebus back home, but Crozier couldn't bring back Voyager. The point is that Janeway already thinks she can't bring Voyager back home, but she staunchly refuses to allow herself to lose that hope to begin with.
Her worst days aren't when she loads up the holoprogram to suffer on the ice and watch her crewmen die. Her worst days are when she locks herself in her quarters for months of endless darkness in space and cannot bring herself to even care enough to wash her hair.
Anyway have another frosty Janeway
Bank of Sapphire Cold?
An Ikea of Ruby and Cold
A Chocolatier of Pearl and Fog
A Pilates Studio of Aquamarine and Sunshine.
“A Gas Station of Peridot and Sunshine” would actually be a pretty good title for slightly-purple short story about childhood roadtrip nostalgia.
A Home of Sapphire and Snow
Ngl, that title slaps
A walk around the block of zircon and drizzle.
A Publisher of Ruby and Spring Sun
