I'm making a Spirk Visual Novel! Go check out @operation-kolinahr for more info!
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I mainly ship Spirk, but I also like McSpirk, Spones and McKirk (so basically everything involving those 3 little guys) + some other ships
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One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was āwhy donāt they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why arenāt more people addicted to the holodeck?ā
And then generative ai was created.
And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on peopleās likeness rights and permissions.
Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.
Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental itās been to the worldā¦ Iād much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than āparticipateā in a holodeck movie.
Whatās most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90ās were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.
Thatās the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. Itās just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.
Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.
And thatās the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.
It's midnight in Spain which means I can post my fic for the third day of @mirror-events!
The Empire doesn't allow relationships between humans and Vulcans, so the only way for Kirk to be with Spock involves using Marlena and a bunch of excuses.
My favorite Star Trek fact will always be that Spock is actually pretty spoiled.
He barely talks about his family, even going to the point of misleading people into thinking his parents are deceased, but then we learn they're not and they're actually a very big deal?? He's an ambassador's son?? That T'Pau just pulled up to his koon-ut-kal-if-fee ???
Now I understand why he was confused as to why his boyfriend wasn't getting him 6 pounds of platinum during the great deppresion....
The honor guard has given the impression of one solid mass this whole time, a single uniformed unit. So Jim doesnāt blame himself for turning absently to the warrior as he comes to stand beside Sarek. But then Jim actually sees him. The moment those dark eyes ā like charcoal embers in the gleam of the red sun ā catch Jimās own, Jim canāt force himself to look away.
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So Liss @onedamnminuteadmiral is writing a new ficĀ Paper Tigers,Ā and I naturally needed to doodle a thing for it - and that thing HAD to be the first look at Spock because HOT DAMN LONG HAIRED PRE REFORM GOODNESS - also check that excellent male representing nip nop you guysĀ
(please imagine some lush chest hair, I now realise I didnāt draw it because I am clearly an idiot)
spirk au where kirk made some adult content to pay his bills (never showing his face of course) who then joins the academy where spock freaks out immediately upon meeting him because he would recognize those hands he's been fantasizing about at night for the last couple of months anywhere send post
Kirk making exclusively Vulcan erotica is hilarious actually.
It started off as a joke, but then he was like "who's gonna to find out? It's not like there are many Vulcans on campus anyway, and Spock is so uptight that there's no way he's even heard of this site"
Spock never intended to become content moderator of Findin Glove, but they needed someone to do the code review and Sybok convinced him it was the best way to covertly rebel against their dad.
It's midnight in Spain which means I can post my fic for the third day of @mirror-events!
The Empire doesn't allow relationships between humans and Vulcans, so the only way for Kirk to be with Spock involves using Marlena and a bunch of excuses.
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