A place both wonderful and strange...

[imaginaryvenom]

Hello Tumblr!

I've decided to start putting more effort into this blog, and I'm abandoning my separate art blog (I cringe at how bad a lot of my older work was!).

I'll be posting my own art here as well as reblogging things I love (mostly women and sci-fi!) 🖖😊💖

Some handy tags:

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[rosalie-starfall]

Una Chin-Riley (Number One) -  Ghosts of Illyria

[evviejo]

SEVEN OF NINE - STAR TREK: VOYAGER S6E23 Fury

[beautyofsorrow]

i think a lot about una chin-riley and grief. how grief lives in the body bends its shape to the body makes a home of the body becomes the body’s grief. i think about her as a child looking up at the nighttime sky and all its stars, dreaming of a better place. i think of how she had to leave everyone she knew behind to find that better place, and how even once she got there, she had to continue to hide. i think about how the dates we have are hazy but seem to imply that there are gaps in her canon—details hinted at that we don’t fully see. twenty-five years of estrangement between her & neera, but those twenty-five years are all years she spent in starfleet, and una and her family started passing long before she left for earth. i think about how this means she was still in contact with neera for some of those years. i think about the length of time they must have been friends or lovers or friends who are also lovers/a secret third thing for the strength of their estrangement to sting so hard even now, twenty-five years after neera or una or whoever it was put that silence in place. i think about how in beta canon, some of the novels establish that una’s birth name isn’t una because illyrian names are impossible for non-illyrians to pronounce, so upon joining starfleet she chose a different name. i think about how this isn’t canon on strange new worlds but also isn’t *not* canon and how many ways there are to read the act of renaming. there’s the cultural assimilation angle, of course, bending oneself to other’s wants and needs and in the process losing a piece of yourself. but there’s also a queerness to the act. queer as in other queer as in else queer as in looking around you and realizing you don’t conform to the shape of other tongues. queer as in reborn. queer as in remaking. queer as in having to find a word for what and who you are now and settling on a name that means solitary, solo, single, one. this is not a post about una anymore it is a post about queerness and birthdays and estrangement and growing up, of the grief involved in all of it but also the strange and wild and unexplainable joy of growing into your truest self no matter how old you are. i think about una chin-riley and grief so much. but i also think about una and her smile, una and her tipped-back laugh, una and the way she’s made a home for herself and others despite the galaxy’s best effort to knock her on her ass. grief never leaves, i think. but it’s possible to invite other emotions to the table to sit alongside that grief. and that’s what una teaches me

[aenslem]

Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley 4.01 "Valles Marineris" | STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022–)

[movietrack]

First look of Rebecca Romijn returning as MYSTIQUE

Avengers Doomsday, December 18 release

[sg1]

SG1'S 1K CELEBRATION ☆ @letskzuniverse requested ↳ Vala Mal Doran + Hotter Than Hell

[imaginaryvenom]

Rebecca Romijn as Eve Baird in The Librarians

[delta-yuri]

Where is my mind?

[draculadhd]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[fruitcakebro]

Holy moly they're GOOD. The music is fucking FIRE, and the outfits??? They're all so PRETTY???

[snoodly-boop]

Does anybody know who these are??? Do they have albums!! 🤩🤩🤩

[raspberryslut]

I was so curious that I had to go find this band. They're called Fortress Dwellers and they have a website with all of their socials!

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

MUSIC | Fortress Dwellers

Step into the fantasy world of Fortress Dwellers. A fantasy Renaissance musical collective blending epic original music, immersive performan

[kuviraissues]

i like putting them in situations

[themodelarchive]

Rebecca Romijn photographed by Mark Liddell for Ocean Drive Magazine (April 2004)

[mistressvera]

[imaginaryvenom]

Another one of Una, in a different style 💛

[blockbustervideos]

Claudia Black as Vala Mal Doran STARGATE: THE ARK OF TRUTH (2008)

[me-and-my-gaster]

I really wanted to capture the vibes of the retro covers of scifi magazines and books. I went overboard with it but this time managed to stay somewhat on track. Hope you like it!