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everchased

THAT one's goin on the list too now!

thehmn

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

crabs-and-bedbugs

It was a global problem

sassylavellen

Questing in the Hinterlands like

jojaxcola

peep peep

[jojamart mockumentary #10]

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yehudigorl

tis the season

aka-maayan

I forgot about this

tikkunhayam

I haven’t seen this show up on my dash ONCE yet this Chanukah season I have to do everything by myself

justpiningforthefjords

HAPPY CHANUKAH BABES

strijkdesign

It's may again and like last year I plan to share some new merfolk paintings. To start this #mermay I'm sharing some of my past paintings in honor of this month.

I'm looking forward to a month with my feed filled with mermaids!

yvonnie6001

Concept:

Me, actually replying to a message, instead of leaving it so long it’s weird to reply because I don’t know how to answer

willidleaway

luminousfinn

Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?

livelongandgetiton

The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo

ameliacgormley

How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”

elljayvee

Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS

chandri

James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

ellidfics

Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.

It was written and aired in 1969.

It probably couldn’t air today.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

geekygothgirl

Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”

prokopetz

It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.

The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.

fuckyeahsources

For a summary of those points, see “Star Trek’s Underappreciated Feminist History” by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Becker’s “Space and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininity”.

And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

Originally posted by zidlersdiamonddogs

moandkatelive

There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

sodomymcscurvylegs

This is my favorite post on this website because it features so many of my favorite things: Star Trek, important social issues on television, Lucille Ball…

#ILoveLucy #ILoveStarTrek