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[stillboldlygoing]

New York Times -- January 16, 1995

"Star Trek" has long been a multicultural champion of erasing prejudices of all sorts. This time it just goes a bit further. After all, it's the 32nd century.

Critiquing Star Trek is an important tenet of Trekkie culture and one of the many ways this fandom expresses its love for the source material. & honestly? I love that for us. BUT. You'd think we'd have evolved past this particular flavor of bullshit in *checks stardate* THIRTY-ONE FUCKING YEARS

[dogpuppy]

[mono-red-menace]

[itshype]

Yes, the fics where Ilya goes to Shane's game in his jersey are cute and romantic. But why has no one even considered:

[louiemssleepsalot]

saw this post and then read OpalApparition's fic on ao3 and well...its inspired me to to do this. My first offering to the HR fandom.

I love crack fics with Ilya just being such a Shane Hollander fanboy. Haha

[ilyparkerellis]

People who’re complaining about how it doesn’t feel like John and Francesca are in love are watching that show with closed eyes. It’s so obvious that they love each others deeply. Francesca went against her own mother and the queen for that man. She adores him. She met him when she needed him most. And it’s clear what he makes her feel. A self-affection. She likes herself around him. From the moment she met him, she felt like she could trust him completely. But whether the issue is comphet or the natural embarrassment that comes with lack of experience, it’s also obvious that they are young. Francesca married him at eighteen. (Nineteen/twenty in the book!) And who knows themselves at that age? What they like, who they are, who they should spent the rest of their life with? At the end of the day, those two are figuring it out together. The fumbling and awkward part of it makes it all the more endearing and real

Francesca’s youth is also highlighted in the way she interacts with Michaela. My girl so obviously doesn’t know what to do with herself around her. Her own desires are like a feral animal she doesn’t want in her house. She tenses every time Michaela’s name is mentioned, is ill-at-ease, or weirdly hostile. People takes it as a sign that her “love” for Michaela runs deeper, but that’s not love yet. It’s attraction. And even without John in the picture, Francesca would’ve fumbled her at this time of her life lmao

[ninacarstairss]

honestly francesca holding michaela’s hand for 2 seconds and her deciding to flee the country immediately after is the most relatable queer representation ever

[jordanbolton]

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[menkhubones]

There was this horrible moment I had while reading SotR today where I realized Haymitch looked at Katniss and saw the dead little girl with dark braided hair he had to carry to Snow’s doorstep, his best friend he had to push away for his own good, and the Covey girl he couldn’t save all rolled into one more tribute he had to lead to her death wearing the meanest girl in town’s pin. I need to be sedated

[rosegardeninwinter]

every iteration of the Katniss as mother discussion only makes me more committed to increasingly intense interpretations

broke: “Katniss didn’t want to be a mother”

woke: “Katniss’s relationship with maternity is complex”

bespoke: “Katniss’s path to voluntary, joyful, mature motherhood after being forced into a position of functional teenage maternity not only for Prim but for the revolution and Panem itself is actually a fundamental part of her heroine’s journey and to change the epilogue is to trivialize the whole narrative”

[sailermoon]

sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”

[sailermoon]

[anime-girl-ash-williams]

Real

[portraitoftheoddity]

Once knew a guy from LARP who told a story about when he had first gotten his hands on chainmail and was getting used to wearing it and maintaining mobility and balance with the weight of it (it was heavy stuff). So he started wearing it under his clothes when he was out running errands and stuff to practice for when he had to wear it in mock combat.

Then one night he was coming home late and got mugged by a dude with a knife.

Apparently the look on the dude's face was amazing when he went in to gut the guy for his wallet and found out he was wearing medieval armor under his hoodie.

So, you know. Pretty good argument for wearing it under streetclothes!

[magicratfingers]

so maybe my type isn't totally unrealistic

[jeanjauthor]

Fun story, i talked to two people who worked at a convenience store in the Kingdom of An Tir (SCA medieval society, An Tir's territory is WA, BC, northern ID, and OR, and in the past included AB and SK).

This convenience store was notorious for getting robbed in the evenings one or two times a month, so nobody wanted to work the night shift. The one fellow, he desperately needed a job, but he was also learning how to be a heavy fighter (sword & shield) in the SCA, so he had just finished a chainmail shirt, and asked if he could wear it under his uniform shirt, so long as it didn't show. The manager was just happy that he had someone willing to work nights, and said yeah, sure, so long as it doesn't show.

Guy starts working the night shifts, things are fine, he's getting used to everything, then late one night, a guy in a hoodie comes in, and asks for a pack of cigarettes. Our guy turns to get the pack, and feels a thump on his back. Turning around, scowling, he demands, "Did you just hit me??"

Guy in the hoodie widens his eyes, goes ash-gray, and faints. Clerk can't budge from behind the counter in case this is an attempt to distract and rob. But the guy remains out coold. Confused, our clerk calls the emergency services. EMTs come along and start checking out the patient, who is still out cold on the floor. While they're doing that, one of them comes up to the counter and asks what happened, exactly.

Our man tells the EMT, "Well, he just came in, looked around, came up to the counter and asked for a specific pack of cigarettes, so I turned to get them--"

And he demonstrates by turning his back to the EMT, who suddenly starts shouting, "--Sir! Sir! Are you okay? Don't move!"

Our man feels the EMT groping his upper back, and then the EMT asks,

"What the hell are you WEARING?"

"A chainmail shirt. I have to get used to the weight of it, so I wear it a lot. Why? Is something wrong?"

"You have a KNIFE in your back!"

"Uhh...no, I don't? I mean, I don't feel hurt? He only, like, punched me or something. There's no knife back there--I mean, I'd KNOW if there was a knife back there, right?"

EMT grabs the knife and pushes on his shoulder, yanking it out. "THIS knife! I'm going to need to examine your back!"

So they manage to get him out of his uniform shirt and out of the hauberk and out of the linen shirt under it (because chainmail bites suck, plus it's not nearly as fun as a Brazilian waxjob, because my SCA friend was hairy)...and it turns out he only had a very small scratch from the tip of the knife...which had gotten lodged in the riveted links.

...That was why the guy fainted. He'd stabbed the store clerk, who had turned around angrily, knife still lodged in his back.

Manager was so happy to have hired the guy, as that was the first time in like eight or nine months that the store hadn't been successfully robbed.