A Fan Of Dinosaurs

Fan of Star Trek, Transformers, Star Wars, The City of Dreaming Books, Doctor Who, Lost in Space (Netflix), Terry Pratchett, Ghibli | black lives matter | lgbtqia+ lives matter | asexual and aromantic | autistic | Anti Rey/o

[drpantalone]

🎨 Go_Me_bucket on x

I hope to see you again

[familywhitesilk]

I dropped all of my current wips just to draw hot old man

[jaennie]

ZHONGLI with HU TAO for the Lantern Rite

[improbabledreams900]

Murderbot quoting The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon in episodes 1 and 2

[4 and 6]

Bonus:

[bj-cuntycunt]

Dynamic of all time.

[effervescent-fool]

genuinely one of the funniest scenes in the entire show. the slow head turn. leonard nimoy your acting choices never cease to amaze me

[iguanadonis]

red alert, shirtless kirk🚨🏳️‍🌈

[imagine-jim-bones-and-spock]

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[imagine-jim-bones-and-spock]

HAPPY MAY THE FOURTH, YOU GUYS!!

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (December 20th, 2015)

[marlinspirkhall]

A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

[taken-aurally]

It’s years before anyone explains it to him.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

[whetstonefires]

The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That’s a word, it’s his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they’re putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.

It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.

Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.

[thesaltofcarthage]

Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).

And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.

The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down. 

Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city. 

And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families. 

There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride. 

[shinobicyrus]

YES IT’S BACK ON MY DASH AT LAST

For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.

Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”

A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.

Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.

Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.

And he’d probably remember them too. “Welcome back, Eliza.”

[departmentq]

“…Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so logically happiness must slow it down…”

Will reblog every time it crosses my dash 🖖🏾

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (November 14th, 2020)

[spock-shock]

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

[rainbowresurrection]

The very fact that every TOS reboot is afraid to depict the closeness between Kirk and Spock in the same way it was depicted originally is a devastating reinforcement of how gay that shit was

[rainbowresurrection]

Riddle me this, Batman: if Kirk and Spock weren't queer coded then why were they straightwashed

[humansofjudaism-deactivated2023]

🖖 Leonard Nimoy discusses the Jewish connection to the Vulcan salute he used on Star Trek.

Video: Yiddish Book Center

Wexler Oral History Project

[doccywhomst]

that’s so fascinating about the letter ש (shin) - i’ve been noticing its prevalence in words about time: hour (שעה), second (שניה), year (שנה), and clock (שעון) all begin with ש, as well as the words for change (שינוי) and the sun (שמש). this is unusual, since the letter’s frequency in Hebrew is only 4.77% - and even stranger, it also begins the word shalom (שלומ) meaning peace, and occurs twice in sigsug (שגשוג), meaning “prosperity.”

in conclusion: the letter shin perfectly represents the blessing “live long and prosper.” 🖖

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[saudrag]

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants. But I have no wish to serve under them. Captain… the starship is also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing to replace it, or him.”

[aenslem]

STAR TREK | The Immunity Syndrome

[theconcealedweapon]

Think about why it’s illegal to hire a hit man.

All you’re really doing is speaking and giving someone money.

It’s legal to speak.

It’s legal to give someone money.

Even if they actually complete the job, you’re not the one who committed the murder.

So why is it illegal to hire a hit man?

Could it be because inciting violence is not protected under free speech?

And if that’s the case, why should free speech protect Nazis advocating genocide?

[suicunesrider]

Never reblogged something harder in my life

[animestan69]

I guess I'll be the one to make it official:

"Der Schuh des Manitu" ist ein Film voller Rassismus und Homophobie. Wer das nicht merkt, merkt gar nichts mehr.

Das Argument "aber es ist ne Parodie von Winnetou!!!!" steht nicht mal auf dem wackeligsten aller Beine. Ja, es ist ne Parodie... im Sinne von ner lustigen Hommage... ner Ode an Mays Wunderwerk der Fetischisierung von Native Americans.

Black face, brown face, etc. Alles vertreten. Nicht einer der Schauspieler ist native, alle weiß oder Hilmi Sözer. "Ja, hier in Deutschland gibt es halt keine Native Americans!!!!" Factually untrue. Aber... ist das Grund genug... sich das Gesicht braun anzumalen und sich ne Feder ins Haar zu stecken? Anscheinend.

Deutschland liiieeeebt die Fantasy von Native American life, the noble savage, der edle Wilde. Oh, the Faschingskostüme... the Cowboy und Indianer tunes.... the Indianer Festivals... Karl really brought that type of, uh.......... escapism....... to Germany. Die DDR weiß Bescheid.

Der anti-indigenous Rassismus (u.a), der in DSDM in jeder Szene vertreten ist, ist blatant, obvious and undeniable. Das Argument "Parodie" ist mMn keine Rechtfertigung. Die offensichtliche Homophobie, i mean, offensichtlich. (T)raumschiff Surprise lässt auch grüßen. Sexismus? Lmao, for a DM, name 1 woman, Bully. Aber, sage und schreibe, that is the smallest offense, truly.

Ihr könnt euch den Film anschauen, kein Problem, er ist nostalgischer Kult, aber just... just remind yourself.