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bought a second hand kindle from the pawn shop and would love to get in touch with the previous owner to discuss their interests 👍

roguepythia

Whelp, that's where my Kindle disappeared to. ;p

#damn good alien abduction romances #kindle books #got some spice #will need to check out the ones i don't already have

t00thpasteface

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

#star trek #star trek tos #so cool #i was a trekkie 1st before all

shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

flagellant

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

coffee-or-hot-cocoa

i need all the help i can get for finals

finnglas

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.

So you know.

This might be the real one, y’all.

actualverso

Give salary increase and wfh plz

thehappyfangirl

Just completed an application for a new job - could use all the good luck

#fingers crossed #new full time job

hijustanotherfangirl

Me flicking through my fandoms on ao3 as if it were a cookbook: so what are we feeling like today? More gay pirates or immortal husbands? Maybe something with magic?

Flicking through tags as if they were ingredients: Oh this angst would pare PERFECTLY with this protective tag! What about a little comfort sprinkled in? Oh this one calls for whump AND reluctant allies to lovers!!!

#fandom #fanfic #this is hella funny #cause its true

psmith73

Harry and Matt at the THOS4 convention in Paris, June 2022

roguepythia

I can't find the video for this. Anyone got a link!? Cause I miss these 2 so much.

#2022 thos #i miss them so much #same #harry shum jr #matthew daddario #malec

queerhoodies

the heartstopper cast dancing with pride flags and flipping off homophobes is my new favorite thing. ever.

roguepythia

Idk if it's the music, the joyous dancing, or the totally inept old white guys flailing but this feels like the end of a movie from the 80s/90s.

#heartstopper #pride #the cast are all awesome

frogayyyy

imagine you start watching this new show and it’s a silly little show about space set in the future then they announce the next season so you wait excitedly for five months and finally it’s here… you all sit round the tv and suddenly one of the main characters who is known for being unemotional starts going mad because of “biology…” and you slowly realise that he needs to have sex or he’s going to die so the other main character risks his entire career to help him out then they start ‘wrestling’ on the sand and the one going through the mating fever ends up killing the other guy which ends the fever but now he’s depressed because he just killed his best friend but wait he’s not actually dead the unemotional one is overjoyed everything’s fine and then they go back to work like nothing happened… you look at everyone else sitting in stunned silence thinking “did any one else think that was a little… yknow” then you accidentally start modern fandom and shipping culture

frogayyyy

very much enjoying the tags thank you everybody

olderthannetfic

Wait till they all actually watch it and see the unnecessary titty window situation.

nebulations

[ID: A collection of tags that read:

#THAT was the plot?? #and they wanted us to believe the guy didnt have sex with the unemotional guy?

#star trek is so so gay

#ive seen some posts. but i did not realize it was..... that gay.

#only halfway through did i realise that this was star trek #i thought at first op was watching some freaky ass gay scifi and i was fully prepared to try find it #but lo and behold #ive already watched the damn show

#star trek #are they... you know... 💁🏿‍♀️

(In caps) #what #star trek invented fuck or die?????

#what the fuck is going on in star trek

#i have no idea what happens in star trek but uhm. #this is a little (long string of ellipses followed by semicolons)

#they didnt... they wouldnt... #you cannot be serious is that how all the startrek slash started? #spock went into heat???

#i would need to be lobotomized for my own health

#what the fuck is star trek about. End ID]

airandangels

Based on some of the first-hand accounts I’ve read, fans already had thoughts in that direction but were very cautious about expressing them, because, you know, it was 1967 and they were nice suburban ladies. They referred to the idea of Spock and Kirk being in love as The Premise. One little housewives’ fan club in California wrote to Leonard Nimoy in the hiatus between seasons one and two, and he was very pleasant and agreed to come and meet their group and tell them about being in the show. They didn’t say anything about The Premise directly, in case it offended him, but of course they expressed their enthusiasm for the rapport between Kirk and Spock and how curious they were about Spock’s background and inner life. And Nimoy, who was working on season two by that time, said that he couldn’t give away any specifics but there was an episode coming up that would focus more on Spock’s personal life and the planet Vulcan, and they were naturally delighted and intrigued.

So when they sat down to watch season two, episode one, “Amok Time,” they were primed for an important Spock episode, and then that played out before their widening eyes and I think it’s safe to say it blew their beehives clean off their heads.

sniperct

#lmao#star trek#lest we forget the literal binders of loose leaf paper with HAND WRITTEN FANFICTION being handed around#thank trekkers for fan fiction you literal babies

dduane

...And this is exactly how some of us got onto the path toward getting into SO MUCH [GOOD] TROUBLE later in our lives. Handwritten fanfic... pages and pages and PAGES of it. Tens and hundreds of thousands of words of fanfic. In looseleaf binders.

Just remember: “The first million words are for practice.” :) After that... all bets are off.

neil-gaiman

And it's also worth bearing in mind that Amok Time was written by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon was a bisexual writer (according to his friend, gay author and academic Samuel R Delany) who wrote "The World Well Lost" (1953) which may have been the first SF story about homosexuality to be published in a mainstream SF magazine, not to mention gay-coded stories like "The Saucer of Loneliness". Ted Sturgeon was a brilliant writer about love, and he knew exactly what he was doing in Amok Time. Although he might not have known what it would spawn.

And if you are curious to read some of his fiction there's a Selected Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon out there, and the novels The Dreaming Jewels and More Than Human appear to be in print.

#star trek #st:tos #fandom history