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[wordsnquotes]

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know that I had fallen and could fall no farther.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via wnq-writers)

[sizvideos]

[jdbkdjwd-deactivated20170603]

when you finish a paper just before the deadline and have no time to edit

[spaceexplorationphotography]

Here’s an image I took of the Sunflower Galaxy that shows very faint tidal loops, leftovers from a previous galactic meal

Source: http://i.imgur.com/34gc5UO.jpg

[stability]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(photo via puyol5)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

just learned that jean-jacques rousseau was so deeply deeply obsessed with being spanked - such a spank maniac if you will, that he used to drop trou and sprint backwards ass first at unsuspecting women on the off chance their first instinct would be to spank his bare ass

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i know this because he published it in his biography. he was an extremely influential philosopher and this is his story as he chose to share it

[lieutenantfish]

The world is a rich tapestry.

[jeffreymarsh]

genderqueer? genderfluid? NB? queer? [I’ve had a lot of labels over the years. If you don’t know what your label is, that’s ok]💛💛

[pragnificent]

This is so reassuring. Thank you for everything that you do. 

[hashtagloveloses]

OK BUT LIKE NEW DOCTOR WHO COMPANION IS A FEMALE-PRESENTING POC WITH NATURAL HAIR AND ACTS LIKE DONNA (EVERYONE’S FAVORITE) LIKE

doctor who is back it’s gonna be gr8 i live i die i LIVE AGAIN

[hashtagloveloses]

for everyone being like “ehhh why can’t you say black woman” it’s because i don’t know their pronouns yet like yea the actress is a black woman but they didn’t specify pronouns for the character yet like maybe bill is agender or genderfluid like come on people

[choemy]

[kittiezandtittiez]

[profiting]

realizing its 3 am on a school night

[mothurs]

friend: you look stressed me: haha yeah it’s the stress

[veronicaneptunes]

Kristen Bell on double standards and how there is no shame in having Anxiety and Depression.

[lesbeast]

straight dude: im not homophobic im ok with gay guys as long as they dont hit on me *nervous laughter*

lesbian: i dont want straight guys hitting on me

straight dude:

straight dude: WH,AT THE FU CK

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It makes me sad just how accurate this is…

[nashscribblings]

“I see you are a meat-based life form who will ultimately perish. Would you like help with that?”

[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?” 

[vaspider]

@judicialmistrangementorder

[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.