#anifanatical

[ami-v-dragnire]

Okay so I’m really nervous to post this and I probably wasn’t supposed to move stuff around but I couldn’t help it...

Anywho, hello @anifanatical ! I hope you like it <3

[shonojo]

Had to try my hand at pairing a Connor with @anifanatical 's Hank. I don't think it would be on brand if I didn't throw some lingerie in there. ^_-

[fishfingersandscarves]

hey!!! i was paired with @anifanatical to illustrate @anuninterestingperson‘s amazing fic though bright be the morning, brighter still be the stars for the hankconbigbang2018!

[plaidshirtjimkirk]

Star Trek Asks! 17, 23, 42 <3

17. What role would you have aboard a starship?

CAPTAIN 5EVA

23. Favorite tropes?

ohhh noooo, we encountered some bizarre pollen/planet/went over the threshold and now people are acting wild. pon farr. the captain goes missing and their crew saves them. holodeck shenanigans. grumpy/sassy CMOs

42. Which episode(s) made you cry?

none. i’m an android. lmao

thank you for asking! <3

[spockslash]

An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl

* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired * and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season * and wrote fanfic way back in the day * and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake

All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.

Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.

The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”

That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.

The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.

You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.

Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)

[tsunderehank]

Yes, please keep tagging nsfw stuff because I still legitimately use Tumblr at work. Even though I definitely should be working like a responsible adult. XD;;

Roger that! This place may be going to the pits but listen if I’m going to go down clutching anything it’s gonna be my tags! 

[onedamnminuteadmiral]

My Tumblr Crushes:

startrekgenerator

blue-halabaloo

anifanatical

burning--amber

thetwelfthpanda

gj-fangirls

goldkirk

greenjimkirk

leifor

I love that my wife is getting 2% less love than startrekgenerator, hahaha. I love every blog in this bar.

[nipuni]

I have a funny story about your art as a background, too!! :D I occasionally take my laptop into work (teaching high school EFL in Tokyo) and I have your gorgeous painting of Solas haloed by swords as the desktop. While switching between Power Points one day, it was projected prominently on the chalkboard much to the shock and entertainment of my students and one particularly confused student asked loudly, "Is that Jesus?!"

OHHH MY GODD hahahah that is my fault I keep using religious imagery I blame the roman catholic upbringing hahah I honestly still can’t believe there are drawings I made around the world on people’s screens and stuff it is so incredible