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[bakaqb]

I think you should try out "my wife fucking left me" with Sabine, for the palette game, lolololol

this hurts my eyes but was actually really fun ty!!!

The Shit Poopoo Palette Gauntlet

[spockfan]

which do you prefer, spirk or spones? or mcspirk?

yes.

[bakaqb]

@alkavii replied to your post “i love them a normal amount your honor”:

Never seen, heard or known about the show and yet I still need more of these dorks being cute together

​nice bc im so into them and i plan on keeping drawing more f them dsfsdafsd

[spockfan]

Hi! Could you also share the gif where Spock goes o_o with no text?

From this one?

[spockfan]

Hi - how long have you been into Star Trek? (You said recently but that could have been written years ago?) However long it's been, WOW do you have great ST content! I already reblogged a lot and there's so much more I didn't have time to get to yet.

Hi! First of all, thank you so much! I honestly didn't expect that I'd be posting stuff other than reblogs of things I find neat (which is why there is no tagging system yet) but I really enjoyed watching TOS that I just needed to air some of my thoughts in some way.

This little side blog is pretty new, created right at the end of August. Made because I got curious about Spock's character whose concept I really liked when I finally got curious enough to look up his general background (watched him from the new movies before but didn't really pay attention much). I was surprised that the blog name was available and I regret making it as a sideblog as I can't readily reply to posts because it confuses me when I see my main account name (which I don't really use.)

The answer to your question is since September 5, 2021, the day I watched the first episode of TOS. Currently, I'm halfway through season 2.

The date is exact because, prior to watching, to make things more fun, I made Bingo cards with what I thought would be common Star Trek tropes and that first Bingo card is saved in my tablet.

Before TOS, I've watched the reboot movies when they came out and although I enjoyed them, to myself who had no other background and appreciation for the world and the characters, they were ultimately no different from any other blockbuster movie–enjoyable momentarily but not something I would dwell on. I was also a bit familiar with ST:Discovery because I was told a bit about its plot. Also Galaxy Quest but I didn't relate it to Star Trek before.

Given the limited knowledge, I had a lot of misconceptions about the series so my first few Bingo cards barely got any marks. It wasn't really a show that I expected to take seriously so I put stuff like:

- Kirk flirts with pretty women

- Scotty beams people up

- Spock says something insensitve

- Enterprise goes 'pew pew'

- He's dead, Jim or Someone dies.

Naturally, I didn't get Bingo much during the first few episodes but I realized that I was really enjoying the show. The characters are memorable, the themes are simple but thoughtful, while it does tend to be obvious when the writing is confined by its era, one gets the sense that the ideas must have been innovative at the time. Most importantly, it's very fun.

I've stopped doing the Bingo cards since I've already won and I've gotten better at knowing what recurring elements are in the show. Some of my favorite updated Bingo items though:

- The Pringle-Mailbox gun is used

- A Utopia is destroyed or There is no such thing as paradise when the Enterprise visits your planet

- Not enough budget for the captain's shirt or Kirk fanservice

- Kirk illogics a computer/AI/robot to death

- Formless alien or Alien is just human with weird clothes

- Bad guy has bad guy makeup and Females (and Kirk) get better glowing lighting

- Kirk x Enterprise as the One True Ship gets mentioned

- Omnipotent aliens give someone time-out

I try to watch at least an episode a day right after work when I have the time. Sometimes I push it to two episodes because ♡.

[spockfan]

Hi! I just wanted you to know how delightful it is whenever I come across your posts. ❤

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy my posts. It really is just me posting stuff that I found funny while watching and I can hardly take credit for the show being as enjoyable as it is.

I also find it amazing that despite airing over half a century ago, it doesn't feel like it'll ever grow old.

[spockfan]

Listen, I've watched TOS a handful of times and yet you who is only watching it now have managed to share scenes I hadn't ever noticed before. Good eye. Thaaaank you.

You're welcome. Though I'm sure that the scenes I've shared have been done so before. After all, it has a finite source with nothing new getting added. Still, it's very entertaining and I have quite the collection so I will be posting more. :D

I kinda wish someone warned me to not have drinks while watching because I've lost count of the number of times I've worried the people I watch with by choking on them. I'll be sipping iced tea, processing all that happened in the episode as the show wraps up and prepares to roll the credits, and then Kirk is giving Spock another look so I have to reassure everybody that I'm fine and I just remembered something funny that happened earlier in the episode because I will not be pointing out how Kirk just looked at Spock when no one else seems to have noticed. Fun.

[spockfan]

Love your post about This Side of Paradise and looking forward to the rest of it. Since I read your analysis, I've rewatched it again and again and could never see it the same way! It has quickly gone up to one of my favorites for all the moments you mentioned. Anyways, I was wondering if you've gotten to Amok Time yet...Would love to hear your thoughts on when Kirk sees Spock's "wife".

Thank you! I'm glad to see that people actually read and follow them because I do have a tendency to pay a little too much attention to maybe inconsequential details and to trying to reason them out in my head.

I enjoyed "This Side of Paradise" a lot not just for the k/s and I'm planning to maybe post a more general take more centered on Spock 's end.

"Amok Time" just so happens to be the most recent episode I've watched (watched it just this weekend). It was very fun and I DO have THOUGHTS about it... Did you notice how the meat of the plot shares parallels with "This Side of Paradise", Spock having a love interest, Spock not acting normally, Bones being the one to point it out, strong emotions save the day, etc. ?

Since you're specifically asking about Kirk's reaction to T'Pring, I'm gonna assume you asked this because it wasn't quite as telling compared to his reaction to Leila. I do happen to have opinions on how to make sense of that which I might post but since I'm not sure about that, I'll just say that it makes more sense if you consider that "Amok Time" might have happened before "This Side of Paradise"(based on this.)