#btzposts

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blorr’boQ from my Klingon operas

[lesbiancalkestis]

A thing I love about Star Trek is that each series has a good number of well-rounded and complex characters. Meaning that whenever I reignite my obsession for one of the shows, I can find a new character to fixate on to suit where I currently am. Rotating blorbos. It’s great.

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Gia Sandhu (and by extension T'Pring) is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen with my eyes. How is she real??? And T'Pring is such a good character! Like??!! RIP to Spock but if she was my betrothed I would be out of Starfleet and straight to the Vulcan marriage ceremony faster than Warp 10.

[lesbiancalkestis]

Central Command removed his blue tick for this [x]

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“Tuvok has two hands” but in a non-romantic ultimate besties way with both Seven and Janeway.

[lesbiancalkestis]

The idea that maturity is tied to your prefrontal ‘cortex’ finishing development at 25 is incorrect actually.

Every time you see discourse™ and choose not to engage with it you gain brain points so you can level up.

Once you hit level 99 you travel through the prefrontal ‘vortex’ to defeat the final discourse boss by resisting their calls to ragepost.

If you defeat them you progress to the credits and are finally considered ‘mature’.

Sorry to the medical community that you haven’t figured that out yet 🤷‍♀️

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Happy 25th birthday to these crazy kids

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I was thinking about Bow and how some people say he was under-utilised/didn’t have as much of a story arc as the other 3 mains. And I do think it is important to point out when characters of colour, especially black characters, are being shortchanged and used as a prop in media. But sometimes I think criticism of black characters can be so intensive that it loops back around from woke to kind of racist. Like it can feel like white allies are so desperate to perform being hyper-critical of media that they aren’t checking their own internal biases in the way that they perceive characters of colour.

There is definitely more screen time and character development that Bow could have had (you could say that for a lot of the other princesses too), but when I see people totally ignoring or downplaying how he was the tech master of the rebellion, a key fighter, the proverbial glue holding everyone together, and someone who had to learn to put himself first when needed… I have to wonder whether those attributes would be a bigger deal to those critics if they had been given to a white character.

Just remember that when you’re making those critiques, they should be directed at the show creators, not used to tear down the character of colour themselves.