#punk-impala

[ask-thestonylibrary]

Hi! Do you think you could rec some artist!Steve fics?

Of course! 

subject to change by eleador, You Give Perfection a New Meaning by thelegendarymistermiguel and Greyscale by ballpoint are all lovely fics in which Tony models for Steve to draw.

Also a couple of my fav no powers fics: Issues by so_shhy, a college AU where Steve and Bucky create a comic called The Avengers starring all of their friends and Brooklyn Cats by SushiOwl, which features Steve as an art student. 

[noendcomic]

Wordbuilding question - I think I remember modra saying at some point that his parents didn't approve of his being gay. I was just wondering what the general attitude is towards homosexuality and if it's partially defined by class?

I’m glad you asked, I have written essays about this stuff! (Joking. Almost).

The world of No End is idealized in MANY ways compared to our world (and absolutely horrible in other ways) and discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. has been reduced to individual level only, mostly because the institutional power in their world, the military, does not do that at all (their discrimination is based on social class and the perceived ability to survive) since at the beginning of the apocalypse the only thing that mattered is that you could pick up a weapon and fight and survive, not whether you were a man or a woman or black or white, and people who then took part in fighting are the ancestors of many military families and they basically dismantled insitutionalized racism and sexism straight off the face of the Earth.

What comes to sexual orientation, the military sort of frowns upon homosexuality (mostly because of repopulation issues, but since the human race isn’t in immediate danger of going extinct anymore, they’ve relaxed A LOT in that regard. You can imagine they were a lot stricter about that stuff right after the apocalypse, and some old military families remain strict because they want the family legacy to continue far into the future, so the family’s children are expected to have children of their own one day, although homosexuality ofc doesn’t mean that you can’t or don’t want to have biological children), but doesn’t prohibit marriage and generally just doesn’t care who people want to share their lives with as long as they do their duties in the military. Hate crime is something you can get yourself dishonorably discharged from the military for. In the eyes of law people of different sexualities are equal in all aspects of life. And civilians care about sexualities even less.

Individual people (like Modra’s parents) can of course be just as homophobic and disgusting as people are now and sometimes that can create problems if that individual is for example a high-ranking military officer or a wealthy, successful civilian, and the military is slightly corrupt with old military families being more likely to rise to higher ranks ONLY because they’re old and respected. Not EVERY member of old military families are homohobes or bigots ofc, and almost always for every powerful big cheese there’s someone even more powerful tolerant person to knock the bigot down, because rank is everything in the military.

Generally speaking sexualities other than straight are widely accepted, way more so than in our world. And yeah there is some correlation between sexuality and social class, but probably only because civilians are more likely to be OPEN about their sexuality compared to military folks, who are more likely to remain closeted (like Cotton and Jenn used to be). That always skews statistics a little.

- Kromi

[flingthefluelontheflire]

Playlist: Thorin Oakenshield

Lorde—Yellow Flicker Beat

Iron & Wine—Boy With A Coin

Audiomachine—Road to Glory

Even In Death (T’Morra’s Belly Mix)

Radical Face—Welcome Home

Dwarf Cast—Misty Mountains

Thanks for the ask!

[imagine-jim-bones-and-spock]

Just imagine a normal day on the bridge. Just cruising space, nothing is wrong. Jim says something. Then suddenly, coming from his right... they hear Spock laugh.

imagine it being one of those laughs that quickly dissolves into a snort and the rest of the bridge LOSES it because with a laugh like that you have to laugh along 

[imagine-jim-bones-and-spock]

I unfortunately found out that Leonard nimoy left us when a kid in my physics class blurted out that "spock's dead." It was heartbreaking and I will miss him greatly, but he will always be in all of our hearts; he makes us believe in miracles.

While I'm sorry that that's how you had to hear the news, I thank you for your words because he truly did make us believe in miracles. that was one of the best things about him

[imagine-jim-bones-and-spock]

*whispers* punk!uhura

with her hair spiked but still regulation length because she has a job to do

imagine her adding little spikes to her boots and wearing intense eyeliner every day

everyone wishes they were as cool as her

[kimjirk]

oh no oh no oh no it's so beautiful and what you said about me was so NICE i just ? i why that was amazing it's beautiful? what do i say in this situation, i can't believe you did this for me

ey thanks! anything for you buddy