I'm not occult, I'm ethereal!

My name is Zoe (over 25, she/her). This is essentially my personal. Feel free to say hello! I always like making new friends.

[claudiablacks]

15 DAYS OF DEEP SPACE NINE day 4: favourite friendship (2/3)  ✧ benjamin sisko & jadzia dax 

[laurelhach]

praise be the sisko and his words of infinite wisdom

[hesitantbabelien]

[el-im]

Trek Cards: 1/54: The King of Spades: The Emissary of the Prophets and Benny Russell 

prints!

[bodytrial]

The dreamer and the dream

[toroimage]

im sorry but aside from crushing messages on morality and sentient nature waltz is so fucking funny like. imagine getting Convenient Cave-d by this guy who committed war crimes for years (and was about to go on trial for them!) and is also psychosexually obsessed with you and he nurses you back to health and then goes off to talk to his hallucinations and THEN you discover that he's not trying to get you guys rescued at all so wtf does he want? and after he seductively mentions his crimes against humanity/bajoranity, calls you by your full first name in the way spock says "jim" but more fucked up and evil, etc etc, it turns out he just wants you to talk out his issues with you (looking like a lizard raccoon the entire time), after which he concludes that he should genocide everyone, beats you up and leaves in your shuttle. great talk man

[aabalall]

waltzing

[catorikishin]

Hey girl, I found you stranded and weak and injured in this cave and thought you'd appreciate the psycho sexual obsession I have fostered for you!!

[51kas81]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.1 When She Was Bad (1997)

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

#i ship a librarian and a technopagan

[aenslem]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[isagrimorie]

#a perfect midpoint between afraid and turned on (via @autumnjournal)

[51kas81]

Anthony Head as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode 1.6 The Pack [1/6]

[deepspacescully]

as a big fan of historical AUs, classic pulp magazines, and science fiction in general: i think i can say completely unbiased that far beyond the stars is one of the best hours of television ever

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

So, ever since Gabriel Bell Day, I've been crawling my way, joyfully, through DS9, and I finally reached "Far Beyond the Stars", which certainly deserves it's status as one of the best of the series, but I was looking at the Memory Alpha page for it, and I saw this quote by Avery Brooks, who directed it and while also playing Sisko:

"If we had changed the people's clothes, this story could be about right now. What's insidious about racism is that it is unconscious. Even among these very bright and enlightened characters – a group that includes a woman writer who has to use a man's name to get her work published, and who is married to a brown man with a British accent in 1953 – it's perfectly reasonable to coexist with someone like Pabst [the editor who acted as the mouthpiece for the racist publisher]. It's in the culture, it's the way people think. So that was the approach we took. I never talked about racism. I just showed how these intelligent people think, and it all came out of them." 

And I think it slides very neatly into place alongside my favorite Le Guin quote about sci-fi being descriptive, not perscriptive.

[capt-loverboy]

I think about Far Beyond the Stars a normal amount I think

[dredgen-dumbass]

Gotta love ds9 because sometimes you really get a lineup like...

Here's some of the best social commentary Star Trek has to offer, we're gonna discuss racism and sexism and police brutality and the problems with bigotry in science fiction and you're gonna sit your ass down and listen because this episode has some of the most brilliant acting and writing and directing of the whole series and if you don't think or feel anything you weren't watching

And now? Honey I Shrunk The Ship

[capt-loverboy]

Guy who literally can't stop thinking about Far Beyond the Stars