the LUNAtic left

She/her. 30s. A mild curiosity. Current hyperfixation: Spirk. Additional topics include: star trek, disability, lgbtq, autism, social justice, linguistics, and science. I reply under the tag "luna replies."

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

got stuck on the toilet earlier and my inner monologue started coming in cookie monster's voice for some reason

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#man cookie monster you're fighting bc the lid is closed!

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

me pretending there was artistic intent behind me bad drawing

[sirnoblesquid]

Got another one!

[xylocopae]

starting a collection

[hopefully-grimderp]

@godzo everytime you bless my DMs with the most out of pocket but absolutely valid nugget of truth!

[loth-caatgirl]

[animentality]

[alfgifu]

this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s

[knivesandteeth]

Personally love the Idea that most of star trek is reconstructed from personal logs. Because it plugs all the plot holes and explains a bunch of stuff like "why does the ferengi characterisation vary so wildly?" Humans are bigots

"why do the trills change appearance between tng and ds9?" Mistake in the logs

"why arent garak and Bashir fucking?" They are, garak keeps deleting if from the logs

[anozm]

The bestest of friends!!

[puppygirldick]

Viktor Lyapkalo Artwork: 'Blowing bubbles' & 'Evening' Painted 9 years apart.

Same woman

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Yooo I went and looked up the Artist responsible for these masterpieces and holy shit did this guy love Big Women:

[nudity under the cut]

A man of excellent taste, I dare say!

[tournevis-real]

@trek-tracks You broke containment! An IRL friend of mine emailed me this from her Facebook feed! She had no idea it was from Tumblr and that I could possibly knew of you!

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[ilex-opacus]

Not by any means an original thought but Kirk abandoning every person he's ever faintly loved or had feelings for for his career and his mission then repeatedly being like "it doesn't matter just fire me strip me of my command if I lose Spock I'll lose literally everything including my soul don't even worry about it" is immensely important to me

[respectissexy]

Having experienced a lot of it in my 20s, I think some of the worst, pettiest, most straight up this-is-just-bullying-you're-passing-off-as-praxis incidences of Queer Infighting endemic to young people can be best understood as attempts to exercise power by people with very little power.

Like you're 22, you're queer, you've just become a Marxist, the scope of World Suck is overwhelming and you have $30 in your bank account. What can you do to feel like you have any power? Well, you can try to get your frenemy cancelled for cosplaying a character from a problematic show. You can write a public callout post over someone's obviously friendly use of a slur you don't think they technically have the right to reclaim. Doing this stuff can make you feel like you have power and your actions have an impact. Unfortunately the impact in question is a negative impact on other marginalized people. But that often takes some maturity and self-reflection to notice.

[drtanner]

I'm reminded of this post from 2017. To paraphrase, OP took part in community service via their university and part of that was cleaning the bathrooms at the local homeless community centre, which would frequently get trashed, not because the homeless people using them disrespected the work of the people cleaning them but because they had so little control over other things that happened in their lives, and the bathroom was something they could affect.

This, too, is a trashed bathroom; young queer people living through hell and having precious little control over their circumstances or the world in which they exist can affect something by using the language of social justice as a cudgel on their would-be allies, as well as getting a brief feeling of power over someone else by doing it.

It's not worth it. Don't trash your community bathrooms.

[justalittlespore]

Perhaps important to note here is that this is not necessarily something people do consciously. I've seen people say "well I would never do that," assuming that because they would never intentionally hurt someone to make themselves feel powerful, they are immune to it.

This sort of thing tends to happen subconsciously. You don't say to yourself, "I'm feeling powerless and therefore I will lash out at the one thing I can control." You just feel angry and frustrated in ways you can't necessarily describe and then for no apparent reason you see someone do something that can be construed as problematic if you squint at it sideways and have an overwhelming impulse to DO SOMETHING about it. You don't know where that impulse comes from, you just know that giving in to it feels good. It feels righteous. You are doing the right thing and that's why it feels good. Right?

That's why it's so easy to fall into this sort of behavior. It doesn't feel like you're trying to regain a sense of control over your own life. It feels like you are doing something righteous and justified and correct, and anyone who says otherwise is probably a bad person. And the more often this happens, the more times you call someone out over some bullshit, the more righteous it feels! And the more "Bad People" start crawling out of the woodwork to attack you (defending the people you've attacked and trying to explain why you're mistaken), the more targets you have.

In the end it leads to increasing isolation. You wind up being pulled into hateful groups like terfs who see you as an easy target. They reassure you that yes, you are doing the right thing, those people are bad. We understand and support you! Join us!

Eventually, the only way you know to feel good is to attack others, but in your mind, it feels good because you're doing good, you're making the world better, you're protecting someone or something. You're fighting against the Bad Guys.

And all the while you're cutting yourself off from your own community. You're not healing, you're not regaining control over your life, you're not making the world a better place. You're just hurting the people who are on your side.

It's not easy to avoid doing this. You can't just tell yourself "I'm a good person who would never harm my own community." That's not enough. You have to be vigilant. You have to ask yourself, whenever you feel an impulse to lash out at someone, whenever you feel a sense of Justice rising up in you that is directed at another marginalized person or group, whenever you feel yourself thinking that someone isn't being queer the Right Way, whenever you find yourself worrying about who is the Most Oppressed... You have to question it. Every time. It is HARD to do this. It is HARD to admit that you have the capacity to do harm even though you don't intend to. But you have to. For your sake, and for the sake of your whole community.

[respectissexy]

Thank you so much for this addition, @justalittlespore.

You would not believe how many people have reblogged this post with tags that basically say "ummmm sounds like the people who do this are Bad People and you should be a Good Person by not doing this. I'm a Good Person and would never do this."

That type of thinking makes you VERY AT RISK of doing this!!!

[bumbleshark]

this was such a good episode

[jadziacore]

TOS fem!Spock vision board

[jelliedlimes]

I should do this to her sometime

[jelliedlimes]

Some quick fanart for this concept

[shotofchinaco]

Brian McFadden: Is Google Cooked? (via Daily Kos)

[runraerun]

This but make it domestic Spirk:

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

[beemovieerotica]

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

[beemovieerotica]

a linguist is analyzing it

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post