i prefer the term 'fashionably late'

lynsay, 29, queer, she/her

[stars-and-blackholes]

Mikey and Pete on stage during Saturday 7/1/23

[heartbreakfeelsogood-moved]

Pete Wentz Sets Moody AIM Away Messages

from Nylon Magazine

[meat-wentz]

shut up right neeeeooooooooowwww!!!!!!!!!!

[laurasbailey]

CRITICAL ROLE vs. THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA

RISE OF THE CHROMA CONCLAVE (2x01) - PART 1

[scinnlaece]

You have found what you need: the will to give everything.

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA, season two | episodes 1, 2 & 3.

[eternalgirlscout]

in my experience nobody stops having a favorite animal when they grow up but people DO stop asking. well now i'm asking. what's everyone's favorite animal mine is the noble manatee

[thekidsarentalright]

Pete and Patrick x Friendship (part V)

[still of the coffee's for closers waltz, 2009 :,( / pete's twitter + dictionary.apa definition of cryptophasia / alt press 2015 issue behind the scenes (gif credit to @1833outboy) / coup de main article, 2018 / disloyal order live, mania tour (gif credit to @1833outboy) / patrick in a new york times article, 2008 / cubs game, 2016 / patrick's twitter, 2012]

[beckettmariner-deactivated20200]

You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist

[linguisticparadox]

Okay howmst the fuck has a ship doctor in the far future never handled a birth without the father present? Are sperm donors and gay couples and trans women no longer a thing in the bajillionth century CE?? :/

[thatoldantique]

I while understand the frustration with erasure sometimes it helps to look at things through the cultural context of when something was made. Star Trek the Next Generation was made in 1987, this particular episode I believe aired in 1988 a time when a future where the husband was always present for the birth would have been amazing to many of the people watching the show as men had only been allowed to be present for the birth of their children for 10/15ish years at that point in the US.

Women (and many men) fought for decades with hospitals to even have men allowed in the delivery room during the early stages of labor, which can last for several hours, and hospitals only began to give in to their requests in the 1960s but even then they would be kicked out of the room by hospital staff before the actual birth took place. So many of the couples watching the show would have had to go through labor without having/being allowed to support their spouse regardless of their wishes. Having the child’s father present for the birth only began to happen in the 1970s and 1980s. Which means most people watching this show either went through birth without the support of their spouse, were not allowed to support their spouse during the birth of their child, or their own mother’s went through that during their birth.

A future where the husbands were always present for the birth was still a little crazy to consider in the late 1980s. A good kind of crazy for the people living in that time, it showed a future where the wishes of the couple were finally consistently listened to by medical professionals as a result of the actions of people during their or their parent’s lifetimes. And it does that by also subverting it in allowing Data to step into the role of the father when the father was unknown and/or unwilling/unable to fill that role (I’ll be honest my knowledge of Next Gen is a bit spotty and I have not seen this whole episode, just a piece of it at family Thanksgiving). The woman’s desires as to how she would give birth are listened to and respected, something that still doesn’t happen in many hospitals now and would have been seen as even more revolutionary then. So while it isn’t perfect I think this scene was actually fairly impressive for its time and cultural context and shows a future that many people of that time would have seen as ideal.

[cannon-fannon]

I think this kind of contextual understanding and analysis is really important because things that look antiquated now were revolutionary then. I remember reading that the mini skirts in Star Trek TOS were legot just in fashion (about 64’ ish), one of the actresses (the one that played Rand) requested they be in the show and both her and Nichelle Nichols said they didn’t see them as demeaning but liberating in that time and context. Where as NOW it looks like ‘sexy male gaze’ but then it wasn’t.

[elfwreck]

Miniskirts are comfortable and easy to move in - unlike longer bulkier skirts, which had previously been required for “modesty.” And unlike the approach of “we’ll just put them in pants,” miniskirts made a statement that women crew-members weren’t being treated like men. Miniskirts were a way to say “I can be an attractive woman, wear comfortable clothes, and still look professional and do a serious job.” 

The clothing for that message today would be different. 

[prismatic-bell]

This is also why the bridge crew of TOS may seem “tokenistic” today. When it came out, the Cold War was in full swing and “Soviets” were maligned and hated, Black people could not count on their right to vote being honored, and mixed-race people (like Spock) were called horrible things like “half-breed” and “zebra.” A white man was in charge of the ship, but Gene Roddenberry was fully aware that a chunk of the viewership read him as queer, and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DISCOURAGE THAT READING, at a time when “homosexual activity” was illegal in the United States!

By today’s standards, “one of everything? How tokenistic.” In 1966? “A Black woman, a Russian, a man from multiple cultures, and a man who loves differently, all top of their fields, all working together and finding common ground to learn, grow, and help where they can? What a wonderful future!”

[charismat1c-megafauna]

Also I’m sorry but like. A show also featuring a Japanese man who isn’t a stereotype but part of the crew, having a Scottish character be a part of the central cast (idk if I need to get into why this is important, but considering how England has continuously tried to erase Scottish culture and identity, and the stereotype of Scots as bumbling bumpkins, etc, its kind of nice to see a Scotsman who’s the best of the best at his job).

Moreover, a lot of kids watched this show. MLK himself contacted Nichelle Nichols and asked her to stay on the show when she was considering leaving, because “you don’t have a Black role, you have an equal role,” and there wasnt many Black role models on tv. I can only imagine how Black kids, Asian kids, and mixed race or mixed culture kids felt seeing people like them on tv. Hell, seeing Uhura on screen is what inspired Whoopi Goldberg as a little girl.

Also, yeah, its easy to look back and say ‘damn, fathers weren’t there in the delivery room? What assholes’ but no like they legitimately were not allowed in there.

[gayahithwen]

Tiny correction: while George Takei is Japanese, and while Sulu thus looks like what we in the 20th-21st century consider to be an ethnically Japanese man, Hikaru Sulu was Pan-Asian by design. His last name is not Japanese. And Roddenberry designed him like that intentionally, because while there was a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment in the US at the time (I mean, hell… George Takei himself spent years in Japanese internment camps during WW2), there was also a lot of other anti-Asian sentiments, and Roddenberry intentionally put ALL of it on the character of Sulu.

Like, all the years of anti-Chinese racism in the US? Sulu. Anti-Japanese sentiments left over after WW2? Sulu. Korean War in 1950-52? Sulu. The Vietnam War, with Johnson in 1965 (a year before TOS started airing) choosing to start sending American troops into the conflict? Sulu.

Sulu was Roddenberry’s desperate attempt to show all Asian people as inherently worthy, inherently human, and yeah, he probably put kind of too much on Sulu’s shoulders, but it was the 1960s and Roddenberry fucking cared about representation, so he did what he could.

Just, you know… a little bit more historical Star Trek context

[gholateg]

Also to hammer this home?

Scotty was third in line for the captain’s chair. The only non-Kirk who had the con more then him was Spock.

He was smart, he was a *ranked* crewmen, he was a gentleman, he wasn’t a skirt chaser, and he was capitol L loyal. The only time he got into a fight was when someone both went after his Captain, AND his Ship.

And he was Scottish. 

That’s so above and beyond the typical Scottish stereotype even TO THIS DAY.

[earhartsease]

Dr Polaski was coded as something of an arse just so they could make their valid points about equality and bigotry using her as a foil. Yes it was kind of clumsy from a modern perspective, but it was also kind of groundbreaking (not least because you didn’t usually get arses being played by women)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I am hard-coded to put this on any post that mentions MLK and Nichelle Nichols.

Also, it’s very worth noting that the “token minority character” label doesn’t apply in any way to these characters.

Tokens are there to present the appearance of diversity. Whereas Roddenberry created a diverse cast in an era where there wasn’t even a need for the appearance of diversity. Roddenberry didn’t put these characters in because he wanted to look diverse– he put them in to BE DIVERSE.

[somuchforstardust]

this story’s going somewhere…

[cinematv]

DERRY GIRLS 3.01 | The Night Before

[davinaclare]

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

[lonelygodinthetardis]

Doctor Who The Unquiet Dead | 1.03

[reputayswift]

RONAN, THE MIDDLE BROTHER, defended his safety by being as frightening as possible. Like the other Lynch brothers, he was a regular churchgoer, but most people assumed he played for the other team. He dressed in funereal black and had a raven as a pet. He shaved his hair close to his skull and his back was inked with a clawed and toothed tattoo. He wore an acidic expression and said little. What words he did unsheathe turned out to be knives, glinting and edged and unpleasant to have stuck into you. He had blue eyes. People generally think blue eyes are pretty, but his were not. They were not cornflower, sky, baby, indigo, azure. His were iceberg, squall, hypothermia, eventual death. Everything about him suggested he might take your wallet or drop your baby.

[gabrielokun]

[graysea]

The Solar System!

bonus Pluto!

[selfloveandsuch-blog]

THIS IS THE PUREST THING EVER

[kissmebluesexyvioletsme]

Uranus rotation has me laughing for like 2 mins now…

[callingvoicemail]

everything i know about vox machina, i learned through osmosis: a laundry list of vm details i’ve absorbed since i got into critrole six months ago

(there are spoilers here? maybe? your guess is as good as mine. please no one actually tell me what i got right or wrong. i don’t want to know. i want to enjoy. you may, however, poke fun at me.)

there’s a pair of half-elven twins in this party, vex and vax. apparently it’s not the first time lob’s had one of his characters stand in front of a fire that was once his home.

vex has? a bear?? there is also something up with the twins and blue feathers. not sure what the significance is.

vax propositioned a married couple once—the briarwoods? gaslight gatekeep girlboss and manipulate mansplain malewife—shortly before they attempted to murder him. (or was it after? very sexy of them either way imo) 

there is a very hot shopkeeper named gilmore. he is the reason why lob has the reputation of having a predilection for romancing matt’s npcs. gilmore walked so essek could (metaphorically) run. 

gilmore, however, has a husband. sorry, vax. you get keyleth anyway. shortly before you… die? get devoured by the raven queen? something like that. i’ve yet to puzzle that bit out.

anyway keyleth spends the rest of her very long life being followed around by ravens after whatever happens to vax at the end of the campaign.

when the love confession (?) happened between keyleth and vax the whole cast had to hide their faces to give them “privacy.” even ashley, who we only see on a monitor.

marisha did something really weird one time…. something like making keyleth jump off a cliff? matt rolled a million dice for it and it was a truly absurd amount of damage.

the party has a sharpshooter named percy de rolo. he’s a fancy boy and has a ridiculously long name that has the word “mussel” in it. 

he’s also known as no mercy percy and is equipped with something called bad news. unsure if this is a gun or a euphemism. both? i mean—

the man’s got a chip on his shoulder a mile wide. he’s so fucked up not even the raven queen wanted him. i guess she was fine with vax though.

vax has a hilariously prolonged conversation with percy while he’s in the bath. when he leaves, vex pops up from the water, gasping. is this canon? no idea. anyway this is how i found out vex and percy end up together.

they get married, in fact. and become lord and lady of whitestone or whatever fancy ass place percy is from. you could even buy their wedding rings as official critrole merch for a while.

anyway lord and lady de rolo have a veritable brood of children and one of them is, inexplicably, A RED TIEFLING. is she adopted? look i’m not all that familiar with d&d mechanics but i’m pretty damn sure half-elf + human =/= tiefling??? 

there is a bard named scanlan and i get the impression that the fandom has very mixed opinions about him. i’m not saying anything else without a lawyer present

i don’t know much about grog and pike tbh. only that grog is very large and pike is very small and they are. friends?

grog is very good at playing cards. i read this in a fic. unsure if it’s only fanon. also scanlan and pike are… something. not sure what. i get the impression they don’t either.

update: scanlan and pike are divorced??? which means they got married at some point? WHAT IS GOING ON. 

[callingvoicemail]

update - thoughts on tlovm episodes 1-3:

on the briarwoods: hoo BOY vampires have never particularly done it for me but I GUESS THEY DO NOW

on gilmore: just as sexy and just as into vax as advertised. 10/10 for the eyeshadow alone. hang in there, pike

on vex: i look at her very respectfully. the bear is indeed hers and its name is trinket, who is voiced by matthew mercer himself.

on percy: oh my beloved angsty anime boy. i knew i’d be in love with you from the moment i saw your white hair and your fancy boy name. dying to know more about the plague doctor mask. is the gun that keeps running out of bullets bad news? is that why it’s called bad news? anyway everyone say thank you taliesin jaffe for his gorgeous characters

on scanlan: whew i see why fandom opinion is so mixed now. he makes me cringe but also he makes me laugh so we’ll call it a fair deal. 

on keyleth: 110% baby. how does she end up with vax. supremely puzzled

on grog: when he said “i would like to rage” i nearly passed out

on pike: someday the everlight will notice you. also, love her turning scanlan down every time. love that for her. baby girl you are gonna marry this man AND divorce him!! how the hell do you get from point A to point B!!

[callingvoicemail]

update: thoughts on tlovm episodes 4-6:

on the briarwoods: what right does matthew mercer have to sound so sexy as sylas briarwood? also the thing with the hanging and the dawnfather tree. horrifying. ditto the ghost monsters that made everyone bleed from the eyes and mouth. fullmetal alchemist levels of gore.

on vex: i continue to look very respectfully. desperately want to know why vax’s nickname for her is “stubby.”

on vax: cute how master vax’ildan ‘#1 flirt of tal’dorei’ vessar continues to get extremely flustered around keyleth. also what is it with lob and having characters who are so willing to detach themselves from the rest of the party and running away with the one person they trust.

on percy: oh okay so THAT’S bad news. a little disappointed it’s not actually a euphemism. also he has names on his gun for all his enemies? a perfected resting bitch face? an entire city to save? my emo anime character has truly got it all

on percy, cont’d bc i love him: the way he suddenly brightened when he started talking about his old friend archie had me in tears. baby. baby boy. i did not see the bit with cassandra coming and i’m v excited to see him go absolutely apeshit when he sees her again. also had no idea how huge whitestone actually was. i mean i knew he was a rich boy, but damn he is a rich boy.

on scanlan: the bit with the creepy wolves and the [redacted] [redacted]??? the way he [redacted]??? oh my god. i. i have no words. tbf i did warm up to him quite a bit more in these episodes tho

on keyleth: LISTEN when she growled at the wolf that attacked vax it did things to me that i can’t explain. the glowing eyes, the fangs? and then the way she magnificently rose to percy’s challenge? did not expect a disney princess to come for my heart like this. 

on grog and pike: OH. ALL THE SCENES WITH GROG AND PIKE. i hold them so tenderly in my palms. someone reblogged this from me with the tag ‘grog is very large and pike is very small and they are friends is legit all you need to know’ and they were RIGHT. brb screaming, crying, sobbing, etc etc

bonus: anyway here’s how i felt every time grog grabbed a barrel of ale only to find nothing inside

[cranesofibycus]

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