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trying to get rid of a notification in my tumblr—what do you MEAN i have no activity. the audacity

when you don’t want to tell people in your life things so you put it on the internet because that’s DEFINITELY safer

anyway there’s a guy at work who is kinda cute but he’s a) four years younger than me (gross) and b) i have a partner (not good)

i’ve never even had a casual crush while in a relationship before idk what to do about it

im done. bye y’all

4threset

“Name”

dat4l0re

oceanchemgirl

Data is going to fuck shit up!!!

datastartrek

Data really said ‘maybe violence IS the answer’

foone

My boy data realized that debate was not going to work and saved the lives of over 15,000 people by blowing up an aqueduct with a handheld weapon.

He was all “you see that shit? I’m just one dude and I destroyed the only source of water your colony has with a PISTOL. The fucking Sheliak are on their way and you really want to fight them? They won’t even need to send a robot down here with a phaser. They’ll just bomb you from orbit. Now do you want to stick to your ‘we’ll fight them off!’ plan or do you want to START PACKING AND GET OFF THIS ROCK BEFORE THE ANGRY ALIENS MAKE IT RAIN LASERS AND ANTIMATTER BOMBS?” and the colonists are like “well when you put it that way… Maybe we should get ready to move.”

Meanwhile Picard is playing some 4D diplomatic chess so they’ll have time to get the colonists off the planet, and he pulls it off brilliantly. The Sheliak are deadset on colonizing in 4 days and if they find any humans on that rock, they’re killing then. It’ll take weeks to evacuate them. Picard is looking through every line of the treaty, looking for loopholes, and finding nothing. The Sheliak are a race of lawyers. They don’t make mistakes. But Picard thinks outside the box.

He calls up the Sheliak. “hey, we’re having a disagreement, right? We want you to delay a few weeks, you want to colonize this planet, we can’t reach an agreement. Well the treaty says that we can get a third party to arbitrate this problem, can we do that?”

The Sheliak are like “yeah sure but they’re gonna rule in our favor, that contract is perfect.”

And Picard smiles his ass off and goes “OK GREAT for the third party I’m picking the Grizzelas.”

And the Sheliak lose their shit. The Grizzelas are a race that hibernate. They’re gonna be in hibernation for SIX MORE MONTHS. But according to the treaty, Picard gets to pick who will arbitrate the disagreement.

Picard’s like “I see you’re not happy about my choice. How about I agree to skip arbitration for a small favor? How about… Three weeks to evacuate that colony?”

And the Sheliak are like “OK FINE YOU WIN, SHINY-HEAD. YOU GET YOUR THREE DAMN WEEKS.”

I just love the episode. Data saves the day by realizing that sometimes debate isn’t enough and you need violence. Picard saves the day by rules-lawyering a race of lawyers and avoiding violence.

featheredpheonix

I am an unabashed fan of swords, but it is genuinely tragic how slept on warhammers are as symbolic weapons

featheredpheonix

Swords in a historical context were analogous to sidearms - built for flexibility of use and ease of transport, as well as taking on the role of a status symbol in a lot of feudal and early-modern societies. They are inextricably tied to notions of heroism in most cultures, yes, but also to concepts and institutions such the nobility, monarchy, and the existence of a wealthy warrior class. The role of a sword as a weapon of choice in fiction, then, serves as a subtextual elevation of the user’s importance; they have been marked out by destiny, the divine, social expectation, circumstance, or any other number of things, as special. Important. Powerful.

Warhammers in the European tradition were a response to advancements in plate armor technology: by the late Middle Ages, plate armor granted such significant protection to those lucky enough to lay their hands on a full suit that they posed an almost insurmountable threat to an unarmored fighter with armed with only a sword, club, or rudimentary spear. Late-medieval full plate is one of the purest symbols of power projection and power preservation in military history— in fiction, they mirror the status and power of the sword, stripped of the romantic and heroic ideals granted to the sword by its storied history.

As a weapon specifically designed to respond to and defeat plate armor, the warhammer can be viewed as its symbolic antithesis: where plate armor embodies the idea of unassailable strength and martial dominance, the warhammer as a weapon evokes the destruction and dismantling of said strength— a weapon designed to pierce, tear apart and sunder the idea that being powerful and being untouchable are synonymous. Where the sword symbolizes elevating a person to power, and plate armor symbolizes power seeking to perpetuate itself, the warhammer symbolizes the leveling of tools and structures that would convince us that power cannot be challenged.

promptplanetblr

different ways to say ‘i love you’

## for best friends or for lovers, if you pick the right ones

“you’re so dumb.” [insert fond smile here]

“you could punch me in the face and i would still want you ngl.”

“are you cold? here you go. come here.”

“you have stars in your eyes. i like looking at it.”

“i trust you. it’s okay.”

“you’re driving me crazy here.”

“wherever you want to go, i promise i’ll be with you every step of the way.”

“i’ll be damned if i don’t make you smile at least once today.”

“...please stay.”

“hey…” [hesitates] “be safe, alright?”

“i’ve been worried sick! where the hell were you!?”

“so what? you’re still my [name], idiot. i don’t care about what they say!”

“let me take care of you today. don’t do anything in return, just let me.”

[cups person b’s cheeks] “you are a menace and you almost died back there if it wasn’t for me.”

“how did you even get sick? you look ugly. come here.”

“i will never not think about you.”

“you… you don’t even have to love me back, you know?”

“i’m— i’m happy when you’re here. i’m happy.”

“this—” [points at their chest] “—this belongs to you. always.”

- mod sushi | masterlist

effemimaniac

"sorry that probably doesn't make much sense" <- for perfectly intelligible & logical statements relevant to the present conversation

"you get what I mean." <- for unparsable non sequiturs

robin-teddybear

“as you do” <- for incredibly eccentric and even impossible actions

avatarmerida

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

personification-of-anxiety

i am like my dad: depressed and overly invested in how funny people perceive me to be

my partner is like my mom: anxious, suicidal, and angry at the world

scawy bitch be scawy

like. go off but. not near me. im a sensitive bitch. :’(

why does god only try to kill me when i dont want to die? why is it only sunny and warm when i feel despair?

it’s times like these that i wish i had oodles of money to give. my friend discovered therapy costs $10 a pop. my student had her car stolen, and can’t get to work without her sister driving her. my partner is struggling with anxiety from desperately needing to graduate, so he can go work. my colleague is clearly overworked, but she keeps picking up shifts.

if i was rich? take your therapy. here’s a car! take your time with your studies, i can pay off your loans. stop—take a mental health day. i’ll cover your rent.

i just wish that good things could happen to people, and money does indeed buy happiness

you think YOU’RE girlbossing too close to the sun? Please. I’m painting my S.O.’s Christmas gift ten feet from him, and he hasn’t noticed