welcome to the circle

call me trill they/them — queer — trekkie — in my 20s de los eeuu, estudié en españa (prefiero él) writing indirect emails to my zucchini <3 [icon id: close up of a tabby cat looking up with her mouth slightly open /end id] [header id: a screenshot from star trek discovery showing Adira and Gray Tal. Adira is playing the cello and Gray is smiling at them gently. /end id]

[trillgendermetaphor]

call me trill

i'm in my 20s and use they/them pronouns. recent college grad figuring out how to adult. my profile pic is my cat and she is perfect.

this is a star trek blog? star trek is my long-term special interest, but i WILL post about anything that crosses my mind.

current obsession: the locked tomb (just finished rereading gideon the ninth, now onto harrow the ninth)

past obsessions have included she ra, atla, latin, sociology, queer theory, math... umm other things i'm definitely forgetting.

Estudié un año en España, prefiero elle o él en español.

STAR TREK THINGS

I’ve seen TOS, TNG, DS9, DIS, VOY, ENT, LWD, & AOS, and I've started prodigy. I don't think i will ever watch picard.

My header image / blog title are from Star Trek: Discovery, and my previous pinned post was about the Trill being a metaphor for ✨transgenderism✨

I have a VERY minor claim to fame for writing against green-skinned Vulcans before I gave up and just curated my own personal experience. I have a longer thing here, but tl;dr: Vulcans are Jewish-coded, and green/yellow skin has been used to dehumanize Jewish people.

[ieveniam]

It's absolutely hilarious that Amok Time is also the first episode featuring Chekov. Imagine being 22 years old working a new job on a starship and when you clock in, the first officer is in heat

[redstonedust]

do you think cats understand that we can't see as well in the dark as them or when i trip over my cat in the night is he like. bro what the fuck is your problem. stop being clumsy.

[starlight-shadowbanned]

jokes on you i can trip over them during the day too

[killhitleragain]

PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.

This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.

That's why conservatives defunded it.

Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?

Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.

OP of the post in the screenshot called me an idiot and blocked me for pointing this out. So I'm setting the record straight. The CPB was never our enemy.

[trillgendermetaphor]

Image description for above post: Screenshots of a tumblr post about a PBS video titled “How America’s foundation was built on genocide.” The post and a comment on the post argue that PBS was unable to make this content before it lost federal funding because it was not allowed to make content that the government disapproved of.

[berkeleygirl3]

[trillgendermetaphor]

ID: a photograph of bookshelves in a library. Text overlaid reads “This is the only data center I want funded.”

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[chipcheesesandwich]

I truly appreciate Ben and Jake Sisko's relationship shown in DS9. The way Ben kisses Jake on the cheek and his head & just hugging each other is just so great. Weirdly we don't see that in a lot of today's depiction of father/son relationships on TV. I see it a lot in father/daughter relationships on TV, but not much between a father/son. If I watched DS9 when I was kid, I may have had a better understanding of showing affection to others in a physical manner, not just with words or gestures. I feel like this is an aspect of DS9 that I may actually truly appreciate the most.

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[midnightglances]

I think a little bookstore dilly dallying would fix this

[itstimetogo]

the only “data centers” we need are public libraries

[pocket-alien]

instagram

1 2 3 4, you're the one that i adore!

[elen-aranel]

Think I’m going to start assuming anything from a verified twitter account is AI slop until proven otherwise.

That story about a cat called Felix Martinez who was summonsed for jury service didn’t sit right with me and lo and behold the original author on twitter describes themselves as an “imaginary writer”.

This is the sort of thing that should make local news. And it did! But in 2010 and the cat was called Sal Esposito.

And of course the article that still exist about that cat’s story is criticising media outlets at the time for publishing for clicks and not doing proper research on things like when the story had taken place

[trillgendermetaphor]

Just reblogged a cute story about a cat who was summoned for jury duty, apparently it was written by AI so I deleted it. Sorry if you saw that from me!

[cecil-apologist-deactivated2024]

does anyone know if we have transmasc and transfem love and friendship today

[damazcuz]

We do. And tomorrow and the next day and every day forever and ever and ever too. :)

[cecil-apologist-deactivated2024]

a long time ago i was struggling with being transmasc because i felt like i was betraying womanhood somehow. then one of my best friends came out as a trans woman and i realised "ah... there will always be so many beautiful women in the world, so it's okay that i'm not one of them". what i'm trying to say is you need to love each other or there's no point to any of this

[risenfromthebog]

in a reversal of this. when i came out as transfem i was almost dissapointed because i spent so long trying to be a truly good man. i was raised with a lot of shitty guys so i tried to be the most pro-feminist comfortable dude i could be for the women around me. when my egg cracked, i almost felt this feeling of "shit, are the only men who think like this secretly women inside?" and it feels nice to see that proven so utterly and completely wrong by the trans men i know in my life. i love seeing people take on the masculinity i hated and do amazing shit with it, god bless trans dudes

[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

[stonedtrek]

People talk shit about Troi's position but frankly I would want at least one person trained in some sort of mental healthcare on a deep space vessel. That crew gets traumatized on the weekly and you think a counsellor isn't a necessity???

[spiderdykes]

gif for frolicking and prancing and such