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being held would be so cool. wish physical touch was real

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i get high & start actn like joe biden

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it feels like the 63rd of january

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i need to read more academic articles to make my yaoi more insane

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What on earth is going on in the Star Trek fandom today, it's like my dash exploded

lol 28 years ago today, the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" aired. The premise of the episode was that humans cannot travel at or faster than warp 10, because if they do, they would be traveling at "infinite velocity" and would exist in all points of space time simultaneously. Tom Paris found a way to travel at this speed, and doing so accidentally hyper-evolved him and his captain (Janeway) into giant salamanders, whereupon they immediately reproduced and created 3 baby salamanders. They were then turned back into normal humans, and forced to leave their salamander babies on the planet they had escaped to.

The episode was long held as the worst star trek episode. Not just the worst Star Trek Voyager episode, but the worst episode, period, because it was extremely weird and people turning into salamanders greatly annoyed a lot of people who don't know what fun is. Tumblr, having discovered this episode like excavating an exciting fossil, has taken a shine to this episode and many people now produce art and memes and eat pepperoni pizza in celebration of its air date, mostly to annoy the episode's creator, as in a very Arthur Conan Doyle way, he hates this episode and wants it de-canonized.

Anyway, happy Threshold Day!

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BULLETS >>>

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Trying to read bisexual male representation into older American media is kind of a complicated proposition because there was a long stretch where, as long as a male character was textually attracted to women, any expressions of attraction toward men were automatically assumed to be jokes in poor taste, so you could get away with male supporting characters – and occasionally even protagonists – whose bisexuality was just barely subtext, as long as you played it off as them having a weird sense of humour.

Then quite suddenly (and I want to say it happened in the early 1980s, though I can’t strongly substantiate that), that stopped being acceptable all at once, and those types of characters basically dropped off the face of the planet for about two decades.

Am I totally out to lunch here, or did something happen circa 1983 to account for that?

(To anticipate the obvious response, yes, I’m aware of when the AIDS crisis happened, but I suspect ascribing it solely to that is reductive – the period when you could get away with ironically bisexual dudes in popular media was pretty lengthy, and spanned decades when mlm were even more strongly stigmatised than they were at the height of the AIDS crisis.)

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listen I know that you love your robot boyfriend and I'm sure that he's great but his disregard for aftercare is raising some serious red flags for me

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cats be like damn we are cuddling 😳 what if I bit you for no reason