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I think one of my fav moments in DS9 is when Sisko is grilling Dukat over a bottle of Kanar that he was "allegedly" gonna use to poison another Cardassian, then Weyoun grabs a glass, takes a huge sip and is like "mmm yes, this poison is made of poison."

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romance is a type of friendship and im sick of people pretending like they're two seperate categories. your romantic partner is Supposed to also be your friend like at the very least why are we pitting romance AGAINST friendship when they r intertwined???? romantic partners are also friends and u can have romance with ur friends stop acting like these bitches are seperate forces

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it's crazy that sexism can even affect animals. the way people assume all dogs are boys. the simultaneous way people will get genuinely really mad if you dare mistake their pretty princess for a boy despite the fact all german shepherds look the same. the refusal to buy pink toys and accessories for male pets. i recently met someone who insisted they never adopt girl cats because they're always meaner than boy cats. i feel like im losing my mind. they're literally cats.

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Yes, the death penalty is bad because it hurts innocent people, but it's also bad just because the government shouldn't be allowed to kill guilty people either.

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ds9 is an incredible show because there’ll be a devastating, thought provoking episode that’s still incredibly relevant to this day and the very next episode will ask the age old question “what if miles o’brien was hunted for sport”

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nice pair of characters who trust each other more than anyone else in the whole entire world it would sure be a shame if one of them betrayed that trust for the sake of trying to keep the other alive. it would sure be a shame to love someone so much you destroy them

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“trans men need more representation in media” is a good and true statement! that should be said, and we should talk about how painful it can be to see ourselves so rarely (and to only see ourselves as distorted images of cis women when we are shown), but “trans men need more representation in media, because trans women get all of the representation” is incredibly transmisogynistic and unfair, and it does not belong in our discussions. trans women are not privileged for their depictions in media. stop erasing transmisogyny.

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Goddammit now I wanna know the split on this

REBLOG FOR WIDER SAMPLE POOL PLS

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One of the things about writing that feels the silliest is when there’s a detail in the scene that the character doesn’t think is important but you know the reader will know it’s important because otherwise it wouldn’t be there, so you’re just sort of making eye contact with the reader over the character’s head and whispering “don’t tell them”

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im gonna be honest gang i really don't care if a 16 year old sees porn. i think the circumstances & context around your first interaction with sexuality is a lot more important in whether or not it will be traumatizing in some way than the sex itself. like i think the first time i ever looked up porn i was 12? which is a very normal age as well. and i was also on tumblr where i saw a lot of people saying "hey porn isn't realistic" so when i watched porn i was like hmm interesting, maybe hot, but i's not good advice. and that was that. watching porn didn't lead me to engage with any adults, it didn't make me upset, all it did was help me visualize things and later explore my own sexuality. and im not saying there's no rules i couldn't get behind regarding minors and sexual content because we do have these concepts for good reasons. but i keep seeing people be like well OBVIOUSLY we should keep minors from watching porn! and im just like idk! do we really need to be majorly concerned with preventing teens from accessing porn as much as we need to make sure there is bountiful, educated and compassionate sex ed, workers rights for sex workers, and awareness around abuse? maybe the solution is better positive than negative

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It's so fucking crazy that the Star Trek episode where you first see Spock do the Vulcan salute that would become emblematic of the entire franchise, and the first time you hear him say "live long and prosper," is also the one where he has to return to his home planet to Fuck Or Die but then gets manipulated into a pro wrestling match with Kirk that apparently serves the same function as the fuck option and totally cures him. And this aired as the season two premiere! It was the first time audiences saw Chekov! And it's the one with top surgery Kirk. It truly has it all. Greatest TV episode ever made.

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social contract is all fucked now, nobody wears ear buds on the train anymore and almost nobody will assassinate a politician for the greater good

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People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

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SNW: we're going to finally develop the Black and female characters that TOS ignored!

Also SNW: we have made the Black man violent and made the girl just a love interest

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Here's the thing is like, Harry being a genius who constantly overachieves, and especially, feels like he has to over preform forever despite the implication that there's no outward pressure, from his parents, a mentor, society, his friends, is a really really compelling concept for a character. All the small hints we get to his past is that his parents loved him, he had a great childhood. And yet— we get that quote, from I think Favored Son but I'm not 100%, where he talks about how he felt he hadn't earned his parents love despite nothing they said or did to make him feel unworthy.

And that's a really interesting motivation for a character being so driven! And then you put him into this environment where everyone depends on Harry so often, he is under equipped and not performing to the standard everyone needs him to can result in everyone dying. He's fresh out of the academy, it's his first assignment, so already an incredibly understandable set up for a character wanting to prove themselves despite no real need— as in, no one is ever expecting less of Harry. They already believe in him. Expectations are met! But you add in this factor of him never feeling like enough, always constantly feeling like he, as himself, isn't worthy of respect or love and therefore has to constantly perform at 100 and ten percent to earn that affection and has felt this way since he was a child is so so soooooo fucking interesting.

But the writers do nothing with it! They only gave him the "overachiever career boy" backstory as a cop out to giving him more in-depth characterization. And you know, it's also deeply deeply racist to give your sole Asian character the overachiever archetype, which cannot be understated even a little bit how racist the writers can be with Harry like holy shit. Harry get behind me.

Like what I'm trying to complain about and get across here is that smart, kind, polite, dedicated, determined— none of those are inherently boring traits for a character to have. Especially a character like Harry, who the writers loved to put into the torture vortex. But the writers only gave him that backstory as a means of dismissal, just "nothing interesting here, star athlete, straight As. Oh personality? he's polite, kind, hardworking. No edge here don't worry about it". Like even the torture vortex is often used as a means of shelving his character for an episode by writing him out of the plot and having him just passed out in sickbay the entire forty minutes!! I have another post talking about how much I love how ridiculous his lore gets because what do you mean he's a star athlete and has an award in pilot proficiency and no one ever mentions this ever, and I do love it!! I love that he's so fucking good at these things but I hate hate hate how they just use it. GIVE ME MORE!!! Harry Kim I am so so so sorry you were forced to be a voyager character you deserved bigger and better things

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do you use your irl name on tumblr? ie, either your government name or the name you go as in real life. if you use a different name that's not related to you irl here on tumblr then vote no