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First post!! I love Uhura

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Lesbian coat of arms sketch ⚔️🌈

On the left we have the caribou, the only deer species where the female also grow horns, and keep them longer than males. Antlered deer have long been used as symbols of power. The supporter on the right is the whiptail lizard. These lizards are famous for having all-female populations which reproduce basically by cloning themselves...but in order to stimulate parthenogenetic egg production, they need to mate with each other. An entire sapphic species! As the crest we have the pelican. Lesbian were big on spreading awareness in the AIDS crisis, as well as providing dignified care, and donating their own blood to help (protectors of the community). In heraldry, pelicans are often shown feeding their offspring their own blood, plus the drop of blood looks pretty badass.

The wreath consists of violets (Sappho often mentioned violets in her poetry) and lavender. On the shield we have the labrys (a historical lesbian symbol), two queen bees, and a lioness for strength.

The compartment represents the island of Lesbos (where Sappho is from). Above the banner are waves. The motto is currently a placeholder.

All feedback welcome. We can still make changes! (:

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I need to go digging through the archives for you, there's a video of de telling a related story himself and it always gives me a good giggle. I'll at you when I find it

At Shatner Q&A and he was asked for a story about time on the Star Trek set, which started a story about him gaslighting De:

They filmed really late, and one shoot at 2 am, Deforest told Bill he’d been worried about his memory lately and thought he might be starting to lose it. Of course, Bill decides to fuck with him the next morning at breakfast.

De fixes himself a bagel (first mistake, cause Bill thinks it’s funny that he’s not eating grits cause he’s a ‘southern gentleman’) and after De presses it down in the toaster, Bill asks Leonard to go distract him. Leonard pulls De to the side, saying somethings in his eyes, and while they’re gone Bill steals the bagel out of the toaster, shoves it in his pocket, and puts the toaster back down. De comes back, waits in front of the toaster, and it pops up with nothing inside. De starts mumbling to himself, and gives up and fixes another bagel.

Bill sends Leonard to distract him again, but no longer has a pocket for this bagel and shoves it in his mouth to eat it. De comes back, toaster pops, no bagel. Then he starts to get pissed off, and he whips around in time to catch Bill furiously trying to eat his bagel in time, and shouts,

“YOUUU SON OF A BITCH!”

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An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl

* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired * and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season * and wrote fanfic way back in the day * and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake

All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.

Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.

The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”

That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.

The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.

You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.

Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)

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Star Trek grandma

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Went to a miniature enthusiast exhibition today with like tiny dollhouse furniture and little tiny trains. It was super fun, lots of cute stuff, and nestled amongst the ww2 replicas was a beautiful little metal painted 'starship captain' figure who was so obviously Kirk. It was just gorgeous in the original box, I really wanted to buy it but the cost converted to $80, but it costs 50ish hours worth of minimum wage in my (third world) currency. Absolute fortune, but my god he was gorgeous. Hopefully our paths intersect again in the future when I'm working and can afford luxuries like that. I wish I'd taken a photo, it's so expensive but it was so beautiful it was worth every cent

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!!! This is the origin of the revenge muffin story!!!

At Shatner Q&A and he was asked for a story about time on the Star Trek set, which started a story about him gaslighting De:

They filmed really late, and one shoot at 2 am, Deforest told Bill he’d been worried about his memory lately and thought he might be starting to lose it. Of course, Bill decides to fuck with him the next morning at breakfast.

De fixes himself a bagel (first mistake, cause Bill thinks it’s funny that he’s not eating grits cause he’s a ‘southern gentleman’) and after De presses it down in the toaster, Bill asks Leonard to go distract him. Leonard pulls De to the side, saying somethings in his eyes, and while they’re gone Bill steals the bagel out of the toaster, shoves it in his pocket, and puts the toaster back down. De comes back, waits in front of the toaster, and it pops up with nothing inside. De starts mumbling to himself, and gives up and fixes another bagel.

Bill sends Leonard to distract him again, but no longer has a pocket for this bagel and shoves it in his mouth to eat it. De comes back, toaster pops, no bagel. Then he starts to get pissed off, and he whips around in time to catch Bill furiously trying to eat his bagel in time, and shouts,

“YOUUU SON OF A BITCH!”

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This is very sweet. But friendship for Spock also includes this:

Please Sarek, NEVER talk to Amanda like this!

From DC comics vol. 2, issues 10, 11, 13.

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How did he not realize how gorgeous he was?

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Ms. Frizzle *in a star fleet uniform* “battle stations everyone”

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I love how all of them are super casual with their family and bringing them up to the point of being cagey about it. Welcome!

Watching Star Trek: The Animated Series and McCoy just casually mentioned that he has a daughter. Excuse me???

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Damn, why does he have to be so pretty!

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My Top 25 Costumes from Star Trek : The Original Series

24. Lord Garth

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I have a raccoon that my boyfriend got for me in the hospital gift shop, and he has a big sheep that I got for him from a different hospital gift shop 3 years later! They go with us when we sleep away

Those of you who sleep with a stuffed animal/plushie, is it one you've had since childhood?

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Do you like watching movies and/or shows from the 1960’s?

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Captain's chair console on the Picard season 3 mystery ship (Stargazer-A? Republic?), with a nod to the TOS episode "Court Martial"