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25/12/2024 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…

If you've been having a hard time over the holiday season because of unavailable or insufficient care from those who raised you, feel free to imagine me there as your time-and-space-shifted Mom now. Want to eat cookies and watch ancient musical movies with me? emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon, smile with three hearts, christmas tree, cookie, projector, music notes

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26/12/2024 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…

When I advise you to keep your shields up, I am also aware that doing so long-term is exhausting. Even yellow alert is tiresome after awhile. I sincerely hope you are able to find a space safe enough to let all of your guards down so you can get some rest.

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Oh look, it's a 3D representation of the underside of Glimmer's hair.

[image: Animated gif of Glimmer from She-Ra.]

by nuqui_herping

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Honestly, so much transphobia smells like the fragility of not-actually-feminist white women.

Wait... Wait wait wait, let me understand something.

So for this cisgender woman with naturally high testosterone (and/or an intersex condition, I do not know her specific condition and it's honestly none of my business) has to be be forced to take the same testosterone suppressing medications that these same competitive regulatory committee said wasn't good enough to suppress trans women's testosterone to allow them to compete in women's sports.

If she has naturally high testosterone, similar to that that trans women experience in their lives pre-transition then wouldn't she have the same advantages that a trans woman supposedly inherently has and can not be corrected with said testosterone suppression?

Like, no one should have to undergo forced medical treatment to be able to compete or to make it "fair" for their competition. Other athletes have all kinds of natural advantages, like Michael Phelps having an abnormal wingspan and larger lungs and heart. In fact, every high level athlete has some kind of physical advantage, that's how they're such high level athletes. You think the people they beat out for their spots just, what, didn't work as hard? Didn't grab those bootstraps tight enough? Fuck no.

Racism, intersexism, and transphobia are all linked, and this case is maybe the most glaringly obvious one.

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tiktok: christinajulian_91

audio credit: anthony vincent

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[image: Animated gif of Dean Winchester saying, "I think I'm adorable."]

awesome. we have a beetle problem

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Okay but it's not just the hat, it's the hat AND the whole little fndhdhdhblrble expression:

[image: Animated gif of Star Trek The Next Generation's Data in a cowboy hat lifting his brows flirtatiously.]

Because Data wears lots of hats (and occasional fetish masks in an episode literally called Masks omg). He has his Sherlock hat, his Carlos hat, his "feel cute might take Bev's advice literally and chuck her in the water" hat, his Fistful of Datas hats, and probably others in his cosplay chest in his quarters. But the cowboy hat is extraaaaa because of that little smoochable brow-lift flirty djsjdnfjdjdness.

Quick PSA: slap a cowboy hat on him and he immediately becomes even more adorable. Please observe:

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I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this

And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man

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Carol of the Hells.

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It's also entirely possible to like terrible things. It's what you do next that counts.

As in...

"I like this piece of old media because I respect that it was good on social issues in its day but not so good by today's standards. I'm going to still like this, but push for media in my era to do better, and when I see examples of these social issues around me I'm going to reflect on how I can help make the real world better now too, using what I know from this media."

vs

"I like this piece of old media even though it's problematic and I'm going to go out and replicate the problematic parts and anyone who doesn't laugh along with me is a [problematic word]."

“This representation was groundbreaking for the time and a lot of people liked it” and “This may have aged poorly and many modern audiences from the group don’t feel represented by it and are bothered by aspects of it” are not mutually exclusive

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Asked my mom for a binder for Christmas

No, mom, that’s not….

Oh I see what you did there

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one of the best academic paper titles

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in case you needed to hear it today:

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re changing lanes

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re taking an exit

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you plan on turning (can even be done sooner than 2 seconds before you’re about to turn)

you have a turn signal. in your vehicle. two of them in fact.

you are so brave and beautiful and smart and can do it. using your turn signal

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Also, working with the canonical female characters at any depth level means addressing not just those unexplored issues with those characters, but the unexplored issues more pertinent to women throughout that universe.

Kirk and Picard have both had plots where unexpected potential offspring have come back to them as adults. Beverly Crusher raised her child.

Kasidy Yates says outright that she remembered to get her birth control shot, so she's pregnant because Sisko forgot to get his. But even there, we get precious little other discussion about what birth control is in this whole Trek universe.

Even before Mirena coils and other period suppression medications started becoming available, I've long wondered if menstruation is even a thing to be suffered in the Federation. I mean...it sucks, it's painful, it's rife with problems, so going back to TNG in my 20s I've had it in my headcanon that nobody in their world even has to have a period, at all, ever.

But then we keep getting these oops-babies plots, because this is shit male writers just don't think about until they need a suprise!baby as a plot device.

So okay, in my fic I'm giving Picard an actual suprise!baby in my OC. But that means I have to define why, at least in the backstory. We have SO MUCH INFORMATION about how Picard didn't want to parent, but in later life seemed willing to accept adult oops-babies. So I figure this "shot" Yates and Sisko refer to is a birth control shot, apparently annual by their conversation. So I figure Picard had his very, very regularly, right?

But apparently it takes two to be sure, because Yates has Sisko's oopsie while he goes off to be SpaceJesus (which is irksome given that his original character arc was supposed to dispense with the absentee-Black-dad stereotype).

So okay if I want Picard to have an adult suprise!baby, I have to construct a whole element to this world where his lover at the time could deliberately not have her shot in the hopes of getting his baby, because the show never deals with this other than as part of male stories. FFS even in my own story it's still a male story!

And this is part of why PIC S3 pissed me off, because there's no fucking way Beverly would hide an oops-baby from Picard like that, to the detriment of all involved. That's only done to let Picard be a victim at the expense of Crusher's moral standing.

The fact that basic human medical needs like menstruation and birth control are barely mentioned in this series that regularly takes on other bio-sci-fi journies tells you exactly how few uterus-owners have been in the writing room and senior on production teams. "Oh I know, let's cover up Visitor's pregnancy as some magic scifi bio stuff where she's actually carrying Keiko's fetus!" says a writer somewhere, and another one goes, "Hur hur hur let's definitely include some episodes were Miles gets horny for her as a result hur hur." All of that but still no basic addressing of procreative medicine in this world.

TL:DR systemic misogyny is woven deeper into these things than you realise.

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

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Welcome to the age of enthusiasm.