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Star Trek: Picard 2.10 Farewell

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what

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Love is in the air...

Quark & Grilka 🔥

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It's so funny that Fanny, The Captain, and Pat are consecutive ghosts. Whatever force dictates the afterlife looked at the fairly chaotic group of Button House and was like Woe, triple whammy of autistic people invested in rules and structure and organization and order be upon ye

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TORA ZIYAL DS9 | 6.03 SONS AND DAUGHTERS

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1991 Dec 18 De's Star Photos - De's Intro

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Sisko and Dax

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STAY TUNED...

ALRIGHT SO THIS IS MY ANNOUNCEMENT THAT I WILL NOT BE POSTING FOR A WEEK. GONNA BE TRAVELING ABROAD. BE BACK SOON.

To accompany this message is a meme made by my best friend at the airport after I told him about a dream I had where I was at a Halloween party, really bummed out because no one would be spooky with me, and Simon Farnaby just appeared, gave me a hug, and went on with his day.

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belated but the funniest shit abt that "ambassador garak" thing is that it was JUST ambassador garak. that bitch just straight up refused to let them put his first name on the wall. it's a mononym now. cher. madonna. garak.

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i'll defend fanfic for my whole life. like the joy it brings is genuinely transformative and indulgent in a way unique to the genre. it isn't meant for a market, it isn't meant to be sold or marketed. it is born out of such care and passion for a media that one must write and must share it, so other folks can enjoy it to. for no other reason than love and joy. do you know how special that is? especially in our current social and political climate.

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shipping win! they have different but equally terrible coping mechanisms

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why is ds9 tumblr so dead lately. can we start a Discourse

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a ridiculous concept i cant get out of my head is the ferengi having an attitude toward vulcans thats basically "these guys would be SO COOL if they didnt SUCK" bc they could be making absolute bank with their ruthless logic and intellect and they have the second sexiest ears in the galaxy, but noooo, they're too busy deepthroating the federation's boot. BUT if you took a vulcan baby and raised it right, with good ferengi values...

cut to quark showing up one day wearing a baby bjorn and sisko or whoever asking him "why do you have a vulcan baby 🤨?" "i acquired it." "you mean adopted?" "yeah yeah whatever. lets go, t'axevasion, time to launder money with daddy"

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hello hello GUESS who just got to the ugly truth in his farscape rewatch again!! (me fave episode yippeee) i notice something new every time i watch it, so i thought i’d finally compile all my observations!

Aeryn’s Version Of Events

She views Zhaan as indecisive and a total pushover. “i’ll need to meditate on this”, “well i don’t know who to believe!”

Aside from Zhaan she has the most merciful view of Crais. it’s fairly obvious, and just as obvious why, we all know. but it felt like a disservice not to at least mention it. The whole thing is a real testament to how far she’s come.

Zhaan’s Version of Events

She’s the only one besides Stark who explicitly lies to their faces, and i find it so so compelling. you go girl. she’s such a shitty priest <3

Zhaan portrays John as an indecisive pushover, almost childlike in his inability to form his own opinion.

She characterises everyone as so ridiculously passive and it’s hilarious. even Crais, which is interesting. “the Plokavians are going to have great difficulty believing that was an accident!” LMAOO

She’s also SUCH an ass-kisser. “the Plokavians are strong believers in truth and justice 😇” okay girl.

Related to this she also has herself, instead of Stark, be the one who explains the Plokavians to the others, demonstrating her tendency to paint herself as smarter and wiser than she really is, and to not really listen to those around her.

She goes to the very unnecessary effort to describe the made up scene where she and Stark admire the Plokavian ship and hold hands. it’s really cute. and a really funny attempt at painting Stark as peaceful and non-threatening.

Stark’s Version of Events

Noticeably shorter than the others but i’m obsessed with him so of course i’ve noticed the tiny subtle little details. for example. he characterises not just Crais, but everyone as slightly colder than they really are, demonstrating how little he really knows the Moya crew in comparison to how well they know each other. He doesn’t even have a cute little moment of remembering Zhaan fondly.

He’s the only one who doesn’t paint himself as the leader. (yes, they all do it, or at least paint themself as the most rational, most just aren’t as obnoxious about it as D’argo.) he has a very black and white view of the situation. John is the hero whose opinions everyone has time for, and Crais is the villain. Stark paints himself as a mere observer on the sidelines. i think it’s a mix of the following: 1) a result of a lifetime of slavery, being unimportant and ignored, and 2) a manipulation tactic, a defence mechanism, much like his strategic mad outbursts.

His admiration of John is very obvious.

Even the camera work is telling. his memory includes a lot of close ups to character’s faces, and when it cuts to him, his eyes are darting around between them all. he’s studying their micro-expressions.

D’argo’s Version of Events

It’s hard to say anything about this beyond it’s just really really funny. his version of John is such a yes-man. he has the most explicit I Am The Leader vibe because of course he does.

Zhaan’s “violence would not solve the problem” is such a simplified portrayal of her character, her worldview, the advise she often gives. 3 possible reasons for this off the top of my head: 1) he doesn’t really listen when she talks. 2) he listens, but he doesn’t understand. 3) he just wants this to be simple. he wants this to be over so he can get out of here and find his son, so he’s glossing over things.

His characterisation of Stark is very funny. totally unhinged and pathetic. more on this at the end.

and finally:

Crichton’s Version of Events

The closest to the unbiased truth. maybe. who knows. you decide.

Right from the start, he places himself behind Crais. no one else puts him there.

Now that i’m rewatching it as i’m writing this, he doesn’t paint himself as much of a leader either. he paints the Moya crew as a united front, up until Stark approaches the console.

No one else but John remembers Zhaan being the one to say “you mean your control.” in response to Crais claiming Talyn would be even more aggressive without his guidance. she’s a bit passive aggressive about it as well. regardless of wether she really says it, it’s such an interesting little moment to me, how John sees this cold version of her, likely because he was only one who saw firsthand how she killed her lover in Rhapsody in Blue. he understands her capacity for pragmatism, even cruelty, better than anyone i think.

Whether his story contains bias and inconsistencies, his characterisation of Crais as surprisingly reasonable proves he’s making a clear effort to be as objective as he can.

“PLOKAVOIDS”

This really is my favourite farscape episode, i love it so much. and i think it’s because, although not obvious at first glance, it’s clearly the first Stark Episode, (like I,ET is the first John Episode and Rhapsody In Blue is the first Zhaan Episode) A defining trait of Stark’s is that he’s a character who is very at the mercy (scrutiny) of other’s (mis)conceptions of him. his line about outsiders thinking his people don’t feel, but it’s only that they don’t always show. his defence mechanism being acting crazy or more incompetent than he is. (his prey animal swag has enchanted me body and soul) everyone’s lack of trust in him. this episode lays the groundwork for all of that. i once saw a review shitting on this episode for bringing back a guy no one cares about and then sacrificing him expecting the audience to care about him despite not having given him time to become likeable. it’s a valid point, but i think this is the episode that makes you care about him, or at least form your opinion.

thanks for reading!!

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Seriously, why is almost any well known British actor (not all but most) willing to:

a) defend well known transphobic people

b) collaborate with said transphobic people

c) not only do part a) & part b) but also either refuse to comment on why they’re collaborating with said transphobic people by saying “I don’t want to talk about or comment on the “debate”/situation”, downplay the situation or both.

It’s not even that your employer has a “difference in views” (aka bigoted views, and in this case, transphobia) to you or whatever, no your employer is actively promoting and funding their bigotry by using their platform and money generating from the show that YOU CHOSE TO STAR IN to basically erase trans and gender diverse people from public life and take away our basic human rights.

Honestly, it does kinda suck being British sometimes lowkey :((

(this post is about Harry Potter and that stupid ass Harry Potter show AND that stupid ass upcoming HP audible series)

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ace mcshane, character of all time.

she's a working class sixteen year old juvenile delinquent who got kicked out of school for blowing up the art room. she hates her mom. her childhood best friend was killed in a racist hate crime. she worked a shitty fast food job. she displays textbook signs of gender dysphoria

despite all that, she's filled with *so* much hope. she never lets go of the idea that someday, somehow, she'll be whisked away to somewhere else, somewhere better. and she is! she gets swept up in a time storm, and taken to outer space.

and... nothing really changes. she's still stuck working a job she hates, still a waitress, even. she still isn't happy. except now she doesn't have that fantasy to cling to. she can't dream of being taken to some utopia anymore because she's *already* somewhere over the rainbow. and it fucking sucks.

and then, along comes this traveller. this odd little man who breaks up the monotony. and he sees something in her. he sees something other than the incorrigible troublemaker everyone else sees. and he takes her under his wing, he shows her the universe she's always longed for.

and that's just her first episode!