#Eugene Strange

[thesetwoidiots]

Beverly: Stephen!

Stephen: Mom! *Sees Eugene* Father. *Sees Victor* Victor.

Victor, obviously just as disgusted: Stephen.

Tony, trying to prevent an argument: Tony, Peter, Morgan!

Peter and Morgan: Hi!

[popcorn-plots]

Febuwhump day 19: "Please don't."

Title: shattered silence

Words: 100

Summary: Stephen and Eugene’s relationship is all but healthy. So when Stephen gets home and finds his father drinking, he tries to avoid him at all costs... but avoiding Eugene is near impossible when you’re the one he’s angry at.

Warnings for child abuse :/

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“Stephen Vincent Strange!” Stephen flinched at the sound of his full name, slurred and mangled by the liquor in Eugene’s throat. "Get back down here, ya filthy rat."

Stephen sighed. He shrugged off his backpack and set it on the stairs. He had gotten so close this time, so close to his room where he could hide from his father's drinking. He slunk down the stairs, head hung low.

"Yes, sir?"

"Coming home late, got an A- on the test… dumbass. Turn around."

Stephen nodded. "Please don't…" He whispered. Eugene yelled, the bottle exploded. Stephen cried, the glass drawing blood.

Ao3

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#1145

Eugenics and genetic modification are not the same thing. The terms are not interchangeable. Eugenics is the practice of erasing perceived ‘undesirable’ traits in the gene pool. It is motivated by racism and ableism and is horrific. Genetic modification is one possible tool that eugenicist could use to achieve that end. Another tool which has actually been used by eugenicists to advance their awful goal is compulsory sterilization. This is also horrific and recognized as such - compulsory sterilization is a Crime Against Humanity in the Rome Statute. However, sterilization procedures such as tube tying and vasectomies are not practices that people generally call for to be banned, because people may want to prevent themselves from getting pregnant or from getting another person pregnant for all sorts of reasons and we recognized that people should have autonomy over their own bodies and be free to make their own reproductive choices. Consensual vasectomies and tube tying being legal in a country does not mean that country is endorsing eugenics. A country in which there is a government program of coercing or using incentives to get members groups perceived as undesirable to have their tubes tied or have vasectomies is practicing eugenics. The legality and use of tool in general does not necessarily mean that the tool is being used for eugenics. Now, let’s take that one step further with a hypothetical on genetic engineering. Imagine that we determine that if one gene was removed from the human genome, those without that gene would no longer get dementia and there were zero other impacts. Would a country that made that genetic modification procedure available for free to everyone who wanted it and the doctors performing that procedure be practicing eugenics? Now imagine that procedure didn’t work in adults or even children. It had to be administered during fetal development to be effective. Would a parent choosing to have that gene removed from their unborn child so they would never get dementia be practicing eugenics? I'm not going to weigh in on those my point is that it’s a complex issue, there are very flew easy answers available and you really have to consider motive. Eugenicists are motivated by the view that certain people are superior and other people are inferior and they want to get rid of the latter.

Applying it to Strange New Worlds, Una has specifically stated that the Illyrian motivation for genetic modification is so that they fit in with their environment, rather than terraform (this intersects another really interesting scientific ethical discussion happening around climate engineering and the potential consequences). There is no evidence in canon that Illyrians are motivated by the need to be superior or are getting rid of undesired traits. They took up modification to live on planets that would otherwise be unhospitable to them (beta canon is that their home world is no longer inhabitable even with modification due to environmental collapse outside of their control, they’re essentially environmental refugees). While Illyrians modify themselves genetically, there is no evidence that Illyrians are practicing eugenics. In the context of DS9, Bashir’s parents believed it was undesirable to have a son with intellectual disabilities. They modified him to get rid the trait they perceived as undesirable. They were practicing eugenics. In Star Trek canon, billions of people died during the Eugenics Wars. When it comes to the law, it is incredibly difficult determining motive and therefore it is understandable that they banned genetic engineering as a way of stopping eugenicists and preventing a repeat. But in doing so, they accidentally created a legal regime in which entire families could be arrested.   The point Star Trek has been making lately with the Illyrian storyline is sometimes shit is complicated, and that a law that is meant to protect, can also sometimes harm and we need to be able to listen, think and consider complex situations. And I also hate myself a bit for writing this. I should just be able to ignore all the terrible takes and ‘I haven’t watched but…’ people.

[kaykishi]

sorry for underworld office posting y'all puyoposting will be back

[the-random-man]

Unlike strange new worlds prodigy understands that the federation’s laws against genetic modification are there to prevent eugenics and that eugenics is bad.

[wiltedprayers]

I tried to warn you when you were a child

I told you not to get lost in the wild

I sent you omens and all kinds of signs

— “The Yawning Grave” by Lord Huron.

[moondaepuppy]

[prettylittlelifeforms]

The thing that really sucks about the whole eugenics thing in strange new worlds is framed as ‘eugenics is a cultural practice for these people and it’s okay actually’ and not ‘una was genetically modified before birth and therefore cannot have consented and should not be punished for someone else’s decision’

In my opinion DS9 handled this really well with Julian, makes it clear how eugenics is very clearly a BAD thing but he did not consent to the practice and just wishes to contribute as he is capable.

I don’t think the topic needed to be explored again from the other point of view. That’s not to say that these stories shouldn’t continue to be told but framing eugenics not only as a good thing but as a metaphor for antisemitism and literally making holocaust parallels it’s really, really disgusting considering how it has been used historically.

[trekkie-polls]

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

[spirk-trek]

Your tags on the snw post... You're right and you should say it!!!

With all the shit I've seen about it online was really surprised how much I actually liked snw, it's really a solid show. Yeah the chapel/spock romance is questionable but they did so many things right and really captured the spirit of the TOS (it being a good mix of serious and whimsical)

yes!!! so much whimsy!!!

i actually feel guilty about not voicing my compliments as loudly as my complaints. i'd hate to be the reason someone doesn't at least give it a chance. i think i'll make a post about some of the parallels to tos that i thought were particularly clever/well done before season three comes out :) also, the new characters are great!

[columboscreens]

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

That response to 1125 is wild. Una's actress is hella hot and fits the attractive-to-tumblr woman type perfectly actually but being a "mlm shippable" is not the reason Bashir is accepted by the fandom. Bashir is accepted by the fandom because he acknowledges what his parents did was wrong and isn't responsible for the edits made to him. Una also isn't responsible but has absolutely no issues about the implications of her genetic enhancements and implies the Federation is just racist to her because her people would rather turn themselves into sentient lights than have autism or something.

There is no nuance here: eugenics is bad even if you think your reason for doing eugenics is good.

"We change ourselves instead of the planets we colonize" is not the ethical take the show thinks it is maybe try "we can't live on this planet without changing it or us so we decided to not live on this planet".

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[kimwexlers-brownhair]

Totally looking a gift horse in the mouth here, but I'm a little bummed we didn't get to see Noel Wells and Eugene Cordero play their live action characters.

[pattheanimator]

As I’ve been reposting a bunch of my art to Tumblr, I was going to post these for Tangled’s anniversary, but missed it by a day! Oh, well. A couple of years ago, some members of the fandom decided to do a Tangled challenge for Art April, and I thought I’d give it a shot! These are my entries, batch 3 of 3: 21. Tangled character in cosplay - Faith 22. Tangled the Series crossover - Life is Strange 23. Member of the Brotherhood - Adira 24. Favourite Tangled series couple - Rapunzel and Eugene 25. Character in a Dark Kingdom-style outfit - Eugene 26. Lance 27. Eugene 28. Rapunzel 29. Varian 30. Cassandra