#LT beloved

[viaphni]

the little doodles on my music notes go crazy

[auspicioustidings]

I keep thinking about a Soap who knows how dangerous Ghost is. Ghost is like that coworker everyone clocks as a potential mass shooter, but he never shows enough of a red flag. So Soap is nice to him, in a ‘please don’t shoot me on a mission’ way. Ghost, emotionally stunted as he is, gets overly attached. Soap is *his* Johnny, and it’s hard to not get fiction and reality crossed with as much trauma and psychological damage Ghost has suffered his whole life.

Soap begged you not to pick him up at the airport, over and over. He could get his own ride home. But being a loving girlfriend, you insisted. So he lied about his flight. Too bad you figured out the lie and showed up on time.

Too bad Ghost saw you throw yourself against his Johnny in a too tight hug.

HEAR ME OUT THO

Like down the line when you're tied to a chair with a ball gag in watching your boyfriend get railed you fully consider it your fault. Why? Because Johnny kept telling you it was. He tried to save you this fate, he really did, but you just didn't listen did you?

Now you'll do anything to make things right, will follow every order Ghost gives so he won't take your sins out on Johnny.

All according to plan really. Soap had been winding you up about airport pick ups for months and he knew eventually you'd break and come against his warnings. But he considers his hands clean, because he did tell you. And hey, he barely had to goad Ghost about it to get him to show up. All in all he's really just the good guy doing a bit of matchmaking in this situation, he knew you and Ghost would be just perfect together :)

[ducktracy]

very faithful representation of what it's like to work for 6-11 children's television animation (on behalf of both parties)

[chronicallyaunline]

Neurodiversity in Star Trek TNG S3 E20: “Tin Man”

Tam Elbrun: It worries you that I can’t read your mind?

Data: Perhaps there is nothing to read. Nothing more than mechanisms and algorithmic responses.

Tam Elbrun: Perhaps you’re just different. It’s not a sin, you know, though you may have heard otherwise.

Many autistic Star Trek enthusiasts see themselves in Lt Cdr Data, an android who was designed without the ability to experience emotion (though there is plenty of context to suggest that he merely experiences emotion differently from other people). While Data and certain other characters are widely considered to be neurodivergent by fans, the earlier series are rarely so explicit about neurodivergence as in the TNG episode “Tin Man.” This episode introduced Tam Elbrun, a Betazoid who is unusually proficient in negotiation with sentient non-humanoid organisms. It is made abundantly clear that Elbrun is considered neurodivergent among Betazoids, as he possesses a telepathic ability that is so powerful it becomes debilitating.

Counsellor Troi states that Betazoids normally come into their telepathic abilities in adolescence, but a small minority are born with their abilities. Troi also says that those children require early diagnosis and intervention so that they can be taught to manage the overwhelming experience of being aware of the minds of others before their own brains are capable of handling it. At least in the case of Elbrun, that power seems to continue to grow with age. By the time we meet an adult Elbrun, he experiences the emotions and thoughts of others so powerfully that he is disabled by being in the presence of large numbers of sentient minds. The one exception is Data, as Elbrun is unable to read his unique mind.

Data and Elbrun have opposite experiences of emotion. Data cannot feel emotion in a traditional capacity, and Elbrun cannot stop experiencing it. Neither one is capable of experiencing normal social bonds because of the intensity of their differences, yet they find some companionship through their similarities. Ironically their opposite experiences are both representative of autism. Autistic people tend to experience much lower or much higher empathy than the average person, both of which can prevent us from socializing normatively with others. To me, the most important part of this episode is that it is so ahead of its time in how it approaches people with unusual brains. Difference is not wrong, and it does not cancel out your basic humanity. Star Trek TNG aired years before I was born, but there are plenty of modern shows that would do well to treat their characters more like this.

[mudkipper]

Even more ghostsoap bullshit:

Soap ACTUALLY saving a seat for ghost that first time they meet, of course he has to be fucking extra and make sure to put his stuff on there and by the time ghost gets there, oh for fucks sake it really is the only seat left so he begrudgingly sits next to him, trying not to make eye contact, but he can feel soaps eyes burning into him as if hes just met his favorite celebrity not even fucking bothering to be subtle

And soap may or may not be obnoxiously manspreading for an excuse for their legs to touch and also have his hands folded oh so neatly in his lap for Reasons

[squireofgeekdom]

'modern trek doesnt have enough camp' 'modern trek has too high stakes' whatever. i unabashedly love almost all modern trek. modern trek's actual error is whatever decision was made across series to rehab section 31 into cool edgy outsiders they could make a movie about instead of the cautionary tale of the war crimes division of fascist parasites lurking inside starfleet that ds9 actually created

[avadmortain]

the love triangle, the wayhaven chronicles.

[liamthemailman]

eye contact

be the orange sunlight to my blue skies

[whattraintracks]

Thanks @nightwatcherraph and @yellowhollyhock for tagging me!

Tag Game: Put your 4 favourite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe then tag 4 people

no pressure tagging @languajix @lycanthropiclesbians @iztarshi @ezrahayls

[red-garden]

I’m tired of being poor, it’s time to start drawing weird autistic pornography

[xruzzakix]

Was unsure about posting this at first, but what the hell! Here's a drawing I did of my favorite android :)

[wildtornado-o]

I might like them :3 Just A little.

The first drawing was lowkey (the pose, specifically) inspired by @a-pepper-honey 's fic The lake of promises Everyone should read it, it's so delightful <3

[ducktracy]

idk if it was ever animated but theres a cute sequel song to alvin's harmonica called alvin's orchestra and i think the voice deliveries are wonderful

IT WAS INDEED ANIMATED!! i just posted it a few weeks ago! it's what's gotten me on this Chipmunk Adventure, i am SOOOOO ENTHRALLED WITH IT oh my goodness!!! i'm completely endeared with the songs and the production design especially. absolutely love Dave's screaming in this one, the rawness of "STOP LEADING THAT ORCHESTRA" is so visceral HAHA

this is another one i've been singing to myself the past few weeks, so so so charming and cute

[aroaceleovaldez]

we should bring back LT Musical!Silena because I feel like we didn’t appreciate that enough in the moment and also. Silena with a giant hammer.

[yichens]

last twilight trailer when

[pixeliiiii]

Logan Thompson starting in net against the Golden Knights. I’m going to burst into tears