#bib3lot

[spockvarietyhour]

so if one wants to watch star trek for the first time, where should they begin? i’ve heard good shit about it but i have no idea where the good shit is. help?

It depends on your taste tbh, I don’t think you can go wrong by starting with the original 60s Star Trek TV series, for some goof sf, and good good cheese. I’ve known people that love TOS that didn’t care for TNG and vice-versa.

Star Trek Original Series Movies, 1 is a club footed attempt at something grandiose and somehow still works despite itself, 2-3-4 are the middle aged boys facing mortality, while 5 is ...camp I guess....and 6 is firmly rooted in glasnost and perestroika. 

TNG’s first season is a slog, I’m not gonna lie. There’s a reason we’ve trimmed down from 26 ep. seasons to to 20 and nowadays 13-10. There’s a lot of writer’s fatigue. S1 shows a lot of lack of direction and while I want to not recommend a bunch of S1 episodes I love my bastard children too much. S2 starts taking things more seriously while 3-5 are the golden years, 6 and 7 aren’t bad but don’t feel as great.

TNG Movies are so-so, Generations takes the bad parts of a tv show and give us an unused season finale trope (but despite that there’s still stuff to love), First Contact is the standard bearer of good TNG movies, while Insurrection and Nemesis try and fail and scifi tropes. Nemesis really isn’t talked about much for good reasons but I feel like Londo’s “I was there, at the fall”

DS9 is the smart kid that took risks while staying within the confines of Trek, it was never allowed to stand on its own and the ratings suffered but the stories were great and espoused some of the greatest trekkian ideals. But when an episode dropped the ball it dropped it hard (looking at you “Profit and Lace”)

Voyager: siiiiiiiiigh. Look there’s some good episodes out there, but a dumb plot,  lazy writing half forgotten notions of what makes good TV. It’s worth it for Janeway, Seven, and Tuvok. Some people still enjoy it good and bad. I stuck with it because I like pain.

But, there were some good episodes. I’m sure you could scrape...a season out of it. (Been rewatching random ep with @kiranerys some good, some that didn’t age well, and some like Threshold because horror like that should be shared.) I’d say stick to the headline eps, Caretaker, Season Finales/Openers.

Enterprise came an odd time, the decline of 90s trek tumbled on into the early aughts and brought over what seemed like copy/paste episodes of Voyager. Again that might not be bad because voyager was meant to be the spirit of exploration, but instead we got belaboured Vulcan racism, extra-convoluted time travel plots (even for Trek), and a sense that this didn’t really connect with the now bloating continuity at all. And more catsuits, because...

Again, there are some reallll good episodes scattered in the first two seasons, and I enjoyed the 3rd season arc, and the 4th brought in some trek novel writers to course correct the series (a practice kept in current trek btw) and gave us some needed tightening of plot, paces. 

after Enterprise ended it seemed dim for star trek, except from a growing novelverse that went back and did its own thing and Paramout or Viacom gave each novel series their blessing to play in their backyard and finally do backstories, or move beyond the endpoint of each series.

2009 Star Trek movie was a lot of flashy explosions, sketchy science and underwear but still decent enough to be worth the watch and it brought in a new generation into the old stuff. 2013 Into Darkness can and should be skipped. 2016 Beyond was fun. None of these really bear into the new series.

Discovery may or may not bear into the new series, but I think it’s safe to say it would be minimal. Your enjoyment of the series may vary, suffice to say I’m not really enjoying it but somehow still watch it in hopes of something better. 

TL;DR For Picard series I’d say essential viewing is TNG-DS9-VOY. 

A couple of good resources Jammer’s Reviews, the former st-hypertext, who’s been doing trek reviews live since DS9′s third season, 4-star ratings, some blurbs, easy to skim and view.

@trekcore who can probably better send you on other trek tumblrs than I can. 

[itsclydebitches]

why do og good omens book fans call the ship between crowley and aziraphale air conditioning?

Because “Aziraphale/Crowley” is a lot to type out, so you shorten that to “A/C,” which is already an abbreviation for “air conditioning,” so why not just call them that? :) (Which admittedly isn’t much shorter, but it’s a whole lot more fun.) 

A lot of fandoms have ship names based in the personality/identity of the characters instead of just a portmanteau of their names (like “Nuts and Dolts” for Penny/Ruby, or “Swan Queen” for Emma/Regina, “Angry Birds” for Bruce/Clint), but Good Omens is one of the few---if the only?---fandom I’ve come across where one of the ship names arose out of an entirely separate connection to an abbreviation of their names, rather than the names themselves or identifying characteristics. There’s probably a spot of linguistic influence as well. Enough people have to always put “Aziraphale” first (just instinct to go alphabetically?) for “A/C” to become the common abbreviation as opposed to “C/A.” Or perhaps people realized that “A/C” had more fun potential and thus were inclined to choose that order from the get-go. Tracking that sort of fandom stuff can be difficult, given that people usually aren’t paying that close attention to how trends develop (quickly) across thousands of users simultaneously engaging with a new text---and we certainly didn’t have the same online spaces to record such discussions 30 years ago as we do now. 

[dunedeca]

just got caught up with spellward bound and i was wondering what are the main characters' sexualities? also how did matteo and ty meet? do either of them have any pets at home?

Matteo is Het, Tyson is Bi, Gwen hasn’t really thought about it/not high up on her priority list, and Jason is gay. :DTy and Matteo met on a playground the summer before middle school started. Matteo had just moved into town and they’ve been best friends ever since. They used to make fake movies together till highschool when Tyson got into youtube making online videos. Matteo mostly just swings with his interests and plays the occasional video game/space sim.Neither of them had pets till recently, now Tyson has a duster-- I mean, a ferret ;D a very strange ferret.

[shima-draws]

the word “bastard”

[[Send me a word, if it’s in my WIP document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in!]]

Lmao nice 👌

One of the bigger SAO fics I’m workin on 👀

[gaypasta]

top 5 gays

1. eddie kaspbrak

[anthonycrowleymoved]

your opinion on how crowley’s feet just look like that

are u talkin about tv show crowley’s feet or book crowley’s feet because in my heart crowley will always have snakey feet but the tv show seems to disagree (that being said. regardless. good)

[smiling-like-a-snake]

how many times have you discorporated due to ppl’s fanart of your fics?

only a couple of times tbh lol

people don’t make art of my fics very often so i get really, really excited when they do

[punk-aziraphale]

hey what is moomin? i keep seeing it on my dash. it seems like it’s mostly queer people who are into it??? wh

Oh geeze oh man oh boy!!!!!

It’s kind of complicated but I’ll do my best to make it less complicated.

It’s a series of books, tv shows, a movie, comics etc.

It started with the books written by Finnish artist/author Tove Jansson starting in the 1940s. The first comics were also written and drawn by her. Over the years there’s been quite a lot of tv shows, the most popular ones, though, are the anime from the 1990s and the most recent Finnish cartoon Moominvalley (muumilaakso in Finnish)

Part of the reason it’s so popular with us queer folks is because Tove, herself, was one of us and spent much of her life in relationships with other women, and even based a beloved character in Moomin on her life partner.

The other reason is because the main focus of most of the media is Moomintroll’s relationship with his best friend Snufkin, which is STRONGLY queer coded (on purpose) and there’s a lot of yearning and pining involved, which, as we all know, we cant resist.

Basically it’s really soft and sweet and cute and is also the ultimate wlw/mlm solidarity imo so that’s why so many of us in the community love it :)

(I can give u a link to where u can watch them and also read a lot of the comics and books if you want, but the people who created the archive asked for it to be kept off public places, so I’ll have to PM it if you want it)

[whetstonefires]

♾

Unto the cosmic dust from whence they’ve grown

They now repair.

[bib2lot-blog]

@bib3lot i just wanted to repost all the shit from my old account but noooo. i can’t even save it as a draft. absolute bastards. i only have to wait an hour and a half tho

[ballsballsbowls]

@bib3lot -  I know I’m very late replying, but the problem lies with me and not with my Bastard Man, who is a very patient model.

[bib3lot]

me: *eating my lasagna, minding my own business*

my uncle: i want to be cremated

me, internally: ‘cremation is bad for the environment, you bastard’

my uncle: i’m sure bib3lot has an opinion on this.

me: green burial or tibetan sky burial *sips tea*

my aunt: isn’t that where they launch you into space?

me: nope.

my uncle, tipsy: into the sun?

me: nope.

my uncle: into saturn?

me: nope.

my uncle: into uranus?

me: nope. google it.