#captains log personal

[tencrowns]

Back from camping. Just some renfaire memories for another year. :) The kiddo got so much treasure, she was so excited about everything!

[concentratedbastardenergy]

So glad that my boss- who makes 3x my salary- whose literal job is to ensure we have enough money to function (we are in a deficit again so isn’t good at his job) was told that me working three positions is too much and if we could lessen my work load just a little bit that would be great because I’ve been here 6 months and I’m burnt out, he heard this and responded with if you do less work people stop coming we no longer make money and no one has a job. But I’m doing a really good job at the job I hate so that’s something I guess.

[romanroykinnie]

charlie day babygirl energies are off the fucking charts in the s16 bloopers

[blueberryspyder]

Listening to Rusty Quill Gaming holiday episodes has me like

I’ve gotten into some niche shit before, but this? This is a bit much even for me

[avatarquake]

Proud member of the 'my non-canon ships make better sense than the canon ones' club.

[spocksgotemotions]

and in that brief moment I felt it. our periods syncing up like ships passing in the night……

[captainkaltar]

Tholos of Athena

Delphi, Greece

Photos by me, October 2022

[the-bagelbitch]

in light of recent events, here’s something we may often forget:

You can be a queer person and ALSO BE A PIECE OF SHIT.

Queerness (and/or any other minority status for that matter) does not exempt you from contracting Being a Shitty Person Disease. There are so many good queer people out there and you should support them instead of shitwads like James Somerton.

That is all :)

[tencrowns]

More vacation snaps. :) The D20 gaming bar in Dayton; the pioneer village near Caesar Creek State Park; Sugartree Mill; National Museum of the United States Air Force.

[concentratedbastardenergy]

I want to scream, cry, and vomit. Not necessarily in that order but possibly all at once.

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

Its k/s day! Ever been like wow amok time is so gay dis they do that on purpose?? I just did a semi deep dive and I want to talk about specifically theodore sturgeon, the original writer of amok time.

So theodore sturgeon is a famous sci-fi writer, but I want to talk about one short story he did called "The World Well Lost". Short version is its about 2 male space explorers who realize theyre in love. This story was controversial, his publisher rejected it AND sent out letters to OTHER publishers urging them to reject it without reading because of its positive portrayal of homosexuality. (He wrote another story too but this is the important one)

Heres a brief description of its two main characters.

"Rootes is the Captain of the team. He is an arrogant, loquacious womanizer. Grunty serves under the Captain. He is a hulking, taciturn poet, so-named because he grunts rather than speaks. Despite their radically different personalities, the two friends are famed in space travel circles for their teamwork and efficiency. They refuse to travel with any other spacers."

So we have a brash captain and their intellectual strong man first officer. Sounds REAL familiar dont it. It's not a 1 to 1, but there's definitely similarities there, and this was written about 15 years before star trek.

So theodore sturgeon is known for sympathetic queer characters in sci fi, cool. I also find it HILARIOUS that there's ONE other episode of star trek he's written

SHORE LEAVE

Ya know

The one with the back rub scene

He didn't just give birth to slash fan fiction, he's been doing it for years

[embyrinitalics]

Captain’s log, stardate 082324.8

I started therapy 8 weeks ago and it’s awesome. The immediate fallout has been uncovering and confronting a bunch of repressed garbage that was making me miserable, reconnecting with my book, publishing a chapter of fic, applying for a 9 month horticultural program at the university extension office, and beating Outer Wilds/Echoes of the Eye. That last one isn’t so much a result of therapy as it was unintentional additional therapy. But seriously everyone should play it. 👍

[youcouldbewonderful]

the thoschei truthers in this fandom immediately making essay length posts anytime there's a new character that could be the master. love you guys

[avatarquake]

Under the guise of 'we are now tethered together by a deal I'm waiting for the perfect moment to cash in' Alastor turns into a touch-cat-gremlin, meaning he's even more touchy-feely with Charlie than usual. Whenever she is within arm-grabbing distance, he is pulling her in to pinch her cheeks, pat her head, hold her close, rest his face on her shoulder and rub cheeks with her -like a cat rubs its head against your leg-, spin her around in short, impromptu dances, or otherwise demanding of her attention and manhadling her as if she was a doll he was choosing where to place ('should we stand here? maybe other there? is this the right angle for us to look professional enough? come, you have to see this, my dear.'). It is the perfect excuse to be around Charlie even more, even if he is using it both on himself and everyone else.

There is no rhyme nor reason to it, no pattern, and while generally Charlie accepts her fate of practically being joined at the hip with Alastor with a combination of mild resignation and her accepting nature, she does get annoyed when he pulls this shit during serious moments, particularly while she is trying to work.

There is a noticable ramping up (which she didn't believe could be possible, considering, but here we are) when her dad is present, but she figures if she doesn't bring attention to it, Al will calm down eventually, missing the point entirelly, because Lucifer (who is the intented target) makes a deal out of it and that feeds Al to bursting.

Angel treats the whole thing as his own soap opera, Husk is even grumpier whenever he sees it, Niffty doesn't seem to care either way, Cherri uses it as a distraction and Vaggie is fuming and worrying because he is the Radio Demon and Charlie is in a deal with him.

[spocksgotemotions]

gonna talk to my friend who works at a news station later and so I texted to ask when her break’s gonna be and she sent me back a picture of a screen about shots being fired at a trump rally and said “when I find out I’ll tell you”