#dax thread.

[inkshadow]

❝ me? i could never annoy you. besides, doesn't matter who it is, you'll still be 'displeased' with them anyways. ❞ elowyn's fuse has always been short and this was no different. he could've stumbled in during broad daylight and she'd have some excuse to bash on him. ❝ i came home from a fight late, you really think i'm gonna try and tip toe around? nah, i want a shower and food and then go to bed. maybe you should learn to sleep harder. ❞

@neveraftcr

[inkshadow]

❝ i'm gonna make sure you never win an argument again. and sex. we're gonna fuck. that's the noise complaint. ❞

" winning the argument is actually great benefit for me. let's my head grow so it'll take longer to explode. well, depending on what we're doing to get the noise complaint i think we both win. "

[bestiadentro]

Send my muse all your terrible puns.

@silver-blooded-synthetics said: "I think you're purrfect just as you are right meow." - from Errol to Stranger Things verse Alaire for the puns meme.

Alaire blinks, confused by the way Errol is speaking and not seeming to understand the puns. Though they're saying he's perfect as he is.. he can't help but to wonder if he's being made fun of somehow? But he also doesn't think Errol would make fun of him either.. So he's not quite sure what to think of it.

Oh. He's figured it out on his own. It's likely visible in his expression when it clicks. Though he still doesn't understand why they're doing it. "Why are you talking like that?" Alaire just comes out and asks. Why not?

[astralfms]

sms 📩 dax

@wandererfms

ronnie: if i asked you to tattoo my fingers right now would you do it ronnie: serious question ronnie: thinking about getting DOPE AS FUCK across all my knuckles even the thumbs

[jacqui-velazquez]

who: @daxsulu​ when: first few days of winter break where: one of the chalets

“Let’s get high,” Jacqui said, bundled up in a fuzzy zip up, long hair piled on top of their head, curled into the side of a massive armchair - not actually a loveseat, but big enough that Jacqui had felt that there was plenty of space to squeeze themselves in besides Dax. “We’ll get stoned and then go play in the snow,” she suggested, tickling their fingers along his side. “Doesn’t that sound more fun than skiing?”

[inkshadow]

❝ that's wishful thinking and you know it. ❞ his words are dry as sandpaper, looking at her with an expression that screams 'give me a break'. babies can't choose the life they were born into; he has a good feeling she understands that well enough. ❝ hey, long as you don't have any doubts that's good with me. ❞ dax scoffs and rolls his eyes, dismissing her rules with a wave of his hand. ❝ i don't let the girls i smash meet anyone. no point. in and out, that's how it should be. and we might not make it back to the place anyways. i won't let them meet. i'm not that dumb. ❞

"WELL, THAT'S NOT NORMAL. EVERYONE deserves a good home." Not that it was possible in the real world. She knew that not everyone could afford a good one. "Or at least, a decent one." Her brows furrowed at the words that followed. Dax sleeping with anyone was none of her business but she couldn't help the displeased quirk of her lips. "I'm sure she'd appreciate the feminine touch I'd add to the place. And I have no doubts about performance," she riposted flatly. "Listen, your flings are none of my business but you can't introduce any of them to Louis unless you decided to get serious. I don't want him to get attached to anyone temporary in your life. It's a rule I've established for him."

[icedfae]

( freya + dax )

The last time she had seen Dax Hobbs her tongue had been down his throat and her body on fire. The full moon party had gone wildly out of control if Freya had to explain it in any way. Beginning the night off by doing coke with Maddox and ending the evening with her arms around Dax and their lips connected without a care in the world. Except now she was a little concerned about the backlash of that, mostly for Dax’s sake. Her brother was really the least of her concerns and she could deal with that on her own. It was no secret that the two of them had been dancing around this for a while, flirtatious remarks and feather light touches having been passed between them for years but they had never gone this far. “Hey, Dax, is now a bad time?” Freya asked him as she held up a bag of takeout as a peace offering while she stood on his doorstep. @farfamed​

[inkshadow]

@sunliights

"you think you can put two of these in you?" dax asks innocently with two dildos in hand and smacking them against one another. "like, would they fit?"

[gypsybelladonna]

tag drop for dax holtz

[inkshadow]

❝ nope, haven't taken anything for it. i was on my way to the kitchen when... ❞ when he completely stopped dead on his tracks at her doorstep. wasn't really compelled to do anything but knock, to see if she was awake so that they could spend a bit more time together but why? why does he care? he sees her every day that he's surprised they're not sick of each other. a snort and his arm flies cross his face, which really didn't do much for his pounding headache. ❝ i think you just don't believe in yourself. don't let your dreams be dreams, el. steal all the beds. ❞

eyes rolled and she let herself fully lie back down on the bed, shifting her legs a little so there was more than enough room for him to lie down. " have you taken any painkillers or anything for it? do you want a wet towel for your head? " she asked, trying to fight against the desire to reach down and teach him, turning onto her back and gaze staring up at the ceiling. " how would i possibly steal a bed? i'm good dax, but i'm not that good. "

[thefvrious]

@leschanceux said -> ❝It was self-defense.❞

As Dax surveys the bloody scene in front of him and the lifeless corpse on the floor, he lets his gaze lift to meet the other's. He's the portrait of calmness, as if this isn't terrifying him straight to his core. "Doesn't look like self-defense." He says, scratching at his jaw before setting both hands on his hips. "So, what do we do now?"

[astralfms]

sms 📩 daxton montgomery ( @wandererfms )

ronnie: yoooo ronnie: is the shop busy today? ronnie: my 6 pm just cancelled on me 🙏

[inkshadow]

❝ hey! i'm puttin' food on the table, i don't know why you're complaining! maybe if someone would take care of me, i wouldn't feel so fuckin' loopy in the head... ❞

"they're not dumb enough to get hit in the face for a living. ugh, will you stop being so ridiculous."

[inkshadow]

continued from source for @fcxglove

❝ whoa hey, easy easy. i'm still wakin' up... ❞ somehow, having a shirt thrown at him with exceeding velocity knocks the wind from him a moment but with his bearings nonexistent, everything feels a bit much. he grabs his shirt and throws it over himself - not out of any sort of decency but out of fear that she was going to fuck him up otherwise. what was with those bruises all over her? did he just put himself in a precarious situation? did she have a terrible boyfriend who - ❝ look, my friend lives in this building. some.... where. and i thought i was climbing into his place, not yours and i was super drunk and didn't know where i ended up so i just found a couch and crashed. promise. ❞

[1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt]

Today on popping the corn and feeding the children, what do you folks think of this discussion? :)

I'm always curious to hear what other Trek fans, especially queer Trek fans, think about our place in Trek history and how we fare as the queer participants within our fandom. What have your experiences been like?

Overwhelmingly I've found a great reception and a welcoming attitude, but I admit that has increased considerably since the 90s. However, there are still some Trek fans who seem to be vehemently in denial about queer history in Star Trek, or the fact that anyone who has worked on Trek has pro-LGBT attitudes. This always surprises me considering some of the blatant queer content we have already seen in Star Trek such as the Jadzia Dax and Lenara Kahn kiss.

Anyway, I enjoyed the discussion that followed and seeing the overwhelming outpouring of support coming from Star Trek fans in response to this thread.

Here was my two cents contribution:

"No, what they said was factual.

Have you forgotten Nichelle Nichols was indeed an African American woman in the core seven bridge crew back in 1966?

Or the fact that Gene Roddenberry went out of his way to write The Motion Picture Novel, creating the term "T'hy'la: friend, brother, lover" so that fans could choose which interpretations of Kirk and Spock they saw fit? He also embraced K/S fans and hired a number of them to write the earliest Star Trek novels, including the very first official one (The New Voyages Vol. 1 & 2) which included slash fiction as well as Gene's approval/forward in the books.

In case anyone has forgotten, here's a little bit of background on Gene Roddenberry and his perspectives on queerness in Star Trek.

He admitted that in his early life he was very affected by how society and culture treated the LGBT community, and that he too found himself subjugating and judging others for that lifestyle because it was what people did at that time. As he got older and had more life experience, he began working with a number of queer artists in Hollywood -- and through TOS, a number of queer individuals began asking questions about Kirk and Spock.

Instead of vehemently shutting down this perspective, Roddenberry was intrigued, and saw potential to tap into a large audience (LGBT) that most others didn't want to go near or acknowledge publicity-wise. He saw it as an opportunity to expand the fanbase while also pushing yet another envelope.

But with the heat already on the show for what they'd already pushed, he found he was often stuck between what he'd like to do and what production would let him get away with. There are a number of Kirk and Spock scenes in scripts that got cut out for leaning a little too obviously romantic. Tiny trickles of that content still made it in were infamous moments like the backrub scene in Shore Leave. Even the 2009 movie had a K/S moment while Spock Prime and Kelvin Spock talked that was written and filmed that was cut out of the final product.

Queer subtext and coding has always been relentlessly weeded away at with an excuse ready to go for why they always try to cut us out, but we all know it's because they are scared of the homophobic backlash and ratings hits. Look how violently homophobes went after the gay romance episode of The Last of Us **just this year**. This has always been our reality, so for someone like Roddenberry to make efforts in the 70s? That was massive.

But Gene as well as the queer/slash Trek community managed to accomplish some things in the 70s which I'm surprised more folks don't talk about or give much credit.

In the same TMP novel which features "T'hy'la" and the famous footnote, Gene cleverly wrote Kirk with a bisexual/pansexual lens: Kirk describes himself as *preferring* women but being open to "physical love in **any** of its many Earthly, alien, and mixed forms." (Direct quote from Genes book). Basically, Captain Kirk was DTF with whoever if there was a connection, which was a very progressive take for a character in a novel written in 1979, but made sense for the future which would have a lot less hang ups about sex and love compared to our current rather puritan/conservative society.

I also prefer women, but I married a man. Shout out to Gene Roddenberry for giving us a seat at the table back in the 70's when folks *still* try to insist there is no place for K/S or queer concepts in Trek, because he made efforts -- however small -- to employ queer people and show queer perspectives. According to David Gerrold, LGBT+ representation was a big thing that Gene personally pushed for in TNG and wanted various depictions of love/couples in the Risa scenes, to name one example.

In the 70s, fanzines led to meetings and swapped fanmade magazines, which got so big that they needed hotel centers, then convention centers, then one day the TOS cast came to one and what we know as modern fan conventions were born -- inspiring even George Lucas who attended Trek conventions in the 70s and saw how popular Trek was in syndication; it was a great climate to launch his Space Opera. Star Wars then became so huge that we got TMP.

But none of that would have happened without the level of organization, passion, and creativity that those fans poured into Star Trek and their characters after it got cancelled and went into syndication.

Without queer folks we wouldn't have George Takei, Theodore Sturgeon who gave us Tribbles, Bill Theiss and his amazing TOS costumes, Mike Minor's art direction, Merritt Butrick, David Gerrold (writer for TOS, TAS, TNG) to name a few of many queer contributors to Trek that Roddenberry respected and tried to go to bat for wherever he could in a climate that was absolutely impossible to gain an inch in.

At a time during the 70s and 80s when so many people resented and feared the queer community and wanted us to disappear, especially in the 80s during the AIDS epidemic which many homophobes claimed was "God's punishment to the gay community" or "Gods's answer" to our "hedonism", thinking we'd gotten our just desserts and should just disappear . . .

During that time, Gene Roddenberry gave us queer folks a place to say: "You know what? Sure. Write your stories. TV says you guys shouldn't exist, they pull books with queer people off the shelves and burn them. Laws exist specifically to forbid you guys from loving each other, and call you mentally ill. You can't even hold hands in public. But I'm going to validate you guys and invite you to write novels or work for me, try to see what we can get by production, and allow you to see yourselves in my characters if you want to. There's a place for you in our fandom."

He gave us bi/pan Kirk, he gave us K/S is open to interpretation. In Phase 2 Kirk's surviving nephew Peter, son of his brother Sam from Operation: Annihilate!, was going to be written as gay and living on the Enterprise with his partner -- that also got chopped and reworked into a script that wouldn't get used until decades later. That was huge at a time that being queer was officially listed as a mental illness, and villainized due to the AIDS crisis.

So before you try to dismiss or tell K/S + queer Trek fans whether or not they deserve a seat at the table, remember that Gene Roddenberry was among the **first** to pull that seat out for us in a climate that was ruthlessly against LGBT+ folks." -- 1Shirt2ShirtRedShirtDeadShirt

P.S: Have some cute bisexual/pansexual K/S pride gifs. :) Pride month is a hop, skip and a jump away.

LLAP!🖖💚

[inkshadow]

❝ damn, you really are a bitch, aintcha? but i like gettin' a big head about things so.... sure, i'll take the compliment. the least you can do is actually get me booze but apparently i can't with meds. bullshit. ❞

"fair point. considering you are in pain and i am in full enjoyment of watching you suffer, take the compliment. it's the least i can do while you're in recovery."