#i should like it

[tremorsmackenzie]

my problem with trek shows atm is that they all take themselves so seriously. there is so much pathos and everything is heavy and dead serious. its actually exhausting.

the older shows up to enterprise all used star trek as a backdrop, but it really wasnt about that. it was about the characters, the stories, the subjects at hand, and things being okay at the end of the day. the lore was just a second thought. most of the episodes could have happened in any genre.

they were also way lighter in tone most of the time, it was enjoyable to watch, and then they still had fucking dark episodes that didnt have a happy ending and that were super heavy, and had important messages and those were important and really stood out. i still cry when i think about jadzia dax and lenara karn. or entire arcs like the dominion war in ds9 that were amazing.

but in the new shows it feels like every episode is one of those, and it cheapens their overall impact so much. it no longer feels like theyre bringing attention to important things, it just drags on the negativity. and so often they make it about star trek and not something important in the real world and thats just not the point.

the only exception is lower decks, and for some reason its not getting renewed past this season. idk man i just miss my 80s/90s/2000s era trek vibes. those shows were amazing and we could do that but dial the sexism down and the queerness up by like 500%. instead we have movie bars and dutch angles and ten episodes per season and more special effects in one pixel than in the entirety of the jj abrams trilogy. yay.

[vamptits]

filtering down ao3 results from 14000 to 6 based on a single tag is foul. im sorry none of you are as enlightened as me ig.

[thatscreamingrat]

went to the pub for a drink on my first real day off in over a week and watched the girl behind the bar drop the entire cash drawer on the floor in the middle of the rush and then just stare at it at her feet for like a solid two minutes

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[vamprisms]

i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[straightlightyagami]

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[starrysharks]

ghanaian miku

[gayvampyr]

asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

[kensatou]

i watch baseball for the side quests

update: i think you should look at the reblogs for more important baseball hijinks

[karda]

i miss science class bro. we dont put things under microscopes as much as we should

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[nipuni]

Aziraphale and Crowley in Hades style! 😊

A speedpaint video of these will be available at my Patreon on june 1st along with the 10th doctor one!