#id like chapel more if she was an original character to be honest. just the knowledge that its supposed to be chapel has me a little 😣

[dumb-alek]

Say what you want about SNW but I REALLY loved the way in the episode where Pike sees the future where Jim is not the captain of the Enterprise lil glimpses we get of him having just insane professional chemistry with Spock.

Like across realities and in different universes, Kirk sees Spock across the room through a video transmission and calls him impressive. It's like a jolt, bullseye, and laser focus towards eachother before they even meet in person.

They instantly agree and see eachother's point of view. There's SPARKS. I genuinely felt watching this as if they were the only people in the room (and I feel like the camera work in that conference room helped with that - purposely).

Not to mention Jim's full body turn he does when he watches Spock leave, which to me definitely betrayed some kind of interest on Jim's part.

I get being mad at comphet Spock, (though TOS did comphet Spock also so 🤷) and I think if snw went in a slightly different direction with Chapel they could do something interesting and canon-compliant, which is a shame.

But after finishing the 1st season I really do feel the show only gets better (when they lay off the one liners a bit and focus more on the honestly pretty cool episode ideas they have), and it looks like it's done with love, attention to details and understanding, overall, what star trek is. (Which I can't say about some other star trek media cough cough).

But most importantly, at least for the sake of this post and for the sake of the ship that started modern fandom culture, I feel like they understand the gravity of K/S.

Now, I'm not deluding myself that they're going to 'get together' within SNW, if it's to keep with the tos timeline even in the slightest. And as much as I enjoy the show, it doesn't seem likely for it to be breaking any new grounds. Besides, at this point in time it would make no sense, considering there's no space for them to be together in TOS until season three at best. Any alternatives would either be either out of character, or simply upsetting (such as an on and off relationship, a breakup, things I don't want to think about 😞)

HOWEVER. They already made a hint Chapel is bisexual, and while they do try to generally keep with TOS canon - they diverge from it only when they think they are the point A from which they can get to point B, which is TOS. I don't always agree with their vision, but I can respect it. So I wouldn't be that surprised (though ecstatic) if they hinted at at least at Kirk being bisexual, here and there.

And in TOS canon Spirk is inescapable. If we ignore the romantic interpretation, which is already pretty hard to ignore, then in their capacity as soulmates - a part of canon that's impossible to ignore. And with as little Jim and Spock as we got so far, I think they understand that.

In SNW keeping Kirk and Spock apart messed up the whole timeline! You could say that Spock dying is what really messed it up, but we can clearly see the episode we've seen in TOS from a different perspective and things went south the moment Chris started to act. Both Kirk and Spock are there - both the same as in the regular timeline, in their respective duties. But they're not together and them not being together is so bad for the universe that Chris has to go back in time to tell himself to die (well not die but suffer from a horrific accident).

And if it doesn't feel extremely monumental, soulmate level shit idk what to tell you

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@treegona

You know what, why not?

I assume this is relating to a post about brass dragons I reblogged. I mentioned I wanted to share a story from an old campaign but I was busy at the time and didn’t want to hijack the post. 

Fair warning, this post is long and rambly.

The campaign was basically a wild west sort of setting where magic had been outlawed and magical races were slowly being eradicated as humans took more and more their native land. Yes, the parallels with real life events was intentional. The less human you looked, the more likely you were discriminated against. Difficult bitch that I am, I decided to be a tiefling. Our party consisted of a half-elf alchemist, human bard, human gunslinger, elf druid (along with his pack of animal companion coyotes by the end of the game), and my tiefling cleric trying her fucking damndest to hide her demon bits in a nun’s outfit.

We were level 2 when word around town started to spread that there was something big out in the desert, people had gone out to hunt it only to never return. Collectively we decided to say “fuck that” and didn’t pay it any mind again until we were level 5. Our DM really wanted us to check it out, because he had kept the listing for it on the guild’s job board from pretty much day one and eventually made the town form a goddamn mob because too many guild members had gone missing trying to take the job. We got the message and insisted that, no, the various men who kept the town running probably shouldn’t lead a charge out into the desert, where they’d likely die of exposure. We “volunteered” to go see what the commotion was all about, in exchange for double the coin the listing was originally worth, of course.

After riding for a week, tired of sand and already sick of this mission, we found a town that shouldn’t exist, every building looking brand new. The town was full of people of all races, magical or otherwise, all of whom looked very tired but were friendly enough. After doing some digging, were realized that everyone in the town were the people who had left to find the monster that should have been roughly in this spot. Asking around, all the town’s folk insisted that there was no monster, they had all just found this spot and decided it was a perfect place to settle down. They also stressed that we were welcome to stay as long as we wanted, like by everyone who spoke to us. Our alchemist immediately insisted we got the fuck out of there before we were brainwashed by whatever had all of these people.

Our gunslinger being the honorable idiot he was, would not leave until the job was done. So we hit the tavern, where most of the people were gathering. Inside we found a jovial, incredibly handsome man (according to our DM), playing the piano with far too much energy compared to the rest of the town’s people. Upon seeing us, he stopped playing, stood up in a hurry, and rushed us, not to attack us but to shake our hands. He introduced himself as the mayor of the town and wanted to sit and talk with all of us over drinks, his treat. The bard was a raging alcoholic and said yes for all of us.

For the next several hours he talked to all of us about anything and everything. None of us could get a read on him and he kept getting great charisma rolls against us, which made us want to stick around. The gunslinger passed our at some point and I used that as an excuse to get us out of the conversation. The mayor bought us rooms at the tavern and insisted we stay, as long as we like. We did not want to stay but were too drunk and tired to go anywhere.

That was the end of the session and our DM gave us our next level and some down time, telling us we could basically do anything that didn’t require leaving the town. The next time we came back to the game, a house had been built for us and we were pretty much just common citizens in the town now. The bard put on a show with the mayor every night, the druid helped with the life stock the town was keeping, the alchemist became the town’s apothecary and doctor, the gunslinger helped fight off hostel monsters and animals, and my cleric found out that the town had a chapel but no one was running it, so of course she found her purpose.

We all decided we didn’t want to spend the rest of the game playing a weird D&D version of Sims, so we started pressing the town’s people for information about why they wouldn’t leave and what was up with the mayor. Eventually we forced it out of the first person to be stuck there that he had originally found the mayor months ago, alone in the tavern (which had been the only structure at the time) and that he was nice enough but he was also very lonely and clearly didn’t want to be alone. He decided to stay for a while, just to make him feel better and eventually started running the tavern. More and more people began to show up and they would stay too, because the mayor was so nice and generous and just a little bit lonely. After a while people started feeling obligated to stay to the point that any time someone would try to leave, resulting in the mayor becoming distressed, the people around town would capture them before they could go and throw them in the town’s jail until they changed their mind. This information was immediately followed by half the town overpowering us, taking out gear and forcing us into jail cells.

My cleric was so angry about everything going on that she went into a fit of rage (a character trait from her backstory) which did very little good because they weren’t in combat but it did manage to draw the mayor into the jail. He asked what was going on and I yelled at him that his damn town is insane and that they won’t let anyone leave because they’re worried about making him sad. Our bard accused him of charming the people, because it’s the only way that so many people, many of whom were once adventurer, would become this way.

Our DM then gave us all a chance to make an arcane check to figure out what he was. Somehow I got a nat 20 when no one else got anything and pretty much screamed “how the fuck are you dragon?” We talked more with him and he admitted, yes, he was a brass dragon but he didn’t mean to keep anyone here. He was just lonely, there were so few dragons left in the world, his mate was slain long ago, and going into human towns and cities was dangerous and could get him IDed as a dragon and hunted for the rest of his life.

We convinced him to let us out of our cells and tell his people the truth. They all clearly loved him and would surely stand by him if he was honest. Sure enough this big reveal went over well and he managed to convince his people to go back to their families and friends, that he would still be there should ever they want to return. The town’s boarders were effectively opened and the druid suggested that they could advertise the town as an actual town, which would bring more people traveling through for the mayor to socialize with and could open trade with other towns.

The town ended up being our main hub after a while and over time we would find good natured monsters and magic folk and would bring them there, knowing the mayor would welcome and protect them. We pretty much started taking jobs just to try to reason with the monsters and convince them to come with us to some place they would be safe.

So please imagine, when word finally did get out that the mayor was actually a dragon, the army of adventurers and monsters, who all had grown to love him, ready to fight off any bounty hunters that came looking for him.