#me: ah well. i. uh. noticed that female crewmembers are much more often addressed by rank than a gendered title at all. so commander. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

anghraine · 17 hours ago

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My other housemate has only watched a few episodes from the ST marathon and none of the movies (and has kind of magically escaped a lot of pop culture awareness), but that was enough for her (someone with her own deep investment in very different fandoms) to be O_O at the Kirk and Spock interactions.

We were talking about how shitty the parent corporations etc were towards many slash shippers of the 70s and 80s, and she was like, "I don't really get why anyone would be mad about people seeing their particular relationship as romantic, it's just... this isn't coming out of nowhere. There's a lot of intensity and they obviously care deeply."

me: Yeah, the series finale includes Kirk saying that Spock is closer to him than anyone else in the universe.

Ash: Wait, really? Like, literally?

me: Yes. That's just about the exact wording, actually.

Ash: Damn.

#anghraine babbles #deep blogging #rl: ash #otp: the premise #star peace #also hilariously we were talking about potential star trek cosplay because j is SUCH a trekkie and i catapulted into joining him #ash loves authoritative miniskirts so we proposed the romulan commander for her #and j was like 'i mean. i'm an emotive blond haired square built jew. there is an obvious choice here'#and ash brightened and went 'elizabeth i honestly think the best choice for you would just be female spock'#me [trying to avoid revealing that i've written over six thousand words of spirk femslash in the last week]: ah. that's very flattering #ash: i wonder how a female spock would even be addressed... like. miss? it seems weird.#me: >_>#me: <_<#me: ah well. i. uh. noticed that female crewmembers are much more often addressed by rank than a gendered title at all. so commander.#the conversational equivalent of hiding my stories under my bed lmao

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