#space wise

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

I just heard a woman in a crafting video firmly say "If that's how you think--!" with a strong, Southern US accent.

It gave me the worst flashback to the 1995-2015 era of my life that seemed to be rife with craft purists. You know the kind. Your pottery has to be wood-fired, your knitting has to be 100% heritage breed sheepswool, you need to hunt and kill an endangered species before it's a real bone folder, and are you really making cookies if you aren't growing your own buckwheat and grinding it into flour?

Nope. The next part of the sentence was "--then just do what works for you." Other casual remarks from this very passionate, but not very adamant woman: "Sometimes a quick win is what you need", "Choose an amount you can complete", "Will it be faster with [expensive tool]? Absolutely. Do you need it? Not even a little."

For all the things the internet has ruined, it has connected enough crafters that the only resources on so many "old timey skills" are no longer texts mandating perfection or aging people so frightened of their art being lost, they can't allow anyone to be silly or innovate.

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

[coolcheese51]

ever heard of. 2007 portal odyssey. my favorite mobie

[1960z]

ds9 characters as onion/reductress articles

[masochisticmumblings]

What do you think aliens are like?

yo, they could be anything and everything. all i know is we cannot be the only thing out there.

[makowcy]

i blacked out i think have another 90s anime esque gif woohooo

au by @kiszoneszczury once again

[bacchuschucklefuck]

dreaming abt sophomore year class swap bard!riz

[a-most-beloved-fool]

It's a little amusing just how similar Spock's and Garak's patterns of speech are. They're not identical, of course, and they emphasize things very differently, but they do for sure say the same type of shit sometimes. Are you an EDUCATED HOMOSEXUAL with a FACADE? Try using LARGE WORDS and DOUBLE NEGATIVES today!

[koszmarnybudyn]

@shadowy-dumbo-octopus ideas/headcanons of clingy John inspired me so have this:

[noxious-fennec]

Wow ctnt are so cool i wish gay people were real... anyway go listen to what happened to you by black honey

[devotedlittlefreak]

I often see Ezri described as a rich kid. And it's true, but it's more interesting than that!

Because she also grew up outside of Federation space ! She grew up in the Sappora system, which is independent, but under Orion Syndicate influence. Her parents owned one of the largest mining operations here.

While her childhood was materially comfortable, it's not clear that she grew up in a post-scarcity world. Sappora VII seems pretty polluted because of the mining, and the working conditions are hard for her parent's employees.

So while she grew up in the same level of comfortability as Jadzia or Ben (maybe a bit less so because of the pollution?), she really is issued of the bourgeoisie. Her parents are land owners, exploitators. Her social position doesn't exist as such in the Federation (there's an intelligentsia there, but not a bourgeoisie).

And she chose to leave her world for one who chose radically different policies. (I've seen a few people describe the Federation as "not socialist, just post-scarcity", but Cardassians and Romulans seem to have very equivalent technological capabilities. Egalitarianism was a choice, and the federation can be called socialist imo. Not much of a hot take on tumblr, lmao)

I'm not saying that it was virtuous of her to leave (although it's always a hard choice to get away from one's family.) but it's interesting that she made that choice. And I think it's far less trivial than "Ezri's a rich kid" that she was written like that

[stardatez3ro]

not to .be bisexual or whatever but i need to kiss like most of the ds9 cast on the mouth

[dumblr]

I like to be alone. I have control over my own space. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to be better than my solitude. You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zone.

[starch1ldz]

Friendly reminder; don't make queer ships straight by making one of them a woman! If you want one to be a woman, both should be women. You can't just make the small twink character a girl and not make his big buff counterpart also a girl it feels gross and fetishy cause at that point why are you shipping queer ships at all? Just find a straight ship? Subtract the twink from the equation all together you don't have to make him a woman to make the ship better in some way, he's adding nothing if you make him a girl then it's just the same ship we have a million times in any other media. Gay erasure in fandom space is so annoying cause it's like YOU LIKE THE GAY SHIP OBVIOUSLY, WHY ARE YOU MAKING THEM STRAIGHT??

[doverstar]

actually I love Tentoo and he is the Doctor and it was the only ending for Rose that worked and it is a huge gift to be able to have the man she loves grow old with her, they were always heading for that, y'all be quiet. I 100% understand the angst but it's okay, they're okay, good ending-