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saw someone on instagram say “you shouldn’t post your art until it’s good” and that comment filled me with rage so i want to say to every beginner artist or artist who feels their art is not improving no matter how long they’ve been at it. i love you and i love your art and everything you post bears part of you and that is so beautiful. block everyone who says otherwise they are not entitled to freely consume what they rag on.

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even in the future, cats really like interrupting your work (featuring the obscene number of tablets they use in star trek because i find it so funny)

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The thing I somehow tend to forget about Garak is that he is absolutely bone-chillingly terrifying, and in any other show he would be a villain. For some reason the writers of DS9 decided to make all of the horror that is Garak into a big joke and the next thing you know I’m giggling like a schoolgirl and saying, “Oh, you rascal!” while Garak snaps Quark’s neck from behind.

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blueberry jam mixed with vanilla ice cream is so fucking good

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yknow what i actually like living in an apartment. sure, its a bit weird to wake up to your neighbor saying "i have downloads of all the pictures youve ever sent me", but the constant reminders of humans existing around me keeps me tethered to some semblance of sanity

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tha thing they dont tell you abt star trek alien designs is that if you add a tail to that bad boy they get 10000 times more fun

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wheeeeeeeeeee 🎶

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actually rom/sisko such a beautiful vision if you combine it with polyamory... kasidy/leeta... etc... kasidy/rom/leeta/sisko... imagine boarding a freighter ship and your captain is dating 1. some random engineer 2. a waitress and 3. jesus

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They/them pussy

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Everything written on “Female autism” is amazing like we just put 293638363836 trillion dollars into our study that concluded women are more often forced to abide by social rules and act palatable than men. Shocking stuff

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One of my issues with modern Trek is that these days, the utopianism of the Federation is an informed attribute — the things the Federation does are good, even when they're not, because it's the Federation doing them. This leads to things like Section 31, a plot device originally introduced to challenge the Federation's utopianism and show how easy it is for even the most well-intentioned social projects to fall to darkness, getting its own movie.

I've seen a lot of people say that what we need to fix Star Trek is a return to TNG-era bright and shiny utopian sensibilities, and I see the merit of that position, but I don't agree with it.

Federation ideals have roots in American exceptionalism (yes, I acknowledge that Trek has a global fanbase but also, it's an American TV franchise with a heavily American sensibility), and the last thing we need is to compound that with "Federation fuck yeah, also black ops intelligence agencies are Cool and Good". I think that we live in an era where we're reaping the consequences of the unacknowledged American capacity for evil. The Federation, too, has a capacity for evil which has only barely ever been acknowledged, because — and this is where I show my entire ass as someone who's mostly a Babylon 5 fan these days — people are always going to be people, and "after a few centuries we just evolved past all human conflict" was never a good premise, as idyllic as it may seem.

So we've been getting what looks from the outside like a subtextual descent into fascism that parallels the one the US is going through right now. Why not make it textual? Why not break the cultural, technological, and political stasis of the Federation by showing how in decline the Federation actually is, how conservative and imperialistic it's become, and— most importantly — that people are fighting it, even where no one would expect them to?

I think, when you come down to it, that's how you fix Star Trek. By allowing the Federation to have a dark and ugly side, showing that dark ugliness for what it is, and then giving the people the opportunity to drag it kicking and screaming back into the light.

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(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

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screenshot takers. gifset makers. photo & video editors of all kinds. we've so long talked about artists & fic writers and those are key parts of the ecosystem, but the humble image editor has gone somewhat unnoticed. this is a wrong we must right. thank you for the images, still & moving alike, which i have stared at for countless hours through my life while struck with a kind of feverish madness. ily.

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