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she/her. queer. fandom old. gate traveler, irrelevant, sci fi fan, writer, and collector of internet tchotchkes. content is 18+ caveat lector.
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“I am done peddling lies for people who do not care about me,” [Biggs] added.

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good stretch (noun)

  1. athe act of stretching well the state of being stretched fully in a really good way, so your limbs are extended happily in a state of bliss. Usually accompanied by the proclamation "Good stretch!" by nearby observers.
McCOY: “Your weight was up a couple of pounds, remember?” KIRK: “Will you stop hovering over me, Yeoman?”

                                                                          —  The Corbomite Maneuver

KIRK: “My chicken sandwich and coffee. This is my chicken sandwich and coffee. … I want these off the ship. I don’t care if it takes every man we’ve got, I want them off the ship.”

                                                                         —  The Trouble With Tribbles

KIRK: “Well, there’s one difference between us. I’m hungry.” KIRK2: “The difference is your weakness, Captain, not mine.” KORBY: “One at a time, gentlemen. Captain?” KIRK: “Eating is a pleasure, sir. Unfortunately, one you will never know.” KIRK2: “Perhaps, but I will never starve, sir.”

                                                               —  What Are Little Girls Made Of?

KIRK: “And the little ones. What’s going to happen to them after you’ve gone, after you’ve turned into creatures like Louise? Oh, they’ll still be here, but not for long, because the food’s all gone. You’ve eaten it. Maybe six months left, that’s all, and then nothing left to eat, nobody left to take care of them. They’ll die, too.”

                                                                                                             —  Miri

KIRK: “Is there anything to eat? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starved.” McCOY: “How can you think of food at a time like this?” KIRK: “First order of business, survival.”

                                                                                            —  Wrath of Kahn

SPOCK: “ According to our library banks, it started on the Earth colony of Tarsus Four, when the food supply was attacked by an exotic fungus and largely destroyed. There were over eight thousand colonists and virtually no food. And that was when Governor Kodos seized full power and declared emergency martial law. …  There were nine eye witnesses who survived the massacre, who’d actually seen Kodos with their own eyes. Jim Kirk was one of them.“  

                                                                     —  The Conscience of the King 

KIRK: Your report covers all vegetation?

SULU: All vegetation is inedible, poison to us.

McCOY: If the Enterprise has been destroyed, do you know how long we can survive?

KIRK: Yes.

-That Which Survives

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[Image description: A screencap from Star Trek: The Original Series. Leonard McCoy and James T. Kirk are sitting at a desk. A plate of salad is in front of Kirk. Both men are looking at Janice Rand, who is standing next to the desk. End description.]

[Italicized text: McCoy: “Your weight was up a couple of pounds, remember?”

Kirk: “Will you stop hovering over me, Yeoman?”

                                                                         —  The Corbomite Maneuver. End italicized text].

[Image description: Kirk talking to Spock. Kirk is holding a tray full of tribbles and a cup full of tribbles. There are tribbles on the wall behind him. End description.].

[Italicized text: Kirk: “My chicken sandwich and coffee. This is my chicken sandwich and coffee. … I want these off the ship. I don’t care if it takes every man we’ve got, I want them off the ship.”  

                                                                        —  The Trouble With Tribbles. End italicized text.]

[Image Description: Kirk and a duplicate of him wearing a green and blue shirt are sitting at a table. Both of them have plates of colorful food cubes in from of them. The original Kirk has shoved his plate away from him,has clases his palms, and has a calm expression. The duplicate Kirk has one of the cubes on a fork and is looking at the original Kirk with a puzzled expression. End description.]

[Italicized text: Kirk: “Well, there’s one difference between us. I’m hungry.”

Kirk 2: “The difference is your weakness, Captain, not mine.”

Korby: “One at a time, gentlemen. Captain?”  

Kirk: “Eating is a pleasure, sir. Unfortunately, one you will never know.”

Kirk 2: “Perhaps, but I will never starve, sir.”

                                                              —  What Are Little Girls Made Of? End italicized text.]

[Image description: Kirk is holding a girl white pale skin and short blonde hair. She’s wearing a fancy, yellow and black dress. Kirk has a desperate expression on his face. The sleeves of his uniform are ripped and here is a bit of blood on his face. End description].

[Italicized text: Kirk: “And the little ones. What’s going to happen to them after you’ve gone, after you’ve turned into creatures like Louise? Oh, they’ll still be here, but not for long, because the food’s all gone. You’ve eaten it. Maybe six months left, that’s all, and then nothing left to eat, nobody left to take care of them. They’ll die, too.”

                                                                                                            —  Miri. End italicized text.]

[Image description: Kirk, McCoy, Saavik, David Marcus, and Carol Marcus are in an underground tunnel. Kirk, Saavik, and Carol are sitting, while McCoy and David are standing. There are a few crates, metal sheets, and conical metal items in the tunnel. End description]

[Italicized text: Kirk: “Is there anything to eat? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starved.”

McCoy: “How can you think of food at a time like this?”

Kirk: “First order of business, survival.”  

                                                                                           —  Wrath of Kahn. End italicized text.]

[Image description: Kirk is scowling and standing behind Kodos, a man  with light skin, and short gray hair and mustache. Kodos is wearing a green velvet shirt. End description]

[Italicized text: Spock: “According to our library banks, it started on the Earth colony of Tarsus Four, when the food supply was attacked by an exotic fungus and largely destroyed. There were over eight thousand colonists and virtually no food. And that was when Governor Kodos seized full power and declared emergency martial law. …  There were nine eye witnesses who survived the massacre, who’d actually seen Kodos with their own eyes. Jim Kirk was one of them.“  

                                                                    —   The Conscience of the King. End italicized text.]

[Image description: McCoy, Kirk, and Hikaru Sulu are crouching behind a builder. Captions read, “Yes.” End description.]

[Italicized text: Kirk: Your report covers all vegetation?

Sulu: All vegetation is inedible, poison to us.

McCoy: If the Enterprise has been destroyed, do you know how long we can survive?

Kirk: Yes.

-That Which Survives. End italicized text.]

The amazing thing is that this almost certainly wasn’t coordinated.

“The Conscience of the King” came out after “Miri”, “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” and “The Corbomite Maneuver”, and was written by Barry Trivers, who didn’t write any of those. The scriptwriters didn’t have time to pore over every detail of every previously aired episode like we fans do now in the age of easy access to media. It is quite likely that Barry Trivers had not seen the prior episodes and thought, “wow, that sounds like a guy with major food insecurity issues”, and while the writers of “That Which Survives” and “The Wrath of Khan” might well have incorporated “Conscience” into their thinking, it’s really unlikely that David Gerrold was thinking about Kirk’s food insecurity issues when he wrote that line into “The Trouble With Tribbles”.

I love that about episodic television, that sometimes there’s a serendipity to the writers’ uncoordinated choices that create a character arc, or that speak to a character trait, that you just know they didn’t deliberately set up, and yet there it is. Almost as if, in some reality, the character exists, and the writers are just revealing facets of a thing that’s really there.

There may be a generational difference here. Writers in the 60s were more likely to have generational trauma from food insecurity, or likely to have military background/survival training.

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vaspider

I didn't expect to sob at the end of this movie, but I did.

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Shockingly, he's a really good actor? And apparently a total mensch.

He was amazing in Uncut Gems and he's really good in this. The daughters in this movie are his daughters, and I think the movie is supposed to be helping launch their acting career, but even if this was just like a summer project they did together for funsies, it came out really fucking good.

It has a genuine Jewish heart -- the central tension and question is around the question of performing mitzvaot and what's important to you about your Jewish life -- and is made with so much love for the Reform community, especially the East Coast Reform Community. I cracked up over Rabbi Rebecca and Cantor Jerry so many times, and the synagogue is just so ... effortlessly diverse. The first party we see is for the b'nai mitzvah of a non-binary teenager, there is an old lesbian couple at the synagogue, and characters have last names like 'Chang-Cohen' and 'Rodriguez-Katz.' And it's not a Thing, it just exists. There's not one POC Jew, there are multiple, and it just is.

I am genuinely shocked at how much I love this movie, but I really, really do, and if Sadie and Sunny Sandler don't just make an entire series of Jewish Life Milestone Movies for the rest of their lives, they're missing something, because this... was good.

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the soup poll AKA where are the chunks?

occasionally when discussing lunches and dinners and other such wonders i get the feeling when i say "Soup" i mean another persons definition of "Stew", and our communication is somewhat skewed. please tell me how you identify your wet meals

if you so desire, detail your decision With the place you grew up/learned your distinction in the tags