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WWWRD(What would Will Riker do)

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Esther (she/her) 21 🌈 | Scottish (and Irish) | I love musicals and books| also Star Trek and Doctor Who + assorted other queer shows| currently just finished DS9 and (still) missing the thirteenth doctor.

a funny detail i've noticed is that multiple short trips have mentioned the brig counting to ten to keep his anger (usually at the doctor) in check. local man discovers one single mindfulness trick and is convinced it means he doesn't need to go to therapy

Me listening to Come From Away as someone part Irish: I know Newfoundlanders aren't actually Irish, there's just cultural crossover in our history so the music and accents can sometimes sound similar.

Also me every time I hear Welcome to the Rock: I'M AN ISLANDER (jumping on table) I AM AN ISLANDER (going feral) I'M AN ISLANDER (stamping and singing so loud our neighbours across the Atlantic can probably hear) I AM AN ISLANDER-

reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.

Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn't over. They're shifting from "world health emergency" to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO's announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.

of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do

To be clear, this means Covid is now ENDEMIC. Which means it’s part of the permanent illness ecosystem.

So wash your hands, wear a mask if you’re ill and can’t stay home (but try to stay home that’s for the best), and keep on top of your Covid boosters. It’s also not a bad idea to carry wet wipes for high-touch areas, because people are fucking gross.

Therapy needs to be free for the next couple decades to allow us to process what the fuck it is we’ve been through (lockdowns, deaths, curfews, deaths, panic buying, deaths, corporate greed, deaths, even more compromised worker health and safety, deaths, isolation, deaths, long term effects of having been infected, deaths) and are only beginning to come out of.

early season garak: obsidian order? is that some kind of designer house? i only know about fashion, after all i’m just a tailor ;) ;)

late season garak: when i was a SPY in the OBSIDIAN ORDER i used to MICROCHIP people’s BRAINS so i think it’s PERFECTLY REASONABLE for me to be concerned that the federation might want to MICROCHIP MY BRAIN

You, the queen of a fairy tale kingdom, got cursed to give birth to a princess who’s going to live her life isolated in a tower the first 20 years of her life. Narrate how you avoid your daughter’s fate.

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She laughed, when she placed the curse on me. Laughed and laughed. She called me a fool for coming to her, for wanting children who would sap my strength and steal my power. 

One child to take my kingdom, she promised me. Well, I’d wanted an heir. It didn’t have to be a curse. 

One child the sea would steal. There was room in that. They didn’t have to die, only to love the sea. I would buy the finest ships. 

And the third would suffer my grandmother’s fate. 

The tower. 

Grandmother told me stories about that tower, shuddering. About the isolation almost driving her mad. About the desperate longing for escape. I know what that escape cost her, and my grandfather as well, with his scarred face and limping gait. 

That was going to be difficult. 

The sorceress’s curse worked. Within the year, I held my first babe in my arms, a sturdy boy who kicked and cried and cuddled against his mother as if he hadn’t been made only to bring me grief. Well, all mothers grieve. 

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important reminder that Spock:

  • advised shooting Gary Mitchell in the face before he could get too powerful
  • almost died from casually tossing around an exploding rock
  • had a jam session with space hippies
  • blew up the last of the Galileo's fuel so the ship could find and rescue them, which would've killed them all if it hadn't worked
  • hardcore flirted with a cloud princess
  • committed several acts of treason to hijack the Enterprise to the one planet that gets you the death penalty, all so his former captain could get more enrichment
  • illegally flew the Enterprise into Klingon space during sensitive peace talks to rescue Kirk & McCoy from a Klingon gulag, which the Klingon Chancellor had explicitly said would be considered an act of war
  • and, in an alternate timeline, chased the most dangerous Augment in history through the streets of San Francisco and beat the shit out of him on top of a garbage truck

and we remember Kirk as the wild child??

While this is a perfectly valid list, Kirk did deserve his reputation by doing the following:

  • successfully acted as counsel for the defense of Satan
  • ordered Scotty to destroy an entire planet
  • on various occasions defied the wills of beings with god-like powers and lived to tell about it
  • single-handedly piloted a starship down the throat of a giant planet killing robot
  • talked not one but two computers into self-destruction
  • built a cannon out of bamboo
  • made certain an android duplicate of him came away with racist thoughts so Spock would know something was wrong
  • flirted with a marine biologist in order to save the Earth from destruction
  • not only stole but also blew up the Enterprise in order to reunite Spock's soul with his body

So in the end you could say that Spock and Kirk are an ideal match.

you can only IMAGINE the date nights. local authorities get warning alerts every tuesday night: Alert alert it's the Temporal Menace flagship thief and T'pau of Vulcan's politically immune multiple-felonies grandson's weekly night out. stand by for explosions paradoxes maybe the odd stolen horse and potential interplanetary war. Suspected location? Italian restaurant

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and like ... actors are actors. Their whole thing is pretending to be other people? Can an actor pretend to be an elf or royalty or an alien but not queer? As long as they’re taking the role seriously, it’s fine.

if a straight person sees something meaningful, beautiful and worthy of emulation in the queer experience, that’s a good thing.

Created for Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors, featuring characters from Dykes To Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel © 1996
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[image description: a four panel comic featuring 4 characters: Jillian, Mo, Lois, and a random lady.

Panel 1

Narration: one slow evening at the multiplex…

Lois: Man, did that suck!

Mo: Think we can get our money back?

Jillian: Not after we sat through the whole damn thing. Wait up, okay? I have to pee.

Panel 2

Mo: Lois, I have to go too, but I just wanna wait a minute. I know Jillian’s cool, and she’s done great work with the Avengers and everything, but I dunno… I still feel kinda weird about using the bathroom with someone who used to be a man.

Lois: Mo! I’m not going to wait around here all night just because you’re having a transphobia attack! Get over it and go pee, or we’ll leave without you!

Panel 3 

Random lady to Mo, who has short hair: Excuse me! Aren’t you in the wrong bathroom?

Jillian to random lady: Of course she’s not! Take a closer look, hon!

Panel 4

Mo: Uh, thanks Jillian. I’d do the same for you, y’know!

Jillian: Thanks, but I actually don’t have much of a problem in ladies rooms. At least, not since my “nobody knows I’m a transsexual” t-shirt wore out. /end ID]

Created for Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors, featuring characters from Dykes To Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel © 1996

[Caption copied, pasted, de-italicized and enlarged for accessibility purposes.]