Just finished watching The Outcast on my rewatch of tng.

It's a hard episode to watch now, though I don't remember the last time I saw it. One thing that I wonder about is whether Soren was lying to Riker when she told him she wanted to stay. My personal feeling is that she was. She knew what would or could happen to him if he brought her off the planet and wasn't willing to let him make that sacrifice for her.

It's obvious that the story is supposed to be a tragedy, and that the tragedy is that Soren's society doesn't actually give her a choice. In the context of when the episode was written and aired, that was more true for queer folks than it is today. That's something that I think people may not always give enough credit for when talking about this episode (that and I can't remember when the rating boards changed the policy on gays not being allowed to have happy endings).

So it's a tragedy, and part of it is that she was in a position where her only choices were sacrificing everything about herself or sacrificing everything about the man she loved.

It would have been wonderful to get a happy ending there, with Soren leaving with Riker or being rescued by the other people like her. But in some ways, it would have cheapened the story. The way it is, it's a call to think about the ways that society deeply harms queer folks, and the impossible situations we get put in.

But on the whole, the writing for the episode was beautifully done. If I knew more about film I'd say something about the way it was staged and shot as well, because I think that was excellent too.

And as an aside, I really appreciated the little bit of off-screen character growth we get for Worf. It's clear to me that his exchange with his friends at their poker night made him rethink his assumptions and changed his mind. That's a little detail that's actually really important in the episode, because Worf is the most "macho" of the men on the ship.

Honestly though, my favorite thing about it on this watching was knowing that Jonathan Frakes tried really hard to get them to cast a male actor as Soren. That just really warms my heart.

i think about this photo every day

mise nuair a fheicim duine le gaeilge uladh

It’s hard to believe that homes like this even exist in New York City. This 1901 mansion has 12bd. 12ba. and is listed for $33M.

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Small town culture is knowing that there are Old Folks with strange nicknames but never knowing the stories behind them.

Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.

His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.

I‘m trying to arrange my face into an appropriate approximation of silent bafflement and failing miserably.

i appreciate brickaday

chaotic good

My grandpa once told me he worked with a guy called Scrappy at General Motors back in the 50s. Every few days he would wheelbarrow out metal shavings and the foreman was convinced he was stealing things and hiding them in the scrap metal to get it out of the factory. But every time they’d go through the scrap they’d find nothing. He was stealing the wheelbarrows.

One of my late grandfather’s friends was called Salami because he used to steal salami and cured meats so I’m seeing a pattern here

In 1977, directory Tony Espejo put on Philippine adaptation of the American queer play The Boys in the Band, translated into Taglish (Tagalog/English) by Jose Javier Reyes. The play’s program featured one of the first written examples of Swardspeak - a language created by the queer community in the Philippines to talk to each other without being understood - and even had a glossary to help the audience follow what was being said.

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[Images: source; front cover of the program, which features a picture of the cast, list of showing dates, and reads “the BOYS in the BAND”; page from within the program titled “GLOSSARY OF “SWARDSPEAK” and listing various words and meanings from the language]

hi im triple AAA game studio. Welcome to our game gunshitters 7. this is a 70$ USD game that is not finished but you can buy the DLC at launch for 50$USD. also theres a seprate in game currency where you can spend 200$USD to get diamonds to buy cosmetics. look at our roadmap. dont you want to pay 30$ for our first season pass? you will unlock special epic gear that will never ever come back so you can get a nice healthy dose of FOMO. the next season pass is next month and is also 30$. also we are locking 40% of the entire game behind our fun new feature 'present mechanics' so you can gift the rest of the game to yourself for the low low price of 40$ and you also get an epic gun skin if you pay for the GOLD season pass for 60$. also you know how the game was unfinished at launch? oh haha were sorry about that. were releasing it now but you need to pay 20$ for it. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.

guy in a duplex living off of nothing but bread with a computer from 2009: hi everyone im so sorry im late to announce this but my game honeydew mayhem where you can conquer the universe as a bee is gonna release a month late because i still need time to work on making sure that everything works properly and i also need to make sure that the free content updates i will release over time for the next 10 years will be on their way. i need to make sure that you can do absolutely everything you can think of in this game and i still need to polish 20 boss fights and finalize 40 more in-game areas to explore. im sorry you guys will have to wait a bit longer. also my game will be 25$ i hope that isnt too much to ask. if it is i promise it will go on sale soon for 9$. i love all of you and hope you are having a good day

thinking about dr james barry and other historical trans men who were outed against their will and like

not all the trans men could have gotten outed, right?

like im willing to bet that there are quite a few men out there who were buried as men

im glad not to know them

the archive, when it comes to trans people, records violence.

More gay cowboy Halbarry AU stuff

Slavs: Have free healthcare Also slavs: I’m not seeing the doctor unless dying, there are sick people there

I em Slavic, and this is 90% true 

however, you got one thing wrong 

Only snobs, hipsters, and fratboys drink foreign brands 

Nonono this is a good cola. It’s the party cola. This is the cola you drink and enjoy. Coca cola is the cola you have stored in your home for months in case someone gets sick, that’s its only use. The scientific explanation (the scientist is my mother) is that american Coca Cola has more evil chemicals, therefore it vibe checks the evil out of your stomach.

THIS IS THE SLAVEST POST EVER AMAZING

The famous Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was working for  Al Jazeera and exposing Israel’s various crimes for the past 25 years has been shot in the head today by an Israeli sniper while wearing a press vest (videos online literally shows her headless body being dragged moments after being shot and her press vest is clear as the day) during her coverage of Israeli forces raiding a refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Jenin where at least one unarmed Palestinian civilian was killed.

Another Al Jazeera journalist, Ali Samoudi, was also shot by a live bullet, but he’s in a stable condition. (source: X)

Israel regularly kills, kidnap, torture and brutalize journalists that document their crimes in occupied Palestine and per the norm, western media such as the New York Times are reporting on this literal war crime as “clashes,” even though some of them had their own journalists killed and their offices bombed in the past by Israel.

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Here is a link to it (please share it): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-RUOHHiEtr7uoclQgWN-tCWOihnHIp5hym89aNePi_E/mobilebasic

Aside from that, please protest, support the BDS boycott and spread awareness as much as possible.

when girls like horses we call them ‘horse girls’ and mock them for their bond with giant nightmare leg-finger creatures

but if boys like horses we call them ‘future cowboys’ and ‘rugged outdoors men’

I’m just saying, I’ve met a lot more horse girls than horse boys so when the dystopic breakdown of society hits us, it’s not going to be roving bands of young men on horseback (they don’t know how to ride, they haven’t B O N D ED)

it will be Kelly from elementary school and her band of fifty midwest girls in pink cowgirl boots who have come for your resources

Wanna know a fun fact?

When they were filming Lord of the Rings, they needed A LOT of extras to be able to ride horses into battle. They couldn’t find nearly enough men with horses/ riding skills, so they hired just like a crap ton of women who were expert riders, slapped some beards on ‘em, and called it good. The VAST majority of the riders in that film are horse girls. Horse girls win battles.

Horse girls win battles.

You Ain’t Ready- Skillet

"Blunts" as if this child knows knows that is

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Connor Hawke is a fictional DC Comics superhero who operated as the second Green Arrow. He’s the son of Oliver Queen, the original Green Arrow, and his former girlfriend Sandra “Moonday” Hawke. 

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thinking about how all post-nineties takes on the tragedy of coast city and parallax inherently fall flat compared to the original because they fail to hold accountable the least obvious suspects – the justice league – as the subtext woven through reign of the supermen does. geoff johns’ parallax-as-parasite takes away too much from hal and is almost certainly the catalyst for his modern no personality space cop characterisation, as much as the value of johns’ general contribution to gl mythos is undeniable. what that interpretation refuses to acknowledge, however, is that parallax in his original form is a completely rational response to the trauma hal has been subjected to.

rereading choice issues of reign the other day has me coming back to this over and over. an important city with a population of seven million is completely destroyed and rendered little more than a crater, there are repercussions stretching across the entire state

(”the smoke blanketing california”)

and hal is running on no sleep and no rest of any kind while fighting through injuries that not even his ring is able to heal. in the end, once he eliminates mongul and meets up with a newly returned to life clark after his own fight with hank henshaw, clark declares

as he hovers above mongul’s engine that had destroyed coast city. he says it casually! as if hal’s got a home to go to! as if seven million people aren’t dead!

two weeks later clark calls returning to take engine city apart “a ceremony” as if it’s some great PR opportunity, he talks about it like it’s a mild inconvenience, the jl just giving themselves a pat on the back for doing too little too late for a disaster they could’ve easily prevented

and then at last, when we’re on the brink of a glimpse of justice for coast city, aquaman insists the engine cannot be destroyed and thrown into the ocean as it might prove dangerous to his kingdom, though he shows no regard for what’s happened here and what hal has been through

even the vague notion of a compromise is telling

as if standing on the tombstone of his home is about to make hal happy!! like that’s an option!!!!

most notably, once the engine is dealt with, clark doesn’t bother to ask the singular resident of coast city among them if there’s any way to help but rather he takes it upon himself to build a useless monument out of the very thing that has destroyed coast city to begin with

no one thinks to say that it shouldn’t have happened in the first place and not a single member of the justice league appears to care that one of their own has taken an unimaginable blow, its enough to them that it likely wont happen again and its enough as proof as they’re always gonna be needed. clark, back from the dead, is happy to see coast city as a reminder that he’s still useful.

the next page of superman (1987) #83 is, of course, a bright and sunny morning in metropolis that clark gets to spend with jimmy without a care in the world

it’s startling! it’s ridiculous! the barely contained anger and all-encompassing grief that marks hal’s every word & movement is a sight to see but so is the justice league’s utter disregard for him. a well-written parallax, as he’d originally been, acknowledges this as the necessary starting point! without a support system, without friends and family and a home, hal needs no parasite to infect him in order to lose it.

parallax as a man on the brink, lashing out at friends and foes alike, slipping further into despair in an attempt to set everything right is not only rational but realistic. hal has endured the unthinkable and not a single person in his life cares. to blame a parasite in the retcon means to pretend so-called superheroes played no part in their friend’s breakdown. very nearly doubling as an early exploration of the dark underbelly of heroics along the lines of identity crisis, hal’s arc before the retcon is almost certainly the greatest arc to happen to any mainstream superhero

Things suddenly got too real for Hal.