how strong could love grow...

Youngsters... Y'all need to support Garth Brooks...

If you were born after, or were very young in the 90s, you have no idea how huge this guy was.

Young people might not have heard much about him because he basically decided to opt out of youtube entirely. The whole time. But trust me, there was a moment that he was the biggest singer in this country.

His star fell a couple decades ago when he released an emo-ish album that was supposed to be tied to a film that was never made.

Conservatives took a look at the character on the cover & decided brooks had gone soft.

He also pissed them off when he performed for Biden.

Anyway, to the point...

The other day, he stated that his new bar would be serving Bud Light & that he wants his establishment to be a place where everybody feels safe, & that anyone who has a problem with that is an asshole & should drink elsewhere.

His bar is on the same street as Kid Rock's & other celebrities who have been choking on the red pill by ousting the brand.

For a man who once stood at the top of the country charts to publicly support Trans people with no beating around the bush is huge.

If you've never heard him, look him up. If it's been awhile, pick him back up.

His music stands up on it's own & doesn't need this to justify it, but he's basically being abandoned by his target audience for doing the right thing.

So yeah... Listen to Garth Brooks.

Yes! Please check out his song We Shall Be Free. This song, coming from one of the biggest country stars of all time, with lyrics like this??

DS9 because they actually have practice.

I'm sorry, but, "You can't go through life trying to avoid a broken heart. If you do, it'll break from loneliness anyway," is entirely too profound a statement to be made by Dr Julian Bashir while talking to Odo in the middle of his James Bond LARP.

This has been sitting in my WIP for a while now but here’s a little animation of the bwee audio because I couldn’t get tired of hearing it

Happy incredibly normal New York Daytime.

The sun is shrouded as it rises in a hazy, smoky sky behind the Empire State Building, One Vanderbilt and the Chrysler Building in NYC.

If you don't have at least one ship that would make a 15yo puritan tiktoker in progressive gay hat throw their shit are you even living

The worst thing about loving Louis is understanding why Lestat is Like That about him. He pulled a blade out of his cane and I fell in love instantly. He sets things on fire with his mind and I think that's soooo endearing. He looks sooooo good covered in blood fangs out eyes huge with hunger. His eyes are so big and sparkly and pretty, whether they be his huge baby cow brown eyes or his shiny anime girl green eyes. How is anyone supposed to be normal about him ever

So I was looking at Robert‘s flowers for Rebecca again, and initially I thought they were daisies, but upon closer inspection, I think they’re chrysanthemums?

I decided to look up the meaning of white chrysanthemums, and the first website I went to said that they symbolized “innocence, purity, honesty, and loyalty”, and it even mentioned that “During the Victorian Era, Europeans viewed the chrysanthemum as a symbol of good luck and friendship. Therefore, friends and family often gifted one another mums.” Which is good news for the platonic shipping gang! ☺️ (I still kinda ship them romantically, though)

I have been waiting almost two months for someone to do a flower post, THANK YOU

I JUST THINK HE'S NEAT.

GET LOW👇

There's a whole vibe to later seasons Garak and Bashir that is amplified in a lot of the extra-canonical works, particularly the ones written by Andy (or Andy and Sid in the case of the Nexus).

I call this vibe "Men will literally rebuild an entire system of government in their crush's image/Self-destructively attempt to revenge themself against an entire black-ops organization instead of going to therapy and having one honest conversation."

I have to believe this kind of ish would never have flown if Jadzia had still been around.

Garak has been changed by this man deeply and profoundly, and you know he just wants Bashir to really see that and validate him for it, but Bashir is absolutely blinkered by PTSD and rather than acknowledge his loss and trauma, he's going to project it all into something he can attack. It's the most Khan-like he's ever been. It's deeply ironic that Garak has learned so much from Bashir about the value of optimism and democracy and compassion, and instead of letting Garak reflect it back to him when he's at his lowest, Bashir is like, "nah, I'm good. Never mind that you're living proof that everything I believed in was valid and worthwhile, imma throw away my connections to friends and family and go ham on this organization that shook my worldview because wiping out an extrajudicial intelligence agency will most definitely restore my sense of humanity."

Like, I said. Jadzia would have sat on him until he drank his therapy juice if no one else would have. Sisko probably could have shut his god complex down pretty handily too, for that matter.

Meanwhile, instead of getting strapped and following Julian into his idiocy to keep him from killing himself, Garak has decided he's going to pine from afar and become a politician because there's nothing a more useful to a fledgeling government than a mouthpiece with a serious image problem.

This isn't criticism of the books or the characterizations, really. I just find I want to smush their faces like the idiot sandwiches they are and march them into an intensive inpatient program for no less than six months. A nice one, though, with good therapists and horses and a pool.

I just want them to have nice things and be happy. They saved the quadrant. They deserve to be saved themselves.

No prizes for guessing who!

Leverage S01E07 The Wedding Job.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) dir. Richard Marquand

f it. garashir wedding

Stella Lunardy

Black Silk Mourning Dress, ca. 1820, British.

Met Museum.

I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence.

For a word to be spoken there must be silence. Both before and after. -Ursula K LeGuin

Nicki & Lestat.  Commissioned from retrxvel on Instagram.