Obi-Wan is canonically aroace

Ok but people can seriously look at Bones' speech to Spock and hear him say "All these things you'll never know, simply because the word 'love' isn't written into your book" and not think Spock is aro???

And also people can look at Spock going to Bones about Jim acting weird because of a girl, and Bones saying "Has it occurred to you that he might simply like the girl?" and Spock saying "It occurred to me. I dismissed it." and Bones going "You would" and not think Spock is aro????

And also people can really look at the spores scene where Spock falls to the ground in agony and says "No, I can't, please don't" and the girl he's with is like "It shouldn't hurt, not like this! It didn't hurt us!" and Spock replies "I am not like you!"...

...and only after this excruciating drugging does he say, shocked, "I can love you!" and not think Spock is aro???????

And also people can look at Spock being with that cave lady in pre-reform-Vulcan time and in that exact same environment be filled with shame and say "Please pay no attention, I am not myself," "What is wrong with me?!" and "I have lost myself" and not see that he's only interested in her because he isn't himself and his whole state of being has been fundamentally altered???? Because he's aro??????

And also people can REALLY look at Spock not picking up that the Companion is in love with Zephram Cochrane until Bones and Kirk fill him in, and him then saying "Though I do not completely understand the emotion, it obviously exists" and NOT THINK SPOCK IS ARO????

And also people can really look at Spock during S1E4 (Naked Time) and see how when

...and NOT THINK SPOCK IS ARO????

And also for some non-TV pieces of evidence (@noromanceplease figure you'd like to be tagged!):

Also the sheer amount of descriptions, in both TV and extended canon, of Spock and Jim's relationship that just scream QPR is another super compelling insight, might add some of those. But just. How is all this not aro??? How can you look at these and not think Spock is aro???????

Further insights from Leonard Nimoy himself (in his book I Am Spock) and Season 3 producer Freddy Feiberger (in a quotation from William Shatner's Star Trek Memories):

Falling in love is so out of character for Spock that, per Nimoy himself, it represents an erosion of his character, is on par with him braying like a donkey, and is only remotely understandable if Spock is under some influence that makes him completely different than he would normally be. In fact, Spock falling in love without those mitigating circumstances contradicts everything Leonard knew about Spock and "violat[es] the character's basic premise."

And D.C. Fontana, legendary Star Trek writer (both shows and books) agrees (also in Star Trek Memories):

They could only "get away" with having Spock "finally be able" to feel love by fundamentally altering his natural state. Considering all this, can we please agree that Spock is aro?????

Even Jim recognizes this--here's an excerpt from The Autobiography of James T. Kirk:

So Jim himself recognizes that Spock and romance do not mix--aka, SPOCK IS ARO!!

Some further evidence from Black Fire and Star Trek Vanguard: Harbinger:

Is that last not such an aro line??? Well that makes sense because Spock is aro!

Don't get me started on this.

Humility as in recognizing that you are small and that is good and you are just a part of something bigger but you are a part, is so good and so necessary because that’s the only way you can admit mistakes truly without being like my mistake is The Only Thing In The World or else its nothing. Your mistake can be even a big huge one with lots of consequences but!! It’s not the Only Thing In The World! Because you are not!

You serve no one by draining yourself of all your energy, not yourself, not your friends and family and not your job/education. It takes so much longer to recharge and get well again, than if we take care of ourselves as we go. So please recharge, rest and listen to your limits and your needs. You and your well being is important. 🌸

sitting on this one for a little while but... bibically accurate body horror fractal sunflower

he said 🌴

Something that gets lost in the contemporary pressure to have an iron-clad identity is the subversive power of saying “it’s none of your business.”

anyone around me in any context: my main goal…

me to myself for the next ten seconds: don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it

peter jackson wanting to be involved with amazon's lotr or new warner bros films is insane. girlie the hobbit destroyed you. the studio crushed you like an ant and forced a lethal amount of work on you every day for three years with no prep. they made you lie through your teeth to keep production going and destroy a nation's labor laws in the process. you have not directed a movie since that wasn't a documentary made from archive footage. haven't stepped foot on a film set because they remind you of the green screen battleground where you tried to shoot three movies at once without scripts. babygirl. what are you doing

exactly. return to your roots sweetie

link to tweet: (x)

grandad will always be there….

This is what “beauty drawn from and in the midst of cyberpunk dystopia” looks like, Black Mirror WISHES-

eye-opening tumblr post for me included the words "people are meant to be burdens" as in humans rely on and support one another and it's not a bother it's our purpose; to love and be loved in return. so if you ever think you're being annoying just remember we were made to love and it's going to be okay

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I did not expect it to sound like a heartfelt wish to join the fae modeled in music

What about this

both are exquisite thank you for your contribution

i cannot stop thinking about the scene where peter b turns around like he just realized miguel is genuinely insane it is so funny

like ohhhhh. okay. yeah he’s gonna maim that 15 year old.

I love seeing certain takes about certain characters and going "congrats. You've fallen for the front they put up"

Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.

You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.

YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE??? I’M A LIL GECKO BOY

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

Love that his reaction to being pranked was to pull the exact same prank on his buddy

No hate to SNW but lowkey hate to SNW