Dinner’s Ready 🧛♂️🧛♀️
Another thought occurred to me
People who complain about Harry Kim never getting promoted tend to forget that Dr. Crusher went through seven seasons and four films without a promotion, too.
Admirals
Admiral rank from Discovery, TOS, TOS Movies with sleeve stripes from TWOK and later, first season TNG, third season TNG, DS9/VOY/Lower Decks with buckle, and PIC.
Oh Captain! My captain!
Captain’s rank from Enterprise, Discovery, TOS, TOS Movies, STTNG, DS9, VOY, Lower Decks, and PIC.
My growing Discovery prop collection.
World War I signal flash cards, as used by the US Navy, c. 1918.
[Charles Saunders] had begun writing speculative fiction in the 1970s and published his first novel, “Imaro,” in 1981. As a child he had been enthralled by the fantasies spun by white writers like Robert E. Howard, who created Conan the Barbarian, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, who created Tarzan, the white African figure embodied most famously on the screen by Johnny Weissmuller. But he came to recognize the racism inherent in such works. Imaro was the result.
[…] “For Tarzan to be the king of mythical Africa,” he said, “it’s an utter slap in the face to a young Black child who is looking for a place in his imagination where he can be indomitable, where he can be the king or the queen.”
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Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
chronotriggerwarning
Reblog to actually save a life
To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it
as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion
Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.
“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”
In Star Trek, no Black leads begin their shows as captains, while all white leads do. By odd coincidence, both live-action Black leads were promoted to captain in their season 3 finale. I don't think either DS9 or Disco had good enough reasons to delay these promotions.
LD also has a Black lead who is not a captain, though the whole point of the show is that the protagonists are not officers. I think this is a good idea, but in the context of this pattern, the optics are getting pretty depressing.
Why does Trek only try to deconstruct the power of their most iconic occupation (spaceship captain) in their Black-led shows? Why do they only ever ask, "What if the lead was NOT a captain?" and "What if the lead was Black?" at the same time? In the case of both live-action Black-led shows, the answer to both questions is, "Then they will have to wait 3 seasons."
I can say this: DS9 created Sisko as a “young commander” before and without any focus on casting race. The role was open to any ethnicity. Some (now) famous white guys auditioned for it, and Siddig (Bashir) was almost offered it before they knew he was only 26 (they saw him in a film and thought he was 35-40) so for DS9 at least... it was not intentional that the first black lead was not a full captain. Though once they decided on Avery, I do think it would have been smarter to recognize that it looks like that and make him a captain then. Sadly there was hefty white privilege back then (still is).
Coming in August 2020. Hopefully it’s going to have something new.
Edit: Now it seems to be pushed back to January 2021.
Weapons from the USS Gigantic, apparently.
I'm cracking up that some online drama queen complains that her life is one long nonstop tragedy, but then gets pissed because someone wishes her well. Go get a life.
Went to the grocery to pick up a few items for dinner. Stopped in the candy aisle to grab some Hershey bars (a favorite), and saw that the price of six candy bars was just $3. Normally, they’re $4.25, so, cool. I go through self-check out and the candy comes to $3.96. I suspected that the posted price was off, so I wasn’t surprised. Plus, it’s less than what I’d actually expected to pay, so it’s no big deal. Once finished, I went to a cashier and told him that the posted price did not match what I was charged, and you could see that he was bracing for a fight.
“Hey,” I said, “I’m not complaining. It’s just 96 cents, but I don't want you to get yelled at by someone else.”
He confirmed that there was an error, thanked me profusely, and I went on my way. I hope that he got someone to change the posted price because in that particular store, I can certainly see someone wanting to exchange blows over the error.
what????the fuck???
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This comes before that part:
And this comes after that part: