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Rainbow Bright

@princesskaimi

29- Fandom, Feminism, and Queerness

one of the ways i know this culture has a massive issue with consent

is the sheer amount of people I’ve known that just lie & tell people they’re deathly allergic to foods they dislike

because otherwise people will hound them, mock them, coax them, harass them, try to force them to eat it, or even trick them into eating it, and they will never hear the end of it

your coworkers will bake it into a fucking pie, call it something else, and wait til your birthday, gather everyone and their first cousins to sit around in a circle waiting for you to put a forkful into your mouth and then point rhythmically at you in a chanting, glaring, sweating, unholy circle like SWISS CHARD SWISS CHARD YOU JUST ATE SWISS CHARD HA HA HA SWISS CHARD NOW YOU LIKE SWISS CHARD

Because forcing someone into a situation where they don’t feel safe declining putting something into their body they’d rather not be there is totes 100% wholesome American fun

And this is something so known that it’s infinitely easier to just lie and tell people that you’ll die if you eat that food…which actually doesn’t always stop it from happening

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And sometimes that doesn’t even work. I went on a date with someone to a restaurant and he tried to trick me into eating pork. I haven’t eaten meat in years, and told him that, as well as the fact that, when you stop eating meat for a long time, it often makes you sick if you try to eat it again. Thank fully, I could tell that he was not being truthful, but he made it very clear that he didn’t respect my choices.

me, a fanfic writer: *touches my new fav character’s face* *whispers* I’m gonna get you laid
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me, a different fanfic writer: *pets my fave character’s hair* *whispers* I’m gonna emotionally, maybe also physically, torture you

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me, another fanfic writer: *boops my fave character’s nose* *whispers* I’m going to send you to an alternate universe where you make better decisions.

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All of the above? 

ALL OF THE ABOVE

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@tinibopper all of the above~

the worst thing about twitter being one of the most popular fandom platforms at the moment is that you can’t find anything there

you want to find art of your favourite characters or ships? good fucking luck because most of the time people don’t “tag” their posts with anything, and if they don’t write the character’s/ship’s name in the tweet, you won’t find it by searching for it! so have fun going through people’s retweets and likes in a desperate attempt to find things

say about tumblr what you will, at least here you can find shit as long as people tag it properly (and why wouldn’t they, as it means people will actually find it = exposure). and honestly, the tag tracking function here has completely spoiled me and i fear i won’t be able to fully migrate to any platform that doesn’t have it

First flower ever grown in space bloomed today!

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Yay!

Happy birthday, space flower!

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(source: gilderoys)

KIRK IS HOLDING A ZINNIA. THE SAME FUCKING FLOWER.

FUCKING NASA MAN

No. Nononono. You don’t understand. 

I am so mad about this. Like, not like I wanna kill someone, but mad, as in, hysterical?

They wanted to answer questions about plants in space, right? How biology and botany would work in space. Because then who knows? We could grow crops in space, or fix the atmosphere. Or create the perfect biome for plants that are now extinct. Who fucking knows, right?

They could have taken a food crop. Wheat, maybe. Or rice. Something they could observe to see if it would be possible to solve a food shortage or whatever. Maybe a small apple tree to see if it would bloom, and then see if there could be a way to make it fruit. 

Or, you know, go the genetics route and take a sweet pea. See if zero gravity does anything to how genes are passed on. Mendel did it in a shed, why not a tin shed in outer space, right? Oh the possibilities.

Was it so wrong to take the zinnia? No, of course not. In my little horticultural brain, I thought, oh how lovely! A splash of colour in the emptiness of space. Something bright and cheerful, something that gives hope. That must have been it, right? 

But no. 

SOMEONE went, “Nah, mate, here’s an episode of Star Trek where Kirk is holding a ZINNIA in a SPACE DESERT.”

I could scream. I don’t know if I love or hate these fucking nerds. Oh my gods. 

NASA, YOU NEEEEERDS

love these NASA nerds 

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I WANT TO WORK THERE

NASA Nerds and Trekkies.. they are the same group more than you think. (*Also me even before I saw Kirk in this post* … wasn’t there an episode in TOS… ahhhh)

TOS is my favorite self-fulfilling prophesy- like, when they first aired, they were contacted by the military to find out where they heard about their *secret project* because it was the sixties and everything was spies (I think the tech was the bio-scanner beds in sickbay, but I could be wrong).

Then, a bunch of kids who grew up loving the show went to college and majored in science and engineering and now we have cell phones and space zinnias.

Fucking wild, man

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