Star Trek, BBC authorized

Cover art by Edgar Hodges

god this show is so fucking ridiculous i love it with all my heart

I mean I SAY I love the ‘Enemies to Lovers’ trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the

‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’

trope

@sky-glitter Oh look, it you.

don't call me out like this

There’s a new girl in my kindergarten class who’s autistic and it’s like she’s barely / not really verbal but like idk she opened up to me a little, I don’t tell people I’m on the spectrum at work because they already treat me horribly because I’m the only poc there but like she’s a little Latina girl who I know exactly how she feels and like I was like “hey Nina, If you don’t wanna talk it’s okay, just thumbs up or thumbs down if you understand the (math) problem? Okay?” So we sorta made like a thumbs up and thumbs down thing between us and today it was the most surreal thing because I like “I know they tell you to make eye contact but I’m gonna tell you a trick, look at their neck, chin, hair, and whatever is behind them, I don’t like eye contact very much either? Thumbs up?” And she said with the smallest voice “Thankyou , for not saying I’m dumb” I wanna be the person I needed when I was her age

i would buy this

same tho

this is like reverse sneaking out. sneak even further into your own home

My main problem as a writer is that I don’t write because “I have a story to tell”. I write because there are worlds I want to visit, ideas I want to explore, people I want to meet, conversations I want to hear, emotions that I want to express, and impossibilities I want to make real.

Which means that I still need a fucking plot.

Black cat auditions photographed for Life Magazine, 1961. The auditions were for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror segment “The Black Cat.”

Wonderful!

call em out call em out

If you can’t read the ad in that pic, or if you don’t have access to the New York Times (because the paper limits access to so many articles per month), then go here:

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/gun-lobbying-spending-in-america-congress/

Scroll down, and you’ll find a location where you can enter your Representative’s name, state or party and learn how much they received from the gun lobby last year. (Nothing at the site about senators, sorry.)

no offense but making your s/o laugh is literally the most gratifying thing in the fuckin universe

I literally thought this meant “superior officer”

Hi brain, you obstinate fucker. I drank the clear splashy stuff. I ate the green things. I went under that bright fucker up there. I did the thing with the moving and sweating and whatnot. Now make the happy chemical, you lump of fuck.

Well done, Ireland! <3

Hello!?! Why isn’t this being celebrated worldwide!?!? Ireland is known for its conservative catholic people and now we have gay marriage and trans rights. Not only that but we are the only country in the world to achieve same sex marriage by popular vote!!!

Because usually people dont actually care about us or notice us internationally unless it’s St.Patricks day, but even then it’s just green, beer and leprechauns.

As I get older the more I appreciate straight forward people. Like if you’re mad at me I will respect you if you tell me. I don’t understand adults that would rather stomp their feet and use passive aggressive behavior to communicate. Life does not have to be this difficult fam

Cecil Baldwin, Welcome to Night Vale. (via calvinjcandie)

my fiancee sent this to me when i was in a really rough way and just… WTNV is really important

(via bessibels)

These Florida kids are not fucking around. 

The kids’ response to the shooting has been something truly incredible.

Normally, it’s always been very young children and it’s only their parents that can speak about it. The narrative gets controlled, the conspiracy theorists talk about how it’s all an act, so much bullshit.

But these are kids who are active on social media, incredibly close to voting age, and they’re demanding their voices are heard. Every single thing that downplays, dismisses or conspiracies the shooting has been subverted by their efforts, and they’re not letting adults who’ve never lived what they lived through control the narrative.

“It was a conspiracy!” “No, we have video evidence of it happening.” “Shouldn’t you be calling 911 instead of making videos?” “We called 911 so many times they told us to stop.” “But he was a troubled child!” “We were ALL troubled, that’s no excuse.” And it just goes on like this.

Honestly, I’m so proud of my fellow Floridians.

I said to my husband the other day that “This one feels different”, referring to this precisely. 

The whole energy around it feels different. These kids are not having this bullshit, and while they should not have to stand their ground and fight this battle, goddamn it they are going to. If the adults won’t, then goddamn it these kids will draw a fucking line and say ‘no, no more, this is bullshit’. 

I don’t know what it means, or how it will play out long term. But there’s a sense around this whole tragedy that this one is different, and I hope, maybe, that means some actual change will come. 

High School Walkouts

On March 14 at 10 am students and teachers will be walking out for 17 minutes to honor the 17 lives lost in the Florida school shooting.

There will be another walkout on April 20, marking 19 years after the Columbine shooting and 19 years of nothing changing. (petition)

I tried to keep this as short and simple as I could but I’m a small account and I haven’t seen any posts on my dash about this so please, please, please spread this. Don’t let this go unrecognized. We need to be heard. 

More gun control petitions:

Students Fighting Guns Since Adults Won’t

Stop Gutting Federal Gun Laws

Stop Blocking Gun Violence Research

A Cardassian Tale for children

The Benevolent Alien

It is common sense, tahkmar, that aliens can be quite odd. Some are funny, some are angry. Some are greedy, some are shady.

Manilan knew this when he first encountered aliens. His ship was beautiful and sturdy, but space is a dangerous place, nildasi, too dangerous for your soft little scales. The likes of a storm had whirled the beautiful ship to uncharted space, at the confines of known world. Engines disabled, hull breached in places… Oh, my most beloved, it was a sad sight.

Near to the golden ship appeared a silver ship, and like two souanja fishes, they looked at each other with fascination and distrust. Manilan was bold and made contact first, for one must never silence out of fear in the face of an enemy.

The silver fish had a Federation alien for captain. It had noticed the gold fish’s distress, and came to offer help.

“What will it cost us?” asked Manilan.

“Nothing; our help is free,” the alien answered.

Manilan didn’t believe it, but he was in no position to refuse help. And so for days, the aliens helped to repair his beautiful ship. They brought coils and matter, men wearing gold and interphasic spanners. They fixed and mended, jolted and wielded.

“What shall we repay you with?” asked Manilan.

“Nothing, I insist; helping others is its own reward for us,” the alien answered.

Manilan believed it this time.

“Yes, I understand now. Your help was appreciated,” he ended the communication and relaxed in his seat.

As the silver fish prepared to warp away, the beautiful golden fish took a distance to observe how the other ship exploded. Plasma disruptions, warp core breach… Oh, my most beloved, it was a glorious sight.

It is common sense, tahkmar, that it takes balance to walk, and balance to speak. To give and to get is still to have, and nothing is ever free.

Questions for the children:

■ Why didn’t Manilan believe the alien the first time? > It offered help for free, and nothing is ever free.

■ Why did Manilan believe the alien the second time? > It said helping others was its own reward; for the given help, the alien was taking something in return, but without disclosing what it was.

■ Why was the silver ship blown up? > By helping repair Manilan’s ship, the aliens were learning more about Cardassian technology and couldn’t be allowed to leave with that knowledge.

■ What is it that we learned from this story?

Words:

Tahkmar – n.「tender moment」Beloved, darling, calling to the dear

Nildasi – n.「sweet scale」A tender calling to the dear, children and youth especially

Souanja – n. A species of non-food fish

Sahu – tr. v.「to have – i: to give – si: to get」1.(sahu) Sahu rhe, I have. 2.(isahu) Sahu irhe, I give. 3.(si’sahu) Sahu si’rhe, I receive.

So I’m looking for some very specific types of video clips and I figured you guys could help me out:

I need to find clips (likely from the same tv show/movie/web series) that are as similar as possible to each other but with one major difference: the genders/sexual orientations of the characters. I’m looking for clearly romantic scenes (kissing, flirting, etc.) that are almost exactly the same but between a gay couple, straight couple, lesbian couple, etc. I’ve been looking all over the place, so if you know any please send me the information. If you don’t, please signal boost this as I’m working on an important project requiring clips like these. Thank you.

please help me this is actually very important

It’s actually for research so I really do need as many examples as possible as soon as possible- so please spread the word!