*character, who has mental illness, went through many traumatic experience, and literally a wreck*
*the whole ass fandom*: I want that one
Cal will be like: “We both know what happens when I stay in one place too long” Gotta keep that low profile so the Empire doesn’t find us—
Also Cal to every stranger he sees: Hi I’m Cal Kestis. Oh and this is BD-1
“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”
— Unknown
unique person
Quick! Funniest reason for someone to become a villain
Has a crush on the hero and can't be normal about it
it’s just me and my unrealistic to-do list against the world
there’s something about living life deliberately…wearing clothes that you actually want to and that you feel reflect you and your style not just because you’ve had them for years and don’t know what else you would throw on….listening to songs and creating playlists that excite you and represent your actual mood not just listening to songs that you’ve had downloaded for years that don’t make you feel anything special anymore…it’s VERY easy to stay with what you’re comfortable and it might take a bit of experimenting before you find what feels like a deliberate choice that reflects more of YOU but it’s absolutely worth the leap of faith you may have to convince yourself to make in order to stop feeling like a passenger in your own life
i love when the gender options are "male" "female" and "prefer not to answer"
like it just reads as "boy" "girl" and "what are you, a cop? i don't owe you anything"
My gender is "come back with a warrant"
the least realistic thing about star trek is that starfleet uniforms don’t have pockets and nobody complains about it
My instinct is to agree with this, but like, when I really think about it…
No money, no credit cards, identification is all vocal/fingerprints/retinal, so no wallet.
Again, doors are voice activated, or just unlocked by entering a code. No keys.
Communication devices are tiny and stick onto clothing starting in Next Gen. TOS had bulkier communication that they carried around or kept in, like, packs and stuff, so the arguments for pockets is a little more valid, and if I remember correctly, those costumes did have pockets, tho I could be wrong about that. But anything post TNG, the point is moot anyway.
Tricorders and phasers are really the only thing anyone’s carrying around, and that’s usually on away missions where they’d be bring their packs/holsters or just have them out. I mean, who wants to stick a phaser in their pocket?
So, yeah. There’s not much little stuff people need to carry around everywhere. And if they are preparing for a longer journey or want to bring bulkier things, well…just bring a bag. It fits more anyway.
what if i find a cool rock and want to take it home with me
runicbinary
Every time a member of the USS Enterprise has found a cool rock and taken it home, it has resulted in eleven deaths, six temporal displacements, the holodecks breaking again, and somebody getting turned into a lizard. Pockets are a privilege, not a right.
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I’ve gotten more notes on this comment than anything else I’ve ever posted, but this is the best addition to it I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
I had a pretty strong reaction to this week’s “The Last of Us.” Like I still am having trouble posting about it.
I am chronically ill with autoimmune diseases. And it made me think about how reading “The Zombie Survial Guide” in my college days was probably a waste of time.
After spending too much time thinking about it, I decided the only person who could protect me in an apocalypse scenario would be my mom. She is farsighted and doesn’t read well but she is very proud of the fact that she still has “sniper vision” for distance. She’s told me several times her doctor described it that way. She doesn’t have a “real” gun anymore (there are grandkids running around) but she does have a BB gun that she uses to “scare” squirrels in our backyard which I try to remind her is definitely against the law. But I think she’s trying to keep her sniper vision honed. She also grew up on a farm with cows and chickens, growing corn, tomatoes and pumpkins. Since she moved to get married I think her garden, which is more flowers now than on the farm, is her favorite thing in the world—possibly before me and my sisters when we are pissing her off. That’s why she needs to “scare” the squirrels. They eat her seeds and bulbs.
So Bill and Frank, aside from being an adorable queer couple they also sort of fit into “my own” apocalypse story. I wanted to know a lot more details about what Frank did. How did they find out he had Parkinson’s? I guess he must have had tremors. Did they just have Joel and Tess steal some old medicine?
What if you had a disease like mine that takes several blood tests and an MRI to diagnose? Do you take random pills for the disease you THINK you have?
I also had melanoma. And my mom had breast cancer. What do you do if that happens? Try to cut it out crudely yourself and hope it hadn’t spread? Like there are meds that you could find in any drugstore. With enough people dead, you could definitely find obscure ones easier than pain killers which people might loot. But chemo drugs? You’d have to go to a hospital or clinic and I think hospitals would be bad places to go if it’s a VIRUS or infection causing the apocalypse. Clinics might have better stuff but do they just leave chemo bags lying around? I can’t imagine they have a long shelf life.
Anyway I want a whole show about the Parkinson’s and I was kind of angry when we went back to Joel and Ellie. The end of Bill and Frank’s story is sweet the way they changed it. But only because they got to live a full life together that we only see snippets of. I don’t want disabled people to IMMMEDIATELY off themselves in an apocalypse (and I wanted something about how it had gotten worse and he couldn’t enjoy his life anymore).
I liked it. I thought both actors were very good. It just also stirred up a lot of feelings I have about people considering disabled people, like, not worthy of their own story. They are just there to set up Joel’s arc with Ellie.
