I never thought of it this way, although Sisko IS my favorite captain. 

one thing that confuses me about Far Beyond the Stars is that Julius Eaton, the character being portrayed by Alexander Siddig, isn’t told to “sleep in” for author picture day like Kay Eaton (Nana Visitor) and Benny Russel (Avery Brooks) are. Siddig is a person of color, like Brooks, though I wonder if there are some nuances from the 1950′s period-typical racism that I’m missing. Siddig is biracial, as his father was Sudanese and his mother was English, but wouldn’t he also face similar problems based on his skin color in 1950′s America? The fact that they have him say, “any self-respecting Englishman” wouldn’t drink Kay’s instant ice tea leads me to believe that they skirted this issue by the fact that Siddig was raised in England.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? 

I think could well have been considered white passing (particular as the photograph would likely have been black and white, which with the right lighting can make light brown skin tones appear white - in fact this was often done quite intentionally in the 1950s!)

Colourism - the idea that we live on a colour-coded spectrum in which the lighter you are, the whiter (and therefore, better) you are - also means that light-skinned PoC are treated more favourably by society that dark-skinned PoC. This is as true today as it was in the 1950s.

One headcanon of mine is that perhaps Sisko has some unresolved feelings about Julian hiding - and lying to his captain about - his genetic status. This then manifests in his vision as Julius Eaton, Julian’s alter-ego, also being someone who’s putting on an act to fit in and avoid being disciminated against. Julius speaks with a more refined/upper class accent than Julian/Siddig does and makes reference to his own ‘Englishness’. This could be interpreted as him ‘trying too hard’ to be seen as White/English in order to maintain a certain social status.

I think there could have been space within the story to acknowledge multiracial experience and/or colourism, and in a way I think it’s a shame that the writer’s didn’t think to include this. I think they really wanted to include the C.L.Moore/Henry Kuttner reference and another in-joke about Sid and Nana being married IRL and just didn’t stop to consider how else a multiracial/light-skinned PoC character could fit into the story. It’s hard to gripe about this though as I think overall Far Beyond the Stars is one of the most perfect hours of TV ever made.

Me @ some of the ds9 fanart I see

Me @ the season 8 storyboard artwork in the What We Left Behind documentary.

Women of Color in Game of Thrones

Look at Irri’s face, this is like three episodes into season 1 and girl is already so done with this bullshit.

'Avengers: Endgame' and Game of Thrones' Battle for Winterfell episode will both drop the weekend of April 26

So lately there’s been a lot of scary things happening in media (journalism is dying and there’s huge media layoffs, Amazon, Disney and Netflix are taking over everything, etc). I want everyone to remember how truly amazing and unique AO3 is and the sheer amount of organization and work it takes for it to be independent - many of you on here are young and may not know how much it changed being a fan. Read your history.

There are lots of female characters and they are all different. You don’t have to choose your favorite one but you can learn something from all of them…

Happy International Women’s Day!!!

#the unzipped uniform of Doom

The moment Burnham became the most relatable character in Discovery 

All of them (but probably the top right most of all :))

my absolute favourite thing about all the old star trek series is when the ship unexpectedly collides with something and, due to the lack of sophisticated special effects available at the time, everyone just throws themselves across the set as dramatically as possible

Wait, isn’t there stabilised gifs of these shots floating around?

I FOUND SOME!!!

Is Uhura just like grinning like a dork in the last one? 

This is too funny

In the second one, the direction of the imaginary force would just push Uhura against the back of her chair, but in order to fall with everyone else, she swings forward and around 180 degrees, which is not realistic in the least. But she’s really graceful about it and throws that leg up at the end to really sell it.

saw this in fb 😂😂😂😂😂

In this house, we love Sansa, Arya AND Daenerys