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i cant wait for the number one and spock friendship. its everything ive ever wanted

*wakes up in a cold sweat*

Jim Kirk uses the fact that he is hot to distract from the fact that he is a massive nerd

Spock uses the fact that he is a massive nerd to distract from the fact that he is hot

Forgotten By History

Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.

Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.

Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.

The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.

One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.

Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.

On a less philosophical level but with the exact same result.

Roddenberry: writes Kirk and Spock to complete each other like two halves of the same person, says the “deep love” between them is “sufficient for physical intimacy”, creates the word t’hy’la and intentionally includes the translation “lover”.

Also Roddenberry: writes that famously ambiguous Kirk NO HOMO footnote.

schrödingers's spirk.

inspired by this post… it’s more qontent y’all

For the people who are out there “fighting the good fight” and “trying to make fandom a better place,” I have two important questions for you:

1. Is the author dead? x

2. Is your baby in the bathwater? x

What do I mean by those things? Let’s start with #1. The Death of the Author is a type of literary criticism, the extreme cliff notes version of which is that art exists outside of the creator’s life, personal background, and even intentions. I’m using it slightly differently than Barthes intended, but that’s okay, because the author is dead and I’m interpreting his work through my own lens.

In fandom, the author is dead. In fact, the author was never alive in the first place, not really. The author has only ever been the idea of a person, because unlike published fiction, the only thing we know about a fanfic author is that which they choose to tell us about themselves.

Why is that important?

Because it might not be true. Hell, that happens in real life with published authors, who have SSN’s on file with their publishers, who pay taxes on the works they create and have researchable pasts. If the author of A Million Little Pieces could fake everything, why can’t I? Why can’t you? Why can’t the writer of your favorite fic in the whole wide world?

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “you can only write about [sensitive subject] if [sensitive subject] has happened to you personally, otherwise you’re a disgusting monster that deserves to die!!” Or maybe “you can only write [x racial or ethnic group] characters if you’re [x racial or ethnic group] otherwise you’re racist/fetishizing/colonizing!”

You can play this game with any sensitive subject you can come up with. I’ve seen them all before, on a sliding scale of slightly chastising to literal death threats.

Now, I could tell you that I’m a white-passing Latina whose grandmother was an anchor baby. I could tell you that I speak only English because my family never taught me to speak Spanish, something which I’ve been told is common in the Cuban community, though I only know my own lived experience. I could tell you that I’m mostly neurotypical. I could tell you that I’m covered in surgical scars. I could tell you lots of things.

Are any of these true? Maybe! I could tell you that my brother has severe mental development problems, so uncommon that they’ve never been properly diagnosed, and that he will live the rest of his life in a group home with 24-hour care. Is that true? Am I allowed to write about families struggling with America’s piss-poor services for the handicapped now?

Am I allowed to write about being Cuban? After all, I did just say that I’m Cuban. But is it true? Can I instead write a character that’s Panamanian? Maybe I really am Panamanian, not Cuban. Maybe I’m both. Maybe I’m neither. Maybe I’m really French Canadian. Should we require people to post regular selfies? I can’t count the number of times I’ve had someone come up to me speaking Arabic, and I’ve been told that I look Syrian. What’s stopping me from making a blog that claims that I am Syrian? Can you even really tell someone’s race and ethnicity from a photo?

Am I allowed to write about being a teenager? Am I allowed to write about being a college student? Am I allowed to write about being an “adulty” adult? Can I write a character who’s 40? 50? 60? How old am I?

All of this is to say: you can’t base what someone is or is not “allowed” to write about on a background that may or may not be real. No matter how good your intentions. And I get it - this usually comes from a place of well-meaning. You’re trying to protect marginalized groups by stopping privileged people from trampling all over experiences that they haven’t suffered. I get that. It’s a very noble thought. But you can’t require a background check for every fic that you don’t like.

If you say “you can only write about rape if you’re a rape victim,” then one of three things will happen:

Real survivors will have to supply intimate details of their own violations to prevent harassment

Real survivors will refuse to engage and will then have to deal with death threats and people telling them to kill themselves for daring to write about their own experiences

People who aren’t survivors will say “yeah sure this happened to me” just to get people to shut up

Has that helped anyone? I mean really - anyone??

So now let’s get to point #2: is your baby in the bathwater?

If your intention is to protect marginalized people from being trampled upon, stop and assess if your boot is the one that’s now stamping on their face. Find your baby! Is your baby in the bathwater? Which is to say: find the goal that you’re advocating for. Now assess. Are you making the problem worse for the people you’re trying to protect? Does that rape victim really feel better, now that you’ve harassed and stalked them in the name of making rape victims feel safe?

Let’s say you read a fic that contains explicit sex between a 16 year old and a 17 year old. Is this okay? Would it be okay if the writer was 15? 16? 17? Should teenagers be barred from writing about their own lives, and should teenagers be banned from exploring sexuality in a fictional bubble, instead of hookup culture? Is it okay for a 20 year old to write about their experiences as a teenager? Is it okay for a 20 year old to write about being raped at a party as a teenager? Is it okay for a 30 year old? How about a 40 year old? Is it okay so long as it isn’t titillating? Is it okay if taking control of the narrative allows the writer to re-conceptualize their trauma as something they have control over? Is it okay if their therapist told them that writing is a safe creative outlet?

Is your author dead?

Is your baby in the bathwater?

Now let’s take a hardline approach: no fanfiction with characters who are under 18 years old. None. Is the 16 year old who really loves Harry Potter and wants to read/write about characters their own age better off? Should they be banned from writing? Should they be forced to exclusively read and write (adult) experiences that they haven’t lived? Will they write about teens anyway? Should they have to share it in secret? Should 16 year olds be ashamed of themselves? Should we just throw in with the evangelicals and say that the only answer is abstinence, both real and fictional?

Let’s say that no rape is allowed in fiction, at all. None. What happens to all the hurt/comfort fics where a character is raped and then receives the support and love that they deserve, slowly heal, and by the end have found themselves again? Are you helping rape victims by banning these stories? Are you helping rape victims by stripping their agency away, by telling them that their wants and their consent doesn’t matter?

Is your baby in the bathwater?

Fandom is currently being split in two: on one side, the people who want to make fandom a “safer” place by any means necessary, even if that means throwing out all of the marginalized groups they say they want to protect - and on the other, people who are saying “if you throw out that bathwater, you’re throwing the baby out too.”

The whole point of fandom is to be able to explore all kinds of ideas from the safety and comfort of a computer screen. You can read/write things that fascinate you, disgust you, titillate you, or make your heart feel warm. This is true of all fiction. People who want to read about rape and incest and extreme violence and torture can go pick up a copy of Game of Thrones from the bookstore whenever they want. Sanitizing fandom just means holding a community of people who are primarily not male, not straight, not cis, or some combination of those three, to higher and stricter standards than straight white cis male authors and creators all over the world.

There is nothing you can find on AO3 that you can’t find in a bookstore. Any teenager can go check out Lolita, or ASOIAF, or Flowers in the Attic, or Stephen King’s It, or Speak, or hundreds of other books that have adult themes or gratuitous violence or graphic sex. The difference is that AO3 has warnings and tags and allows people to interact only with the types of work that they want to, and allows people to curate their experiences.

Are these themes eligible to be explored, but only in the setting of something produced/published? Books, movies, television, studio art, music - all of these fields have huge barriers to entry, and they’re largely controlled by wealthy cishet white men. Is it better to say that only those who have the right connections to “make it” in these industries should be allowed to explore violence or sexuality or any other so-called “adult” theme?

Does banning women from writing MLM erotica make fan culture a better place?

Does banning queer people from writing about queer experiences make fan culture a better place?

Is M/M fic okay, but only if the author is male? What if he’s a trans man? What if they’re NB? Who should get to draw those lines? Should TERFs get a vote? What if the author is a woman who feels more comfortable writing from a male character’s perspective because she’s grown up with male stories her whole life, or because she identifies more with male characters? What about all the trans men who discovered themselves, in part, by writing fanfiction, and realized that their desires to write male characters stemmed from something they hadn’t yet realized about themselves?

How can we ever be sure that the author is who they say they are?

Who is allowed to write these stories? How do we enforce it?

Is it better for none of these stories to ever exist at all?

Have you killed your author?

Have you thrown out your baby with the bathwater?

I love how much this photo has propagated. Glad to have helped get it out to so many people. These images being shared over and over is a big part of why I’m proud to be a part of TrekCore.

Last season. Last episode. I rest my case.

Could be I’m reading way too much into this. I blame it on the fact that my personal chemistry is gay.

did… did she really say that? iconic

“Excuse You, i am Black and i Fuck”

lol also considering how laughable their performance was, they were pretty smooth tricking the officer with the bit about his wife right before the pinch. that must have been a solid 14. 

Star Trek TOS is literally just a dnd party doing a bunch of one shots instead of a campaign.

" You see a bunch of clothes hanging out on a fire escape that would help you blend in."

"I try to steal them!"

"Okay, make a stealth check."

"umm....does a 7 make it?"

"You climb up the fire escape, grab the clothes, come back down and run straight into a man in a uniform. He looks at you both suspiciously."

"Shit! The police! I uh, tell him Spock's chinese."

"But what about my ears?"

"Right, um.. it was a mechanical....rice picking accident?"

"Roll deception."

"....4..."

"OKAY! after fumbling through your explenation, the officer puts you both under arrest."

"you know what screw it, I nerve pinch him."

"....in full view of like 14 bystanders."

"yup. Jim, grab the clothes and run like hell."

YES. And it extends beyond feeling attached to them because of their contribution to arts or to a show I have A LOT of feelings for. For a long time I avoided reading and watching anything about the real lives of the actors of TOS because in my mind they could forever be a family, a tight-knit group onto which I could project all kinds of fuzzy shit. And I knew the reality of tv and hollywood is very non-fuzzy. But I eventually succumbed, when there was nothing else TOS-related to consume. So I learned about the sourness, the feuds etc (which I summarily stored away in a compartment that I just don’t think about). But I also found out what amazing people Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley must have been. When a large part of your life is lived under the public eye, you cannot fake the honesty, decency and compassion these two have demonstrated over and over again. Of course, they had bad traits and must have been difficult to be around at times but that’s humans for you.

I genuinely think about them every day and try to incorporate the things I love about them in my day-to-day life and avoid the shitty ones (I decided to quit smoking in large part thanks to Leonard Nimoy). And I genuinely grieve and miss them. When someone you’ve never even met can affect you so, it’s only logical, right?

Does anyone ever really miss and grieve anyone they've never met, never even lived in the same generation as?

Cuz I'm really missing DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy like they just died.

For Leonard Nimoy. We miss you.

Well he doesn’t do it oft- oh wait.

The full version of this

EXACTLY.

Also, is it a “simple feeling” when during the blood-fever, when you’re supposed to be unable to think or speak, the fear of harming your captain/friend/t’hy’la is so strong that you manage to break the spell of whatever ancient drive guides you and literally BEG the most respectable and powerful of Vulcans to spare his life, not only revealing a bunch of emotion but essentially negating all that your people stand for?

Fellas, is it gay to admit during your weakest moment, with shaking voice, that when you feel friendship for you captain, it makes you ashamed, because your not supposed to feel anything, but with him its different, you slip into logical fallacies, like when you said killing a creature which is the last of it’s species would be a crime against science, yet when that same creature threatens his well being you beg him to kill it immediately, because he can’t take the chance, not your captain getting hurt, the man you jump in the line of fire for and blame it on your clumsiness, and when your driven by forces you cannot control to return home and take a wife, a Vulcan who you don’t love, you cannot love, your captain is there, and he takes all your pain, your anguish, your fever, all the things she never could, he sacrifices himself for you, his life in the place of yours, and you swear you’ve killed him, your friend, your captain, is dead and someone of great importance tells you to live long and prosper, you reply simply that you shall do neither, because he isn’t there, and how can you go on living with yourself when you’ve destroyed the one thing that kept you alive, and you’ve almost given up and suddenly it’s him, next to you, like he always has been, you captain, your “Jim” you say and grab him, pull him towards you, smile and beam like you’ve never done before because suddenly its gone, the pain, the guilt, the anguish, the fever, and everything you carried around before too, its gone and suddenly your filled with something else, something that years later, when your lying in bed holding this same mans hand and looking deep into his eyes, you’d describe as “this simple feeling”

… idk 🤔

he doesn’t need to try tho

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