Dafo1701 - SpaceOnTheOutskirtsOfTime

who’s got that one gif of Captain Kirk doing this I Need it

the dichotomy between the "immigrant" (someone from the global south who moves to the north) and the "expat" (someone from the global north who moves to the south) makes me feel fucking crazy. a white person who moves to asia is an expat but an asian who moves to the west is an immigrant. & how those terms are politicized and assigned class statuses, like the word "immigrant" tends to imply a blue collar worker (even if that isn't the case) while "expat" implies a white collar worker. the associations with "expat neighbourhoods" in asian countries is very very different from those of "immigrant neighbourhoods" in western nations. also how "immigrants" who dont assimilate are seen as "failing" and bad, lower class, a burden on society, etc. whereas "expats" not assimilating into local culture is expected and viewed as a sign of their higher status. the double standards are so insane

misread a post. thought it said "we'd need each other in every universe"

isn't it haunting?

"we'd need each other in every universe." yeah, we don't meet each other in all of them. in that one you died in infancy, and i lived to feel a presence at my shoulder, a flickering in the corner of my eye, always looking for someone who'd never come. in that other one i was a piano repairman and your instrument kept inexplicably going out of tune, but my name never jumped out at you from the yellow pages.

there's a world with the two of us against it.

there's one where you brought reinforcements too late and the enemy overwhelmed me and my brothers in arms.

there's another where you left a letter at the finish line and i lived to receive it but not to come back home.

one of us drowned and the other knew how to swim. one of me passed the salt to one of you, and that was the extent of the need.