The Biggest Problem With Tos Episodic Format Is That The Episode Usually Ends Pretty Quickly After The

the biggest problem with tos’ episodic format is that the episode usually ends pretty quickly after the conflict resolves and then they never really talk about it again - no matter how intense or harrowing it was

which means that we don’t get to actually *see* the interpersonal fallout of bones being diagnosed with and cured from a previously-incurable terminal illness (that he didn’t even want to tell jim and spock he had), and then just four episodes later drugging them so that he can go be tortured (and likely die) instead of spock, and so jim doesn’t have to make the choice between them.

did they talk about it? beyond just a standard debrief and a “never fucking do that again bones i swear to god i mean it this time”? did they make it the captains’ quarters for the debrief, only for mccoy to be pulled into a crushing, trembling hug as soon as the door shut while jim tried to assure himself that bones was still here, was still breathing? spock hovering nearby - a hand gently coming to rest on his shoulder?

why didn’t mccoy want to tell them about the xenopolycythemia, anyways? to try and hold onto a few more normal-ish months before every time they looked at him their eyes would be filled with grief - mourning a man they hadn’t yet lost? the same reason he ran away; to spare them what he went through with his father?

only for him to immediately turn around and throw himself back to the wolves to (almost) die right in front of them anyways

i don’t really know how they handled it. whether they talked about it and attempted to soothe the hurt, or just resolutely tried to bottle it up.

but i do know this: spock eventually came back from gol because jim simply (though accidentally) called out for him in a moment of need. bones only came back because jim personally drafted him back into starfleet

au where bones is a witch, spock is a runaway prince and jim’s like, the chosen one or something (they don’t talk about it)

( prompt fill for @mcspirkevents bingo card prompt “fantasy au” ^_^ )

I am so bad at the sneaking around in the second level too T_T

Its so hard and for like no reason

I have a problem where chants of sennar is an incredible game with an incredible art style with an incredible concept and I love it so much but I am so. So bad at it. But the thing is I'm not bad at the using context clues to translate the language part in fact I think im pretty decent at it its just that the other half of the game involves actual puzzles that do require you to solve them outside of just language translating and I don't think I have solved. A single one I am still in the first area of the game.

I can’t stop thinking about this tiktok so I’m sharing it here to watch whenever I please

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credit to akkakora on tiktok

Telemachus and Neoptolemus (and Argos)

I did go into why I think Pyrrhus is more tragic than I realised. As I said prior I only thought of him as a one dimensional monster. I have always seen him as a mindless brute but last week, I thought about it.

He was born on an island surrounded by women to a father he most likely never met. He grew up revered and was told of his father’s prowesses and how he should live up to them or be ashamed.

He arrived in Troy after his father’s death and once more he was cast in his shadow. But the thing is that he was not sheltered on an island, told he would be just as great. He was on a battlefield amongst people who knew Achilles, loved him, hated him…. it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that he had to be enough and never could be.

Achilles was a beloved baby, a lover, a friend, an enemy. He was a hero, he had a destiny, he was awaited. Neoptolemos was never a person. He was just a shadow of his father, a remnant of the fear Achilles struck in people’s hearts. He was a ghost and monster. So he did what he thought was wanted. He killed and killed. Nothing was too violent, nothing was too cruel. He went too far trying to live up to expectations.

Neoptolemos… the 'new war'. Took up after his father… Arrived towards the end of the war. What good is a ‘new war’ when peace is afoot? He was doomed to be obsolete… unwanted… rejected.

He was first treated like someone’s son and then like a vile beast to be feared. He was treated like a monster and acted like one. A murderer and not a man. And then he died… to the hands of people he didn’t know. He didn’t even consider.

He was born silenced, grew up to be famous and yet unknown and died alone.

No wonder he was the way he was. Treated like an animal, man becomes beast.