fractal-baby:

God I love how in Court Martial Jim sees Areel and he’s like “Babe! How have you been? Man why did we break up? Emotionally unavailable? I don’t know what that means, lol. Anyway what are you doing tonight” and she’s just like “Jim you are going to go to jail”

trillgendermetaphor:

prokopetz:

The funniest thing about Star Trek: The Original Series is William Shatner being completely unaware of how bisexual his portrayal of Kirk was coming across – especially when you look up interviews with the rest of the cast and it becomes clear that Shatner was literally the only person on set who didn’t pick up on it.

The second funniest thing about Star Trek: The Original Series is how angry Shatner gets when people bring this up.

My favorite thing to learn was that Shatner does not watch his own acting. He has not seen TOS.

cheer-deforest-kelley:

I love Spock giving a comforting pat to Dr. McCoy’s back, as he runs past him while evading artillery fire during the episode “Arena”.

Or maybe he needed to balance himself as he got up. I prefer the first scenario.

This episode also has Bones and Spock slyly touching hands on the bridge when they first see the Gorn on the planet.

xtraterrestrials:

star trek is great bc sometimes it’s like “this alien culture is a transparent but hopeful allegory for race relations in the united states” and sometimes it’s like “wouldn’t it be fucked up if an alien sucked all the salt out of you“ and sometimes it’s like “this story is a nuanced examination of traditional gender roles through the lens of a far flung future society” and sometimes it’s like “these aliens based their entire social structure on an old book about 1930s mobsters”

mikkeneko:

if there’s one self-care skill I really wish fans would develop – especially fans of continuing media, where you get into a thing before it’s finished – it’s the ability to say “this is no longer the story I wanted it to be” and walk away

(and I am not exempting myself from this! there are definitely periods in my past media engagement which would have been less negative for my mental health if I’d been able to do this, rather than banging my head in increasing frustration as the story veered further and further away from what I had always thought its arc was supposed to be.)

you gotta marie kondo this shit. if the story no longer sparks joy for you, then let it go. and you can grieve for that! that loss of potential, that happiness you might once have had with it. you can be frustrated and sad and bitch about it in your group chat. but you have to let it go.

because the alternative is trying to force the creator to change course to comply with your  vision and historically? the success rate of that is very, very low, and far more statistically likely to result in the destruction of the thing entirely. which might sound tempting and satisfying in those moments of frustration but in the end, honestly, is not going to make you any happier. (and is definitely  going to make other people  unhappier.)

what will make you happier is finding some other story that is more like what you wanted. because it’s a vast vast world out there, and people are creating stories and media faster than ever. yes, even queer media, yes, even PoC driven/led media. no one person will ever be able to consume them all. find something out there that brings you joy, that is the story you wanted. and the rest? let go.