i think banishment is the funniest possible spell you can cast on someone. like i'm not even going to fight you. YOU'RE going to leave. you have no choice.

i hate high-budget star trek you have no business with that. put a unicorn hat on a cocker spaniel. wear felt

What if Scotty is not actually Scottish, though? 

Like, what if his name just happens to be Montgomery Scott, so all of his friends started calling him “Scotty,” and then every time he was introduced to a new person, they would be like “Oh, are you Scottish? My uncle was Scottish!”

And finally, he just gets sick of explaining the situation, so he starts replying with “aye, laddie!” But then it turns out that the person he said that to was Captain Kirk, and he doesn’t want to admit that he lied to his new commanding officer, so he has to keep speaking in a ridiculously over-the-top brogue and commenting constantly on how much he loves drinking Scotch, and by the time that he realises that Kirk would have found humour in the situation, he’s in too deep and can’t stop pretending, and it gradually just becomes his normal speech pattern.

Then, years later, the Enterprise is being inspected by a Starfleet engineer who’s actually Scottish, and Scotty takes him on a walking tour of his warp engines and is all like “Auch! Here be me wee bairns!” and the other engineer is just like “what the fuck is wrong with you?”

I take the fact that James Doohan is Canadian as evidence of this theory.

wwdits characters as random posts i have saved

Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases

Can't believe the Borg queen had Seven of Nine's assimilated dad standing in the shadows, waiting to bring him out mid conversation with Seven.

Daytime talk show host behaviour.

Did she assimilate every episode of Maury in the Federation database or something?

"Today on Unimatrix 01, my drone was separated from the collective, and she refuses to listen to me"

I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS

I’ve said all this before but I still love this pop culture liminal space star trek occupies where like.. It’s iconic. It’s massively influential. It’s genre defining. It holds historical significance. Everybody knows about star trek. But it also takes a certain type of nerdass to actually actively participate in Liking Star Trek

I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than like…canon can. If you’re in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you can’t make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.

And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldn’t expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirk’s old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, I’m not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirk’s backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirk’s character that he’s a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question “why did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?” With “‘cause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.” A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is “because he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasn’t taken.” BUT—and this is significant—even the TOS canon movies can’t really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead it’s fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk I’ve only read 2 trek books, if there’s one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say “I’ve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but it’s not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.” And that’s interesting! That’s meaningful! That can’t happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and that’s a strength of fic, I think.

Instead of making up shitty racist headcanons about Miles shoplifting join me in headcanoning him picking up ballet because he thought Gwen being a ballerina was super neat and it would help him in his spiderman job

It's pretty wild how I like pretty much only see trans women point out that boyhood or amab childhood or whatever you wanna call it is like a deeply traumatizing ordeal where everyone around you just sexually assaults you all the time. Like it wasn't until I started talking to trans women/transitioned myself until I started looking back on things like "oh maybe it's like actually super fucked up that boys started calling me a faggot in 3rd grade. Oh maybe all the sacktaps and titty twisters weren't just horseplay but rather fairly traumatizing sexual violence to inflict on a kid lol. Oh maybe all the homophobic bullying I experienced counts as 'sexual trauma'" etc etc. Like that recontextualization didn't happen until after realizing I was trans. Wonder what's going on there

AI generated art is bad for everyone

So many people are asking, will ai replace art - that’s the wrong question. It already has. Not like in the sense that all art from now on will now be ai- but look at how many people rushed to download an $8 app.

And now what’s worse is now the tech industry has that data, that in one day lensa ai made over $1 million. So now we know ai art isn’t going anywhere. They have the proof that it’s worth it financially to use ai

What corporation is going to pay 10k for an illustrated ad campaign when they can spend $8 and $20 for someone of Fiverr to edit out that extra third hand.

Ai is bad for union makeup artists in film. Disney has already announced they plan on using AI instead of “expensive” old age makeup.

It’s bad for everyone & what they will come to expect in both immediacy & cost of creating art.

It’s bad for any artist who has their artwork on social media in any way. Who now have to worry about their art being sampled without their consent or compensation.

This has absolutely changed the art industry.

Just ate an entire pear that was so good and so juicy i started gnawing on it with both hands like an animal and the face my supervisor made when he passed by my desk while I was absolutely consumed by my pear fueled bacchanal was Something i have never seen someone look so tired and also so upset and also also so envious

WHY WEREN’T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE