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hrshl-soong-laforge · 21 days
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SPOCKANALIA VOLUME 1 IS NOW ON AO3!
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do you like vintage fanzines, but hate reading tiny font? do you love spock, but hate the headache you get from squinting at textured paper and imperfect scans? are you someone who wants to read SPOCKANALIA but has trouble getting your screenreader to cooperate with 60-year-old PDFS? have we ever got news for you. @maulthots and i have been very, very, VERY hard at work digitizing SPOCKANALIA, a SFW star trek fanzine about spock first published in 1967, and now you, YES YOU, can read it on AO3!
updated features of SPOCKANALIA on AO3 include:
text has been meticulously retyped and can now be read at whatever size you have your browser settings on, which means the line width also changes based on the width of your browser window or device screen
images are dynamic to fit on your screen whether you are on a pc or a mobile device so you don't have to scroll until your hand breaks and still only see mr. spock's eyelashes (you have to turn work skins on for this feature)
backgrounds/paper texture/echoes of ghost text removed (by hand!) from images for easier viewing, and in some cases the images have been rotated to correct tilted/sideways scanning
images come with ALT TEXT for those using screen readers!
here are a few before/after shots for your perusal:
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so what are you waiting for?! get your inner 60s fangirl (gender neutral) on and read SPOCKANALIA today!!
and if you think this is COOL AS SHIT (i do), please consider giving this post a reblog or leaving us some love on AO3! we have only your good vibes to fuel us as we contemplate volume 2 💪
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 27 days
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this simple booping.... is beyond v'gers comprehension
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 27 days
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Real footage of me booping the citizens of Trektown (my followers)
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 27 days
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BOOP!
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ah whoops...
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 1 month
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Absolutely in tears
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 1 month
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very funny that the solution to shatner and nimoys feuding and ego problems behind the scenes was send them to the yaoi mines until they worked it out and this was suggested by acclaimed science fiction writer isaac asimov they will stop fighting over lines and spotlight if you always place the characters together and make their relationship central to the show one cannot think of spock without kirk and kirk without spock and next domino falls slash fiction is invented..
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 2 months
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Has anybody ever thought about the absolute heartache associated with Spock canonically not remembering a lot of his life prior to his death as per the conversation in The Voyage Home "Not lie, just... exaggerate. You've done it before, can't you remember?" "The hell I can't".
The moment is played for laughs, but Spock genuinely cannot remember. He can sense a familiarity with his crew - Kirk and McCoy in particular - and by the end of The Voyage Home has rediscovered a new friendship and familiarity with them.
But all the memories they made beforehand? They're just not there.
How many times did Kirk or McCoy start reminiscing about something that happened during their five year mission, only to be met with a blank, but polite, stare from Spock. When McCoy almost dies of cold on Rura Penthe, does he recall Sarpeidon (All Our Yesterdays), and how gently Spock cared for him then. Even in the midst of everything he was going through, did he wonder if Spock even remembered that shared experience? When Kirk finally tells Spock that he had to sacrifice his own son to get him back, does he think back at how Spock had tried to comfort him when he lost his brother and sister-in-law. Did he realize that every time he's suffered a loss (with the exception of the loss of Spock himself), Spock has been at his side to provide comfort. Did he wonder if Spock even remembers that, or if he even realizes that to Kirk recovery from grief requires his calming presence?
How many times over the rest of the years spent together did they still feel a sense of grief over what they lost, made all the more potent by the ever-present bittersweet reminder in their lives in the form of the newborn Spock. The same comforting, logical, frustrating, loyal, impossible, dependable presence... just with fifteen years of camaraderie lost.
Yes, they have Spock back. And they will take whatever version of Spock the universe has blessed them with without complaint. Even if Spock had walked away after the Fal-tor-pan and never remembered them they would have counted themselves blessed by the knowledge that even if he doesn't know them... at least he's alive. And they got so much more than that. But for the rest of their lives, they are fighting a deep sense of grief at the time that was lost, the memories that were lost, the shared experiences that are now only shared between two... not three.
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 2 months
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Since this discourse is happening again, and people are trying to argue that "it just makes sense" to draw Vulcans as green, I'm inviting y'all to give half a second's glance at these bitches and see that NONE OF THEM ARE GREEN. Drawing characters from a culture that is heavily Jewish coded, especially Spock, who is canonically Jewish, with green skin is antisemitic and real fucked up. Stop it
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 2 months
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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 2 months
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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new star trek endeavors NEED to stop trying to make spock be there. those guys will NEVER be leonard nimoy.
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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inspired by @deadpanwalking from a previous columbo in space:
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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“Back in the day my father knew a space ship captain, real good with the ladies. He used to say, “that Captain Kirk, he was as smooth as a Klingon forehead.” Well, I always thought that was odd, ya know?”
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows
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hrshl-soong-laforge · 3 months
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