just another ten million dollar bump in the police budget, please one more funding increase so we can create a real life counter-strike map based on the over-policed majority black neighborhoods we do no-knock raids in every week, just one final municipal service defunding, we just need to shut down the libraries earlier and fire half of our public school teachers, please the police need one final additional million dollar cash injection and they'll finally stop racially profiling minorities, i swear, one final billion dollar statewide cut to road maintenance and the police will stop throwing flashbangs into the cribs of sleeping infants

That first look Garak gives Tolar after "So, you are happy?" is very funny to me.

Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

im so glad b5 is kinda gay. all the best shows in the world are 20+ years old science fiction and a little gay. phew.

a career to consider: higher powers’ mouthpiece 

Ambassadors

…because I was feeling in a Babylon 5 kind of mood.

dreamt I sat in on a tumblr product roadmap meeting and they gave a powerpoint presentation that was like "we know how we're gonna fix this: we're gonna make espeon competitively viable again"

- What did he do THIS time?..

@startreksecretsanta gift for the lovely @doodlingleluke! Hope your holiday season’s going great!! All the best in the new year!!

the phenomenology enjoyer has logged off

"It's just a TV show" maybe to you. I absorbed it into my soul though.

1.3 | Born to the Purple

[Gifset ID: A parallel gifset showing two scenes that mirror one another between Londo and Vir, versus G'Kar and Ko D'Ath.

In the first, Londo walks with Vir, guiding him out of his quarters. He tells Vir, "Why don't you represent our republic in the talks today?"

Vir panics, stating, "I actually don't think that it's a wise idea for me to-" but he is cut off by Londo, who says "Nonsense! I have every confidence in you."

Vir leaves, but is stopped by Londo. "And Vir!" he shouts, to which Vir replies, "Yes sir?"

"Don't give away the homeworld!" Londo tells him.

Vir goes, "N-no, of course not!" as he leaves, nervous.

In the second column, the gifs show G'Kar at a meeting saying "In the meantime, Ko D'Ath will represent the Narn Regime."

Ko D'Ath proudly looks up to him, saying "Thank you, Ambassador! I shall endeavor to represent our people to the best of my ability!"

G'Kar leans down to where she is sitting, telling her "Just don't give away the homeworld." Her pride falls as she frowns. End ID.]

One aspect of the story of Dune that the movies don't make super clear is that, before Paul, the Fremen already had a central leader figure in Liet Kynes. In the book, Kynes has a generations-long plan to gather enough water to transform the environment of Dune (this is why the Fremen have those big pools, they never get super clear about that), then retake the planet for the Fremen and create paradise. Paul showing up and then leaning into the whole Lisan al-Gaib bit pretty much directly gets Kynes killed, creating a power vacuum into which he assumes himself with the aid of his previously-unheard-of levels of white privilege. While Kynes was an ecologist, however, Paul comes from a family of colonial military aristocrats. All Paul can offer the Fremen is all he understands: revenge. Bloody revenge for everything they've endured in centuries of oppression by the Imperium, temporarily in line with the revenge he craves for the Imperium's attempts to control him and his family, and spiritually in line with the resentment built up all across this socially stagnant feudal space empire.

how i feel when someone reblogs my stuff with a really really nice tag