you know, before i started watching star trek, i thought ppl were just saying it was gay bc they liked the idea of kirk and spock being a couple, but as i've been watching it, i have realized no, they really meant it. "why mr. spock... you almost make me believe in miracles." the city on the edge of tomorrow. "i know your affection for spock." spock being fucking ecstatic that jim is still alive in amok time and even smiling. kirk looking at spock like he holds the whole universe in his eyes when he's talking about the most boring shit. like it's not just kinda gay, it's like spock and kirk were written as an actual loving couple but, y'know, it was the 60s and they couldn't really do that on tv

Having a normal one

woof! what a quiz!

the griever

you mourn your losses. it is as if something has been torn from your soul and you are forever a lost fragment seeking what you have lost. it will take you time to accept some things are better floating through the universe, taken from us with vice and leaving us incomplete. your corners will drift through the ocean and each grain of sand you brush by will sand you down. you will reach the beaches healed, and your sharp corners will become dull and smooth to the touch. your painting is "anguish" by august friedrich schenck.

this has been sitting forgotten in my drafts for ages now (oops lmao) but it was so much fun to do!

i’m always being tagged in tag games so now i think it’s everyone elses turn to participate in my tag game. muahaha…

step 1: take this quiz! https://uquiz.com/dvSjk1

step 2: make yourself in this picrew! https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/482731

step 3: tag anyone you want!

okay i go first :3

this quiz is brutal

and me!!! i made this pose in my head because awkward finger guns are a lifestyle

my tags: @tessellated-sunl1ght @luxembourg-6754 @digibugs @ypipie @hatchetc @ositojpg and @sleepyratking1! anyone else who wants to participate in this feel free to reblog and go through the steps ^_^

imagine being average federation citizen doing a wikipedia dive on Amanda Grayson for like a book report or whatever and you click on “spouse” and it links you to a guy who was thee vulcan ambassador to earth for like 200 years and publicly called the klingon ambassador a murderer once and you think huh neat and click on “children” and the first person listed is described as “career criminal, activist and religious evangelist” with a rap sheet as long as your arm ending with him taking the entire government hostage in nimbus iii and then no death date he's just listed as “missing” and the second kid is a starfleet science hero you've seen on the poster of like 7 different documentaries on space netflix and you notice his year of death is listed as 2285 but “years active” goes on like 20 years past that so you look closer and yep “death” is only the 7th item in a list of like 20 section headers also he's apparently the reason earth isn't completely underwater right now? then you read his sister's article and it's all “starfleet's first mutineer” “blamed for starting the first federation-klingon war” “lauded for ending the first federation-klingon war” but is weirdly vague on what happened to her after that and the article is edit locked and her year of death has like 6 annotations attached to it

“Why would you think necromancy was banned!? Necromancers are our first line of defense against naturally occuring undead.”

This is not a perfect list; gender and orientation can be much more nuanced than we can represent in a tumblr poll. For instance, you can be aromantic and bi, or you can be not really cis but not consider yourself trans. Please choose the answer that is the closest, and you're welcome to clarify in the tags.

Cis means you identify as the gender you were assigned at birth.

Trans is an umbrella term that means you do not identify with your assigned gender, and includes all genders that are not cis man or cis woman. this includes nonbinary, genderfluid, etc.

Mspec stands for multiple-spectrum and is an umbrella term for anyone who likes more than one gender. this includes bi, pan, omni, poly(sexual/romantic, not referring to polygamous or polyamorous), and many others.

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Edit: sensory issues can be counted under "otherwise medically unable to" if you feel that to be appropriate

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

DR ADAM LEVY ClimateAdam ROSEMARY MOSCO

this is actually so helpful. you're absolutely right and this totally snapped me out of the awful overthinking spiral i was in. thank you so much!!!!

i feel so stuck.

i have a creative writing assignment due in a week (rough draft) and the only direction the prof gave was "write a story." which is fine and should be good in theory bc *gestures to the mountain of fanfiction i've written*

HOWEVER

i don't even know where to start. sci-fi? fantasy? contemporary? some pretentious bullshit that isn't any fun to write but is quote-unquote serious???

i don't know. it's four days into the semester and i'm so stressed already.

stuff that feels rewarding as a fanfic author:

when your work inspires fanart/comics

when people point out a scene/particular line(s) that tugged at their heartstrings

when people ask for your meta of your work that they enjoyed so much

when someone comments on a fic you wrote 982783113502 years ago

getting recc’d

just the small happiness in knowing you made someone out there smile on their way to work/home or at school, in knowing you warmed someone’s heart somehow

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

i feel so stuck.

i have a creative writing assignment due in a week (rough draft) and the only direction the prof gave was "write a story." which is fine and should be good in theory bc *gestures to the mountain of fanfiction i've written*

HOWEVER

i don't even know where to start. sci-fi? fantasy? contemporary? some pretentious bullshit that isn't any fun to write but is quote-unquote serious???

i don't know. it's four days into the semester and i'm so stressed already.

I’m going to get pissed

Wanna purchase some beadwork? Live in Canada but have conflicting feelings about it's history and want to support the Indigenous people that live here? Do you just feel fed up with Canada Day nonsense?

Here are some beadwork artists in MY neighborhood that you should check out!

C'eldzïn Beadwork! I've bought her work before (the bisexual earrings) and she was kind enough to change said earrings to clip-ons for me! Her work is gorgeous and I highly recommend it!

Small Town Earrings!! They have very cute beadwork pieces, including some Pokemon and LOZ themed ones!!! I highly recommend their work as well!

Strong Blood Creations!! They're a trio of Indigenous women that create and distribute beadwork; I bought a hair clip from them recently that was absolutely gorgeous!!

Carmen Redunante! She's a Nisga'a/Chilean artist who sells absolutely gorgeous beadwork as well as other jewelry, prints, and and tapestry!!

More artists may be added later!!

This post was brought to you by: an almost exact same thread I did on twitter that I posted right as the entire site imploded so I decided to share the artists here so that they'd actually get traction! Twitter sucks

Data is rep for the one million hobbies type neurodivergent people. You just know he has like a closet full of craft supplies in his quarters. Maybe more than one. Like he's really organized but you know he has so many Things. In canon it's like yeah he's into painting and music and poetry Eye don't think he's stopping there. This is the type of guy who would be like I should get into pottery and fiber arts and woodworking