do you wonder if joey ever looks in the mirror & thinks about how much he looks like his dad? like maybe as a child, he steals old army pictures of slade from the family photo albums adeline put in storage cuz that’s all he has of him. and then the day comes when he sees someone familiar yet so far away in his own reflection. later on, knowing all the awful things that slade’s done, the question of if he’ll start to look even more like him as he grows older is an inescapable weight
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It is me, the gear nerd!
I have better ref pics of the TBAS T5, “unfolded”.
HELLO MR GEAR NERD!!! ITS NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!
Firstly, thank you for sending these! I can literally feel myself go crazy trying to look for good reference pics sometimes of these damn plate carriers 😂😂
Secondly, (kinda a ramble):
When I was doing my research, (i.e: staring at loads of pics of commandos) I saw that they often can have two different types side straps? Not sure of the terminology, please bear with me HAHHAHA
In recent pics, I’ve seen the single strap a lot more than the three 👀 not sure if there’s a particular reason for this but if you have an answer, I’d definitely love to hear!! Not much of a gear nerd myself but hopefully I’ll get there soon 😂🐻❤️
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The saddest moments of Star Trek TOS belonged to "throwaway" characters
They all deserved better.
1. Lieutenant Riley - Conscience of the King
Faced with the chance to kill the man who once ordered the executions of thousands (including his family) in the wake of a famine, Riley's chance is stripped from him and he is ordered to stand down.
This is also a devastating moment for the captain himself as the only other remaining survivor of the colony. Kirk stops Riley's drastic actions, which, although damning, were perhaps his only chance of overcoming the guilt of having once been selected to live while others were sent to death.
Both enter a confrontation regarding their shared past, but neither heal.
2. Janice Rand - The Enemy Within
Although it was an "evil extension" of Kirk who perpetrated the assault on Janice Rand in her own room, at this point she only had reason to believe that the assailant was Kirk himself.
Rand is forced to testify with Kirk (the man she thought she loved, a captain with both power and position over her, an officer flanked by his two closest allies, and a man whose proximity in the same ship could endanger her after the testimony) standing over her. Rand even admits to "not wanting to get him into trouble", highlighting how closely her struggle mirrors the victims of everyday workplace violence against women.
What may even be worse are the blatant intimidation tactics Kirk employs throughout the scene. Although he knows he didn't do it (and perhaps suspects foul play), Kirk makes no attempt to empathize with the testimonies of Rand and Fisher regarding what they saw, and he even hints at the danger of them conspiring against a man of his rank.
Rand endured constant objectification in each of her appearances in the series, and would go on to be entirely forgotten after its first season. (Though she would return in The Motion Picture.)
3. Lieutenant "Joey" - The Naked Time
Joey delivered perhaps the most poignant monologue of the series, just moments before his impending death. Though Joey's inhibitions were altered by the infection that would soon kill him, we see later in the episode that the infection forces people express existing wants and needs. Therefore, real are his pleas begging to understand why humanity should be in space at all when it has merely taken and taken... leaving only destruction in its wake and its own to die.
Not only did he bare his own insecurities, Joey also established a central conflict of the entire series: can a utopian vision of the future include acts like leaving six people to waste away on an empty planet?
Tragically, Joey couldn't bear the burden of this conflict alone (no one else had or would mention this guilt at any point in the series) and though his death was prompted by the infection, it only acted as a catalyst for what was truly a su*c*de.
McCoy ruled in the autopsy that Joey might have survived, but he simply gave up fighting.
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You're Joey? What happened to you?
P.1
“This voice will care
And care for many
A useful tool
That isn’t heavy
And til’ this voice is dead and gone
Please lend your ear to my sweet song
We thought you wise But here you stand
Fear corroded in your hands
So when this voice
shall Scream to thee
Its on your knees
You’re soon to be”
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maybe you're on drugs. maybe you're an otherwordly being. no one can quite tell. there is a lot of fanfiction on your blog but you don't simp for the characters. organization? no thanks. a distant scream perpetually sounds as someone reads your posts. is it an actual person screaming, or is it just their brain's response to the emotional damage? did i mention you're cool af? you look kind of like jaskier, but not in the way that you have similar appearances. you would challenge lotr characters to a drinking challenge and they would just watch in utter horror as you proceed to destroy them all (except you pass out half a glass before thranduil).
you secretly have never rolled a nat 20 in your life.
this has been a summary of your blog. *bows*
I am both otherworldly and on drugs
JK I’m an unmedicated ADHD newly-appointed adult by the law who ran so far away overseas I can’t afford to go back and now I just gotta kinda roll with it like a bard on the road, ***lute included***
That is oddly true. I do have fanfiction for a lot of characters, and yet don’t simp for any of them (brb that shuffling noise you can hear is me shoving Jaskier back into the closest)
That being said, Jaskier is my favourite dude, and yet I’ve never written about him and probs never will — it’s like writing about that cool older cousin, and I’m not about to cross into that territory for which there is no return
That distant perpetual scream is me btw as I read my own posts in the morning. I’m worried I’ll accidentally become famous and the stans will dig this blog up somehow and cancel me for being a teenage tumblr cringelord
I’m curious how you know I look like Jaskier? 😳 I’ve grown my hair out since then, but hey I’m rocking the bob and still favour puffy sleeves
Fun fact is I’m a light weight. One little pink drink with a fancy umbrella and I’m married to a guy in a rainbow leotard in Central Park (sadly a true story, but without the legally binding paperwork thankfully)
Thranduil would win hands down
I’ve never rolled a Nat 20, I just think I’m accidentally a minor god’s reluctant responsibility who has no choice but to make sure I don’t die whenever I inevitably jump out of a plane
Oh yeah I’m skydiving at 20,000ft this weekend — should probably give the god a heads up
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