i’m haunted by visions of spirk yuri. sorry

“Actually they won’t grow old together cause one character has a longer life sp-“ SHUT UPPPPPKP

star trek yuri 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

I wanna eat them :)

Finally finished my Mari'lyn piece!

Some fem spirk with this old comic by Shel Silverstien from 1965 >:)

SPIRK GAY: a flag for gays who feel connected to spirk, the pairing between spock and captain kirk from star trek

SPIRK LESBIAN: a flag for lesbians who feel connected to spirk, the pairing between spock and captain kirk from star trek

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Watch and learn besties

(tldr: op’s rambling and unhinged thoughts on Amok Time)

“I will do what I must, T'Pau, but not with him. His blood does not burn. He is my friend.”

as much as we all love a good fuck-or-die spin on pon farr, there’s something about the original episode—and this line in particular—that hits a different way (for context, this line is after kirk becomes t’pring’s challenger but before he learns the fight is to the death)

like—what if you loved someone so much you would surface from your madness, if just for a moment, to plead for your friend to be spared? what if you loved someone so much you would beg an exception from traditions passed down from the beginning of time so they wouldn’t be harmed?

while the framing of this episode is the classic “fuck or die,” the main heart of the conflict ends up being more akin to “kill or die” when spock’s condition, originally only dangerous for himself, puts kirk in mortal danger as well and the plot becomes “how do they both get out of this alive and unharmed?”

and there’s something powerful in that sentiment, in fighting to save someone despite all the trappings of biology and tradition, that makes this a romantic moment more so than the other aspects of the episode, because if you look at it objectively, pon farr is awful, with both your consent and bodily autonomy taken away from you (eventually, there’s the third path with kirk’s fake-out-death that resolves the conflict, but the issues of this situation still remain)

so for me, as someone sliding vaguely around the scale but usually somewhere around gray-ace, it’s the depth and strength of caring in this quote that really stuck with me after the episode—it’s love, it’s obviously and undeniably love, but it fights against the trappings of the situation, and that’s something that you don’t often see outside the episode

(don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of fics that chose this theme that are well-written and enjoyable, but there can be this amatonormativite idea that sex and/or romantic connection are the only possible solutions when love exists in infinite forms, none of which are higher of lesser for their nature. for example—the original episode, due to the era in which it was written and the showrunners not intentionally writing spirk as romantic, comes off now as more of an asexual/qpr situation, but in my ideal hypothetical universe with explicit romance between the two, the resolution between the two could still be the same as in the original for reasons stated above)

some pins I made a while back!

fully automated luxury communism in space

Something really silly me and my girlfriend have started doing is the Vulcan hand kiss when we see each other (pressing the tips of our pointer and middle fingers together). She doesn’t quite understand what it means, but she does it regardless. It’s very silly, but I think it’s very sweet.

I hate TikTok for so many reasons but the straight boys complaining about how actual gay people shipping 1% of male friendships in fiction keeps them from showing affection for their bros really does me in like y'all at this point I have too much self respect to get queerbaited so the only ships I'm really into are either canon, could be canon, or supported by the actors and played that way. Anyway what a boring and stupid take. Next

more spirk yuri!!!!!

when she touches my hand so casually and i think

yes

i know how vulcans feel