i never saw ds9 so i've been gradually going through it over the past months and wow it is good, a star trek with ongoing stakes where the federation kind of sucks sometimes, what the hell
i'm like halfway through season 6. worf and dax are pretty cute! i sure hope nothing happens to them! either of them! especially dax!!
can anyone have a stable relationship that isn't fucked up though. i feel like the most stable thing in this whole series was bashir and leeta doing their breakup party
also it took them a long ass time to work worf in — come on they literally moved him off the station — and now that they've finally done so in season second-to-last, i feel like we've forgotten entirely about odo right after a bunch of odo cliffhangers
weird how sisko is the only guy in the federation who can get a goddamn thing done and then they still fuck with him. how are you not letting him do literally whatever he wants by now
also maybe build like, a second defiant, rather than going up against enemy fleets with your galaxy-class condos full of 1000 children. what is starfleet even doing
it's not even that big you could probably just replicate the whole fucker in one go
also i would like to be very clear that voyager is still extremely good, just differently good. voyager is like if you made an entire series out of just doctor who christmas episodes
S6E20: finally we are back to odo but with the goddamn weirdest frame story imaginable. how dare you do this episode without barclay. who do you think you are
i can't even imagine where this is going but it can't be good. they dug themselves a hole by having a main character be from a race of greedy space misogynists and after six seasons they have decided that the only way out is to keep digging
no. no. this cannot lead into "quark is found out". it's so obvious but it's the worst possible outcome. this is crushing
shoutout to girlquark for giving business advice about making women feel self-conscious about their appearance
ok thanks for confirming that it was in fact, completely unnecessarily, an entire god damned sex change. thank you ds9. and thank you for brunt pointing and yelling about how he's a man. was this episode written by a neural network trained on reddit comments
i need to lie down
only good part of this episode is that HRT makes quark a better person
wish i could get tits that easily, jesus christ
three episodes ago: captain i would like to use the bajorans' actual literal magic time machine to go back and dunk on my mom
now: someone accidentally fell into a time portal. there is nothing we can do about this
i can't even focus on this episode, i'm still thinking about how quark is adamantly about equal rights but somehow ended up being the one making novel arguments for them in real time, and this isn't even commented on. the ep is paper-thin yet even the core idea is incoherent
what is going on in this time travel episode. the o'briens are not broken up at all about any of this, the entire station is helpless against a flailing feral teenager, the B plot is inappropriate yet has more emotion, and everyone is giving up on the situation after 24 hours
Sisko: We would like to send her to a place that is the best possible chance to help her
Miles: Absolutely not. As her father, I know best. I will leave her to die in a fucking forest in the past. I wish there were some other way
he literally said "i wish there were some other way" im going to scream
this is stupid. this is so stupid. what is wrong with these people. who wrote this. what the absolute hell
We found this child raised by wolves, but after a day and a half of trying to acclimate him to society, he's still traumatized. So we gave him back to the wolves. It's the only way
TAKE THAT KID AWAY FROM THEM
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i literally just saw "pride isn't about sex" and i feel like i'm in an AU. people like me were still being called "sodomites" pretty regularly and publicly while i was growing up and that wasn't that long ago, what the fuck is happening here
look i just think pride should be for the LGBTQs. Lesbians, General motors, Bank of america, Teenagers, and Qalmart
we had to have a fucking supreme court case saying you can't actually put people in Literal Goddamned Jail for having gay sex. that's in living memory of every adult in the fucking country because if it were a person, it wouldn't be old enough to vote yet!!
i cannot verify this, but i've been told that the push to shorten "polyamorous" to "polyam" rather than "poly" (so polynesian people can use the latter) traces back to a single tumblr post essentially arguing that having a single word mean two things would be bad SEO
folks i have bad news about what comes up when you just google "poly" on its own
i, the genius, am attempting to look into this /after/ tweeting about it, and i guess this was the original post? i tracked it down on wayback machine and it's not a snippet, that one paragraph was the entire post (via aidamanduley.com/2015/09/01/sto…)
one of the big unspoken issues underlying "kink at pride" discourse seems to be that a lot of people assume "kink" is an objective category, and anyone engaging in a "kink" is therefore horny at all times and basically fucking right in front of you
but this is incredibly weird to me because i immediately think of MOST OF WESTERN MEDIA and how it's built around male gaze and the women have to be sufficiently attractive to straight men and then we dress them in as little as possible
and i am not really clear on how this is different from "kink"?
media depiction of women is quite clearly meant to be sexually appealing to cishet men. that doesn't mean every dude pops an immediate boner upon witnessing catwoman
really hate media that pulls out "you're here for a reason" or whatever, when narratively that is literally untrue. even moreso hate that it always works. feels like just a deeply manipulative way to say "i want you to do this, therefore do it"
see also "you can't escape your destiny" where "destiny" is something the speaker is entirely pulling out of their ass because it sounds good to them
no one ever pushes back against these, either, and it is deeply unsettling
Big Bad: You were fated to come here, just as you are fated to die by my hand
me: i wasn't fated to do jack and you don't know dick about fuck. go fuck yourself with this weak garbage, you're not convincing me you're some prophet by foretelling things i've already fucking done
kind of devastated by the genres of replies here
- "bitcoin, it's an investment for my children"
- "bitcoin because it only goes up"
- "cash because i need groceries"
this paints a stark picture of speculators taking advantage of people who are borderline desperate and not otherwise familiar with investing ("if graph goes up and to the right, it always will")
long suspected this of course but you don't overtly see it deep in bitcoin twitter
not dunking on anyone here btw, since "if graph goes up and to the right, it always will" is also a deeply-held belief of VCs and other incredibly rich people involved in finance who are inexplicably terrible at math