Beverly hugging [redacted] and [redacted] has broken me as a person I LOVE SPACE FRIENDSHIP
this is also an amazing way to bring back a past villain I assumed due to logistics we would never see again and to lay all the amazing little breadcrumbs to the Big Cry we all knew was gonna come somehow as soon as we found out where they were going #PicardSpoilers#Picard
oh no I’m gonna cry about starships aren’t I
😭😭😭😭 SEVEN MY BABY
oh my God BOTH the security system they’re trying to evade during this heist AND the manifest they’re heisting are [redacted]??????? I’m gonna fully burst into tears omg
this season is such a love letter to every Trek that came before it
holy shit the way the A plot and the B plot are slowly moving towards the reunion of one of the most iconic pairings in the Trek universe, I’m absolutely short-circuiting
THE WAY GEORDI SAYS HIS NAME AS ONE MILLION EMOTIONS OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY 😭😭😭😭 #PicardSpoilers#Picard
no but I need an entire “La Forge Family Values” spin-off where we get to see soft dad Geordi tinkering in his workshop with his baby girls
in a million years I would not have guessed that THAT was what they stole, I am losing my mind what a twist #PicardSpoilers
OH SHIT OH SHIT THAT ENDING I was lowkey stressed on her behalf from the minute they said they were hunting down all Picard’s besties but then I got sidetracked and forgot GOD THIS SHOW IS GOOD #PicardSpoilers
the inherent structural challenge of any “get the band back together” storyline is to find believable ways, which fit both the characters and the plot, to get the entire Enterprise crew around Picard’s conference table again, and they’re pulling it off really well #PicardSpoilers
anyway who’s writing the “there were two more positronic body forms kicking around” / “Jim’s genetic information is stored in the Daystrom Institute’s super-secret vault” / “something something handwave Katric Ark” Kirk/Spock fix-it fic based on this episode #PicardSpoilers
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at some point after this season of "Picard" is over - provided it sticks the landing, as I fully expect it to do - I will have lengthy thoughts on what a perfect example it is of why the oft-denigrated concept of "fan service" is actually a beautiful gift and exchange of emotion
at some point along the way - and I definitely blame "Game of Thrones" for, if not INVENTING, certainly AMPLIFYING this - it became trendy to act like forcing your audience to suffer because it was Good For Them inherently creates better art than allowing them to feel hope & joy
but I just think there's something truly magical about the way season 3 of #Picard fills every episode with perfect tiny emotional grace notes that take us all back to the Treks of our childhood, the starships and captains that formed us, with such deep reverence for their legacy
look, there are a million more important things wrong with this, and people who follow sports much more closely than I do have already said them much more eloquently, but just speaking personally as someone who is both gay and Christian - this Us vs. Them dichotomy is so gross
treating things that are pro-queer like they are AUTOMATICALLY anti-Christian is why so many LGBTQ people flee the churches that raised them, because you've framed their entire identity as an attack against your own
as always, this has nothing to do with "I sincerely believe Jesus of Nazareth would not support the LGBTQ community" and everything to do with "I don't want to lose my Republican fan base" but whatever
i'm sorry i know i am EXPLICITLY AND KNOWINGLY violating like multiple of my Twitter Lent resolutions to not QT trash into your feed or yell at every bad take I see, but the idea that the word "women" has been eradicated from society in every single circumstance is so bizarre
I'm a woman! I like being a woman! I'm extremely secure in my gender! I'm not less of a woman because trans women are also women just like I'm not less of a woman because I no longer menstruate, this is such a destructive conflation of unrelated things
my British girlfriend absolutely short-circuiting at the concept of the Cupid Shuffle and the Electric Slide is the single funniest thing I have ever witnessed at a wedding and I laugh every time I remember it
I also forgot to warn her when she first came here for Thanksgiving that we say grace before we eat, so from her perspective it went from a casual mingling cocktail hour to what she described as "everyone standing in a circle, chanting in unison," which is hilarious and fair
Protestants often ad lib grace before meals, which probably would have been less jarring, but we Catholics LOVE a rote prayer so it's just a straight memorized "blessusohLordandthesethygiftswhichweareabouttoreceivefromthybountythroughChristourLordamen" with no breaths or pauses
can @westelm please tell me who exactly they think a three-person dining room bench with a total weight capacity of 300 pounds is for??? this fatphobic nonsense makes me crazy. so NO three average-sized adults can use this fucking bench???
right, but giving a legalese number and not an actual stress test one is part of my point and is WHY this is fatphobic. why do they think people look this up when they shop? I need to know the ACTUAL WEIGHT CAPACITY so I know if I can sit in a fucking chair before I pay for it
it doesn’t make this less bad when they’re like “our recommended weight limit is an impossibly tiny number we made up, based on nothing, which means every person who buys this will be violating it and can’t sue us, and we can’t tell a fat person whether they will be comfortable”