A bit of disappointment with Anson Mount (Pike in SNW) today.
I'm a huge fan of SNW, but I saw a tweet from Anson Mount regarding having Conservative friends yesterday night. I thought that the tweet will at least stay up today, but looks like he deleted it. Thankfully, the internet never lets stuff die easily:
It does not show the entire tweet, but you get the idea. Anson has now deleted these kinds of tweets (I think it was around 2-3 tweets), and now has a Gene Roddenberry quote instead.:
Because of the short hours, I think a lot of people didn't see it, but some sure has:
I also saw a couple of people who replied to the original tweet with mixed opinions. But I guess Anson couldn't take the heat.
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Here's my thing with these "liberals with conservative friends" thing. I just don't vibe with that. How can you have a friend who is ACTIVELY taking away yours and your other friends human rights? I have met and seen conservatives actively express their hatred towards me and declare that they will kill me without hesitation because I am a POC, part of the LGBTQIA+, and believe in reproductive rights. They might say "oh no my conservative friend doesn't think that way". But they still vote with the people who are allowing these actions, and still actively taking away my rights by these votes. Every vote counts, right? So does the responsibility to these votes.
Do I agree with Gene Rodenberry's quote Anson put up? I do. When it comes to Star Trek's way of accepting different ideas is very important and something I strive for. But the conservatives I've seen never go along with this way. I do not believe that any law should prohibit someone's belief because it is against someone else's belief, when the belief itself does not cause any harm to others. And conservatives are actively trying to reinforce this, just for the benefits of their belief. You can follow along and live your life with your beliefs, but do not put that belief on others like it's others responsibility to maintain it for you. I tolerate and delight in differences in ideas and differences in life form, I just don't see the conservatives doing the same.
Now, does this change my love towards SNW? Not really. I still love SNW, and I cannot wait for the next season. I cannot wait for what the writers have come up with. But Anson, who plays Captain Pike, expressing these beliefs is quite disappointing. The actors are never their characters, but I will not forget this the next time I see his face, I just simply can't.
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Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
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HERE HE IS: dagoth ur's beloved, divine consort, saint moon and star himself. or as i call him "dagoth ur's boytoy: slutty little ash vampire nerevar"
if you wanna see him without the loincloth after a bit of fun with voryn here it is
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cursed to make this so i can finally stop thinking about it. yes i only made this to put the dark urge next to the "god won't let me die" shorts, what of it
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a little too many phoenixes. zoraxis should be worried
phoenix collab is finally done being put together! it was a bit challenging to put everyone's art together in a way that worked well, but i think it turned out nice :)
from left to right, @kitkatyes , @abacibate , @heycerulean , @right-agent , @agent-rosie , @gr3yyyyy , @realccre , @enhanced-operatives-division , @melopie-artz , @robutler , @lavalampstealer , @asexual-idiot , @operationjetset , @razs-archetype , @salezmanradioz , @mabzgonmad , @neurotonic , @grimm-bot , @solobodor , @randombikite , @ghostplasmas , @silverorchideon , @manzluv , @cookiealchemieart , @charixin , @purplebehittindifferent , @inkwally , @the-valiant-valkyrie , @stellar-collective , @ellascreams & @markophoenix ! let me know if i missed anyone or somehow forgot to add anyone to the picture! thank you all for participating!!! :)
tumblr will absolutely OBLITERATE the quality. so here is a link to the full quality image! 9000px wide canvas is NOT going to waste.
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