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The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

#truly #hit 4k and i am not even halfway kill me

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maybe the answer to writer's block is not to write something poorly but to write something fucked up.

#won't elaborate

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Lair of the White Worm (1988, dir. Ken Russel)

#ended the film with this parallel and the sequel got axed 😔 #lair of the white worm

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the lair of the white worm (1988) directed by ken russell

"Now, if you're sitting comfortably, I shall tell you why you must not be afraid to die. To die so that the god may live is a privilege, Kevin, and if you know anything at all about history, you will know that human sacrifice is as old as Dionin himself, whose every death is a rebirth into a god ever mightier!"

#the lair of the white worm

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The fact that Mirror, Mirror didn't explicitly recall the alternate timeline that would have been the future from The City on the Edge of Forever if McCoy saved Edith Keeler.... stupid Wagon Train-esque storyline structure.

#star trek tos #the city on the edge of forever #mirror mirror #like. the alternate timeline & time travel shenanigans to correct it created the mirror universe #a lot of these are not direct parallels and the screencaps are out of order but the similarities are there #although gotta hand it to the writers for being vague bc like which dictatorship are we recalling in the year 1967.... #tos parallels

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captains quarters

#star trek tos #spirk

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In the dark there was no pretence. In the dark there where no poker faces. The tears fell silently. The horror was bone deep. Reassurances where pressed into skin with lips and hands and noiseless care so that when the light came they would be stone again. Staunchly resolute and unrelenting.     

#yooo a deathwatch screencap redraw?? #and the caption text!!! #spirk #deathwatch

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it's wednesday my dudes *guttural scream*

#jim kirk #star trek tos #tumblr stop eating my post! let me vent!! #straight up not having a good time #and there's still 8+ hours of the work day to go yeehaw!!

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Diversity win! The cop that won’t stop hounding you until you accidentally incriminate yourself in the elaborate murder you committed is 5’6”

#columbo

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"Dig it in there, Mr. Spock," I whisper, pressing a spoon into my neck.

#not a shitpost this is in fact a method to relieve stiff neck muscles #invoking spock is optional

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#just me and this song against the week ig #taemin #music

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There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

#generative ai fic..... what in the ever-loving fuck #a human person is supposed to agonize over word choice and characterization not some program that wouldn't know nuance from a brick

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The Conscience of the King + Mirror, Mirror

It's interesting to note that Bones is the link between these two scenes. Spock gives him the information about Tarsus IV since Jim refuses to speak of his past. In the Mirror Universe, Bones is with Jim when they learn that Mirror Kirk is responsible not only for killing his captain and destroying a whole planet but that this Kirk has killed 5,000 colonists on a planet named Vega IX. And to have the camera show Bones' reaction to Vega IX instead of Jim's response? What a way to recall The Conscience of the King and place the audience with Bones as they hear news of a massacre that chillingly parallels Tarsus IV.

Also, I used these scenes not just for the exposition but also because there's a delightful swapping of both the placement of Kirk's name in the scenes alongside the role reversal. In other words, in The Conscience of the King, the scene reveals that Jim Kirk is the survivor of a massacre, and it ends with the use of his name, albeit in its diminutive, nickname form (Jim rather than James). Whereas in Mirror, Mirror, the scene begins with Jim's full name and rank title, and it reveals that he is the one committing the massacre. The two scenes not only recall each other, but they show the other's reverse as if looking through a mirror.

#star trek tos #the conscience of the king #mirror mirror #jim kirk #tarsus iv #'star trek tos is a fun sci fi show' i tell myself as i post things like this #but the usual caveats apply: word choice matters. camera framing matters. etc. #details details details my beloved #tos parallels #trek meta

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What if I was all wrong about the "SINNER REPENT" wall writing. What if it isn't a manifestation of the social attitudes of the 1960s (compulsory heterosexuality, gender binary, etc.). What if, like Spock's message of "LOVE MANKIND," Jim's message also speaks to a hidden fear? A fear that is not the breaking of a social taboo (be it a captain's duty and Starfleet regulations, an affair, non-heterosexual love, etc.), but a haunting thought from Jim's past: that he should not be alive, that his continued existence breaks the order of life itself by cheating a certain death. Hence, the use of the words "SINNER REPENT," a phrase that matches how Kodos moralized basic survival needs to justify his eugenics and massacre on Tarsus IV.

#star trek tos #jim kirk #tarsus iv #the naked time #the conscience of the king #i am either galaxy braining it or absolutely lost in the sauce of using tarsus iv to recontextualize every episode #ntm guilt issues sgsfhcfhvvxh my god!! maybe he is just like me #maybe someday i will post my headcanons about jim kirk. so many thoughts.... #tos parallels

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Idk. Just. Jim Kirk, death, and life after Tarsus IV.

#star trek tos #tarsus iv #jim kirk #the conscience of the king #a taste of armageddon #this side of paradise #errand of mercy #who mourns for adonais? #holding back on the “it's all about tarsus iv? always has been” meme bc that's how i keep watching episodes #drawing parallels and recontextualizing as always #tos parallels

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Okay I love Star Trek but I hate that TOS isn’t the kind of show you can put on in the background while doing something and still get the plot.

#truly #i made the mistake of putting the naked time on for the first time as i made breakfast and just 😔 #rewatched that episode 4 times until i had enough time to watch it from start to finish #and then the insanity set in about the wall writing #star trek tos

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SPOCK: Captain, I understand how you must [feel] KIRK: Yes. Yes, Mister Spock.

Yes, it's a 22-second clip, but by God does it make me insane! Spock! Going to Jim to offer words of sympathy! The words won't change what's happened and might not even be a perfectly Vulcan thing for him to do, but he does it anyway!

#star trek tos #operation: annihilate #spirk #just them!! up in my head rotting my brain