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i (non-european) am super tired so I came online to just scroll for a bit forgetting it was eurovision finale. i’ve now been happily watching everyone’s memes in real time with no context for the past hour and am now enjoying the abrupt switch to the blood feud part of the night

#chatter post #esc

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[id: Art of Keyla Detmer feeding Joann Owosekun an orange segment in front of a viewport filled with stars. end id.]

Feed her an orange segment.

#awwwww :'-) #the tenderness!!! #a sky full of stars and they only have eyes for each other :'-) #fan art #image described #food #owosekun #detmer #joann x keyla #jola

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[id: Art of Mirror Georgiou and Jett Reno with a red background, Georgiou in black and Reno in her usual unzipped uniform jacket. She holds a piece of licorice in her teeth as she offers the bag to Georgiou, who looks dubious. end id.]

Maybe Emperor Georgiou would also like some licorice?

Oh! I thought of a ship name for these two. How about Empereno?

#DSDJFJD #their expressions are killing me here #reno's blithe 'u want some?' #mirrorgiou's suspicious little eyebrow raise #the lighting on the fabric of their jackets looks amazing ;_; #fan art #image described #jett x mirror philippa #mirror georgiou #reno

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[id: Soft and impressionistic portrait of Captain Georgiou in uniform from the shoulders up. White curls of fog or smoke curl around her shoulders, while pinkish ones wreathe her hair. A marbled golden swath stretches horizontally across the painting, covering her face. Over it, a thinner white swath has the black typewriter-font caption “I dream of you, still.” end id.]

Im in a funky “I miss Captain Georgiou” mood yesterday thanks to the Fic That Wont Let Me Go (TM)

#aaaa this is SO PRETTY ;_; #the colors and composition are so radiant and eye-catching #I absolutely love the fog/smoke effect #but also just‚ the rich blue and deep gold of her uniform look amazing #fan art #image described #georgiou

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5 characters: Michael Burnham, Joann Owosekun, Jett Reno, Tracy Pollard, Katrina Cornwell

(Put 5 characters in my ask and I’ll put them in my preference order)

...WELL.

Going for blogger-specific custom challenge mode, I see. :>)

1) …Tracy Pollard. Leaving aside all headcanons, ships, and other fandom accoutrements, she’s just…she’s fantastic. If we didn’t tend, in Star Trek background characters, to see competence and compassion as lack of characterization rather than characterization in its own right, I maintain that Pollard would have the same kind of (admittedly tiny) loyal fandom following that, say, Landry does.

In addition to her competence and compassion, she’s able and willing to push back against condescending advice from a captain (it’s played for laughs, but Saru’s ‘do your best!’ is such a useless ‘order’ in a situation where sickbay is filling up with injured crew), and against unproven assumptions by a commanding officer (her iconic “You’re attaching a known medical diagnosis to an unknown entity” scene with Burnham). And, of course, there are all the complex layers of her response to that situation.

In other words, Tracy is urging caution, and potentially an adversarial viewpoint, towards the current threat to the lives of her crew—but doing so through a framework that suggests an underlying openness to observation, discovery, and resisting easy assumptions about the universe around her.

Reader, I love her.

2) Michael Burnham. Oh captain, my captain. Commander of my HEART. Cares so deeply for the people and the universe around her no matter how many times her ostensible family and friends hurt her, manipulate her, kill her, or otherwise put her in terrible situations (if she isn’t selfless enough, she’s a terrible person; if she is, she has a ~ridiculous martyr complex~ not that that might have anything to do with anyone else around here…) Mutinied an admiral to prevent a space genocide. Loving co-pet-parent to a giant cat. Thankfully not a real person in my life because her penchant for test-piloting fast space things is terrifying. ;_;

3) Jett Reno. Kept her crewmates alive on a crashed starship for a year. Grease monkey, duct tape enthusiast, and beloved nemesis to Paul Stamets who, let’s be honest, needs one. Tig Notaro might have been battling with the technobabble behind the scenes but her delivery of the technobabble lines she does have is never less than flawless. Wrangled a time crystal to help save all life in the universe. Named “Jett Reno.” What even is a zipper? Star Trek’s most quotable lesbian. It’s not food, it’s candy, it’s practically an accessory.

 4) Joann Owosekun. Cool, calm and collected ops officer of a ship careening around the mushroom multiverse across multiple millennia. Friend to robots. Likes tomatoes. Is in fourth place not really for any compelling reason other than it not really being in the spirit of the ask game to let her tie with the above three, though if I had to pick the reason that I personally would want to go get space coffee with her only slightly less than the others it would probably be onscreen canon Owosekun’s lack of scenes pushing back against Starfleet, commanding officer fuckery, or both—not so much re: Lorca, I wrote a whole Jola fic about not blaming oneself or others for not countering a manipulative, abusive authority figure in an isolated environment, but unlike Pollard-Burnham-Reno she hasn’t gotten a scene pushing back against Pike, Saru, Burnham, Vance, etc’s questionable or annoying moments. Yet. Not counting the “Take the tomato” deleted scene with Burnham, anyway.

SIKE I was writing some rambling tags about Owosekun and remembered that she went against her own upbringing to become a technology expert (even if she did so by joining Starfleet, booo to 23rd-century Starfleet) (we don’t really know how judgemental her family was or wasn’t about her technology interest, and frankly I hope not at all, but even if they supported her, that decision is still A Lot). Post amended accordingly.

(Honestly, the “Take the tomato” scene totally counts as well. Look, I was really grasping at straws here.)

5) Katrina Cornwell. The only easy choice (sorry, Admiral). If she wants to get away with attempted space genocide and still have a place in the Star Trek Characters section of my heart, she needs to at the very least be someone I’d enjoy a) smooching or b) going to a bowling alley with, and instead she mostly just reminds me of my least-favorite authority figures from high school.

#tysm for this ask ^_^ #pollard #burnham #reno #owosekun #cornwell #food #medical #genocide #abuse #character death #asks #spiritintheteapot

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Missing👇

#missing person #reminder to check for reliable sources on missing persons posts since abusive people can create them for people leaving them - but there are #reliable sources for this one and it is real

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friends, we have a solution to our mystery: 

(image: a tumblr dm from tumblr user @starfleetdoesntfirefirst​ saying ‘it is i, punctuationless anon’)

the mystery, for those who wish to catch up: one, two, three, four.

meg has this to say for herself (posted with permission):

I’d thought I’d send a quick light ask I’d been wondering about but press f for it being either quick or light I suppose X’D

anyway, when sending each of the second two ask-clusters(?) I thought SURELY the correct ask would come through this time and also that it was hilarious (your OG “WHAT is this about” tag after the first theoretically-successful non “rate limit exceeded” error one turned out to have been eaten even without punctation made me laugh, oh god) but at this point it’s officially out of control lmao

anyway, the original ask (which I now think there may be something going on with?? there’s no such thing as ask filtering, right? if there is more power to you but I think this one’s pretty innocuous! and the emoji part was only ever text so it wasn’t that either):

if you ever feel like talking more about freeman/t’ana…..eyes emoji (or as theoretically-successfully sent, since I thought it was funny: “if you ever feel like talking more about freeman slash t apostrophe ana dot dot dot dot dot eyes emoji”)

and as i said to her, this is fucking hilarious on the face of it and also just beautifully bathetic because i have absolutely nothing to say about freeman/t’ana except what i have already said which caused her to ask in the first place, id est, ‘remember that time the ginger cat doctor in the blue labcoat touched the captain tenderly on the face?’ which is funny because, well, you know why it’s funny or you wouldn’t be here, would you, but it doesn’t get us really anywhere at all.

anyway pour one out for this website that is technically dead even though we are somehow still here, and also anyone with anything to say about freeman/t’ana PLEASE get in touch through whatever means you can find, with or without punctuation

#image described #AN UNEXPECTED ODYSSEY #in which I am very annoying but i flatter myself that those involved had mostly a pleasant time (: #my true otp (redundant phrasing i kno but otp just means ship now so wygd) for freeman is georgiou bc i am very predictable #and seriously: they'd be great together #but i am a simple fangirl i see someone ship freeman with literally any woman i shake their tree and see if meta falls out #so yeah if you ship freeman with t'ana or really anyone else :pleading eyes emoji and several winks: #lower decks #alcohol #freeman #t'ana #freeman x t'ana #to paraphrase one of my favorite captions i've ever seen on a piece of tumblr art: #dont say i didn't do anything last week i did this

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[image id: static image after “dude” is the first reblogger’s medical balance adjusted to 0. end id.]

[transcript additional note: everything after “let’s check” is for the specific hospital used as an example; from context, it sounds like the exact numbers to qualify may vary from hospital to hospital but that all U.S. non-profit hospitals do have this.]

#medical #image described #video

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#atlanta #racism #aapi hate #current events

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i know anti asian discrimination is on the rise and it’s been in the back of my mind ever since my dad warned me about going out on my own bc he knew some friends of his had got beaten up and so i try to be careful.

but now these shootings in atlanta make it so very real and in my face. i live pretty close there and it’s like my aunt who’s a nail tech goes there pretty often for supplies. idk i just need everyone to be aware of how bad this is getting.

lately i just see ppl completely brushing aside anti asian racism. you have no idea how many comments i’ve seen saying that asian ppl are basically white... it’s laughable bc we have never been treated as such. especially for me being a tan SE asian. it’s like ppl forget about SE and south asians who are very much being targeted as well. i don’t even know where i’m going w this! it’s just frustrating. idk do what you can maybe donate or smth especially since you guys heavily consume asian media like show up for us too not just for our culture

https://stopaapihate.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate

#atlanta #racism #aapi hate #terrorism #death #current events

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fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!

Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr.  Please warn them about this as well. 

#cissexism #medical #sort of both #image described #uncaptioned

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nothing brings me more joy than critically engaging with media that was clearly not designed with critical engagement in mind. it’s the media studies equivalent of like, idk, trying to skateboard up a flight of stairs.

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Humming Warp Engine Sounds

#I love them... #video #uncaptioned #lower decks #star trek lower decks #boimler #mariner #fletcher #rutherford #tendi

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If you are willing to check out a Witcher fic, I love the story “Lodestar” by thricetomine: pure h/c vignettes strung delicately together into a gentle story about being immortal (and made me want someone to draw me a bath 3000% more than usual lol)

Aaa thank you very much for the rec, Anon! I love that title, for starters, and the way you’ve described it sounds lovely.

#asks #chatter post #fic rec query response #Anonymous

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I’m still physically/mentally exhausted and (among other, less social media based strategies, never fear) am looking to self-soothe by reading lots of hurt/comfort fanfiction, as one does. I’m looking for recs! At “stare blankly at a wall” levels of tired, the idea of poking around AO3 and taking the few dozen tiny leaps to open works and gauge if they’re what I’m looking for isn’t very appealing, so I’m trying to outsource QC, as it were.* Self-rec-ing welcome! Thanks <3

- Looking for F/F, NB/NB, NB/F, or gen fic

- Genre stuff is my favorite but I’ll read across fandoms for this!

- Looking for stuff that is fairly comprehensively tagged (e.g. no surprise minor character deaths, etc). (If it isn’t thoroughly tagged/summarized, a quick heads-up for major untagged components?)

- Looking for anything (including scenes from longer fics) for which hurt/comfort could be considered the main genre/focus–I’m deliberately keeping the query fairly broad bc I’m interested in hearing about fics people love, not trying to find a hyper-specific type of fic. (That said, I especially love aftermath-of-torture and injury recovery stories.)

- *Not actually QC in that I don’t care about prose polish/“quality,” so stuff by beginning writers, writers writing outside their fluent languages, etc is more than welcome.

#reblogs are very welcome #as I’m still wistful for the days when Tumblr hadn’t outsourced social posting to individual Discord servers #and queries like this had greater potential to start a sequence of responses #but absolutely no pressure if you don’t feel like socialposting on your blog of course!! #replies are most welcome as well #thank you <3 #(also I am still taking asks from my ask post as well! ‘I want positive attention’ is the common denominator here) #personal #chatter post #I may reblog this an obnoxious number of times

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I’m still physically/mentally exhausted and (among other, less social media based strategies, never fear) am looking to self-soothe by reading lots of hurt/comfort fanfiction, as one does. I’m looking for recs! At “stare blankly at a wall” levels of tired, the idea of poking around AO3 and taking the few dozen tiny leaps to open works and gauge if they’re what I’m looking for isn’t very appealing, so I’m trying to outsource QC, as it were.* Self-rec-ing welcome! Thanks <3

- Looking for F/F, NB/NB, NB/F, or gen fic

- Genre stuff is my favorite but I’ll read across fandoms for this!

- Looking for stuff that is fairly comprehensively tagged (e.g. no surprise minor character deaths, etc). (If it isn’t thoroughly tagged/summarized, a quick heads-up for major untagged components?)

- Looking for anything (including scenes from longer fics) for which hurt/comfort could be considered the main genre/focus--I’m deliberately keeping the query fairly broad bc I’m interested in hearing about fics people love, not trying to find a hyper-specific type of fic. (That said, I especially love aftermath-of-torture and injury recovery stories.)

- *Not actually QC in that I don’t care about prose polish/“quality,” so stuff by beginning writers, writers writing outside their fluent languages, etc is more than welcome.

#reblogs are very welcome #as I’m still wistful for the days when Tumblr hadn’t outsourced social posting to individual Discord servers #and queries like this had greater potential to start a sequence of responses #but absolutely no pressure if you don’t feel like socialposting on your blog of course!! #replies are most welcome as well #thank you <3 #(also I am still taking asks from my ask post as well! ‘I want positive attention’ is the common denominator here) #personal #chatter post

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I realized that when I said the other week that I'd tag expanse stuff #the expanse, I need another tag for rambling content I'm not trying to put in the main tag, so that tag will be #expanse posting

#expanse posting