I'm seeing a lot more "McCoy is racist [against Vulcans]" crossing my dash which... is sure an opinion.
A shit one, for sure.
Especially when Disco & SNW have leaned pretty hard into that "humans are lesser because ew emotional cooties" nugget (hm, what's a word for that), without the softness they've shown in previous iterations. When a Vulcan Fleet admiral shows zero empathy for a literal refugee, and y'know, actually seems to delight in targeting Una for being an Illyrian.
Especially when Amanda Grayson herself acknowledges to her own son how hard it's been for her as a human, living in Vulcan society. When Michael dealt with her own shit as an adoptee. When Spock is shown to bridle against this society who's fucked him up for being different.
When the argument hinges on treating Spock like he's a fragile baby boy somehow at the mercy of this supposed racist af human doctor, when the reality is he's a senior officer who sure spends some time being obviously hostile to a subordinate, sometimes without cause, but always with that rank behind him while he implies or outright states how unskilled he believes the CMO of the fucking fleet flagship is. In front of other officers too, just for some fun undermining action? Yep!
I love Spock, I think he's fucking amazing and I love how much depth we're getting, but ffs denying that in TOS he has both the power in this dynamic, and that he's from a planet of equal power to Earth's in the Federation (sorry fans who also think Vulcan is some backwater world that Earth somehow subjugates) which is shown to have really mercilessly racist opinions of humans all the way up to the highest echelons, is just...
Denial.
Like do y'all realize how much The Galileo Seven in a post-SNW context makes Spock actually look pretty dang cruel and monstrous?
McCoy is obviously a complex character with an attitude, who has no qualms in clapping back to authority himself and obviously has an issue with Spock, solo. He's also a man shown to be pretty damn respectful of Vulcans as a whole, and in cases where he isn't, it's because he thinks the cultural aspect he's critiquing is harmful and shitty.
Which I wish the parts of fandom taking an issue with that a big sarcastic Welcome to Dr McCoy, because that's a huge part of his characterization. He does that to everyone. He's the goddamn emotional heart of the Triumvirate, and he reacts emotionally to horrible shit. He and Spock are stellar foils for that.
This got away from me and I could add so much more (who did Spock ask to be there for his nuptials? who did he entrust with his Katra?) lmfao but just, in closing...
Vulcan cultural norms ought to be critiqued if they're relying on acting like weirdo supremacists because they don't grossly emote like nasty humans.
For fuck's sake. 🙄
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Haha, no dude, it's uuuuuuuh, totally normal to treat people's personal creations like a corporate franchise, nah nah, it's not even a little weird that the only way you interact with fandom is by mindlessly consuming content and reposting other people's work, I'm sure it's totally fine to just disregard the creator's wishes as long as you get to have your 2 minutes of fun with "your" new blorbos before your criminally short attention span moves onto the next thing for you to mindlessly consume, yeah, haha, I'm sure framing the creator's struggle to keep control of their work as a threat to your future ability to continue to consume content isn't totally self-centered or tone-deaf. No yeah man, haha, totally normal
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Thank you to all my friends, like my close friends like people I talk to, ever, who are not abandoning me right now, despite my behavior. I have a personality disorder, I have complex PTSD, I have OSDD, in addition to the average depression + anxiety combo. I'm like trying not to Blame my mental illnesses here but hey man this is the shit I have that gives me big fucking problems. I can't control it all the time. If I could behave better or more normally or whatever then I would.
I don't tend to keep friends for very long because of these things... So the friends I do have are very tolerant and willing to put up with my shit, for some reason. I have been crying all night trying to thank everyone who is still okay with me because sometimes things you think are going to last forever Don't. Not even, like, 15 years of friendship. I just want anyone and everyone who fucking appreciates me to know that I do before it's too late. I will fuck up really really bad one day! One day it will be too much. I won't be able to see it.
I haven't cried at all about my friend, ex-friend, idk, at all, about his "goodbye" message. It feels fucking fake, this feels completely not real ... probably never will even if there's 15+ years of silence, if we never speak again for the rest of our lives. I cannot believe myself here lol I'm so insanely mad at myself I didn't know I was fucking up so severely when I first said anything. Who the fuck needs that, why did I say it like that, who fucking cares, no Shit I fucked up!!!! But I'm not the only one!!!!! And I cannot be mad At You I can be mad but if it's At You it's unacceptable, I'm saying something wrong (incorrectly) if I am. I get patronized and spoken to like I'm a fucking kid who's making a scene in public. And then you go ahead and make a public fucking scene !!!!! Leaving the group chat and blocking me as if that doesn't fucking effect everyone in the group. Literally are you fucking stupid what the fuck are you trying to accomplish with that other than creating some Huge Fucking Deal !!!!!
Listen I'm just bitching to Nothingness because I assume I'm not being watched here. But tiger I swear to god if you're looking at all my shit you need to tell me. You're not my fucking father you don't need to fucking stalk me just say that you saw this. I will be mad. People need to be mad at you sometimes.
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y’all remember that haikyuu-bu chapter where bokuto was murdered and akaashi was the one to find him and the artist(s) just brutally drew bokuto’s prone but smiling body bc at least he got to go out eating some bomb af chocolates and they also drew akaashi crying with his little hanky bc he’s just so distraught and it turns out that akaashi wasn’t even the one to call the police (it was either yukie or kaori) probably bc he was too shaken up stumbling across this scene and when he did at first he likely just thought that bokuto had only ko’d from going too crazy with the sweets but nah on closer inspection this fool’s no longer with us may he Rest In Peace…and then it just turns out that this was all just ennoshita’s script? like, my mans, why you doing akaashi like that?? you could’ve casted anyone else……
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Man, I hate those types of teachers who won't follow the schedule.
Just got an exam for Physical Education and the teacher told us to finish it by 6 pm (since before that we had a general cleaning which is unexpected for us). And we're going to check the papers after that.
And our schedule is 12 pm to 5 pm. Luckily for me I got excused because my mom needs me for groceries :'D
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Me in 2020, after the emotional damage that is I-Land:
Me cursing mnet, wanting to burn cj e&m, and swearing i'll never watch another survival show EvEr AGAIN:
Me *2 weeks ago* getting the signal song performance video and fancams of boys planet in my youtube recommendations:
Me in 2023, streaming the trainees' signal song fancams, watching 95 1-min PR vids, shorts, reels, and tiktoks, adding trainees' kdramas to my to-be-watched list, watching 95 boys struggle and not know how to use a DAMN LEMON JUICER whilst unsuccessfully making non-alcoholic cocktails for 2 minutes, deep diving thru SNS profiles, and getting into GIFing bc my current # 1 pick somehow makes EATING A LEMON WEDGE LOOK SEXY:
ps. lmk if i should post the mini gif set i made for one of the boys planet trainees (KIM JI WOONG & mnet I BLAME Y'ALL FOR CONVERTING ME TO THE WORLD OF GIFing!!)
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Supernatural does, at least I think, a good job at shining a light on rural folk in a way that gives them space to be intelligent, complicated people but like. There are no city hunting folk lmao, like I think there's a couple in the later seasons, but right now everyone is wearing flannels and cowboy boots and I want just ONE hunter woman in LL Bean boots and a juicy couture sweatsuit. Because she's from the city, but she's also a hunter and those are freaks so obviously she never left early 2000's fashion except the UGGs, which were updated to the LL Bean boots. Her name is Clementine.
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