#if you're a clone shipper who has gotten hate

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Two questions hehe

Do you have an opinion on clone shippings in sw? Basically what if an obikin shipper is an anti at the same time :(((

Are you open for people to slide into your dms to chat about sw? :D

I support everyone who likes it, even though I'm so hyperfixated on obikin that I don't ship anything else. It doesn't light up my brain, but I have zero objections to people chasing their bliss. The idea of an obikin shipper being an anti is deeply disappointing to me, because if anyone should understand what it's like to be harassed about a fictional ship, it's one of us. Maybe they haven't gotten messages encouraging them to kill themselves or calling them a child abuser like I have, but regardless they should be aware that it's not anyone else's business to interfere in what other people ship or how they ship it. If it doesn't light up your brain, filter the tag and move along, you know? People writing and making art is something to encourage, not shut down.

I wish beyond anything that I could answer 'yes' to this, but that would be a disservice to the ten or so people who I need to reply to already and haven't. I'm a weird hermit who gets overwhelmed by one-on-one conversations bc they take more social energy than I have on most days. Sorry >.< there are so many cool people on here that I genuinely regret I don't have the energy to befriend everyone and maintain those friendships. Maybe someday where I'm not quite as severely depressed the answer to this will be yes, but not yet <3

#asks #if you're a clone shipper who has gotten hate #know my heart goes out to you #i've been there #and it fucking sucks #and if it came from an obikin shipper i don't know what to say #except i'm sorry for members of my community behaving so badly #it's not appropriate #be KIND everyone that's the key to enjoying this hobby

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what are some of your favourite star trek enterprise episodes?

oooo thanks for asking me this lovely indulgent question! I've been watching thru season 1 while I've been laid up with a cold the last week so those are in the forefront of my mind:

Sleeping Dogs is very fun - good Klingon biz & a key tender T'pol/Hoshi moment.

The Andorian Incident and Shadows of P'jem go together as a little pair and are great Shran episodes! Lots of good Vulcan lore and T'pol lead in these. (I'd say Fallen Hero is a good episode too if you're into Vulcan lore)

Shuttlepod One is essential for the Trip/Malcolm shippers and is just a great little bottle episode where these two get to become friends over a life or death situation. That formula gets me every time.

Acquisition! Ferengi episode! Jeffery Combs and Ethan Phillips play ferengi who try to rob Enterprise & chaos ensues. Bonus: Trip spends half the episode in his little blue undies!

Rogue Planet and Vox Sola both feel like classic trek to me - cool alien creatures someone has to communicate with to save the day. Vox Sola also has great T'pol/Hoshi moments and Hoshi gets to work her magic.

Two Days and Two Nights is funny. it's Enterprise's Risa episode so hijinks ensue, plus fun outfits, new sets, & cool background aliens.

Season 2:

Carbon Creek my beloved. T'pol tells the story of how Vulcans invented Velcro on Earth, or I suppose rather, the real first contact. A great Vulcan episode and such a sweet story. Great to see Jolene Blalock in real clothes also.

Ok I know everyone hates A Night In Sickbay but I love all the Phlox backstory and getting to know him in this episode, plus the dream sequence is bonkers. The total lack of sexual tension between T'pol and Archer also lands very funny to me, so it gets a pass on my list. Plus you get the follow up to the incident in Vox Sola with the insult to the Kreetassans and you get to hear the single best line in Enterprise, "this is Porthos! my beagle! my pal!"

This is as far as I've gotten in my rewatch so the rest will be kind of sparse...

I like The Catwalk cuz oooo that ship feels small & I love the potential energy of people stuck in small places together.

Dawn has Trip sweating thru a tank top and trying to communicate with an alien to survive on a desert planet together. Great star trek.

First Flight is a good flashback Trip & Archer besties episode.

Season 3

Impulse is like a zombie Vulcan episode which is very fun.

North Star gives us a cowboy episode, what's not to love!

Doctor's Orders is possibly the best Phlox episode and I love him so. He has to take care of the crew while they're all asleep to get thru some anomaly that doesn't effect him & it is SO good.

Similitude has a rapidly growing Trip clone - discussion of clone ethics, great scifi, and good acting. Definitely a heartbreaker tho.

Carpenter Street has Archer and T'pol travel back in time, steal a car and rob and ATM which is great fun.

In E^2 an Enterprise from another dimension? or is it their dimension? travels back in time so they get to meet their descendants which is v fun. Plus old T'pol of course. (I think Phlox should have been in this one as well since he's from another long lived species.)

Season 4

The Augment trilogy (eps 4-6) has Brent Spiner back with a vengeance and it's cool history.

The Vulcan trilogy (7-9) is some of the best Vulcan lore out there and such a treat to see T'pol wrestle with her culture.

Observer Effect has Malcolm and Travis possessed by noncorporeal aliens to observe Trip & Hoshi who are infected with a virus. Great classic trek vibes and fun acting.

The Andorian trilogy (12-14) is a blast. Great Andorian lore and Shran of course but also fun Trip/Malcolm biz plus twists & turns!

Okay this got out of hand, but I genuinely love this show. I love how small the ship feels and their astronaut looking jumpsuits and how the time period bridges the gap between our current day experience of space exploration and that TNG era we're all so familiar with. It feels hopeful and attainable and yes it's riddled with 9/11 era sentiment and America-centric ideology, but there's great scifi here too and I fell in love with these characters. These are just my highlights and I think @jonathanarcher has a couple different episode guides if you're looking to hop skip your way thru the series with some kind of coherence. Let me know what you think! 💗

#wow this got long #I love enterprise #sorry it's not quite in episode order #my brain is garbled #enterprise highlights #st ent #star trek enterprise #star trek #best of list #my favs #ask #faith of the heart #long post