when are people gonna properly register that Vulcans don’t lack emotion, they’re just disciplined against it to the point that their biology has found ways to conform to that discipline over the generations. meaning that suppression is “easier” for them through mechanisms like the Pon Farr.
but
and this is a big But
1. they still EXPERIENCE the emotion.
2. they still have individual personality.
3. VULCAN CHILDREN ARE STILL CHILDREN.
they have to go through a phase of maturation and growth just like any other living thing in existence.
a Vulcan kids tantrum or rebellion is probably going to look different from a human kid tantrum/rebellion, but they’re still going to be kids. they’re going to do kid things until they mature into the logical behaviour expected of them.
this fandom has such good takes about Data and how he clearly expresses emotion even without the emotion chip but then treats Vulcans like actual computer people and it’s so weird to me.
especially with how much plot and stories revolving around them are often about how they’re just as “human” as anyone else, but are stereotyped for expressing it differently, or for their rituals around expression etc.
they literally exist as a mechanism of teaching people to be understanding of other cultural standards and modes of communication and how you should always still see their personhood. And Yet 😭😭😭
tl;dr if you threw a bunch of Vulcan children in a sand pit with a bunch of human children they’re all going to be force-feeding each other sand with equal gusto, but the Vulcan kids will feel appropriately ashamed later.
P: Jadzia Dax, Ezri Dax, Kira Nerys, Elim Garak, Tora Ziyal
R/P: Julian Bashir (mostly platonic)
LWD era
P: D’vana Tendi (B), Brad Boimler, Sam Rutherford, T’ana
R/P: Beckett Mariner
Sharing
The only F/O I am not ok with sharing is Trip Tucker. Everyone else is fair game, the romantic/platonic relationships are mostly short lived in my storyline so it would make sense for them to have other partners :)
If one of your romantic f/os is one of my platonic ones or the other way around PLS talk to me
UPDATE ON LEARNING HOW TO WRITE SCI-FI: Got a few writing craft books based off online reccs! Still reading them but they've deffo helped me figure a lot of things out, writing AND genre wise when it comes to sci-fi specifically. Will report back if they're useful in the long term.
From what I can gather about most old school sci-fi is it focuses on Really Cool Scientific Theories and Concepts TM, but as a result, a lot of the other story aspects like plot, characterization, ect fall to the way side, which is a shame. A lot of speculative fiction genre stuffs has this problem, but because sci-fi has been so Male-dominated and closed off until fairly recently, we got the a lot of the same mistakes and perspectives storywise because they base themselves off of each other, so to speak.
I only care about this cool alien world insomuch it matters to the characters, and a LOT of old scifi just skips over that in favor of worldbuilding, cool concepts, etc.
ALSO -- IVE APPARENTLY READ MORE SCIFI THAN IVE REALIZED HEHE IM A FRAUD--
I read a LOT of Jules Verne growing up, and now I've been reading a lot of Octavia Butler, literally the Queen TM of Modern Scifi (though she would have called the work she wrote 'fantasy' -- go figure). I'll read some more in the genre before figuring out what kind of sci-fi //I, myself// wanna write, but I'm enjoying myself more than I previously thought I would! And that's good!
Also, many thanks to my own Dad who's love of scifi and reading nutured my own love of reading and writing in a lot of gentle, parallel ways. Love you, Dad :3
Ok, enough sap, back to research! Thanks for listening as I scream into the void, yall!! Take care of yourself :3