#strange exit

[ireallyamabear]

The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.

Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits. Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict. Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-

#i loved what the poster meant for una but really it IS kind of weird #like maybe if there is a series of posters #but especially picard establishes this growing resentment and whispers of plexits (planet exit) political problems in the UFP #which I KNOW are bc writers write what they see #but also...cant we not have nice things in the future. like a functioning united system of government #anyway imagine little boims or tendi seeing the news of the dominion fleet coming through the worm hole? #they should explore that. more. #star trek #snw #snw spoilers #una chin riley #number one #lower decks #brad boimler #bradward boimler #ufp #starfleet #mp #strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds #star trek snw

[silasplaskett]

i cannot bring myself to find teds ending tragic. he gets to be the father in his sons life. he knows he made a lifelong impact on multiple ppls lives on a whole other continent and knows that they can all keep going without him bc of the work he put in to help them. his ex and the reason he left in the first place is clearly happy to have him around now even tho she needed space away from him before. i feel like ppl were projecting dreams onto ted that were never actually shown in the show and thats why theyre upset by the ending.

#ppl are acting like ted exited all of these ppls lives forever too?? they have internet guys.. they have each others phone numbrs.. #do u seriously believe that ted is not texting rebecca and beard and trent and roy strange gifs 24/7??? #i just think. that theres nothing wrong with teds dreams having been. repairing his family life. #and providing his son with a stable living situation. this isnt to say i want ted and michelle back together #i jsut mean that being on one continent makes coparenting a lot more simple. #ted lasso #bea.txt

[tothechaos]

i saw an abba cover band tonight and honestly most of the performance was spent imagining what im sure is some absolutely insane interpersonal drama

#the performance was. fine the band carried it though #I JUST WORK IN ARTS AND CULTURE AND NOW IM A SNOB. I WORK IN A THEATER AND IN A LIVE MUSIC VENUE SO I HAVE OPINIONS. #their mixing was. strange right at the top one of the singers was clearly not getting enough of her own vocals in her monitor #FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY? HAZE NOTICE?? NOTHING???? #so her voice sounded really strained. which is something they should have fixed in soundcheck. #she slayed at the winner takes it all though ill give her that #this has just turned into me complaining but whatever #one guy on acoustic guitar who was doing The Least #the keys guy was pretty good #the other singer was. fine #the musicians though they really killed it theyre clearly insanely talented #and i just. why abba covers? i mean power to you chase your bliss and all that but they were clearly professionals and Really Fuckin Good #NO PRESHOW ANNOUNCEMENT EITHER. HOW LONG IS THE SHOW? IS THERE AN INTERMISSION? WHERE ARE YOUR EMERGENCY EXITS? #also i was a bit grumpy bc my voice is too low for a lot of abba :( and im not good enough to just. match the key or harmonize on the spot #except for the 'super trouper' bits i can do those #my tags are out of order and i cant fix them. goodnight.

[nekojetto]

I’m working on something 👌👀

Totally not related to this project

Oh btw I ended the first part /o/

#WIP #Supreme Strange #Doctor strange #What if...? #marvel #my art #exited to FINALLY END THIS SHIT

[cakesandsnouts]

Harold Pinter as Garcin in 'No Exit' by Jean Paul Sartre (1964)

#harold pinter #no exit #jean paul sartre #the Wednesday play #OH WE'RE IN IT NOW LADS! #I worked out how to make gifs on my new photoshop aaaaaaAHHHHH #I will never get anything done ever again :) #it was so strange watching him in this after seeing him in the birthday party #wild that he wrote TBP 6 years before he was in this #look I'm gonna go ahead and say it but pinter had no right being as handsome as he was #you're not allowed to be an amazing playwright AND a good actor AND good looking at the same time OKAY

[tony-the-mechanic]

Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange. Better quality version of this set.

#Doctor Strange #Stephen Strange #Dr Strange #DS:MoM #Multiverse of Madness #Wedding exit #Benedict Cumberbatch #Spoilers #Doctor Strange 2 #Marvel #MCU

[blitheringbongus]

Can't believe Scar saw a rapidly approaching, dishevled mumbo and went "he's so cute." I need to run unorthodox experiments on them.

IKR SAME OMG

They’re literally perfect for each other <- delusional

But seriously they have so much lore together in my silly brain and the few interactions they do have (WHICH HAS BEEN INCREASING A LOT LATELY MAY I ADD) has been FUELING the fire rapidly and gods gods GODS do I have many thoughts about them

#literally making an illustration type comic on Mumbos whole vampire timeline #Scar will be next with his vex schenanigans.. #the worst part is I always cycle like three to five different backstory’s in my brain for these two I CANNOT decide #but now that I’ve written a short ficlet (that no one will see unless asked) abt a few scenes of Mumbos backstory I think I’m pretty set on- #-his part #Scar tho??? no clue #I have the Hotguy backstory (which I daydream about WAY too much) I have the apocalypse backstory. I have the single player raised by villa- #-gers for years and years cuz his mom dropped him off in the single player world when Scar wasn’t conscidered a player yet since he was an- #-infant cuz it was a teen pregnancy and she was too scared to tell anyone so she just dropped him off with the villagers never to be seen #again. and since it was technically HER single player world when Scar DID grow up old enough to be recognized as a player he couldn’t #access any of the 'exit world' stuff or anything like that since it wasn’t his world #and then like a watcher or smth pulled him out of it so that Scar could be put through the horrors of gun related things for experimentstuff #and then there’s the backstory of where scar IS a watcher. like not a person turned watcher he was BORN (if you could say that) a watcher #and like the other watchers wanted to do an experiment of basically 'could a watcher if stripped of its memories and placed in a people- #-world be able to produce its own feelings and emotions?' and so they did that to Scar but they didn’t place him there as a baby no. they #placed him there as a full grown man so bros even more confused. and when the life series stuff started he had exactly one ☝️ dream per #Series and it was tiny little snippets of his watcher self but he didn’t know that it’s him but like he felt a strange pull towards these #dreams so that’s basically the reason why he kept coming back to the life games even tho they hurt him deeply as we all know #and then when he won secret life the secret keeper asked him what his wish was now that he’s won and he didn’t ask to know who he was and #where he came from (since he just appeared one day as a full grown man with no identification) since he’s made peace with that maybe it is #better not to know. so instead he asked abt the dreams he always has in these series and wth their abt and the context and stuff #and then BAM the secret keeper just drops all that information on him and he has an identity crises :D #anyways. I put both of these guys through many horrors I just have so many ideas for scar specifically. oh also there’s that backstory where #hes an assasin guy and he feels rlly guilty abt it when he gets split in half (gtws and btws) cuz like he has morals now apparently?? also #it explains the scammer stuff cuz he was a HUGE scammer bacl them #asks #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #mumbo jumbo #redscape

[devilfruitdyke]

hi :]

i'm calling you from the future

feel like a horror movie

tonight will be the night that we begin to ease the plugs out of the dam

is it funny like a ha-ha?

this town dont feel mine

#champion fall out boy. blackest balloon denzel curry. this is not an exit saves the day. more! more! more! baby strange. #aaand. be quiet and drive far away deftones. #this is definitely a poem! #these are 5 of the lines that have ever been put next to each other #i actually had no idea where the lines ended in that saves the day song so i went off of genius #bone ape tit 👍

[keepinventory]

generational politics continues to be the dumbest invention ever. you're having an existential crisis over people continuing to have kids after you were born? did you think you were the last child ever. be honest

#👽 < text tag #as soon as you say a word like 'millennials' or 'gen z' or 'boomers' (No distinction for x'ers because theyre lumped in with their parents? #it exits reality and transcends into this strange other world #where people's entire character and opinions are wholly formed based on What year they were born. like an even shittier astrology 'science' #because if youre one of those people that cares SO MUCH about generation titles the chances of your opinions being: #Boomers are Homophobic. My 45 year old Father is a boomer also. #MILLENNIALS ARE THE PERFECT GENERATION (I am a millennial) and GEN Z IS THE WORST! #OR: GEN Z IS THE PERFECT GENERATION (I am gen z) and MILLENNIALS ARE THE WORST! #Generation alpha called me a doodoo head :( I will write a thinkpiece on why everyone should stop having children. #are THROUGH the roof. so so so predictable and annoying and arbitrary. stop it stop talking about generations stop it stop it

[slavicafire]

of course november nostalgia is something I despise yet, apparently, run head first towards.

bought the same candles I used to light for baths when I was in junior high and high school. and as I am now in the bath, surrounded by them and the sweet-sour-cranberry smell of the dark red wax, I genuinely start to wonder why I do these things to myself.

#żmija gada #was high school a strange and horrible time? #yes #but I was also 17 #and life seemed wild and conquerable #I half expect exiting the bathroom and meeting my dead childhood cat.

[devilmass]

there is hardly a day that goes by that the preacher is not seen in the cemetery. it had been that way since he was but a boy and the habit, while true and passionate, was a long held tradition. he took to death like he took to god. rodrick finds his home amongst the tombstones and the ever approaching swamp water, amongst glowing amphibian eyes and cold, humid nights.

which is why it catches his attention immediately. the silence of the moment is almost alarming as the feeling that starts to catch fire in his chest. when rodrick stands, he throws the wire brush into the bucket at his feet, looking one way; the darker way, further from the house. nothing. still, the feeling that he shouldn't be here continues to writhe in his heart and without hesitating he turns his body at the hips, looking towards the big house.

a figure stands just inside the fence. impossible to miss. for a moment he think's it's rupert, but the stance is all wrong so he raises a hand in greeting, back to the setting sun.

“ hi - hey there ! ” a wave. the preacher takes a step forward, towards the cold feeling. “ what can i do y'for, boss ? ” a lil ghosty spooky ting for @id1eyouth

#id1eyouth #um to me in my heart..........the figure of someone standing just far enough away where u cant see their face but u can hear them #scary shit #as a preacher you probably get used to strange people on the property but rodrick is a coward you see #and he's got beef with the local opossum so #if his exit was not blocked best believe he'd try and book it

[criminalmindsgonewrong]

I just watched hit/run which means what? correct, I am not ok

#its a date #aaron #emilys exit gets me every time #pointed out the shawl parallel with beth to my mum and she was like oh yeah x #its so strange how its a jj centric episode and then the end focuses on Emily though #i mean i understand why #but an emily centric would have made mote sense #i guess after the lauren storyline though a lot of s7 referenced back to that #shes so badass though #they definitely showcased her in her 'last' episode's #always gets me 💔 #and the girly moment when theyre dancing and hotch is in the background grinning at them 🥺 #ALSO when will gets shot and they cant decide whether to go in and jj looks at hotch and says #shes reminding him #im your friend #not just your colleague #and hes my husband #and i feel like in that moment #she was asking him to remember haley #he jnows how she was feeling #sorry i have a lot of feelings about these epiaodes #hit/run

[navree]

anyway this is why, despite the fact that i firmly believe that dc has the better characters and the better stories and, for me at least, is the one that engages me more and that i'm the most emotionally invested in, marvel's the one that i'm currently even attempting to follow current continuity on, because i know they're doing fuckery with spiderman but doctor strange is my main marvel guy okay, and they brought clea back when she's my fave character of their's, and jed mackay is a good writer who both likes and understands these characters, so i'm really only interested in modern doctor strange and refusing to even look too closely at dc's current train wreck beyond what my mutuals are telling me is happening

#personal #when i tell you that i was about to reread nightwing secret files (for like the tenth time) #and then i saw tumblr user damianbugs's recap of the current zur en arr fuckery and fully exited out of the nightwing window #cuz i was too annoyed to even attempt to read a dc property without making myself mad #and yes i still haven't caught up at all with doctor strange 2023 so i might prove myself wrong on liking it once i start it again #but i loved death of doctor strange and strange 2022 and jed seems to really enjoy these characters #like idk i like dc more so it disappoints me more and at least marvel is giving me something #the only thing i've been reading when it comes to dc is old comics or fucking elseworlds stories #like the doom that came to gotham or specific earth 3 stuff or fucking wayne family adventures

[eithernich]

#feel more life in me than i have in years and it's scaring me #where did it come from #how long will it last i feel like a reanimated taxidermied cat #audio #strange strange hope only found in the place most hopeless #the gauges match and that pain's gonna swing back #all exits are entrances #and somewhere in the world there he sits eating cereal or something #i made a list of things i direly need to obtain despite still having negative 20 bucks to my name but i have this feeling like a #a money truck will crash into the telephone poll in front of my house and it won't be a problem and i can make my purchases and #uncork a bottle of 70 year old chianti over a mellotron by nightfall and get to work #some fiery change draws near that's how i feel #and he's where i was #“when that change comes it'll be just right just like it was” #my back hurts #Spotify

[morethanonepage]

i feel weird about it but i genuinely believe John Constantine is one of the FEW characters that should always be a white English guy

#his privilege is at least partly the point!!!! #even balanced against his mental health & his coming from a working class background #the fact that hes a handsome blonde white Englishman grants him the respectability to enter & exit certain situations #PLUS his being a certified disaster bisexual is intended to be a DECONSTRUCTION of the posh white brit who fixes everything easily #if you cast a black or brown actor in the part & set it in England or the US #you have to do a lot of work to justify it OR opt to just make john like #a standard average magical guy/dr strange derivative #even the Constantine movie's effort to exotify Keanu John by making him like weirdly explicitly catholic #which i grant you is NOT MUCH but in america it sorta is in that context esp when linked to #all the mexican catholic symbolism in the movie #which i think was a bad choice honestly #*keanu is white passing POC too so

[anbroids]

hs interest dwindling from rabid derangement to casual interest… wistful sigh

#the insanity and escapism was fun while it lasted #hoping i find the passion to continue writing but taking a break for a little while sounds nice after finishing current project #i think i’d like to spend some time drawing and maybe rereading #unfortunately feeling like i am at a dead end of creativity and excitement #have been gradually feeling a strange clarity since around november? like slowly exiting a fugue state lol #it’s definitely a melancholy feeling #weird sensation of going throughout my day and having normal thoughts that arent 90% media related for the first time since like april #terrible news... rotating homestuck in my brain for half a year no longer supplying same amount of drug chemical... oh well #still enjoy it and obviously can't shut up about it but nostalgic for the months i spent utterly consumed by it and so excited to create