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Parents should not be reading your journals

Parents should not be searching through your trash 

Parents should not be snooping on your private social media messages 

Parents should not be taking your bedroom door off 

Parents should not be invading your privacy 

#as a child who experienced this kind of invasion of privacy #as a parent of a 14 year old #i BEG you #parents #IT IS NOT NORMAL TO INVADE THE PRIVACY OF OTHER HUMANS #violating consent and trust by depriving your kids of any private life or feelings will not benefit ANYONE #it literally teaches them that its normal for them to have no autonomy and leaves them vulnerable to analogous situations in the future #it will also drive an even bigger rift between you and your kids #don't do it #i was honest with my parents until they started invading my privacy #which was really early on btw #and it ruined our already rocky relationship

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a conversation with the mirror under a burnt out bathroom light

one day maybe you’ll smile back at me first

maybe one morning this bathtub won’t be a hearse

maybe one night this sink won’t be a eulogy

the spring blooms won’t need the water from my grey eyes

the summer rain won’t flood the nothing inside that’s everything

the fall leaves might just change color & decide to stay

the winter snow won’t bury my heart completely

but today you tell me everything I need to hear but nothing

I can believe

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Prime and C-137 really are mirror images. C-137 came close to becoming him in season three and parts of season four. If he didn't have that shred of humanity that pulled him back from the edge, he would've become a grinning maniac like Prime--no question.

C-137's getting help now, but I think Prime was beyond saving. He would've just smirked through therapy. Prime was a coldhearted monster who didn't miss empathy, if he ever had it to begin with.

#rick and morty #unmortricken #c 137 #prime rick

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crunch munch

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I drew one of my favorite shots from Star Trek the motion picture. 🖖🖖🖖

#legit thought this was a screenshot #Star Trek

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* * * News Interruption * * *

#shit time to assimilate a new hobby

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none of it needs be this way in truth. [insp]

#I’m crying #jujutsu kaisen #jjkedit

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I accidentally follow people so much on this site that i dont know who half the people on my dash are

#same tho #hi tony

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revamped morty prime n rick c137 from this bc i wasnt happy w how i drew them. not repeating most hcs mentioned there but elaborating on a few

#rick and morty

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We don’t talk enough about Kirk getting a ‘physical’ while he ignores a red alert (on purpose for all anyone knows) MAKING THESE NOISES

#Star Trek tos #star trek gay

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I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

#I will forever reblog this #whistling in the dark

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One must imagine Sisyphus had infinite spoons.

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I have seen things that you humans cannot even imagine.

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Star Trek Beyond (2016), dir. Justin Lin

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I feel like people who write off Kirk as a "womanizer" don't really draw the lines in the right places.

To me the division is not "man who has a lot of sex | man who doesn't." It's "man who treats women as objects to collect and enjoy | man who genuinely sees women as people and loves them."

It's the post scarcity future, I'm sure there's a vaccine for every STI and we know their birth control works great. There's no reason not to have sex if you want to have it. There shouldn't be shame involved in having lots of it.

But if you watch Kirk carefully, he does not ever treat women like collectibles or disposables. He interacts with them very much as people. Some he flirts with and it's not serious (which they know). Some he's trying to help. Some manipulate him, which sucks. And some he presumably has sex with, but only because he genuinely likes them as people and wants to do this fun thing with them.

None of this fits the idea of a womanizer as a man who takes advantage, pretends to be in love only long enough to score, cheats, gropes his employees, can't see women as people because he's only looking to get as many of them into bed as possible.

So I wish people would stop painting him as that. He's a flirt, he falls for people easily, he's noticeably horny, but he's never disrespectful of women. The writers were very careful about that. They saw the world around them full of that kind of caddish behavior and wrote a man who would never. They show Kirk being tempted by Rand, Marlena, etc., and then making the deliberate choice not to act that way. Because they were making a point about how a hero acts. We even see him give Charlie a lecture about how to treat women, and it's a lesson he personally follows. It's a bit heavy handed if anything.

And then people watch like half of one episode and go "oh yeah ha ha that Kirk, such a sixties womanizer hero, so backward, I'd never watch that." I thought that initially before my recent rewatch, but....that is simply not what's in the show.

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AHHHH BOOKS OF OURS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY ( @queerliblib ) I AM SO EXCITED.

If you don't know what the QLL is this is a great chance to find out!! They're an online library of hand-curated queer e-books with really awesome range (non-fiction! fiction! many genres and disciplines!), and they keep growing! Anyone in the US can become a member FOR FREE. From their webpage: Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.

They're also a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, and completely funded by donations (we donate a pittance monthly, I wish we could do more).

I HIGHLY recommend you go to their webpage here to find out more, and you can follow their tumblr (tagged above) too!

And if you didn't know - all our published anthologies to-date are available through multiple library apps, including Libby (if selected by the library) and Hoopla (should be available to all libraries with Hoopla subscriptions). So even if you aren't a member of QLL, you might want to check your local library e-book system to see if you can read our books. Titles potentially available at your library include our anthologies Add Magic to Taste, She Wears the Midnight Crown, He Bears the Cape of Stars, Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" and And Seek (Not) to Alter Me: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," and our stand-alone titles To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh and Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley. There's more on the way, too, so be on the lookout.

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@el-shab-hussein @huzni