Full-frontal Nerdity

it was @amberyartsy​‘s birthday yesterday, and as a fellow asher stan, I wanted to write her a little something short and sweet. ;u; hope you enjoy <3

redacted asmr: asher/babe, rated teen, 1.3k wordcount

 “I can think of better things we could be doing, babe.”

 “Yeah?” Their lips are curled into that infectious grin he loves, their eyes bright with it, and they look so fucking good right now, profile cast in the flickering glow of the fairy lights. “Like what?”

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There’s nothing Asher loves more than a night in with his mate.

Curled up amongst the blankets wearing matching snuggies - the ones Milo had bought them last solstice as a gag gift, but the joke’s on him, as they both look rockin’ in ‘em.

His babe, especially. Although it never took much to make them look good. In fact, it took nothing at all. They just had to look at him, sweet lips curling into a soft smile, and he was moon-eyed all over again.

Their eyes are on him now, warm and glittering in the fairy lights he’s strung up around them - pillow fort version three point oh, now with improved structural stability! so it doesn’t collapse on top of them halfway through the film like last time.

He’s pretty sure he’s got the ratio of pillow anchors to blankets right this time. Ninety five percent sure. Just within the limits of scientific acceptability, as his mate would say.

“Ash.” They’re looking at him now, a subtle brow raised above the steaming thermos they hold clutched between both hands, and right. The movie.

“We’re going back to a classic. Generations.”

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The mighty,

Women (and many men) fought for decades with hospitals to even have men allowed in the delivery room during the early stages of labor, which can last for several hours, and hospitals only began to give in to their requests in the 1960s but even then they would be kicked out of the room by hospital staff before the actual birth took place. So many of the couples watching the show would have had to go through labor without having/being allowed to support their spouse regardless of their wishes. Having the child’s father present for the birth only began to happen in the 1970s and 1980s. Which means most people watching this show either went through birth without the support of their spouse, were not allowed to support their spouse during the birth of their child, or their own mother’s went through that during their birth.

Moreover, a lot of kids watched this show. MLK himself contacted Nichelle Nichols and asked her to stay on the show when she was considering leaving, because “you don’t have a Black role, you have an equal role,” and there wasnt many Black role models on tv. I can only imagine how Black kids, Asian kids, and mixed race or mixed culture kids felt seeing people like them on tv. Hell, seeing Uhura on screen is what inspired Whoopi Goldberg as a little girl.

Like, all the years of anti-Chinese racism in the US? Sulu. Anti-Japanese sentiments left over after WW2? Sulu. Korean War in 1950-52? Sulu. The Vietnam War, with Johnson in 1965 (a year before TOS started airing) choosing to start sending American troops into the conflict? Sulu.

Sulu was Roddenberry’s desperate attempt to show all Asian people as inherently worthy, inherently human, and yeah, he probably put kind of too much on Sulu’s shoulders, but it was the 1960s and Roddenberry fucking cared about representation, so he did what he could.

Scotty was third in line for the captain’s chair. The only non-Kirk who had the con more then him was Spock.

He was smart, he was a *ranked* crewmen, he was a gentleman, he wasn’t a skirt chaser, and he was capitol L loyal. The only time he got into a fight was when someone both went after his Captain, AND his Ship.

And he was Scottish. 

Also, it’s very worth noting that the “token minority character” label doesn’t apply in any way to these characters.

If the kid receives support during/after the traumatic event, they get stronger.

If the kid does not receive support during/after the traumatic event, they get fucked up.