Samsonite V3

spock is the greatest character of all time because he lives in a society without homophobia but managed to reinvent internalized homophobia from first principles

i was so naive in thinking that spirk shippers were exaggerating. what the fuck is wrong with these two.

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there

LOCK THE FUCK IN MUTUALS AND FOLLOWERS SPOCK CANNOT BE LOSING HERE

janeway’s love of collecting young adult mentees + ambivalence towards actual children is such a fun combination of character traits and ime very realistic for a subset of highly ambitious, highly independent, highly career-driven people. she wants someone mostly grown who she can help realize their final form. which is a perfectly good desire most of the time it’s just that they’re all stuck in psychological hell on the voyage of the damned so that final form keeps getting twisted from normal things like “competent starfleet officer” to “god’s most favourite sacrificial lamb” and “perfectly tuned cog in the ruthless machine that is voyager”