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Baby lion roaring for the first time

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I have often attempted to imagine myself in Spock’s position in moments like these, when Kirk touches him like this, but I’ve only now come to the conclusion that what I imagined was wrong.

See, with humans, being touched intimately is exciting, it alights your senses, makes you feel alive. You tingle. It takes your breath away.

But think about pon farr. Every 7 years of an adult male’s life, his blood boils. It gets so bad, in fact, that without physical intimacy, it can overwhelm and kill him. In The Search for Spock, when the teenage Spock was on Genesis and had just reached pon farr. He was shaking, his blood boiling, and Saavik came in and touched him. And he stopped. So in Vulcans, physical touches don’t excite; they calm.

Every time Kirk has ever touched Spock, he didn’t tingle, his breath wasn’t taken away, he didn’t get excited; He was soothed, his breath returned, his nerves subsided. It was helpful, certainly, when he was recovering from his mind meld with a murderous machine and Kirk touched him. It brought him down to earth, he was able to focus.

He probably wouldn’t be able to even understand humans’ obsession with intimacy knowing how it affects them. Such a passionate race, hot-blooded and illogical. Humans are not Vulcans.

Rebekah Jones was fired from the Florida Department of Health because she refused to report altered data. Florida is now actively deleting cases and hiding data in order to move forward with Phase 3 of reopening, despite actually currently leading the country in COVID-19 cases. It is likely my state will become the new epicenter of the virus in the US, and more tourists and locals are here, without masks, every single day.

We are breaking records for new cases each day even with the state government hiding information from the public. They are letting us die so the shops can reopen. I am absolutely disgusted, but not surprised with the (lack of) leadership from our Trump-loving leader. IMPEACH GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS AND STOP LETTING PEOPLE DIE.

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