freedom is a length of rope

When they mention the fabled Gay Spock episodes, I didn't expect the equally as fabled Sex Pollen episode to be one... I mean, the entire premise is he falls for a woman... But then of course the show reveals that the monster of this week is "what if you finally belonged in society but it was under a false mask of comp-hetness and in the end the only way to become free was to be overwhelmed by need for your Captain and then swear your devotion to him and decide it's better to live in partial ostricisation, shame, and impossibility than be someone you aren't, than be without him." Like oh okay so it was a Gay Spock episode.

star trek lore gave us a Vulcan term for a soul mate bond so deep that it transcends both normal friendship and romance, entering a realm of total acceptance, understanding and love, and then made spock use it to describe kirk. he said it in earnest, in the privacy of his own mind, while agonizing over the fact that he'd never see him again. but it turned out in the end that his connection to kirk was so strong, it just could not be severed. which could mean nothing

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more” is such a beautiful, profound, and real quote that you’d think it came from 1970s spirk fanfiction but it was actually written by Jane Austen

it’s so embarrassing to watch tos for the first time and be like, whoa !! 👀spock and kirk❓is anyone else kinda getting 😏some vibes 😳 as if they aren’t the founding fathers. as if they didn’t build the yaoi dimension with their bare hands. as if the current cathedrals we call home aren’t predicated upon their humble shadow puppets on the walls of plato’s fucking cave, and as if our ancestors were fools to fall for those puppets instead of geniuses, innovators, and prophets ????

louis du pointe du lac if he was born in the 90s: it was the two thousands... a new age, not only on the calendar, but across the ramshackle collage of fields and mountains and strip malls we somehow had the gumption to call a country. the era of the glossy Seventeen magazine, pilfered from a friend's older sister, the secrets of a womanhood we could only imagine grasping spilling out from its pages in a private, sordid puddle that we wished desperately to drown in. the siren call of claire's, a klaxon of childish hedonism, luring us with its gauche, sparkling fuschias and and royal purples and ever-present ocean deep ceruleans... an era of bedazzlement, not only on our clothes but on our TV screens, our magazines, the pulsating paisleys of the deLiA's catalogue promising us a future where a beaded curtain could bring a touch of Bohemian mystery to our banal, suburban homes...

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

just in case anyone was wondering where i stand. i've always thought chappell roan should be meaner and i think we should give hudson a gun!

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

It's so fucking crazy that the Star Trek episode where you first see Spock do the Vulcan salute that would become emblematic of the entire franchise, and the first time you hear him say "live long and prosper," is also the one where he has to return to his home planet to Fuck Or Die but then gets manipulated into a pro wrestling match with Kirk that apparently serves the same function as the fuck option and totally cures him. And this aired as the season two premiere! It was the first time audiences saw Chekov! And it's the one with top surgery Kirk. It truly has it all. Greatest TV episode ever made.

the problem with liking video games is that the gaming industry is genuinely so evil and needs to be wiped out