Insaneway

GREETINGS J/C SHIPPERS, my first J/C art zine has finally dropped! 10 pages of full-color illustrations by yours truly. Get it on:

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HoloJaneway: if you need help look up the real Janeway

HoloJaneway: (when introducing herself) I'm based off Captain Kathryn Janeway one of the most highly decorative officers in Starfleet

I will never be over the way that HoloJaneway adores Kathryn Janeway. Every Voyager episode that had 2 Janeways would have them in debates and all "I know how you think so" ready to fight the other (and I mean that as a they will work together but also be happy to fight the other to protect their own crew and THE other crew over Janeway behaviors) Meanwhile, HoloJaneway is out there like "have you meet Janeway? She's great"

And Janeway is such a great role model because she was fully in acceptance and in love with her feminine side (even though she insisted on that whole no love and martyrdom theme but whatever). She was never trying to me more masculine. She embraced her femininity and led with it, not despite of it. And there is so much Kathryn Janeway still has to offer that I desperately want to see it.

What I'm imagining is something like what The Expanse did with Avasarala. Give me Janeway as a heavyweight galactic diplomat in a room full of admirals and ambassadors.

I want her to tell some raging, male politician "oh I'm sorry, it was not my intention to offend your tender sensibilities, Jeffrie," deliberately forgoing whatever title he holds

Hollywood is terrified of women over 60. Over 70 is basically uncharted territory unless you're Judi Dench or whatever. I want Star Trek, a franchise literally built on the premise that the future is better, to have the guts to put a woman in her seventies at the center of a political thriller and let her be the most formidable person in every single scene.

Don't give me pew pew pew starship exploding pew pew pew the world is ending pew pew pew borg borg pew pew pew

Give me Admirals Janeway with grey hair and and absolutely zero patience for bullshit diplomacy.

But in the case of Janeway and Chakotay, there's often a lot of space around them, and yet they're glued to each other.

I read that woman’s biography (Mosaic) and her autobiography (The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway), and listened to her later tell her own crew of various adventures like sneaking out of the house and walking miles in a thunderstorm after losing a tennis match.

woman almost died cave diving because her friends chickened out and she went with a boy instead. got a commendation for sneaking off campus because she saved an old woman’s life in the process. built a replica of da vinci’s flying machine so she could pilot it onto the roof of the dean’s office.

Kathryn Janeway is a scientist in the way Indiana Jones is an archaeologist. undoubtedly qualified, but there’s gonna be a caper about it.

rather than view her statement as an outright lie or a bad characterization by the writers, however, the funnier option is that she thinks of herself as rather introverted, withdrawn, and nerdy. That she is so deep in the trenches of her own mental landscape that she doesn’t realize that other people view her pursuit of science and diplomacy as acts of extreme charismatic recklessness.

Chakotay: *don't laugh don't laugh, she doesn't know, it's not fair*

When it comes to Chakotay, Janeway has always had a very touching bedside manner...

And years later, Chakotay finally allows himself to touch her, too.

I hope you enjoy! ❤️

When Q and Picard interact, Q wants to make Picard better.