blorbo zone :)

i do think people need to be like, more aware of the distinction between "there are no women in this story because the author is sexist" and "there are no women in this story because the author is saying something about the absence of women"

in the movie The Thing (1982), a film about an isolated all-male group wherein they are the only people they have contact with and yet are so resistant to homosocial contact that they are unable to tell the difference between their friend and an alien that has replaced them, what could it mean that the only "woman" in the movie is a computer that the main character destroys in the first act after he can't beat it?

jim kirk, classic novel connoisseur perhaps of all time, somehow bagging alien mr. darcy is just. the best for him. like of course the person he married talks like a jane austen novel love interest. jim swoons for that shit

#coteof signaling that this kirk het romance is different and important by having spock seethe with jealousy the whole time was. well.#a choice. but not as much of a choice as this! having it be /spock/ who asks what this incredibly incisive woman thinks of them#and edith being ‘well you specifically are incredibly obvious. your fate is obviously to orbit this man forever’#even before she’s like 'still figuring out YOUR deal tho’ at kirk their faces are just… damn.#gif#edith keeler#james t kirk#spock#otp: the premise#star trek: the original series#star peace#c: who do i have to be#c: i object to intellect without discipline (X)