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STAR TREK CREATOR CHALLENGE

Week 4 - Favorite Mirrorverse

The cosmos has lost its brilliance, and everywhere I turn, there's fear.

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[Image description: six gifs in constrasting blue and red from Star Trek: Discovery, focusing on the Mirror Universe.

Gif 1: Blended gif of Emperor Georgiou and Mirror Burnham. Georgiou is wearing a large crown that resembles the sun, while Burnham looks tensed as she turns to look at Georgiou.

Gif 2: Blue gif of Burnham being put in an agonizer which is a cylindrical cell. Two guards walk away from the agonizer, and Georgiou steps forward.

Gif 3: Blended gif of an overhead shot of the Imperial throne room. Burnham is dragging Lorca toward the throne, the crowd watching in. On the right side of the gif, Lorca is talking animatedly.

Gif 4: Red gif of an overhead shot showing Stamets laying in a pool of his own blood, dead. He is holding a dagger in one hand, and there are ribbons around him.

Gif 5: Blended gif of Owosekun and Detmer. On the left, Detmer is talking, she seems proud of herself. On the right, Owosekun watches something, her suspicion growing.

Gif 6: Blue gif of Tilly sitting on the captain chair of the Discovery, she is in full Mirror gear, her hair straightened. She is talking to someone off-screen.

in the UK, if 100k sign a a government petition it will be brought to Parliament and debated. y'all know this country is suffering from some 80s-style bigotry right now, and this is one symptom: almost 200k fuckholes have come together to force the government to discuss whether it is 'appropriate' to tell children that queer people exist. this is a big symbolic victory for them. and i am burning with fury.

nobody asked for this but i'm absolutely feral about this because listen keyla and joann are straight up elemental i'm about to put my entire degree into this analysis

keyla detmer is fire. from the surface, from the way her hair glints in the sun to how it moves when she's guiding the discovery through evasive maneuvers and impossible jumps through space and time. the way her smile crackles when achieving the impossible and she lights up the room. all she touches she brings to life with a heat unmatched, and those around her feel safe, warmed by the light and protection of the flame. but just as gently as she so prods she can destroy with a word or the flick of a finger, raging without sanction and burning everything in her path. those in it are taken in by her beauty and surrender to her flame, the promises of safety, only to discover the extent of their damages after the fire has moved through.

keyla detmer is air. the absence of weight in her voice in the aftermath of a technological victory, her guidance of the discovery through the unknown and beyond. how she may slip through space so easily without being seen, without a sound, lethal with just the slightest of pressures. devastating when cold and harsh, met with desire when warm and gentle. the contexts of her life require only the most delicate handlings, easily changed with the flick of a finger or the minute turn of the wrist. she is ever-changing in direction and strength, capable of relief and bliss and destruction all on her whimsy. necessary for survival but can be deadly in abundance.

joann owosekun is the earth. firm, solid, built from the roots and distinctly proud of where they sprouted from. grounding of those around her and of enough love to encourage them to flower into their best selves. try, she tells them, and challenge the universe to the mischief of your own making. she is the caretaker of multitudes of beings nourished by those in which she lent a hand, whether it be oxygen tanks or an ailing captain suffering from a phaser wound. she is calming, a reminder of home. but when disturbed, her hurt is inevitable. it will swallow you whole, bury you so deep you may never see the light of day in your lifetime, crush you under the weight of your mistakes and ensure you cannot live to tell the tale. it may be the worst mistake you ever make, for when you are swallowed by her hurt, she buries herself in it with you.

joann owosekun is water. of healing hands and cooling ires in the boxing ring when egos run a tad on the inflamed. of gentle eddies and affirmations of confidence, soft touches and nudges towards the best self. the one without fail-safes. she is of calm and of excitement, going with the flow as it occurs on her viewscreen. she is a balm after a battle, a beautiful sight for a woman looking for signs of life. she is of complex connections and composed of infinite beauty. she is of a force consistently underestimated and easily proven as lethal; one minute, she may be at your ankles, the next, she will be depriving you of precious air should she so choose. she is to be awed. but she is to be feared should you slash the lines that bind her together.

I’m finally posting this for Star Trek day!!

Last year I took my first AP art class and decided to base my year long project around what representation has looked like in Star Trek throughout the years. There are six pieces that each represent an individual show and the characters within them. They all come together to form the IDIC. This project was a long time in the making and I’ve put off posting it until now!

Happy Star Trek day y’all

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

Nichelle Nichols has passed away. 

Martin Luther King once convinced her to continue on as Uhura when she was about to quit. He told her how she was a role model for so many people and had to stay on. He rightfully recognized her as a trailblazer and the inspiration she continued to be. 

She was the first black woman to go to space on tv (and her impact on representation on TV should also not be understated) but she also campaigned for NASA applications of diverse voices. Her campaign led to the recruitment of Sally Ride (first woman in space), col. Guion Bluford (first black astronaut in NASA), and Mae Jeminson (first black woman in space).

o captain! my captain!

Image one is from A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, it says, “Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”

Image two is from Star Trek: Discovery, it shows Pike as he holds up a glowing crystal, he says, “I’m not going to abandon the things that made me what I am because of a future that contains an ending I haven’t forseen for myself.”

Image three is from Snow and Dirty Rain by Richard Siken, it says, “'We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to to hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.”

Image four is from Star Trek: Discovery, it shows Burnham as she stands in an open lecture hall and says, “The only way to defeat fear is to tell it 'no’”

Image five is from The Old Astronomer by Sarah Williams, it says, “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

Image six is from Star Trek: Voyager, it shows Janeway as she says, “fear only exists for one purpose: to be conquered.”

Image seven is from Invictus by William Ernest, it says, “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”