they that Level at my Abuses reckon up their own

Categorizing the relationships First Officers have with their Captains

why do i feel like so often in Star Trek the dynamic is:

So no shade to Discovery or Picard but the main reason I think I’m loving Strange New Worlds is because they seem to know that yes, Star Trek is about high minded discussions of ethics, philosophy and human nature (not to mention the Drama) but it is also about Shenanigans. Tomfoolery. The kind of hijinks you’d half expect to see out of a fan fic.

Anybody else frequently feel haunted by a specific line of episode 1 of DS9, Emissary, in which a man tries to explain the linear nature of human life to non-linear entities as they take him through his memories, attempting to understand, only to end up coming back over and over to the moment he failed to reach his wife before her death, and when he asks why they keep bringing him here they tell him “you exist here,” and he finally breaks down and admits that part of him never left this moment, and, understanding, they gently say to him:

How queer is tumblr? (Gender Identity)

“revolutionary skyscraper”

i’m so ticked off with london actually. they have a building nicknamed the CHEESEGRATER for obvious reasons, another named the SHARD OF GLASS bc it’s fucking pointy

what. what what WHAT

NIGHTJARS

I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.