New Pearl. No Plan.

this is what solarpunk means to me. You find a printer. You fix it. You ask someone to please take it off their account and then they do and let you know. Beautiful. 100/10, wish printers didn't have to be tied to accounts in the first place but this is nice.

I don’t want to live in NYC (too crowded/expensive) or Israel (too hot) but every time I hear about a cool kosher restaurant there you get me 🤏 this much closer to changing my mind

I would actually literally probably die if I had to live either place. I need to live somewhere polar. Just wish there was a bunch of Jewish food in the cold places.

Living in Monsey is def not for me, but when I saw the ad for the kosher Korean bbq place, I did have a moment when I reconsidered that position lol

You know what, pals, and I think I’m among friends when I say this, I really really like DS9.

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

Sometimes fandom is fun

these are all *chef’s kiss* and I want to add one more: 4) left a comment a while ago, comes back and leaves another comment on the same fic, telling you that they’re coming back to reread the fic: angels. blessings. lifesavers.

I owe all 4 my actual life

You can have harmful beliefs and harmful impulses and harmful urges and not be evil. You can make yourself aware that these things are harmful and take steps to correct yourself and not be evil. You can walk around with the urge to kick puppies all goddamn day and as long as you are capable of redirecting that impulse to something benign then it doesn’t matter. I don’t know how else to say this

Yes, but you are missing the part, where this is okay for everybody, except for me.

As someone who has struggled with that exact thought, I personally try to kick it back with “if it’s weird to think I’m specially and uniquely better than everyone else, it’s equally weird to think I’m specially and uniquely worse”

I do love this episode for saying “oh no the EMH isn’t here for nostalgia bait, he’s here because he has a story to be told and we are going to tell it because this man watched everything he ever knew die slowly including the Federation that built him and now that the Federation is recovering he’s going to have to reckon with his 900 year life span or risk imploding on himself emotionally.”