What is it you see that is so endearing in stock ?
I really like the character (although i'm not part of the fandom) and I would love for him to be explained or talked about !
Do you link him to cybergoth and overall science fic spaceyness ?
My love for him goes farther back than my gothiness, I watched some TOS in high school and mostly forgot about it, but got back into it over covid. Upon rewatch something just really resonated with me, I chalk it up to the solar punkness of it acting as an escape during a very tumultuous time. Quarantine had me feeling a type of way and got me reflecting a lot on my identity. Up until then I had been pretty much identifying as a romance and sex repulsed aroace. This is an identity that I struggle with to this day, and I resonate with Spock's emotional constipation and his battle with that throughout the narrative. He is after all a very queer-coded character, and even from the perspective of him being interpreted as strictly homosexual I also could identify with that as I somewhat view myself as transmasc. Again, still an identity I'm reckoning with to this day (I like to say that if I woke up as a Man tomorrow morning, I'd have no issue with it).
What I really love about him is that despite him putting up this facade of emotionless vulcanness, his 'human' nature pokes through in very entertaining and cathartic ways. Usually it's his sassiness and bitchiness, which I have a lot of fun playing up for a drag alter ego of his character I've created ('Mr. Cock' lol). His character has been analysed many many times throughout the fandom's history, and I understand that every person's interpretation of him is going to differ, but that's what I enjoy about fandom. Sure, my idea of him is probably not very accurate to the character the showrunners were trying to portray, and I'm sure we're all guilty of picking and choosing only the parts of canon that suit us best, but at the end of the day I find this more of an exercise in self reflection via a pop culture icon and doing inner work in a less confrontational way.
Since my obsession with him began, I've realised that I'm not so much sex and romance repulsed as I am indifferent, even favourable at times. There's a lot in my past that has shaped me into the person I am today, and frankly using Spock as a proxy to sort all that out is cheaper than therapy lmao
