#fallynleaf

Oh you absolute sweetheart! Yes, thank you, we are (almost) all doing much better! My sister and I have improved to the point of returning to work and helping our parents as they recover. My mother and grandmother are slowly rebuilding their strength but otherwise doing well... and my bull-headed father just returned to his teaching job after 48 hours without fever because according to him that means he's perfectly healed, so we'll see how depleted he is this evening (a.k.a. the degree to which we all chorus "WE TOLD YOU SO" as he collapses/relapses.)

I forgot that you lost your grandfather. I again extend my condolences and best wishes to you and your family, and thank you so much for your care and concern for me and my family. We were very lucky and very blessed.

it’s wild to me because so many of the attempts at making newer trek are imo so much more shallow than old trek. lol. i feel like a lot of the nuance that was in old trek has been lost because people go for something much flashier and faster-paced. maybe it’s because the perception of star trek in pop culture has influenced people’s perceptions of the series and people have conflated tropes that it started (which now look different in their current iteration) with it

I do partly agree with this, which I’ll be talking about in my posts while i rewatch Discovery. Discovery seems to want to apologize for the talking scenes with action scenes, whereas the talking scenes are vastly more interesting. BUT, as far as Discovery goes, it’s still got time to grow. Most Trek is pretty rough in the first couple seasons. 

why don’t they ever hire furries to design these movies

anything with t-posing

anything where lorum ipsum appears

in la noire where sometimes peoples faces are green at the beginning of a cutscene

in super mario 64 mario will, very rarely, shoot up into the air with no player input and nobody has ever managed to figure out why that happens (doesnt necessarily count because the theory is that it might not be an actual bug but instead the result of cosmic radiation hitting the n64)

(cont.) there are a couple existing video essays about the Golden Lovers story out there. if you're completely new to wrestling, i recommend starting with Super Eyepatch Wolf's video "Professional Wrestling is Stupid and Beautiful and I Love It," which talks about the GL story at the end, but explains how pro wrestling works, first. the best summary of the story (albeit out of date) is Rachel's twitter thread and medium article titled "that one tweet thread about the Golden Lovers, annotated"

(cont.) whether or not the Golden Lovers story is "canon" is a complicated question. neither Kenny nor Kota are explicitly "out," but they're also in careers where that can be complicated, and Kenny has basically all but said that he's bisexual. the story also blends real life and kayfabe (wrestling fiction) to a point where it's impossible to determine exactly how much of it is real and how much of it isn't. it's also made complicated by company politics, lol, and the pandemic hasn't helped

(cont.) but the Golden Lovers story is still going on! it's very much just in the background, but there are hints in Kenny's costume choices and Undertale promos (yes, really), and both Kenny and Kota are still referencing each other in the moves that they use. pro wrestling is actually incredibly rewarding to watch if you're into close reading and analysis, because it basically requires that level of attention in order to fully follow the storylines. it also weaves together RPF and fiction

(cont.) to bring this full circle, Kenny is actually a huge Star Trek fan haha, and before his last singles match with Kota in 2018, he made a tweet explicitly comparing it to Kirk and Spock having to fight each other in Amok Time. sorry for sending so many asks in a row! if you want more information about this or other LGBTQ things in wrestling, or just about wrestling in general, lol, feel free to shoot me an ask! so much of wrestling fandom basically gets passed down through word of mouth

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I tell you, I did not have ‘decade long gay love story as told by professional wrestlers’ on my Bingo card. 

I’ll definitely have to read through that Twitter thread when I get the chance. And one day I’d love to watch that explanation of pro-wrestling because I’ve never had any idea wtf was going on there (but people seemed to have fun with it so I didn’t judge).

your point about liking McKirk the most out of the trio ships in AOS is something that i feel as well, and it surprised me, too, lol, though i’m coming at it from the perspective of a spirk fan and not a spones one, haha. how did AOS mess up Spock’s character that much??

It makes me so upset! Like I said in the tags, I love Quinto, I love Spock, but the way he’s written in AOS is just AWFUL. His character makes no sense at all. He doesn’t have any of Spock’s (often misunderstood) kindness or internal conflict. He bluntly states that he’s Sad about his Planet. The relationship with Uhura just... they break up constantly but there is never any indication of why they’re together or why they get BACK together. Just never-ending stupid reasons to break up?

And, like, I can’t stand Spirk as a ship, but I do love their friendship in the series, and I’m so upset that they did it so poorly in favor of a gross, toxic manliness contest.

When I watch TOS, I get sad for Spock if he slightly furrows his little eyebrows because he’s sad and can’t express it. But in AOS, I laugh at him when he’s screaming in pain! It’s... it’s bad.