#st rant

“baitslop” “corporate bait” “I didn’t know tumblr loved queerbait ship so much” etc etc

wasn’t tumblr built on queerbait?? /hj

the byler hate is unjustified, no one cares if you don’t like it but saying “it’s just queerbait/it’s not even canon!”

firstly, blaming the audience for “falling” for queerbait.. it was designed for people to root for them. that’s why it’s a dirty marketing tactic. sorry that people genuinely thought the well developed couple would explicitly end up a couple

secondly, 90 billion percent of ships aren’t canon or will never be canon, who cares. besides, byler was left ‘up to interpretation’ while already being 50% canon soo

in other words, none of it really matters, it’s a good ship regardless and just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s bad. sorry i don’t ship the semi canon mockups from a cancelled reboot that never met public eye from 1866 and instead the characters from a show I actually enjoyed

btw this post is overdramatised and not meant to offend anyone, in the end im just complaining like everyone else lol 😭 ship what you want, ignore ships you don’t like, act cool for not liking the popular shows, gatekeep your faves and most importantly: blame all your problems on the dark reunion!!

Since season 2 (at least) of Strange New Worlds it was clear the bioessentialism and overall far right (I refuse to call them conservative cause the only thing they conserve is their power to make others miserable) vibes in SNW were a prelude of what it was later to come not only in the US or UK politics panorama, but a worldwide pandemic of fascism.

With the recent SNW interview with Celia Rose Gooding saying "This is Paramount's Trek", when asked about future LGBTQ+ rep in the show (if any). And the announcement of Paramount itself of this "Trek Lives Here" promo video with references to all Trek (including AOS) but not Prodigy. It's seeming clearer and clearer to me how they (Paramount) want to establish themselves as the only legit canon source that determines what and how ST is, and nobody else.

Because "it's Paramount's Trek", which is, if you stop to think about it, a very weird thing to say since... as far as I know... ST has always been in Paramount, right? And they have gloated about it A LOT. Even if they've tried to tank it from day one and basically every step of the way. And even when they took Prodigy and all TOS and TNG movies from Paramount+ but chickened out on the movies just after people started to complain and cancel subscriptions.

Idk it's like saying "This is natural water" ... is there any other kind of water? Is there any other kind of water I don't know about? Is this really not so natural so you feel the need to stress it to make me feel better? What are you hiding from me?!

I know this was most likely Celia just trying to say, in a way that wouldn't get her fired, that Paramount, as we've obviously seen, doesn't care shit about LGBTQIA+ rep and is more busy in fact trying to get rid of it at all costs (see what they're doing to Spock), but not because she supports it. Still it feels like Paramount itself told her to say those words to remind us who's Star Trek's "owner" and therefore ruler of canon and fandom and determines forever and ever the absolute truth about it.

To me the rampant number of canon dissonances (to put it in a polite way) in the show are a feature, not a bug. In fact I think that Paramount has been trying very hard to bury TOS as if it was a shameful thing (which ofc it has its flaws, like all Trek) they want to detach themselves of, as if it had nothing to do with them. But only to replace it with their new shit, which is... ironically more oppressive and far right leaning than the 60s OG material. (I say ironically but it makes me want to cry fr how the newest Trek is the most fascist leaning Trek wtf).

There's many proofs of this in the last few years of Paramount, how they purposely excluded TOS Captain Kirk from their captain's official line up to name one out.

Anyway, I have many more thoughts about this, but I hope this will be enough to sate the manic goblin living in my head, because now I have to cook and feed myself and all I want is to go into my cocoon and sleep for a week.

Try to Live Long And Prosper despite of what these assholes may do or say. Star Trek is a communist IDIC utopia and it will always be.

then the suffers brothers have the fucking balls to say that “eleven represents childhood magic” OR WHATEVER BULLSHIT THEYRE SAYING NOW.

like NO. Jane is her OWN person who was kidnapped from her family, tortured and exploited then lived in hiding, got used as a weapon, then was killed at only 16. she never experienced a ‘normal’ life. she was ROBBED OF HER OWN LIFE. ALSO, i hate hate hate how they made her death about Mike. First of all that’s a repressed gay man .. but more IMPORTANTLY, jane is her own goddamn person and it’s incredibly disgusting to simplify her to her relationship with MEN.

at least give my gorgeous girl a beautiful death. no. she was killed by that fuckass bomb record, and also apparently according to the duffers mike hallucinated that whole mind sequence?? WHAT EVER.

Did he, really?

I can count with my right hand the amount of times Will pined after Mike.

Do you know who actually spent the entire season pining and flirting and "seducing" someone else?

Steve.

No hate to him because he's great, but Steve spent the entire season "seducing" Nancy multiple times and nobody said anything. Nobody found it useless or a waste of time; they loved it! Yes, he was "more involved" with the main plot, so?

Why is it all right and valid and important when Steve does it but when Will does pine after someone, in this case Mike, is deluded to being unimportant?

Why anyone is hating on ANY single ST characters bc every one of them brings something so important and interesting and complex to the entire storyline and development of every plot line and person.

No hate on Nancy. She is literally just a teenage girl experiencing severe trauma and trying to figure herself and the world out at the same time.

No hate on Steve. He is someone getting his ass kicked by life, learning the hard lessons, and living out a wonderful character arc of redemption.

No hate on Billy. He was an abused child who grew into an adult who didn't know how to manage or express his emotions, and he showed clear want to grow and change during his end decisions.

No hate on Jonathan. He basically had to grow up at the ripe age of 15 or less, and all he knows is to keep on pushing even though he has no idea what his needs are.

st fandom: stop pushing realistic time period stuff onto creators!! maybe we just wanna see people of the same gender kiss about it and not have to write a 987k word slow burn period typical homophobia fanfiction !!

fanfictions that talk about homophobia are cool and fun(as long as theyre respectful obvioulsy) but stop pushing that onto creators because like?? maybe they have trauma about it or they just don’t want to or like a billion other reasons because no one can decide what a creator can do !! creators r literally out here having an anime battle with their artists block and or writing or drawing or making you content in so many ways and you still say like ‘well actually this can’t be real because in the 80s they were homophobic!!’

like fucking yeah man every year is homophobic?? let people write about characters being trans or gay or lesbian or bigender or pansexual or however the fuck they please!!!!!!!

queer people have to actively fucking seek out media with people like us in it because we don’t get that. we don’t get to see ourselves. we make our own content with queer characters because it probably won’t be canon.