Forth now, and fear no darkness

hear me out... jadzia with lisa frank style rainbow leopard spots instead of her regular trill spots. please?

JEN D'QUEER??? IS ANYONE HERE JEN D'QUEER???

A very elegant crime.

Just this week Taylor Swift said when she started out in country music, she was told over and over again, “don’t be like the Dixie Chicks.”

It’s wild, because so much of country music is based on genres that tend to be extremely critical of that worldview. Like how did these folks take a genre that was fucking defined within recent memory by Johnny “I wear [black] for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime / but is there because he’s a victim of the times” Cash and turn it into a genre that basically deep-throats the boot?*

Just look at the reception Bey’s “Daddy Lessons” got in the Country community and how Lil Nas X had to become a meme before he was taken seriously. It’s conservative and racist af which is deeply ironic considering that a not insignificant number of people in “western” or rural areas in the US are POC, and that historically many cowboys were POC (think freed or escaped slaves, indigenous people, the fact that half the West belonged to Mexico, Chinese immigrants, not even to mention the attractiveness of the cowboy lifestyle to men who did not want to get married hmmmm) and the word “buckaroo” is an English bastardization of the Spanish “vaquero”

the idea of pointing out avery brooks "overacting" while apparently not noticing he's doing the same exact thing as kirk or picard - (literally just theatre acting) reminds me of the people who made a big deal out of michael burnham "crying all the time". when she literally doesn't that much, it's never for no reason, other trek characters cried before too and also weird to find it annoying in the first place. also i know what you are

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.