We Are Captain Georgiou

Captain Georgiou January - February

January 15 - February 15, 2021

Links to Twitter and individual image transcripts in a reblog

Transcript of all images under the cut:

[Detailed ID: a digital painting of Philippa Georgiou and Michael Burnham on a beach at night. They are sitting on a large pink blanket with a selection of Malaysian food. Leaning back on one arm, Philippa is sipping a drink and looking up at the shooting stars with a bright smile. She wears a white swimsuit and a sarong around her waist. Michael is peering into a telescope while taking a hearty bite from her snack. She wears dark shorts and an undershirt with a batik overshirt. Sitting behind them on the sand is a small replicator with curry inside, and a round yellow light source rests in the middle of the blanket.

brought to you by @wearecaptaingeorgiou’s Captain Philippa Georgiou January - February event, on Tumblr Mobile™ because my laptop charger broke

her hair. the soft waves? those braids??? she literally made a low ponytail look sexy like how tf

that SMILE. the makeup department gave her rosy cheeks for a reason and that reason is her entire face lights up with warmth and Softness when she beams at michael

michelle yeoh is tiny, i mean like Tiny tiny, yet georgiou is easily the most commanding presence we’ve seen in the entirety of disco. lorca and pike whomst? i’m not even going to dignify saru with a comparison bc the moment georgiou steps onto the bridge with the phaser and looks michael in the eye is deadly and terrifying and would make a grown man beg

“is this amount of sarcasm always necessary?” “necessary? no. but i do like it”

walking quoteable quotes machine, i mean, “i set a star”? “sometimes the universe allows for the making of unexpected memories”? who even DOES that. who allowed her to be like this. where is the writing team. i’d like to ask them a few questions

it is the 21st century and we all already stream our music. philippa lives in the 23rd century and somehow, inexplicably, still owns a record player

HEIRLOOM TELESCOPE AS HER MOST BELOVED POSSESSION

grew up on an island steeped in lore, legend, and historical shenanigans. i’m talking pirates, princesses, seduction, a seven-generation curse—every single person who has even written space pirate philippa aus should read up on the history of langkawi, i’m telling you

“what would you do if you were trapped here for 89 years?” “that’s easy. i’d escape.” that CONFIDENCE. that DARING. the sheer AUDACITY to shrug in the face of her first officer’s growing concern and be like “rapidly approaching impassable storm? no worries. i’m gonna walk in the shape of a giant starfleet delta and not tell you what we’re doing until we’re rescued.” the embodiment of the 23rd-century equivalent of the rickroll

michael: yeets self into space philippa, proudly: “she’s having fun” (as if she’s not being a Highly Questionable influence on her entire crew for a) captaining a ship so old it’s probably held together by duct tape and willpower and b) specifically mentoring the women who would later yeet themselves 900 years into the future through a wormhole in nothing more than a funky space suit and do a doughnut in a ship powered by mushrooms, respectively)

is somehow a friendly acquaintance of sarek??? do you know how hard it is to earn that man’s approval. how did they meet and what did philippa do for sarek to be like “ah yes. this is the one i will trust with the life of my human experiment—i mean daughter. i make great parenting decisions”

what kind of a dork displays a wayang kulit of all things in her ready room when she works in literal OUTER SPACE and is a diplomat for ALIENS

“i was a human who had seen a life of loss, but still chose hope” do you know how rare and precious it is to find a character who has such an impact on a fandom despite being killed off very quickly in the premiere? that people would make a fanbook and organise a whole appreciation event for her three years after her last fleeting onscreen appearance? that she would inspire countless fanfics and fanart and headcanons and meta and gifsets and other creations?

Monday, February 15 is the finale of Captain Georgiou January - February

[id: An image of Philippa Georgiou from the shoulders up. She is smiling softly. Her hair is hanging in loose waves around her face. There are the blue lights of viewscreens behind her, along with panels of illumination set along the walls. End id]

Thank you so much for joining us in this celebration of Philippa Georgiou! We’ve been honored and thrilled to see all your wonderful creations exploring the many facets of her character. 

Today’s theme for spontaneous fanworks is HOPE! We’ve listed a few prompts below, but as always, the themes and prompts are meant to be inspiration, not  requirements. Fanworks with any theme are welcome on any day.

How have you found hope through Georgiou’s character? 

How does hope manifest in Georgiou’s ethos of leadership? 

What does Georgiou represent about the future for you?

Please tag us @wearecaptaingeorgiou​ in your creations!

The event hasn’t gotten as many short/casual submissions, so we wanted to hype one more time that we’d love to boost anyone's paragraphs, tweets, doodles, etc! This event was created to include all fans who enjoy the character, whether or not you consider yourself ‘an artist’ or ‘a writer’ or have time to create a longer contribution... What’s your favorite Georgiou quote? Which other captains does she remind you of? Let us know! ;)

What’s up next?

We'll still be boosting stuff we're tagged in after the event is over! (At least two of the mods, for starters, have prompts we wanted to create for but didn’t have time during the month...) This account/the Twitter account are for ongoing celebration of Georgiou and Disco.

Fanbook submissions are also ongoing (deadline still TBD).

The Discord server will be continuing in some capacity (weekly events? biweekly events? we’ll have a planning post or channel soon!) as a place to chat.

Captain Georgiou January - February

January 15 - February 15, 2021

Links to Twitter and individual image transcripts in a reblog

Transcript of all images under the cut:

Thanks so much to everyone who’s been part of this event, from art to chat days. You can check out the amazing event submissions we’ve gotten so far here.

The event hasn’t gotten as many short/casual submissions, so for its last couple days, we wanted to hype one more time that we’d love to boost anyone's paragraphs, tweets, doodles, etc! This event was created to include all fans who enjoy the character, whether or not you consider yourself ‘an artist’ or ‘a writer’ or have time to create a longer contribution... What’s your favorite Georgiou quote? Which other captains does she remind you of? Let us know! ;)

On that note, we'll still boost Philippa stuff we're tagged in after the event is over, and fanbook submissions are also ongoing (deadline still TBD). Also, we’ll be compiling this month’s text and image prompts in one place for anyone looking for fanwork inspiration.

Out of all the Star Trek captains, I think Georgiou and Kirk are not only one of the duos who are most similar to each other, but also one of the duos who would work best together should the opportunity arise. (For example, Janeway and Sisko, Freeman and Picard, or Pike and Janeway could all also be compared as relatively similar to each other, but would any of those duos work well together? Maybe Freeman and Picard on a good day, but as for the others…hm.)

As this post points out, Georgiou’s [“What will you do if we’re trapped here for eighty-nine years?”] “That’s easy, I’d escape” line has an extremely Kirk energy. The two of them share a take-a-third-option ethos and a mischievous sense of resourcefulness, and for both of them, this is implied to come from a place of past trauma. Kirk survived the massacre at Tarsus IV, where Kodos called it “necessary” to kill many people to “solve” a crisis; at the Academy, he hacked the Kobayashi Maru out of a refusal to accept being told “sometimes losses are inevitable.” For her part, Georgiou had “seen a life of loss, but still chose hope.” She is someone who has experienced enough personal tragedy that she herself, despite her generally upbeat personality, bluntly characterizes her own whole life as being “a life of loss.” But she chooses to find hope in her commitment to and love for the people and universe around her. Kirk and Georgiou are both people forged in tragedy who have made it their ethos to refuse to allow the propagation of tragedy. And, of course, they’re also both people who, when push comes to shove and they are faced with unwinnable scenarios, choose to risk themselves before others.

When it comes to the two of them meeting, we can talk either within the timeline, with Georgiou as an older, experienced officer while Kirk is at the Academy and beginning his career, or via time travel, for a scenario where TOS-era Kirk meets DSC-era Georgiou in classic crossover fashion.

Of course, a post about the within-the-timeline option is not complete without mention of the time the two of them do meet in novel canon. In the Lorca and Georgiou DSC prequel novel Drastic Measures, fortysomething then-Commander Georgiou leads the team of Starfleet and civilians responding to the famine at Tarsus IV, arriving not long after the massacre, while then-Commander Lorca is stationed at a Tarsus IV Starfleet outpost; Georgiou briefly meets Winona and early-teens Jim Kirk during her time there.

Sunday, February 14 is Day 31 of Captain Georgiou January - February!

[id: Philippa Georgiou on the bridge of the Shenzhou, seated in her captain’s chair. She is half-swiveled towards the main viewscreen, gazing at the glow of the binary stars against the darkness. End id]

Today’s theme for spontaneous fanworks is the CAPTAIN’S CHAIR! We’ve listed a few prompts below, but as always, the themes and prompts are meant to be inspiration, not  requirements. Fanworks with any theme are welcome on any day.

What does Georgiou’s captaincy mean to you? 

What do you think of Georgiou’s journey to the captain’s chair? 

Please tag us @wearecaptaingeorgiou​ in your creations!

I set a star.

Welcome to the USS Shenzhou

row 1: Turning to watch Saru in concern in ‘The Brightest Star,’ quipping at Sarek and Burnham, reaching up to the goggles on her forehead in the Crepusculan desert, turning to Saru as they plan in the aftermath of the Battle of the Binary Stars.

row 2: Watching the destruction of the USS Europa, pointing a phaser forward in the transporter room before beaming to the Klingon ship, looking at Burnham when she returns from the destroyed brig, gazing out a viewport in her ready room.

you entered my life on foot, tracking space dust across an alien desert, all dry humour and drought. “i trust you with my life,” you say to the woman who will be your end. captain and commander, side by side, your even footsteps small bursts like pulses of a phaser rifle across the sand.

when i think of you, you have not yet been stabbed in the chest (by the enemy you would not fire against), in the back (by she who would give her own heart to keep a version of you alive). you are not yet a name on a list your second officer needs to see, nor the telescope in his quarters you never meant for him to have.

sand and stars in my lungs, i exhale your name as a prayer to the divine vessel carrying you into the cold night: leave me the warm waves of her voice lapping at our islands’ shores, leave me the sky in her smile where it meets the earth into which we bleed. take her body, take her sun-bright eyes, only let the universe reclaim and renew

what wonder you incite what wonder you create what wonder you are

Written for Captain Georgiou January - February (@wearecaptaingeorgiou​)

Last three lines borrowed from Rommy Torrico’s “Para Lxs Migrant Queers”

Thursday, February 11 is Day 28 of Captain Georgiou January - February!

[id: A back view of the Shenzhou in warp. Above the nacelle pylons, two sections of the secondary hull are glowing red. The metal of the main saucer is outlined in the bright illumination of warp, which originates in tendrils from a blue-white flare at the center of the image. End id]

Today’s theme for spontaneous fanworks is the USS SHENZHOU! We’ve listed a few prompts below, but as always, the themes and prompts are meant to be inspiration, not  requirements. Fanworks with any theme are welcome on any day.

What do you think about the design and structure of the USS Shenzhou? 

The Shenzhou still has lateral vector transporters, despite that technology being phased out of other vessels. What does this say about Georgiou’s character and captaincy style?

Please tag us @wearecaptaingeorgiou​ in your creations!

set a star - a Philippa Georgiou fanmix:

Pavane (Fauré) - Pedro Ibanez Blowin’ In The Wind - Kina Grannis Anchor - Zee Avi Constant Craving - k.d. lang En Route - Balmorhea New Constellations - Ryn Weaver The Rip Tide - Beirut Home - Diana Ross Familiar - Nils Frahm Sandglass - Thomas Azier As Long As I Am Living - Vienna Teng, Tanya Schaffer, Cailan Rose Pavane pour une infante défunte in G Major (Ravel) - Khatia Buniatishvili A Coral Room - Kate Bush

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