whoops I made a selfie

And after they dispose of the explosive tribble and the danger is past, Jadzia casually tosses away the tribble she's holding which lands on Kirk.

i actually have a list of POC friendly picrews saved so by extension of the focus on inclusivity there’s probably more body type / facial options in these! the ones i’ve personally used from this list have had them. i hope this helps!!!

none of this is made clear in their captions and you would only know by checking the tags of the original post, which of course vanish when anyone else reblogs the posts. the replies of the posts are also turned off and on most of them the majority of replies are hidden/deleted.

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THE OPTION SHOULD BE TOGGLED OFF BY DEFAULT AND ENABLED BY THE USER. OPT-IN, NOT OPT-OUT.

Forcing within your site's settings that everyone is giving automatic consent until they notice and opt out is fucking unethical. DeviantArt already tried this and got their asses handed to them.

MAKING PEOPLE CONSENT BY DEFAULT AND FORCING THEM TO REVOKE IT IS NOT ETHICAL DATA USAGE.

Most tumblr users want AI gone from the world as a whole, not for tumblr to partner with OpenAI and Midjourney (two of the worst offenders in obeying consent/lack of consent with data mining).

We were pleased when you got rid of Live and you waited what, a month? to announce without even properly announcing it that you were going to implement something even worse.

Opt out only for data management is not ethical. It breaches GDPR actually. Under GDPR you have to have settings for collection of data off by default with an option to turn it on if you like. Tumblr doesn't even do this correctly with cookie consent - you are made to opt out there too. And recently I found my settings had been turned back to "allow" for everything without my having done so & no pop up to tell me of the policy changing which would require a going over. I just checked the settings after suddenly seeing a bunch more adverts.

you’d have to start with that Voyager episode where they go to before the Big Bang, then work your way through every other time travel episode, the one with the whales, and First Contact before you even get close to anything approaching a normal viewing order.

the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don't seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs

the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years

the Tellarites, who don't like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and

humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

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