it's a natural world in which we're living

do you think prev is older or younger than you?

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

congrats to these people on being funnier than me on my own fucking post

cling to me

I know I said I was going to distance myself from this piece of media because of all of its terrible connections, but these two characters seem to have taken root in a permanent place in my heart, and I can't let them go.

Anyway, here's some character design notes below the cut for the one person out there who's obsessed with these characters as much as me.

would you trust him? be honest bonus:

Sorry I was gone for so long ":3 here's Tommy, love him sm ❤️💫

*Don't touch. I sheared this stupid sheep myself

Wasn't gonna drink tonight but I'm missing c!clingy duo like a mf....

Listen I do not care about the dsmp but them?? They stay in my heart eurueueuru

into the woods au ig

yours (redraw)

flipped ver. and previous years below

HI HIII happy birthday to everyone's favorite mystery twins!! how did they grow up so fast!!!!

FUSE WITH ME JESSE !!!!!!!! WE HAVE TO SHATTER GUSAPPHIRE FRING !!!!