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This blog is about 80% Star Trek. Currently I like TOS best. I write reams of Kirk/Spock fic here. I also love making up stuff about Vulcan culture, speculating on their biology, learning their language, etc.
I also write books. My Imperial Mars series is like if you put Master and Commander in space, and then it somehow morphed into Les Mis. Frock coats, solar sails, revolution, lesbians. You can get into the series here.
I canโt believe we donโt have more modern AUs about how Harrow would absolutely love romance books and movies. This is a woman who dreamed of coffee shop and royalty AUs despite neither of them actually seemingly occurring in her culture: you canโt tell me that Harrow wouldnโt go WILD over Pride and Prejudice? Thatโs a woman who writes essays about how romance is a poorly treated genre.
Everyone thinks Harrow hates romance (because you know, look/talk to her) but no. That woman is reading romance with the dedication of it being cutting edge research. ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ
Oh man I need the AU where Harrow the trash goblin is also secretly the writer of the hottest yuri on ay oh three dot com
okay okay consider
Instead of porn mags Gideon reads AO3.
Her favorite author is secretly Harrow.
The two of them fight dirty and scratch each other's faces and then Harrow goes into the library and tappy-taps out another necro/cav forbidden love fic and an hour later Gideon is getting off to it.
Gideon leaves that kind of comment that's like I AM KISSING YOUR BEAUTIFUL BRAIN, MY DICK IS SO HARD RIGHT NOW, STEP ON ME MY QUEEN, all the while assuming it's some unimportant Fourth teenager writing it.
And then Harrow goes and gets off to the concept of this amazing commenter loving her.
Pal, meanwhile, is also in the comments, helpfully correcting the necromancy mistakes (which Harrow put in purely to hide her identity). He and Dulcie of course have an ongoing fic romance where they write their OCs in love in a shared universe. But they know each other's real identities too. (Dulcie's OC has never been sick a day in her life.)
Jeannemary and Isaac secretly read the fics too. JM prints them out at the library and sticks them in a secret binder the two of them pass back and forth.
Judith would die under torture before admitting she too reads necro/cav smut.
None of these people would suspect Harrow for a minute because Harrow posts lots of Twitter screeds under her real name like "Shipping necromancers with their cavaliers is problematic, not only because it is forbidden in real life, but because even fantasizing about it betrays an interest in unhealthy power dynamics and pseudo-incest. ๐งต"
thank you eulalie for the kofi tip!!!!! here's a kira nerys for you ๐ฅณ
fear
Internet search : how to hug a drawing?
Internet search : how to say i will protect you in vulcan?
Dungi-klashau nash-veh tu.
someone messaged me saying that this gif made them think of an au where spock was the young rebel and kirk was the straight laced one and honestly thatโs the kind of stuff that gives me life (also a bonus star struck jim)
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This is TRUER THAN YOU'D THINK, especially in TOS.
Of course I have a fic for that ๐คฃ
We have:
-the stack of book with legs
-the guy who told the VSA to fuck themselves live long and prosper
Somehow the narrative got switched about which of those was the rebel!
Zero-g blowjob
this might be the writing circle gremlin coming out but that logistically sounds like a TERRIBLE idea
Askbox is closed for new requests, I'm recording these old ones on the to-write document
Seems to me that it would be a particularly easy way to have sex in space!
-no thrusting or large movements to accidentally shove your partner away from you or send you both spinning into the wall
-leaves hands mostly free to stabilize you and/or hold onto them
-69ing requires no particular gymnastics
-convenient disposal method for fluids if you're into that
โWhy isnโt Kirk affected by Muddโs women ?โ
Because heโs constantly surrounded by bad bitches. Heโs in the room with Scotty, McCoy and Spock, he also works with Uhura, Janice and Chapel. Do you think three women in fancy outfits and makeup will phase him ? Also because heโs an Alpha Bad Bitch himself
It's not that he's not horny, it's that he learned to be professional while horny YEARS ago. If he can work with Spock day in and day out, he can handle some chemically enhanced ladies.
how are you people alive.
theres an old cold war joke that goes like this: a KGB agent and a CIA agent meet up for drinks off the clock, and after a few drinks they start to talk shop. the CIA agent extols the strength of the Party's propaganda, "All your citizens believe the propaganda! it's incredible! So little dissent." and the KGB responds, "No my friend no, we are good at what we do, but you are the true masters of the art. No one at all questions your propaganda!" to which the CIA agent says, confused, "What do you mean? We don't have propaganda?"
There is a word Iโm not allowed to use. I love it. I love it so much. But my darling beloved wife hates it with a fiery passion.
I came across it from Anne Listerโs diary, where she says that she would โgrubble under womenโs skirtsโ and honestly. The word perfectly encapsulates the fumbling feeling of fighting your way through layers of fabric to reach the promised pussy land.
However the word has been forbidden, reviled from the first moment my beloved heard it. They shuddered and itโs truly one of the only restrictions theyโve ever placed on my vocabulary so I donโt say it. But I do think it, on occasion.
Sometimes the word will pop into my head and I will think it too hard and my wife will turn and glare at me and accuse, โI know youโre thinking it!โ
โBut I didnโt say it!โ I protest. But theyโre always right. Even with no context they always know when Iโm thinking it.
Today I told my wife, โI shared the unmentionable word with Astrid today and she quite enjoyed it. She repeated it several times.โ
They bellowed liked a dying wildebeest and said, โI can go months without remembering that word exists and then it comes up again. Itโs so disgusting, itโs what Smรฉagol would do on the ground digging for worms!โ
I was laughing and protested, โIt sounds like fighting through skirts, the groping around.โ
โNo! That is something that happens in the muck and the filth. Itโs negative sexy.
โBet you're gonna take to Tumblr and share it and some people are gonna be like, โOh what a great word! We should definitely use that in our lexicon. Top tier word!โ And you know what? THEYRE WRONG. GARBAGE WORD. GROSS.โ
I listened to their impassioned hatred while cuddled in their arms and radiated love at them and remorse for having reminded them about the existence of grubbling. But now you get to hear about it. As a treat.
According to the companyโs website, โBaking Pitchfest 2024โ offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state. โHalf mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,โ the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure. But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.
One X user critical of King Arthur Bakingโs contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining. โHelping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,โ the email states, later adding: โWe love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.โ
Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!
If you need more reason to support them, theyโre worker owned.
Also they actually are working on regenerative agriculture:
Also they do blog articles about adaptive baking:
You know, way too often I find articles talking about how the maker of some product I use is actually Evil. It's really nice to get the opposite.
King Arthur's gluten free box mixes are the absolute best on the market so far as I've found. Their chocolate cake mix is our birthday standard.
We actually baked for a work event once, and we had someone gluten free so we used a King Arthur's mix for them and a standard box mix for everyone else, and almost everyone universally agreed they were just better. Now we just make a couple boxes of the King Arthur's gluten free brownies and everyone likes them way better.
Star Trek needs to capitalize on the fact that it has such a cool and expansive universe. They need to make more shows/movies/stories centered around the more niche corners of the galaxy. I want truckstop romance stories between a Vulcan freighter captain and a human waiter whose claustrophobia wonโt let them get on a space ship. I want an epic political thriller of an orphan gorn egg raised by a ferengi family, I want to learn how a Klingon family started a barbecue joint on Kronos and became universe famous for their lava butter (there actually is something like this in the Star Trek travel guide but itโs such a short snippet and I want to know more), I want to see the drama of a Klingon opera, i want to see the stories that are always just out of focus.
There are just so many cool ideas. And not to say I donโt love the challenge of the weak crew style but we saw how interesting the stories can get if you expand past just starfleet (especially in ds9)
The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing
The joys of artistic expression cannot be limited to talented people everybody needs it to survive
This is such a hilarious take we should give untalented people who make bad art money you know just because guys
Exactly. Glad you understand ๐
good art grows from the soil of bad art, but also bad art justifies itself. it's still art
I agree, please enjoy. Acrylic on random thrift store found object, randomly selected colors and fonts from an online generator.
Art isn't primarily for the results (despite what AI junkies might think). It's for the process, because it's human to do it. The world gets poorer when we tell real people to stop singing so we can pop in a CD of a professional doing it. When we say people shouldn't dance because they look goofy doing it. The joy of the dance belongs first inside the body that is dancing. Which means we all have a right to do it.
More and more, I am leaning toward folk art, free art, fanfic. Things done for the joy of it. If you're enjoying yourself, I can enjoy your art too. Otherwise, what's the ding dang point.
Writing smut fic is a gateway obsession to fiber crafts (if you haven't already been peer pressured into that one) because one second you're trying to decide how to describe the characters undressing and next thing you know you're 47 tabs deep reading about the vegetable lamb of Tartary.
"Wait what was their underwear like" and the next thing you know you're spending large amounts of money you can't really afford on your historical costuming idea.
One of my favourite scenes from A tall ship and a star to steer her by by Moreta1848. หโโฎ
OH MY GOD ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
One of the lovely things about putting Kirk and Spock in the 18th century is that the men had long hair. You definitely saw EXACTLY my vision!!
"The time has come for violence"
