* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired
* and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season
* and wrote fanfic way back in the day
* and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cakeAll of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.
Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.
The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”
That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.
The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.
You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.
Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)
I am re blogging this ‘open letter’ tonight because I wrote and posted it one short week, and 5324 notes ago.
When I wrote it, it was for myself, because I honestly thought it would be read by the people I tagged (maybe) and no one else. I had 5 followers, at least one of which was a spam bot.
I could not have imagined how that post would lead to the kindness and welcome I have received here, to my new fandom grandkids, my very own Star Trek grandma portrait, all the conversations and sharing of memories and making of new friends.
Tonight I just want to say thanks to all of you for being so wonderful. For keeping fandom wonderful.
You make me proud to be a fangirl among you.
Love, and LLAP, Grandma
Imho Chelsea running is a good thing. She won’t be able to affect the system, but her platform gives the left some much-needed exposure.
Like the Overton window exists, and a radical trans woman running for office is going to make a lot more waves and connect with a LOT more people than a 500 word Tumblr essay denouncing electoral politics.
Noooo stoppppp
Why are y’all obsessed with her running just bc she’s trans????
What are her credentials?
What are her skills?
We can’t go through this another term, even if it’s not for president.
Stop sensationalizing Chelsea Manning.
I’m excited for her running because she has radical politics, not because she’s trans (although that’s great as well). The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s under-qualified, it’s that he’s a racist, misogynistic, rich, neoliberal fuckwad who deregulates everything in sight and doesn’t care one bit for anyone but himself. Chelsea, on the other hand, was incarcerated and psychologically tortured for exposing US war crimes. She’s got morality, something severely lacking in the government.
We’ve got plenty of perfectly qualified, skilled career politicians who don’t bat an eyelash when dozens of civilians violently die by drone strike. Not to mention, plenty of politicians get elected whose only credentials are a business degree and a couple runs as auditor and yet they’re seen as perfectly qualified candidates.
I love how internet best friends show each other how much they love each other by dedicating fan fiction to one other It’s like “Hey, You’re a fantastic bestfriend, Here’s two guys fucking in a kitchen”
it would be cool if fat dudes without big beards were considered hot sometimes too.
I realized today that the main reason for the “hot fat dude must also include beard” thing is part of the whole “fat people are required to perform a higher and more perfect expression of gender”.
like usually this sort of thing is more easily identifiable in fat women, who have to be hyper feminine to be considered “attractive” by the mainstream. but I sort of blinked today and realized, oh. fat men must have beards to be attractive for the same reason fat men must wear suits and look dapper to be attractive, just like fat women have to have perfect eyeliner and wear cute pinup clothing. higher, more intense expression of gender, executed perfectly and without flaw is required for fat people to be seen as attractive.
ohhhh. that would be why “neckbeards” ie dudes who look like they’ve grown the beard by not shaving as opposed to for an aesthetic decision are exempt from the trend then, i guess.
😮 WHUUUT? BUT I THOUGHT NECKBEARD DIDN’T HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO BEING FAT
WELL HOWSABOUT THAT
It is also a form of racism that excludes people from ethnicities that generally have less body/facial hair.
– Mod Guillermo
My name is Emmett, and those are my service dogs. I have PTSD and a seizure disorder as a direct result of the physical, emotional and sexual trauma I endured at the hands of Larry Etter and I’m asking everyone here on tumblr to help ensure my abuser is NOT released early from prison on parole.
Larry Dell Etter, my former stepfather, is a violent criminal who raped me from ages 4-16.
PLEASE take five minutes from your busy day and send an email to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice urging the parole board to deny his application for parole. All information needed is in the above photos.
Please, help me protect the children he would come into contact with.
Please, write a letter in hopes that no one else can be hurt by this man.
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PLEASE REBLOG AND MAKE THIS SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE@mimsically @rustyvoices @xanderthepander @not-an-asshole @poeticambivalence @eternalasses @sunshine-liss @hellish-eden @peterpans-flying-home @raesearching @saver21 @live-for-the-journey @caitlinblair @captain-branbran @baconpanckes @bumblee-bae
Please, please reblog and email.
SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE.
If you see this and don’t reblog, fucking block me. I don’t want to associate with anybody who doesn’t spread awareness of this.
I call upon the powers of @fullten
FYI when these come across your dash, do verify the post. This is horrific, but the post is old. This prisoner won’t be up for review ugain until 2020 acroding to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice which I found by entering the perpetrator’s name into google:
Parole Review Information
Name:
SID Number:
TDCJ Number:
ETTER,LARRY DELL0877193701772672
Parole Review Status
Not in Parole Review
The offender is currently not in the review process.
Last Parole Decision
Denied on 04/17/2017
NEXT REVIEW (04/2020)- Deny favorable parole action and set for next review.
Denial reason(s): 2D
2D NATURE OF OFFENSE – THE RECORD INDICATES THE INSTANT OFFENSE HAS ELEMENTS OF BRUTALITY, VIOLENCE, ASSAULTIVE BEHAVIOR, OR CONSCIOUS SELECTION OF VICTIM’S VULNERABILITY INDICATING A CONSCIOUS DISREGARD FOR THE LIVES, SAFETY, OR PROPERTY OF OTHERS, SUCH THAT THE OFFENDER POSES A CONTINUING THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
Next Parole Review Date
04/2020
For questions and comments concerning Parole Review Information, please contact the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at 844-512-0461 or bpp-osw@tdcj.texas.gov. This information is made available to the public and law enforcement in the interest of public safety. Any unauthorized use of this information is forbidden and subject to criminal prosecution.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice updates this website regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate — please be aware, this information can change unexpectedly. This website is regenerated on working days only and the offender status information is at least 24 hours old. Therefore, details about an offender’s parole review information may not accurately reflect “real time” status.
For technical difficulties with the search, please email: webadmin@tdcj.texas.gov and explain the problem you hare having. We will address the issue as quickly as possible.
Keira Knightley attending the premiere of Colette at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, 20 January 2018.
Rescue and Adoption
In the heart of the fairy mound, there were two identical
cradles, each with an identical infant inside.“One of these babies is the one you bore,” said a fairy.
“The other is the changeling we left. You may leave our hall with whichever
child you claim as your own. Choose wisely.”“But they are both
my children,” the human mother protested indignantly.The fairies whispered amongst themselves in surprise and
confusion. At last, one asked, “How do you mean?”“I came to get back the child you stole from me, the one who
is mine by blood. I never agreed to give my adopted child back to you.”Perhaps her words touched the fairies’ hearts; or perhaps
her stubbornness impressed them; or perhaps they simply found the argument
amusing, novel enough to merit a reward.She left the fairy mound, an infant in each arm, and brought
them home.I don’t know why, but I think about this all the time.
Can the OP please write this whole novel or give someone permission to because it sounds amazing!
Beltainefaerie's Flights of Fancy 