Yes, I’m talking to you.
You, person who shipped Kirk and Spock from day one. You, person who likes to pair up every two good-looking dudes who show up on the screen together. You, person who has that one gay OTP you can’t seem to escape. You, person who carefully looks at character interactions and picks out the pairing you just know would work. You, person who simply loves fanfiction.
All of you.
First of all, I don’t like the term “slash,” but there’s not really a more all-encompassing term other than the shipping of homosexual pairings, which lacks in brevity what slash lacks in felicity, so I’ll just keep saying “slash” against my better judgment for now.
I’m addressing you specifically — rather than people who don’t participate in slash shipping — because there’s a trend I’ve noticed among us. And, obviously, it’s a trend I don’t like.
It’s no secret that slash shipping isn’t exactly smiled upon by society.
We’re usually written off as delusional, horny, fantasy-obsessed fangirls who just want to see those two hot guys have sex, dammit. We obsess about it, write terrible fanfiction about it, draw pornographic fanart of it, painstakingly analyze every last lingering gaze between the characters in question. Delusional, delusional, delusional. It’s something to be ashamed of. Something no decent person who truly understands the show/movie/book/etc. would want to hear about, surely. Something that ought to stay within our private little pockets of fantasy. Something that would clearly never happen in the actual plot, and if you think otherwise, well, you’re a crazy fangirl — you should have known better.
We’re used to hearing all that. We expect it. In fact, we count on it.
But the truly disturbing part of it is, we’ve internalized it.
Can anyone tell me if this is an actual promo shot or a manip? Because if it is a promo shot I WANT TO WEEP WITH ITS RIGHTNESS, HOLY GOD. Lois in STANDING IN FRONT OF CLARK. She’s in the foreground! SHE IS STANDING IN A PHYSICALLY STRONG POSE. She is staring STRAIGHT AHEAD (i.e. she is NOT averting her gaze). Her shoulders are back, her legs are planted firmly on the ground, shoulder width apart, STEADY. SHE IS TAKING UP SPACE, AND NOT OVERTLY SEXUALIZED. CLARK IS STANDING BEHIND HER MIRRORING HER POSE. This is the most beautiful photo I have ever seen, holy fucking god. GETTING IT RIGHT.
(to answer the question, yes it’s official, it’s from Empire magazine)
3-D Printed Pizza to Feed Mars Colonists?
Well, the prototype 3-D pizza printer won’t actually feed the colonists — nice idea though — but the technique to print food has attracted a $125,000 NASA grant for a mechanical engineer to further develop his idea. Could it feed astronauts and the future Earth? Possibly.
Literally a food replicator, as seen on TNG, DS9, and VOY. I dare anyone to say that Star Trek isn’t the most important thing to have even been on TV.
Dee Graham, Edna Rawlings & Roberta Rigsby. Loving to Survive: sexual terror, men’s violence, and women’s lives. NYU Press. July 1 1994. (p. 16)
Sobering statistics. This means that 92.2 percent of women will have been sexually assaulted or harassed by the time they die.
92.2%
(via thedollydamnllama)
The Pack is Back! Take a peek at the newest season of Teen Wolf!WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! New clip with the birds flying into the classroom
God, this season is so much more fucking terrifying than the others. I am scared.
@ 08:02am
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Blaine tries not to let his voice get too eager. “You’re going to trust me?”“Blaine,” Kurt says, softly. “If everything’s already over then it’s already over. If you’re going to get me killed then the trigger’s already pulled, and I - I’m just,” His fingers and thumb rub his forehead - “I’m just so, so tired, it’s just - it’s been a week.” His laugh is short and sharp, like a shot. “It’s always a ‘week’. How’s your head?”
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Blaine tries not to let his voice get too eager. “You’re going to trust me?”
“Blaine,” Kurt says, softly. “If everything’s already over then it’s already over. If you’re going to get me killed then the trigger’s already pulled, and I - I’m just,” His fingers and thumb rub his forehead - “I’m just so, so tired, it’s just - it’s been a week.” His laugh is short and sharp, like a shot. “It’s always a ‘week’. How’s your head?”[x]
