aos kirk in the green shirt 👀

Now this is some AOS content I can get behind

People need to stop trying to logic Conscience of the King

“Of course it’s Kodos why is Jim such an idiot?”

Because he doesn’t want to confront his trauma.

“Why didn’t they just do a DNA test?”

Because all the authorities had was a body so badly burned it wasn’t even confirmed Kodos. So comparing any DNA to what they had STILL would’ve failed. Also this was written in the 60s before DNA testing was widely used.

“Why was a 13 year old Jim even on tarsus iv?”

That’s for Jim to know and Jim to tell. And Jim made it very clear he does not like talking about this. Big picture is he was there, survived, and witnessed a genocide.

putting ketchup on fries is too permanent for me … i have to dip . i control the sauce

Threshold day this, threshold day that. Where is the love for engineer Trip Tucker, the first pregnant cisgender man single working mother in space😔😔

TOS Kirk is a Paladin

AOS Kirk is a Bard

SNW Kirk is a silly little guy

Hope we get to see an emotionally vulnerable jim next SNW season. Like, I don't know how, maybe he doesn't even need to be on the enterprise. I'd kill for one episode where its him on the Farragut and we get to meet some new and old characters. OR, again, a spirk episode where Spock and Jim are placed into something dire together and emotions happen on Jim's part. Not Spock, because he doesn't know Jim like that yet, AND Spock has already been through too much. Maybe Jim's traumas kinda bubble up for some reason and Spock is his emotional support blanket. As Jim has been to everyone else he's met on the enterprise.

I WANT TYCHO IV STUFF

“The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I’m not a trannie or a fag so I don’t care, just give ‘em the medicine they need.”

“This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility.”

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

Someone who says they don’t care if dudes wear dresses and makeup is a better ally than someone who says they’re a safe space for women and non-binary people. I am not joking.

yeah I went to a gay bar recently with my husband tumblr user beemovieerotica, and a VERY confused capital S Southerner straight man in cargo shorts and a trucker hat showed up

apparently he (who through my drunken memory I remember only as Earl) liked some woman, and she told him that he wasn’t cultured enough and needed to attend his first drag show (she also flaked on him)

Now I’m reasonably androgynous and was wearing makeup, a short leather skirt, and black heeled boots, but still when this guy came up to me when I was standing off alone and asked “So. Do you come here often?” with a very earnest expression, I thought. Surely not. This guy doesn’t think I’m a straight woman does he????

Anyway I start talking with this guy and he has no idea what the fuck is going on but he is just a very kind and earnest dude and asked a lot of questions (while asking if it was alright if he asked those questions). I track down my husband and friends and I’m like y'all. We need to make sure that Earl has a Good Fucking Time tonight.

Man was completely out of his depth. At one point they put on a puppy auction to raise money for Pride, that started with a 6 ft drag queen in all her glory leading a leather pup out on a leash to the tune of that damned RSPCA “in the arms of the angels” song

We look at Earl. Nervous. He squints, laughs, and then goes “I was wondering why people were dressed like that!” He turned to me and asked “So they’re like dogs?” And I said yeah pretty much. And he just chuckled and went “Yeah I thought so with the tails! Never seen this before!”

When the first drag king came out, Earl looked at me wide eyed and went “There’s a dude version too?!” And I said yeah they’re called drag kings. And he said, low, “Drag kings.”

During one of the queens performances, he frowned, shook his head and told me, “Your legs are better than hers.” in a tone that implied he thought there was some travesty taking place and I should also be getting paid

When he found out I was there with my husband (and that I am not a woman) he profusely apologized and said “I’m so sorry, it’s dark in here and I thought you were a hot chick! I wouldn’t have said nothing if I knew you had a husband, I’m so sorry about that.”

When beemovie invited me to the dance floor with him later and I still had a drink in my hand, Earl said “Oh don’t worry about that I can hold your drink, you get on out there and shake your ass with your husband!” Then before we left, Earl bought me drinks for “Putting up with me all night and answering everything. Y'all helped me have a great time tonight.”

like. You gotta recognize there’s going to people who have never had interacted outside of their of their own community. This includes you. And just because your community is familiar with all the right vocabulary and how to correctly say something, it doesn’t mean they’re actually going to support you. If someone like Earl shows up, confused and out of their depth but kind and curious and earnest, you gotta have patience and truck through the small things, so when he goes back to his friends and his coworkers and they snicker asking how the drag show was, he can genuinely talk about how included we tried to make him feel and that he had a great time

The person matters more than the language

I will reblog this EVERY TIME.

Sanitized language is a tool of oppression, always has been and always will be.

And yes, I get being pissed off by slurs. I do. But in the times we are living in right now, we really need to all pivot our priorities to safety.

“Earl” will talk to all his Busch drinking, tractor-pulling, gun toting, conservative voting friends about the nice and friendly and harmless trannies he met, and they will understand him.

They do not know what gender non-conforming, trans-femme/masc, demiboy, agender genderqueer bisexual lesbians are, and quite frankly, they do not need to.

What we need from Earl and his friends is for them to feel neutrally enough about us to not become violent with us, and to spread the idea that violence against us is not necessary or warranted. They are simply not going to do that in a language that is not their own.

I’m gonna be soooooo real with you rn. This isn’t about workplace sensitivity training. The reason why the Earl story is so captivating is because it’s so unusual. People are not going to ask you to teach them. When you get the opportunity to influence someones perspective and make the world a safer place, grab it by the fucking throat and don’t waste it by lecturing about the no-no words. There are very real threats. Being referred to with an outdated word is not going to kill you.

Earl needs to use the language his peers are used to in order to acclimate them to having neutral feelings about us. If that language is “slurs,” then he needs to use slurs.

We are so far from bridges. We can start thinking about bridges when we’re no longer at risk of being hunted for fucking sport.

ok..!

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