Why Words

Mark Rothko, Seagram mural study, 1959 Watercolor, oil, on Watercolor Paper 29 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (75.6 x 55.6 cm) Estate/Inventory Number2107.68 Collection of Christopher Rothko.

© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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Once again A+ on the facial expressions from Stana... nobody emotes quite like her

CASTLE REWATCH — “Always”

what personal space: a photoset

All I’m saying is they are very bad at platonic personal space

Wonder Hotties

😎 Tumbling at you in real life.

if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

Ugh, I still suck at drawing facial features so I think I'm just gonna leave it like this.

My little fictional family

What I’m trying to get to with all this is that Kate Mulgrew has talked about how Janeway can’t get away with what the other captains have because she’s a woman. Kirk and Picard can steal the Enterprise and commit insurrection and they’re celebrated for it. We love them for it, they break the rules and we love them for being so committed to their causes that they defy an organization they’ve sworn their lives to.

Trek captains have to break the rules to be interesting but the audience would not allow Janeway to do the same. In order for her to operate on the same level of Kirk and Picard she had to be removed from Starfleet’s reach entirely. And even then Voyager makes a point of having her study the rule book and look for precedents every time she’s up against an unusual situation.

Kate Mulgrew is very protective of Janeway as being a good role model who did the right thing as much as she could. I don’t need characters to be role models and I doubt any of you do but it’s disrespectful to Kate Mulgrew who spent seven years fighting the boys club to uphold Janeway’s good name to say she broke the rules more than anyone else when factually she broke them the least (except for time crime, though she did it so well I don’t think you can actually pin anything on the current timeline’s KJ).

It limits what Star Trek can actually do with the character. If we ever get a Star Trek Janeway show she’s not going to be running around the Alpha quadrant messing everything up like Picard did in his series and that’s kind of a bummer.

(I’m leaving Sisko out of this since I don’t remember his track record very well and I’m aware there could be some other things going on with how him being a black man influenced what he was able to do that I don’t appreciate)

I, too, make fun of her being a rule breaker. But all joking aside, this is very true: she never simply disregarded Starfleet rules and she didn't go against orders because she and her crew were stuck in the Delta Quadrant. She doesn't really have the luxury of sticking fast to all the rules because they're all alone out there in a part of space they know nothing about, but still she takes upholding Starfleet values very seriously.

She protects her crew, she keeps them safe. And she has no backup out there, being 70 years at standard warp speed away from home. She's fucking badass and often we interpret that as her establishing laws of her own, but really, she's not the lawless space cowboy she's often portrayed as in fandom. Yes, I think male captains would have gotten away with way more rule breaking than she ever did.

Trip and T'Pol: kisses

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Be kind to yourself today.💜

had to nab these tags from @ravenvsfox

And people really do try to interact with fandom like consumers! They want « content ». They act like they can get a refund on reading a fic they don’t like. They add fanfics to goddamned goodreads without a second thought without realizing that’s as ridiculous as adding your friend’s dining room as a restaurant on yelp just so you can post a review about it

'Fandom' is a contraction of 'fanatic' and 'kingdom'.

Fanatic, from Latin fanaticus "mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god."

Fandom is literally the place people go to be enthusiastically crazy about their blorbos! There are no normal people here!

#just opening livejournal would have killed you instantly

Mark Rothko, No. 46 (Black, Ochre, Red Over Red), 1957, 

oil on canvas 252.7 x 207 cm Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko-DACS 2016

“What does he want of me.” - “Quantum Leap, ‘Catch a Falling Star’ S02E10 #11