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Futures Worth Remembering

@itreallyisthelittlethings / itreallyisthelittlethings.tumblr.com

Not sure if you like Star Trek or not? Take a look around & I'll do my best to convince you it really is the best. Everything Trek (& casts & crews) pretty much all the time!
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ao3topshipsbracket

AO3 Top Relationships Bracket - FINALS

This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

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itreallyisthelittlethings

In 2017 Dee, the 77 year old ‘Fandom Grandma’, rediscovered the Star Trek fandom on tumblr. This is a copy/paste of her original post:

An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl

  • 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 cake

All 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.”

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#I don't know that i need to 'sell' this ship#the numbers as i post this are very clear#but this is a lovely bit of fandom history#Mulder/Scully was my first fandom#i was there when 'relationshipper' was shortened to just 'shipper'#for the record- i was a 'noromo (no romance)#(until the movie when they didn't kiss an suddenly i was a shipper)#(anyway)#MSR was my first fandom#but kirk/spock is my home#the fandom i always return to#and feel welcomed
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“Leonard Nimoy, who played the most famous TV scientist of all time, Mr. Spock, came from an arts and theater background and in real life is nothing like his character. Yet he told me that because Mr. Spock and “Star Trek” have inspired so many young viewers to become scientists, researchers who meet him are always desperate to give him lab tours and explain the projects they’re pursuing in peer-to-peer terms. Mr. Nimoy nods sagely and intones to each one, ‘Well, it certainly looks like you’re headed in the right direction.’”

— NYT (via gq)

Source: The New York Times
#leonard nimoy#my heart
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frogayyyy

imagine you start watching this new show and it’s a silly little show about space set in the future then they announce the next season so you wait excitedly for five months and finally it’s here… you all sit round the tv and suddenly one of the main characters who is known for being unemotional starts going mad because of “biology…” and you slowly realise that he needs to have sex or he’s going to die so the other main character risks his entire career to help him out then they start ‘wrestling’ on the sand and the one going through the mating fever ends up killing the other guy which ends the fever but now he’s depressed because he just killed his best friend but wait he’s not actually dead the unemotional one is overjoyed everything’s fine and then they go back to work like nothing happened… you look at everyone else sitting in stunned silence thinking “did any one else think that was a little… yknow” then you accidentally start modern fandom and shipping culture

#imagine#space husbands
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homunculus-argument
alien: So what did you specialise in?
human: adaptation.
alien: Adap- you can't do that. Adaptation is meant for the PROCESS of specialisation. You can't SPECIALISE in adaptation.
human: Sure I did. I'm actually the apex predator in every surface inch of my native planet.
alien: And every species you classify as human is capable of producing viable young? Where would the mixed-adaptation offspring even live?
human: Anywhere they want, really. External, genetic climate modifications are largely just for the aesthetics these days.
alien: What about temperatures? Could a human adapted to the coldest climate just move to the hottest region, or vice versa, and survive?
human: Oh yeah they do that a lot. They'll need to be taught how to properly equip proper tools, clothing and shelter maintenance in order to keep themselves to tolerable temperatures, but yeah.
alien: Tools and maintenance?
human: Yeah, there's machines that can make hot air cold, and cold air hot, so while outdoor survival is only possible temporarily, it's possible to make housing structures that are comfortable in any climate.
alien: I don't... I don't think that counts as "adaptation". That's not what natural adaptation means.
human: Actually humans don't consider it "natural" either. We kind of consider ourselves separate from other nature.
alien: Well that sure explains SOME human behaviour, but... That's not natural adaptation. That's not how any of this works.
human: Nah it works quite well. We've specialised in making tools and machines for adaptation.
alien: That's not how it works.
human: Nuh-uh. Is too.
alien: Are you SURE you're not specialised in being exhausting to deal with?
human: Well actually I'm a pursuit predator as well, so literally yes.
#love this#humans are weird
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