weirdchristmas
One of the odder Krampus cards I’ve seen.
cosmictuesdays
you know a movie is going to FUCK when its 4pm on a thursday and it just you and four 70 year old women in the theatre
vantarinitel
bunjywunjy
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grammarpedant
Hello yes I’m not dead, here’s some Murderbot sketches because I love it so much holy crow
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Ft. A physical manifestation of ART to the best of my abilities. Why the first thing that comes to mind is wizard mist demon, your guess is as good as mine
Yes, that’s Perihelion spelled in Irken in the corner. Also yes, I know I’m an ultra lame nerd person
homeofhousechickens
neproxrezi
maybe i am too old for tiktok
My son once came back from a record shop visit with his uncle and with wide eyes and excited smile presented me with a cassette tape. “Look what I found!” As though he’d unearthed ancient pottery at a dig sight.
I love it. I love when my kids discover something that I take for granted. I hear songs with new ears because they are in a state of wonder. My son played me “Paint it Black” the other day, I’m like yeah Rolling Stones so what? And then I see his face and that LOOK like he just discovered sunsets and he’s like yeah but listen to this part, listen to the guitar right here - and I hear a song anew. Like watching a puppy see a bird for the first time, and oh oh right yeah birds are fucking amazing, forgot about that.
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Someone in the Trek tag asked a great question about the order of personal and family names for Vulcans. And I realized that in all my years of being a Trek fan I had never given it any thought. So I went to see what Memory Alpha had to say. I had never seen what the late, great Dorothy Fontana had said:
Jane Wyatt, who played Spock’s mother Amanda Grayson, was once asked by fans at a convention what Spock’s first name was. She replied, perhaps jokingly, “Harold” [12] However, the question itself was flawed, since the episode “Journey to Babel” makes it clear that “Spock” is Spock’s personal name.
On the other hand, Spock’s family name has never been established in canon. In the episode “This Side of Paradise”, Leila Kalomi says to Spock, “You never told me if you had another name,” to which he replies, “You couldn’t pronounce it.” D.C. Fontana – who was considered the “Vulcan expert” of the TOS behind-the-scenes staff and who created such details as the fact that Spock’s father was an ambassador and his mother a school teacher – revealed, in an issue of the fanzine Spockanalia, that she had intended his family name to be “Xtmprsqzntwlfd”, but since this is unpronounceable, there wasn’t really any way to get this said in dialogue during an episode.
The Pocket TOS book Ishmael gives Spock’s full name as “S'chn T'gai Spock”.
This made me think of a head canon. What if Vulcans don’t have a personal/family name combo like other races do? They’re a telepathic species. They have a verbal use name like Spock, Sarek, or Tuvok. But they have a nonverbal telepathic name that contains the essence of who they are and their family relationships. Everybody with whom they have a close and thus telepathic bond knows this “name” but it’s nothing that has any sort of verbal expression.
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definitelynotplanetfall
#this one’s really short
they said the last one would be really short too
(Yes, I did write an 8,000-word chapter of this story. If you were wondering.)
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