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Gnome de plume posted:One good thing about rebloggin in Tumblr is usually you can usually still see the content even if the original post a has been wiped, which is more than you can say for ie Twitter True, with upsides and downsides. Once something's on tumblr, consider it on Tumblr for good--including art. (That's why sometimes you see the hashtag #do not reblog.) From the consumer side it can be admittedly handy, though some artists wish they could remove everything more easily. Anyway, another way tumblr fandom has changed from its primary originating populations is that for the most part it's extremely irreverent. it's like everyone got burned out on fandom wank so now it's more about Havin' a Good Time including the art, 
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I will investigate more questions for you. Perhaps the strangest one from an outside pov, is the absolutely rabid defense of TOS Kirk. You'd think "tumblr people" would be anti-Kirk but that is not so.    not liking kirk would probably be the most flatly anathema stance in star trek tumblr, next to saying that you don't like majel barrett.
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years ago i stumbled into someone's tumblr by way of having been linked to their hilarious picture summary of star trek 2009, and after seeing references to "t'hy'laa" was all "wait a minute i thought i was the only one who read that novelization of TMP, i bet this person's old" and they were like 19 at the time and i found that weirdly heart-warming and affirming also the into darkness summary is hilarious too
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Pick posted:not liking kirk would probably be the most flatly anathema stance in star trek tumblr, next to saying that you don't like majel barrett. TOS Kirk and Majel Barrett are both pretty great, it's true. Thank you for your tumblr liaison services. They are appreciated. Please continue.
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Yeah Kirk Drift is totally a thing even outside the Tumblr sphere. http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/
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i could never figure out how Tumblr even has communities with such a byzantine comment system so thank you Pick for this window into how the other side (Star Trek fans) lives
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Threshold day sounds like the greatest day ever.
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Also, I love this picture. Everyone looks so happy to be there. 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:years ago i stumbled into someone's tumblr by way of having been linked to their hilarious picture summary of star trek 2009, and after seeing references to "t'hy'laa" was all "wait a minute i thought i was the only one who read that novelization of TMP, i bet this person's old" and they were like 19 at the time and i found that weirdly heart-warming and affirming TOS is still very popular among tumblr's 17-22 year olds. of course it's also popular among older folks but you'd expect that they normally very much like the show but they REALLY love the movies. I think it's because a lot of them grew up enjoying The Voyage Home/seeing it often. TOS is kinda old testament and the TOS films are like the new testament. A lot more chit-chat about the new testament but the goddamn Rules come from the Old Testament
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Vavrek posted:TOS Kirk and Majel Barrett are both pretty great, it's true. Diane Duane, of the Romulan novels that FCA lent me that I stiiilll haven't read yettt (sssoooorrrrrryyyy  ) has a tumblr. dduane.tumblr.com. See, there are old people on tumblr!spockslash.tumblr.com was run by a 77-year-old woman who has since passed away. you can see her final word to the Star Trek spock slash community here: quote:* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired When she died there was an immediate movement to back up her tumblr so it could be memorialized and couldn't be lost, which I think is nice. very long time to be blogging about kirk and spock kissing but a lot of people do a lot of things
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Mermaid Autopsy posted:i could never figure out how Tumblr even has communities with such a byzantine comment system so thank you Pick for this window into how the other side (Star Trek fans) lives It's honestly like another language and it's very hard to explain. If someone were to ask me, "How do you start participating in star trek tumblr?" I do not know if I could give you an answer. I guess you find people who blog about star trek good (somehow) and then also make things yourself and tag them and maybe something in the broken search tool will allow someone to see it. again, I really do not know. even then about 80% of my dash ends up being other stuff, including weird hot takes about various other things. one of the fun things about tumblr is what is sometimes referred to as the "distant shark fin", i.e. you get a whiff of some... thing that is happening elsewhere, something bad, but it's small and indistinct and soon gone, leaving you only with the knowledge that SOMEONE out there is shipping mitt romney and rand paul
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Pick posted:spockslash.tumblr.com was run by a 77-year-old woman who has since passed away. you can see her final word to the Star Trek spock slash community here: This is extremely sweet and precious. quote:Diane Duane, of the Romulan novels that FCA lent me that I stiiilll haven't read yettt (sssoooorrrrrryyyy  (lol j/k it's okay)
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Pick posted:TOS is still very popular among tumblr's 17-22 year olds. of course it's also popular among older folks but you'd expect that Pick posted:Diane Duane, of the Romulan novels that FCA lent me that I stiiilll haven't read yettt (sssoooorrrrrryyyy Tumblr is a loving enigma. It feels like if I understood it, I'd have to follow it obsessively to get value out of it.
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Vavrek posted:It's not age that stops me, it's the structure of how tumblr organizes content and ... enables? encourages? community. Not that it does so, but how it does so. I grew up on then-old GeoCities sites and online fora then in the shadow of Something Awful, and came to appreciate blogs and blog-comment-conversations sometime after LiveJournal stopped being relevant in my social circle. Twitter and Reddit I can parse, kind of, though not well. Tumblr is interesting because it was explicitly designed to try to NOT facilitate communication. It was trying to AVOID people making communities. This was not accidental. But like Delenn says on Babylon 5, the amazing thing about humans is, no matter where they go, they build communities
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Is there a Star Trek AU where Kirk and Picard have to be co-captains?
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Who What Now posted:Is there a Star Trek AU where Kirk and Picard have to be co-captains? Haven't really seen this. Also, Picard's actually not that popular on Star Trek tumblr? And you never see screeds lauding him the way you do Kirk (see above). I think part of that is that the TNG side of star trek tumblr, far more than the TOS side, seems very into the idea of being in Starfleet, working on the Enterprise-D, and having the characters around the ship be part of your life potentially even as your friends! That's the dominant fantasy, not the power fantasy of being captain. And certainly not with the intention of replacing anyone or putting them out of a job. So if Picard is Captain, and he acts like Picard, the Captain, he's not really probably going to be your friend? Because he's not like that with crew? So he's not as popular as, say, Troi, Geordi, or even Riker, where people who are in the mindset of working on the ship as crew/members of Starfleet can see themselves having more natural and friendly interactions with them. here is star trek tumblr's preferred Captain Picard content: 
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Pick posted:Tumblr is interesting because it was explicitly designed to try to NOT facilitate communication. It was trying to AVOID people making communities. This was not accidental. But like Delenn says on Babylon 5, the amazing thing about humans is, no matter where they go, they build communities Pick posted:even if it means communicating via screenshotted hashtags Pick posted:here is star trek tumblr's preferred Captain Picard content: edit: Also I was talking with a different friend the other day, helping him remember what was going on with the character stuff in TNG early on with Picard and Wesley and came to the realization that one: the whole uncomfortable dynamic between Beverley, Jean-Luc, Wesley, whatever Wesley-dad was named, etc., actually feels like a realistic handling of an entirely possible situation. Like, when you look at the events that happened in the past, how everybody knew each other, it doesn't feel like a gimmick. Realization two: Was Wheaton officially playing young for Wesley? Because I think Wesley makes sense if he's at most like 14 or 15 years old and I think Wil Wheaton was 17 when the show started. I haven't checked Memory Alpha to confirm ages, but my suspicion is just that all the directors and maybe some of the script writers forgot how adult someone is by 17, thought "under 18 is a child" and wrote Wesley like he was 13. Vavrek fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Pick posted:ask more q's What do people think about Riker? I was thinking about how he's way more the 'womanizer' / casual relationship that lasts only an episode kind of character than Kirk was. Like the time the plot was about a gender restrictive society and exploring deviant sexuality and this was manifested as Riker deciding a woman needed his dick. Or the Irish. You remember the Irish right?  (picture taken from https://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/post/36810164169/remember-that-episode-with-the-heidy-deidy-irish found by searching for 'star trek irish sweater')
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W.T. Fits posted:How does Star Trek tumblr feel about Reginald Barclay? I'm on my phone so illl get back to the earlier comments because they take more time, but this ones pretty easy: they don't really care for him. They like that OBrien put a spider on him one time.
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apparently Q/Picard is the preferred ship; seems obvious in retrospect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwyb-A1oak
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Extremely so. I was going to make a post about it. It's assumed from the outside that this is because fans love gay stuff ~mysteriously~ and that's true in some fandoms that only seem to be about Fancy Boys, but I think STar Trek fandom specifically is very into character chemistry and find Q/picard just plain an engaging premise ("curmudgeon and the trickster space god who has taken a fancy to him"). It IS a pretty novel concept and has good potential to be compelling and funny. Also it kind of has that arc with the awkward humanity trial first meeting and then it becomes friendlier and Picard helps him and Q learns to be a better person--classic
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Who What Now posted:How does Tumblr feel about Riker? I was getting back to that one!  Riker is fairly popular! Here's what tumblr says about Riker: - casually bisexual (and not because they're explicitly citing "The Outcast", they would have this view of him anyway) - love trombone! - cool friend, likes to josh around, stand-up fella - riker and chairs! he sits down riker-style!!   Outside of Picard's existence in Q/Picard slash (search term "qcard"), Riker is probably more popular than Picard on Tumblr.  a lot of this might also be spillover affection for Jonathan Frakes, who is simply popular on tumblr for apparently always being really nice to con-goers etc. a lot of tumblrers know him from "fact or fiction" too since they're a little younger on average.  also, in this space, a well-established fandom stance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLq51joXPw 
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My first impression of that video is that they are just deep friends that also have that kinda of slightly antagonistic rivalry, because it doesn't have that, you know, truly petty cattiness that exes have. But, I could also buy that they're simply exes who left on good terms. Either way, I forgot about that exchange, and it is extremely cute. Now do Deanna Troi.
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Who What Now posted:My first impression of that video is that they are just deep friends that also have that kinda of slightly antagonistic rivalry, because it doesn't have that, you know, truly petty cattiness that exes have. But, I could also buy that they're simply exes who left on good terms. Either way, I forgot about that exchange, and it is extremely cute. tbh most star trek slash on tumblr has very very little to do with what anyone thinks is "canon" (no one cares) or "sexy", it's almost exclusively what people think is either cute or really funny. absolutely no one thinks riker and quark actually hosed for real, except no one can prove they can't, and the idea is like funny-gross , and is especially great because it helps shore up the walls against straight men engaging with the community. you start going on about riker and quark having sex and men loving bail because they don't realize the women can just chat funny about it without seriously thinking about it, or being that much more grossed out than when their boyfriends don't wipe correctly. women have a natural advantage here. anyway. Again, the absolute dominant attitude on tumblr is irreverence. AFAIK there is no actual serious Riker slash ship, or adherents for any such, who like it the way that people cared about couples on Downton Abbey. The closest is one or two people think they could have had a good time banging this out: 
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Okay, that clip got me thinking about Quark (and remembering how much fun Quark is), which got me on to Mirror Universe Quark. What do people think of the Mirror Universe?
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Who What Now posted:Now do Deanna Troi. Deanna is kind of boring, because there's not a ton to go on there, but an unspoken rule of tumblr generally but Star Trek Tumblr very much is that you do not express dislike for female characters. you can say you wish they were handled differently, but even for female ST characters who are divisive overall (e.g. lwuxana), you absolutely Don't express ill-will toward them. Though, honestly, part of it is that star trek tumblr is very positive generally. There are a few exceptions (dukat, lorca) but overall it's expected that if you can't say anything nice, to say nothing at all. Anyway she's generally liked but you don't see a ton of content. most of it is shipping her and Tasha Yar.     People like her and Riker as a couple! 
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Not being allowed to have anything but milquetoast opinions on the woman characters is poo poo.
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Pick posted:Deanna is kind of boring, because there's not a ton to go on there, but an unspoken rule of tumblr generally but Star Trek Tumblr very much is that you do not express dislike for female characters. you can say you wish they were handled differently, but even for female ST characters who are divisive overall (e.g. lwuxana), you absolutely Don't express ill-will toward them. I just wanna hear more about this now. How far does it go? Also why is Lwaxana divisive?
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Who What Now posted:Not being allowed to have anything but milquetoast opinions on the woman characters is poo poo. I sort of agree but tumblr's character overall is very reflective of its history as the first popular alternative to livejournal. in the old livejournal fandom days, hatred towards female characters was intense and relentless and bizarre and cruel and borderline insane so in many ways tumblr is a reaction to that--not just in how female characters are treated, but its irreverence as opposed to intense blood-feud drama. it's an overcorrection in a number of ways. circa 2002 and whatnot, it wasn't uncommon for women to write stories about female characters being beaten, murdered, raped, etc. because they "got in the way" of either self-insert fantasies or slash preferences. it was turbo disturbing and the next generation largely tried to plaster over it.
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Pick posted:I sort of agree but tumblr's character overall is very reflective of its history as the first popular alternative to livejournal. in the old livejournal fandom days, hatred towards female characters was intense and relentless and bizarre and cruel and borderline insane so in many ways tumblr is a reaction to that--not just in how female characters are treated, but its irreverence as opposed to intense blood-feud drama. it's an overcorrection in a number of ways. I knew about all the early 00s misogyny, but I never really linked it with the sort of women-agnostic mindset fandoms adopted later on in the decade and the 10s. That's actually insightful.
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