my absolute favourite thing about all the old star trek series is when the ship unexpectedly collides with something and, due to the lack of sophisticated special effects available at the time, everyone just throws themselves across the set as dramatically as possible
Wait, isn’t there stabilised gifs of these shots floating around?
I FOUND SOME!!!
Is Uhura just like grinning like a dork in the last one?
The old series? They did this in TNG, too, and I’m reasonably sure it turns up in DS9 and Voy.
Special effects might have gotten more sophisticated, but when the alternatives are “a ridiculously expensive hydraulic platform” and “everybody throws themselves around while we shake the camera (cost $0)”…
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
Thank you.
I will always re-blog this
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y’all gon learn today.
Teach the children.
also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.
IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.
no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.
This is a big, giant list of Youtube tutorials that will teach you all the basic life skills you need to know in order to be a functional adult. There are a lot of important skills that aren’t included in this list, but this should be enough of a basic guide to get you started and prevent you from making a total mess of yourself. Happy adulting!
Sooo… I’ve read this AMAZING silverflint fanfic series basically about the two of them living in Florida at Flint’s orange grove with lots of cats. Now I’m really not a fanfic person (I can read like 5k words and that’s it) but this! 40k I still can’t believe it – it was so good so so good!! Oh god, so perfect, so freacking in character I felt like watching the show, such great jokes with just the right amount of perfect smut. Just. So. Fucking. Beautiful.
…and I would be just another tool that he’d used and then promptly discarded.
#omg this #seriously in season ½ and especially season 2 #flint has manipulated silver all the time to get what he wants #and this has obviously done some damage especially for someone like john ‘trust issues’ silver #and i bet even after that famous shark date there was always a tiny part of silver thinking #what if he manipulates and betrays me again #and he’s tried to put those thoughts away ignoring what used to be his self protecting instict #bc he trusts flint #and then he sees this and his mind is clouded by grief and pain #and he can do nothing more than jump back to the conclusion that flint has lied to him all the time #his instinct had been right all the time #he feels like he had been manipulated again #like his love and trust had been betrayed #and it is his fault because he let his walls down and let himself fall in love #and it is just easier to fall back into the comfort of an existing mindset #so he doesn’t even question why flint did what he did #he had known nothing else but betrayal and manipulation during his life #why should this be different #i’m sorry for the tag dump but i just needed to get this meta out of my head #i hope this makes sense #anyways WHY DIDN’T YOU IDIOTS JUST TALK UGH #silverflint feelings still going strong 2 years later (by @feedingmyinsomnia)
“It is always appropriate to ask for love, but to ask any other adult (including our parents in the present) to meet our primal needs is unfair and unrealistic. Most of us emerge from childhood with conscious and unconscious primal wounds and emotional unfinished business. What we leave incomplete we are doomed to repeat. The untreated traumas of childhood become the frustrating dramas of adulthood. Our fantasy of the “perfect partner,” or our disappointments in a relationship we do not change or leave, or the dramas that keep arising in our relationships reveal our unique unmet primal wounds and needs. We try so hard to get from others what once we missed. What was missed can never be made up for, only mourned and let go of. Only then are we able to relate to adults as adults.”
David Richo, How to Be an Adult
From one of my Top Five favourite Westerns: Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni, 1967). The original title was the plain Da uomo a uomo (Man to Man). The German title was the melodramatic The Reckoning Will Be Paid in Lead. I read it as rivals-to–friends-to-not-quite-enemies-who-might-have-been-lovers.
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