a sexy apocalypse in a can

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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I would dearly love for more people to be capable of differentiating between public risk and personal risk.

Examples: drinking is a personal risk. Drinking and driving is a public risk. Going scuba diving is a personal risk. Running a scuba shop with faulty equipment is a public risk. Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a personal risk. Not maintaining public transport safety standards is a public risk. Foraging for mushrooms is a personal risk. Advertising a mushroom identification app that uses shoddy AI is a public risk. Elective surgery is a personal risk. Not wearing a mask in a doctor's waiting room when you are sick with a contagious illness is a public risk.

I could go on just about forever here. But it's a really important distinction and it drives me nuts when they get conflated, and it's so common.

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"Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins"

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I’m having feelings about Katara v Pakku again, and the fact that at this point in the series, Katara has never been in a fight that wasn’t to the death. Every fight she’s ever been in has had world-ending stakes. She’s not shooting to kill Pakku because she’s weaker and less trained than him - though she is - she’s shooting to kill because she doesn’t know any other way to fight. Friendly sparring, or fighting as a spectator sport, has not been a part of this girl’s life. Pakku’s fighting Katara to put troublesome teenagers in their place; Katara’s fighting Pakku because they’ll all die if Pakku doesn’t pull his head out of his ass and train the Avatar.

Pakku is genuinely surprised to see his own reflection in that disc of ice Katara shoots right past his face. If he hadn’t dodged, it would have sliced his head right open. He starts putting actual effort in after that.

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How dare you hide this in the tags.

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Eliot attacking Sterling for anonymous.

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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT THIS SCENE BESIDES THE OBVIOUS-

The whole reason this fight happens is because Mark Shepard’s son wanted to see his dad fight Christian Kane. Mark’s family was on set during this being filmed and presumably had a fantastic time.

Mark and Chris went so hard during filming that they actually broken that table and just kept fighting. I’d really like to see the footage please.

The way Tara is just baffled by the whole thing but doesn’t get involved because it’s not really her business? Eliot is punchy and presumably he has a good reason for punching this guy so? Not her problem. Love her.

The way Eliot has to rise up on his toes to get enough leverage (*finger guns*) to throw Sterling down effectively. He’s such a tiny angry man but it’s easy to overlook because he has the soul of a Doberman in the body of a Jack Russell terrier.

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The thing is about Jack Russells, is that’s the soul of a Jack Russell in a Jack Russell more or less.

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star trek is about. .,the sixties

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It sure is.

This is fantastic, and it very much captures the essential queerness of their relationship in a way that I feel is sometimes sidelined from discussions of what's going on between them. There's a quote from George Takei about the intensity of the scenes between Kirk and Spock that sticks with me:

“from the perspective of gay people, seeing that is eye-opening. They see the gay passion, the gay attraction, and the gay anguish depicted in those scenes.”

I understand the desire for one of the most iconic quasi-utopias in SF/F to also be a quasi-utopia for queer people, to imagine we could just fall in love and get married and nobody would blink an eye because it's the better future. I get the desire to imagine that as the context of Kirk's and Spock's lives specifically. It's not any kind of moral affront. But it's just not what I see happening on the screen in TOS.

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