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Scary Cat Privilege ♣️🩷

#HES SO LONG #huskerdust #i live for this old man and his spider twink

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#perfect audio use #10/10 #star trek #star trek lower decks #samanthan rutherford

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Sometimes it doesn't need to be good.

Sometimes it just needs to be done

#life quote #this is about an essay i don't want to write #i am so tired

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As a cartoon, especially in the sillier 2D style it's working with, Lower Decks has the unique opportunity to push itself farther than pretty much every other piece of Trek media, visually speaking.

I'm talking set pieces (hello, Ferenginar) character design, creature design, character's movements, even the existence of certain characters entirely that would be hard or downright impossible to do outside the realm of animation.

Think about the drill instructor, the one whose body parts just floated around in approximate relation to each other. Sure, it could be replicated in live action with green screen trickery or CGI, but in animation they were able to push it farther, sending her tumbling across the floor like a bunch of bowling pins (that scene cracks me tf up)

I've taken the liberty of drumming up some ideas that Lower Decks could do justice:

the away team gets drugged with some sort of love potion and the infected crew literally have hearts in their eyes

Shrinking episode! Full-on Honey I Shrunk The Lieutenants, with the Warp Five having to navigate the internal structure of an ancient temple and dealing with being no bigger than a Sharpie

I know there's something on the mobile game about this, but being able to animate the Lower Deckers as children without the limitations of finding child actors who resemble the cast (imaging Mama Cat T'ana taking care of little Tendi gives me life)

More crazy transforming shit. Remember when Tendi made a dog who, like, turned into a cube and bent its limbs all wrong? More of that I live for that

Feel free to add more if you think of them

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #this show is so good #animation

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do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home

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This moment is so funny to me. Zane dramatically looking over, about to learn his true potential.

Jay’s just getting stomped on

And they’re kicking Cole around like a soccer ball.

Like those creatures could definitely do something more harmful. They’re just being silly goofy. 

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"why does writing take so long" because 60% of it is coming up with a sentence, realizing that sentence doesn't work the way you want it to, and staring at a wall

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Did anybody else get weirdly fixated on the conversation Tendi and Rutherford had while walking into the Ferengi hotel?

Waking each other up from nightmares? Yelling at waiters for each other? Sharing toothbrushes?

Specifically Tendi wearing Rutherford's shorts?

Yeah, me too

Here you go:

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #samanthan rutherford #dvana tendi #tendiford

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Me: please, please, just write a singular page of this paper due next week

My brain: instructions unclear. Bradward Boimler deserves an androgynous werewolf boyfriend who scares the shit out of Mariner for no reason

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #beckett mariner #bradward boimler #she is CANONICALLY AFRAID OF WEREWOLVES #it was during that episode with the mind-reading rocks #fanfic

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I am decidedly neutral on the topic of Beckett Mariner's romantic life, to the point where I could not care less about who she ends up with (if anybody) as long as she's happy...

but the concept of her ending up with Boimler of all people after the string of hotties and badasses she's managed to ensnare is objectively funny, and it gets funnier the wider your definition of 'ensnare' gets.

Amina Ramsey, Jennifer Sh'reyan, Jack Ransom, T'lyn (arguable but I like the idea), a string of bad boys, girls, nonbinary babes, and Bynars... and she goes for the raisin boy with the sand allergy.

Brad: I would like to give a shoutout to my fellow nominees, who will now and forever be known as the guys who lost to fuckin' Brad Boimler

#jennifer FUMBLED #star trek lower decks #lower decks #beckett mariner #bradward boimler #jack ransom #marinler

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If I had a nickel for every AAPI yellow-coded engineer character who featured in a science-fiction show about exploring space and learning important ethical lessons while also being funny and heartwarming, and even though this character has a ton of potential their trauma and backstory is consistently ignored by the show creators in favor of their red and blue-coded friends, I'd have two goddamn nickels

#spot the difference #star trek lower decks #samanthan rutherford #voltron #voltron hunk #hunk garrett #i seem to have a type #also both of them are in love with badass green alien ladies

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Update:

I wrote it

Listen

Listen

Listen to me.

Rutherford is close to Shaxs, enough so that he's comfortable sending Boimler to the bear pack to get a day off.

Said bear pack is notably using poetry workshops in order to process complex emotions and express oneself, like that one chick with her Worf poem.

And then. Like, two episodes later? When confronted by Tendi in a wicked nice dress, Sam calls her captivating.

Not pretty, not beautiful, not nice or great or anything normal. Captivating. He says himself that, seeing her like that, he is incapable of coming up with a less intense word.

What I'm saying is Samanthan Rutherford has written poetry trying to work through his latent feelings for his best friend and it is a crime that nothing like that is on ao3 yet.

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #samanthan rutherford #dvana tendi #tendiford

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Lower Decks OC Idea

This is largely based on a M.A.S.H. episode from Season 1, 'Tuttle', wherein Hawkeye talks about (and pulls pranks on behalf of) his old imaginary friend, Tuttle.

And then I got thinkin.

Wouldn't it be fun if, for shits and shenanigans, somehow somebody's imaginary friend was brought to life on the ship? Imagine Mariner having to deal with someone she imagined into existence when she was five suddenly being real and physical and actually being able to die.

And of course we have a good old fashioned Existential Crisis as this person comes to grips with the fact that their personality is no longer dependant on someone else's consciousness, and they're a Person in a way they've never been before now, and they don't know if they want to go back to being in Beckett's head or not.

If there's any demand for this I will write it, but for now it's just an idea clogging up my brain.

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #beckett mariner

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Listen

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Listen to me.

Rutherford is close to Shaxs, enough so that he's comfortable sending Boimler to the bear pack to get a day off.

Said bear pack is notably using poetry workshops in order to process complex emotions and express oneself, like that one chick with her Worf poem.

And then. Like, two episodes later? When confronted by Tendi in a wicked nice dress, Sam calls her captivating.

Not pretty, not beautiful, not nice or great or anything normal. Captivating. He says himself that, seeing her like that, he is incapable of coming up with a less intense word.

What I'm saying is Samanthan Rutherford has written poetry trying to work through his latent feelings for his best friend and it is a crime that nothing like that is on ao3 yet.

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #samanthan rutherford #dvana tendi #tendiford

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Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 7

First of all, I was RIGHT!!!! The ships aren't destroyed, and neither are the crews! We're more than likely gonna get more of that one Klingon kid!

Secondly, at first I didn't really like this episode. It felt like the show was spinning its wheels, chucking characters around randomly. Why Peanut Hamper again? Why Agimus? Why did Badgey show up, only to ascend? How the hell did Ruthie make an AI advanced enough to ascend to godhood?

Then I realized: they're clearing the villains roster. PH, Ags, and Badgey were all previous villains that had just kinda been left in the open since they were seen last. Giving them all an end to their arcs (PH going back home, Agimus actually trying to be better, Badgey splitting off into Goodgey and ascending) is Lower Decks' way of saying these are not our Big Bad. They're intentionally snipping off those loose strands I talked about last week, leaving only a few options left.

Additionally, we've got minor villains from 3/4 of the main squad out of the way here. Tendi was Peanut Hamper's liaison, Boimler betrayed Agimus, and Rutherford finally reconciled with his son. I have a feeling somebody from Mariner's past is going to show up, and it isn't going to be pretty.

Either way, this has Section 31 written all over it. With our inorganic friends out of the way, who else could it be?

We've got William Boimler and one hell of a Mariner blow-up on the horizon, plus hopefully some more T'lyn development and maybe a little more of the Tendi/Rutherford stuff that's going on.

It's going to be a very interesting three episodes!

#Im still thinking about what the koala told boimler #IT IS NOT YOUR TIME YET BRADWARD BOIMLER #what does it MEAN #star trek lower decks #lower decks #beckett mariner #bradward boimler #lower decks theory #samanthan rutherford #dvana tendi #william boimler

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Boo 😘