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[maeraevokaya]

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#tumblr polls #polls

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#poll #tumblr polls

[maeraevokaya]

Here's a Star Trek AOS comic, cover shows Uhura with brown skin (she's in the forground) -

Then, there's a panel showing her a bit lighter -

And here's another panel. She looks white, practically the same tone as Spock (as she's based off Zoe Saldana, she should have brown skin like the actress, yes?) -

And, finally, a 70s book series. I don't know who the hell that's supposed to be, as it's definitely not Uhura -

For reference, here's a photo of Zoe Saldana and Nichelle Nichols, who played AOS and TOS Uhura respectively -

I think some illstrators/colourists really need to pay very close attention to the characters they're trying to portray in their comics.

Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

#I saw a whitewashed Uhura in a Star Trek comic #might've only been one panel #but still #Uhura isn't white #then there's the older book series #in which Uhura has white skin blue eyes and blonde hair #they literally made her look more like Chapel #those books are from the 70s #gross whitewashing

[maeraevokaya]

Isn’t it just so funny that the only reason why we have Garashir is because the DS9 writers couldn’t pin down Bashir’s character and started to panic so they got Andrew Robinson on the show just to slap four hours of makeup on him and say “go be a spy” and Andrew Robinson was like “??? HOW” and they were like “and ACTION!” and so Andrew Robinson looked at Alexander Siddig and put his whole palm on his shoulder and bing bang boom Garashir was born

#star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #deep space 9 #ds9 #Garashir #garak #elim garak #bashir #julian bashir #andrew robinson #alexander siddig

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Full Pink Moon 2024 l Andrew McCarthy

#moon #full moon #astrophotography #space #pink moon

[maeraevokaya]

"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

#doctor who #fourth doctor #tom baker

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Space view of moon's shadow on earth during eclipse

#astronomy #astrophotography #space #2024 solar eclipse #solar eclipse

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#feminism #mysogny #mens behaviour

[maeraevokaya]

Great points, @aroundthewaytrekkie . The naysayers and haters can keep crying.

#savelowerdecks

#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek lower decks

[maeraevokaya]

🖖🏻

Star Trek is friend shaped 🖖🏽

#star trek

[maeraevokaya]

Well said, @aroundthewaytrekkie ! 🖖🏻

I’m rewatching Star Trek Discovery, with my partner who is watching it for the first time. I have listened to the naysayers smack talk this show for years and I am officially over it!

I’ve laughed, cried & cried some more. This show is bold, new, incredible, exciting and groundbreaking.

I for one didn’t even begin to watch Discovery until I was stuck home during the pandemic, because I just didn’t want to watch another cisgender 💀 male captain, that storyline was old and stale. So I was pleasantly surprised to see NEW characters and stories in Discovery.

A phenomenal black female is the lead character rather than just in the background, a multi cultural, LGBTQIA+ & species cast! I’ve loved exploring the different relationship dynamics between the characters.

There hadn’t been a new Star Trek series since Enterprise and that one almost killed the Trek franchise in my opinion.

Discovery does what Star Trek was always intended to do, make people think… not about the way things were, but the way things could be in the future. To challenge society’s status quo’s and explore other possibilities.

Michael Burnham is a Superhero and Sonequa Martin-Green is a freaking Goddess!

Like it or not Discovery breathed new life into the Trek franchise. It launched Strange New Worlds, gave Picard a snowballs chance and even probably launched/ saved Paramount.

The entire cast of Discovery is awesome and honestly it’s now my favorite Trek series of all time! I’m so sad that it was cancelled along with Lower Decks, but I’m so glad that it was made!

#star trek #star trek discovery #michael burnham #disco elysium #to boldly go

[maeraevokaya]

We didn’t have a word for our, as you guys call, gay/lesbian people. So we coined that word as an umbrella for all our tribes. We never said, “Well, you’re transgender. You’re bisexual. You’re lesbian.” We never knew those terms. Those are all from Western culture, you know, LGBTQ and all that. So on some level, it’s about getting rid of labels. Those terms were forced upon us.

#indigenous culture #indigenous people #cultural appropriation #a little unrelated but I solidly REFUSE to use 'spirit animal' #because I'm not indigenous

[maeraevokaya]

A rose made of galaxies

Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in 1966. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. It has a disc that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. The smaller galaxy shows distinct signs of active star formation at its nucleus, and "it is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one."

#astronomy #astrophotography #space

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Happy Face Crater, Mars (March 1999)

#mars planet #mars #astrophotography #astronomy #outer space #solar system #space

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Located in the picturesque southern constellation of Centaurus, the Gum 41 nebula takes up most of this image brought to you by the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. 

Credit: ESO

#nebula #space #astronomy

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#space #solar eclipse #solar system #eclipse #mars #an eclipse is still an eclipse #you go Phobos!

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nasawebb

#astronomy #stars #space #saturn #cosmos