I think we all forgot about Bashir wanting to fuck his grandma a little too quickly
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My dashboard right now feels like I went back in time to the 90s, and I love it. It’s a mix of Xena, Voyager and DS9, and it take me back to those beautiful days of subtle and not-so-subtle subtext.*
Keep it up, friends!
*I’m also very much enjoying the resurgence of Bering & Wells posts. Vintage tumblr content. 12/10 would recommend.
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Happy birthday, Gabriel Bell!
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To anyone in the position to edit future non-fandom wikis, from a blind fan
I have run up against this issue on the Star Trek Fandom wiki (I know Fandom is bad, if there's an alternative wiki for the Star Trek franchise please please point me to it), but I hope anyone else who edits/will edit any wikis for (particularly live-action) fandoms will hear my plea.
On behalf of all blind fans, I implore you:
When creating/editing a character's page, provide a physical description of them.
Yes, even if there are pictures. Blind people can't see those. Alt text for those pictures would also be nice because screen-readers can read alt text, and it's not always visible to a sighted person who just wants to check a thing real quick.
Yes, even if they basically look like the actor playing them. We also cannot see what actors look like, funnily enough.
Yes, even if you think some things are obvious. You never know what someone might have missed when watching the show/movie or playing the game/watching a let's play. Especially if they're blind/low-vision viewers.
Yes, even if you personally find it annoying. Wikis are an excellent reference if done well, and can be very helpful for reminding people of stuff, and for helping blind fans like myself know what something looks like, so long as the description is there. We find it annoying when there isn't all the information on a wiki page there could be.
Sincerely, a blind Treky who has looked up the pages for several characters on the Star Trek wiki this past week to try and find out for suresies what those characters looked like, only to find there was no physical description section. The races get them, which is great and mostly helpful (but why do they talk about Cardassians having grey skin most of the time instead of scales? I got tripped up by that—though not in anything I've posted yet thankfully!). But that only gets you so far for specific characters! I can't keep relying on fanfics and the kindness of sighted friends with lives who can't always be reached when I need the information to find out for certain what colour Miles O'Brien's eyes are, or Kira Nerys's hair, and sometimes fanfics aren't accurate about descriptions, and I could be basing my entire perception of a character on something I read in a fic once! And I won't know if I can't look it up!
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