A recent Seven/Raffi commission for @theofficeghey <3 thanks again!
[Image ID: a digital painting of Raffi Musiker and Seven of Nine from Star Trek Picard. They are shown from the waist up. Raffi is slightly behind Seven with her arms wrapped around Seven's arm. Her chin is resting on Seven's shoulder and they are smiling at each other. Seven's implant covered hand is resting on Raffi's in a gentle caress. The background is slight purple and blue. End ID]
People be worshipping Terry Matalas for saying "sPiRk rIgHtS" on some random subreddit when he all but killed the canon sapphic ship onscreen that he was actually in charge of writing 💀
think what pisses me off the most about seven and raffi is that it would’ve been so easy to have them be in a long distance relationship (a mention here and there, space skype, having raffi include seven when speaking on family and vice versa etc) and not have it affect the greater story at all. yet they just. didn’t try in the least.
a canon gay ship that ended the previous season deciding to finally give their relationship a try, opens the new season with nary a word and im supposed to clap? make that make mf sense because im not getting it! what’s worse, they never actually reveal what happened between them to cause the split and when they finally meet, they move around each other like fucking strangers. just giving absolute nothing.
and the show pretending their relationship just fizzled out is such nasty work. like the way they played it with no intimacy, hardly a personal word, a lack of privacy, no references to their relationship or why it dissolved (professionalism my ass!) plus the worlds most awkward chaperoned post break up convo was all so intentional and insidious. might as well have come out and said fuck the gays lol.
because there was literally no reason to not have them at least try. wouldn’t have affected the show in any way other than injecting some much needed joy into a lifeless, uneven season filled with old things presented anew. but not engaging with them and dragging things out (10 episodes that could’ve been a fucking email) was cruel, obvious and beyond unnecessary.
and, as the show is over, the fact that they’re on the same ship does little to curb my annoyance because in truth, it means nothing.