#the same way

[jt1674]

#john mayall #peter green #blues breakers #bluesbreakers #a hard road #the same way #aynsley dunbar #john mcvie #love me til i'm dead

[lenievi]

this book

“If anything, [Kirk’s] problem finding his balance with you is that you’re too much like him. You don’t give him the counterbalance he’s used to.”

“Maybe [Kirk] just needs to find a new equilibrium. Once he gets used to you being the more regimented, unemotional one, maybe he’ll give himself the freedom to loosen up some. Maybe he’ll finally feel free to embrace the emotional instincts that are such an important part of his success as a commander—even if he doesn’t always realize it.”

(C. L. Bennett - The Captain’s Oath)

why is it that in my Trek fandom experience people always only talk about how Kirk and Spock are opposites??? 🙄 when this book gets it. Good first weeks of their acquaintance~ 

I’m also just gonna copy something I wrote a while ago, but never posted, since it’s related:

Kirk is very serious, no-nonsense, by the book, and in some ways cold, and holds everyone at an arm’s length.

Which is why at the beginning of the series, it’s actually Kirk who McCoy argues with directly. He’s trying to connect him to his humanity and melt some of his cold and logical demeanour. McCoy also approaches him "on the most intimate personal levels” (this is actually a quote from ST Writers’ Guide, not me lol), making sure that Kirk won’t get lost, that he won’t do something he would regret. As a human. As a person.

But obviously, McCoy knows nothing about command and command decisions. Spock does. And Spock’s thoughts and ideas are actually pretty similar to Kirk’s own. That’s why Kirk searches him out, that’s why he asks him for opinions even when he doesn’t have to because it gives him “emotional security” knowing that this logical Vulcan agrees with his chosen course of action. If Spock does, it means it’s right. Spock being his XO allows Kirk to take some things more lightly, to be more reckless, to open himself up more as a captain. (The idea that Spock calms Kirk down is so ??? to me.)

If Kirk goes too far he knows there will be two people who will stop him and catch him and bring him back to the correct path. Not just one. Both of them. That’s why every time he goes too far, it’s both Spock and McCoy who confront him. Not just one of them. (and when he dies neither is there, which is actually very poetic, and I love it worked that way, even though it wasn’t planned)

When McCoy sees that Spock’s logic has the ability to influence Kirk, and even allows him to become more open, he starts to argue with Spock and ceases to challenge Kirk, because next to the Vulcan XO, Kirk can be just a little bit more human (with a different XO, Kirk wouldn’t be able to do that. When Mitchell was still alive, Kirk had to keep his bravado and serious mask up, he wasn’t allowed to truly open up. Only the combination of McCoy and Spock at his side allowed him to do it, because McCoy, in contrast to Mitchell, also knows when to not rely on emotions because he is a surgeon and he needs to be able to turn them off in order to do his job well. And when he sees that Kirk gets too emotional, McCoy is able to bring him back. Mitchell would only encourage it.)

And today’s addition:

maybe this “I can be more human because of Spock” is also why Kirk focuses so much on “you seem quite human, we’ll make a human out of you yet, his soul was the most human” because he wants him to free himself, because he knows personally how hard it is to kill a part of himself... 

#leni reads trek books #tos nonsense #headcanon times #just in case :D #since the mitchell stuff is mostly just my own interpretation #my 'rant' was written in relation to some of my fears about SNW lol but I won't post the whole thing #i've already accepted they will ruin what i like about spock and kirk's relationship. it's just validating to know that this book sees it in #the same way #unless there's something later in the book that will contradict it lol we'll see #(but maybe snw will surprise me and will characterize them well and in accordance with the 2nd pilot and early s1) #my wish for s2 is them never actually interacting. that would make the most sense #or if so it's just a very surface level kind of interaction #at the end of the day if they want to stay loyal to tos the development of their relationship happened during tos not before it #people might think i don't want them to interact because i don't ship them or whatever - that's literally irrelevant. #i would hate if mccoy and spock met during snw too

[herpandemonium]

i wish there was more lore on the families in jjk, especially the gojo clan and kamo clan.

#the same way #grr martin #has an expansive universe #why couldn't gege do that? #jujutsu kaisen #gojo clan

[burningarchitecture]

Me with Victor Frankenstein 🤝 me with Light Yagami

*clenches fists* It's not about the god complex Oh my god. God complex is only useful in a Christian ish interpretation. But these characters care little about religion so "defying it" isn't their main motivation and shouldn't be what we use to describe their ambitions most of the time. Hannibal Lecter is more obsessed with god than these guys. There are other ways to describe ambition/wanting power. The issue isn't that they were trying to defy nature or whatever, the issue is that they didn't take responsibility for their actions/had a flawed ideology and literally killed people. Like I understand that it's tempting to say "haha this bitch crazy he literally thought he was gonna become god lmao what a freak" but that's not very accurate and extremely surface level. It was also exadurated in adaptions in both cases

#when I mean exadurated in a adaptions I mean the increased Christian symbolism in the dn anime when the characters are literally japanese #+kami isn't tge same thing as god etc #funny how people describe the guy who wanted to advance science and prove that he discovered the secret of life by creating a better human #and the guy who killed thousands of people to try creating a world without crume #the SAME way #death note #dn #light yagami #frankenstein #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #gothic lit #gothic literature #death note manga #death note analysis #death note meta #victor frankenstein #frankenstein analysis #the modern prometheus #frankenstein by mary shelley #mary shelley

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

NOOO WAY Y. THEY PLAY I VELAIEBE IN FVHATHER CHISTIAGSMAS IN RADIO YEEH

#Greg Lake ❣️❣️ #the same happened 365 days ago #and I'm still screaming #the same way

[kelpiekidd]

#432 #kelpiedoodles #i cant recall the fact that i always said i loved her back #the same way #every time the same

[professorsta]

Watched Ryan’s haunted house interviews and how this man? Acts around his fiance? So gentle, constantly holding her via her lower back, speaking so gently and none of the jokes are super fucking mean or at her expense. He just treats her as a princess and he’s her knight. Like the relationship with the chauffeur from the Princess Diaries and Julie Andrews. That type beat.

#watcher #marielle scott #Ryan bergara #I will treat my future wife #the same way #like I’m her knight #and she can be a knight too and we’re knight friends or she can be a queen idgaf #the point is no matter what I’ll be there to protect and comfort and support her through thick and thin #and make her believe she worth it and more #so thanks Ryan for giving me some pointers

[17yearcicada]

so sexy the way i do not want to go to church today

#its okay afterwards we try to piece together the relationship drama from last night #don't really want to sit through a church service to do that though. unrelated did you know i used to pronounce gossip and gospel #the same way #.txt

[stuckinapril]

guys i actually beg of you to not let palestine become an unpleasant flashback, a transient tumblr trend, a hasbeen subject that just faded away. as an arab—and specifically iraqi—girl, i know what it feels like to have family displaced all over the world as a result of western imperialism. i know what it feels like to not be able to step foot into your homeland because it’s no longer safe. as an american iraqi, raised in the us and insulated from my roots, it wasn’t until last summer that i was able to visit iraq for the first time, and even then my family was worried for my safety—in my own blood country. although nothing like what palestinians are experiencing right now, it might be the tiniest semblance of what it feels like to watch your country disintegrate in front of you.

and this is a universal arab experience. i volunteer weekly at a refugee center that serves middle eastern refugees, and every day i see the longing in their eyes when they speak of where they hail from. it’s safe to say that we will be getting a wave of palestinian refugees very soon: just another generation of arabs who can’t inhabit their own country.

arab culture is so rich, so profound, so beautiful. i am tired of being told by the world—through literal genocide—that it doesn’t mean anything. please never let this be forgotten. free palestine. free palestine. free palestine.

#i can’t describe the way being alive through this has changed me but i will never be the same #palestine #israel #gaza

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

#my path of self improvement has been less self righteous and personally gainful #and more just. a lot of embarrassment and pain #like i wouldnt change the path i took to get where i am now but i wouldve chosen to travel that path sooner because omg #nothing hits me like the fear that future me will feel the same way about right now me that right now me feels about past tense me

[brown-spider]

Making jokes about Noir being colorblind/not understanding colors is how we cope with how unbelievably powerful his brain is

#spiderman noir #spider noir #Spiderverse #Spiderverse 2 #into the spider verse #itsv #across the spiderverse #atsv #Spiderverse fanart #itsv fanart #atsv fanart #art #my art #hes colorblind the same way we would be colorblind if we went to his world and couldnt tell what color the stoplights were #my comics

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[pr1ncesskimii]

𝕴 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖉𝖔𝖓’𝖙 𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖜𝖍𝖞 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖐 𝖚𝖕 𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖘 𖥔 ݁ ˖

✧ ( •᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ) ⋆˙.ᐣ.ᐟ

𝕬𝖘 𝖘𝖔𝖔𝖓 𝖆𝖘 𝕴 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖓 𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖆 𝖋𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞, 𝕴 𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝖆𝖜𝖆𝖞. 𝕿𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖘𝖍𝖎♰ 𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖘 𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖋𝖋 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕴 𝖉𝖊𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖞 𝖆𝖒 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖕 𝖒𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖞. 𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖜𝖆𝖞 𝖙𝖔𝖔 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖞 𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖋𝖚𝖑 𝖒𝖊𝖓 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖆 𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖘𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊, 𝖜𝖍𝖞 𝖇𝖊 𝖆 𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖜𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖗 ??? . ݁ ˖

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝕻𝖗1𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝕶𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖎 ໒꒱ ‧₊ #my opinion #if you’re married #stay out of my inbox #before I find your wife #Im not playing #step mommy lmao #I want my own #home wrecking #I damn near gag #if you’re that easy to leave #me for your wife ? #you could leave me #the same way #yucky #if I decide to have a child #I want that to be their only #offspring #I prefer to be childfree tho #I just can’t take another woman’s man #what’s meant for me #won’t be taken #I couldn’t live #with such guilt #and paranoia #I know my own husband will never #leave me #nor put me in a #position to question #his loyalty

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

#also if it wasnt clear this isnt ‘its bad its lazy’ there is a level of like #completion consistancy i am thinking for with this #personally i really do not enjoy the like. vintage chic long red nails fur coats noir esque aesthetic HOWEVER 💥💥💥 #i can recognize that it is put together it is Intentional #i feel like a lot of people are going to say minimalism on this so LET ME SAY 🫰☝️ i recognize that minimalism is Considered an aesthetic #but i *PERSONALLY* do not consider it an aesthetic i consider it the void of one #it is a lapse in aesthetic or personality in the same way a silence in a song is still technically a ‘beat’ but no music is played #however the importance of Space or Breath in design is more akin to a purposeful silence in music #because that silence matters in the same way rhythm and breath in design do #so i guess minimalism is more comparable to like. white noise. the sound of a fan #very little effort and there is a comfort in it i suppose but its not. A Design. okay #TO ME 🤫 #if minimalism has one hater its me if minimalism has no haters im dead

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

#nonbinary love #nblnb yearning #nb4nb #nblnb #wholesomeposting #yearning hours #ive been thinking about how some languages dont have a possessive tense #so you dont say “i have a thing” but rather “a thing is by me” #and like im not usually one for psycho linguistics and like critical thoughts etc etc etc #but i really like the framework of responsibility/commitment rather than ownership #i think about this mostly in terms of ecology #and relation to land #but i also love it as it applies to language shared between lovers #like i LOVE calling them mine or for them to call me theirs #but i'm also nonmonog and that was kinda weird to square for a while #and it clicked one time when i was talking about my neighborhood and i was like well #when i say my neighborhood or my city it's understood i'm not taking it away from anybody else #its understood i just mean the city where i live #so why cant we apply the same to lovers? #mine in the way i want to show up for you again and again #ok #done now

[elbiotipo]

I still think we should celebrate Kissinger's death even if he didn't face justice and lived a confortable life, just so that everybody knows what a piece of shit he was, just so that when some Great Stateman like I don't fucking know Biden tries to eulogize him he is flooded with insults and mockery y quede bien para el culo, so that nobody can even PRETEND he had any worth, millions should celebrate he's fucking dead and this is how he will be remembered, as an imperialist criminal hated all over the world with no redeeming qualities, none should be able to even pretend he was some some great man except for the magnitude of his crimes

#I used to be the 'don't celebrate deaths' kind of guy #but guess what this time is completely justified #cosas mias #henry kissinger #also George W. Bush will be remembered the same you can't paint your way out of hell George