#vulcans

[bumblingbabooshka]

In your opinion, do Vulcan children have teddies (stuffed animals)?

YES!!!

Stuffed animals and other security items would be good for Vulcan children...I can imagine many small children needing them when they first learn how to meditate. They can also be used as a sort of 'anchor' so they are able to stay calm in unfamiliar situations. I can also imagine they would be used to express emotions without having to attribute them to themselves Ex: "[Toy] feels sad because you ate the last cookie." and a parent could then help the child through that emotion via them both teaching 'the bear' what to do when 'it' feels sad. This way the child feels like they're also helping rather than feeling like they're being lectured. Toys are, I imagine, one of the first things that we learn to take care of and be kind towards. As a child it's probably one of the few things we feel is under 'our care' or control. I imagine how children treat toys is observed carefully...it can be a good outlet (a child may rant to a toy when they don't like something while remaining composed in the situation itself) but also if a child is consistently violent with toys it may be indicative of an emotional issue. Creativity, imagination, and play are also not things which seem to conflict with Vulcan adherence to logic. Play is very important for children and I imagine it's often used to make sense of the world around them or what they feel (Ex: Playing 'House') I imagine you can often see Vulcan children playing by mimicking violent or emotional behavior and then scolding the toy for being violent...you can't hit! You have to take deep breaths and meditate. Oh no, [toy] is crying! Don't cry, you must calm down! Or they might play by exploring new ideas and desires through the realm of fantasy with a familiar object, the toy. Toys are also useful (I imagine, I'm not a psychologist just reflecting on my own experiences) for building a sense of self in a way...during the course of play you can discover what you like and don't like, what calms you down and what intrigues you. You can also learn how to interact with others through games and play as a child. Lessons like how to share, how to work together, how to include others in your world...very important! So yes, I think that toys and play are important - especially for a species which is inherently very emotional. Vulcan Children probably have much less control than adults do and require more tangible methods of calming down, understanding/confronting their emotions etc. Now I'm imagining a 'growing up' ritual wherein children decide they're too old for their toys and ready to give them up. They then work to emotionally detach themselves from them. At the end of this process the children give the toys to someone else (a sibling, a friend, a neighbor, or just donating them)

#Vulcans #Q&A #Thanks for the ask~!! #bee doodles #it is typically up to each individual child to decide when they want to let their toys go but once they get to a certain age they'll be #prodded a bit to do so (which also happens with Humans) #I imagine only the STAUNCHIEST of Vulcans find these sorts of toys to be 'illogical' (think Sarek) #Though I can also imagine Sarek just deciding Spock is too emotionally invested in a toy and getting rid of it #so pick your poison I suppose hehehe

[theshadowrealmitself]

I think one of the most humiliating things to have a Vulcan coworker witness is when you’re trying to be fast with something and you start fucking it all up and it ends up taking you longer than if you had just done it slowly from the start

#star trek #humans #implied #Vulcans

[whetstonefires]

Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.

Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.

So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.

So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.

Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.

And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.

I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.

#hoc est meum #star trek #vulcans #comedy

[android-and-ale]

I can not stress enough that in Star Trek, Amanda Grayson being an incredibly loving wife AND shitty parent is a feature, not a bug. She loves Sarek with her whole heart. And as much as she loves Spock, every single time she has to choose between them, she'll back Sarek. Spock grew up knowing his mom loved him, but that she also did not understand him and would never have his back.

Before people in the mainstream even had the vocabulary to describe what they were seeing, they understood on a gut level that Spock was a neurodivergent, mixed race adult son of two incredibly charismatic and successful parents.

There are so many layers of relatability here.

A surprising lot of people in very loving and devoted marriages aren't great parents. An unsurprising lot of powerful people with prestigious careers also aren't great parents.

Folks who grew up with parents who were great at their jobs and devoted to one another but who just couldn't relate to or understand their kids could see themselves in Spock. Moreover, he demonstrated that if they took a path radically different from what their parents wanted, they could become incredibly successful and even well liked in a whole different sphere.

Most of all, for folks who could see how much their parents adored one another but never felt like that love extended to them, there is something profound in the way Kirk looks at Spock like he hangs the stars in the sky. He's a source of hope that even if you grew up as your family's ugly duckling, if you get out from under their influence you can find someone who will perceive you as a swan.

#star trek #amanda grayson #spock #sarek #s'chn t'gai family #vulcans

[lucifers-simp]

Honestly the fact that gloves are not common Vulcan attire is the biggest proof that they're huge whores on the inside

#even the most conservative of vulcans is always raw dogging their hands everywhere #star trek #tos star trek #star trek tos #tos spock #spock #mr spock #vulcan #star trek vulcan #vulcans #spirk #tos spirk

[thejayness]

Sometimes I forget how big the Star Trek fandom on tumblr is :,) my mind exploded when the Star Trek Post exploded so thank you all for the support!!! Anyways, I drew the man holding a cat :D and will now be re-watching Star Trek

Anywho, have a good day/ evening!!!

#art #artist #digital art #digital artist #drawing #Star Trek #star #trek #Spock #mr spock #vulcan #cat #spock holding a cat #spock fanart #Star Trek fanart #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #small artist #vulcans #Spirk #Spirk ship #cats

[karam-ba]

for my trek fashion zine

because of work and school i can barely work on this zine anymore. instead of totally abandoning it, i'm going to post some parts from it. sad that i couldn't finish this project, i think next i'll try for like an eight page zine, something doable.

#star trek #vulcans

[hollis-art]

this was made to celebrate first contact day but im realizing if i just put "happy first contact day!" in the caption it's gonna sound like im celebrating these two for doing whatever this is instead

without first contact day this would never happen though, so my point still stands!! happy first contact day everyone!!!

#only 39 more years to go until that one human shakes hands with a vulcan (heheheheh)!! #first contact day #spirk #tos spirk #star trek #star trek the original series #star trek fanart #fanart #art #vulcans #spock #james t kirk

[trek-tracks]

Realizing that Amok Time, from T'Pring's perspective, is basically the equivalent of a Vulcan Hallmark Movie, where a holiday (Pon Farr) makes our hero realize she wants hometown boy Stonn and a simple (Vulcan) life instead of big-city (space) boyfriend Spock, and it all comes to a head in an embarrassing misunderstanding in front of her family, is certainly making me feel some kind of way

#star trek #star trek tos #spock #t'pring #amok time #vulcan #vulcans #t'pau #hallmark movies #hallmark christmas movies #hallmark pon farr movies

[an-actual-floof]

redraw of that silly old picture of Nimoy and Shatner plus an alternate bc we all know what ‘Pon Farr Fridays’ really meant ;))

#vulcan and/or dtf? welcome to pon farr fridays #don’t look too closely at it #unsure how I feel abt kirk in this but issok #pon farr #star trek #s’chn t’gai spock #kirk/spock #spirk #vulcan #vulcans #star trek the original series #star trek tos #spock #captain kirk #james t kirk #star trek fanart #redraw

[midgeonsmidgeon]

i wonder if when romulan teens "act out" they cut their V bangs into a regular bowl cut and get real calm and logical. It's really choppy because they cut it themselves.

on the other hand, a vulcan who cuts their bowl cut into V bangs and tries to act more wild. the haircut is super precise and neat.

also these two are best friends.

#star trek #sci fi #fanart #*startrekart #fan art #st #vulcan #vulcans #romulans #romulus

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

#star trek #Vulcans #Humans #not based on a specific thing #but I used to know this annoying couple that were ‘family friends’ #who would show up to potluck dinners and the like and would either bring nothing or bring something really just. out of left field? #like a bag of frozen chicken to a bbq #and then proceed to make sure they are first even if it was stated to let kids go first #would take HUGE amounts before anyone else got a chance to get a plate #and then make off with the leftovers again even if they were already claimed for #and it wasn’t a food insecurity thing trust me I would never speak bad about a person getting food if that was even a remote chance #the adults who raised us knew them really well and we’d been to their house a ton of times #they were just dicks #and yeah. they’d occasionally insult the food. while eating the MAJORITY of it. #it was so weird at their home they would go out of their way to get the healthiest options possible #you know the really bland tasteless expensive stuff that apparently was healthier #but then if they were visiting our house they would. eat all our unhealthy snacks. #that always pissed me off so much as a kid because we actually had a food insecurity thing going on #and also a variety of other reasons that are a bit too depressing to bring up on this post #but anyways we’d hardly ever get to have nice snacks #and this couple would just take them all??? even after we’d tell them repeatedly that it was ours and those snacks weren’t gonna be #replaced #hated that couple #if you’re wondering why they were ‘family friends’ it’s because the couple who raised us #(it feels weird to type it out like that but apparently legal guardians doesn’t fit since they never finished petitioning 💀) #liked having them around because it made them look like ‘such great Christian’s’ being nice to the people #that no one else wanted to be friends with #I always thought that was a really weird and fucked up reason to be friends with someone #this got long sorry 😭

[reginaldqueribundus]

also you can't tell me black Vulcans wouldn't sport this type of haircut. the geometric shapes, the clean lines, the symmetry? absolutely Vulcan to the core. straight haired Vulcans wish they could look this flawless. scientifically this is the Most Vulcan Haircut

#vulcans #star trek #a post by me™ #1k #sam rambles about star trek again

[scherzokinn]

#i hope this wasn't made before #if so i apologize #sarek #spock #sarek/amanda #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #star trek v: the final frontier #star trek meme #star trek memes #star trek tos meme #vulcans

[jennelikejennay]

The question is not "why do Vulcans kiss with their fingers?"

The question is, why do humans NOT?

The human fingertip—EACH fingertip—has over three thousand nerve endings. It has more touch receptors per millimeter than any other part of the body, including lips, tongue, and genitals.

Obviously the type of sensation we get from our fingers isn't typically a sexual one. But this is also true of lips and tongues. We just think of our lips as romantic and sexual but we don't put finger touching into the same context. We probably could though.

The real reason Vulcans kiss with their hands? It's because they don't touch with their hands very often. Something you don't do with everyone becomes significant and intimate. Like (switching universes for a minute) when the Radchaai take off their gloves. You wear gloves 24/7 around everyone you know, pretty soon taking them off will feel like stripping. Same concept.

Context is everything. Sure, it's no big deal for Vulcans to type with their fingers, just like it's no big deal for you to put chapstick on or lick an ice cream cone. But when a person you've never touched before very carefully brushes your pinkie with their pinkie while your hands are under the table.....you gonna tell me that's not first base? It could be.

#vulcans #vulcan biology #vulcan finger kissing #ozh'esta #not trying to give you a finger kink but let's get real if you read spirk that ship has probably sailed #spirk #imperial radch

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think Vulcans should nuzzle their faces together when they like each other but it's like, not something you do in front of other people. That's something to do in private or if you're a little kid. Babies don't really know how to do this properly and are prone to just headbutting their parents/siblings instinctually. They want to 'get closer' to what they feel telepathically emanating from the people around them. This nuzzling is a form of telepathic communication but it's very unskilled (a baby can and will do it) and you only get broad feelings/thoughts from it. But that's alright bc typically the only feeling/thought you're hoping to get from or communicate with such an action is 'I like you'.

#-pulls the green screen down- this is interesting when considering Tuvok/Neelix. Think about it for a second then take a second more. #vulcans #Tuvok: -holding his baby- ...... / Baby: -excited- !!!!!! -headbutts him- / Tuvok: No. Nooo. Calm. #star trek #we can't let the humans know we nuzzle each other they're gonna be insufferable about it #Vulcan child sees their older sibling nuzzling with someone...oooo...I'm telling mom. #this is also sort of related to my headcanon that Klingons headbutt each other to show affection #which is allll sort of related to Ehergha/S'veyk #you are NOT allowed to nuzzle in school....'we were attempting to communicate' mhm. use your words.