“but how could thor and the other asgardians have been completely unaware of their people’s violent history as a conquering and enslaving empire?!?” have you ever met an english person
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Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share.
State of The Fandom
I woke up out of a dead sleep thinking about this fandom (Star Trek) and one specific phrase that most in the fandom know very well. It’s one of the most iconic phrases from the franchise and is at the heart of what Star Trek is: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
This is not just meant as a statement that people exist in infinite diversity, in infinite combinations, but it means that this is good.
I’ve always kind of thought that the majority of Trekkies are probably such die hard fans not only because we love the characters and stories but also because the main theme and message of Star Trek rings true to what a lot of us believe, or give us a better future to strive for.
And yet I see horrible, ridiculous, childish, intolerant and disgusting things taking place in this fandom constantly. Things that fly in the face of Star Trek’s core message.
It’s possible I have held this fandom to higher standards than others given this message and maybe I was wrong to have done so.
I see or have been subjected to harassment over liking certain characters, or ships, or having certain headcanons–bullying, threats of violence, even death threats–literally over other fans enjoying things within the same fucking fandom. I have seen “Trekkies” being aphobes, homophobes, transphobes, ableist, sexist, racist, and generally disgusting to each other. I see “Trekkies” being hateful to other Trekkies over complete bullshit.
If you can’t even appreciate the diversity in liking FICTIONAL things then I have a difficult time believing that you are truly ‘woke’ and accepting of even greater diversity in real life.
If you are in this fandom to gather up minions and keep them in your sphere of influence with fear tactics and bullying, so that you and they may bully others who you don’t like for petty and arbitrary reasons, you’re not a Trekkie. You’re a toxic disease to this fandom and you are a blight on what Star Trek stands for and you need to step out of your pathetic little power trip and re-examine the message of the thing you claim to love so much and think about your own life and actions.
I’m not sure, however, that the people who create such toxicity and abuse within our fandom really do understand or appreciate Star Trek’s message. I am more likely to believe that they are simply doing the same thing a lot of ultra-Conservative Right Wing “Christians” do when they use Christianity to uphold their nasty little version of ‘the truth’ which is usually that they are holy and pure and everyone else is sinful scum. That’s called using something as a smokescreen.
Stop using the thing I love as a smokescreen to uphold your own misplaced sanctimony so you can abuse others.
Re-evaluate yourself and realize what you are doing and work to be better or get out of our fandom. Star Trek is not about your brand of hate and harassment and I am quite tired of it.
For those of you who are tired too I would ask that you reblog this post.
Don’t be afraid to speak or support the truth. If too many are afraid to speak up and reassert what we want this fandom to be for us and for newcomers and for the future then we will continue to watch it slip away into this nasty place. If you’ve been a target of these types of people reblog. Don’t be afraid. If these types of people have used you or bullied you into harassing others in the past and you have left that toxic influence (good on you): reblog. If you want to show that you do not support this behavior in our fandom, reblog. If you know that we can do better and deserve better than this then reblog.
We will not see a decrease in this toxicity if the people who do not want it to spread and grow are too afraid to stand against it.
If you want to fight for something then fight for the right thing not for petty things that some fandom ringleader has decided you should stand for.
Fight for a future of tolerance and better treatment of each other in this fandom where we can enjoy our fandom again, where we can be proud of it, where we don’t see good people deleting and leaving because they can’t cope or have grown so weary of certain groups of people harassing them. If we stand by and do nothing then we are contributing to the poisoning of our fandom.
Solidarity. Support. Remember who we are as Trekkies – and what kind of message we want our fandom to stand for.
LLAP, friends.
Reblog for night crowd.
never stop being a good person because of bad people
#note that good does not equal nice#good does not mean well-liked#sometimes good does not even mean kind#good is not a thing you are#it is a thing you do
midding
v. intr. feeling the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it—hovering on
the perimeter of a campfire, chatting outside a party while others dance inside,
resting your head in the backseat of a car listening to your friends chatting up front—feeling blissfully invisible yet still fully included, safe in the knowledge that everyone is
together and everyone is okay, with all the thrill of being there without the burden of
having to be.Wow, there’s a word for it? Cool. This is the feeling I sometimes go to local queer parties for 🙂
autistic hearing
“I’m sorry, what?”
“… I still didn’t catch that.”
“please say that again, I really can’t understand what you’re saying”
.
*distant, vague noise*
“the fuck was that? what do you mean you can’t hear that”
.
“it’s raining. no, it’s like, just a super light drizzle, but it’s definitely raining”
*5 minutes later, drizzle becomes a thunderstorm*
“I told you it was raining”
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“I know I’m like 2 feet away from you and you’re speaking at a good volume, but I seriously have no idea what you just said and I’m sorry”
.
*floorboards creaking faintly, in the the periphery of your hearing*
“someone is coming”
.
*more than one person speaking at once*
“PLEASE SHUT UP”
*silence for one second and then everyone proceeds to ignore you*
.
*3 am and someone has been blasting music two blocks away, but you still can hear the bass*
“this is fine”
$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn’t improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don’t you think
On Cures
I want to be able to want a cure without the disability community thinking that I have internalized ableism.
I want the disability community to realize that there are some things worth curing, and some things that should not be cured.
If you are healthy and disabled you do not need your disability cured.
You can’t actually cure a disability anyway. You cure illnesses. Not every disability is an illness.
If you are disabled and not healthy it should be okay for you to want a cure.
If you are disabled and not healthy it’s also okay to not want a cure, as long as you leave space for the people who do want one.
The disability movement needs room for people who need or want cures.
Don’t infantilize people who are ill and disabled by assuming we just have a major case of internalized ableistm. Society infantilizes us all enough as is, we don’t need more of it from the community.
I am disabled and chronically ill. I want me some cure for my illnesses. If I’m still disabled after, that’s fine.
My problem isn’t being disabled. My problem is being chronically ill.
Absolutely, I wouldn’t mind having to use my cane, being restricted or having treatments even, but if I could not feel like hell every moment of every day. If I could maybe not have to retreat into darkness and silence when my brain decides it’s time for the ‘migraine agony rave’. If I could not be at 7 on the pain scale on a good day, that would be amazing.
I accept my disability, but I would love for someone to say “You know what, we found a cure for chronic migraines, and actually we can fix your discs surgically after all! Oh and all the other weird painful things that are wrong with you? We worked out what they are and here’s a treatment.”
It’s not internalised ableism to want to not be in pain anymore.
IT’S NOT INTERNALIZED ABLEISM TO WANT TO NOT BE IN PAIN ANYMORE.
I’m here for this. There are many ways in which I still struggle with internalized ableism. I try to be inclusive and never discriminate, but of course I make mistakes. I admit them and I do my best to learn.
But my wanting to be healthy isn’t ableism against myself. I just want to be able to not be in a state of constant pain and exhaustion. That’s about suffering, not discrimination.
i would love for there to be a cure for some of my mental shit, i would like to not feel like absolute shit 24/7, i feel you
3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks
“When we step back and ask, “What does everyone with ADHD have in common, that people without ADHD don’t experience?” a different set of symptoms take shape.
From this perspective, three defining features of ADHD emerge that explain every aspect of the condition:
1. an interest-based nervous system
2. emotional hyperarousal
3. rejection sensitivity”
Oh
I’m reblogging first, then clicking through to read the article (less likely to lose it or forget to do either), but just from the piece quoted – oh. Yes. That does lay it out rather succinctly, doesn’t it?
I needed this when I was fucking TEN.
under privacy legislation it should be possible to retrieve the information that a company has collected about you and also exactly what they have shared and with which third parties they have shared it.
There's a Mirror on the Wall 