Extraordinary Girl—Ordinary World

wlliamlecter: could you imagine spock prime’s reaction when he finds out khan is somehow white. ‘oh...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:56:10 -0700

could you imagine spock prime’s reaction when he finds out khan is somehow white. ‘oh my god. what did i even do’

vulcany: trekyourself: what is nice though is that collectively, as a fandom, we have all agreed...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:21:21 -0700

trekyourself:

what is nice though is that collectively, as a fandom, we have all agreed to completely ignore and write off the stupid fucking “reference” to christine chapel in st:id, and pretend it never happened so that we can get on with watching, reading, and writing christine chapel as the amazing powerful admirable character that she is

#OH MY GOD MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT FANDOM IS THEIR TREATMENT OF CHRISTINE IN FANFIC AND STUFF #MY GOD I HAVE NEVER LOVED A MINOR CHARACTER SO MUCH #AND I HAVE HEADCANONS FOR HER AND I WANNA BE LIKE WHERE WHEN I GROW UP AND WOW #HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE HOW AMAZING THIS CHARACTER WAS IN TOS???? #IF IT WEREN’T FOR HER I BET BONES WOULD GO OFF ON A MURDEROUS RAGE EVERY OTHER SECOND #SICKBAY WOULD FALL APART #PRETTY SURE THE ENGINES WOULD DROP OFF THE SHIP AND THEY’D ALL GO SPINNING INTO A BLACK HOLE #AND THEN YEARS AND YEARS LATER AFTER SHE’S SERVED ON THE ENTERPRISE AND HAS SEEN ADVENTURE AND SEEN THE STARS #SHE’S LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT LET’S GET A MEDICAL DEGREE #AND SHE FUCKING DOES #AND MCCOY KNOWS SHE’LL BE A GOOD DOCTOR BECAUSE HE’S WORRIED THAT SHE’LL ARGUE ABOUT HIM OVER DIAGNOSES #AND THE WHOLE REASON SHE BECOMES A NURSE IS BECAUSE SHE WASN’T GOING TO LET HERSELF WAIT AT HOME LIKE HELEN FOR ODYSSEUS #SHE WAS GOING TO SEARCH THE FUCKING GALAXY FOR HER MAN #NOT WAIT FOR WORD TO COME IN THAT HE WAS DEAD OR WHATEVER #UGHHHHHH I WILL DEFEND CHRISTINE UNTIL MY DYING BREATH GOODBYE #CHRISTINE CHAPEL #STAR TREK #SCREW YOU BOB ORCI

Scotty: The Enterprise. Show me the Bridge of the Enterprise,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:45:42 -0700

Scotty: The Enterprise. Show me the Bridge of the Enterprise, you chattering piece of …

Computer: There have been five Federation ships with that name. Please specify registry number.

"The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers. I am not being critical of..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:10:37 -0700

“The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers. I am not being critical of the actor or his talent, just the casting”

- Star Trek actor Garrett Wang is coolly generating a discussion with his fans on the whitewashing in Star Trek Into Darkness on his twitter page. (via racebending)

"Nurse Chapel is a beloved [Trek] character,” says Orci. “Even before the first movie came out, a lot..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:35:28 -0700

“

Nurse Chapel is a beloved [Trek] character,” says Orci. “Even before the first movie came out, a lot of online chatter was, ‘Is Nurse Chapel gonna be there?!’”

Alas, although we hear Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) say “Nurse Chapel” in 2009’s Star Trek, we never officially saw Christine Chapel — and she’s still MIA in Into Darkness. Instead, Carol Marcus tells Kirk that she learned of his reputation as a ladies man from her friend Christine Chapel, who has become a nurse since her romantic encounter with him — which he does not recall.

“We just figured that would be a great reference, and we loved that Kirk didn’t remember her,” says Orci. “It’s an in-joke that also speaks volumes about his character when it comes to women. That’s why we used it.”

So will Nurse Chapel ever actually make a flesh-and-blood appearance on the Enterprise? Orci just laughs. “That’s certainly possible!

”

- Bob Orci talks to BuzzFeed about fan references in Star Trek Into Darkness. [x]

All I have to say about this is:

(via numbtongue)

#the misogyny is so fucking palpable im going 2 throw up #you had the opportinity to introduce another female character #(having more than 2 is too much for you maybe???????) #but nooo #you had to be gross and write her off as just another conquest in kirk’s book #HILARIOUS AM I RIGHT!!!! #women are dispensable!!!!! #and not only the fucking blatant misogyny you also seem to not understand kirk’s character #like apparently for these dudes sleeping around = being a sleazy douchebag #which???? no?????????#people who have a lot of sex maybe do b/c…they enjoy sex??????? #wow revolutionary i know #anyway god im just so angry about this

(via genuinewarmdecentfeeling)

1 - 2 - 3 - 4, I declare a fic war!

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:28:40 -0700

dea-goes-a-tumbln:

What: Tumblr Fic War

Who: Anyone who reblogs this post.

When: Until everyone is actualfax dead, because this is WAR suckers!

Why: FEELINGS

What: Everyone who reblogs this post is opening their ask box up to the most brutal, feelings-inducing prompts anyone who is playing can imagine. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take those prompts and DESTROY EVERYONE with them. Not just angsty stuff either, fluff can be just as bad, as many of you know!

hackedmotionsensors:

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:25:18 -0700

hackedmotionsensors:

"Kirk’s eyes were closed, his body as unmoving as when it had finally become safe enough to enter the..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:50:03 -0700

“Kirk’s eyes were closed, his body as unmoving as when it had finally become safe enough to enter the sealed-off core area and remove him. Now he lay on a gurney in sickbay, awaiting final disposition.
Among those present was Carol Marcus. She stood staring at the body of a man she had hardly known. Yet he had died to save her life as surely as he had done so to save those of his crew. Chekov looked on from a distance, unable to bring himself to move any closer.
Berefit of such choices, Dr. McCoy prepared his examination. A formality; part of his job. One he had to do.
Except that he couldn’t. Not just then, anyway. Turning he walked away from the gurney, away from Scott, who had been standing by his side. McCoy was angry with himself as he sat down. Kirk wouldn’t have approved. Doubtless he would have chided McCoy about his failure, would have made some stupid, half-assed joke that would have…
Closing his eyes, McCoy struggled to regain control of his emotions. He was failing miserably when something distracted him.
Movement. On the worktable beside him.
That should not be. Things did not move independently on tables in the fully sterilized sickbay, especially things large enough to be seen without the aid of a microscope. Also, they did not purr.
Turning toward the table, McCoy looked on first in confusion, then in disbelief. As he leaned closer to the source of both the slight movement and the appealing noise, it was clear that the object of his attention was very much alive. It ought not to be. But it most certainly was, which suggested that…which meant that…
His eyes widened. Turning to the officer in charge of the detail that had brought Kirk in from Engineering, he issued what was perhaps one of the more unusual requests in the history of the Starfleet medical service.
“Get me a cryotube. Now.””

- Star Trek Into Darkness novelization (via nikki4noo)

misszilla: So I made a cheeky end-of-term project for my...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:14:58 -0700

Laaand and spppiiiices -- I mean -- BRAAAIIINS

Long distance fighter, focussed on speed.

Balanced fighter. Good speed and attack. Long distance attack utilised by getting the baby to hand over the throwing hatchet.

Power focussed character. Brawler. Bear tooth necklace and bear pelt arm guard. High defense and attack, but slower.

misszilla:

So I made a cheeky end-of-term project for my zombies in pop culture class.

Most of the semester has consisted of reading accounts of white dudes visiting the natives of various countries and talking about cannibalism. So I came up with a story (I had video game in mind when I was making it) where the white settlers were trying to escape Europe and the plague that brought the dead to life.

Just before making landfall, everyone on the ships catches the illness and become the flesh eating undead. The native americans are left to find these massive ships that have washed ashore and are full of pale walking corpses

and they’re like WELP IT’S NOT LIKE THE COLD WINTERS AND OCCASIONAL STARVATION AND WRESTLING WITH BEARS EVER KILLED US so they all just set out to hit all the zombie settlers in the brains with tomahawks and shit and just take it with a grain of salt.

I hope I can keep a straight face when I present this in class oh my god.

PS: The native american outfits are all more or less accurate (albeit from different tribes and eras) considering I did this whole project in two days. But for the settlers I was literally just referencing Halloween costumes hahaha.

what is a friend? a single soul in two bodies.

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:39:57 -0700

what is a friend? a single soul in two bodies.

swearitbyiceandfire: kaalashnikov: this show is my favourite...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:04:34 -0700

swearitbyiceandfire:

kaalashnikov:

this show is my favourite show that was on air this past tv season.

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onlyparkland: GoT - Cersei & Jaime Lannister

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:29:35 -0700

onlyparkland:

GoT - Cersei & Jaime Lannister

"[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:54:35 -0700

“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” “”

- “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.

(via cwnl)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 19:19:33 -0700

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:44:23 -0700

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!:

gingerhaze:

thehawkeyeinitiative:

I recently received an email from an anonymous fan sharing how she pulled a Hawkeye Initiative themed prank on her CEO to illustrate a problem with some artwork.
My personal compliments to her and her accomplice on a mission well done; they perfectly took they perfectly took the concept of The…

This is MAGNIFICENT and HILARIOUS.

plums4peace: So here is my extremely tl;dr, spoiler-y reaction to Star Trek Into Darkness. Briefly...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:17:12 -0700

plums4peace:

So here is my extremely tl;dr, spoiler-y reaction to Star Trek Into Darkness. Briefly before the cut- Even though I was utterly spoiled before I saw this in the theater and was disappointed with a lot of what I knew about it going in, the actual experience of seeing it in a theater was still mostly fun for me. That being said, I’m satisfied with the one viewing and probably won’t buy the DVD. For comparison’s sake, I saw the 2009 movie like 3 or 4 times on IMAX and I think twice in a regular theater, bought the DVD, and re-watched the whole thing more times than I can remember. STID just didn’t give me feelings the way the first one did, and the things that bothered me really bothered me. I feel like I’ll probably obtain a copy solely for the purposes of re-watching some scenes I liked.

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AKA I pretty much agree with everything said.

juvjuvychan: thebrightestbird: I see no difference. the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:09:16 -0700

juvjuvychan:

thebrightestbird:

I see no difference.

the resemblance is uncanny

jhenne-bean: cracked: If a black actor is cast as The Human...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:34:07 -0700

jhenne-bean:

cracked:

If a black actor is cast as The Human Torch, what’s next? Some guy not made out of rocks playing The Thing?

The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism

News has broken that Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is being considered to play Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Naturally, comic book fans across the Internet are furious, because they’ve had it with all the reboots and just want to preserve the magic of the 2005 original — oh, wait, no. They’re angry because Michael B. Jordan is black. And in the comics, Johnny Storm is white.

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“Mr. Sulu, remind me to never piss you off…”

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:58:57 -0700

“Mr. Sulu, remind me to never piss you off…”

damngruchy: supermassiveasshole: i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:23:54 -0700

damngruchy:

supermassiveasshole:

i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype and such but today she went kinda mad at me because “i didnt show her the knitting programme” and i was like what

and it comes out she accidentally opened ms excel and found out its a great way to create knitting patterns

my grandma is 82