Hi Yeah I’ll Have The Cornish Halibut And A Glass Of Riesling. No, Wait. Bring Us A Bottle For The

There's a fine line between pectorals and tits and he has undoubtedly crossed it.

I think one of the funniest ways to discover that something has a way bigger fandom than you expected is by looking at two characters and going "huh I bet people ship them" so you open ao3 and look the ship up expecting there to be maybe a handful of fics out there but instead you are greeted with this:

There's just nothing that quite compares to the sheer glee of it.

Also there's something to be said about the way they approach the doctor striving/demanding for people to recognise his autonomy and rights and the way they approach the same thing with, for example, data.

Everyone who treats data as less than human is portrayed as clearly wrong and often downright evil and while the doctor does also get his fair share of plotlines that affirm him being an equal to the humans around him, for every such plotline there are multiple throwaway jokes and off hand comments that basically read as "look at the silly hologram, he wants to be treated like the sentient being that he clearly is", often by characters that the narrative wants us to like and see as morally righteous and while I'm sure that was never intentional it does seem like a reflection of real life attitudes towards disabled people and other minorities.

Namely the shockingly pervasive Notion that, in the case of disabled people, they only deserve accommodations if they're nice and kind and happy and never ever do anything to even mildly offend or disgruntle any given abled person they interact with.

To use datas portrayal as an example yet again, if data offends someone it's almost always due to his lack of understanding of social norms and never portrayed as bad or malicious by the narrative, only misguided. Because data is "nice" the only people who deny his rights or autonomy are villains or quickly proven wrong. The doctor on the other hand, while not a bad person, can be conceited, rude, snarky and sometimes even a bit of a dick and while, again, I'm sure it's not intentional it does feel like the fact that he dares to have an attitude that's anything other than beyond reproach is part of the reason why the narrative doesn't seem to want to grant him his rights quite as easily as other characters both within and outside of the franchise.

Yknow I really wish voyager didn't treat the doctor's frustration with his limited mobility & being treated like a non-person like he was being ridiculous because. He was right. And nobody ever took him seriously what the hell was that about

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my favorite characters from each of the series i have watched. i find it incredibly interesting that these are also the characters who have a big focus on finding/understanding their humanity. idk what that says about me but it's probably important

Amongst the reeds crouched a tall gentleman with his nose buried in a radio apparatus. The tall man had long, pointy ears. "Almost like a moomintroll" thought Moomin. "Are the fishes biting?" asked Moomin politely. "I am not fishing." replied the gentleman.

- Spocktober 16: Away mission in Moominvalley

I still can't get over how tos wanted to do a murder mystery where it was supposed seem like scotty killed a bunch of women but they had to somehow explain why the hell he would ever possibly do such a thing so they just have bones go "boy I sure am glad scotty recovered from that concussion that made him hate women (which is a totally normal reaction to getting injured because of a female coworker that any human person might have btw)" like ok guys fucking A+ writing no notes on that one.

thank you to @brookbee, @gay-spock, @twinkboimler, and @spocksautismdiagnosis for your ideas! writing a vulcan gossip mag was a group effort

Someone tell me what the hell we're supposed to infer from these parallels other than Reed being attracted to Trip because I genuinely don't know.