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yuttikkele:

self-made-purgatories:

yuttikkele:

hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing

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comments:

I DIDN’T KNOWWWW

indiglosure:

i hope no one takes my kirk characterizations too seriously most of the time they’re diary comics i spirkify. this one is

wanipiece:

a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said “does spock make himself ‘more palatable’ for others?” and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

raytorotitsenthusiast:

raytorotitsenthusiast:

raytorotitsenthusiast:

Fun fact! Minecraft has autistic representation in its game!

You all understand

It appears I must update my post

Autistic rep in minecraft part 2!

Another FFXIV update: im putting my post ARR quests on hold (and im saving the final raid in the crystal tower for later) so that I can level my crafters… I’ve finally hit a high enough level on enough of them where I need multiple materials from different crafters so I said fuck it and spent a few hours grabbing the rest of the ones I didn’t have. Being F2P has given me more of an appreciation for everything that I DO craft: I have to gather ALL the materials by hand after a certain level and it makes crafting more rewarding, if a little tedious. I dread thinking about how much gil I’ve spent on teleporting alone.

alexseanchai:

sniperct:

blujayonthewing:

tam–lin:

I don’t know what those ‘90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they’d start doing it again

(via @lalibertalia)

All of this but might I add:

They were allowed enough episodes in a season to do the character building. To let characters develop and to see how friendships and chemistry might allow for new and interesting interactions.

And even to have some 'bad’ episodes.

With 8-10 episodes a season you can’t allow yourself to have a dud.

With 8-10 episodes (and cancel-happy streaming services) you have to rush friendships and development and romance if you at all hope to do what you want to do.

An example I’m most familiar with is Star Trek. And also because we can directly compare:

On Deep Space Nine, there were fifty-nine episodes between Worf and Jadzia meeting and getting married. They didn’t even hook up for 29 episodes but the writers were able to see their chemistry and work with it.

Odo and Kira had a 150 episode slow-burn before they finally got together.

In both cases the characters were allowed their own stories and friendships outside of romance.

And that’s not getting into all the friendships, into exploring side characters like Garek or Rom (Rom and Nog’s character development are probably the best in the franchise and they’re recurring characters!!) and they even did an episode about MORN. And it was a good one!

Strange New Worlds will end with 45 episodes total. Discovery had 65. We don’t get enough time with the recurring characters, we barely get any time to slow down and let the characters actually develop their friendships and romances.

Discovery had 20 more episodes than Strange New Worlds will ever get and the character development was smoother/better on Discovery because those extra 2-5 episodes a season helped so much.

(to use another example, Xena would not have worked with anything less than 20 episodes a season. It just wouldn’t. For all of the above reasons)

[ID by @phanerozoicfossilgardener : A screenshot of hashtags reading “#they de-escalated the stakes every once in a while so that you can see what the characters are like when they’re not under duress #they made statements about the world through allegory #they invested in depicting developing friendships and relationships between their characters #they assumed that their audience was paying attention to the screen and wanted to be there #and that their audience has enough intelligence to follow narrative clue and even sometimes predict the ending #dont even get me started on this i will go ALL DAY”. End ID.]

paulgadzikowski:

mlerpwonders:

stargazingdustbunny:

mlerpwonders:

stargazingdustbunny:

mlerpwonders:

peregreen:

mlerpwonders:

peregreen:

mlerpwonders:

peregreen:

mlerpwonders:

mlerpwonders:

All my haters become aligators when I activate my gatorinator.

you laugh now, but when my gatorinator is ready, it’s all over

ALT

update:

transmogrifying my haters into an animal that is known for something called the “death roll” has backfired in a manner no one could have forecasted

Having taken stock of the situation, it’s not as bad as I originally thought. It’s not like these crocodilians are an urgent problem, much less a representation of my own mortality. There’s no ticking clock here.

well now you’re just doing this on purpose

ALT

I think that’s the highest tags forecast I have received so far.

Posts that have 100k gators to me.

Actually there are only 5 gators in my post, but it is an understandable mistake.

Now there are 100,005 gators on this post

…

You know what? Good job.

Other people said this post had thousands of notes in their mind, but only contributed two notes.

You? You said that it had 100k gators to you.

And then you did it.

+1 respect point.

now that’s what i call a

gator aid

paulgadzikowski:

mlerpwonders:

stargazingdustbunny:

mlerpwonders:

stargazingdustbunny:

mlerpwonders:

peregreen:

mlerpwonders:

peregreen:

mlerpwonders:

peregreen:

mlerpwonders:

mlerpwonders:

All my haters become aligators when I activate my gatorinator.

you laugh now, but when my gatorinator is ready, it’s all over

ALT

update:

transmogrifying my haters into an animal that is known for something called the “death roll” has backfired in a manner no one could have forecasted

Having taken stock of the situation, it’s not as bad as I originally thought. It’s not like these crocodilians are an urgent problem, much less a representation of my own mortality. There’s no ticking clock here.

well now you’re just doing this on purpose

ALT

I think that’s the highest tags forecast I have received so far.

Posts that have 100k gators to me.

Actually there are only 5 gators in my post, but it is an understandable mistake.

Now there are 100,005 gators on this post

…

You know what? Good job.

Other people said this post had thousands of notes in their mind, but only contributed two notes.

You? You said that it had 100k gators to you.

And then you did it.

+1 respect point.

now that’s what i call a

gator aid

sreegs:

chantrymouse:

cishetsbeingcishet:

cishetsbeingcishet:

tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows

for those of you who werent here in 2016 on april fools that year the entire fucking website was transformed and there was an election for a position that wasnt even ever specified and the candidates were four lizards (or three lizards and a salamander as a scandal would later prove) and it was called decision2016

each lizard had their own 3d models and tumblr blog and campaign and there was also a tumblr blog dedicated to reporting on the election and they made like whole ass news broadcasts with a guy in front of a green screen

you could vote for your favorite candidate and there was a built-in function that let you make and post a campaign poster

in case anyone was wondering the winner of the election was mop. relatable and reliable. #Mop Could

lest we forget

This was absolutely the biggest April Fools effort I ever witnessed while on staff. I already posted about this in an ask but here’s more of the shit that went down behind the scenes.

- Like all April Fools, this was done entirely through volunteer work on Staff. No one was forced to work on April Fools, it’s always employee-initiated and driven, even if it needs approval from leadership.

- The prank almost didn’t go through because leadership felt that the lizards weren’t relatable enough, so the compromise was to give them hats.

- The video updates on the Decision 2016 blog were greenscreen Fiverr actors that were all recorded months? Weeks? in advance? I wasn’t on creative so I don’t know all the deets about how those were made.

- As mentioned in my post, the victory speech by Mop was one of our designers screaming as loud as she could in a closet near the end of the day. The full audio was never posted but staff kept passing around the scream on slack and laughing about it for months afterwards

- There was a “war room” dedicated to advancing the election narrative as votes came in, posting updates in real time and also pushing changes to code as necessary (for bug fixes and what not)

- The votes were real and the “election” was decided by real users, even if the graphics and whatnot were exaggerated for comical effect. Mop won because Mop won. Democracy at work

- Someone brought in their own lizard to celebrate the proceedings. It was a bearded dragon

- This was the culmination of what was probably the most cohesive and imaginative (and largest) creative team Tumblr ever had. Unfortunately almost all of them are now long gone, and Tumblr Creative is now just a skeleton crew compared to their peak

- Wretched Tooth Doesn’t Like To Talk About Himself

- People drew porn of the lizards and posted it on Tumblr. Staff saw it and were sending it to each other on the company Slack. We thought it was great. I mean, terrifying, but great

- This picture of David Karp is my favorite photo of David Karp I have on my phone

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