Concept art for Treasure Planet (2002)
Source: scurviesdisneyblog
Absolutely love the scenario of Picard being in love with Q and fighting it tooth and nail. All these repressed feelings causing him to have dreams about having accepted Qs offer of visiting that ancient civilization and about actually having ended up spending eternity with Q only for Picard to wake up with quite a few mixed and strong emotions and the thought 'What is wrong with me?'
Picard thinks and hopes it's only a temporary problem, a crush of sorts that he will hopefully get over quickly. But no.
It's Deanna who brings it up during another session because she can feel that he is beating himself up over his feelings which is not healthy.
Picard makes the 'mistake' of confessing to her what his troubles are.
Only to be met with an overjoyed Q in his quarters who thinks this means that they are automatically together forever from now on.
au where during the clone wars there's a republic photographer. i can't draw but here are some of my ideas!
• jedi laughing with their clones, they look incredibly young when happy
• clone sleeping on a jedi's shoulder, sharing a cloak as a blanket, another clone sleeps in their lap
• jedi standing protectively over a fallen clone, teeth bared like a predator, a dangerous look in their eyes
• young clones painting their armor
• jedi comforting a grieving clone, a silent tear rolls down their own face
• clones teaching jedi how to shoot, exchanging excited high fives when a target is hit
• clone holding a lightsaber in a dramatic pose, jedi looks amused, vode looks scared
• clones feeding their rations to animals, childlike smiles on their faces
• jedi leading a meditation or yoga class
• clones first snow ball fight
• clones playing hair salon, giving each other trims and dye jobs
• clones giving each other's tattoos and piercings
• clone protectively holding a civvie child (the caption: two children of war)
• clone desperately clinging to their fallen brother's blacks, it still smells like them
• batch mates in full armor discretely holding hands, it's their first battle and they're scared
• clone in a flower field, petals in their curls
• clones sleeping around their injured vod in the medbay
• kedable kisses (forehead presses)
• clones on leave volunteering at the jedi temple, playing with younglings and teaching classes
• jedi younglings painting their robes and skin to match their favorite vode
• a clone with a small smile, looking proud and emotional, the caption explains he just named himself
• clones trying sweets for the first time
• clone trying to imitate something cool their jedi did and face planting, vode laughing hysterically in the background
• jedi carrying an injured clone (caption: irreplaceable)
Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.
"You are my soulmate. We are forged together by battle and tears and love. Also my brother's coming along."
"Yo."
Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.
"Isn't it weird that your brother in law is always hanging around?"
"You've got a problem with Andrew?"
I'm realizing just now this is Han, Leia, and Luke.
I'm gonna call it... Bi4Bi and their Funky Guy.
I feel like any aliens that were prey at some point in evolution would have an odd fear of humans. Mostly cause they look like predators, act a bit like predators, and ARE predators. One perfect example is when we're focused on something like a mosquito that's been bugging us for a long time and we are just done.
Alien: "What. What..?"
Human: *HUNTING down a mosquito it saw*
Alien: ".... yeah I am really uncomfortable...."
Human: *quiet footsteps, pupils dialated, intense focus,*
Alien: *WAR FLASHBACKS*
Human: "Found you." *absolutely desimates the mosquito, squashing it into a million pieces as it's guts and various body parts liquidize into blood of the bloodthirsty, now stained on the palm of the human. A living being now reduced to a useless corpse as the human wipes the remains on their pants*
Alien: "I feel like I've just gained trauma."
okay fucking fun addition to this post. Hunting instincts in humans absolutely still exist and are usually triggered either by fascination or anger. The polar opposite of flight is pursue. An anecdote for this is that the other day my sister, who is an avid "take the bug outside in a cup" rescues kittens in her free time kinda person, looked out the window and saw a chicken in the middle of our driveway. which is a very unusual occurrence despite us living in the country.
All she had to do was say the words "there's a chicken" and her as well as my own body language immediately shifted. We were out the door and in the yard already sorta hunched over and walking on the balls of our feet, fucking flanking this chicken. No words were exchanged. We just slowly circled this chicken like a couple of rabid dogs. totally single-mindedly focused on capturing the prey.
The chicken could feel it, it immediately began counter maneuvers to avoid us and it was faster. But there were two of us and we knew the land better, we knew how to herd it into a corner, carefully watching it's body language and lurching to counter it's escape attempts. And it was fucking thrilling.
Of course, when we both closed in on it and finally got our hands on the poor thing we simply took it into the back patio away from the cats and the vultures that wanted to actually finish the job. No harm came to the bird. We located its owner and returned him to his flock but still. From an outside perspective, it was a bit unnerving. And for the chicken, it was no different than being hunted. He was just lucky enough that we were predators who appreciated the companionship of pets and were more concerned with returning him to his humans than eating him.
Now imagine any fucking alien species watching a pair of humans, who literally rehabilitate animals in their free time, who are not soldiers and seem to be totally domesticated, just absolutely flip a switch and turn into pack-hunting pursuit predators? On a single word.
(felt like the bulldog from Rio's bird chasing monologue hit a little too hard after this)
I would even argue that humans need to do this, so much so that we’ve invented a million and one ways to satisfy this instinct.
Photography.
Ball games.
I Spy.
Playing hunting games with the fellow predators we keep as pets.
Hide and seek.
Many hobbies that involve prolonged seeking behaviour or watching something to make sure it’s moving right.
I 100% feel myself slipping into “hunt mode” doing jigsaw puzzles, changed movement and all—same as when I’m out birding—and my mental health seems to get better afterwards.
Chris Pine: Yeah I mean I’m NAMED Kirk and I’m gonna have SOME of Kirk’s personality traits but I am trying to somewhat make my own character
Zachary Quinto (in his oddly high pitched voice): I WILL be emotive because I MUST portray Spock’s inner turmoil! But not too much! Still gotta stay true to the character!
Karl Urban: I fused souls with DeForrest Kelly.
dont talk to me if you don’t know that this, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed! It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb! That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton’s First Law?
An object in motion stays in motion Sir!
chefpyro
No credit for partial answers, maggot!
blazing-forge
Sir! Unless acted upon by an outside force, sir!
chefpyro
Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty! Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship. Or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a weapon of mass destruction! You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
