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Jun. 18th, 2025 07:37 pm
anghraine: cesare as cardinal kneeling to enthroned lucrezia; text: make me your maria (cesare/lucrezia [maria])
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[personal profile] heckofabecca asked:

Hey I made a new friend who's big into Elizabethan plays and of course I was like "TIS PITY??? TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE?!?!?!" so I'm trying to find one of your posts that talks about it and I'm coming up short XD help?

I replied:

Aww, good for her!

*puts on academia hat* 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore is not Elizabethan, technically (which I only mention because it’s common even among academics to forget how late it is, and this can complicate search results). It was first written (and definitely first performed) long after Elizabeth I’s death, but it is of the general early modern era of English drama, so still worth bringing up in that context!

This ten-year-old post probably has the most to say about it (so it’s totally understandable that it was hard to find), but I have a whole tag! Not very originally, it’s here. [ETA 6/18/2025: The links go to Tumblr, since I haven't cross-posted that far back.]

I’m running off to watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture with my bff J, but I can also give you some more big feelings on Elizabethan dramas later :)

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Jun. 18th, 2025 10:01 pm
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I'm very proud of the icons I've made so far in three days. 30 out of 100 on this table since I can put icons there I make for other contests.

https://bipolardanicats.dreamwidth.org/8485.html

I look forward to seeing what my muse makes tomorrow and the next day.

PODFIC!

Jun. 18th, 2025 06:34 pm
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Apparently a Podfic thing went live today, and OH I got so lucky!

Expand4 podfics )

Prompt 2518: Hat

Jun. 18th, 2025 08:30 pm
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Today's prompt is: hat



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Jun. 18th, 2025 09:56 am
anghraine: kirk disguised as mirror kirk in a glittery gold vest with his fingers loosely touching his mouth; text: fabulous (kirk [queer])
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Despite stumbling into passionately shipping the original Star Trek ship of ultimate destiny that spawned fandom as we know it, I've found my interests and preferences a bit at odds with general ST fandom, which naturally has meant that I had to make my own silly TOS icons reflecting what I'm personally into. I promised[personal profile] elperian that I'd get around to posting them here—they're up for grabs for anyone who wants them, and I'm sick and miserable for asthma reasons, so it's something that doesn't take a lot of brain power.

1. You know the infamous scene from S3 where the terribly written alien spawns a terribly written Kirk meltdown only for it to become one of the most incredible and certainly gayest scenes in all of TOS ft. Kirk and Spock's shadows leaning in and eventually overlapping? I definitely needed that one:



2. Perhaps the most purely surprising and purely delightful revelation from the TOS watch was that Uhura doesn't do much more with Spock than hit on him a few times in some early episodes, but she and Kirk have a really charming platonic friendship where they're only ever on a last name/rank basis, yet are genuinely close and are persistently shown to care very deeply about each other. And they're also absolute joys when their subtle background rapport as mutually smooth-talking, stylish, high-strung but controlled professionals gets to flourish into what I can only describe as bisexual guile diva chaos gremlin energy. There are multiple occasions when one of them is finally starting to crumble under the pressure and the other is an absolute rock until the crisis passes (which one takes which role actually varies), but I have a real soft spot for Kirk reminding Uhura of how important and valuable she is in "Mirror, Mirror," so that's the scene I chose for my first Kirk-Uhura brotp icon:



3. The great thing about "Amok Time" is—well, there are many great things, but you know how you sometimes watch something, and you just end up kind of hating everyone and siding with a meteor destroying all concerned? "Amok Time" is the opposite of that. It's one of few episodes of anything where I'm pretty much Team Everyone, and this very much includes one of my absolute favorite Vulcans of all time and one of my favorite women in TOS, my girl T'Pring:



Yes, she did all that, and good for her, too. Spock himself talks about the prospect of having sex with her with about as much enthusiasm as a death sentence and T'Pring doesn't want to be his property/consort, so win/win. Maybe Vulcan should have better divorce laws if they don't want fantastically stylish women scheming for personal autonomy!!

4. There was no way in hell I wasn't going to have an icon for my beloved episode of episodes, "The Conscience of the King" (a fantastically acted and structured episode in general, obviously a great Kirk episode specifically, with an intense and intriguing villain in Kodos/Karidian, but also in true TOS fashion about the then-highly topical subject matter of what to do with elderly Nazis escaped eugenicist war criminals, an emphasis on Spock immediately recognizing the strangeness of Kirk's behavior and quickly grasping the weight of genocide for the survivors where McCoy desperately wants to filter Kirk's actions through familiar, relatable, pedestrian motives right up to the end, all interlaced with early modern revenge tragedy aka my academic specialization and other great love—truly, no episode could be more perfect for me specifically). So I went with an icon for one of my absolute favorite scenes from the whole damn thing, the magnificent confrontation between Kirk and Kodos:



"You're an actor now. What were you twenty years ago?"
"Younger, captain. Much younger."

"So was I. But I remember."


5. I really wanted a gay Spock icon that was not necessarily a Kirk/Spock icon (he is mostly Kirksexual, sure, but he's also so aggressively Not Into Women on so many occasions that I felt it deserved its own separate icon). And so many of those scenes don't really get across the level of bitchy indifference without the movement of his head tilt or shrug or whatnot... but I found one that I felt truly encapsulated the particular gay energy of Spock:



6. While I was at it, I couldn't resist the other supremely bitchy gay Spock scene (this is when Kirk invites him to join a party of dudes going to a hot lady cafe and Spock very slowly tilts his head and projects intensely passive-aggressive confusion at the idea that he could possibly find this appealing):



7. There's a post that periodically goes around about Shatner's wildly erratic positions on Kirk's sexuality over the last 50-odd years that's like... dude, you're the one who kept looking at Nimoy like you wanted to eat him, you're the one who played Kirk as the queerest dude in space, you did this, Bill, and—yeah, it's not wrong. One of the other big surprises from watching all of TOS was realizing that the intense queer vibes of K/S has every bit as much to do with Shatner's performance as Nimoy's, along with the framing and writing and so on. No other Kirk actor (and few ST actors period) has even remotely approached the off-the-charts queer energy of the original, and so I made a silly icon about it:



8. I wanted a K/S icon that captured how much of their dynamic is like—

Kirk: I'll admit that part of me seeks the blood of my enemies and every day I choose not to murder
Spock: um, I ... have questions
Kirk: well it's just - LOOK A FLOWER!!!!!!
Spock: Jim please stop sniffing flowers they keep trying to kill you



Truly, no one's doing it like them.

9. One of my other favorite Kirk-Uhura brotp moments is when he casually promotes her to the local racist's position controlling the Enterprise's weapons and navigation in the middle of the Romulan crisis in "Balance of Terror." Kirk and Uhura are visually framed together a lot in that episode and lit very similarly, so I wanted to pair Uhura confidently stepping up in that episode with his affirmation of her importance in "Mirror, Mirror":



10. I had been talking with [personal profile] elperian about the hunt for Kirk icons, and we both hadn't found any that used the much-quoted description of him from the pilot as "a stack of books with legs" and his notoriety at the Academy as the demanding teacher of a course (implied to be a philosophy class) in which cadets would either "think or sink." Despite his more easy-going manner in the present, his conviction that noping out of critical thinking and creativity is not an option, ethically, remains absolutely non-negotiable and central to his worldview in TOS, so I wanted to come up with a "think or sink" icon. However, when I was collecting some screenshots from "Court Martial" for unrelated meta, one of them was so perfect for "stack of books with legs" that I couldn't resist going with that one instead!


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Happy birthday to my oldest and dearest friend, the famous S.!

Whose birthday is it? Anyone who doesn't celebrate, here comes the train of PAIN!! :D
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It's definitely better that you make your own cake versus me making it...(left cake, or "other people", = your attempt, right cake = my attempt :D :D :D)
cakes copy

And of course these:
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I'm not sure which fandoms if any you've been reading but...
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And thank you for being with me on my most important-for-me writing journey and thank you for entering my crazy brain/world with me! It would never be the same without you being along for the journey and there to bounce ideas off and putting in input and caring so deeply about it <3 <3 <3
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All my love, hope today and the coming year is GRAND. Love, me

Old Timey Fandom Settings :)

Jun. 18th, 2025 01:44 pm
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Name: [personal profile] sweetsorcery
Age group: Adult
Country: New Zealand
Subscription/Access Policy: Free Spirits over 18 who don't post excessively about News and Politics

I'm going to put OTPs and Ships under their fandoms, as I have quite a few.

Main Fandoms: Biggles series - W E Johns (Biggles/Thomas Moorven, Algy Lacey/Ginger Hebblethwaite, Biggles/Erich von Stalhein, Bertie Lissie/Ian Ross, Algy/Ginger/Bertie); Famous Five - Enid Blyton (Julian Kirrin/Dick Kirrin)

Other Fandoms (I still sometimes write in these, or they're new to me and I might even just have WIPs so far):

LIT - Victorian/Edwardian Ghost Stories & Adventure Stories:
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (Alan Breck Stewart/David Balfour), The Attic - A M Burrage (Stanley Forbes/Derek Wilson), Lot No. 249 - Arthur Conan Doyle (William Monkhouse Lee/Abercrombie Smith), Thurnley Abbey - Perceval Landon (Alastair Colvin/Narrator), Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad - M R James (Professor Parkins/Colonel Wilson), Initiation and H.S.H. - Algernon Blackwood (Arthur/Malahide, H.S.H./Delane), Dracula and Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker... I keep adding to the list of inspiring vintage horror canons.
I also run a community for Vintage Horror with M/M potential: [community profile] kindreadspirits

TV:
Vienna Blood (TV) (Max Liebermann/Oskar Rheinhardt), Colditz (1972) (Kommandant Karl/John Preston), Hornblower (TV) (Hornblower/Pellew, Hobbs/Wellard), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV) (Napoleon/Illya, Napoleon, Satine), Agatha Christie's Poirot (Poirot/Hastings, Poirot/Shaitana), All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV) (Siegfried Farnon/Tristan Farnon)

FILMS:
Aces High (1976) (Sinclair/Croft), The Haunting (1963) (John Markway/Luke Sanderson), Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies) (Boromir/Faramir, Celeborn/Haldir), Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence/Ali), The Trollenberg Terror (1958) (Alan Brooks/Philip Truscott), Thunder Rock (1942) (David Charleston/?), Morning Departure (1950) (Manson/Snipe), The Way to the Stars (1945) (David Archdale/Johnny Hollis)... I'm a huge fan of vintage British War Movies (also an ever growing list),

THEATRE:
Journey's End - R C Sherriff (and its numerous adaptions in different mediums)

Historical RPF:
18th and 19th Century RPF (Vivaldi/Farinelli, Keats/Shelley), Ancient Egypt RPF

Fannish Interests: Writing, Reading, Exchanges and Challenges, possibly going to try my hand at some more Vidding in future; I get hooked on most of my vintage fandoms through audiobooks and story readings

Favourite Feelgood Movies (mostly independent of fannish creations): Lost Horizon (1937), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), The Colditz Story (1955), The Haunting (1963), The Innocents (1960), The Night My Number Came up (1955), Morning Departure (1950), Death on the Nile (2004), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Dean Spanley

Favourite TV Shows: Famous Five (70s series), Sherlock Holmes (Granada Series), Sapphire and Steel, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Vienna Blood, The Children of the Stones, most classic Star Trek

Authors: Algernon Blackwood, M R James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, A M Burrage, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh Walpole, A J Alan, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne

Music: British Dance Bands from the 1920s - 1940s, Baroque Music (incl. Opera very selectively), Romantic Era Music, Pop from the 1950s - 1980s, Tango, Swing, World Music

Games: nope

Comics/Anime/Misc: not really, but I love Ghibli films

Other Info about Me: I have fibromyalgia and C-PTSD. I do mostly post about fandom and writing, but now and then, I vent about the fact that daily pain and fatigue impact my life badly; if you're someone who only wants perfectly healthy friends... that's not me.

hey team north end!

Jun. 17th, 2025 02:54 pm
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Today’s Tuesday. There’s a Tuesday protest, Lynnwood, Tesla dealership on 99. 4:15pm TODAY, like usual. As I’m writing, that’s literally an hour and like 20 minutes away.

Yeah I kinda forgot too lol, but no reprieves for the fascist.

Let’s get out there~~~

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Prompt 2517: Error

Jun. 17th, 2025 11:13 pm
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Today's prompt is: error



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Jun. 17th, 2025 04:02 pm
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I am so tired, not physically but mentally. I was overwhelmed even before Jasper's tests came back cancerous but I'm extra tired now.

Limiting my exposure to news has been good for me now if I can only make Tumblr go back to be being about fun and fandoms. I get why it isn't but I don't want to endlessly hear about the war in the middle east. I especially don't want to see people being cool with terrorism because they thing Jewish people are white colonists. Especially the people that I blocked because they were okay with the attacks in Washington and Colorado along with others. None of these Americans marching for peace and for the hostages to be released have anything to do with what's going on in the middle east besides being Jewish.

This plus the other political posts have killed my happy place. I just want to see pictures of my otps kissing/dancing/having shippy moments. Let me be happy please? I might make another blog where I only follow daily gif sites...

I want to curl up and read and go back to learning too.

The bluejays polished off all the food even though we filled it yesterday. Jasper is being a menace to society today which means that he's feeling better. He's been very chatty and has been trying to climb legs but he doesn't want a snack nor does he want to be held. He just wants to be a pest!

The other cats have been a little jealous at the attention Jasper has been getting but Mushi will get a taste of that care on Friday and Saturday. Before his shots he's supposed to have Gabepentin to make him docile so he won't attack the vet during his shots.

Made some icons for daily icons and am working on making a challenge as well. It was fun being creative.

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Jun. 16th, 2025 09:08 pm
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Package!

Jun. 16th, 2025 08:14 pm
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[personal profile] foxmoth, first box arrived, thank you!
anghraine: spock, exploring a verdant planet as part of an away team, watches as kirk unnecessarily smells a flower again (kirk and spock [flower])
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I enjoy headcanoning both Kirk and Spock as nonbinary in the same "technically but badly closeted" way that I interpret them as very much bi4gay—but also, as pretty different types of nonbinary. Spock describes himself as both a man and not a man (within the same episode, the iconic "Amok Time"). In many respects, he possesses the most purely unassailable masculinity of anyone in the show (this is a significant plot point in one of the Maximally Gender episodes, "Charlie X"). He wears make-up in the style of female Vulcans like T'Pring and T'Pau more than like how most men wear make-up, while surrounded by people who don't even know the difference, and at the same time, he's not at all uncomfortable with being identified as a man. To describe Spock as a man is incomplete information, not false. His "nonbinariness" consists very specifically of Man and Not-Man, and he tends to be marked by a highly consistent presentation of himself that blends gendered conventions, as suits his unique experience, but also makes him the most supremely masculine figure around when that's an issue at hand—a specific sort of bigender quality with some pretty obvious resonance with his experience as a biracial Vulcan.

Kirk, I think, doesn't consciously consider that he could be anything but a man, and is broadly okay with that, if the range of his gender performance isn't compromised by external pressures. But when he is pressured to occupy some specific gendered role, his resistance seems to go from 0 to 100 very fast. I imagine nb!Kirk as the kind of closeted-even-to-himself nonbinary person who assumes everyone's experience of gender is as tied to performance as his own, and surely, it's just obvious that it's all kind of fake outside of social dynamics, it's just that social dynamics affect people's lives and psychologies, and thus matter (the reality is more complicated, obviously, but it is a not-uncommon perspective among some kinds of nb people still figuring our shit out, cf. Judith Butler—my headcanon is that he's less bigender or multigender than "agender diva who likes to fuck around with conventions around masculinity and femininity and whatever else, but feels little allegiance to any of them as a stable state of being"). I do think that being reduced to a specific, exclusively masculine role by forces outside himself (despite being sometimes useful) pretty evidently grates on him more than the somewhat effeminate roles he sometimes gets steamrollered into (also sometimes useful), but since he's strongly implied to be AMAB, that wouldn't necessarily be unusual (assigned gender often has more baggage for obvious reasons, even if it's not more or less "wrong").

I do tend to think of him as transfem-leaning nonbinary at heart (one of my many quibbles with Tumblr TOS fanon is that I genuinely think Kirk makes 100x more sense as transfem than transmasc, and that his presentation in the peak Kirk Enrichment Enclosure episodes is far closer to femme than butch too when accounting for the limitations of the era), but the cisheteronormativity of the 23rd century is alive and well. The specifics of how he would fully express his actual sense of gender in a less restrictive world don't preoccupy him much as long as he gets to be the diva he was born to be and doesn't feel (gender-wise) like someone is actively clipping his wings. So he's just sometimes going to slip into announcing that gender is an insignificant distraction from the common personhood of all people, if a fun one, before breezing onto picking flowers or throwing himself into the occasional community theatre production or fluttering his eyelashes to escape the third trap of that week.

Prompt 2516: Yes

Jun. 16th, 2025 11:51 pm
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closed



Today's prompt is: yes



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Let’s talk “Remigration”

Jun. 16th, 2025 09:15 am
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Farty McShitgibbon squirted out another racist authoritarian shart on Pravda Sotsialnaya late Sunday night, blowing off steam caused by his frustration at protests and over his shitty birthday parade. It’s a screed of lies about Democrats being sick in the head and not actually Americans, sending more waves of cops and military at us, and about cheering on mass deportations. Like y’do, if you’re a fascist fuckhead.

But let’s pay particular attention to this bit:

…I have directed my entire Administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from where they came…

CAPS as in the original. Bold added.

Remigration pretends to be but is not actually a subtle word.

Remigration means ethnic purge. Ethnic cleansing, if you insist – but I hate that term, because there’s nothing cleansing about it. It’s an ethnic purge. It’s violent, it’s bloody, it’s repression, it’s expulsion at the point of a gun, based on your ethnicity.

Remigration means ancestry-based expulsions of people who aren’t white, for being not white, and not for any other reason. Just for being not white. Legal status means nothing; being a citizen means nothing. Not white? Get the fuck out, at gunpoint. That’s how it went during Operation W*tback; that’s how he wants it to go again, and now he’s just saying it.

This is not a question; this is not up for debate. If you feel like debating it with me, screw you you fascist-apologist fuck, and sit the fuck down. In this context – in any context outside academia – that’s what it means. Go read Wikipedia if you want the definition and history.

“Remigration” in this context absolutely and only means ethnic purge. All the leading haters in his administration – Miller, I’m looking in your direction – know damn well what it means. They used the word on purpose.

So I’m asking you not to discuss this shart of a statement without going directly to what REMIGRATION means. Do not let anyone lie and pretend it means something else, because that’s bullshit. Remigration is why they’re revoking every legal status they can; remigration is why they’re trying to end birthright citizenship; remigration means a violent ethnic purge.

And that’s what he’s told ICE – or more generally, “ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, the Patriots at Pentagon and the State Department” – to make happen.

So. What do we do, in particular, right now?

First off, make sure people know what this word means.

Second – know any “good cops”? Like, relatives or something you might actually be able to reach? Show them the Wikipedia article about what “remigration” means, and only then show them Trump’s statement. Make sure they understand what Trump said, and make sure they know what they’re being asked to do. Make them understand, like… now.

Make sure they understand the criminal act they’re being asked to perform.

Because that is, absolutely, the ask, and “just following orders” … just won’t do.

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This is a repost from Das_sporking2. Previous installments of this sporking may be found here.

Warning: This post contains brief mention of mass murder.

ExpandIn which the Lord of Gifts does not get the sort of reception he was probably hoping for. )

A word you need to know right now

Jun. 15th, 2025 10:45 pm
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I’ve got a post going up tomorrow (Monday) morning, but the word you need to understand right now is:

Remigration

If you don’t already know this word – or if you’re in certain areas of academia and think you do, but do not in any context outside academia – you need to know what this word means right now. And you need to make sure your friends know what it means.

Wikipedia will explain it to you.

More tomorrow.

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