man the bravest shit you can do in this world is love indefinitely
there's so much heartbreak and loss out there that sometimes caring about anything feels like a weakness. but despite all the risks that come with being vulnerable there are people out there who just love and love and love without thinking twice and on god that's whats keeping the earth on its axis
i love kira nerys every time she gets angry im like she should be angrier. when she threw that teacup at dukats head i rejoiced with glee. let kira say fuck
Had to draw this
What jim selective hearing heard :
you just don't get shit like this with 8-episode streaming seasons
That ridiculous secret agent program
Finally finished. Tried to go for an old illustrated movie poster feel, but got fed up with it eventually.
Julian Being Pushed Against Walls Masterpost
A ds9 episode where every shot pays way too much attention to random set pieces in a manner that heavily implies it may be Odo while the action happens in the background. Odo does not appear or feature in the plot of the episode at all.
"Odo's Day": Odo uses his shapeshifting abilities to investigate a crime. The episode is entirely shot from his pov. Rene Auberjonois is on holiday.
There should have been an episode where Odo gets zapped while shifted into an object and the zap does something to his morphogenic matrix so he's stuck like that and the whole episode is everyone doing their best acting scenes with a mug or perhaps a bag
bonus if the station crew know it's happened, but don't know *which* suspicious object Odo is stuck as. So they're going round talking to whatever object seems out of place trying to find him.
By the end of the epsiode they deduce he's this one odo ass looking bottle at Quarks Bar (because of course he's there) and bring it to the infirmary. You get a scene of Bashir and Dax leaning over this bottle lain delicately on a regular sized bed in the infirmary with tricorders debating how to turn Odo back.
And then Odo walks in and asks what they're doing.
I ALMOST SPIT OUT MY DRINK HE REALLY WENT "aww... anyway bye!"
Bones when Spock isn't around: Jim, you can't possibly blame Spock. Our dear friend Spock? Our best friend Spock who never lies? He's just doing his JOB, Jim. How can you even say that???
Bones interacting with Spock himself: Raise your eyebrows at me again and I'll slice you open just to watch you bleed you pointy eared fuck
it’s so important to follow people on tumblr who watch tv shows that you do not watch because sometimes they will put gifsets of beautiful women on your dash and you get to look at them
hey guys do you ever think about how kirk is married to his ship (a noble and logical machine that has a heart that burns as hot as a star) and spock is married to starfleet (the idea of facing the vast and unknown universe with kindness, fairness, and courage)?? I do. I think about it. I think about it a lot.
and one from last month or so that I never had chance to post: my first Spock eye in a while, for @wow-i-hate-my-fridge 👁
A. Gallo watercolours on Jacksons Two Rivers 100% cotton 300gsm paper, 3.5" square
Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0
At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.
Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?
No, they're little treefrogs!
Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0
Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.
Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!
These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.
Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0
I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:
'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'
— Vences et al. 2024
There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.
Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.
On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.
You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.
