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Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist

And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?

Happy Easter. You should have killed me when you had the chance, I promise you will not get another. 

I just love Rom

Reblog to kill it faster

This is to good to get buried in the tags

classic trek crews compilation

In case anyone thought I was joking or embellishing when I said I had an IDIC poster hanging on the wall in my (mini UN) classroom:

Receipts.

IDIC, baby.🖖🏳️‍🌈 It's what we're all about.

Update: I realized that I never talked about how the students reacted when they first saw this poster on the wall.

It was ordered and arrived shortly after we had done a huge cultural presentation at our local museum to celebrate and share in the diversity of our province (all of my students are asylum seeking refugees).

My students presented facets of their culture that they wanted folks here to know about. It was sweet seeing local kids racing around with kites made by my students from Afghanistan, or how thrilled some of my students were to see Inuit throat singing and drum performance, asking if it was OK or polite to join in; seeing students from landlocked countries in Africa staring out at the ocean view for the first time in their lives, awe-struck and misty-eyed.

I was inspired, and was reminded again of IDIC.

When the poster went up in the classroom, naturally, the kids asked what it meant.

I translated the meaning of IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. How our differences strengthen our group overall as a whole and should be celebrated; not feared, but encouraged as it ultimately benefits us all to be diverse.

I translated it into Dari, Pashto, Somali, Tigrinya, Arabic, Swahili, and Ukranian so they could all understand.

When they'd all read the meaning, they got up and gave it a standing ovation. They loved this concept; it was one quite relevant to them.

One of them asked me: "Miss, is this your religion?"

I said "It isn't my religion, moreover a belief; one very near to my heart".

The concept of IDIC has touched my heart ever since I first heard of it as a child, and saw it in action through my mother and father.

It still touches my heart to no end to know that in some way, even small, we can all try to live that way; to keep chipping away and pushing at those boundaries that divide us and inch closer to a world that we can be proud of. I see it in those kids, and it gives me hope.

The kind of hope that Star Trek is all about. 🖖💜

Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs

Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!

i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.  

there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand. 

a californian but there’s something just a bit wrong and spooky about her. call that an uncanny valley girl

Things fanfic is reputed for inserting into the source material:

Things fanfic actually inserts into the source material:

What fanfic often removes from the source material:

THEY CAN;T POSSIBLY NEED MORE THAN ONE BED ANYWAY