Oh btw I'm reading another star trek novel and chapter 1 just opens like this

'THAT WAS NORMAL.'

i am legit crying here

[ID: A tweet thread vy Sean Kelly @/StorySlug that reads:

People need to get over this phase of abandoning fandoms so fast. There are 70 year old women still into Spirk and you people can’t hold onto a man for a month. Shape up and stop abandoning your gently used blorbos in wet cardboard boxes on the side of the highway after a week

As it happens, I’m a 70-year-old woman. One responsible for this.

And I’m…well…  supportive of spirk, at the very least (or K/S, as we called it when dinosaurs walked the earth – and where do you think the now-blanket term “slash” came from…?). Partly because it’s really difficult to parse some parts of ST:TOS without getting a sense of a most unusual depth of relationship underlying the actions of two members of the core triad. It’s (as one of another pairing I’m fond of might say) “not much of a leap” to suspect something more.

But also: I’ve been a fan of this character since I was sixteen. To this day my left eyebrow has more wrinkles above it than my right one because I taught myself to do The Eyebrow before I was old enough to vote. (I can not do The Eyebrow on the other side. No idea why.) I will never give this character up. He’s given me too much.

In relationships (even with the fictional and immaterial), persistence counts. Hang onto your blorbos. You have no idea where they may yet take you… :)

(PS: some other purportedly science-based views in that article are bullshit. For one thing, starships are properly built in space / at the top of a gravity well. Once their keels are flown above their home planet, there’s more than enough gravity nearby to do whatever trivial calibration’s needed. Those lads just wanted that shot with Jim on the motorcycle. [eyeroll] …I could have written them something better. But boys will be boys.)

genuinely truly mean this, we are blessed that Diane Duane is on here, dropping wisdom, being lovely, and also gently, casually, flexing 

This deleted scene is insane!!!

higher quality video here! :)

remember when Jim introduced Spock to his own parents lmao we stan a legend

They definitely brought this story up during the wedding.

Sarek did it.

“Not so many know, but once James introduced me to my own son…”

Funny as that is, this reads as an absolute POWER MOVE to a father not proud of his son. “Look at that, he’s my First Officer because he’s AWESOME. You know who isn’t? You.”

No no no. You don’t understand. Kirk DOESN’T KNOW that this is Spock’s father. He’s talking up his first mate to the Vulcan Ambassador that Spock never bothered to mention is his DAD because their father-son relationship is THAT BAD. This is a power move but it’s not Kirk’s, it’s Spock’s XD

You take one look at that vulcan salute and tell me it isn’t the BIGGEST shit-eating grin

🖖 (derogatory)

“I believe Miss McGivney was the first person off the street to see me in my Spock costume, and her reaction was one of immediate, obvious interest. ‘Oh,’ she breathed, lifting a hand to my-excuse me, to Spock’s- ears. ‘May I touch them? They’re so attractive…’ I blushed a deep, decidedly un-Vulcan shade of red, and obliged. It was the first inkling I had of Spock’s effect on women.”

“I am Spock” Leonard Nimoy (1995)

Leonard Nimoy as Spock:

Spock explains Vulcan philosophy to himself.

Spock has to do his own parenting himself because Sarek sure as hell isn’t going to

Star Trek can make as many new series and movies as they like, and still nothing will ever truly beat the golden awkwardness of this one shining minute of dialogue.

Just say sex, Spock

i am disappointed. captin

jim in the voyage home: spock babe u gotta hide your ears

spock: well Fuck let me just uhhhhhhh rip a piece off this bathrobe and tie it around my head huh

jim, in tears: babe ur so smart ily so much

damn i can’t believe jim kirk invented being in love

straight things to do with your heterosexual friends

she stops dead in her tracks. she turns to look at spock, who’s looking at jim. she’s surprised.  she’s an empath. she can sense other people’s emotions, and whatever she senses in spock, it makes her stop and stare for a moment.

spock notices her watching, and he quickly turns away. she walks up to him and gently places her hand on his shoulder. when he looks up, she’s wearing the sweetest expression on her face.

my god, what a beautiful emotion she must have sensed in spock while he was looking at jim, for her to smile the way she did 

You put it into words! 😭😭😭

Literally how do you read this scene if not gay

I’m gonna go ahead and be a film snob and talk about why this is one of my favorite shots from TOS. (I could also say that it’s one of my favorite scenes, because the entire scene actually consists of a single shot.)

We don’t see a lot of bald expressions of emotion in film and television, especially if that emotion is fear or sadness or vulnerability. Dramas will give us some tears, but they always cut a way after a few seconds because a closeup of someone crying is deeply uncomfortable and most movies and TV shows aren’t in the business of making their audiences uncomfortable. It just doesn’t sell well.

But in this scene the camera never looks away. It follows Spock as he sits down at the table, and it circles him as he cries. But there are no cuts. We don’t even get music to create some distance, make it all a little more palatable; we just hear sobs and mumbled math equations.

It’s absolutely excrutiating. It would be excruciating no matter who we were watching, because we are so unaccustomed to seeing unadulterated emotion. And then there’s the fact that it’s a man. And that it’s Spock.

Fifty years later and this is still one of the most daring filmmaking decisions I’ve ever seen on TV (I of course can’t be exactly sure who made it, but I’m assuming it was the director of the episode, Marc Daniels). This shot lasts 1 minute and 45 seconds. We’re in the middle of space and in the middle of a high-stakes episode where the crew is going crazy and the ship is going to blow up or some shit and everyone’s lives are in danger, but we pause 1 minute and 45 seconds to have an uncomfortably human moment with an alien who doesn’t even want to be human, and it’s so awful and amazing.

#this is one of the things that makes me love TOS infinitely more than AOS #because when AOS wants to show that Spock is a deeply emotional being #they make him angry #angry and violent #macho bullshit that doesnt even come close to the raw vulnerability #of Spock sobbing to himself because he never told his mother he loved her #and that was a spock whose mother was still alive!! #it is so much more meaningful to show spock weep than to show him angry #and the thing is #in this episode the virus is supposed to strip them down to their core #and at his core spock is not angry or violent #spock is a terribly vulnerable man #lost and unsure and feeling so strongly and loving so deeply that it moves him to tears THESE TAGS HOLY SHIT @galaxydorks

what????the fuck???

jim, giggling: no you hang up first~

spock: [hangs up]

jim: [sighs dreamily]