what pop culture thinks jim kirk is like: doesn’t remember the names of the thousands of ladies he’s slept with; must have fathered a zillion abandoned kids; constantly hitting on the women; eternally bang bang shebanging; nonstop love machine; womanizing dongpile; smarmy flirtmaster; smoochy powerstud

what jim kirk is actually like: nerdy feminist quoting shakespeare who likes to play dress-up; turned on by strong, intelligent women and the way spock touches walls

#Inktober day 7: Janice Rand

Captain? Jim? Jim!

One of the sweetest things is when you post a new work on AO3 and then one of your old works gets a comment because it means that somebody read the new thing and liked it so much that they went and checked what other stuff you wrote and they liked that enough to tell you about it and I just think that is so fucking precious!! thank you thank you thank you to the people who do that, keep doing it it's the best feeling as an author

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

this is from pg.83 of a 1987 spirk fanzine called “alien brothers” the story is “odds and abbs” by jenny starr and a little bit about herself as a working wife and mother!

Never trust people who say, “Uhura just answered the phones.”

She’s a LINGUIST she is a POLYGLOT she is a COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT, an ENGINEER a RADIO OPERATOR who can fix the entire ship’s comm systems and she does it ALL in a miniskirt. Sorry for the rant I LOVE this woman.

another vital part of the Kirk/mccoy/spock dynamic 2me is that Jim is McCoy’s best friend and Spock is the guy who has been STRINGING ALONG that best friend FOR YEARS. Every time Kirk is upset or in danger, McCoy @Spock is like “he’s in love with you IF YOU EVEN CARE” and Spock is like “we all know I am also in love with him”

McCoy: PROVE IT YOU DICK

dyke 2 me !!!

this is what talking about any star trek relationship is like

kirk yoinking spock along

I was having a discussion about the Star Trek demographics with an older friend in the fandom. I wanna see something. CALLING TREKKIES

well it finally happened

so my dad is almost 80, this man's been making Spirk content since Star Trek started airing basically

he never knew ao3 existed, he just thought people stopped writing fanfic when ff.net died, like it was a fad that had outgrown him or smth

he clicked an ao3 link in my pinned last night, realizing that they were in fact clickable

he's mad at me for not telling him earlier. "I don't have a lot of years left in me and there's so much to read"

he's gonna spend his whole retirement reading trek fanfic now jesus christ

glad to see we're all in agreement 🥰

he's very bisexual yes

I'm loving this

Ok but can u imagine being an actor vehemently playing a character as gay and spending the next 30 years talking about how the character is gay in every single interview/comicon/video and even writing two plays and a novel about it, to finally get to voice act the character at the ripe age of 82 and canonically make them gay.

This is the life of andrew robinson. Winning out here for all of us.

just trust me and unmute xoxo