wait, i am now learning that this is no longer simply an anti-white slur and is used by a bunch of nazi groups, i'm no longer feeling certain on this one, this is such a journey, thnku 4 coming with me on it x

PECKERWOOD, IT'S FINE

i got paid so i can buy myself a tasty little- wait tjis coffee is £5??????

maybe i shouldn't even have posted this, but i haven't had enough sleep to make good judgments

Post text reads "Cricklewood? I don't think you're supposed to call people that anymore"

was gonna post this before realising 1) Nobody knows where Cricklewood is and 2) im not even sure what slur it sounds like, so it could be one of the really bad ones i shouldn't joke about

I swear casting directors can sense when I'm working long days bc why do urgent tapes only come in when I'm on back to back 13 hour days with early calls?

Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life

A sew on badge with the Girl Guides badge intertwined with the Progress Pride flag. It’s in a wall with some small red Spring flowers above it

Love and solidarity to every joining the @guidersfortrans.bsky.social protests today.

We will be with you in London. We’re sorry for the girls left out and the friends they leave behind. We and many other women believe there’s a better way.

We applaud you for standing up. Have a great day all 🏳️‍⚧️

Catastrophic Spaceship Incidents

hacking into bluesky's github to hardcode it so this combination of words never appears on my tl ever again

"PC disasters" lmao, okay, you suck and never understood the message of TOS, i see

The reason DS9 works so well in my eyes is because up til then, the Federation was always ethically good and so the subversion of that was interesting - subverting too much undercuts the message of staying somewhat skeptical of big institutions that you respect (because you no longer respect them)

Making the federation morally grey misses the point, the federation should always be at least aiming to be the fairest it can possibly be to everyone - it's sorta like what makes a good Superman story in my eyes too, unwavering commitment to actually being morally good

Oh, just one more thing: as with any trek installment, it'd be really important to me to have it show a genuine vision of a better future - boldly going, to me, has always been about envisioning what humanity looks like when we finally move past racism, sexism and profiteering

not until we get another utopian fiction show to replace it

To any paramount execs reading: I will not do this, I swear - but if I could have just 5 minutes of your time...........

I mean, they kind of did a bit of that with Strange New Worlds, but also I'd say Trek is much better off when they explore interpersonal relationships more than in TOS and think TNG is fantastic, even if I missed the off the wall antics and rule-bending of the original series

So much crossover potential too...........

Get them out of the system so the people who hate them can avoid it and the people who love them can go to their one-stop-shop for all things time travel

"If you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?"

The Starfleet temporal department. Show is just every episode another classic time travel concept. All the classics. Ship is like the one from Year of Hell it exists outside the timestream. Department both always existed and yet to be founded

If I ever end up in a lift with a Paramount exec, I will push that emergency stop button ahaha

Thank you! I think it breaks the trek formula enough to feel new and exciting while also grounding itself in trek lore enough that it feels like it's a proper trek installment

If I ever got the chance to pitch a TV show, this would be it

i have been stewing on this idea for a while, sadly i am largely unable to sit down and write things even with adhd medication

I forgot another cool thing I'd do with this concept! I'd want them to be keeping files on the unexplained ones, dating way back to the start of the federation, so occasionally they'd get a lead on a cold case from 200 years ago and have to go try and *finally* put it to rest

oh, also i should play the lead

You'd get to see the human cost of exploration missions, watch as the team try to repair the diplomatic damage done by Captains who are *not* as savvy as the ones we normally follow, and it leaves the door open for unexplained mysteries and cosmic horror

And yeah, sometimes it's just "yet another 4th dimensional entity wiped them out of existence", but someone has to try and figure out what they did to piss them off and either mark that area as unsafe or tell people the right behaviour to win their favour

"If you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?"

Episodic series about the crew of a specialist department that tries to figure out what happened on board wrecked ships when other crews just can't, probably called "Blackbox" or something

Yep

Hand modelling job