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feldmanI keep thinking about the golems in Going Postal, who fight fires by methodically pulling out the bits of the building that are aflame. I can't read much these days, I bounce off prose because I'm too tender to engage with nonfiction, and too keyed up to settle into fiction. I'm worried I'll miss something important if I make room in my head for story. But Well-told Stories stay with you, they are friends who stick.
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Re-reading early Bloom County these days, as I fall asleep, It's unnerving revisiting the moment in time (1981) when I became politically aware, and how and why certain things resonated with me as a 9yo raised by hippie-adjacent boomers about to get fucked by Reagan. Also, I'm thinking of actively rejecting realism in drawing, and trying to play with cartooning for a bit.
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I love my big gay Star Trek (Disco). I was weaned on TOS, and I was a non-passionate fan enjoying it (and the active fandom we were in, like, zines and potlucks and sharing uniform patterns, and raising funds for Amnesty Intl) with my mom and grandma. But I was more about Star Wars, reading Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, then Max Headroom, and cyberpunk. I was born too late for the idealism not to be bittersweet, honestly. I enjoy TOS, a love note from the 60s, like one enjoys cherry blossoms.
(which is why Farscape hit me so hard; all the color and complexity and sensawunda--but also the PTSD, the moral failings, the consequences and character development.)
I loathed the first ST reboot, and have actively avoided that AU. It's best for everyone. I only started watching Disco with Mr. F, but he was wily, and he knew how to hook me on a rewatch, Michelle Yeoh and the writers dd the rest, good God, the fan service of the Terra Firma 2-parter still gives me chills. Holy shit!
I feel like the people behind Disco SEE me, and want to TALK WITH ME about STAR TREK and SCIENCE and TIKKUN OLAM + SENSAWUNDA and WHAT IF TROI ACTUALLY FUNCTIONED AS A SHIP'S COUNSELOR and KIDS/OLDS THESE DAYS and HOW DO YOU RETAIN CURIOSITY IN A HOSTILE UNIVERSE and HOW DO YOU HEAL when SHIT KEEPS GETTING REAL.
I love my big gay Start Trek.
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What We Do in the Shadows (WWDITS) continues to loop, a happy place, and one day when things are quieter and my brain has bandwidth, I may even tackle that Laszlo dilf fic I keep making notes for.
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Re-reading early Bloom County these days, as I fall asleep, It's unnerving revisiting the moment in time (1981) when I became politically aware, and how and why certain things resonated with me as a 9yo raised by hippie-adjacent boomers about to get fucked by Reagan. Also, I'm thinking of actively rejecting realism in drawing, and trying to play with cartooning for a bit.
~*~
I love my big gay Star Trek (Disco). I was weaned on TOS, and I was a non-passionate fan enjoying it (and the active fandom we were in, like, zines and potlucks and sharing uniform patterns, and raising funds for Amnesty Intl) with my mom and grandma. But I was more about Star Wars, reading Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, then Max Headroom, and cyberpunk. I was born too late for the idealism not to be bittersweet, honestly. I enjoy TOS, a love note from the 60s, like one enjoys cherry blossoms.
(which is why Farscape hit me so hard; all the color and complexity and sensawunda--but also the PTSD, the moral failings, the consequences and character development.)
I loathed the first ST reboot, and have actively avoided that AU. It's best for everyone. I only started watching Disco with Mr. F, but he was wily, and he knew how to hook me on a rewatch, Michelle Yeoh and the writers dd the rest, good God, the fan service of the Terra Firma 2-parter still gives me chills. Holy shit!
I feel like the people behind Disco SEE me, and want to TALK WITH ME about STAR TREK and SCIENCE and TIKKUN OLAM + SENSAWUNDA and WHAT IF TROI ACTUALLY FUNCTIONED AS A SHIP'S COUNSELOR and KIDS/OLDS THESE DAYS and HOW DO YOU RETAIN CURIOSITY IN A HOSTILE UNIVERSE and HOW DO YOU HEAL when SHIT KEEPS GETTING REAL.
I love my big gay Start Trek.
~*~
What We Do in the Shadows (WWDITS) continues to loop, a happy place, and one day when things are quieter and my brain has bandwidth, I may even tackle that Laszlo dilf fic I keep making notes for.
