Author: Rachel

evil-wears-a-bow:

twice-five-miles:

thisisntmyrealhair:

classictrek:

Why Star Trek matters.

Why representation matters too.

Everyone should know, in the 70s Nichelle Nichols went to NASA and asked why there weren’t black astronauts in the pipeline, and they said, “Come recruit for us.”  And she did.

“From the late 1970’s until the late 1980’s, NASA employed Nichelle
Nichols to recruit new astronaut candidates. Many of her new recruits
were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities, including Guion
Bluford (the first African-American astronaut), Sally Ride (the first
female American astronaut), Judith Resnik (one of the original set of
female astronauts, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on
January 28, 1986), and Ronald McNair (the second African-American
astronaut, and another victim of the Challenger accident).“ (x)

Yaaaaaaaas

altarandwitchinghour:

kingfucko:

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flittering-sylph:

Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.

If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne’er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.

stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.

theundergroundwoman:

one thing about me is I love brutalism. I love concrete. I love not living in a house with cardboard walls and I love looking at a building and thinking this imposing boy would survive a nuclear war

vettely:

pov: formula e season is over

enki2:

thyla:

STAR TREK: TOS– S1E28 | The City on the Edge of Forever

brown-little-robin:

effemimaniac:

“sorry that probably doesn’t make much sense” <- for perfectly intelligible & logical statements relevant to the present conversation

“you get what I mean.” <- for unparsable non sequiturs

“as you do” <- for incredibly eccentric and even impossible actions

mossyshadows:

mossyshadows:

ALT

btw . insane little wikipedia caption for everyone’s consideration also

like IMAGINE just writing in a caption casually that maybe the pillars of CREATION are already destroyed we just can’t see it yet.. the light of the day that creation is destroyed has not yet dawned on earth what the helllll

thedungeonguy:

Going on a deep dive into Japanese writing systems is fun cause I’ve ended up learning about completely incidental things like historical spellings, Brahmic scripts, why statiōnem became stazione in Italian, and how it’s actually really normal that British people say “Chewsday”

eclipsedsuns: