A man who likes to be alone with his thoughts. Queer sense of fun. Intimately lives with rain. tree wizard, poet, trekkie, dad, polyamorus, bisexual, cringe af
@fuckyouiquit If you avoided all extravagences, diligently saved, took no vacations, and worked for the same company through your 20s and 30s you could easily get fired for no reason right before retirement and have to spend your golden years working as a cashier.
On this bridge in China, there was a stone carving with Mao Zedong’s famous quotes: “ Man can conquer nature.” After the storm, the Mother Nature took away the stone carving as well as the bridge.
I wish more non-writer folks understood how damn hard it is to create awesome characters and intricate worlds and tell compelling stories. It’s fucking HARD.
So when you LOVE a show or a world, remember that started with a writer.
And that’s why we deserve to be fucking PAID.
Let me share one more personal Star Trek story with you. In 2001, I went to see "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" with my friends, expecting nothing else but a cool Sci-Fi flick. I was absolutely not prepared for what I had to witness. The atrocities committed towards robots in the film, especially during those "Flesh Fairs", really traumatized me. I've bever been able to watch that film ever since and I don't want to. The film was effective in alerting me towards similar atrocities committed towards other minorities on this planet. Right now. So it did work and I'm grateful for that.
But when I came home in 2001, I was so perturbed, I just couldn't sleep because of what I had seen, so I watched "Data's Day" (on self-recorded video cassette because the DVDs hadn't been released yet) and that episode put me at ease because it reminded me of the good in humanity and how differently androids could be treated. Ever since then, whenever I need to be calmed down when something bad happened or before an important/stressful day, I watch "Data's Day" because that episode just calms me down immensely. Seeing Data smile like that on the holodeck, it just cracks me up and makes me laugh and cry tears of joy. Star Trek can be healing like that and I'm grateful that I have that remedy in my life!
President Biden is asked about what the Trump indictment means for the rule of law in the US and he responds "I have no comment at all."
God, it makes me so happy to have an adult in charge, again.
And yes, the whole Clinton “it’s not perjury if you’re lying about committing adultery with a powerless employee young enough to be your daughter” filth has given bad actors across America an eternal tu quoque.