i’m sure everyone is already doing this, but here is the star trek series that i had been building in my head for probably 10 years:
the captain is the 1st romulan in star fleet. she’s a really solid captain, and she’s kind of everything you wouldn’t expect from a romulan - she’s personable and close with her crew. most of the time she’s able to keep her romulan temper under control, but she deals with a lot of racism, so sometimes she flips her shit and it is terrifying.
the chief engineer is a changeling, and they’re agender and very happy to be a changeling, thank you. they’re really into experimenting with different forms, and (thanks to improved cgi) they utilize their gelatinous form to get all up in the workings of the ship
the first officer is the token human. he is indian, obsessed with rare alien artworks, and aromantic pansexual. he basically is interested in sleeping with any being with two legs (and some with fewer or more than two legs), but not interested in dating.
chief medical officer is klingon. (KLINGONS HAVE TO HAVE MEDICS, TOO, OKAY.) she is very aggressive in her treatments but is totally a giant softie underneath. she was actually super-talented in battle and won a bunch of prizes growing up, but she has always hated fighting (she tries to keep this under wraps, though, and has a tendency to threaten to chop people’s heads off with bat’leths).
those are all the characters i’ve come up with so far, lemme know if you’ve any ideas
the crew isn’t very well-respected in star fleet, in fact, they were given a not-so-great ship (that the lovely changeling chief engineer has upgraded leik wo), and are usually handed all the mucky jobs, especially ones that tiptoe the line of federation ethics (well, there’s a romulan captain. she’s probably okay with that, right? says star fleet brass, with their heads up their asses). despite inadequate support (and often inadequate supplies), this crew tends to scrape through incredibly difficult situations and generally kick ass in unorthodox ways.
Ferengi helmsman. “Not Quartermaster?” You ask. “No, but I bet you 500 bars of gold pressed latinum I can outfly that trash hauler you call a corvette.” And when he wins, he jettisons the money into a star out of spite.
omg i love it
Perfect headcanon is perfect
SO I SORTA CAN’T STOP THINKING WHAT A GOOD IDEA THIS IS.
(And considering the general Klingon attitude towards medicine is “get better on your own, die or commit hegh’bat”, Chief Medical Officer there probably has a lot more impetus to be the Absolute Best also.)
OMFG I AM DYING THAT IS BEAUTIFUL
A+++++++ CUTIES ALL AROUND
SOMEONE PLEASE CAUSE THIS SHOW TO EXIST. I WILL BE YOUR NUMBER ONE FAN.
hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!
hoperemains is completely from a Christian perspective, and not pluralistic or interfaith at all.
If you reblogged the first post from me please reblog this amendment so the Jewish peeps can access this resource too!
Trans Jewish kids, you can go to TransTorah as well!
Muslim LGBTQ kids, you can go to iamnotharaam! It’s run by a mod squad of different genders and orientations, and they take submissions from everybody!
Okay but after seeing this I started doing it too and it’s amazing how many men I’ve run into bc they expected me to move
Gotta try it
I work (and walk) on a college campus. I’ve lost count of how many men I’ve smacked shoulders with.
Recently, I was standing outside my son’s classroom waiting to talk to his teacher. I stood on one side of the hallway, not even close to the center. At some point, a man came walking along. I was standing right in his path, but the hallway was empty, so I logically expected him to swerve around me. Instead he kept walking right toward me, got to me, and stopped, as if waiting for me to get out of his way. I didn’t; I just smiled politely at him. He finally walked around me, clearly annoyed that I hadn’t leapt out of his manly path.
Now I’m wishing I’d leapt aside, taken off my jacket and laid it on the floor before him, then bowed deeply and said, “My Liege!”
I also work at a college campus. I smack shoulders sometimes, but I find that if I stare straight ahead and follow the advice below, people get the heck out of the way.
Honestly this post changed how I carry myself when walking alone in public, or in a situation where I’m the one leading. People definitely move for the murder gaze.
Confirmed. I once had to rush back inside a convention hall as the con was closing in order to a retrieve a sick friend’s medication, and I didn’t understand why people in the crowd were jumping out of my way (literally—one guy vaulted a table) until I realized I was dressed as the Winter Soldier and doing the Murder Walk because that’s just how I walk in those boots. I got the meds, got out, and made a mental note.
I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought I’d had at that moment. People parted like I was Charlton Heston.
I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I “looked like a soldier.” I’m not current or former military. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible.
Moral of the story: wear comfortable shoes, square your shoulders, and walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.
WALK LIKE YOU’VE BEEN SENT TO MURDER CAPTAIN AMERICA
I will always reblog this post, because it works!! Even when coming up to a large group of teenage lads, who are taking up the entire pathway and had not moved for adult males let alone anyone else, got the HELL out of the way for the murder walk!!!
Always reblog for the Murder Walk.
Question, will the murder walk work for people under the height of 5′5″?
The murder walk does work if you’re under 5'5"! Having resting bitchface and wearing a lot of black helps.
I’m a small 5'3" and have been called intimidating by multiple people. I’m actually a marshmallow, but my face and the way I walk and talk say “intimidating” somehow
Even just the solid posture and flat expression- something about the, ‘too busy for your shit, would gladly sell your kidneys’ aura keeps the drunk creeps on the train from trying to chat
I can also confirm that the murder walk works for short people! I am 5′ tall (yes, that is five feet no inches) and I’ve been doing it since seventh grade when I was like 4′6″, and it worked through the development of boobs and hips and everything. It helps that my default expression is a couple steps past ‘resting bitch face’ into ‘scowling.’
they’re the kid who gets stuck holding the door for everyone, but they’re grinning the entire time
brave enough to be the one to order pizza
protective of everyone, it doesn’t matter who they are
loud and powerful
beautiful and radiant as the freaking sun you will remember them
cons:
loud as hell
big on trying to push people far out of their comfort zones
tend to be conceited
you know that kid who lectures everyone about how they should be better people and then just sort of turns around and bullies the class jerk? they’re probably a gryffindor
