Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.

Trek Thursdays are back baybeeeeee

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Having to ask myself "is this even real" for every single cute animal video that I see has really taken whatever remaining joy the internet had left and flushed it down the toilet

To the writer out there who doesn't read romance but is about to type up a hot take thinkpiece on Heated Rivalry anyway, for the betterment of the world and for the sake of my own sanity, close that doc.

I don't know what to say any more. My perspective is clear, but my power to effect real change is murky. Horrors upon horrors in this country and the world... but also I have to pack lunch for tomorrow. Raising a child with hope is surely a political act. It might be the best one I can do for now.

Robert Picardo gets it ❤️🖖

Watch: Cadets Meet The Doctor In Fun Clip From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’##startrek #starfleetacademy https://bit.ly/sfaclipdoctor

There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five. There are four lights. This is not a post about Star Trek.

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

This is VERY exciting to me!

this action does not exist in a vaccuum—this tit for tat is immediately downstream of covid denial; the dregs of government support are contingent upon eugenic conformity.

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

There is no heterosexual explanation for this THEY ARE FLIRTING!

I don’t understand how we continue existing with no shared reality, no shared morals, nothing

Pro tip: If you are attending a crowded event in winter, wearing a well-fitting mask like an N95 can serve double duty by keeping your face warm and keeping viruses away. (yes, transmission can still happen outdoors in crowds or with close and sustained contact to someone who is sick).

Kirk really does look at John Christopher like he wants to eat him alive. God bless the TOS lighting director for giving us this.

Celebrating the end of the year with glow sticks, a confetti toy, Big Fat Quiz of the Year, a lot of cheese, and enough mead to make me tipsy. Happy new year friends!

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

You know the thing about Jimmy Carr? I flip-flop on my opinion of him. He's done some shady shit in the name of profit, and he often makes inappropriate jokes; but I do also think he's genuinely kind in his way. Ricky Gervais, on the other hand, is simply a smug, nasty bully with a fragile ego.

Me, a week ago: I am sure 6-7 annoys parents, but children have always constructed a shared language outside of adult society. This is necessary! Good for them! Me, after spending the holidays with a bunch of niblings between 5 and 14: I am calling on the United Nations to ban the numbers 6 and 7.

Here’s to 2026

Been watching the OG Star Trek for the first time and I'm surprised by two things: 1. Kirk is nothing like the lurid horn dog some media portray him as, instead being an honor-bound workaholic that's married to his job. 2. All the Kirk x Spock shipping Boomers did was 1000% justified oh mai gooood

After talking to my SiL I thought we were on a similar page about how shitty ai is. And then I heard her telling our niece to just use chat got to research the schools she wants to go to since Google is nothing but ads.

Heated Rivalry is the most accurate adaptation I’ve ever seen and I’m blown away that they pulled it off. Great job Canada, can’t wait for the next season!

I wrote some new filthy McSpirk smut! If that’s your cup of tea check it out! archiveofourown.org/works/76322496

Facebook full of folks excited to not have fresh water in the future and to give their likeness to the robots all in exchange for extremely fake looking candy cane photos. I want your bad photos or your professional ones or your fun ones. But I want YOUR photos, not a plagiarism machine's.

A solstice painting of mine.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Happy winter solstice! Never give up.

My husband’s grandmother wants so much to read my next book but it’s straight up smut so I obviously can’t give it to her. She brings it up literally every time I see her guys.

I write novels because I love stories. Because art is hard to be good at, it's always a challenge, I continue to learn & improve my skills & change my perspective throughout my life. Art never has to be static. Why on earth do it otherwise? The outcome is great but it's the process that sings.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Oh my god the lighting for Ilya in the scene with his brother is so beautiful, I want to paint him

I updated my Track Bear word count this morning and it looks like I’ve written about 140,000 words this year! Less than I had hoped, but not too shabby!

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

yesterday i watched the X-Files episode that is basically The Thing but but in 1/3rd the time and no special effects and it's really fun, that's the sort of thing i miss from having tv shows with longer runs. being able to do what feels like in-universe fanfic like that. it's just neat

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Lots of well-deserved love for Rhea Seehorn, but damn, the guy who plays Manousos is killing it, too

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

I had surgery yesterday and when they were wheeling me around I kept thinking about Bones saying “what is this the dark ages!?” Anyway I’ve got some gnarly stitches and it hurts like a motherfucker. Would love a time traveling crew of space nerds to come use a fancy skin regenerator on me 🙏

[staring directly into the ~107 year old camera]

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Spock and Kirk

As Star Trek gears up for another new show, I’m more sure than ever a segment of the fanbase has no interest in anything new. They just want the same thing repeated over & over - with the same legacy characters. The new shows aren’t perfect, but at least they’re trying new things.

When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.

watch deep space 9. it’s one of the best television shows ever created. you don’t need to see any other trek series to understand it. it’s beautifully and ruggedly honest about fascism.

Look at this gorgeous poster for Into Darkness I saw at a movie theater 😍