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peterslist:

sachertortes:

I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”

hey as somebody who works in one of those companies that sends out those surveys, never, NEVER mention how much you hate the company in them. just talk about the representative. then, go to the company’s social media page and blast your bad reviews there

those surveys decide our pay, they decide whether we get bonuses or not, they decide if we get to keep our jobs or not. i’ve read transcripts on surveys where it’s has been praising the representative but mentioned one bad thing about the company. that fell to the representative because they should have been enough to sway the customers opinion.

spockslash:

adhdcaptain-kirk:

I found a little book of star trek trivia at my favorite used book store and the book was published in the 80s and I’m flipping through it and it’s like “dedicated Fans taping episodes of star trek ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy the series” which is such a weird sort of technology whiplash like we went from VHS tapes being THE way to consume media on demand and I’m over here in 2018 watching this show on my smartphone on Netflix and?? When the show came out VHS wasn’t even a wildly avaliable thing??? Sometimes little things give me hope, like a tiny book reminding me how much humanity has accomplished in 50 years.

Oh my goodness, there was no such thing as media on demand when TOS aired! We could not have imagined such a thing. 

Around 1970-71 a group of original fans in the LA area did what we could to make a record of what happened in each episode, because it could easily be a year or more before our local station might run any given episode again. Whenever a rerun was shown, we worked as a team, taking Polaroid photos of the TV screen at each scene change and writing a quick description of what happens in the scene.  These we glued onto poster boards, one for each episode, building up the collection over a couple of years (the rate at which we were able to see the episodes in reruns). The poster boards hung in a couple of our garages and were available for any fan to view with an appointment. 

We would have been so jealous of fans now, had we known the day would come when we could see episodes any time we wanted. I still find it somewhat miraculous!

to-boldly-go-beyond:

I know Spock is commonly perceived as the “logical man of science who is absolutely derailed by his love of Jim” but like??? can we talk about James T. “I’m married to my ship” Kirk, who takes one glance at Spock and just thinks “Enterprise whom? I’m free as a red shirt ready to meet their doom!”

sweetbabyraysgourmetsauces:

“Women” is an inclusive enough umbrella term when talking about women’s issues. Saying “women and people who identify as women” is just unnecessary word jumble and you’re basically just saying “women and people that think they are women” and you should stop. The term “woman” is completely inclusive of trans women.

skywaliker:

kirk’s evil clone: i’m your captain shoot him

kirk: you have to shoot BOTH of us to keep enterprise safe

spock, aiming at garth: the REAL jim would never pass up an opportunity to unnecessarily sacrifice himself for his starship