I <3 William Shatner on Twitter
I love how they respond to him, as if he is actually a captain, even more.
Nasa confirmed for huge fucking nerds
This is awesome and priceless and people that work on space stuff are the best people of all time.
Honestly this just about brings me to tears.
Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols and all the rest of the original Star Trek cast and crew had no small role in making the moon landing as important as it was. A few years before they set that lunar module down, this little TV show came along and fanned the dream into wildfire with an image of what humanity in space could actually look like—not only peaceful on our own world, endlessly curious, and prosperous enough to pursue it, but an active force for good in the greater universe. Carrying not what’s most toxic about us, but what’s best about us out to the stars.
Everybody who has worked at NASA or any other space agency for the past 50 years is waiting for the day when that unmanned probe doing a flyby on a comet can be controlled from the bridge of a space-faring vessel. When we’re not just looking at that comet through a color-coded sonar map, but we can look out a porthole and see it tumbling by with our own eyes. When as a species we can finally outgrow hate and fear and violence, and turn our faces with joy toward all the beauties and wonders that lie waiting to be discovered.
And every time he does this, Shatner is reminding them of what that hope feels like.
This was too great to not repost.
Adding this one:
💖💖💖💖💖
Captain :’)
robin williams was rad as hell..
I’m still fucking devastated about this.
Same. I’ll never get over it and nothing has been the same since.
sigh
Just want to point out that Christopher Reeve was considering suicide before Robin Williams showed up. He didn’t just make him laugh, he saved Reeve’s life.
Also, he paid for Reeve’s medical bills from the accident.
*stillgrosssobbingoverthis*
I will never get past his death.
crying
Yeah, I’m still not over this
The most beautiful, funny people are sometimes the ones hurting the most - and the best at hiding it.
cool pics but at what cost
That green guy needs to be stopped he can’t keep getting away with this
#fanficproblems
guys i can’t emphasise enough how important this is
please consider all of these factors facing fanfic writers, who are doing this for fun and no return whatsoever beyond the love of the thing. thank you.
Fixed.
Preach.
This just keeps getting more real. The truth hurts.
okay but has anyone considered
(disclaimer: I have no particular problem with any of the people in the thread above; I’m just nitpicky and easily amused.)
Okay, SO. The main problem is that Venn Diagrams are used to contrast things and to look at the relationships among a list of items.
The “writer’s problems” venn diagram above is really just a list of items, not an examination of their relationships. Wrong format.
Even the original “reader’s problem” diagram, which is looking at the relationships among items is being a bit sneaky, because while it is apparently highlighting the trade offs among three variables (plot, grammar, characterization) there is actually a stealth fourth variable (update frequency) referenced in the middle, which should actually be a fourth circle, or rather sphere, because once you go up to four variables you have to add another axis of variation and project the chart into 3 dimensions.
And there should still be a hypothetical center region that contains all four elements of the ideal fic, although possibly the joke is that it is undiscoverable with the aid of a microscope and the blessing of the fanfic gods.
But, right, that whole thing would turn out super confusing visually, so it’s probably just as well they did not start extrapolating wildly into the nth-dimension.
Okay, returning to the “writer’s problems” venn diagram(s). This is a list, so it doesn’t translate well to the medium being parodied. Extra problem: it doesn’t really work as a rebuttal of the original? This is because most of the points being addressed aren’t actually relevant to the original diagram and therefore don’t have parallels. (Whole aside here about how I find both the reader *and* writer problems diagrams funny, and in no way invalidating of each other. I AM AT THE CENTER OF THE VENN DIAGRAM OVERLAPPING THESE PROBLEM SETS, OK.)
So, yeah.
Option 1: Focus on the original post to allow a more direct satire/rebuttal. You could try to rework the first diagram by addressing each section of the original diagram point-by-point, but… eh. That only really accounts for the education/language points addressing the grammar issues, and a couple of the points addressing the update frequency issue (which is an invisible axis of variation anyway, so really hard to wedge rebuttals to onto the diagram). And there’s no really good parallels for the “plot” or “characterization” issues except maybe…. “inability to create good plot” or “readers don’t agree with my characterization”. Which. Eh. Maybe the rarepairs point? idek. I don’t think this works.
Option 2: keep the points being made, abandon the format. Make a bullet list!
Option 3: abandon the actual points being made, keep the format. For this, you need to narrow down a list of variables that interrelate and focus on the trade-offs writers face among them. Or in other words, create a project triangle (”x, y, z: pick two”) , which is really what the first diagram is doing anyway.
In fact, let’s just make a triangle:
oooh, elegant.
or, okay, here, AN HONEST-TO-GOD VENN DIAGRAM, just for y’all:
TA DAH
(I made the invisible 4th axis ‘writing obscure topics’, my personal nemesis)
I’ll stop reblogging this when it stops being accurate and getting better.
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