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people know Spock’s a Vulcan and yet they’re still trying to goad him into talking about his feelings, and acting all surprised when he won’t give them the reaction they want
like you’ve known this guy for how many years and you haven’t figured this out yet, come on now. you think you’re gonna be the one to get a Vulcan to show an emotion, like there’s a prize or something
it’s just lazy writing (and not all the writers do it) because, while it’s not entirely unrealistic that people would be that fucking rude, you’d think they would’ve gotten bored by now — I know I’m very bored with this
plus what if this is one of the episodes where Spock has some kind of space illness or something, have you seen how strong he is, do you really want to be the one who gets him angry
#spock is different and that’s okay, #people just need to accept that #and by ‘people’ i mostly mean ‘bones’
I feel like even ST:TOS had trouble figuring out whether Spock was truly emotionless, or whether Vulcans’ lack of emotion was due to a complex system of self-discipline. In a way, the writers seem to be exhibiting the same traits as Bones, cos they want Spock to feel…it is rude behavior (I mean, as written), and yet on some level I feel like it’s based in a desire to connect with the character.
Plus, it’s damn hard to imagine what motivates someone if they truly have no emotions. Why would Spock do anything but eat, sleep, and perform his duties, if he was truly emotionless? Is pleasure an emotion? Taste preferences, hobbies, etc., do those ultimately derive from emotions? It’s the sort of thing you can pick at all day.
None of this is really by way of disagreeing with you tho because damn, the whole “Bones picking on Spock” thing did get pretty old.
Canon says that Vulcans can have extremely powerful emotions, and that they’ve developed a system of regulation/repression because it was becoming a huge problem for them. I’m sure everybody here who’s remotely interested in this post knows this, I’m just restating it because I don’t know exactly when that became a solid part of canon, and it could explain TOS’s inconsistency.
For my money, the best TOS writing for Spock is based on this concept, whether it specifically plays on it like “Amok Time” or just treats Spock as a person who has feelings but doesn’t show them. In the latter instance, the good writing also means having people accept Spock the way he is — bad writing has pretty much everybody being a dick about it, including Kirk, which totally undermines the idea that Spock is his best friend.
Heck, I even like some of the byplay between Spock and Bones on the issue. When Bones is just teasing Spock — “come on, you have feelings, dontcha, neener neener” — it’s no fun, but when there’s actual conflict, it can be good. I’m thinking of “Bread and Circuses,” which is sort of mediocre, but there’s this moment when Kirk is in danger and Spock is being, well, Spock, and Bones just goes off on him. Like, “You don’t care about anybody or anything because all that matters to you is your precious logic and you’d rather die than have one good honest feeling,” and Spock just goes ”Really” and gives him The Eyebrow, and Bones kind of deflates and goes “yeah, I’m worried about the captain too.” It makes sense there because he’s frustrated and scared, and he’s also, as you said, trying to make a connection, looking for something he can understand.
Thinking also about “Plato’s Stepchildren,” the part after the Platonians force Spock to laugh and cry, and he admits that he’s so angry he can’t see straight and scared that he can’t regain control — and Bones says that emotional release is healthy for humans, but it’s obvious that he knows what just happened is really really bad, and he’s just saying stuff that sounds reasonably doctor-ish because he’s really worried and doesn’t know what else to do.
As kind of an aside, when we get to see Spock’s quarters, it’s very obvious where the set dressers come down on this question. He’s got art and decorations all over the place — these are not the quarters of a being driven only by logic, because home decor is not logical.
I’m basically reblogging because this last is a great summation. I think there’s an ep where Spock actually meets Surak (or a projection of him or something), who was the dude who invented the Vulcan system of emotional control, so I reckon by then canon had pretty much decided? It was a late ep I think. (Also I did totally have to Google the dude’s name, ngl.) So, yeah. With multiple writers and personalities developing as things went along, no wonder there was a little unevenness.
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people know Spock’s a Vulcan and yet they’re still trying to goad him into talking about his feelings, and acting all surprised when he won’t give them the reaction they want
like you’ve known this guy for how many years and you haven’t figured this out yet, come on now. you think you’re gonna be the one to get a Vulcan to show an emotion, like there’s a prize or something
it’s just lazy writing (and not all the writers do it) because, while it’s not entirely unrealistic that people would be that fucking rude, you’d think they would’ve gotten bored by now — I know I’m very bored with this
plus what if this is one of the episodes where Spock has some kind of space illness or something, have you seen how strong he is, do you really want to be the one who gets him angry
#spock is different and that’s okay, #people just need to accept that #and by ‘people’ i mostly mean ‘bones’
I feel like even ST:TOS had trouble figuring out whether Spock was truly emotionless, or whether Vulcans’ lack of emotion was due to a complex system of self-discipline. In a way, the writers seem to be exhibiting the same traits as Bones, cos they want Spock to feel…it is rude behavior (I mean, as written), and yet on some level I feel like it’s based in a desire to connect with the character.
Plus, it’s damn hard to imagine what motivates someone if they truly have no emotions. Why would Spock do anything but eat, sleep, and perform his duties, if he was truly emotionless? Is pleasure an emotion? Taste preferences, hobbies, etc., do those ultimately derive from emotions? It’s the sort of thing you can pick at all day.
None of this is really by way of disagreeing with you tho because damn, the whole “Bones picking on Spock” thing did get pretty old.
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NIN is touring omfg
and they’ll be coming close to me
but I’ll never be able to persuade myself to do the thing
:(
do the thing
I’ve been to two shows and will be attending at least one of this go round
and it is absolutely worthwhile to do the thing
but it’s loud at the thing
and expensive, like, I’m sure I can afford the nosebleed seats but even then my internal monitor is like YOU CAN’T SPEND THAT MUCH OMG
and I think I’d have to go alone :(
honest to god earplugs are fine to wear to the thing, they really help (i wear them in movies sometimes)
going alone is sort of unnerving but nobody’s paying attention to you if that helps, if you see what i mean
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I love how for all intensive purposes Johnny Slut should have been the most useless person in the band but if you ever hear them live he’s the one adding most of 80s pizzaz to the songs.
When I heard he taught himself to play using stickers on the keyboard I laughed, but to be honest, it highlights how gutsy he was.
That’s how they start kids out in a lot of systems. But see, that’s pretty impressive to me because kids are tiny knowledge sponges and it’s a lot easier for them to pick up things, especially music and language. For grownups it’s harder.
It really is, especially if we’ve grown up and have all those fears and inadequacies…overcoming the fear of failure is one of the most difficult-to-impossible things I can think of, once it’s internalized. Some people do get to adulthood without it being deeply ingrained, fortunately for them. I am not one of them, so I often perceive musicians’ and artists’ success stories as tales of guts and bravery, since I can see that regardless of any talents I might have, I wouldn’t have had the nerve to fail repeatedly until I got good something, like they obviously have.
Source: strangedayshavefoundme666
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what do you use and how do you use it (and where do you get it)
I don’t have a pot big enough to do stuff on the stove, although the color doesn’t have to be super-even — I’d love to be able to use natural dyes but most of those have to be heat-fixed, right?
That’s a lot of fabric! I think you can still do them in a bucket; maybe quarter them or something and shove ‘em in. A lot of the mordants used for really good, lightfast and washfast results on plant fibers with natural dyes are super toxic and environmentally poisonous as well, if that makes you feel any better about using manmade dyes. Oh, you should probably have a filter mask and some rubber gloves to do this, too, to protect yourself.
Procion MX dyes sound like the option for you. They’re bright, fairly straightforward to use, don’t require cooking, and are pretty washfast. They use soda ash as the chemical that causes them to react with the fabric, which is a fairly mild chemical as things go. A few of the dyes probably have heavy metals in them, which is unfortunate but normal. If you were gonna dye all the time in large quantities, it might be worth looking into eco-sensitive dyes; I know they make them for animal fibers, not sure about plant fibers.
Dharma Trading is a super reliable dye vendor, and they have a lot of tutorials, too. They also sell a starter kit for fabric dyeing (about 2/3 way down the page, under the individual colors). If you read the tutorials pretty carefully and poke around the net some, you can probably get the one without the book and save yourself some money. The set has a red/yellow/blue that will work as a basis for a nice palette. If you were dyeing professionally, you might invest in multiple different primaries (cool, warm, neutral), but that’s not really necessary if you’re just trying to do a nice project and have fun.
So yeah, if you were to snag the set, you would need to have some glass mason jars or something for mixing up dyestock (or, let’s be honest, some big plastic disposable cups would also work), some little plastic spoons, a few really big plastic spoons to poke the fabric around, and one or more five-gallon buckets. Generally I had no trouble with the stuff staining the washer; the detergent you use with dyeing keeps it from migrating onto other stuff pretty well, and it really only wants to react with the fabric.
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what do you use and how do you use it (and where do you get it)
I don’t have a pot big enough to do stuff on the stove, although the color doesn’t have to be super-even — I’d love to be able to use natural dyes but most of those have to be heat-fixed, right?
so basically something that will work in washers and doesn’t suck like RIT
I think a lot of the stuff that you just chuck in the washer is gonna suck, unfortunately. It’s meant to work with all kinds of fabric, which means it’s not going to work particularly well with any of them. There might be other brands people have had better experiences with than RIT, tho, so there’s some possibility of better.
I used to dye my own quilt fabric, and ran a small yarn and fiber dyeing business on Etsy for a few years, so I can probably make some suggestions and steer you in the direction of some sampler kits or something (so you can enjoy dyeing without making a huge investment right off the bat). What kind of fabric are you dyeing? Like, what’s it made of? That’s probably the first thing to start with.
Cotton doesn’t need heat-fixing, for instance, although (if I remember correctly) it needs *warm* water, so you can get a 5 gallon plastic bucket or something and do your dyeing in there if you don’t need it to be super even. You can get a nice varied effect that way. If it’s animal fiber like wool or silk, it’s going to need heat-setting, because you have to use acid dyes. A cheap-ass old stainless steel (important! not aluminum!) pot, like from a thrift store or something, and a few glass jars for mixing up dye solutions, will get you through a lot. But you won’t ever be able to use the pot and jars for food, so keep them separate or label it or something.
Natural dyes are a giant pain in the ass and super expensive if you actually want to do a good job—like, have nice color payoff and something that won’t fade right away. On plant fibers, they often require pretty toxic mordants, although a friend used to have good success with alum. Wool and silk aren’t quite so bad. I never had great luck with natural dyes, to be honest, but they can produce beautiful results and it’s an amazing skill to have.
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cumaeansibyl asked: you could probably make Siouxsie's bracelets for under $30 -- a cheap pair of bondage cuffs, a pack or two of jingle bells, and a stout leather needle. does someone do a post-punk-crafts tumblr because that would be fun
This is actually a really great idea, partly because there’s a lot of snobbery about diy in the punk/related subcultures community, in the sense that people look down on folks for not having the skills or supplies to make things, and buying instead. But they don’t help, they just sneer—“just diy it,” is basically the refrain, ignoring the fact that diy takes a lot of skill much of the time.
So yeah, an actual subculture-related craft blog, with, if not full tutorials, at least tips and hints, would be awesome. There’s some precedent for it, what with a really generous crafter out there who has some tutorials up for patches, and a site that has patch stencils available. It obviously fills some kind of need!
Yrs,
AG
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cumaeansibyl asked: wait, is Adam Ant the privateer to Ian Astbury's pirate captain???
Whoa whoa whoa that’s a good question, that depends on which one you see as more legitimately rebellious I guess, doesn’t it
I think regardless of which one is more rebellious, surely we all know that Billy Idol (he of “Siouxsie I’m bailing on our first gig, I’ve got a real music career to consider” fame) is the one who dresses the part, but just sits around in pubs trying to pick up impressionable ladies with his made-up stories about swashbuckling
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