@estherwordnerd Made A Valid Point About The Lack Of “holy Palmers’ Kiss” Fan Art So I Obliged

Alison was such a popular name in medieval England that authors would name women characters Alison to indicate that she was supposed to be a very normal kind of person

Hmmmm delicious tumblr vent void

Tempted to fuck around and write a fic for a fandom I'm not even in

Mystery’s over guys. Everyone go home.

It was a joking remark by an unnamed party who said ‘I’m spirksexual.’ Not an attraction to it, but a sense of alignment and identification with it; the idea of ‘t’hy’la’, and the whole universe of thought around Kirk and Spock’s relationship. Roddenberry invented the word ‘t’hy’la’ to describe Kirk and Spock’s relationship as, in fact, indefinable; combining qualities of the friend, the brother and the lover into one deep, intrinsic, poetry-worthy bond that transcended category. Sometimes it seems idealised; sometimes flawed; sometimes both. Sometimes it emphasises more one thing than another, but it is always fluid. It seems to exist in layers and nuances as something that indeed, makes us think of the nature of relationships; the subtle shades and blending of characteristics that familiar categories of relationship may practically incorporate, but don't always explicitly acknowledge.

There is something uniquely compelling about the indefinable connection Kirk and Spock share; it is clearly beyond bodies or gender, while incorporating both the intellectual, mental connection and the physical. K/S fandom had been comprised of many demographics – including gay men, queer people of all genders; and also – hugely – by women, who wrote fanfic while stating that this it is far more than simply a relationship between two men. The m/m aspect served for many to negate the social inequalities especially apparent at the time of the series, and level the field so as to focus on the connection rather than roles, power or politics; or to actively subvert/question them with a certain freedom. This is a relationship that many people of different genders and sexualities explored their own through, and continue to even in different socio-policial times. Something about these two characters, and intrinsic in their relationship, provides a platform for such possibility.

Therefore: K/S pride. However you wish to take it: as a bit of fun, a protest, a conversation starter - or as something that simply expresses something indefinable about yourself. What is K/S to you? How do you see it and relate to it?

Fine... I'll do it myself

Deadpool is a mercenary, a popular one at that. How does it do it? Well he's not only batshit crazy and good at his job but he has, quite literally, fanbase-

He is the leader of a rock band because who would be ok with a merc being a celebrity of sorts if not some angsty (probably crazy too) teenagers- It's good advertising! Most of his audience tend to want to hire Deadpool afterall.

Spiderman is the hero of the little people and he plans to keep it that way- even if he is a broke student, even if he is balancing a few jobs and is dead tired...

Afterall, how else is he to save up money to buy more Deadpool merch and hopefully actually attend one of his concerts?

Sure- Spiderman isn't one to agree with Mercenary Deadpool... But that doesn't mean he doesn't have ears to listen to the man's music! He respects the art not the act.

You can only imagine his struggle when he meets Deadpool as Spiderman- hiding his excitement and thr fact that he must have an autograph all the while scolding his literal hero.