Where’d you get those brain worms, baby? Xoxo

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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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demilypyro

Star Trek is so funny. All of starfleet is so aggressively Neutral Good. Every time they're up against something they Always do the noble thing. Every one of these motherfuckers is so ready to jump on the grenade. It's so cute I love them

demilypyro

Starfleet officers come out of the academy with 2 things: a passion for science bordering on sexual and an incomprehensible desire for self-sacrifice

demilypyro

I love how this is like, acknowledged in lore, too. Like, the reason Starfleet is so full of these bozos is because it's a big non-profit where you get to Do Science and Be Noble. So only people who want to Do Science and Be Noble join up. The organization has a reputation for producing the most moralistic greater-good-loving yuppies in the galaxy. It's a straight-up hero factory. You love to see it

demilypyro

I bet vulcan ships gossip about how starfleet officers can't go a day without volunteering for a life-threatening mission before they start climbing the walls looking for enrichment

asoniccatapult

sending them on dangerous missions is actually a safety measure, otherwise they start tinkering with the warp drive, and you end up as salamanders

hmantegazzi

Or start tampering with subspace rifts and end becoming a galaxy-shattering vocal ensemble

ralfmaximus

It's a post scarcity society! At least, for the core Federation planets.

So what happens when your healthy, happy citizens (numbered in the trillions) runs out of things to do? You can only learn so many obscure skills, study so much art & philosophy, consume so much media before boredom sets in.

Time to explore!

Send those obnoxious grown-ass "I'm bored, mom" kiddos off to Starfleet to see the galaxy!

And the really super-intense ones end up on starships.

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participlepotato
ironinkpen

best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

ironinkpen

like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood

ironinkpen

uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"

also uncle:

  • once got captured by the earth kingdom army buck ass naked bc he really wanted to go to a hot spring in enemy territory
  • betrayed zhao at the Northern Water Tribe with no escape plan and then spent 3 weeks starving on a boat
  • immediately went to a spa resort upon publicly committing treason
  • ate a poisonous plant and, in the spirit of Two Fish Hook Sokka, was going to solve the problem by eating another potentially poisonous plant
  • decided the safest place in the world they could go was the city he once FAMOUSLY laid siege to for 600 days
  • instead of lying low or giving a modicum of a shit about people recognizing him, overachieved himself into becoming one of the most well-known restaurant owners in said city
  • in fact overachieved so hard that he got an invite to meet the earth king (whose city he, again, once FAMOUSLY LAID SIEGE TO) which he fucking? accepted????
prettybirdy979

#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)

atla
teaboot
gaphic

sometimes neurodivergence questions will be like ‘do you find activities more enjoyable when they are activities you enjoy’ and it really makes me wonder if this ‘neurotypical’ thing has just been a big practical joke all along

gaphic

‘do you find it disruptive to your focus when your focus on a task is disrupted suddenly and without warning’ this CANNOT be diagnostic criteria. they are playing us for fools

teaboot

"Do you find it difficult to make yourself complete dull or unpleasant tasks with no immediate benefits or rewards?" Not at all Margaret, I'm actively excited to take part in bad activities I don't like that make me feel bad

HONESTLY
diotheleo
gay-jewish-bucky

actually even "rich" actors are in need of better contracts, largely because even they are being exploited, not only are working conditions horrific even for them (listen to literally any horror story from any big-name marvel actor) but studios are very much stealing their likenesses to be used in perpetuity in whatever project they wish without consent or compensation

ai threatening jobs is a cross-class issue, stop acting like it's just about annual income

g-l-o-w-y-l-i-g-h-t-s

Put another way: Even employers that pay high amounts should be required to make safe and healthy working environments. Throwing money at people doesn't get you off the hook for making a bad work environment.