These are all the reasons I wear capes!
Everybody knows and loves Spock's cunty black cape from Return of the Archons. While the rest of the crew's disguises are more or less congruent with each other and with the planet's natives, Spock is the only caped bitch on the entire fucking planet as far as we can see. There are other, more fitting, in-universe ways to cover his ears. He had no right to be serving this much cunt with this look.
So the question I usually see is: Did Spock pick this look for himself? And is he this weird because he's a Vulcan? Or is he, individually, just this extra? Here is the secret third thing: This cape is the PERFECT accessory for an autistic person.
Feeling overstimulated? Raise the hood; it works like blinders on a horse.
Feeling understimulated? It swishes around like a princess dress when you move. Spinning optional.
It's not as tight around the body as a jacket, so it keeps you warm without having to feel a structured jacket all over you while you're trying to go about your day. Meanwhile, the part around the top of the head is just structured enough that it's not touching your face or falling off all the time.
It's a good conversation starter. If you want people to talk to you but you don't know what to say, this cape is guaranteed to get their attention and get the conversation going.
Have issues around being perceived? This one is a little harder to understand; but when you have a cape like this, people notice the cape instead of noticing you. There is a freedom in it. It's why a lot of autistic people are into cosplay.
Also, it helps with that "why are they staring at me" anxiety. They are staring because I am beautiful and mysterious and elegant and wearing a fucking cape.
In conclusion, I really hope Spock kept this cape and wore it on other occasions that we don't see on-screen. Also, I will be buying one for myself in the near future.
There has to be a better way to deal with my dad's medical bills (he had a stroke) than making phone calls while crying. Phone calls are my only option to explain he is unemployed and disability projected 10+ months to make a decision, but like, I also can't not cry about it?!? Also sucks half the people I need to call are on holiday, but I also work the same days/hours they are open
I understand the Section 31 discourse, but is anyone talking about how we got some amazing outfits? The color shifting fabrics, the fabric textures, the wigs, the headpieces, the necklace knife sheath! Other than the part where everyone switches to black leather, it was visually engaging in a way that I missed from Lwaxana Troi epsidoes.
what people flagrantly misunderstand about culturally iconic ‘logicians’ like spock and sherlock holmes is that they are fuckinggggg annoying. like you canNOT write for nor adapt either of these characters properly without understanding that they are admirable in many ways, yes, but they are repeatedly and gleefully, ON PURPOSE, fucking massive nuisances to literally every sane individual around them, all the time. they love bothering people, they LOVE it, it makes them SO HAPPY, and THAT, not their brilliance, is what makes them the best. spocks a BITCH
POV: your station on the Enterprise bridge is right next to the turbolift.
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Well fucks? Get to it!
Essentials.
Crying thinking about Spocks mom reading Alice in wonderland to him idk don’t talk to me.
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As a side note… I am really annoyed by one thing about Star Trek.
“Replicated food is not as good as real food.”
That’s ridiculous. In Star Trek, replicator technology is part of the same tech tree as transporters. Replicated food would be identical to the food it was based on, down to the subatomic level.
I un-installed TikTok in a fit of rage, without finding any of the people I followed there on other platforms. Now that it is back, I can't install it to find them. I mentally blame my autism. My autism looks back in disbelief and blames my ADHD. My ADHD confirms, we have skipped over a week of meditation. Apologetic, my ADHD supplies the name of one TikTok person I followed and he is on this app. It is a tentative ceasefire.
This is such an accurate description of how I was raised
I know it's useless to ruminate, but I've been thinking about the way I was raised, and the indirect ways I was taught that the rules and standards are different for me and for other people.
I was taught to never judge anyone, but also that I should not embarrass my family by acting or appearing any way that people would judge. I was taught that it was rude of me to talk on and on about things that are boring, but also that it was rude of me to not listen attentively when someone else was talking on and on about things that bore me. That people were allowed to take their anger out on me, but that I was not allowed to be angry at anyone or anything. That everyone's feelings are vaild and their actions are understandable, except for mine of course.
If they ever heard me say this, my family would argue "nobody ever explicitly said that to you, word-for-word, at your face, so therefore none of this is true", but they did, indirectly and inadvertently, teach me that I must always be nice, patient, polite, understanding, and good to people, but that it's preposterous of me to expect anyone else to treat me as nicely as I'm expected to treat them.
I was taught what is, and what is not, the appropriate way to treat other people, and to unconsciously understand that I don't really count as "people".