Tumblr really is the best website when it comes to being in a fandom because like:
- Star Trek fandom on Reddit: posts about which show people are watching, complaints about special effects, what-ifs that probably sound really deep if you’ve smoked a metric ton of weed beforehand, subreddit literally has “no slash fic” in the description
- Star Trek on Twitter: mostly tweets from official websites, people showing off merch and wishing the actors happy birthday, though as a plus you can interact with the actors themselves. Also one horrible cluster fuck of a “NuTrek” discourse thread that’s been going for over three months and has a million people in it, most of them racist homophobes
- Star Trek fandom on Facebook: mostly sexist memes and 40-year-old men complaining about the new shows
- Star Trek fandom on Instagram: a mishmash of actor photos, fan art and posts stolen from this very website
- Star Trek fandom on tumblr: in-depth character analysis, fanfiction, comics, gifs from the shows, awkward screenshots, streams of reblogs mocking the plot / background details of one particular episode, matching the characters to various text posts / Onion headlines / John Mulaney quotes, shitposts about wanting to fuck Phlox and Quark, fan art of Kirk and Spock as elderly married grandpas in matching sweaters, extremely detailed headcanons where Sarek acts like a cat, mini-essays about “here’s why So-and-so is the dumbest person in the galaxy and I would die for them”
This is not to say that fandoms on other platforms aren’t valid — they are! But tumblr is the only place where you can log on and see people bullying Gul Dukat, shaming Julian Bashir for his supposed foot fetish and talking about John de Lancie’s penis and I think that’s wonderful
THIS IS SO FUCKING TRUE THO
Even just glancing back at my dash / Star Trek tag, it’s like:
- Worf’s ass
- Garak’s tits
- what if Odo turned into coffee and got drank
- which Trek villain are you in love with quiz
- sitcoms based on Star Trek cast photos
- awkward screenshot of Michael Burnham
- multiple Sisko shitposts
- comparison of child!Picard and the “I won’t hesitate bitch” vine
- EMH dick and balls discourse
- Ferengi racism
- bullying Gene Roddenberry
- bullying Julian Bashir
- bullying Bill Shitner
- TOS theme song shitpost
- environmentalist themes in Star Trek Disco
- tumblr user “spockandballtorture”
- making fun of every outfit Bashir has ever worn
- extended meta about the USS Discovery’s weird command structure
- Jim Kirk throwing himself at people
- Lower Decks as the “this is why mom doesn’t love you” vine
- Gates McFadden on a unicycle
Like I’m gonna find shit like this on Facebook??? I don’t think so.
Bitch, the EMH c&b thing is NOT discourse. That’s the beta canon!
