And yes, I see the cruel irony of putting Stamets over Spacey.
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I TOTALLY missed the Anthony Rapp connection wow, this is some 3d chess level meming, and Spacey is a massive POS
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WTF … unbelievable … I’m amazed, shocked, surprised, confused, and flabbergasted.
I was aware of the story of Spacey … I didn’t know the person he had assaulted was Anthony Rapp and I didn’t know Rapp now plays a starring role in Star Trek: Discovery
Now I have to watch Star Trek: Discovery
I also have a new found appreciation for @Stamets@startrek.website … thanks for sharing your story and who you are here … in an age of anonymity, that is a big thing to do … Personally I’m proud of you and everything you’ve done and continue to do for this community. I’m a big fan and I’m sure there are lots more here who would say the same.
Wow what a day to be on Risa … I love all you guys on here … keep doing what you’re all doing … It’s a beautiful light in a darkening internet.
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I just watched my first episode last night and I feel like a teenager again when I first saw TNG … I was waiting to see it all later but after all this, and Risa and the memes and you and the memes … I feel excited again. Love you too!
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The last 2 seasons is where it really got good for me. The complex stuff they had to do to interact with aliens so staggeringly different from humans… know discovery gets a lot of hate, but first time I watched it, it was what I always wished star trek would be. More believable, realistic, hazy grey areas, way better special effects, cinematography.
All star trek is good, tho.
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Serious time: this is one of the reasons I really enjoy this community. We shitpost, but we also give a shit. We try to be good to each other, and we try to be constructive.
Makes sense, I suppose; after all, the only really meaningful currencies in the UFoP are reputation and character.
Just about sums it up.
I believe the story came out just as Discovery was starting.
Holy shit.
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Holy shit! I didn’t know this!
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My jaw is still dropped.
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I love that he just is, without explanation or apology. That’s really what Start Trek is about
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Trek being a window to humanity looking beyond it’s own bigotry and selfishness is it’s biggest appeal to me. The build up has been incremental and a reflection of our own progress over the decades. Quite a ways to go, of course, but at least for a while things have been looking up.
Anthony Rapp is a goddamn hero. Even just coming forward, being visible, thriving, are all heroic acts in my opinion. Although, it’s not necessarily something you’d want to be known as a hero for.
Also, RE: Spacey’s coming out. I think it goes a few layers deeper. It felt like he was trying to garner the support of the LGBT community in a very “Look they’re accusing me of being a pedophile. But, I’m gay! And we all know that’s the reason they’re saying I did this, right friends?”. When that happened, I looked up his accuser and found Anthony Rapp, an openly gay man. I immediately wrote Spacey off then and there.
My jaw is collapsing into a neutron star
And now Rapp plays a spacey character in space.
I am genuinely and deeply embarrassed that I had not even thought to connect that before. I saw the stories, and I’ve watched discovery and I know the actors, but I just never put two and two together, I guess.
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I apologize for nothing
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AND I’M NEVER STOPPING YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
I LOVE THE BRIG
Don’t you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!!
That’s what makes it fun!
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🎶 Born to be kevs, they are the risans of the uuuniverse 🎶
Stamets? … with the gimpy leg? … Nah … Definitely not him
You were smooching with my brother.
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Jesus … I just reread the entire thread here and I can’t believe what happened … it’s amazing, funny, revealing and unbelievable … I half expect you to also announce that you are going to have @ummthatguy@lemmy.world 's baby
This feels like a Spanish soap opera and I feel like the housekeeper that just witnessed it all
Who told you?!
Can I be the godfather?
Perhaps, but you would do well to get consent from Stamets.
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I love this community
Oh I love this community too! This whole thread has made me feel warm and fuzzy and nice something that doesn’t happen usually browsing the internet
Round up the usual suspects’
If my client supported DMs I’d be so up in Stamets’ business that he would know I was a fun guy.
I got 99 problems and a Frenchman ain’t one
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Get a shroom you two.
The irony is that I’m a biologist with mild but very real mycophobia. I want to watch that fungus documentary with Bjork.
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Considering Anthony Rapp literally began MeToo with Spacey, I’d say the only one this is cruel to is Spacey.
Pay no mind to the Bolian in the comments.
My apologies. Would have included yourself and others had I the room. You can be Kobayashi, though.
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