• lilypad [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Nah if they aint givin me Gowron eyes then i know it isnt serious

    (We should get a gowron emote of him just staring at you)

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    5 months ago

    What the fuck is the deal with Star Trek and the Irish? TOS has that crewman in The Naked Time and Kirk’s adult childhood bully from his academy days, Finny, there Up The Long Ladder and this and a few other examples. Trek is really weird about Irish People

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      5 months ago

      Yup, and just in case it wasn’t immediately obvious she’s a vile lunatic, this episode cemented it; she literally chose to make an idyllic Irish town where the person she’s most interested in is reading works by Edmund Spenser.

      Here are some choice quotes of Edmund Spenser about Ireland:

      “Ireland is a diseased portion of the State, it must first be cured and reformed, before it could be in a position to appreciate the good sound laws and blessings of the nation”

      Also one about the dangers of teaching Irish children in the Irish language:

      “Soe that the speach being Irish, the hart must needes be Irishe; for out of the aboundance of the hart, the tonge speaketh”

      Also, in support of a scorched earth policy with Ireland that had been effective in a separate uprising:

      “‘Out of everye corner of the woode and glenns they came creepinge forth upon theire handes, for theire legges could not beare them; they looked Anatomies [of] death, they spake like ghostes, crying out of theire graves; they did eate of the carrions, happye wheare they could find them, yea, and one another soone after, in soe much as the verye carcasses they spared not to scrape out of theire graves; and if they found a plott of water-cresses or shamrockes, theyr they flocked as to a feast… in a shorte space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentyfull countrye suddenly lefte voyde of man or beast: yett sure in all that warr, there perished not manye by the sworde, but all by the extreamytie of famine … they themselves had wrought.’”

      This would be like someone making a hologram of Poland and having a Jewish Polish person reading Mein Kampf. They honestly did a great job of making her being a chud a subtle matter.