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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · Apr 3

If you're wondering about my fixations over the last year, btw, they were:
- Cartoons from 40 years ago
- Sci fi from 50 years ago
- All 90s Star Trek
- WH40K as it was in 2002
- Mtg as it was in 2002
- D&D as it was in 2002
- Shitty 80s hard rock
- Swedish bands that sound like shitty 80s hard rock

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · Apr 3

Lately all my special interests are things that are extremely not easy to share with other people. Media with abandoned or (sometimes literally) dying fandoms, music that's neither classic not popular, fairly niche linguistic stuff, long-discontinued editions of games, etc. 🧵

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 1h

But... but "hamburger" is a description of where the style of the food is from, not what it's made out of.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 3h

Every colour is as bright and vivid as the technology of the day could make it. If something isn't in comic book colours then it's almost certainly a natural colour or utilitarian, futuristic grey. Despite all the bright colours Star Trek won't look greyer for another 25 years.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 3h

TOS: Comfortably blue-grey after a slightly tan pilot.

It's kind of a weird one since TOS belongs to a different era of futurism than all its spin-offs, and was largely filmed to be eye-catching on colour TV. I was tempted to class this one as consistently neither.

(All images from Memory Alpha)

Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell and Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS 1 01). They both have silvery eyes having gained godlike powers, which is what happens I guess.

Kirk and Spock homoerotically fighting with the weird Vulcan weapons in Amok Time (TOS 2 05). Two Vulcan guards in silvery outfits watch from the background.

Spock and Kirk dressed as gangsters in A Piece of the Action (TOS 2 20). They're carrying tommy guns and resting on the bumper of an old timey car while they talk to some kid.

The empty bridge of the USS Enterprise as seen in The Mark of Gideon (TOS 3 17) with its classic red accents and black consoles.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 4h

Replace the alphabet with a phonemic alternative.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway, I'm going to go through every single Star Trek and judge its tan vs. blue-grey vs. other energy very slowly over a couple of days until I run out of followers.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 4h

I've posted before about how TMP and early TNG shaped the aesthetic of the future from malls and conversation pits and leisure centres, and how this basically lasted until maybe Enterprise when it was replaced with a total vacuum, and 2009 when it was replaced by Apple stores.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 4h

Whole seasons and movies definitely have a colour *energy* even if not everything in them adheres to specific tones. Because all Trek centres on the Federation, Starfleet sets a baseline for the visual language for everything else. I think you can infer a lot from the visuals.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway, the only two acceptable types of Star Trek are tan-based palette Trek and blue-grey-based palette Trek and everything since tells a story about the how they've strayed from the righteous path.

Strap in, I've done an Analysis.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 4h

Well, either that or balkanise.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 5h

Alright sealion, go bitch and whine about it to someone else.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 5h

Okay, you don't *have* to fly the flag to enjoy the football. You can just have a pint and chill if you like.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 5h

Then at some point around 2225 you can humbly claim the England flag is politically neutral so long as you're not weird about it and only fly it when the football's on.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 5h

I'm just going to say as a massive flag nerd myself, if you want to reclaim the flag all you have to do is completely crush reactionary power, transform England into a ceaseless engine of progressive change and make amends for all historic injustices and keep at it for about one or two centuries.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 6h

How would everyone feel if, instead of talking about how depressing the world is and how everyone in charge of everything is an enemy of humanity, I annoy you all by filling your timelines with inscrutable and wrongheaded ramblings about my tiresome nerd interests?

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 6h

This entire aesthetic really brings me back.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 6h

They should invent a kind of HRT that does anything.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 7h

Ah yes, people are always saying the problem with this country is that people are *too* educated. Fucking moron.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 7h

It's hard to know whether to be more stunned at the admission that his stickers will cause distress but thinks it's fine because it's actually about his own pridefulness, or the claim that white English people will be motivated by this impact from the "nice" England flags but not the "bad" ones.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so sorry for your loss. 💙

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 12h

Riight!?

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 12h

Also I say too many things like "the only two acceptable types of Star Trek are tan-based palette Trek and blue-grey-based pallete Trek and everything since tells a story about the how they've strayed from the righteous path" to get away with it.

Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 12h

It'd also make all the horny accounts mad at me because it's gross when I do it. And make me mad at myself for the same reason.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 12h

I'd probably have a significantly hornier account if it wasn't for the fact it'd make all my followers and everyone I know mad at me.

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 17h

"Surely you have to be *some* kind of flag-waving nationalist??"

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Some kind of Halloween pun on the name Madeleine @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 17h

Talk to non-white people in your community. Talk to your other neighbours. Network with anti-racist groups. Report illegally place stickers/flags. Advocate for progressivism. Join a protest. Pretty much anything other than adding even more flags.

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