did a lot of ppl in the star trek fandom grow up with a star trek lovin’ family or did you have to like, see the fact that star trek exists and actively go “yes. this is what i want in my life. space gays.”
My parents are really into TNG. They were initiated by my very serious grandfather, who had an almost childlike love for Star Trek. I was about ten and a trailer for Voyager came on the telly, and my sister and I ran to our parents and said ‘that boring show you like is going to start on the telly soon!’ They brought us along for the pilot. And we tell in love instantly.
did a lot of ppl in the star trek fandom grow up with a star trek lovin’ family or did you have to like, see the fact that star trek exists and actively go “yes. this is what i want in my life. space gays.”
I thought Star Trek was a soap opera until high school. This was because my mother disliked soap operas and Star Trek, so I assumed the latter was a subset of the former.
Freshman year in high school I made a friend who was into Trek, she got me into it, and it’s been… well, some time since high school and while I’ve waxed and waned in the fandom, here I am, on my third ‘favorite Star Trek’ and fifth ‘ship, still here.
Okay, so I just saw a tiktok saying “hey, ao3 is not tiktok. Do not censor words, especially in the tags.” I stg people are losing brain cells. The tiktoker then proceeded to show an example of the tag they saw which was:
“s..cidal ideation”
I don’t know who needs to, once again, hear this, but you are stopping the tagging system, and filtration system from working.
People censor words on platforms like tiktok to stop the algorithm from picking up their video and automatically taking it down or restricting it.
A tagging system works so that other people can easily filter the content they do and don’t want to see. So if some had “suicidal ideation” in their filtered tags so that they won’t see things containing that subject matter, by censoring the word suicidal, you have now stopped the tagging/filtration system from working and now the individual is going to see content that they had made sure to filter out.
Please stop censoring words and/or phrases. Especially in tags. You are literally stopping the system from working and doing its job. Ao3 (and Tumblr) is not tiktok. The tags are there for a reason. Don’t censor them.
