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academic librarian daydreaming about being a duck in a pond (she/her)🖖🏻
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Lauren K @lauren.soy · Apr 11
Let me know if you want a physical copy of my #spirk fanfic in zine form! (18+ only lol)

I’m happy to mail them for free… the only cost is sharing your mailing address with a random lady online. send me a message! 📚
A haphazard pile of printed, half-page-sized zines. The pile contains copies of the same zine with various colors of paper used for the cover, which has a retro computer graphics design and reads, “visions: a K/S Star Trek fanzine”
lauren.soy
I can’t thank you both enough for reigniting my childhood love of ancient history 🙏🏻 and informing my current work in info literacy & knowledge production!!
moudhy.bsky.social Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 6d
I can’t recommend the work of @ahpodany.bsky.social more highly.

I LOVED Weavers, Scribes, and Kings. Such a window onto individual lives from so long ago
lauren.soy Lauren K @lauren.soy · 7d
Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid and Weavers, Scribes, and Kings by Amanda H. Podany

and Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi :)
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
lauren.soy
asking for book recs/readers advisory 😬 maybe if you’re interested in critical library pedagogy or accessible nonfiction about ancient mesopotamia 📚
mixedlinguist.bsky.social Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 8d
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
lauren.soy
omg!! this sticker is the sole reason I’m holding on to my horribly dented and half broken water bottle! (sorry nc live)
Close up photo of a dented black water bottle covered in stickers. A sticker created by Will Burrows (@reforest-kelley.bsky.social) of a drawing of TOS Spock holding his lyre with the words “this machine kills fascists” written on the lyre is the focus of the photo.
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
lauren.soy
saw some hooded mergansers down at the pond today!!!

i think i’m motivated to check out a fancy camera from work again and spend winter break lurking in the wetland 👀
three hooded morganser ducks floating on a tree-lined pond which has a large amount of vegetation on the surface. the ducks are small and difficult to make out because the photo is very zoomed in, but their distinctive white and black markings make them identifiable.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
lauren.soy
how have i never seen this before!!! waow
ryanthomasriddle.com ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 11d
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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internetperson69.bsky.social
Happy thanksgiving! Right now I'm most thankful for this picture 🙏
Still from Star Trek TOS The Original Series. Mr Spock sits in the chair at his station on the bridge of The Enterprise. He is looking up at Captain Kirk as Kirk leans over him. They are staring into each other's eyes with intensity. Spock's legs are splayed wide open and his lips are slightly parted.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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bonespostings.bsky.social
DeForest Kelley’s Dr. McCoy and William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. They are in front of a wall that’s been lit up with purple lights, and Kirk is leaning on McCoy, hands on the doctor’s shoulder
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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space-is-gay.bsky.social
T'Lara's fundraiser is at 27%! please consider supporting if you are able. she is such a huge part of our Trek community and does so much for other people
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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internetperson69.bsky.social
Made a little Monday morning pep talk for myself
Two panels of a weird picture of some kind of fish-like creature with two eyes and an open mouth like an upside down triangle. In the first panel the fish creature looks like it's staring off to the side, thinking deep thoughts. It's captioned: "life meaningless?" In the second panel the fish creature is looking right at the camera, as though it's had a revelation. It's captioned "loving my friends!"
July 1, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
TOS scene, and we're on a planet with a red backdrop. I think it's intended to be a sunset dusk thing but it's really just a red green screen. Regardless, partner, it's near nightfall l recon', and there's an old West looking building facade in the background. Front and center, celebrated work associates Kirk and Spock are standin'. Spock, with half his face in shadows, looks to be ponderin' sumpin' important. Kirk is lookin' down and away, with a slight twinge of discouragement. Closed caption reads, "Death is real."
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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sighsra.bsky.social
animal crossing!
January 20, 2024 at 2:33 AM
lauren.soy
i’m crying in the club rn, thank you for sharing this
space-is-gay.bsky.social space is gay @space-is-gay.bsky.social · 26d
here’s the last part of my artist statement
We do not, unfortunately, have the character count here for the impassioned defense I would like to give of fanfic as a method for engaging deeply with a text, a fundamentally altruistic and anticapitalist endeavor where free art is shared with a community, and a tool for marginalized people to claim space for themselves within corporate-owned media narratives which erase or overlook their existence; but a brief history of the Kirk/Spock shippers is important here. Women and queer people who watched Star Trek: The Original Series as a love story between Captain Kirk and his first officer Spock built the entire infrastructure of what we now consider modern fandom from the 1960s onward (fanfic, fan art, zines, conventions, cosplay and more). And they're still around! My online fanfic community ranges from cishet Midwestern grandmas in their 70s to trans college students in Europe, and every age, background and nationality in between. The library of works is vast, and the caliber of writing can exceed a many published novels; but that's only half the story. You also have to place those writers in context. They were writing joyful queer love stories in an era where sodomy was criminalized. They were writing it in the wake of Stonewall. They were writing it as the gay men they knew in real life were dying of AIDS. They were speaking into existence a future they couldn't even see, where three hundred years later two queer men on a spaceship could finally have a happily ever after. The stubborn resilience of that act of faith says everything about why science fiction matters to me... especially in this world, in this moment, right noW.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
lauren.soy
waking up to this kind message was the most WONDERFUL surprise!!! my heart is singing 🥹 I love your art and doll collection!!
meltycatart.bsky.social emmett @meltycatart.bsky.social · Nov 4
colette brought me a copy of this back from zine machine and i just finished it - soooooo unbelievably good, thoughtfully and beautifully written. a treasure in my home zine library for sure!! 💕
lauren.soy Lauren K @lauren.soy · Apr 11
Let me know if you want a physical copy of my #spirk fanfic in zine form! (18+ only lol)

I’m happy to mail them for free… the only cost is sharing your mailing address with a random lady online. send me a message! 📚
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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meltycatart.bsky.social
colette brought me a copy of this back from zine machine and i just finished it - soooooo unbelievably good, thoughtfully and beautifully written. a treasure in my home zine library for sure!! 💕
lauren.soy Lauren K @lauren.soy · Apr 11
Let me know if you want a physical copy of my #spirk fanfic in zine form! (18+ only lol)

I’m happy to mail them for free… the only cost is sharing your mailing address with a random lady online. send me a message! 📚
A haphazard pile of printed, half-page-sized zines. The pile contains copies of the same zine with various colors of paper used for the cover, which has a retro computer graphics design and reads, “visions: a K/S Star Trek fanzine”
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
lauren.soy
zines!!! postcards!!! zine-themed postcards!!!!

supporting the ZLuC BIPOC travel fund!!!!!

what an awesome fundraiser 💌
zinelibraries.bsky.social Zine Libraries @zinelibraries.bsky.social · Nov 1
If you're a zine fan who likes to send snail mail, we've got a treat for you—5 zine-themed postcards! We're raising funds for the BIPOC Travel Fund for future Zine Librarians unConferences @zineluc and you can help by ordering a set of 5 zines for just $15 (shipping within the U.S. included).
text reading "Buy a set of 5 zine-related postcards for $15 to support BIPOC zine librarians!" surrounded by five very cute and brightly colored postcards. They show a cat sitting on a stack of zines with text reading "Welcome to the zine zone"; two birds exchanging zines and text reading "zines are for everyone"; a meander-fold zines with instructions and drawings of various zoo animals; a person reading in a room with a cat, dog, and many zines; and cute possum making zines.
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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goodtrailcams.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
lauren.soy
when it starts getting cool out this album transports me right back to my teenage years 🍂
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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yumenosix.bsky.social
88x31 button that says FOOD CUBES Now!
October 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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goodboigoose.bsky.social
still tryna find the mood to draw stuff...but i would be the only person tucking in that uniform shirt idgaf if it's cropped and always comes untucked 😭
Drawing of Goose in a red TOS ensign tunic holding a PADD and saying "Mr. Spock, what are your thoughts on Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic?"
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
lauren.soy
i will scream it from the rooftops until i’m 6 feet under:

i couldn’t have chosen a better UG degree than women’s studies (now women’s, gender, & sexuality studies) to set me up for career and life success

it taught me to read, write, innovate, and THINK CRITICALLY
evelyn.fyi evelyn mcmichael-maguire @evelyn.fyi · Oct 1
Seeing the Lethality Assessment in my women's studies class made me realize how dire my situation was and encouraged me to get help.

THAT is why republicans mock women's studies degrees.

thelaurelcenter.org/lethality-as...
thelaurelcenter.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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brat.fm
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
quoproquid.bsky.social QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Oct 6
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
lauren.soy
in the ED with my mom who’s dying way too young

but at least I’m wearing one of my comfort star trek shirts 💚
selfie camera view of a person’s torso, wearing a black tshirt with the words “Hard Rock Cafe Vulcan” printed in lime green with a hot pink circle in the background.
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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dstroogie.bsky.social
Sept. 30 // Oct. 1
Spock sits at the briefing room table, leaning forward with his brow furrowed in a somewhat irritable expression. Spock sits calmly at the briefing room table holding a black cat.
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
lauren.soy
tbh college/university libraries have always been 😵‍💫
numb.comfortab.ly Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · May 20
So many broken promises.
Fox News chyron: "Libraries turning into drug-infested, sex dens"
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM