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concentratedridiculousness: speckov: #oh man  #but how guilty would chekov feel after that #what if he’d done that calculation #what if he’d been quicker #he was manning that transporter and someone died#it wasn’t his fault but that would weigh heavily upon him  # he’s only 17 goddamn  # and even after he’s talked himself out of thinking it was his fault  # there would still be that nagging feeling in the back of his mind every time he sees spock  # shh come here let me hug you chekov (via that-is-illogical) do you wanna also talk about how he was Chief Engineer for ONE DAY and the Enterprise was practically destroyed and at least dozens of crewmembers were killed, including - however impermanently - Jim?  do you wanna talk about how none of that was his fault but it must have felt like it anyway?  if only he’d noticed the leak sooner, if only he’d been able to figure out how to fix it, if only he’d kept a better watch on the engines, if only he’d been shrewd like Scotty and just known something was wrong?  because I do nOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT
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#oh man  #but how guilty would chekov feel after that #what if he’d done that calculation #what if he’d been quicker #he was manning that transporter and someone died#it wasn’t his fault but that would weigh heavily upon him  # he’s only 17 goddamn  # and even after he’s talked himself out of thinking it was his fault  # there would still be that nagging feeling in the back of his mind every time he sees spock  # shh come here let me hug you chekov (via that-is-illogical)

do you wanna also talk about how he was Chief Engineer for ONE DAY and the Enterprise was practically destroyed and at least dozens of crewmembers were killed, including - however impermanently - Jim?  do you wanna talk about how none of that was his fault but it must have felt like it anyway?  if only he’d noticed the leak sooner, if only he’d been able to figure out how to fix it, if only he’d kept a better watch on the engines, if only he’d been shrewd like Scotty and just known something was wrong?  because I do nOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT

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somehowfurious: kissing-monsters: apiphile: sexxxisbeautiful: pizzagrrrl: Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!” King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council. “Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.” Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine. What a beautiful badass woman. King Peggy has been on my blog before but this is my goddamn blog and I will have King Peggy on here twice if I want. MORE FEMALE KINGS. Always reblog King Peggy, who is on my dash far less than she should be. Did you know she has written a book about her life? It is great, and you should all get right on that if you haven’t already.
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Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”

King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.

“Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.”

Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine.

What a beautiful badass woman.

King Peggy has been on my blog before but this is my goddamn blog and I will have King Peggy on here twice if I want.

MORE FEMALE KINGS.

Always reblog King Peggy, who is on my dash far less than she should be. Did you know she has written a book about her life? It is great, and you should all get right on that if you haven’t already.

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