bluespock

I can’t fucking believe I have to say this, but I’ve seen this happen multiple times, from multiple users, on multiple posts of mine, and at this point I’ve had enough…..so here goes:

Don’t joke about Anton Yelchin’s death. Don’t joke about the fact that he died, the circumstances of which he died under, or the impact his death had on others. Just…don’t do it. 

Not only is it extremely disrespectful to Anton himself, his family members, and his friends; it’s absolutely horrible psychologically for his fans—MANY OF WHOM use this website quite frequently, and have to see/put up with your shitty ass comments. Just because you think no one who was “really” impacted will see it doesn’t make it okay, because 1) you’re wrong, and 2) you’re still being absolutely despicable and there’s no excuse for you joking about that.

People are in pain over this. People will continue to be in pain over this. People experience varying degrees and levels of pain, different ways of expressing it, and different ways of manifesting us internally. When you make really mocking/distasteful jokes about “Chekov dying”, you’re putting all that pain and grief that people have experienced over a REAL death of a REAL person at the forefront of their emotions, and most likely (I’m gonna guess in about 99.9999% of cases here), that sudden shift was unwanted. 

I’m only going to post about this once. I’m tired of seeing those comments, I’m tired of worrying about what it might do to other people who have to see them (because if you’re joking about celebrity deaths, you sure as shit aren’t tagging it), and I’m tired of having to block so many users over something that seems like common sense or basic courtesy. 

If you reblog this, please tag it with death content warnings and his name, because many people are understandably still very upset over this entire subject. 

Spock out. 

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“It’s devastating to lose a family member,” said Karl Urban, the film’s Dr. McCoy, reflecting on Yelchin’s loss. “We’re at a point where we should be celebrating, not only this film, but this beautiful man, this talented man. For all of us, it’s almost incomprehensible to be at a point where we have to talk about him in the past. The pain of his loss is still very raw.”

“He was just a good guy,” offered Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk and shared many scenes paired with Yelchin in the latest outing. “He was very sweet. He’s very beautifully, authentically Anton. There was not much of a sensor on the boy.“ 

“I remember one of the first times I met him, like nine years ago or whatever, he was 17,” Pine continued. “I invited him back to my trailer to play guitar because I knew he played guitar, and he played guitar really, really, really well. And he said, ‘I can’t man, I’ve got to go back to my trailer.’ I was like, ‘Okay, why?’ He was translating, like, an esoteric Russian novel into English, just because that’s what he wanted to do. Eight, nine years later I talked to him and he was still translating it.”

“And he was still reading a book on physics that this French philosopher had written,” Pine added. “And he was still trying to get all of us together … We’d be in Vancouver and he’d want to see some German neo-expressionist film that none of us [knew about] … he would talk about as if everyone has or should have seen it.”

“I always looked forward to every day that he was on set and we would huddle up, and he’d have a hundred ideas, even if he was just in the background,” said the film’s director Justin Lin.

“It still doesn’t feel real,” said costar Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the film and remembers Yelchin as “an incredible soul.”

“I spent a lot of time with Anton in Vancouver, this last year,” Pegg recalled. “He used to call me up, in the middle of the night sometimes, just to talk. He was an incredibly intelligent man. He would talk about films, so fluently and so maturely that he’d make us all look like dummies. I used to have to engage my university brain, just to sit down and talk to him about movies because he was exhaustively encyclopedic.”

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