Casual Grace

@casualgrace.bsky.social

Awkward, Black, She/Her, Nerdy, Bereaved, Line Cook. 🖖🏿 I have no niche. Randomness and Vibes on the Cerulean Atmosphere.

It's hard to watch the TOS cast age and pass away and it hurts each time. But it somehow never occurred to me that the TNG cast would start going next. And obviously that Sir Patrick would go first, being as he's the oldest. I'm speechless. They way these people and this show shaped me...

I truly think we will be honoring Patrick Stewart if we work hard on our craft. If we make art. If we understand that what makes that possible is a deep curiosity and investment in each other’s humanity and stories. That’s what he did, and it’s why he touched our lives and why we loved him so much.

Picard so obviously wants to be a diplomat 1000x more than he wants to ever have to be a badass shooting a phaser, and that's like, exactly the heart of why Star Trek is the scifi franchise that has shaped me the most

I am so glad to have learned about the integrity of leadership from Patrick Stewart as a kid watching TNG. "What would Picard do?" feels like a fair guiding question. Thank you, Patrick, for everything.

any year where sam neill or dolly parton or tim curry or patrick stewart died would be a bitch on wheels but all of them in the space of six months is one for the books (derogatory)

thinking about Patrick Stewart and Tim Curry and Dolly Parton and Catherine O’Hara and how many of the tributes shared after they died translate to something like “their art made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world” it is hard to think of a better way to spend a life than that

So I'm officially unemployed. After being at or near the top of my industry for several years, I've burnt out. I'm taking some time off to take care of myself. I'm unsure if I'll return to hospitality. But I do know I need rest. Here's to the end of one era and the beginning of another.