[image description: two gifs from Star Trek The Original Series. Spock, Kirk, and Bones are on the ground with ferns in the background. Spock sits in the middle, with Kirk kneeling next to him holding his arm and shoulder. Bones is behind him doing something to his back.
Bones: Second-degree burns. Not serious, but I bet they smart.
Spock: Doctor, you have an unsurpassed talent for understatement.
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the sympathy for Spock’s predicament hits even harder after reading a bunch of fanfic exploring the popular fanon in which he’s got internal testes in his lower back
