Star Trek Used To Be So Fucking Sweaty, They Don't Do It Like They Used To Anymore, Everything Is So

@ofhouseadama just dropped "garak is gonna get railed in a state-honoring way" in my replies and it absolutely does not deserve to be buried there so i made this monstrosity

My loving husband just pitched a DS9 fic at me and said these actual words "and there's only one bucket"

Kira has a dagger collection

Kira has a dagger collection

Kira has a dagger collection

Kira has a dagger collection

Kira has a dagger collection

"it doesn't make any logical sense for julian to have hang-ups about being queer in the 2370s" is an objectively, factually correct take.

but I need julian bashir to have just bare minimum enough internalized homophobia for 'one of your girls' to be a garak pov garashir song

experimentation with data

thinking about the recurring theme of sisko being someone who constantly comes adrift in time, literally and metaphorically, physically and emotionally. no matter how much he wants to stay here, and how hard he tries to, he drifts, he comes unmoored. you exist here. and always existing here means he can't exist there simultaneously; one precludes the other. and the grief of that truth that rings like a bell through his whole existence at once. hm.

fantastic.!

on my (scarse) free time I’ve been watching a lot of DS9 and of course he is my favorite

Ok but can u imagine being a straight actor vehemently playing a character as gay and spending the next 30 years talking about how the character is gay in every single interview/comicon/video and even writing two plays and a novel about it, to finally get to voice act the character at the ripe age of 82 and canonically make them gay.

This is the life of andrew robinson. Winning out here for all of us.