Garaks-sewing-gun - Lying Is A Skill Like Any Other

my fav girl for curing art block

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

brain’s been rattling nonstop about how my favorite album duology was waiting for me to discover garashir, because it IS about them.

röyksopp (acclaimed & iconic norwegian electropop synth artists, my beloveds) put out an album in 2009 called “Junior”. it’s a delight. it’s bright and optimistic, it’s uptempo even when it’s sad or conflicted, there’s a deep sense of drive and a pull towards the future. the duo brings in like half a dozen collaborating artists on lead vocals (robyn! karin dreijer!) and the result is so profoundly vibrant.

this is the julian album. this is the julian-as-he-projects-himself-outwardly album. julian surrounded by friends and moving too fast to think twice about what’s happening internally. julian while he’s still young and golden and nothing’s crashed down around him.

then in 2010, röyksopp releases “Senior” as a direct counterpart to Junior. it’s their only all-instrumental no-vocals album, and the tone has shifted. Senior is downtempo and sparse, it’s ambient and contemplative and dissonant even if the melody stays uncannily warm.

the sense of deep sadness and isolation in these instrumental tracks is so on the nose for garak it’s a little wild. tracks with names like “the drug” and “the alcoholic”. the empty stretching synth pads of “a long, long way” sounds like what the station must’ve felt like the first night after every other cardassian left.

It’s not a strict binary ofc, shades of both are in both albums, but the contrast between youth and experience, between unabashed optimism and tired reticence….. it’s sustaining me.

please listen to these albums and tell me what you think please

finishing my first ever watch through of ds9 tonight (on the last three episodes) and I just... I don’t want it to end. I want more ;;

the only good news is after tonight I can dive all the way into the fandom without spoiler dodging o7

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

How Spock dresses when he is going to his own wedding with a fiancée he's been betrothed to since childhood

VS

Spock going to see his former Captain he hasn't seen in years after failing Kolinahr

She flies the ship! (Shes pretty sure she does anyway)

Stupid doodles and a regular one cause I love her

star trek mutual 1: can’t believe they didn’t make qcard canon in picard season two

star trek mutual 2: can’t believe they did make qcard canon in picard season two

star trek mutual 3: on a doctor who binge

star trek mutual 4, pacing: the giant green space hand is out to get us

star trek mutual 5: it should be called kock instead of spirk

star trek mutual 6: rewatching and rewatching and rewatching the voyager finale

mutual 7: gay lizard

mutual 8: id fuck quark

GOD it must be so difficult for Bashir being the only bitch serving this level of ✨CUNT✨ on DS9

i need that Sudanese-English doctor in a way that violates the Prime Directive :))))))