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ds9 visionary is such a strange episode

my fav girl for curing art block

fantastic.!

like ok ok ok youre telling me that in the episode where one of the major themes was love and friendships transcending realities and being consistent in multiple universes I got to see Julian and Garak (each from a different reality) find each other AND fall in love and get married and flat out say they'll follow each other to any reality and they dont care where they are so long as theyre together and im supposed to just GO ON WITH MY DAY AS NORMAL

hi!

starting a whole new blog instead of just an alt on my ancient old account! I had 27 alts on that one, it was untenable.

I'm a transmasc 33yo trying to get back into like... idk the interactive community part of fandom instead of just posting/consuming. I'm trying to find people who like trek/ds9 in a god-dishonoring way please, and boy it is tough to find that for an older fandom.

not to clog these tags but if you spend a lot of time here and have recs for who to follow lmk c:

**edited to add more info: I'm here for the garashir first and foremost, plus anything abotu the two of them individually, don't know the ship names but definitely quark/odo, kira/jadzia, odo/kira, in tng it's all data all the way down and also data/geordi, also v interested in the cardassians and dukat. truthfully tho I am open-minded and low on squicks so the sky's the limit

so I’m about a third of the way into A Stitch In Time and I just have so many thoughts.

this is unexpectedly one of the most fascinating books I have ever read, because the circumstances of its existence (tie-in novel for established tv show, written by the actor, largely taken from his character-dev writing) create a novel that would’ve never existed otherwise.

in any other normal novel, the protagonist with a sad childhood who gets shipped off to train to be a weapon of the state, in a violent, loveless institution, would be… taking a stand against the status quo! that’s what protagonists do, they make unlikely friends and they stand up for what’s right and they change their world etc etc. yahoo. yay !

but as we good and goddamn know: garak’s not a protagonist

these flashback portions follow so many classic sf/f coming of age tropes of a young lad finding himself in a harsh new world, but instead of the main character being guided by a convenient moral compass and growing in defiance of the competitive, cruel environment– garak adapts, learns to outcompete his peers, learns to be crueler.

it’s not so much that you’re reading garak becoming worse (though he is, for sure)

it’s more that garak is drifting from being a mere product of his environment, to a perpetuator of it

little green men is better than oppenheimer

usamericans do you realise that a stereotype we have about u is that you really really love ice. like the amount of ice you put in your drinks and all your ice machines are really silly to us. do your fridges genuinely produce ice????

in 2025 I will stop just ~lurking~ on garashir tumblr and actually commit to the bit (aka it’s time to start writing porn)

imagine saying this to someone you just did life-saving surgery on