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

ds9 visionary is such a strange episode

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.

Everyone who loves ds9 and especially julian bashir: i can highly, highly recommend escapees or exiles. It's an au fic where julian is discovered as an augment during medical school and how he goes from there and his perspectives after ending up on ds9.

”He wanted to protect the innocent, and separate darkness from the light. But he didn’t realize that a light only shines in the dark.”

I absolutely love Kira, she’s hands-down one of the best Star Trek characters written and a wonderful example of a complex story. Here’s a piece with plenty of lighting that I made of her :) Alt below

gays in space

Elim Garak in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 

Distant Voices 

i was getting ready for another day of spying and murdering, practicing my interrogator death stare with my piercing blue orbs. just then, enabran tain came in. “pack your things.” he said. “i’ve sold you to pay our debts. meet your new owners, the crew of deep space 9.”

Based off that one post i cant stop thinking about

“Which fictional universe would you rather live in—“ Star Trek. Star Trek. There is a correct answer and it’s Star Trek. “I want to have cool adventures—“ Star Trek. “I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort” Star Trek. “I want to be a psychic alien—“ Star Trek. “But I want to do magic—“ do you know how much weird magic shit happens in Star Trek. Also Star Trek has holodecks you can pretend to be in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or whatever and then come home to your usually peaceful interstellar community. There are basically no downsides to living in the Star Trek universe if you take the assumption that you remain you, a human living on Earth. You can join Starfleet or you can stay home and enjoy fully automated luxury gay space communism. The answer is Star Trek.

The "Deep Space Nine isn't interesting because they aren't going anywhere" complaint is so funny. Like, even ignoring that they do frequently go places, I don't watch Star Trek eagerly anticipating seeing what angle they filmed Vasquez Rocks from this week. I watch anticipating seeing a story, and while this may be shocking, stories can indeed happen in one place