Something About Garak And Bashir Growing In Convergence So Much So They End Up Diverging. Healer And

one of the most underrated things about star trek is the way every other character is highly proficient in a truly random instrument. they're like broken little dnd characters with too many proficiencies. I love it.

whys he so cute im going to squeeze him until he fuckegdn explodes

never, ever, ever let the the stress of this bitch of an earth and its torment nexus stop you from making time for yaoi

Some Julian Bashir practice for ya'll! I'm working on a little ds9 fancomic and I forgot how cute he was

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

Harrowing: someone in your Fandom just made an innocuous and harmless post that nonetheless betrays a deep misunderstanding of the character and the character's narrative purpose and you just have to sit there and let them be wrong lest you be an asshole

I will be the first to say that Riker haters are so valid but when it comes to me. I LOVE the Troi-Riker relationship. Every moment between them is like, I love you more deeply and passionately than anyone I have ever known or loved before and I want you to leave me alone about it. I'm excited when you get laid. People ask me for permission to date you. Every day we sit on either side of the capital-C Captain and we pretend that we are complete, confident professionals, and have never had our faces in each other's genitals. My mom tried to marry you. I had to stand watch when you gave birth because I couldn't bear to lose you. You are the only person that I can cry in front of. You know my mind as well as you know your own. We will never talk about it and we will never know what we could be but I love you I love you I love you.

I’ve graduated from art school! I’m really enjoying my summer break and allowing myself time to recover from creative burnout. Here’s a garak & bashir painting I started months ago and just finished!

Also, keep an eye out on me possibly opening commissions again soon 👀⭐️