I Really Do Want To See What The Alpha Quadrant Yelp Reviews For Quark's Bar Are Like. Do They Fuck With

been thinking about this nonstop. garashir isn’t like spirk where the characters have gradually transcended their original grounding in shatner and nimoy– julian and garak ARE sid and andy. they have been so instrumental and so generous to this fandom, I could cry knowing they finally got to do this. I could cry knowing THEY got to come back as these characters, THEY got to be the ones writing the canon.

not to be morbid but andy is 82 and im so glad they did this now. even if it wasn't literally prime universe canon or 'real' julian or whatever, im just so glad they did this while they still can.

I'm fine.

our man bashir is also garak and the terrible horrible no good day. like he shows up clearly intending to fuck julian in the holosuite and immediately he has to put up with julian’s hot lady assistants being in his way. THEN his plans are further ruined by a transporter accident (ofc) that lets julian hit on not only kira but also dax. he is trying SO hard to be bond girl, elim gardick, and is thwarted at every turn. plus he gets punched in the face by someone who is not even julian. like his day literally only turns around when he gets shot in the neck.

don't you feel ashamed of what you've done?

sisko is such a dad with a camera guy. dad with a padd, whatever. guy who films jake's first steps and first words and first time spitting all over curzon's diplomatic robes. hours and hours of jennifer working and dancing and swimming and smiling at him, just for him. the year after her death there are no family sisko records, but he makes up for it with a will afterwards: jake awkward and impatient in front of the wormhole, kira and dax distributing scrolls during the gratitude festival, the first time odo whisked a proper omelet. candids during his team dinners, that time the chief and the doctor got drunk and decided to play darts blinfolded and hopping on one leg. that time jake and nog had a paintball battle all over the station. the promenade at night during a slow month, some people wandering around still, light seeping from quark at the end of the corridor, store fronts glinting light eyes. an edge in the corner where the photographer's fingertip smudges the lens. no self-portraits. no need for them, really.

And another thing I find hilarious about Garak is that - he is such a snob.

Like, Quark's too vulgar and loud for him, close range fighting is "undignified", no one can set a foot on the station without having this middle aged Cardassian criticizing their fashion choice right in front of their Bolinian salads or whatever, he debates epic literature at lunch, he has had Shakespeare for like 5 minutes and he is already quoting it during life or death emergencies.

And it's absolutely hilarious because this man chopped up his countrymen for a living.

how did I accumulate more likes on my ds9 blog that's less than six months old than on my main blog from the 2012 days.......

this is an accountability post, I will fill that queue, I' will get things tagged I'm gonna do it

also accountability: I will post my garak playlist when I'm finally happy with it!! i've been working on it for months by now!! I think it fucks!

You know, it’s important to have tragic blorbos sometimes because hey, maybe you had a bad day, maybe your job sucks so fucking much. But do you know who had a worse day? Blorbo bleebus, who’s doomed by the narrative

Extreme low quality Odo

Wedding Waltz commission :-)

Special thanks to @squimp who helped me SO much with designing Garak’s outfit!!!