Liz and I

As much as I love Garashir, I just imagine that Garak's train of thought regarding Julian must have gone something like this.

Season 1: Oh, look at that hot naive twink. What an education I'm going to give him! Why does he keep eyeing up that Trill?

Season 2: He knows I'm an asshole but he still likes me. I'm going to get him to read my favourite literature and... oh wait, his taste in literature sucks.

Season 3: His education is coming along nicely, but he's spending a lot of time with Chief O'Brien and... Leeta? Really?

Season 4: He has a spy kink, but his program is full of icky fantasy women? Fuck my life. Oh he shot me! Bit of a turn-on!

Season 5: He pulled a phaser on me... how kink-waitaminute. That was a fucking changeling? And the real one's an augment? But...but he was supposed to be my naive little twink? But he was never that naive? I think I was the naive one...

Season 6: I'm still mad at him for pulling the wool over my eyes but he looks so hot with his uniform unzipped like that...

Season 7: Ezri??? Really??? Oh fuck me

two truths and a lie

(another practice in drawing expressions)

Oh this is soo good!

got him off-balance!

My one problem with Star Trek is that no one is ever consuming contemporary media. As in media that's contemporary for their time period. Everyone is always reading old novels and practicing classical music. They study Klingon Opera or read old Cardassian mysteries. No one is ever like really into obscure Klingon Nightcore. Nobody is reading shitty Ferengi pulp novels. There's no kids media of any kind. Where is space Sesame Street or junior novels about gaining superpowers from a warp core accident? What about comic books? Nobody is playing crappy indy holodeck games. It's always some recreation of a historical battle or just lounging in a mud pit at some alien spa. Someone give me angsty Bajoran protest music. I need some rebellious teens producing the worst most cacophonous death metal techno that they recorded in an empty cargo bay. I need contemporary pop culture in Star Trek.

So, basically: Julian accidentally ripping holes into his uniform every other week just so he has an excuse to visit Garak without making it too obvious that he misses him (except it’s very obvious).

And meanwhile Garak rips holes in himself now and again just to have an excuse to visit Julian when lunch has been cancelled (he has carefully worked out when Julian's infirmary shift is). They each think the other is careless and never realise ... (well they eventually realise but that's another story - 20 yrs in the future where they laugh about their youthful folly....)

I thought I could finish this with a some cute suit and then kinda give up 🥹🥹 so here you go with a naked-but-not-so-pornograpic Garak. I don't think my coloring skill doing him justice but it need to stop somewhere...

Also, please enjoy my made up cardassian anatomy, I could push this farther to a reptile side, but I REALLY DO ENJOY NIPPLES AND BODY FAT in mammal.

benny russell (the cover of my notebook for my nonfiction class this semester) 

This is one of the funniest things about Our Man Bashir, in my opinion. Not Julian shooting Falcon with a wine cork, but the fact that he falls right here 👇

Which means that when they move out of the foyer

and stop to chat

...his body should be right between them.

In fact, it looks like Garak steps over him, just to be in Julian's personal space.

And that is just, such a Garak thing. But also, Julian doesn't budge an inch. It doesn't bother him at all how incredibly close Garak is... or the fact that there's a body at their feet.

And finally, a bonus for the fans of Garak's boobs