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Everyone needs a picture of J. G. Hertzler (Martok) holding a gay bat'leth on their dash
Chancellor Martok said gay rights, rb if u agree
i must not get mad online. getting mad online is the mind-killer. getting mad online is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face my urge to get mad online. i will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past, i will turn the inner eye to see its path. where the getting mad online has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain
Just saw some people threatening to boycott chick-fil-A for being too woke (for having a diversity officer apparently) and I hope they do it. I hope it catches on. I want them to boycott chick-fil-A for being too inclusive at the same time as everyone else boycotts chick-fil-A for being proud bigots. Ideological pincer attack. "Chick-fil-A is too woke" is just such a funny concept to me.
I saw a challenge something like draw Garak in 15 seconds… so this is my attempt at Garak in 15 seconds 😂😂
a piece of media that is bad: mundane. effectless
a piece of media that is bad but had the potential to be so so good: unbearable. agonizing. soul crushing even
I was thinking this morning and I realized that I have never combined my two favorite things in the world to talk about, Deep Space 9 and William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Imagine the potential! Matchmaking Jadzia! Pining Garak/Bashir! Misunderstandings!
I was trying to think about who she would pull in for the conversation that Garak eavesdrops on. Kira? Probably wouldn’t want to play the matchmaking game for those two. Miles? Definitely not. Ah, but Worf! Worf would probably do anything for Jadzia. Heck, she might not even tell him she’s baiting a trap for Garak. She just pulls him into conversation when she knows Garak is lurking around…
“I’ve been thinking about Julian and Garak. You know Julian is in love with Garak, right?”
“No, I did not know.”
“Oh, come on. It’s totally obvious. Julian’s had a crush on him since the day they first met, and its only gotten worse since then.”
“Then the doctor has made a poor choice.”
“I don’t think people choose who they love, Worf.”
“Garak is without honor.”
“I don’t know. I think he just has a different sense of honor. His loyalty is to Cardassia, not the Federation. Everything he does, it’s because he’s trying to help his people. Actually, he’s a lot like you.”
“We are nothing alike.”
“You’ve been exiled twice for trying to do what’s right for the Klingon Empire, and you still do anything you can to act in its best interests. I think that’s what Garak is trying to do.”
“And you are sure that Doctor Bashir is in love with him?”
“Positive. He’s always moping and pining.”
“I have not noticed.”
“Julian’s a better actor than people give him credit for. It only comes out when he’s drunk or just broke up with one of those girls he dates.”
“Why is he pursuing others if he wishes to be with Garak?”
“He’s trying to get over it, but it’s not working. In the end, they just break up because Julian is in love with someone else.”
“Has he told Garak of his feelings?”
“No, what would be the point? Garak would just reject him. You’ve seen how they argue over lunch. I’m afraid that, even if someone else told him, Garak would just make fun of Julian for it.”
“Doctor Bashir is a brave warrior and renowned healer. Garak would be lucky to have such a one as his parmakai.”
“Then maybe you’re right, and Garak is without honor. Because I don’t see him doing anything but breaking Julian’s heart.”
“So Doctor Bashir must suffer in silence.”
“I don’t see what else there is for it. Until Garak comes to his senses and realizes how amazing Julian is, there’s nothing any of us can do. Come on, we should get going to Ops.”
And then you have to have the other part, where Julian eavesdrops. But who on the station is willing to talk up Garak? Ziyal, of course! (Also I realize now maybe Keiko if you subscribe to the gardening friends headcanon, but I hadn’t thought of that yet when I wrote this.) Imagine, Jadzia is looking at Ziyal’s drawings or something, and then when she sees Julian passing by she springs into Shakespearean action.
“Ziyal, I mean it. They look lovely.”
“They’re not my best.”
“They’re phenomenal! You have real talent.”
“Thank you.”
“I can’t believe Garak let you draw him in his tuxedo.”
“He’s been very kind to me.”
“I think he’s a lot kinder than anyone on the station gives him credit for. Do you know how much he’s donated to the war orphans on Bajor?”
“No, he doesn’t mention it.”
“He’s modest, too.”
“He’s a better man than most people on the station give him credit for.”
“Julian gives him credit.”
“Yes, they seem like they’re good friends.”
“Yes… although, sometimes I wonder if Garak doesn’t want to be more than friends. I heard from Chief O’Brien that Cardassians flirt by arguing, and they sure do argue.”
“The doctor doesn’t know what it means.”
“No, but Garak does. And I haven’t seen him give anyone else free clothes or chocolate or books like he gives Julian.”
“No, he doesn’t.”
“What I don’t understand is, why doesn’t he just tell Julian how he feels?”
“Cardassians aren’t much for love confessions. You show your feelings through actions, and the other person is supposed to understand it. If they ignore it, well, that’s your answer.”
“But Julian is a human.”
“A human in Starfleet. Garak doesn’t think he has anything to offer.”
“If he didn’t have anything to offer, why does Julian have lunch with him every week?”
“Garak isn’t open with people. You know that. If you don’t trust people with your feelings, you don’t get hurt.”
“What if we told Julian how Garak felt?”
“Julian would reject him.”
“Are you kidding? Garak’s intelligent, well-read, cultured, and he’s crazy about Julian. Why would Julian say no?”
“He’s not young and pretty.”
“Julian’s not that shallow.”
“I’ve seen the kind of people he dates. You know better than I do.”
“Well, it’s his loss. I just feel so bad for Garak. He doesn’t show how he feels, but I get the sense he feels things deeply.”
“He does.”
“Wanting someone like that, for years, but being too afraid to say something in all that time… I can’t imagine. It must hurt.”
“Well, you know how Cardassians feel about sacrifice.”
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If you are in tech, there's options for that, too
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one of my favorite garashir seasonings is their mutual savior-complex-induced penchant for sacrificing themselves for the greater good and how that manifests in both hilariously fucked up and weirdly wholesome ways.
like julian meeting up with the former head of the obsidian order and one of the most dangerous men alive all by himself so that he can ask for some cardassian brain schematics and figure out what the fuck is wrong with garak’s brain (too many things). or garak having a round-the-clock panic attack in the walls of the prison camp to save their asses while two klingons culturally conditioned to venerate suffering and death nod on in approval and julian swoons and bites his nails and swoons some more. or julian in the holosuite like “we might die, sure, but what’s a little death among friends?” and garak being like “pretty sure suicide in a ferengi escape room with cum-stains that aren’t my own would cancel out every cool spy thing i’ve ever done with my life actually,“ and julian with his gun is like “bet” and garak just “you’re sexy and that means you’re right. let’s go die the stupidest deaths ever.” or garak trying to blow up the founder’s planet and himself and julian in the process and julian with his fucked up statistical probability brain not even batting an eye when he hears about it. “yeah that was a reasonable line of thought. anyway, this coffee is good.” insanity.
i like to imagine that after the war when the intensity has dialed down a few hundred notches, this tendency of theirs still manifests in these needlessly batshit moments where julian is like “ok but i feel like working around the clock to cure this disease all by myself makes sense even though it’s killing me” and garak’s like “maybe not, tbh. you’re not the only smarty pants, you can have help maybe? and i know this is sudden but i think i love you” and julian responds “we’ve been married twelve years. it is a little fast, but i love you, too. i guess i can live then or w/e. for love.” and at some other point garak is like “ok but i feel like flinging myself into this forty-foot pit to retrieve seven crying orphans and a regnar is a good idea because i was abused as a child” and julian with his huge brain is like “actually i think throwing a ladder down would be better, especially since i’m not a necrophiliac” and garak responds “oh you might be right. so no head at my funeral? cruel.” and on it goes until the therapy finally kicks in
The aesthetic of Krill is very Mordor. The central building/tower even kind of looks like Barad-dûr or Orthanc with that spiky top, and they've got buildings projecting acid-green light into the sky like Minas Morgul. That's gotta be deliberate; they're basically space orcs.
Nooooo Ted Danson whyyyy
This is some Darth Vader-ass music with the Kaylon shuttle landing in the Orville's shuttle bay.
These episodes are so long (close to an hour and a half), they're more like short movies than TV episodes.
Ah, and now we're doing a Star Wars-style X-wing battle. Lots of references to other classics of modern sci fi.
Specifically, it's the final battle of "Return of the Jedi," where they're trying to stop the planet-destroying weapon before it becomes operational.
I swear some of this dialogue is just ripped straight from Star Wars.
Lamarr: Strike team approaching target.
Random pilot: Three Krill fighters in pursuit.
Malloy: 900 meters to transmitter array.
Lamarr: Aim for the support pylons. ... Dammit, the shielding's too tough. We're gonna have to find another weak spot.
Lamarr: Gordon, watch your back!
Malloy: I see him! ... He's still on me!
Lamarr: Hang tight, I'm coming!
The aesthetic of Krill is very Mordor. The central building/tower even kind of looks like Barad-dûr or Orthanc with that spiky top, and they've got buildings projecting acid-green light into the sky like Minas Morgul. That's gotta be deliberate; they're basically space orcs.
Nooooo Ted Danson whyyyy
This is some Darth Vader-ass music with the Kaylon shuttle landing in the Orville's shuttle bay.
These episodes are so long (close to an hour and a half), they're more like short movies than TV episodes.
Ah, and now we're doing a Star Wars-style X-wing battle. Lots of references to other classics of modern sci fi.
Specifically, it's the final battle of "Return of the Jedi," where they're trying to stop the planet-destroying weapon before it becomes operational.
The aesthetic of Krill is very Mordor. The central building/tower even kind of looks like Barad-dûr or Orthanc with that spiky top, and they've got buildings projecting acid-green light into the sky like Minas Morgul. That's gotta be deliberate; they're basically space orcs.
Nooooo Ted Danson whyyyy
This is some Darth Vader-ass music with the Kaylon shuttle landing in the Orville's shuttle bay.
These episodes are so long (close to an hour and a half), they're more like short movies than TV episodes.
Ah, and now we're doing a Star Wars-style X-wing battle. Lots of references to other classics of modern sci fi.
The aesthetic of Krill is very Mordor. The central building/tower even kind of looks like Barad-dûr or Orthanc with that spiky top, and they've got buildings projecting acid-green light into the sky like Minas Morgul. That's gotta be deliberate; they're basically space orcs.
Nooooo Ted Danson whyyyy
This is some Darth Vader-ass music with the Kaylon shuttle landing in the Orville's shuttle bay.
These episodes are so long (close to an hour and a half), they're more like short movies than TV episodes.
no no no NO NO
thor is not blinded by his love for loki. thor is not blinded by loki. thor is not blinded by his brother and has no doubts about what his brother is and can do and is capable of and willing to do anymore
that is the entire point of his arc in the avengers
he knows what loki is at this point - he knows his brother is cruel and manipulative and burning and fraying inside and pulling apart inside of himself with hatred and with love with power and with chaos. he knows loki will burn asgard to the ground if he got a chance, grind earth into the dust for a laugh, throw thor from the skies and stick a knife in his side to make himself temporarily relieved of the ugliness he feels inside
he just doesn’t care
he knows what loki is. when he stops in the cage and looks at the man he called brother he realizes in that instant the enormity of the chasm between them, the eternity of loki’s fall, and that loki and his brother are no longer the same person and maybe had not been for centuries; but when he falls to the ground he flexes his hand and decides to bring that man called loki home anyway, because the last time he let him go loki turned into someone unrecognizable, and this time he is going to forge a new love and a new man out of the ashes of what had come before, even if he has to burn himself through to do it
he knows what loki is. he knows the risk. he knows he is harboring an enemy that will kill his friends and burn his home if he doesn’t stand guard at night with a knife but he decides, in that instant on earth, that the risk is worth it.
#no thor is not blindly loyal he had never been blindly loyal #once he had been blindly in love but now he has learnt to see clearly because he lost his eyes and ears and had to kingmake himself #he knows exactly what he is doing and what he is risking and exactly how far it can fall and how hot it can burn; he just doesn’t care (ilvalentinos)
#fuck a fandom thor #thor is terrifying and brilliant and elemental; and is all about stripping away what makes him weak or lesser from his bones #he’s building in checks and balances; knows his impulsivity is a weakness; and adapts against it #that makes him way more terrifying than loki; because thor can change; thor can adapt and become ever more powerful in himself #but the one thing thor will never be able to unmake or strip is his love for loki #it doesn’t blind him; he’s hyper aware of it; and of what loki is #and that’s so much worse; that he knows; and he loves anyway #that loki is the one thing that can make thor act selfishly; that will cause thor to realign and shift his stratagems #it’s not blind love; it’s a clear-eyed unyeilding inescapable kind of love #but thor just doesn’t care; because no matter what; loki is the one thing he won’t ever let go again #and that; that is terrifying as fuck in a being as powerful both inherently and hierarchially as thor #the one core thing in his being that thor will not abandon or shed for honour or asgard or anything he believes #and what i want most; what we’ve already seen happening in the trailer#is thor weaponizing that weakness in himself; weaponizing the object of his love with clear eyes for just what loki is #he knows he can’t change loki; he’s not blind to loki’s nature #and he can’t let loki go #so he’ll fucking use him as a weapon then #and that’s vicious and tragic; this is a bloody shakespearian tragedy of obsessive love and the competing demands of the throne #thor is not your fandom puppy dog; he’s a self-aware self-ascending adaptive king stripping all the gilt and illusion from his bones #thor 2#thor #loki #these bloody shakespearian fools #like a binary star system (okayophelia)
The aesthetic of Krill is very Mordor. The central building/tower even kind of looks like Barad-dûr or Orthanc with that spiky top, and they've got buildings projecting acid-green light into the sky like Minas Morgul. That's gotta be deliberate; they're basically space orcs.
Nooooo Ted Danson whyyyy
This is some Darth Vader-ass music with the Kaylon shuttle landing in the Orville's shuttle bay.
The aesthetic of Krill is very Mordor. The central building/tower even kind of looks like Barad-dûr or Orthanc with that spiky top, and they've got buildings projecting acid-green light into the sky like Minas Morgul. That's gotta be deliberate; they're basically space orcs.
with the new spiderverse trailer dropping out, it's time to ask the same thing i'm so tired of asking but have to:
tag for flashing lights
DO NOT tag as #epilepsy, TAG as #flashing lights
the epilepsy tag is a community tag for us epileptic folks to seek help, if you tag your flashing lights as epilepsy you're putting us at a greater risk
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT FLASHING LIGHTS CAN LEAD TO HOSPITALIZATION AND DEATH