My favorite quote from any movie critic ever is from Roger Ebert, who once said “The Borg Queen looks like no notion of sexy I have ever heard of, but inspires me to keep an open mind”
i thought this was a joke, but. uh. nope.
One of the best things about fanfic is scrolling through your bookmarks and seeing all the different styles next to each other. That one’s self-indulgent fluff, that one’s philosophical and reads like poetry, that one’s an affirmation of human existence. The one below it is a crackfic, followed by an adventure novel and a blatant excuse for worldbuilding.
This morning I had a 15 min obsession with the idea of a Garashir fic in which the characters put on a production of Much Ado About Nothing and Garak designs the costumes, as Garak bitches about the stupid Shakespeareian story line and the fussy 'actors', Garak and Julian are tricked into admitting their love in a reflection of the story of Much Ado.... they don't realise the parallel until the end of the story (opening night) ....
A while ago I wrote a little bit of much ado dialogue for the fake conversations others might have to get them together!
whats that defunct land quote again? every part of the film making process is awful, but not making film is even worse? idk something like that. anywah im being completely normal about art rn ::))
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girls literally looooove data they love information
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.”
I need at least six copies of myself so I can achieve every creative thought in my head while also takin a nap
I saw a challenge something like draw Garak in 15 seconds… so this is my attempt at Garak in 15 seconds 😂😂
“You’re not a real Star Trek fan unless you’ve watched all the episodes of X” “you’re not a real Star Trek fan unless you like X” actually the only real Star Trek fan is my grandpa, who set his Alexa’s name to “Computer” so he can pretend to be Captain Kirk
This is like my dad! He set his phone so that instead of responding to "ok google", it responds to "Shields up red alert"
Nice to see Dungeons and Dragons survived into the 24th Century xD
(IDW Star Trek 2023 Annual)
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
Since tumblr only allows ten options, some duos had to be left out, but feel free to mention them in the tags!
One thing that makes Galaxy Quest such a good film is how kind it is about the diehard fans, from the nerds who have an encyclopedic knowledge of every inch of the ship to the fangirls who squeal over their favourite ship, it'd have been so easy to make fun of them and portray them as pathetic losers and asocial freaks, but instead they're portrayed as sweet and earnest and having firm and valued and real friendships with each other as a result of their fandom, and being right to care about the show as much as they do. The movie isn't a love letter to Star Trek, it's a love letter to Star Trek fans.
please tell me i’m not the first person to have done this
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I am legitimately shocked there are so many more Annie/Jeff stories than Troy/Abed stories on AO3. Granted I spend all my time in DS9 where homoerotic male friendships dominate the fan landscape, but still... Annie and Jeff is darkest timeline canon. While prime Annie has a crush, it's explicit that the age gap and the superficiality of that crush (she stated she isn't actually in love with Jeff, she just wants to feel loved by someone) stop it from going forward. Meanwhile, Troy and Abed are referred to as boyfriends multiple times in the prime timeline. It's a plot point that Troy remembers their anniversaries but not the ones he has with his actual girlfriend. Heck, he has Abed break up with his actual girlfriend for him.
After the first couple of seasons I thought that people who said Troy and Abed were basically canon were exaggerating. Now that I have seen more, I can comfortably say they were right and I was wrong. Of course, I'm still two seasons I may or may not watch from the end. Maybe there's some vital Annie/Jeff content yet to be revealed.
It started off as background noise while I was house cleaning but at this point I have to admit I unironically am very invested in Community
Here you go. The Good Omens S2 Episode 1 title sequence, by Peter Anderson Studios, music by David Arnold. We warned you it was madder than the S1 titles, and it is. I think it's really good.
so uh I don’t think I’ve seen anybody ever mention the ambiguously affiliated native american man smack dab in the middle of the rec room scene
& for all the people who didnt know, star trek already has a very rocky past with trying to portray native american characters
chakotay from voyager was an attempt to try and create an inspiring and ground breaking character for native american people the way uhura was for black people (like the way whoopi goldberg cites her existence on the show as a huge influence on her), but because of the situation it Really didnt work out
in their effort to write a good native character they got a native american on as a consultant which is a great idea! the only problem is the man (jack marks, his fake name he used being ‘jamake highwater’) they hired was later exposed for racefaking and building an entire career on his fake native identity and publishing books and documentaries and working on other things, like star trek.
marks became a massive name for native american stuff but at the same time there were many native americans who said they doubted his ancestry since his works were painfully stereotypical and insincere. he received well over $800k from federal grants put aside for native american people and took dominance in the media as a Native American Expert On Native American Identity, while pushing out work putting natives as weak caricatures and stereotypes.
marks was the consultant for making chakotay be a good native american representative, and so chakotays character ended up stereotyping native americans and being contradictory in itself. while i before would say “well, they tried and they just had bad luck that they chose someone who ended up being fake,” i just now in looking at it see that they hired marks well after his racefaking was exposed and marks himself admitted to it - the exposé was published in 1984, marks stopped claiming to be cherokee but continued to profit off of his established ‘indian presence’ and later said he pretended to be cherokee to get into the writing industry, and marks submitted his notes for chakotays character backstory in 1993… nearly a decade after being exposed.
where uhura inspired black women like whoopi goldberg to become actresses, chakotay is a confusing mess that reinforces age-old stereotypes about native americans and keeps native media rep locked into caricatures of ndn identity. while it is good there was a main cast native character and there were definitely good aspects to his character and writing, the ridiculousness of his native american identity has gained a lot of criticism from actual native americans. the poor writing and decisions dont even hurt too much, its that we (native americans) were robbed of the chance for a powerful, inspiring, and main cast member on an incredible scifi series by a fraudulent racefaker and a production crew that hired him on either without doing a background check or without caring that he was exposed for it.
so star trek has already failed harshly in their attempt to make a diverse starfleet, particularly in the case of native american characters, so im not surprised by this questionable production decision and i would invite the fans defending it or not seeing the issue with it to educate themselves. star trek has had amazing diversity and powerful messages, and thats honestly why chakotay and the decision of hiring jack marks as the consultant hurts so much.
star trek has done amazing things but there will still be mistakes and places where they fail to write as diverse as they aimed and its messages of understanding and progress are what should inspire us as the audience to see those mistakes, acknowledge them, and work for better writing and representation in the future and not allowing these mistakes to fall through the cracks or even be defended as “good diversity” when they are clearly not.
tl;dr chakotay was written badly and partly as a racist stereotype through what is at best ignorance and at worst purposeful apathy on the star trek production side when they hired an exposed racefaker who got native american federal grant money based on his fake identity. star trek doesnt have perfect diversity, especially wrt natives, and its important to be knowleadgable and critical of this when we discuss native american characters, themes, and identity in regard to the series.
if you would like to do research on this situation, feel free to google ‘jamake highwater’, read chakotays wikipedia page, and follow the citation links to more in depth content.
for those of yall that r new or dont know a lot about voyager heres why we dont fw chakotays writing