i spit out my drink

Fanart for brilliant MissDisoriental, the author of “Bright Hair About The Bone” fanfic on AO3.

Oooe this was fun <3 Thanks for the request @tj-dragonblade, I’ve felt like drawing Garak and Bashir again for a long time!!

Who is Jeffery and why are they his tubes?

Jeffry, please come collect your tubes

controversial writing tip

open a document and start writing

unrealistic. blocked,

Julian Bashir: *meets Data*

Julian two minutes later: 

@helenakey Nowhere in particular :)

Fun fact: When my husband first saw this scene, he said “Wow that guy is so gay for Data.”

Y he mad

Beautiful Vulcan

deep space... TEN!!

the most valid Star Trek ship is actually Riker/Riker 

he’s always looking out for number one

will riker is like. the opposite of a queercoded/baiting character. he’s hetcoded. but both jonathan frakes and all of us know he’s bi af and the show just purposefully only shows the ‘het’ encounters

bi people can and WILL be attracted to nonbinary people so MISS ME with that ‘oh he has to be pan’ shit

They’re dead. They weren’t a part of this rebellion. The Dominion knew that. The Founder knew that. Weyoun knew that. To kill her and my son… the casual brutality of it… the waste of life. What kind of state tolerates the murder of innocent women and children? - Damar

Always reblog the most important moment of DS9.

So like I get that people have this issue with Star Trek taking so long to have a canonically queer principle character, and I get that people kind of take issue with there being a sort of ‘qualifier’ on Jadzia/Lenara as they were husband and wife in their previous lives, but I also feel like a lot of people don’t appreciate how incredible this story was?

The Jadzia/Lenara story revolved around two characters who were forbidden from being together by the taboos and laws of their culture. And it wasn’t just a metaphor - they actually used two women. This is a queer story about two women who aren’t allowed to be together because of their cultural norms. Any signs of affection between them were seen as inherently wrong, risky, dangerous etc. Lenara works under the constant, watchful eye of her brother, who continually makes his opinion about his ~concern~ for her known. And eventually Jadzia has to choose between the woman she loves and the life she wants because she won’t be allowed to have both - if she begins a relationship with this woman, her life as she knows it is over and shew ill be ostracized from her society, never allowed to re-enter it. And every moment of it is believable and full of beautifully painful affection…

In 1995 they shamelessly presented a wlw love story complete with longing, affectionate looks, confessions of love, and kisses. And like Kira Nerys says “I don’t understand how two people who’ve fallen in love and made a life together can be forced to walk away from each other because of a taboo!” Like… they weren’t be subtle about this at all.

As for the “qualifier” that somehow makes it less queer….? These two people carry the memories of a man and woman who used to be married, so I guess a lot of people saw this story as a second-hand het love story, but to me that was a really important part of the story because it presented this wlw relationship as totally equal to a het marriage. Their love is intense, believable, and on par with a male/female relationship.

the ‘qualifier’ actually makes it MORE queer for me. because i, and a lot of other trans people, see jadzia as trans. and this is absolutely a reality for trans people who were seen as ‘straight’ before transitioning.  i’m pretty sure that in areas that allow for transition but not for same sex marriage, there are still rules saying that you have to divorce your husband/wife before transitioning.

so yeah, ‘you’re not allowed to continue this relationship in your new body’ is something that feels very real to a lot of queer people.