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Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

POV: you're a cardassian space vole and the twink doctor is tryna grab you with his little grabbers

Sorry I acted romantic and delusional again, you can kill me if you want

Do you think bajorans / humans look a bit unnerving to cardassians... imagine a human but twice as smooth. Are humans to cardassians what odo is to humans. (Im dragged out kicking and screaming)

Finished inking over this Garashir fanfic fan art! Now just need to put it into Procreate to color and fix some mistakes

Based on a scene in Garashir fanfic Proof by @alphacygni on AO3, a phenomenal read and whose emotionally rich scenes I am making several drawings from, please go check it out!

Garashir repaint of The Temptress by Pio Ricci :)

Literally me @ all of you Garashir writers I have found and followed please 🙏

Do y'all ever read a fic so good that it makes you want to elevate your own craft and also befriend the writer? It's almost like, "Hi! You write so well that you've inspired me to embark on a creative training arc. Also, can I yell about the character in your dms because you get it?"

bbygirls...Thank you @wellntruly for taking this very anime-esque screenshot:

Original:

What is the Cardassian equivalent of smoking a cigar do we think?

Something macho, elitist, homosocial… an activity someone could be really pretentious about or enjoy casually.

What makes Garak's estrangement from his father even worse is when you take into account how important family is for Cardassians. Garak never got to be with his father, surrounded by a culture where children are the most precious thing to the culture.

actually. question. did the Cardassians as Lizards thing ever come up in like, canon star trek or did we all just collectively decide that they had to be reptiles based on design choices

Is that a valid argument in your pants or is it just a phallacy?

Alexander Siddig aka Siddig El Fadil

Don't let anyone tell you that seeing someone like you on television isn't important.

Garak in his Pussy Galore outfit saying he's "not too sure about the collar."

Julian. Are you aware how low of a cut he's willing to go for you? Do you know what kind of plunging necklines he would put on for you? You could put him in an outfit that would make any other Cardassian pass out or throw up. You could see his titty spoon if you wanted. You could see his cleavage and you're putting him in a turtleneck? You are interfering with his ability to slut it up, and he wants to slut it up for you.

Snippets of some more Garashir fanfic fanart *_* I'll be fixing proportions (my mortal enemy) and inking today

I didn’t know I couldn’t reblog posts with a video lol so i have to do the context again, but heres a video of my dog Pearl who passed 3 days ago. She loved to watch ds9 with me and got SO stressed when she thought I didn’t realise it was on? Here she is Pleading to be allowed on my lap, because the possibility of missing out on quark made her experience levels of anxiety that could only be recreated in a lab

“return to old trek,” but it’s the return of 20+ episode seasons, of bringing contemporary scifi writers to write episodes, of doing social commentary so acute it blasts the “it’s just escapism” argument to bloody bits, and most important, the return of silly costumes and camp

My faaaaaaavorite thing that Garak calls Julian in the lovely meadow of fics for them is "Impertinent Boy" 😊 makes me all warm and fuzzy inside hehe *kicks feet* 💕

Putting out what sketchiness I can cause like idk if I'm just lazy but EVEN MY STUPID SIMPLE DRAWINGS take like a day to realize. I have 20000000 WIPs rn pls accept this

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Garashir be like: what if I forgave you for all your crimes that arent mine to forgive, my crimes arent even my own anyway?

What if you didn't think the crime of my existence abominable?

What if we were Angels cast down by our fathers, sheltered by foreign gods, defending lands we could never call home?

What if i didn't know how to be good? What if i didn't even know how to be myself?

What if i thought myself fundamentally unloveable? What if I loved you anyway?

What if it didn't matter? What if you were my only constant? What if I couldn't have you so i rebuilt my world in your image?

What if my arms remember the shape of you when all i am is rotted away?

Oh. Okay. At one point the studio literally forbade Siddig and Andy from talking about Garak and Bashir gay stuff. Wow.

(from an old and dated and uhhhhh pretty insulting and homophobic 1998 article about fanfic - https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.07.98/tv-9818.html)

Like duh, it was the 90s, it seems obvious this must have happened and I heard the rumour, and I know this article must be infamous, but damn - seeing that confirmed? Wow.

Lol at Sid and Andy winning all the time. And thank you to Sid and Andy for persisting anyways. ❤️

Do not doubt my power

[thank you @greggslife for knowing me, knowing I would know this, and for also recognising it]

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

I keep meeting artists who complain that Tumblr Is Dead then when I check their blog they've made four posts in six months and all of them were self promo lmao. Influencers whining that "tumblr is useless for engagement" tells me every part of the problem, like sorry you can't just show up and farm this userbase for clicks by waving buzzwords around the way you can on tiktok. This is the Excited About Stupid Things website reblog some shitty fanart or die

It's both of them

Thinking about "Inquisition", and how this:

[Image description: Text from a script that reads 'With that, Sisko turns and walks out. Bashir stares after him with a leaden feeling his stomach. After a beat, he turns and hammers a fist into the cell wall.]

turns into this:

[Image description: A gif of a clip from the show. It shows a containment cell on Deep Space Nine, the force field activated. Julian Bashir stands despondently in the cell, leaning against the back wall. He slides down the wall to sit on the ground and brings his hands to his head.]

and what that says about Bashir's response to the situation and his mindset and feeling of anger (or lack thereof) and how Alexander Siddig (and/or the episode's director) interpreted that.

I might try and put some of those thoughts into words later, but at this moment my brain is not cooperating.

This plays like a really nice ending at first like "aw yeah Garak's a good guy in his own way after all :)" and then you rotate the events of the episode in your head a minute and realize that the only way any of this makes sense is if he was genuinely ready to turn them over to the military dictatorship and only changed course after Gul Dipshit was like "we can murder them and it will be epic and based" and Garak's mental calculus was "the terrorists are less of a threat to the military dictatorship alive than they would be as martyrs".

The quadrant's most charming and affable spook.