Nightowl

Do you think Bashir tells Garak the story of the Prodigal son?

Can't decide if Julian would share it after the internment camp to argue that Tain was a terrible father, or if he'd realize it won't change Garak's mind on anything and it would just hurt him further in the midst of his grief.

Or maybe after DBIP he angrily explains the story as an argument that his own parents were wrong and they never should have augmented him. That for thousands of years humans have told this story and they should have known better.

Or if after The Wire he decides "I must avoid this story in our lunchtime dates because Garak *will* have Very Strong Feelings about it and I don't think he'll handle it well."

I think it works best early on, Season 1 ish. Maybe there’s a reference to “the prodigal son returns” or something in one of their books. So either Bashir explains it or Garak goes and researches it himself.

But then! Years later, after the camp and DBIP, it comes up again for some reason. And THEN! It hits one or both of them on a whole new level

Successfully wearing pants after surgery hits so different.

These suck! Why have I encased my legs in this unforgiving fabric?? Why have I cursed myself with a fly??

And as for bras… not today, motherfucker.

Fuck pants.

Fuck bras.

Éowyn (credit kolleander on Insta)

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

I just have to reblog because it makes me laugh EVERY TIME

Happy Move Along Home Day everyone, may your klons peag and your Allamaraines be plenty

some advice: if the next step seems too big, it's not the next step

The next step is usually not that looming task. The next step is usually getting off of the couch and standing up.

I believe in you, my friends.

Trying out copic markers for the first time with the first sw fanart I’ve drawn in a long while 😅

I will die on the hill that to understand Anidala you have to accept that Padme saw the red flags clear as day and went for it anyway. Why? Because Anakin was honest with her. Because Anakin, for all his idolising and putting her on a pedestal, still saw and treated her as a human being, even argued against her at times without fear or without hiding behind clever words. Because Anakin made her feel the youth that was taken from her at a young age. She was captured by the boyish charm and the awkwardness and the blunt honesty, and so when he came to her with a billion red flags, she went for it anyway. He was a breath of fresh air to her.

To understand Anidala you must understand they are 100% freak4freak. They are both children who grew up too fast and are now in a secret relationship giggling like teenagers in their twenties. This is vital to them. Padme is not a flawless character or an idea of perfection, on the contrary she is a very human character who was put in charge of her people at fourteen, something that had a lasting impact on her, and so she is choosing her childhood joy and a fairytale romance over the red flags her husband is waving. She is the OG ‘I can fix him’ mentality. No one is doing it like her.

‘The red flags are mass murder’ and the point still stands.

Exactly! You gotta understand that Padme is a huge pile of trauma, co-dependency, and a desperate need to be loved as Padme (as opposed to being loved as Amidala).

This girl was also manipulated and groomed by Palpatine, she was Mayor of a whole ass city at just 13, and was ruler of the whole damn planet during an invasion when she was 14! And then she led her people through the aftermath and clean up! This girl is an emotional disaster!

Padme and Anakin are BOTH disasters. But there tragedy is that they weren’t doomed. If they’d had slightly better support, if their society hadn’t set them up for failure, and if they’d made better choices, they could have grown and healed together. They could have made it work. They could have been a beautiful happy family.

Instead they tumbled to their destruction together.

Trektober Day 27: Domesticity. Your regular reminder that Cardassians flirt through squabbling, so the DS9 book club debates would likely come across as Gomez and Morticia Addams-level public romancing. I can't imagine that'd change much even after decades.

Yeah, I know it's non-canon, whatever, I am extremely married to the idea that Julian and Ezri would realise they trauma bonded pretty quickly and she'd pack him off to Cardassia with a fond eyeroll.

(Image ID: a screenshot of Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with a news headline that reads ‘THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY HAS FORGIVEN GARAK’ edited onto the bottom of the screenshot. /END ID)

"Walk on the Beach" - Data/Geordi and Julian/Garak

This fandom has ruined me. I’m over here scandalized by Garak’s neckline and his visible shoulder ridges!

My most insane ship I kinda entertain is mirror! Kira and prime! Ziyal just because I feel like it would be Hannibal levels of absolutely horrific

I need this in my life

This is a Dr. Mora hate account. Fuck Dr. Mora! All my homies hate Dr. Mora!

I hate him so much. I skip his episodes.

…ok, The Begotten can stay in the rotation because Odo with baby is adorable and heartbreaking.

But Mora is such an ass.

Holy shit I found THE gif

This is my favorite episode of all Star Trek. All Star Trek.

But I loved it even more when I found out that they brought Trouble with Tribbles writer, David Gerrold, in as a consultant and ended up sticking him into the episode. The old red shirt playing with a Tribble, that's him.

Not only did he offer plot advice and acting skills, when the tech crew were trying to get the lighting to match, David was there with, "well, back in the day the crew did XYZ" and the tech crew said, oh yeah, we can do that!

oh and i might be wrong but werent they filming a tos film thing at the same time and the ds9 lot could not get the hang of the communicator wrist flick so one of the TOS gang came in and was like 'here let me show you' [internally: oh god please let me get this right first time or itll be so embarrassing] *does it perfectly* 'there you go. it's all in the angle' or something?? i could be wrong but i remember that somewhere

It was Walter Koeing (sp?) (Chekov)! And idk if they were still filming Undiscovered Country around this time (I don't thiinnk so but my short term memory sucks )

ID: a gif of Ben Sisko and Jadzia Dax in a pile of tribbles; Jadzia tosses one behind her shoulder and it tumbles down a chute onto Kirk's head.

Undiscovered country came out before DS9 started, I think Koenig was just chillin there

This has been confirmed by Koenig at Dragon Con! He was, in fact, on set for this and taught Siddig and Meaney how to open their communicators

'is it cake' style episode where ds9 inhabitants have to look at five identical chairs and get 20 seconds to decide which one is odo

I know people question why Bashir is invited to Word's bachelor party but the man did keep him from dying in the Dominion camp so he could be number #1 wrestler

So I know it’s a typo, but i really enjoyed the idea of Bashir chilling at Microsoft Word’s Bachelor Party!