Wings That Cross Time

ChronoXtreme most everywhere | Lvl 28 | Trans Man | He/They

[chronoxtreme]

Intro I guess

Howdy there, I'm ChronoXtreme! This is a Tumblr I made solely to ramble about my writing stuff and OCs when I do write, and when I don't, it will probably languish in sadness and obscurity. Oh, also, screenshots of any games I play. Those are guaranteed lol.

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[writergeekrhw]

Why did Kira keep getting hooked up with random men when she was clearly a lesbian?

Real talk? It was the '90s. Paramount wasn't ready for LGBTQ+ Kira.

If you want an in-universe explanation, remember that Kira's pretty conservative religiously and socially, and probably more than a little repressed.

[hingabee]

thank the prophets the promenade has never been saver 🙏🙏🙏

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[deepspacealamo]

@garaks-padded-cell for the archives if don’t have it already

[garaks-padded-cell]

Aw this was like. My first ever post.

[chronoxtreme]

Part of the reason why Garashir is so near and dear to my heart is that it's acted out intentionally on the parts of both actors. It wasn't just a happy accident, it wasn't just the chemistry. Andy Robinson looked at Alexander Siddig on set and said, "By God, I will play my character as wanting to fuck this man" and he did, and Sid responded perfectly, and now thirty years later Garak and Bashir are canon and married. They talk about them in interviews. They talk about them with fans. Before Lower Decks, they acted out multiple fanfics where Garak and Bashir got together in some fashion. Hell, they have WRITTEN fic with romantic undertones.

That's insane to me. That's nuts. I'm so used to seeing ships where the actors are baffled that people shipped their characters, or even repulsed/annoyed. This was an era of Star Trek when Rick Berman was doing everything to censor or just get rid of anything non-straight and cis. And yet Andy Robinson and Alexander Siddig did all that anyway. And yet some of the writers were fully onboard.

I'm so glad we got the Lower Decks episode, but honestly just the fact that the actors are on board and care about the ship is more sweet to me.

[jadenvargen]

odo transgender nb woman manifesto btw. 

[skrankku]

[lazuelazuli]

@imadoctornotanescalator

[theoldgvard]

if there's one thing the ds9 finale did, it was completely convince me that the only satisfying conclusion to julian bashir's arc would be him eventually ending up on cardassia

a small disclaimer: despite believing in garashir wholeheartedly and adoring the romantic undertones that would accompany julian's moving to cardassia, the narrative elements are the things making me so insane about this, and so convinced there can be no other fate for julian.

the focus on the characters who moved on (sisko, odo, o'brien, worf) made it all the more stark just how unmoored julian is in the wake of this episode, and how much of his connection to the station as home was based on the people around him rather than the physical location. he looks absolutely gutted with each departure and, unlike kira with sisko's baseball, he doesn't really have a moment of acceptance or get to fill a role that was left. in fact, the conversation he does have with ezri just emphasises how, for julian, things are never going to be as good as they used to be.

with this in mind (as well as the likelihood of things calming down professionally for him due to the war being over), it would make much more sense for him to leave the station either after helping with war casualties or staying on for longer. so the question is: where would he go?

given what i've argued about his sense of belonging being strongly tied to people, it stands to reason that the places he would feel drawn to would be the places his friends live. o'brien, of course, is on earth, but considering his tenuous relationship with his parents and his past trauma, and how much he has been able to let go of all that and actually be himself on ds9, i can't imagine it being a place he would be drawn to return to long term. what's more, a human dominated post-scarcity planet would hardly be a challenging environment for him medically. turning to his other strongest relationship brings us to garak on cardassia.

i think cardassia itself would appeal to julian somewhat after spending years slowly learning about their literature and culture through garak. i also think an alien planet would be oddly freeing for him, giving him a chance to live among a population who consider him strange by virtue of being human rather than because he's an augment or because he is (unbeknownst to them) quite an odd human so to speak. I've always seen julian and garak as providing each other a space free of the typical judgements they face from everyone else, and i can totally imagine julian having that association with the planet because of it.

my favourite reason, however, goes back to the ds9 pilot and julian's infamous 'frontier medicine' line. because post-war cardassia, with its bombed out infrastructure and millions dead and displaced, is exactly the kind of situation that would challenge him in that way. except now, julian is older, wiser, and has years of combat experience under his belt. his time on ds9 is what changed him into the person he dreamed of being, and while the reality is much grimmer than he ever imagined, he's now ready to be the person who can go to this devastated planet and help them rebuild from the ground up. in the Our Man Bashir episode of the Delta Flyers podcast, alexander siddig mentioned how the show watches julian grow up over its course. ds9 was a transitional period for julian, and moving on to cardassia is exactly the sort of thing that would allow those changes to be put to use.

i haven't properly got into beta canon (yet), but based on watching the show and the vision of bashir and his arc i've been slowly developing over these past 4-5 months of watching, i can't believe there's any other end for him. his professional satisfaction, social liberation, and emotional fulfilment all point in one direction. and if there's anything i've learnt about julian bashir, it's that he has never been put off by 'uncertain times'.

[redlizardfather]

shhhhh he's sleeping

[chronoxtreme]

On the subject of Spirk and Garashir commonalities, The Wire and Amok Time are equivalent in that they are The Peak Shipping Episode - because they are tonally opposite of the majority of the onscreen dynamic, and that tonal dissonance brings the ship from "those two guys" to "barely even subtext." Spirk is very much a product of its time: a brothers in arms bond that goes deeper than just simple platonic affection. Its subtext is completely accidental; neither actor was intentionally playing a romance. Yet there is something more compelling there than just brothers in arms. There is a sensuality to some of their interactions, but for the most part I read this primal devotion to each other. One half cannot exist without the other. They state this on screen multiple times. And while there is that devotion in Amok Time, it is unabashedly horny in a way that very few other Spirk moments are. They are straight up fight fucking in the sand. People saw it in 1967, people see it today. It is the type of gay sex that isn't actually gay sex but is more homosexual than gay sex because it's not gay sex. It's the complete opposite of their usual dynamic, and yet it brings a primal chemistry to the mix. It exposes that their relationship is not just simple comraderie, there's a sexual undertone there. Garashir, on the other hand, is a far more sensual, even erotic dynamic. It's acted out intentionally on the parts of both actors, especially Andy Robinson's half. Garak literally cruises Julian in the replimat for their very first meeting, and for each one of their lunch dates it always feels a bit subversive (usually because they're debating some hard hitting topics). There's a lot of innuendo going on, visually.

And while there are some erotic moments in The Wire (the cork scene in Quark's anyone?), it is, first and foremost, a story about pure unconditional love. Garak and Bashir might be two utter freaks, but they are devoted to each other in some of the most romantic ways I've ever seen on television. Garak asking for forgiveness and Julian giving it to him freely is a moment of pure, true love. Likewise, Garak submitting to Julian's care and being vulnerable to him, even telling him the truth veiled in lies, is an act of pure, true love. It takes the ship from just two men dancing around each other flirting to genuine romance.

[chronoxtreme]

Ngl one of my favorite commonalities between Spirk and Garashir is that you've got one of them, the alien, yearning. Oh how he yearns. Not just for his beloved, but for everything: home, acceptance, acclaim from his peers. There is a wistfulness to him, a melancholy, mourning something they never really had. And then the other is Mega Turbo Himbo 2000 (until you find out that their backstory is actually kinda Mega Fucked Up)

[trekgate]

[thisisteal-deactivated20181208]

garak:

[gplusbfics]

Well, then.

[ferryfoam]

The first time they meet Garak is immediately fantasing about taking Julian on a honeymoon to his beloved home country okay Garak

[inesk-art]

A glass of kanar Commission for the lovely @samcentral! Yes, I'm open for commissions :D.

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[inesk-art]

Morning coffee on Cardassia for @noveltale <3 Thank you so much, I loved all the softness and the fluff! Castellan Garak is ready to start the day, his husband not so much. Julian is wearing pyjama bottoms... or something like that... cause it's hot. (Or nothing, whatever you want ...) If you like my stuff and want to support me: https://ko-fi.com/inessketches <3 Thank you!

[knivesandteeth]

So like Garak left his pretty doctor a hint to his location in the form of one of the amino acids which enable the viability of cardassian and human mating.... Which could mean nothing

[laurelhach]

Headcanon: because Humans will pet ANYTHING, when he gets to Cardassia, Julian is immediately taken in by riding hounds - who fall for him just as quickly, much to Garak's surprise.

they’re basically the same thing, right

[fauvester]

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