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On this blog you will find: Garak posting and Star Trek posting in general. Sometimes also Quantum Leap, Columbo, and Re-Animator.
Feel free to send asks! As long as you're being respectful I will do my best to reply!
Just had an urge to draw Odo in a flapperish outfit. I have no explanation, no excuse. I just like 1920's fashion and Odo has a fun silhouette okey
Patrick Stewart dancing and singing on the bridge of USS Enterprise-D. Originally filmed in 1991 as a birthday suprise for Gene Roddenberry, it wasn't meant for public viewing but a copy was made and later included as a DVD bonus.
sharing these early shhhhh…
do you remember why you followed prev
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1, 10, 20, 30, 40 50 ,60 ,70, 80, 90, 100?
Thank you for the ask! And for coming up with so many interesting questions :-)
What's a song that breaks your heart?
"Tomorrow, Wendy" by Concrete Blonde.
10. What's your favorite guitarist?
Maybe a boring answer, but David Gilmour.
20. What's your top 5 songwriters?
Lou Reed, Dee Dee Ramone, Trent Reznor, Roger Waters, and [if I can cheat a little here with a songwriting trio], Holland-Dozier-Holland.
30. What are your most played song this month?
Queen Bitch by David Bowie.
40. Are there any bands/artists you judge other for listening to?
To name one, Chris Brown. Sick as shit of people giving their money to that abusive clown.
50. What are some of your most disliked albums covers?
I don't really have any I dislike! But what the hell is this outfit
60. Has anyone ever gifted you any type of media object, if so, what was the most significant?
CDs! I buy all my music used/secondhand except for hitting up the merch table at shows. I know I could just go online and buy exactly what I'm looking for, but that'd take all the fun out of it! Though there are some albums I know I'll never find in a shop, so it's nice to receive them as a gift.
70. Do you pay attention to lyrics?
Analyzing and interpreting lyrics is one of my favorite things. Lyrics are also a great language-learning tool for expanding vocabulary, practicing cases and tenses, etc., and I'm a huge proponent of listening to music in as many languages as possible, even if you're not aiming to learn them.
80. How did you come across your favorite bands/artists?
Recommendations, radio, and reading!
90. IF you consume drugs or alcohol, do you have any type of music you prefer listening to?
Psychedelic rock and industrial.
100. What kind of music do you associate with the person you reblogged this post from?
Classic rock!
All questions can be found here!
16 & 24 for the music asks :)
Thank you for the ask! :-)
16. What's your top 5 albums?
In no particular order: The Wall [Pink Floyd, 1979], The Velvet Underground and Nico [1967], The Downward Spiral [Nine Inch Nails, 1994], Tangerine Dream [Kaleidoscope, 1967], and Fun House [The Stooges, 1970].
Honorable mentions: Locust Abortion Technician [Butthole Surfers, 1987], Transformer [Lou Reed, 1972], Gilt [Machines of Loving Grace, 1995], Broken [Nine Inch Nails, 1992], The Stooges [1969], MDFMK [2000], and Too Dark Park [Skinny Puppy, 1990].
24. What kind of music did you grow up on through your parents/siblings?
Lots of different genres, but the one that made the biggest impact was 70s British folk revival.
All questions can be found here!
Music questions for the curious and bored:
What's a song that breaks your heart?
What's a song that makes you joyous?
What's a song that breaks your heart?
What's a song that you listen to when you're angry?
What's a song that you listen to when you're turned on?
What's a song you listen to when you're drunk/high?
What's the band/artist you've recommended the most=
What's your favorite vocalist?
What's your favorite bassist?
What's your favorite guitarist?
What's your favorite pianist?
What's your favorite drummer?
What's your favorite songwriter?
What's your top 5 bands?
What's your top 5 artists?
What's your top 5 albums?
What's your top 5 songs?
What's your top 5 artists?
What's your top 5 genres?
What's your top 5 songwriters?
Who was your first concerts experience?
What's your next planned concert?
Who would you like to see next?
What kind of music did you grow up on through your parents/siblings?
Who's your biggest influence music wise?
Where do you usually find new music?
What kind of music do you have in common with your family?
What kind of music do you have in common with your friends?
What are some of your favorite playlists?
What are your most played song this month?
What are your most played albums this month?
What are your most played bands/artists this month?
What are your most played song this month?
Which songs did you listen to the most last year?
Which albums did you listen to the most last year?
Which bands/artists did you listen to the most last year?
What are some bands/artists you'd like to get into?
What are some songs you feel ashamed that you listen?
What are some bands/artists you feel ashamed that you listen to?
Are there any bands/artists you judge other for listening to?
What's your dream line up for a music festival? And where would it be?
How much money would you be willing to spend to see an artist/band?
Do you collect CD's, Vinyl, cassetes, etc?
Have you read any musicians biographies? if so, what are some of your favorites?
What are your favorite concert movies?
What are your favorite music documentaries?
What are your favorite music videos?
What are some of your most disliked music videos?
What are your favorite album covers?
What are some of your most disliked albums covers?
What are some of your favorite covers of others songs?
What's some of the covers of others songs?
Which languages in music do you listen the most to, besides your own mother tongue?
Which countries music do you listen to the most, besides your home country?
How do you usually find new music?
Do you ever check up the personnel of albums you listen to?
What are some of the most influential riffs in your opinion?
Are you quick to recognize songs/artists when songs comes on?
Who in your life has the most influence on your music taste?
Has anyone ever gifted you any type of media object, if so, what was the most significant?
What kind of music museum would you be able to have based on the music things you have in your possession?
Are there any pieces of music/bands/artists you wish you could get into, but you just don't click with them?
Do you like musicals? If so, what are your favorites?
How do you feel about musician biopics? If you like them (or your don't) who's life story would you like dramatized?
Do artists/bands you like frequent your area?
When was the last time you went to a concert?
Spell your username with songs
Have you met any of your favorite musicians?
If you were to make a supergroup which musicians would you match together?
Do you pay attention to lyrics?
What are some of your favorite songs lyric wise?
Do you play any instruments?
Do you write songs of your own?
Are you in a band? Have you been in a band?
Have you ever had a band/artist as a special interest/hyperfocus?
What are some of the craziest facts you know about a musician/band?
What's your favorite media related to music?
Have you gotten friend through music?
Are you an audiophile?
How did you come across your favorite bands/artists?
What are some music related unpopular opinions you have?
Have you ever travelled anywhere for music related reasons? (f.ex a recording studio, birth place of a musician or where they grew up, where a musician lived at some point of their career that influenced their career, etc?)
What's the most you've spent on a band/musician (whether it be tickets, albums etc)?
Do you have any merch of your favorites? If so what are your favorites?
Do you have similar music taste as your friends?
Is it important to you that your partner and/or friends have similar music taste as you?
How often do you try to find new music?
Have you ever met or see a musician you like?
If you could have a dinner with your favorite musicians (dead or alive) who would you invite?
IF you consume drugs or alcohol, do you have any type of music you prefer listening to?
What kind of music do you prefer or wish they played in the club?
What's the newest song/album/band/artist that you've discovered?
Which musician do you wish would adopt you?
if you were to follow a band/artist on tour, who would you follow?
Which bands/artists have you seen the most live?
Whats the last song you listened to?
Which musician has had the most impact on you?
Which artist/group was once a big part of your life, but you don't listen to anymore?
What's the most odd way you've discovered a song?
What kind of music do you assosciate with the person you reblogged this post from?
LETTING THE DAYS GO BY
Having Sisko and Bashir be the ones to get stuck in the sanctuary district in Past Tense was such a good call. Julian's characteristic optimistic naivety (at least in the earlier seasons) makes him this weird kind of audience stand-in, but instead of literally representing the audience watching the show, it's like he's representing the view of an imaginary audience from a place where things that are normal or acceptable in our own society are shocking, and it's one of the things that makes the episode work as really biting social commentary. In Star Trek you often get a character who plays an audience pov who asks the kinds of questions the audience might have, especially as a way of explaining away technobabble. To have a character ask "Why isn't anyone helping this person with schizophrenia??" in the same way Riker asks Geordi what's up with the warp core is pretty uncomfortable to say the least.
Julian's constant outrage, disbelief at what he's seeing, and refusal to accept things as they are is also great. He never lets you forget how messed up this is, and I think it was a good opportunity to develop his character as well. It's one of the first really traumatic things that happens to him and the way he reacts to everything really shows it, along with the strength of his convictions and his stubbornness for doing what's right which he carries on right to the end of the series. His kindness also shines through when he helps the woman injured boy (against Sisko's objections) and the woman with diabetes in the processing centre.
Then there's Sisko, who tempers Bashir's outrage with (kind of paternal) pragmatism. He doesn't accept that things had to be that way and understands the wrongness of what he's seeing to its fullest extent, but unlike Julian, he knows what he can and can't do about it, and chooses to accept that there are some things he personally can't change but does everything he possibly can with the influence he has. This Includes taking a bunch of hostages at gun point (and it's actually crazy they had a Star Trek protagonist do that lol), which Julian is visually extremely uncomfortable about, and being prepared to give his life to ensure things get better. For me, he's the very image of a great Starfleet captain in these eps.
I have to also mention the obvious fact that both characters are people of colour who, despite being a decorated commander and a doctor, find themselves immediately written off as worthless by a white guard and discarded into a concentration camp. Meanwhile their white colleague ends up in a penthouse.
Must you be so linear, Jean Luc?
Song: Oh Superman by Laurie Anderson
@runrundoyourstuff i feel like this edit (beautiful as always OP, i love your stuff) composes so well with what we talked about on ao3, with Q & Picard's relationship and this various traumas...
Wow this is beautiful
I can't get over the way they just so casually had Julian wipe someone's memory in Sons of Mogh, it only took an hour! Like my dude literally surgically altered someone's appearance and took his memories and it was so simple. And he had no qualms about it! Maybe he is Obsidian Order material after all.
‘I asked chat gpt-’ well I asked Una McCormack and she managed to make it about Garak but I didn’t really mind
I looove having friends who are all super into like 1 kind of star trek alien. Like yeah thats my friend who doesnt play about Bajor.
Obviously the general "reason" why people like to portray Garashir with age-gap dynamics is like, centuries worth of tradition of writing about homosexual relationships. But the reason i find it appealing when I write Garak POV is that I basically just see it as a one big cope. He's terrified of vulnerability and trusting so he portrays this world-weary, rugged mentor persona, lectures Bashir about naivety, playfully points out that Julian is so young and unexperienced - because he absolutely can't admit to himself that maybe it's him who keeps onto onto hope for way too long and needs Julian badly to survive
