And the other side, where it is compositionally unsound? Will have Andrew Robinson on it by the end of the weekend. But the story of the SIddig half is sort of A Thing.
I want to say straight up and with all the sincerity I can, that he was a thrillingly entertaining, sweet, and gracious man. He gave everyone very personal attention and really was a joy to experience. He was so patient and generous with his time, I could not clap enough at his panel.
I angsted about this hardcore for the entire first day, and it was only when my friends reported back about how nice he was at photo ops that I decided to splurge on his autograph.
Needless to say, I was sick about this for two hours, and while I watched the panel he gave, I was screaming inside and out.
I got into the autograph line and was having a lovely little meltdown about it. My new buddy kiranerys was there with me and I wanted to make her go ahead of me, which she pretended to be cool with and then switched us at the last minute. I hated her for this for about 15 minutes. I later got over it.
Sooo I got up to Sid and he picked up the painting and said, “Oh, my, this is lovely!” And I told him -relating to his panel in which he expressed the same sentiment - that Bashir’s relationship with Garak was my favorite thing about the show. He thanked me and smiled and did this lovely little fond smile thing, it was really sweet. And then he really looked at what he was signing.
Straight up, I angsted about the level of gay here. I do not want to be That Person. You know what I’m talking about. I was not about to make him uncomfortable. But he looked at the thing and said, “it looks like you caught a little something-something here”. Complete with like, eyebrows and suggestive face. You need to understand that I had Sid making innuendo faces at me and I am thus not responsible for being rendered sort of in-eloquent. When I was not forthcoming with human speech, he said, “Really, there’s something going on here. There’s something. There’s a sort of *~*~*frisson~*~*.” I need you to understand that he most certainly spoke in sparkly italics.
I managed, “Um, well, yeah, I do like - but I really appreciate ALL aspects of this relationship!” And Renae is behind me flustered and trying not to die as well? He asked us if we were always this bubbly and I just blurted, “I don’t know, I only met her yesterday!”
He assured me we were meant to meet in that case.
And then just looked satisfied with outing my shipper intentions and asked if I’d like black or silver.
I had to stumble out of the curtain and laugh/cry and then move to another room and scream.
And that his how Siddig held my autograph ransom until I sputtered that I was a Garak/Bashir shipper. And HE initiated it. Fucking lovely man.
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