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disco enthusiast. actual orchid lover. too stressed to be depressed. Long COVID’s biggest hater. Now watching Torchwood. Ha! Currently obsessed w Hacks, Attack on Titan, Star Trek, Good Omens, Naruto, a bunch of other anime, sometimes X-Files/OFMD/BSG/spy movies/anything cool - they/them please - I’m ancient, govern yourselves accordingly

[orchidtreks]

Well after 3 years I finally posted a new 9000 word chapter of my post canon Cardassia Garashir fic. Please clap. I want to finish this so bad. I can’t believe I’ve been pecking away at this for FIVE YEARS someone PLEASE grant me the GIFT of HYPERFOCUS again!!!!!!!!!!!

PRAY FOR ME I AM SO SERIOUS!!!! And thank you sincerely to every person who has ever left a comment for me.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28377699/chapters/216071136

[urghblergh]

Coming home after a dangerous mission. ✨

me: finds like so many pictures of soccer/football players celebrating a goal

me: how do I make this gay(er)?

me: draws this

[losferatuu]

gay as hell to be all-knowing. what you trying to know about? men?

[stephantom]

[sluttynurse]

probably the worst attitude tumblr unintentionally cultivates is "the world out there is completely dangerous for you and no one can possibly understand you, so you should isolate yourself from it and avoid interacting with it as much as possible"

[windsweptinred]

Time to roll out the Andrew Marr quote again...

"If you put away social media and you walk out into the streets and you look at real people, three-dimensional people, they mostly smile back at you. If you look around you- you see perfectly decent, ordinary people getting on with their lives and inclined, by and large, to rather like each other, that is the real us. Let us not be fooled."

[pissmd]

a tiny naruto

[gar-trek]

Blade nation rise. RB to spread the word about BLADE 

[varsityhearts]

no matter how bad it gets it cannot possibly be as bad as it was this time last year when i was using all my free time to replace the music in captain america the winter soldier with 2000s pop hits

[kato-spn]

I'm in love with Star Trek: the original series! Some of my sketches:

Spock is of course my favorite, but i love all of them i want to bite them

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.

[yossyislandd]

fuck with me

[doublecrossd]

star trek dress up episodes you are very dear to me

[niyarest]

can someone explain what he's talking about i got distracted by his giant jiggling honkers badonkers

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[elodieunderglass]

If you have big naturals and are decently in control of your muscles you can do this to unlock New Physics btw

[orchidtreks]

Close enough, welcome back James T. Kirk

[miyudeesper]

bunch of incorrect spirk quotes lol

[miloinouterspace]

Spirk Text Post Memes (Star Trek TOS)Part 2

My Text Post Meme Masterlist

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

[jeffgerstmann]

I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.

Gilman Louie - Wikipedia

[disembodiedscifi]

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'.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

After school care pulled me aside about my child dropping an f-bomb “without remorse” and I put on my concerned face and nodded a bunch.

Apparently he was building something with a younger kid “who really looks up to him and is just starting to make friends” and said “Hey, you’re really fucking good at this.” which is, in my estimation, really a parenting victory.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I absolutely failed at doing this: