i have loved the stars too fondly

writer | doodler | her/they

[pmamtraveller]

"Fat Tiger" by "Uncle Bum" (不二馬大叔).

[henk-heijmans]

A natural wave is formed on Lake Michigan when the riptide meets the incoming tide and explodes upward, 2014 - by Michael Bernhardt, American

[the-data-files]

giving Garak and Bashir another fun episode that I wish existed... a Cardassian egg is found on DS9 and of course Bashir (medical expert) and Garak (the only Cardassian on the station) have to take care of it. Boom, they're now proud dads to little Said Garak-Bashir.

(close-ups under the cut)

[the-data-files]

fun facts about this hypothetical episode

the baby LOVES Odo. he pretends to not care about this but he’s very protective about Said and amps up the security to a max

baby lizard and Quark are mortal enemies. it’s on sight

baby Cardassians don’t get nursed by their mothers, they drink nutritious fish broth instead (a very common breakfast dish on Cardassia)

extremely wiggly. you gotta hold that lizard real tight or else he’ll escape and hides under the nearest hard to reach surface

can’t regulate his body temperature at all and gets too hot or too cold easily. always keep an eye on him!

Julian is exhausted after just a few days of being a dad, while Garak is doing just fine. almost as if he has done something like this before…

married old couple fights over baby stuff

Said keeps wriggling out of his blanket every night so Garak has to sew him a romper (he’s bitchy about it because ohhh human baby clothing looks ridiculously distasteful but ends up liking it anyway)

[idonotbitemythumbatyou]

I don’t know how well Kukalaka is going to survive cuddling with a dinosaur baby. He might need surgery again.

[basinke]

Kukalaka gets a lil Kevlar onesie. It’s handsome and well tailored and Said can teeth on him all he wants.

(Cardassians grow teeth continuously like sharks and shift them from back to front on a sort of cartilage conveyor belt, so they are all constantly teething all the time, but only babies get to whine about it. Adults chew bits of rubber or wood first thing in the morning and then just cope for the rest of the day. If someone mutters about another adult that “someone has a tooth coming in” that’s a savage insult. You can say that sweetly to a child, though, and let them chew on your talons or jewelry if you know them very well.)

[izbnart]

Disco Elysium animation 🕺

[monster1994]

Lately ive been finding myself relating to the dying pig

[monster1994]

[mellifexfarm]

who even is this guy

[ouppygirlcity]

My hyrax tribute video

[aurpiment]

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

[pudulogy]

same animal btw

[justafanaticalhuman]

Hairbrushing

Liu Qingge can be a little vain about his hair as a treat...

[dogpuppy]

[hjartasalt]

Made the worst brownies ever created just now

[hjartasalt]

Chat where did I go wrong

[nuka-rockit]

the reviews are in

[badassdemonsword]

Im dryin up faster than lake mead just thinking about it

[chicknparm]

Futures

Made of

Ethical romantasy

[quixoticclown]

Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm pretty much by default in defense of people who enjoy dark fiction just as a general artistic philosophy and as a political stance, but my god so much of it is such cornball shit. Just so embarrassing to look upon it drives me nuts

[parkchanwoohoo]

I need there to be a thriving diversity of artistic content and thought specifically so we can move beyond facile moral arguments to get to the meat of aesthetic critique and admit that a lot of this shit is just really lame and cringe and bad. And not for its content but in its presentation

[parkchanwoohoo]

do you ever feel unfairly pissed off when a white person speaks Korean better than you? like I know logically that anyone can learn any language, and it would be bad to gatekeep, etc etc, but I’m also like well if I can’t speak my family’s that well why do you get to…

I used to when I was younger and then I realized they were putting in the work while I was being a lazy piece of shit

There is something to be said on a societal level about how white people are praised for their bilingualism while people of color are shamed for it but on a strictly individualistic level I was like "Ohhh it's because they're rabidly studying and I'm just doing Duolingo for two minutes a day while shitting"

[parkchanwoohoo]