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[rusblk]

On the (Im)possibility of Understanding―A Garashir Study

It didn't take three months to translate. A commentary on 12 of my fics, which really doesn't have much to do with garashir. But I translated anyway, in case someone might find this interesting. Mind you, I wrote this in one go, 6 hours straight and eventually sleep depraved.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66238405

[rusblk]

List of fics in the collection, also the compilation of all my darkfics. I wanted to make a fic recommendation for my own works, and this is probably it.

Two of them are untranslated.

1. Taste (2019)

2. Marine Echo (2019)

3. A Happy End (2019)

4. Invasive Procedure (2020)

5. Bone and Flesh (2020)

6. Retired Number (2020)

7. A Tiny Piece (2021)

8. In that pale dawn I burned the letters (2022)

9. In a world where no one is beheaded (2022)

10. I will be yours (2023)

11. Buoys (2023)

12. Affectionless (2024)

[deeplovelydark]

this might be controversial but I think the best kink posters are those who don't think about their thing as a kink with a particular name and a template for doing it and talking about it but rather a perversion of theirs. like it's not something you can normalise in any meaningful way and you cannot create standardised language for it because the very point is that it IS perverse it IS unnamable and unspeakable it exists in the cracks and gaps and margins of 'normality'. it does challenge normality but it's not a righteous crusade against it, it's a perverse play on it

[rusblk]

garashir fic where bashir is an extremely egoistic son of bitch

i need a tag for it

[rusblk]

I wonder if there's not as many first person pov novels in English, because I've seen many people dislike that pov in fanfics. In Korea, many novels are in first person, especially the older — like in 20C — ones. I grew up reading first person novels in school textbook.

[sapphosewrites]

I can't say if it's more or less frequent than in Korea, but definitely first person pov is very common in English language novels! I think the aversion is specifically a fanfiction thing.

[garakcore]

Yeah, I can't explain it, but writing fanfiction in the first person feels "wrong" to me, and I've learned this is a pretty common opinion.

My theory for this, using Star Trek as an example since it's the original fandom: We're watching TV shows, and sometimes a character gives us a voice-over of their thoughts about what's happening in the episode (example: Starfleet officers' logs). But we never have the kind of deep, "in their head" view that we get of a character in a novel told in the first person, narrating their actions and thoughts as they happen.

So it could be that we are conditioned to understand these characters from an "outside" perspective. Sometimes I feel like it would have the highest potential to seem out of character to write in first person. (Supporting evidence: I have been in fandoms with lots of first person writing, but only when the source material was a novel (or novels) in first person limited perspective.)

[rusblk]

Present tense is another interesting topic. I didn't know Hunger Games books were written in present tense, and the theory seems plausible.

Another question on first person pov: I understood that people prefer to read/write in third person because it's how the original source material is presented, but don't the writers write what the characters think... even in third person?

Thanks for explaining!

[rusblk]

I wonder if there's not as many first person pov novels in English, because I've seen many people dislike that pov in fanfics. In Korea, many novels are in first person, especially the older — like in 20C — ones. I grew up reading first person novels in school textbook.

[rusblk]

Thanks for sharing! If it's just a fan fiction thing, it may be simply because first person pov is easier to write for beginners.

Personally I write first person a lot, mainly because it makes you feel really close to the narrator — to the point of being uncanny, even.

[rusblk]

I wonder if there's not as many first person pov novels in English, because I've seen many people dislike that pov in fanfics. In Korea, many novels are in first person, especially the older — like in 20C — ones. I grew up reading first person novels in school textbook.

[rusblk]

It's either in pain of creation or being bored to the point of death and nothing else

[chitinleg]

"Mister Bashir, what a pleasure it is to finally meet you."

Julian, why in god's name would you invite him to play the villain?

[chitinleg]

that's quite a secret to have kept all this time, doctor bashir

[hellostuffedtiger]

To you he was a spymaster, to the old folks at the Arawath Colony Senior Activity Center he was Enabran, the portly Cardassian who loved to wear mustard yellow and had an uncanny ability to guess everyone’s favorite beverage.

[hellostuffedtiger]

Rate your willingness to read fan fic written in the the first-person POV of a canon character from your favorite fandom?

Extremely willing

Somewhat willing

Neither willing nor unwilling

Somewhat unwilling

Extremely unwilling

Voting ended onMay 14

[rusblk]

I've done a similar pole on the writer's side some time ago

Interesting results!

[kuviraissues]

b'elanna for @spacephobos

[rusblk]

Sorry if you already have a post about this but how did you do the raised parts on Garak’s nendoroid face? I’ve been wanting to do something similar but I’m not sure how to go about it

Thank you!

I used epoxy putty, which becomes very tough when hardened. It's really malleable and quite easy to handle, though it's sticky right after you mix the compounds. The ridges fell off several times, and I used epoxy glue to put it back on lol

Hope this helps!

[rusblk]

Garashir in dresses

[dreamerdrop-deactivated20260528]

still pretty emotional about ds9 doing the whole “what if all the fantastical adventures are just in the characters head” bit and then going “it would still matter anyway, because it still means something to the character imagining it, and it still means something to you, the audience watching it, or reading it. the story still matters, no matter whose imagination it was. if the character made it up or if the writers in the real world did. it still matters.”

[rusblk]

Doujinshi cover

[rusblk]

it turned out fine

[roko-wt]

WFM X RGU