#apolesen

[conceptadecency]

For the fandom meme: M, N, T?

Oooh, thank you! Sorry about taking so long to answer, I can’t seem to ever write anything quickly. (This fandom meme.)

M - Say something genuinely nice about a ship that you don’t ship (or its shippers, or anything related to you)

I don’t particularly ship kiradax (just doesn’t flip a switch for me) but the ship makes a lot of sense and I think the two of them could make each other very happy. And Jadzia is 1000000% more interesting with Kira than any of her canonical love interests. Including Odo. 

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

I’ve said before more scary Garak in sexual situations, but actually I would like to see a bit more ‘scary’ in explicit pwp fic in general in garashir. It’s not something I write, and I really do appreciate pretty much any explicit garashir, but I feel like there used to be more ‘out there’ sex in garashir in the past and I miss it. 

Time travel! It’s one of the reasons we chose ‘time’ as the theme for our fest earlier this year, and we got some amazing fics (time travel and otherwise). But I’m always up for more!

Explicit garashir art. I know it’s partly because Tumblr decided to be awful a few years back, and it’s a tragedy. 

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending, about anything at all (gender identity, sexual or romantic orientation, extended family, sexual preferences like top/bottom/switch, relationship with poetry, seriously anything)

Hahaha, I mean obviously I don’t feel THAT strongly about anything. People will headcanon what they headcanon and who am I to say they’re wrong? Also I have a lot of contradictory headcanons that I like equally. Like that Mila was a victim in her way but also that she was just as awful as Tain or worse (either as a person or as a parent). 

But I definitely headcanon that Ziyal was in love with Garak but Garak never, ever felt That Way about her and found it extremely awkward and uncomfortable when she tried to kiss him and told him her feelings etc. 

[johannesviii]

For @ourfinaldecember or @apolesen: the last couple of sentences of The Turing Test, illustrated.

The Doctor led us up, into the fire that was not the fire of salvation but the sort that burns, with smoke and hurt and tortured bodies and death. He walked arm in arm with Turing, and they talked, probably about miracles and the mysteries of the universe, but I couldn’t hear them anymore. And anyway, it was probably all in code.

Prompt 20/20, but stay tuned for an extra prompt from my friend Scooter because I can’t count and said ‘yes’ to 21 prompts.

[rainydaydraws]

Going to take you up on the art suggestion thing. Bashir kissing O'Brien on the cheek while he is busy repairing something or other? (Apologies if this sent twice, it was acting up.)

LMAO my light is shit and so are my scavenged pencil crayons but I’m 100% a sucker for these v sweet boys

[johannesviii]

I just wanted to say that your EDA art always makes my day. You are wonderful. x /apolesen

Oh no senpai noticed me

Thank you!

[tinsnip]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julian Bashir & Kelas Parmak Characters: Julian Bashir, Kelas Parmak Additional Tags: Post-Canon Cardassia, Hospitals, Background Relationships Series: Part 5 of Adventures in Cardassian medicine Summary:

Parmak shows Bashir around one of the Union Capital's new hospitals. It doesn't go quite as planned.

Independently-heated hospital units! BRILLIANT! Of course ectotherms would have that! And of course Bashir would need special gear to work in them!

@cosmictuesdays, you’ll like this one.

[rainydaydraws]

I am SO thrilled to have found your Bashir/O'Brien art. It is one of my favourite pairings right now and I've been feeling rather lonely. I hope you do more. x /apolesen

@apolesen  I’m stuck on pencil and paper until I can replace my tablet but believe me when I say I would love to keep drawing those boys, they’re v sweet, I’ve got some stuff in my sketchbooks I’m mustering (or trying to anyway) the energy to at least ink and post bc I miss art a lot! boy howdy do I ever, I love suggestions and headcanons so drop them in my inbox here whenever you got em!

[slashfanfictions]

Author: apolesen Title: Let Freedom Ring Pairing(s): Erik/Charles Summary: Two arrivals to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters coincide - Jason Stryker, a child branded a freak because of his psychic powers, and Erik Lehnsherr, wanted terrorist and old friend of the professor. Jason is there as his father wants him cured - Erik claims that he has gone rogue from his own renegades. As tensions rise between mutants and humans, as well as between the suddenly reunited friends, who can truly be trusted? Rating: NC-17 Warning(s): -  Word Count: 135,204

[dapurinthos]

apolesen reblogged your post:Why does everyone hate on The Time Monster so much?

Also, the wonderful take on Knossos aesthetic, and the pre-watershed friendly Minoan dresses that still look like Minoan...

though they did mess up with putting the procession fresco on the wall because hello that is definitely not a larnax. And it's really, really hard to fuck up Minoan frescoes. I MEAN THE BULL LEAPING IS RIGHT THERE.

And it's a really weird combination of Minoan-era Knossos, Thera pre-eruption, and the Mycenaean-dominated Aegean, given the mentions of Poseidon and Zeus. As somewhat of an expert on the Middle Minoan era (because by this point, I am), I can say that the side-split miniskirts on the men were wonderfully historically accurate, with the tight belts and the shortness but they might be missing red codpieces, though its most likely said codpieces were of ceremonial and religious use. They could've used a bit more eyeliner and some jewellery, but this is Doctor Who.

Self, stop rambling. Go back to the Pre-Greek. Mmm, Aegean languages pre Proto-Indo-European intervention conquest.