Artful Intelligence

Starring: Ven Helden Gethenian//"VGer" ~ Ace. Queer. They/them. 40. This is a Star Trek blog, trekking starrily FOR CARDASSIA

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

I am consuming a media and you are going to hear about it

[lu-sn]

and the thrilling sequel: i consumed a media months ago and you are still hearing about it

[freenarnian]

and the cautionary conclusion: the media has consumed me

[void-ranger-vger]

Today’s inspiration is a song that makes me think of Julian during the Bell Riots plot:

“Unloved” by Jackson Browne and Jann Arden

(lyrics below)

There will be no consolation prize this time the bone is broken clean no baptism, no reprise and no sweet taste of victory. All the stars have fallen from the sky and everything else in between satelites have closed their eyes, the moon has gone to sleep unloved... unloved... unloved... unloved

here I am inside a hotel choking on a million words I said cigarettes have burned a hole and dreams are drunk and penniless here I am inside my father's arms all jagged-bone and whiskey-dry whisper to me sweetly now and tell me I will never die unloved... unloved... unloved... unloved

here I am an empty hallway broken window, rainy night I am nineteen sixty-two and I am ready for a fight people crying hallelujah while the bullet leaves the gun people falling, falling, falling and I don't know where they're falling from are they unloved... unloved... unloved... unloved

hoping that the kindness will lead us past the blindness and not another living soul will ever have to feel unloved... unloved... unloved... unloved unloved... unloved

[redlizardfather]

shhhhh he's sleeping

[void-ranger-vger]

My wife and I are thinking of doing a novel-length DS9 Garashir fanfic based on Dante’s Inferno.

In rhyming verse.

We really need to edit and publish (on AO3 or otherwise) our three novels so statements like this can have an impact on anyone besides us. But… that might be happening. We very much want it to happen. We love the idea and are currently in the planning stage.

[chapollynh]

I finished DS9 and here's my first offering to the fandom.

The show is just SO GOOD!! I wanna talk about it so bad, so I will spam the tags quite a bit... My bad. Also, the people who said Bashir would get better - you were right, he became a lot more fun! Plus he's got a teddy bear, that's peak character right there.

[daxwormzz]

BLEEEEEEHHHHHHH

[picoide]

Tried my hand at a lil kiddo Garak because this fic was real good  👍

[vaguely-concerned]

the face of a man whose entire inner monologue is currently 'elim when will you learn that this is always always what happens when you think with your ajan'

"I can't believe I'm going to die surrounded by subpar human interior design and didn't even get laid for it. maybe Tain was right after all"

[stunnerstorm]

I missed their season 1 dynamic…

[lemonsweetie]

These pictures of Alexander Siddig are really important.

[lady-lazarus-13]

These are so so so personal to me.

[per1w1nkl3]

duet (1x19) is simply one of the best ds9 episodes. everything about it is fenomenal the story (the ending!!!) the performances (nana visitor??? hello???)- just an amazing episode all around and so early in the show!!!

[urghblergh]

Same.

Well.

Wanted to do some studies to figure out Garak's body type. Ended up with this instead. 😅 Still counts ig.

Ref I

Ref II

[deepspace9000]

I didn't need A Stitch In Time to confirm that Mila was Garak's mother. I could tell that from the fact that the first thing she did when she got into contact with him after not speaking to him for many years was guilt trip him into helping his father with something.

[werecountingthestars]

Let's not forget the ultimate confirmation:

shamelessly flirting with the handsome messy disaster fuckboy who's at least two decades younger in front of everyone. over a meal. and the fuckboy is into it.

that's a family trait. wild

[werecountingthestars]

the lizard and the twink compel me. not just because of the chemistry and the drama and the banter

we have middle aged paranoid trauma queen. he's bitchy and mean and so so sad. he loves fashion and gardening and bombs. his father was reptile himmler. he was groomed to be a killer. he's sentimental and unable to be sincere. he tortured people until he couldn't stomach it anymore. he had a drug addiction that almost killed him. he's pathetic and a little creepy

we also have pretty boy himbo supergenius. he's kind and silly and so so angry. he loves tennis and playing dress-up and medical malpractice. he is dr. Frankenstein (on request only). he's idealistic and unable to live up to his own morals. he keeps dating his patients. he tortured a dying man with a mind probe. he was designed to be a legacy. he's horny and a little desperate

and you'd think they'd be an explosion of terror when they're together, but no. it implodes and fizzles out. they eat chocolates and discuss Shakespeare insincerely and probably cuddle. they just enjoy each other's company

they're still toxic and dysfunctional and a little off-putting to be around. they are everyone else's problem. they're dangerous tools to be wielded by others. but when they're together, they even each other out. and they just get to dysfunctionally function.

and I think that's beautiful

[skrankku]

More screenshot redraws, featuring my Deep Space Nine OTP Julian Bashir x The Wall:

"The next person who touches me is getting the tranqulizer"

[respocked]

What if Cardassians that were scared or angry could unfold their ridges into a threat display? That would be very spikey indeed...

...and not very fortunate for little Garak when Tain finds out he ripped his shirt while in the closet again!

[revlerie]

redownloaded some of the photos i have of them together! quality is screwed from the source :(

last image is with Buster Miscusi, when Visitor was pregnant with Django