Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Pretty sure it’s standard to imagine Julian as a very lax parent and Garak as strict as the state, but I think it’d be the other way round.
Because Julian absolutely reads every possible parenting book he can find, has All The Research, freaks himself out about early childhood diseases and injuries and is altogether so Intense™ about everything he needs to be physically removed from an argument about safety and forcibly calmed down.
Garak, on the other hand? Garak’s child comes home from school after a meeting with the head teacher, eyes to the ground, and gets a quiet lecture about how not to get caught next time.
Seeing this exchange on Reddit was so sad. Men and boys need love and affection as much as women and girls.
Fuck, this reminds me of this good post I saw on I believe Twitter. Can’t find it and even so I’d rather not repost it if it can be helped but it was basically some dude crawling into bed w/ his girlfriend/wife and he was clearly upset and she offers him sex to make him feel better but he declines so instead she cuddles him and he starts crying and says thank you. Super cute and sweet.
Is it this?
Yeah! That’s the one. Thanks.
That post reminds me of this one I saw on Reddit:
Kill the idea that men don’t want physical affection 2KForever.
holy crap, YES! Yes yes yes!
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the more I think about it the more I realize that those little girls that are obsessed with dragons are just horse girls that wanted an animal less likely to injure them
One time I was cooking with a girl and we were both bilingual but we didn’t have a language in common so we were just sitting by the fire doing prep work quietly and I was peeling little garlic cloves to mince and she put her hand on my arm to stop me and demonstrated how you’re supposed to press on the clove with the flat side of your knife to break the shell off all at once to peel it and I was like oh! And I imitated her and she nodded in approval and we went back to quietly peeling and mincing the garlic and I don’t want to be hyperbolic but in that moment I was like wow I truly understand the universal thread of human love and connection inherent in our souls or whatever
Nope. No. You’re wrong. Color photos have been around since the late 1800s there are a bunch of full color photos of MLK. The us govt and educational system just doesn’t show us because they want us to push back the civil rights movement and distance institutionalized racism from today’s society.
Here are just a few of many photos of MLK in FULL color. This wasn’t that long ago. This is RECENT history. Segregation, the terrorizing of black communities, the brutality isn’t old - it is still present.
When my dad was a little boy, my grandfather was one of the ministers who marched with MLK on Washington. He grew up hearing stories about the great Dr. king and the differences he made BUT he still saw the blatant discrimination against black folks and other people of color (hell he experienced it himself). My dad was a kid watching MLK. My DAD. My grandfather who only passed away about six years ago MARCHED with him. This isn’t twelve generations ago. THIS IS RECENT HISTORY.
I’m a millennial and my parents were both in middle school when he was murdered. This really wasn’t that long ago.
I’m Gen z and my grandmother went to segregated schools for a few years before they became illegal
Seeing photos like this in full color with nice, crisp lines and in relatively high definition really does a lot to remind you that this really WASN’T all that long ago. No wonder people tend to think of the days of MLK as ancient history, if we mostly see black and white and grainy pictures!
up until this moment i’ve never seen a picture of MLK in full colour and holy shit that’s fucked up
