Icon from a picrew by grgikau. 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.
Faster-than-light space travel as a concept is fun to me because everything we’ve observed in the stars is how the universe was a long-ass time ago, so in a sci-fi setting where FTL tech was just invented, there could be all sorts of crazy developments that could be found by traveling through hyperspace or whatever. Try to visit a star system, whoops it isn’t there anymore. Try to go close-ish to a nebula, whoops there’s a bunch more stars here now and this trip is more dangerous than we estimated. Or better yet, a planet with intelligent life on it, the light caused by which won’t reach earth by normal means for about another million years. Thought you’d be going to an ocean planet, turns out it’s got small continents and terrestrial life now. Huge amounts of space travel would be based in predicting what the star systems you see will probably be like in such and such many years, and hoping you predicted correctly when you finally make the jump. Actually, with an FTL engine, one could theoretically take advantage of the speed of light to travel a certain number of light years away from our solar system and study it from afar, as a way of observing the history of our planetary system from before humankind even existed! How wild is that?
A goldcrest came up to my window a while back. It's the smallest bird in the UK! My camera's pretty grainy but I took a few pictures (including one perfectly spherical pose. It is ball)
like this one’s for sure shipping goggles but it’s SO funny to imagine that “not so boyish anymore, doctor” is literally just a blatant come-on because they either just hooked up recently for the first time, or julian did something exceptionally slutty. like the whole scene is garak doing Cardassian style flirting, coming on STRONG, literally just whore behavior, and when julian finally breaks and flirts back like a human, which is their thing because something something cultural exchanges, garak brushes up against him, says something else snarky, and then dips. he absolutely got railed for hours in a state-honoring way that night.
Not sure if it should be called clean or dirty 😂😂 Garak and Bashir take a hot shower together “steaming up” …. I continue my obsession with messing up Garak’s hair….
