eddiethehunted:

eddiethehunted:

what is the opposite of a blorbo. like a character you hate so fucking much for no reason really you just cannot stand them and seeing them triggers rage. you want them dead. what’s the silly goofy word for that

actually yeah. barfo sounds right.

i would like to know everyone’s barfos please tell me

This scene from Firefly of Mal trapping Jayne in the airlock, but it’s Garak with Richard Bashir (maybe Amsha too) and/or Zimmerman. Just bc I think Garak would enjoy torturing them into admitting what awful people they are. And it would be highly satisfying to watch.

irresistible-revolution:

my late night thots no one asked for are that richard and amsha bashir truly loved julian and did what they did out of a deeply fearful, anxious love born from living in a technotopia where people who get to do the coolest things have to be super smart and brainy in a very narrowly defined way. furthermore the fact that they wanted to enhance his genes speaks to a deep sense of shame and self-hate within both of them (and we can speculate how this shows up but, for one thing, it’s clear there’s a class difference between amsha and richard and that richard is constantly trying to measure up to his perceived lack and hurting people in the process) that deserves more nuancing in fic, especially when we consider how the “eugenics wars” were concentrated in the global south and therefore most likely impacted the regions richard and amsha hailed from. 

and finally, if we factor in richard’s inferiority complex about his class and race and masculinity with amsha’s pained grace and regretful acquiescence we can see why julian dons a mantle of snobbery and hauteur in order to project self-assuredness (like richard) while keenly aware that he’s wrong/imperfect/guilty (like amsha), and how all of that is also tangled up with the shame he feels about not being good enough without his augmentations, while also resenting the fact that his parents both gifted and cursed him with these talents.

tldr; the bashir family story is often contextualized through ableism and parental homo/transphobia but, imho, only fully makes sense with an intersecting racial and class framework. ableism and homophobia can’t be decoupled from race (the history of european race science is the easiest example of how race was long used as a shorthand for intellectual deficiency) and, in the case of these three characters, what we see unfold onscreen is just as much a story of immigrant/model minority transgenerational trauma as it is a story of how ableism and homophobia damages parent/child relationships. richard and amsha are also, in their own way, responding to ableism, is what i’m suggesting. and their love for julian is always shot through with their own self-loathing and anxieties around failing societal expectations. 

stephanidftba:

stopthatbluecat:

Julian’s parents are so stupid for managing to tell his biggest secret to a hologram of himself with people overhearing.

Sure, Of Course they’re fooled by the hologram with its distant dead eyes when that’s how Julian is around them.

But like why would you just go into an unknown room and spill every single drop of tea ??? Didn’t even ask if they were alone ffs

#it’s a wonder they kept the secret for this long tbh #i mean why say it outloud at all??? #‘we promise not to say anything embarrassing’ #is really all they had to say #easily explained away if overheard

stopthatbluecat:

Julian’s parents are so stupid for managing to tell his biggest secret to a hologram of himself with people overhearing.

Sure, Of Course they’re fooled by the hologram with its distant dead eyes when that’s how Julian is around them.

But like why would you just go into an unknown room and spill every single drop of tea ??? Didn’t even ask if they were alone ffs