spocksbeanies:

i want to touch garak. on the face.

wanderingwriter87:

wanderingwriter87:

so the thing i find fascinating about the parmakshir dynamic is the ONLY thing we have canonically about dr. parmak is

1. male doctor (unusual on cardassia)
2. garak interrogated him and he was sent to a prison camp as a result

i absolutely get why andy snagged him for ASIT and why una ran with it even further, because there is obviously a lot to work with there, in the garmak dynamic alone. BUT the postcanon parmakshir implications are great too.

no matter how you hc the garmak relationship prior to parmak being imprisoned, i think there is a reason tain brings him up specifically, and it’s not just that garak supposedly broke him by just staring silently. tain is calculated and he knows garak’s pain points. he mentions parmak, mentions he’s been released, jokes about visiting him. there is SOMETHING there, whether it was just that garak had a crush, or something deeper.

if parmak and garak become friends post-canon (a dynamic i am SUPER into), you have this sort of…garak feels like he owes parmak more than he could ever possibly repay him. what kind of dynamic does that lead to, amongst the three of them? there’s a lot of very wholesome permutations in fic but i want to see more where it’s complicated and maybe a bit tragic.

to further elaborate i specifically REALLY like the idea that parmak and garak are friends, and that he’s explicitly forgiven him. why? because it’s terrifying for garak.

and i say that as someone who completely gets why parmak would. as someone who forgives but never forgets, i COMPLETELY GET IT. garak is very charismatic and he seems to be genuinely trying to redeem himself. but you know what’s extra funny?

he doesn’t actually WANT parmak to forgive him. remember how hard he tries to get julian to hate him in the wire before he finally settles for forgiveness instead? he’d rather that from parmak too. but parmak’s not going to give him that. parmak’s going to forgive him, and parmak’s going to be his friend. parmak’s going to be a close friend! parmak is going to be around him! all! the! time! parmak is so very nice and trustworthy. parmak is just as charismatic as garak is, if not more so. parmak is friend shaped!!!

parmak could kill garak in his sleep and he’d never see it coming!

if you don’t think that is an extremely funny dynamic between a severely paranoid ex-interrogator and one of his victims, idk what to tell you. i love it

sheherromanroy:

i miss my girlfriend (a middle aged man who lives in the tv)

cheeso:

splice phrases “the devil is in the details” and “the proof is in the pudding”, you get “the proof is in the details” (makes sense) and “the devil is in the pudding” (omen)

harpothemarx:

the-last-dillpickle:

the-last-dillpickle:

I know we joke lots about putting Garak in a terrarium bcuz he’s a lizard man but the truth is Sloan is the one I’d want to keep in a terrarium, with a few heavy books on the lid. Garak, I’d let roam around and cause trouble for me like a cat

it seems there have been a few misunderstandings as to my intention with this post. the terrarium isn’t a punishment. it is so i can loom my face unsettlingly close and tap on the glass like the child from finding nemo. if he feels punished by these actions then that is just a pleasant side effect.

dukat, however, i would not keep in a terrarium. that would mean i would have to feed and care for him. thus, i would give him away for free on craigslist because the local animal shelter doesnt take in whatever the fuck he is. (unless perhaps i am keeping him to help breed feed stock for sloan??)

likewise, to account for garak’s special skincare needs outside the confines of a terrarium, he shall be pampered like a beloved hairless cat–given a warm bath and coconut oil massage everyday while i tell him what a good and special boy he is

The mental image of this post had me cackling so here

ofhouseadama:

the way. the WAY that tekeny ghemor refused to allow kira-as-iliana and then kira herself suffer from his “sins” against cardassia and her people versus tain using garak’s fear of him and fear of him killing mila against him to keep him loyal to tain’s very real sins against cardassia and her people. tekeny ghemor who believes fiercely that kira nerys deserves love and softness and to be whole and live a life not consumed by violence and war, because he has all this paternal love for iliana and his wife nowhere to put it. enabran tain who uses the lifetime of fear and obligation and guilt he’s built up to control garak in order to shape him into a weapon over and over and over again. kira’s devout loyalty to her mother’s memory. garak’s loyalty to mila and how she is used against him to keep him in line. will i ever recover

shranstan:

Tekeny adopts Kira. Kira and Garak co-adopt Ziyal. Tekeny is Garak’s adoptive-father-in-law(?). Garak finally has a Cardassian father figure who doesn’t suck absolute ass

quarksfwuarks:

the way Garak is often privy to extremely important and sensitive information that could save lives or change interplanetary relations but nobody is going to hear about it unless he is allowed to tell it to Julian over lunch. the man has 1 (one) trusted confidante on ds9 and sisko is just gonna have to boil his beets and wait to hear the state secrets via his most annoying subordinate officer

s9aceturbulance: