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.

kaelio:

In the Star Trek au where Cardassians are giaaaant lizard people and Julian moved to Cardassia prime, Garak should carry him around in one of those baby slings when they go to the opera or w/e so he doesn’t get stepped on or hit with someone’s claws/tail

unrealromance:

In a universe in which soulmates exist, it probably wouldn’t be something like a mark or a song or a few words on your skin in the Star Trek universe.

It’d be a resonance on the molecular level or something. Can you imagine having to have this incredibly deep scan on your body and then trying to find the resonance of someone else?

How would they even discover it? How would it change their perceptions of things?

I personally think it’d be less a ‘soulmate’ thing and more of a ‘compatibility’ thing. And most species would ‘sense’ it differently. Like a sixth sense that doesn’t quite present itself obviously. Like intuition, subconscious attraction.

Imagine that when you meet someone, there’s a slight buzz between you and sometimes that buzz interlocks and you just know this person will be important to you, but you don’t know how.

And then they discover the resonance and realize it’s like a compatibility thing and everyone starts throwing around the term ‘soulmate’ and now the entire Galactic Community is in an uproar.

Julian gets curious and starts using medical scans of himself to compare against his friends, after getting permission. Garak refuses to give permission and it drives Julian insane.

He keeps bringing it up until Garak is like ‘It almost seems as though you want to know we’re compatible, Doctor’ and that creates a tense, embarrassed silence in which Garak regrets saying it out loud.

And then Julian, very quietly, just says, ‘Don’t you?’

bijoumikhawal:

among the endearments I’ve considered for Julian to use for Garak I initially discarded “my dove” but now I realize he would use it as a joke

  1. Garak is grey and plump cheeked like a dove
  2. He is a violent bitch, which makes it ironic
  3. Sad: ‘pigeons’ are actually domesticated rock doves which have been abandoned enmasse and disease and injury are common

july-19th-club:

because - because - okay, like, it’s like if you’re someone who has learned to trust only yourself, to be with one you trust implicitly is to be as safe as if you were alone, okay, ‘are we alone?’ ‘yes’ to say ‘i trust you with my father’s secrets’ the ultimate display of faith compare and contrast with the man of three seasons ago who wouldn’t even let his physician watch him dying the growth the understanding the underlying, unnamed, potential that that holds

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