tlirsgender:

The problem with spocks these days is that he doesn’t have enough body hair or eyeshadow. They power washed my boy

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

bijoumikhawal:

In fact you can tell the DS9 writers have a misunderstanding about Julian’s character because the reason he fucks so much so successfully isn’t because he’s impressive and can regale you with stories of his exploits, its because he does the dishes. That man has “understands how to empty the lint trap and use an iron” written on his face.