Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Garak is so well adjusted that the only way he can relay personal information to Julian without lying is to pretend he isn’t there while Garak begs his dying father to call him son.
So I sit down at my laptop like “I’m gonna get better at doing quick, brief sketches in digital” and then many hours later there I am with three whole Garak hairstyles!! I think the little bun with the secret knife in it is my favourite. Anyway I’m of the conviction that he grows it out post canon, which is where these came from
au where ds9 is a struggling rollerskating rink at the edge of town that just came under new management
It’s still called Deep Space 9. It used to be owned by a Bajoran family but they were pushed out my the Cardassian mafia who used it for money laundering, illegal gambling, and shady backroom deals. Eventually it’s back in Bajoran hands, but in a horrible state of disrepair that the family doesn’t have the time or money to fix.
Enter Benjamin Sisko, a single dad looking to make a better life for his son, who buys the bussiness with the promise to do his best to make it a fun community establishment again. The Bajoran’s retain ownership of the property and leave their niece Kira to work onsite as the property manager and keep an eye on things. She resents Sisko immediately.
Odo is a security guard who used to work for the mob, but he seems like a decent dude so the Bajorans keep him around to run security in the lot (break up fights in the rink… tell teens to stop hotboxing the bathroom, etc) Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir are roller rink employees. Dax is an old friend of Sisko’s who needed a job and thought free rollerskating sessions whenever was a pretty sweet perk. O'Brien is a hardworking family man who can fix anything. Lots of things need fixing. Especially the HVAC and the sound system. Bashir is a broke med student with a lot of enthusiasm.
Quark also rents part of the property and runs the adjoining arcade. Odo is 100% convinced that it’s a front for illegal gambling or something. In an attempt to attract customers with something more enticing than popcorn and sketchy hotdogs, Sisko brings in The Klingon Chef to run a little cafe. His Raktajino is a BIG hit with employees and customers alike.
Not long after the grand reopening, the tiny thrift/antique store next door is suddenly purchased by Garak, who everyone is 100% convinced is a Cardassian plant trying to figure out how to retake the rink.
Every episode is about the DS9 staff fighting to make the rink a local hotspot again and trying to host birthday parties and throw theme nights and dances while Jake and Nog run wild in the rink and the arcade and Bashir gets flirted with my the scary antiquities dealer next door.
I just don’t understand how this happened. But here’s a picture of a lemon from my backyard
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK
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it’s back
Satan lemon
every villain is lemons
And finally, dear listeners, a reminder; several concerned citizens have brought to the city’s attention an irregularity surrounding this summer’s citrus harvest. City council would like to remind all enterprising fruit pickers to exercise reasonable caution when acquiring these fruits. Grasp the fruit firmly around its circumference, pull slowly but steadily to avoid damaging the tree, and under no circumstances heed its demands of you. Do not acknowledge or obey the depraved whisperings of the demon fruit.
And now: The Weather.
This kind of looks like a Buddha’s hand to me
they’re a type of Citron, a citrus closely related to lemons. I wonder if whatever causes that twistedness in Buddha’s hands is present but dormant/recessive in other citruses?
a lot of people having been messaging me about this, and honestly i had no idea that Buddha’s hands existed and it totally seems likely to me??? like honestly that seems like a really plausible explanation, especially because when we look at the demon fruit, the twisty ‘arms’ are going off in all different directions when the only place i can see a twisty arm happening on a lemon is on the top. like if the fruit is developing from the original growth point into a body then why are the offshoots developing the opposite way, from a body into a twisty thing? when in a Buddha’s hand, it totally makes sense because the twisty things are growing outward anyway.
im no pomologist but the similarities in the growth patterns really do reflect in The Demon Fruit.
The short version is that Citrus is a slutty, slutty genus of plants that can knock up pretty much any other member of the genus and uh… it’s mots recent relative as of 7 million years ago, becuase why not. Usually that makes for tasty children like tangerines and whatnot, but sometimes Weird Shit happens.
All modern citrus are descended from Mandrin oranges, Pumelos and Etrogs, the latter being closest to lemons and which looks like this:
It’s big and lumpy and mostly pith but also tasty as hell so Ye Ancient Malay Archipeligo Orchard Guy gets to breeding these for more tasty innards, presumable inventing lemonade in the process. YAMAOG also finds out that it’s REALLY easy to seriously mess with the overall appearence of the fruit of these very inbred etrogs, and starts breeding all kinds of nonsense, like Bhudda’s palms, Modern Lemons and Grapefruit.
YAMAOG also noticed that in addition to the occasional ugly inbred mule child, you can also get really strange looking fruit if the tree gets sick, is malnourished, if any part of the flower is damaged, or if the weather just sucks that year. In addition to being a Major Slut, Citrus is also a Fussy Bitch.
Looking at the Demon Fruit, my best guesses are
If you’ve had weird-shaped fruits off that tree before, you might have a very strange hybrid tree like the dachsund-pitbull one of my neighbors owns.
If it’s only the one fruit, and your tree is producing otherwise normal lemons, that particular flower or branch took some kind of damage or had a viral infection, which fucked up all the hormones and hence your lemon has gone all Ending-Of-Akira on you.
GOOD NEWS FOR BOTH SCENARIOS: unless the fruit looks like it’s actually rotting, it’s safe to eat! weird fruit shapes in lemons pretty much never makes them dangerous, just maybe a bit more tart than usual.
