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.
I don’t know where the idea came from but I just have the idea Parmak in an attempt to get to know Julian aside from what Garak’s told him he asks about some fun silly date night idea and Julian comes up with the idea to make a pillow fort or something and so the two of them make a pillow fort and listen to music and talk and cuddle and Garak gets home and gets all undignified because they’ve ruined all the clean linens and made such a mess and WHY are you two LAUGHING at me?! But then he just decides to join them and he brings snacks and the three of them cuddle and talk and just enjoy a sweet domestic fluffy evening… I don’t write so this is a plea but if no one else will write this for me I might have to because I NEED it
I would just like to say that it is my conviction That longer hair and other flamboyant affectations Of appearance are nothing more Than the male’s emergence from his drab camoflage Into the gaudy plumage Which is the birthright of his sex
There is a peculiar notion that elegant plumage And fine feathers are not proper for the man When actually That is the way things are In most species
finished reading asit, pondering whether or not i should go on and read crimson shadow and enigma tales.
there was that one moment in asit that i especially loved, when garak realised in a single moment of clarity just how tired he is of all the backdoor politics, double agent bullshit, so he just laughed, got up and left the underground meeting he was attending. i think it was a tipping point for him.
i see post-asit garak leading a quiet domestic life, tending his garden, mending clothes, helping his people rebuild in whatever small way he can, backing parmak and ghemor in their political endeavors.
the children playing near his memorial/garden call it “the tailor’s grounds”, and he is delighted by this fact.
i saw that one quote from enigma tales, i think, where garak assumes a prominent political role, and parmak is described as someone “behind (garak), slightly tucked in the shadows”. well, i think it should be the other way around. garak did say that cardassia needs men like parmak to rise from the ashes.
give me castellan parmak, coming home from a long day of exhausting administrative and political dealings to his very supportive, if snarky, husband garak.
Hello, yes, can I interest you in a kindly, old, dissident Cardassian in these trying times?
Doctor Bashir is great and all, but Parmak has been much more reliable and a soothing balm to our poor lizard, ex-Obsidian Order, out of exile, now-a-Castellan friend Garak.
You don’t really get a description of what Parmak looks like in McCormak’s post-canon DS9 novels, but I’ve latched on to the fandom’s general description of longer white hair, thinner, older, and friggin’ adorable. Anyone else feel like if Parmak was on earth during the 70s he would have been at Woodstock?
Garak certainly has a type though, doesn’t he?
(kicking myself that I saved my finished csp file before I could save a lineart version)
[id: garak and parmak watch the sunset over cardassia from the castellan’s residence. they are both facing away from us, framed by a window. parmak has an arm around garak’s waist. the skyline is beginning to look more traditionally cardassian. /id]
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