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.
Mad scientists are great and I adore the lab aesthetic but where is the love for unhinged field work scientists. You drive down a backroad in the middle of the night and your headlights illuminate someone crouched down in the woods completely covered in mud holding five toads in a net. You’re hiking in the remote mountains and there’s some guy perched on a cliff that should be impossible to get to ranting about rocks, they’re gone when you glance back. You’re hanging out by the river one day and see a fully clothed person walk out of the water like Godzilla and they immediately start recording something on a clipboard while muttering to themselves about salamander populations. Feral Science. Degree in being a cryptid
Dukat sucks so much. I love him. At least, I loved him before he went from being just this cruel and dangerous but also awkward and kind of pathetic dirtbag to being a Serious 100% Evil CraAAaazy Villain. He’s really lost a big part of why I enjoyed him: that sometimes he had to work together with Our Heroes to solve a problem or make it worse, and that he genuinely saw himself as benevolent and in the right rather than just wanting to burn everything down.
I know he starts a cult and goes out in a blaze of magical fire at the end of the series or something, but in my heart, my ideal post-series fate for Dukat, the character that I liked before everything with him went off the rails, is much more mundane. He doesn’t deserve a big dramatic evil villain death. He has like… a subspace podcast where he rants about how the Federation sucks and does paid promotions for powdered parasitic fungus supplements and tulaberry ketones. Ziyal returns his calls sometimes, but her therapist is encouraging her to keep some more distance if she feels like she needs to. One day Dukat is sitting in his bachelor pad full of badly-assembled space IKEA furniture watching TV and Politician/War Hero Garak shows up on the news for an interview segment, and he digs his claws into the arms of his chair so hard he rips the fabric.
Quark is generally a traditionally misogynistic Ferengi right? and yet all his female love interests are generally extremely opposed to the Ferengi view of the ideal woman (strong, smart, violent). not be like “Quark has mommy issues” but like. I don’t think that pattern is unrelated to Ishka being Ishka.
Andy Robinson said he played Garak like he’d just learned Standard very recently and rn I’m just picturing Garak, recently exiled, war criminal, ex-spy, driving a shuttle while listening to one of those Learn Standard in 3 Months! radio classes that says things like ‘Hello, how are you?’ in a funky little rhythmic beat to make it more interesting.
Space Duolingo where a cartoon little vulcan gives you a solemn nod of approval when you get your question on tense right and a cartoon little tribble with big eyes pops up on your padd every half hour if you forget to do your lesson for the day and frowns at you and multiplies into several frowning tribbles
Wait. So Garak actually speaks Standard, though? I thought he just had a translator and knew a few phrases, that’s cool! And now I’m imagining him and Bashir having lunch and chatting, and for whatever reason the translators stop working, and they’re both VERY surprised to realise that during their conversations, Garak has been speaking like. Cardassi-accented, bi-literate level Standard, and Bashir has been speaking really basic, word-soup level Cardassi
@vivcaprica asked me what a pre-Dominion vorta would look like, which reminded me how much I hate my old redesign; so here’s a sketch of a pre-Dominion Vorta for a new redesign, using their idea of something like a tarsier (although I went with loris and jerboa here).
idk how anything works i’ve not thought about it beyond this sketch, ha
being a talkative introvert is the weirdest thing, lemme tell ya
which is why i’m glad blogging/social media exists b/c it gives me an outlet so i can be as talkative as i want without the expectation of social interaction
