Icon from a picrew by grgikau. 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.
not that i’d actually wanna live in a different time period, thanks very much, but also lately im vibing the idea of being born hundreds years ago when an army trudges through my city and kills all my loved ones and i must assume a male disguise in order to seek revenge in this male-dominated society so i cut my hair short and slick it back and join the army and learn how to use a big heavy broadsword and i soon have a reputation as a great swordsman which is only overpowered by my reputation as a great lover despite the fact i never take all my clothes off but i still manage to get all the women and the other guys in my regiment can’t figure out how i’m so good with them but i just gotta shrug and play up the ladies man thing until one day i meet a princess of the blood and im charged with protecting her on a journey out of the capital but we get separated from the rest of the regiment and i start developing feelings for her because she’s spunky but i know It Can Never Be for a number of reasons and then one night she catches me bathing in the moonlight and i instinctively draw my sword because No One Can Know My Womanly Secret but also she’s the princess and also also now i’m in love with her so i simply hand the sword over but she throws it aside with a clatter and throws herself at me and we make love by the lakeside and the next day i put on my soldiers gear and we keep moving wondering what the future will hold when the enemy horde comes upon us and i defend her but am outnumbered when suddenly our separated guards catch up and we fight the invaders and i kill the man who slaughtered my family because he is conveniently part of this regiment and we’re all happy for our victory but i still look sadly at the princess because It Can Still Never Be and i must take her to the capital to meet her betrothed and we kiss and make love sadly in a tent one last time but then we finally reach the city it turns out her fiance is a huge Gay too and has a huge entourage of gays following him around and brushing lint out of his fur coats and he hires me to be the queen’s bodyguard wink wink nudge nudge and i meet her nightly using a secret passageway under the castle and also i get a really cool new sword and history doesnt remember me as anything more than a friend to the queen until centuries later when a bunch of love letters are found in a secret compartment under the castle by a lesbian librarian who was researching the local history and she falls in love with the lady castle tour guide as they bond over an interest in our love story the end
shoutout to hairy folks. your natural hair growth is hot and sexy and you should not feel obligated to shave or trim unless You want to. this goes double for trans folks
Yes my body is a temple, and I am the deity it is dedicated to. I decide what is sacred or profane here. So unless you have come to worship get the fuck out of here.
I absolutely should be writing my fic but instead, I’m going to discuss the realization I had while talking to @wanderingwriter87 that Julian apparently made Garak read fucking KEATS, canonically in the show. One of the most romantic writers ever. Okay.*
In Broken Link (S4x26), when talking to a Bajoran woman he wants to set Odo up with, he says “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” which is a reference to Book 1 of Endymion.
Now, it’s a reasonably well-known poem, but not really the most popular of Keats’ work and definitely not one that I think he would have picked up randomly without Julian’s suggestion. And it’s making me INSANE!! Because the overall plot of the four-book poem is about a Shepard who falls in love with the moon goddess Selena (renamed Cynthia in the poem.) To make an extremely long poem short- and I’m cutting a lot of plot points here- in the end, after tragedy and extreme challenges, they escape together. They’re from two fundamentally different worlds, she’s a goddess and he’s a Shepard but their LOVE allows them to be together forever.
Like are you KIDDING me?? Julian gave Garak a love poem about two people who shouldn’t love each other, finding each other over impossible odds (again, I’m cutting a whole plot point where he falls in love with another woman who turns out to be Cynthia in disguise but I digress), only to have him leave his home for them to be together.
Before his goddess, in a blissful swoon. She gave her fair hands to him, and behold, Before three swiftest kisses he had told, They vanish’d far away!
Anyway- please consider that Julian was really out here giving Garak ROMANTIC EPICS at their book club. They were sitting across from each other discussing how love can still exist between people who are from different paths in life. Bitch- WHAT?? What’s next?? Making him read the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice??
*Disclaimer: It is also possible that Garak just knows the expression “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” and doesn’t know it’s from a human poet.
