i’m making a watch guide for my friends
Anonymous asked:
when you're done with the ds9 viewing notes you should publish them on your blog
chronotopes answered:
okay!
i’m not going to take up everybody’s dashboards with them because that would definitely be a dick move but here is the ds9 watch guide. heads up it’s very much aimed at a non-tumblr audience - certain elements (like when i tell ppl they can skip our man bashir if they want, or barely mention the mirror universe) are tailored to that. (it’s also ‘cause the mirrorverse sucks. anyway.) and some things, like what qualifies as a “ferengi episode” or as “gay happenings” ended up way more fucked up than i meant for them to be.
(gay happenings was originally a way to mark out extra gay tos episodes; in the end, i used that symbol to mark out some but not all central texts for garashir, kiradax, quodo, and miles/julian since those are the four most popular same-gender ships on ao3. plus rejoined of course. anyway boy howdy am i overanalyzing this.)
if anyone’s curious about the tos one, here it is. same disclaimers apply.
- melora: so you & julian are close right
- jadiza: yeah def, i would literally die for him, whats up
- melora: so, do you think he and i--
- jadzia: idk like can i be real a second like honestly you could easily do waaaaay better for urself like before you got here he rode around in ur wheelchair like it was the fucking train at dollywood & he is OBSESSED w toes... like sure he’s cute but is it NOT worth it if u ask me
- melora: dax. u r wise af. thanks
as hilarious as jezri’s obvious fundamental incompatiblity is it rlly adds something of an additional ironic tragedy to garak’s situation tbh. like “uh okay college chick, so ur telling me ur NOT into foot worship in a candelit bubble bath while playing pornographic secret agent games as julian’s slutty bunny sidekick, Cloaca Galore? so uhhhhh if you don’t mind me asking, what the hell did you even steal him for then??? tf…”
me: just hanging out like eating a sandwich or whatever doing normal things and not thinking about star trek deep space nine (1992-1999)
me, literally the fuck out of nowhere: here are the detailed and specific ways in which late seasons julian bashir hates himself
bashir picking up klingon takeout on his way to garak’s and watching old Lizard movie musicals with him, universal translator off so he can just enjoy the costumes and dancing without worrying about the terrible propaganda. eventually falling into a peaceful federation sleep full of easy dreams on top of him before the thing is even half over. garak lying awake and stroking bashir’s hair, lost in his own dreams with Lizard ginger rogers and the songs he knows by heart
actually i hate to say it but They fit the howl’s moving castle (the book) mold pretty fucking well character wise. melodramatic fashionable bottom made alluring by way of his #dangerous reputation meets bossy well-meaning Dutiful Child with a major case of imposter syndrome. and then fall in love via one being consistently stubborn enough to wear down the other’s layers of bullshit. but we can see that layers of bullshit are part of what #spices #up the relationship and it never fully goes away because in some ways it’s part of the fun. wow.
leaked footage from the howl’s moving castle au of garashir
non-exhaustive list of profoundly sinister things about 7x03 “afterimage”
- bashir delicately hovering over garak with that little medical tricorder in the infirmary scene and how sisko carefully asks him if there’s anything he can do for garak after garak leaves
- the politically charged element in the storyline - garak has to get better so they can win the war - and how this provides a reason for garak to treat literally everyone’s concern on his behalf with suspicion, even bashir’s
- the scene where quark bugs bashir, a married man, about how he can get a second chance at sleeping with jadzia now and the scene ends with a menacing “you’re going to lose”; bashir ‘wins’ the competition quark is talking about but he LOSES as a whole
- this scene immediately being followed up with ezri entering garak’s shop and garak reverting to his peak season one mannerisms and going “ah! you must be ezri dax! i hear you’re here to….. counsel me” in the most passive aggressive tone possible. that’s what he SAYS but what he means is “bitch don’t even try it. i don’t know what you’re gonna try but don’t try it.”
- garak saying that tain used to lock him in a closet. HMMM what kind of FREQUENTLY-USED METAPHOR does this remind you of . “did you think you deserved to be locked in that closet” “i knew he’d let me out as soon as i learned my lesson”… What Could It All Mean
- everything about the profoundly cursed conversation between ezri and julian but we’ve all gone over that already. also the fact that while this conversation is happening garak is busy throwing himself out of an airlock. and that it’s this piece of news that disrupts their conversation
- okay actually while i was aware of the degree to which this episode reads like “some the fuck kind of tennessee williams play” i am only now realizing how easily it can be read like a subtextual commentary on garak’s character and the production limits thereof. like “look at that sky, it just goes on and on.” “but it doesn’t. there’s a holosuite wall not ten meters in front of us.” charlie kelly pepe sylvia image
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