Sonja Vordermaier, Streetlampforest, a collection of 30 european streetlamps from different origins and times, Mangfallpark Rosenheim, talking place at the horticultural show Rosenheim 2010.
Artist Uldis Kalvan’s gothic romance covers, featuring women running away from things.
Women Who Innately Mistrust Architecture, a series
women with long hair in long skirts pursued by fancy houses
@defiantbird your aesthetic.
STILL THE VILLAIN PURSUES HER
Leave me alone, Edwardian Baroque house!
“WOOOOOOOOO
Appreciate our elegant furnishiiiiiingggsssss”
Deep Space Nine Wartime Miniseries PART 1: a three-episode collection, richly illustrated
Representative note: “what the hell we are only now at credits, oh fuck guys, guys I’m so chatty this season!”
6x01 ‘A Time to Stand’
- this SPACE ARMADA. I am all a-thrill up and down my arms!
- mmm it’s been months. what strange new rhythms will you all have fallen into out here…
tired beautiful Jadzia with her little fly-away hairs, aah help
- oh g—[covers entire face with hands]
- [a beat]
- [re-emerges] it’s like. so you know how when you’re living somewhere with cold winters, and then one day in spring the weather goes warm all at once and suddenly people are in T-shirts again, and it feels like the most bare skin you have ever seen in your life?
that is the Victorian erotica moment I am in right now
Yes, this volume of Deep Space Nine watch-notes is devoted to a single episode, because ha ha ha, guys. Guys.
Well you knew what was coming. And I did not.
5x16 ‘Doctor Bashir, I Presume’
Oh boy am I looking forward to having Opinions about what I have been assured is a pivotal and DIVISIVE Bashir backstory episode! What could it be?? I’m holding all the potentially relevant things I know about his timeline in my head right now, here’s what I got:
1. loves his teddy bear so hard that he learns stuffing surgery at the age of five
2. shows great passion and skill for tennis in his youth, though does not pursue it. instead…
3. attends Starfleet Medical Academy, where he is feverishly driven to be the top of his class, writing in his journals about his deep fear of failure
4. in the final exam, mixes up an identification a first-year would know — later, a malevolent projection of his own mind will accuse him of self-sabotage
5. accepts an adventurous and far-flung medic position on the Federation station off Bajor
6. …choosing this path over a life of prestige and loveliness working at a hospital in Paris and marrying the talented ballerina he loved
7. arrives on Deep Space 9 as The Flirty Wunderkind impervious to doubt, self or otherwise
8. it is a total fucking ruse
8.a. is stricken with fear to learn that Dax nominated him for an illustrious medical award, assures them all he is far too young and will not get it, and crushed to pieces when he, in fact, does not
8.b. his old academic rival arrives on the station, sending him into an awkward dorky panic that lasts for days, and sees him getting desperately drunk with Miles and obsessively organizing, thankfully not in that order
and 9. once when Odo asked if there was anyone he could check in with for Julian on Earth, he paused barely too long before casually declining, and aaall my Significance Bells went off
So. If I were to arm-chair psychoanalyze this fictional character at this point: Julian Bashir hinges a huge amount of his self-worth on being medically/intellectually infallible. He is very very motivated to be the best & brightest, and for much of his life has been, which is why: smug. But because he has so deeply defined himself by his intelligence, he’s terrified of that final step of gaining Official Smartest Status, because what if he doesn’t get it. WHO IS HE THEN. Ergo, the likely last second self-sabotaging. Ergo, possibly going out to DS9 because the professional prestige to be achieved would be more qualitative and ~lived~ than something directly quantifiable like, say, winning awards or becoming the chief of surgery.
This is a bit of a cheat, because @rainbowrites mentioned that his parents are going to appear in this episode, but that fact combined with No. 9 has me pretty certain they’ll be revealed to have played a key role in Julian’s complexes. In all honesty, after the moment with Odo I idly considered an Aaron Burr-style “it was my parents’ dying wish before they passed” explanation for all his academic striving, but they sound alive so never mind about that. It could be as simple as them having relentlessly pushed their son toward greatness all through childhood, but that’s so common that it can’t possible be the Twist I’ve been assured is coming, much less controversial.
I have the sense that whatever is revealed (SRLSY WHAT IS IT), it’s going to make Julian ~different~ in the eyes of the audience and the other characters. But what I haven’t been able to suss out from people’s deliberately vague and spoiler-free comments (thank you, u all are great), is whether this is going to be a cause for sympathy, or for unease. Maybe both! Regardless, I’m positive it’s going to be weird. I get a stroonng sense of the weird.
Ok, OKAY, let’s do this —
GARAK: How uncharacteristically generous of you.
QUARK: I’m in an uncharacteristic mood. Besides, I’ve got eighty cases of this stuff sitting in my stockroom. And the way things are going, I’ll never unload another bottle unless it’s to you.
GARAK: How thoughtless of me not to consider the effect the destruction of my homeworld would have on your business. These must be trying times for you. Be brave.
From “Empok Nor” (5x11)
Here’s an awkward conversation that goes pretty well, all things considered.
O’Brien: I thought you might want to know that we salvaged the plasma manifold. It’s being installed right now.
Garak: Mission accomplished.
O’Brien: I guess it didn’t exactly go the way any of us expected. You know there’s going to be an inquest.
Garak: Yes, I’ve been told that. Chief, I was hoping to ask a favour.
O’Brien: Don’t worry. Once they know the facts–
Garak: It’s not about that. I’d like you to express my deepest regrets to Amaro’s wife. I’d talk to her myself, but I’m not sure she’d welcome that.
O’Brien: I’ll tell her.
Garak: I’d appreciate it.
O’Brien: Julian tells me the blast broke a couple of your ribs.
Garak: Well, it could have been worse. If I’d been any closer to that phaser, it would have killed me.
O’Brien: Don’t take this the wrong way, but that was the plan.
Garak: I understand.
O’Brien: I’ll see you around.
“O You Gods, I am Isis, Osiris’s sister, Who wept for the father of the Gods, Osiris, Who put an end to the massacring of the Two Lands. His seed is within my womb. It is as son of the foremost of the Ennead Who will rule this land, become heir to Geb, speak on His father’s behalf, and slay Seth, the adversary of His father Osiris”
(from spell 148 of the Coffin Texts, translation from “The Literature of Ancient Egypt” by W.K.Simpson)
detail from one of the coffins of King TutankhAmon (now in the Cairo Museum):
the Goddess Isis with outstretched wings and kneeling on the hieroglyphic symbol for “gold”
deepintheshadyglen
Information for Gyakuten Kenji (Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth) from Tokyo Game Show 2008.
Nintendo Power
Issue 236, Page 50
