[dailyfanart]

I can make everyone like Garak, but I can’t make Garak like everyone. 

• Jack: what would Garak's twitter be like for real
• Sylver: pretentious literary quotes
• Sylver: Like, the ABSOLUTE most pretentious, insisting-upon-themselves, needlessly circuitous literary commentary (that disagrees with THE MAINSTREAM - and specifically YOU - just for the hell of it)
• Sylver: basically, HIPSTER COLLEGE LIT PROFESSOR
• Sylver: trolling all his students
• Sylver: interrupted by 4 AM on Tuesdays
• Jack: LOL
• Sylver: when he gets completely shitfaced and goes on the most incomprehensible yet flamboyant shit-tweeting sprees that invariably end in existential crises (but he gets several cute boys' screen names so it usually evens out)
• Jack: oh my fucking GOD
• Sylver: (people whisper that he has ties to Dark Internet and maybe Anonymous, but nobody has been able to verify)
• Jack: yep that's absolutely it. what a fucking mess I love him
• Sylver: .....please stop me before I write some kind of AU
• Sylver: pls stop me from doing this
• Jack: NEVER
• Sylver: .....@AStitchInTimeSaves10

[thesylverlining]

…I didn’t actually mean to give myself emotions about this. But I just came to the realization - from my silly previous chat post, from a twitter username pun of all things… 

I think the title of Andrew Robinson’s novel on Garak’s life, “A Stitch In Time,” is an incomplete phrase, almost a riddle. I think we’re meant to complete it. But not in the obvious sense. (This is Garak. Nothing is obvious.)

Numbers play a very important part in the book, and it almost, almost fits the title. Garak is designated Ten Lubak as a child and youth during his training at the Bamarren Institute for State Intelligence.

Ten. 

“A Stitch In Time Saves Ten.”

I believe that is the entire, implied title of his ‘autobiography.’ 

It’s a riddle. It’s hidden.

It’s a fucking PUN.

It’s. Perfectly Garak.

…And most of all, it’s meaningful in a way that hit me very hard just now. Because it did save him. What happened in this book saved him. The letter to whom it’s addressed (Julian Bashir, “you not only saved my life, but made it possible for me to live it”) saved him. 

Ten was saved. Elim Garak was saved. By a stitch in time.

That’s my theory, anyway. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s a coincidence. I believe in them. But I don’t trust them. <3

[vulcannic]

Making prints of my garak painting! Should be up on my etsy next week maybe???

[thesylverlining]

This happened last night at like 4 AM and I had to wait until today to upload it bc I was laughing/crying too hard to actually function

Garak Headcanon Time

[fightscrimewhilesleeping]

Well, not really headcanon exactly.  More like…an idea that got in my brain while rewatching the Wire and the Die is Cast, and I’m not really even sure if I like it, but it won’t get out of my head so I’m sharing it so I can maybe bounce the idea off of some people.  Maybe some of you have already thought of this, and can point me towards some discussions?

So, in DiC, we’re given a description of Garak as an interrogator back in the day that DOES NOT MATCH AT ALL with what we see of him when he tortures Odo.  Clearly, something has changed, and he is no longer the same person he was while working for Tain and the Obsidian Order.  Now, the most obvious explanation is just that, well…he’s been living on DS9 a few years, he’s made friends…stuff changes.  We all buy that.  And in the rest of the series, while we see him kill (and try to kill) people, I don’t believe we ever see him torture anyone again, or even deliberately cause pain.  Again, this is easily explained by good old fashioned character development.   

But here’s my theory: is it possible that the implant in the Wire wasn’t just triggered by physical pain, but by extreme emotional distress as well?  So, that reaction we saw in DiC was always happening, but the implant then flooded his system with endorphins, thus creating a kind of artificial sadism.  That would explain what Tain said about how much Garak used to “relish” an interrogation–his enjoyment was actually in direct proportion to how much he was naturally repelled and distressed by it.  If the implant reacted to emotional stress, it would also mean that Garak probably didn’t suffer any claustrophobic attacks while it was functioning, and then suddenly had to deal with that again as well after it was removed.

So, what do you guys think?  I have to admit, I’m a little hesitant about it, since I generally don’t like fan theories that tend to “absolve” characters of responsibility (ex: I don’t enjoy the idea of Loki being brainwashed in Avengers), but I think it’s an interesting idea…and I think it could be true and still hold Garak responsible for actions–after all, even if it was very distressing for him, he probably still would have done those things for Tain, like we see in DiC. 

Anyway, idk, just thought I’d share, and I’d love to hear anybody’s thoughts :-)

[vulcannic]

when someone hurts bae (x)

[antivanrogue]

i love how in literally every conversation anyone has with garak, you can read on their face at some point in the conversation the exact same thing. everyone who talks to him, sooner or later, finds themselves thinking, loud and clear–

“fucking garak.”

[neaq]

The cheery underside of a skate may look like a face, but it’s actually the skate’s mouth and nostrils.

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