EG + JB 4EVR <3
Ideally, this should be carved on a midway ride (Ahem- Your fic is “what I like” Tinsnip!) but an aspen will do in a pinch :-)
“Robinson’s novel is structured as a letter from Garak to Dr. Julian Bashir - his best friend and longtime breakfast companion on Deep Space Nine. Much fan fiction about Garak speculates that his feelings for Bashir went beyond the platonic relationship depicted on television, a belief Robinson does not refute. Indeed, in A Stitch In Time, Garak has crushes on both men and women. “I loved that sexual ambiguity,” Robinson states. “I wanted to get away from our sexual prejudices. I thought, this is an alien! Who knows what alien sexuality is, if indeed there is strict heterosexuality or homosexuality, those delineations? That’s something that I kept in the book. Though that was more interesting to me in the playing of Garak than the writing of it; this book is for kids too, so I chose not to get more explicit sexually because of that.” Interestingly, the book scarcely mentions Dukat’s daughter Ziyal, Garak’s onetime lover, who was murdered by Damar when he believed she had betrayed Cardassia. “The reason for that is that the writers never got that right,” sighs Robinson. “They had three different actresses playing Ziyal, and when Garak comes back and finds out that Ziyal has been killed, basically it’s, “Well, that’s too bad,” and he moves on with his life.” Near the end of the series, Garak and Damar worked together without any conflict over Damar’s murder of Garak’s love. “So I figured, what the hell. I guess he didn’t care as much as one would have thought.” Was the romance with Ziyal an attempt to heterosexualize Garak because the writers got nervous about the Bashir/Garak dynamic? “Probably,” admits Robinson. “It never really developed. There was never really any investment on their part.””
This year at the Star Trek convention, the emcee (who, I’m sorry, is a blithering clueless idiot at times) was going on about how the theme of the series was how love healed each and every character on the show. Once Armin Shimerman got done telling him that was a load of shite where Quark was concerned, it transitioned to the “Dominion” panel which is where they always stick Andrew Robinson for some reason.
Anyway, the emcee started spouting off about this same theme - which I don’t disagree with for characters like Sisko and Kira and Odo, but is nowhere near as universal as the guy seemed to think - he started expounding on the great, tragic love story of Garak and Ziyal.
Andrew Robinson’s response? “I think his great love affair with Bashir is the one that healed him.”
The emcee stopped asking him questions after that.
a thank you card for cypress_tree, my internet-fandom-writing friend, who has been a source of creative inspiration and Hufflepuffian support since our happy online meeting, and who gives possibly the most wonderful birthday presents I’ve been lucky enough to receive
and I thought maybe ‘net friendship was sentiment other people might share <3
one morning reblog~
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P.G. Wodehouse (via emilyabridges)
i should get a merit badge for the shit i just pulled, yo
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