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I’m sure lots of people have discussed this before, but I always wondered why the DS9 makeup artists were so inconsistent with Garak’s neckridges.  Dukat always looked virtually the same - Garak changed from episode to episode - it would be interesting to see if it was even WITHIN episodes.  Could they not save a photo, maybe??  We go from one to almost three to one and a half, lifted up - was Garak constantly shedding or did he inject himself with the Cardassian equivalent of Botox?

#ds9 #Star Trek #deep space nine #elim garak #gul dukat #cardassians #neck ridges

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I pretty much ended my blog in March because I was finished posting almost all of the original photos I had wanted  to post here - I was trying to make a “personal archive” mostly of my DS9 hobby, and I accomplished that!  Because I wanted to create an archive, I didn’t want to delete my account, so I’ve had several dozen new people follow me since March, to the point that there are well over 200 now. This even though I was finished posting!  Thank you!  So I’m going to add a few more things to the archive, mostly from old fan club newsletters of Andy’s and Sid’s, things that new fans might never have seen.  To start with, here’s a lovely Garak paper doll set from the newsletter almost twenty years ago!  Enjoy, fellow Garak fans!

#ds9 #star trek #elim garak #deep space nine

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

#writers on tumblr

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this is so on the nose

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everyone quiet down dj unprotected sex is getting an unexpected call from the clinic

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#deep space nine #elim garak #star trek #ds9 #garashir #he sounds like an apex predator on the hunt #but he’s actually sexting and crying on space Grindr

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QUARK WAP WEDNESDAY💦

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When you consider that he comes from a society where men are generally considered to suck at maths, Garak the isolinear subprocessor expert is basically the Obsidian Order equivalent of the beautiful lady agent who's assumed to just be there for decoration until the startling reveal that she's a computer whiz.

#ds9 #elim garak #star trek #deep space nine #deep space 9

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We may not have gotten a DS9 film, but one upside to the show being pretty unpopular when it came out is the books just doing whatever the hell they wanted. Garak just straight up admits to being attracted to men in A Stitch In Time in the year 2000 and there’s no major backlash because basically nobody was reading it

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The Cass Report is a travesty filled with obvious bias, double standards, and the work of anti trans academics. This shouldn't have been published and shouldn't be listened to #cass #uk #politics #scotland #trans #transrights #transphobia #lgbtrights #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #queertiktok

#cass #cass review #trans #trans rights

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not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.

this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.

i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless

#trans #trans people aren’t children to coddle #they aren’t rapists and maniacs #they’re human beings #apparently being treated like one is too difficult for the UK government #trans rights

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Enabran Tain on his deathbed asking Garak about every enemy he ever had to make sure they all died before he did was an all time hater move I have to admit

#enabran tain #elim garak #Star Trek #ds9 #deep space nine #hater #rare Tain W

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idk i think a lot of people sort of build up schizo-spec diagnoses in their head as this example of a "clearly biomedical disease that is the scariest possible example of mental illness that is always a crisis no matter what." and i'm not going to sit here and say that schizoaffective is always pleasant to live with, or pretend that it's something that I can manage perfectly-it does cause me distress a lot of the time, and makes some things very difficult. but for me, psychosis is by far not the most difficult symptom i have to deal with, compared to some of the other things that have brought me distress. And yet it's always the symptom that is reacted to with the most fear, confusion, and disgust by other people. I hate it when people generalize psychosis as always and inherently and forever a crisis, and ignore the fact that everyone who experiences psychosis is going to have their own experiences, perspectives on how it impacts them, and that treating psychosis as a super scary, inherently dangerous symptom is incredibly stigmatizing and prevents us from receiving support and care from our communities.

idk. i just really wish people would realize that for some people, psychosis can sometimes be a neutral or even positive experience (i've had some incredibly lovely psychosis experiences), and that by positioning psychosis as a "super scary disease that has no quality of life" and only offering carceral solutions, it perpetuates a pattern where we get continually pushed into harmful treatments. Instead of a situation where our autonomy is respected, where we're offered a wide variety of treatments from meds to therapies to peer support like Hearing Voices Network to material community based support and where we're allowed to define our own experience of psychosis based on how it actually affects us. like, i don't want to deny that psychosis is often distressing for many of us--but I do think we have the responsibility to evaluate where we've learned about psychosis, what societal messages we've internalized about psychosis, what kinds of knowledge about psychosis do we not have access to, and just actually think in depth about how our biases impact how we communicate about psychosis.

#psychosis #schizo spec

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“can bisexuals use faggot” what a ridiculous question. of course we can. i just used one the other day

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Hans Jordt

#star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #elim garak #a stitch in time #Hans jordt #andrew robinson #deep space 9 #his scary baby blues

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I'm learning about the "Type B" Cardassian uniform, and-

and I just-

Why

Why are they trying so hard to be sexy and covering themselves in Cardussys?

... Oh

I see

#deep space nine #cardassians #star trek #ds9 #uniform the cardadsian military uses when the other one is in the wash