tbh i think one of the reasons subtle misogyny has been going unnoticed isn’t that no one’s reading theory(tm) but that women just aren’t taught when they are being victimized in ways that dont place them as fragile children.
I had to.
I spent my entire day on this tangent and learning how to motion track in davinci just for this when I was supposed to be finishing a drawing...
Also for credits sake https://www.tumblr.com/garaks-padded-bra/738458049873936384/i-got-paid-money-to-draw-pregnant-housewife-weyoun?source=share
There is a second version with a crudely photoshopped lemur thats been coloured purple but this worked better.
The thing is, Cardassians don’t even clap like that. Garak is clapping the human way specifically for Julian’s benefit. He wants to make it perfectly clear that his applause is pejorative. It’s every bit as bitchy as his special Cardassian tuxedo.
when you think about it, it’s no wonder that Bashir fell so deeply in love with Garak.
when you’re an autistic person who has spent your entire life being rejected on the most absolutely fundamental—literally genetic—level for not picking up on the social cues that everybody refuses to directly explain but expects you to deduce from cultural context, finding someone who sees your fumbling as not only acceptable but endearing and invites you to engage in play around it in a space where you’re safe from true rejection….
well, what the hell else are you going to do but fall in love?
Garak crashing Bashir’s spy thriller holoverse fantasy to play his sidekick and threaten to kill everyone only to earn a standing return invite is INSANE
I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.
I haven’t read this essay in… twelve years? I think? But someone linked it today and rereading it was a) a treat and b) honestly really helpful. If you, like me, want to write smut but often find it difficult, this essay may help a LOT.
when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”