Bashir, looking at a selfie of Garak I hate this photo
Garak: I’m cute as hell in that photo! I’m smiling kindly
Bashir: You’re not smiling kindly; you look like you’re up to something
Garak: Up to kindness
The real reason Garak wasn’t in the episode, “Take me out to the holo-suite” (7.4). Click for quality.
P.s. I’m going to be posting art on my main (@quietduckpond ) from now on and then rbing to my sideblog. If you only want to see my art and not my regular blog posts, head on down to @quietduckpond-art.
Firmly believe that all that “my dear doctor,” stuff has to work, on some level, to calm Julian down. What endearment might he say in return, probably without even realizing it? (Garak realizes. Garak is doing mental gymnastics on an Olympic level to get it to happen again).
Made a garashir vid to “Plans” by Bloc Party, I’ve got like a lot of thoughts about it but it’s broadly about like… violence and sacrifice and what people are capable of, ways people misunderstand Julian, and Garak and Julian’s friendship.
Content warnings for a portion of the vid that does touch on Tain and the Bashirs’ abuse and also a bit of flashing from phaser fire. I also wanted to mention as far as like, audio processing, that it is a particularly dialogue-heavy video that uses a song with lyrics.
Here’s the video on YouTube for higher quality and captions.