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Everyone who was on ds9 when it was terok nor became happier and everybody who came after became more miserable.

Real world influences on Cardassian fashion- Natima's dress and the Edwardian era

So. Something very interesting to me has always been Natimas sleeves.

Yeah. These weird, pleated things. They're interesting because I immediately know what time period is being referenced here, and it becomes more obvious on the Cardassian extra who also wears this dress, as she has a different hairstyle (Natima's hairstyle reads like it's referencing Heian Japan to me).

The hair, paired with the sleeves, comes off as very Edwardian. Risqué, perhaps, by Edwardian standards, but Edwardian.

For comparison, three white dresses from the Edwardian era with pleated/tucked sleeves (the first has the sleeves as part of the main dress, the other two are blouses). The point at the end of the sleeve isn't especially Edwardian, but I have seen a few Edwardian-does-medieval dresses.

Even Natima's skirt, which is incorrectly identified as a straight cut midi by some artists, has a subtle Edwardian reference. This kind of midi with weird cut outs (that her student in orange, Rekelen, also has) reads as very modern to us, and it is. The Edwardians didn't really cut skirts like this- it was ankle to floor length, straight or trained... but they did like using unusually shaped layering pieces and seam lines. These pushed on until we start seeing even more similar detailing in skirts from the 1910s.

(top left is a 1910s example, two right images are courtesy of @chic-a-gigot)

Natima and Rekelen also are both wearing boleros, or dresses that imply boleros, which aren't directly referencing an Edwardian style, but are a piece of clothing from that time.

Natima's dress interestingly, implies a bolero and a style of pleated bodice that was not worn with a bolero, in my experience.

(Bottom right from @chic-a-gigot again)

This style also may have been referenced for Ziyal's gold dress, though the pleats here look more like a Bertha collar.

Rekelen, Natima, and the Cardassian extra are also all wearing undershirts, though this really only comes off as am Edwardian reference for Rekelen; coats or dresses with elbow length sleeves had long sleeved blouses or dresses underneath.

I even have specifically orange examples of this! However, Rekelen's clothes are way less Edwardian than Natima's, and I wouldn't have picked up on the era possibly being referenced of this outfit wasn't being shown off alongside Natima's.

(Right from @chic-a-gigot)

"enthusiastic consent" "dubcon" "noncon" ???con where we're both so neurotic and strange about vulnerability and emotional and physical expression that it'd take a crack team of philosophers to figure out whether anything about what we did together was consensual or even semiotically definable as sex

Quark is totally cool w it cause they're "in front of" his bar and he is charging them to sleep there by the minute

(Click image for better photo quality! I think!)

everyone stfu they are sleeping

Thinking about "Inquisition", and how this:

[Image description: Text from a script that reads 'With that, Sisko turns and walks out. Bashir stares after him with a leaden feeling his stomach. After a beat, he turns and hammers a fist into the cell wall.]

turns into this:

[Image description: A gif of a clip from the show. It shows a containment cell on Deep Space Nine, the force field activated. Julian Bashir stands despondently in the cell, leaning against the back wall. He slides down the wall to sit on the ground and brings his hands to his head.]

and what that says about Bashir's response to the situation and his mindset and feeling of anger (or lack thereof) and how Alexander Siddig (and/or the episode's director) interpreted that.

I might try and put some of those thoughts into words later, but at this moment my brain is not cooperating.

but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

These boys came in a matching set swear. Same daddy issues HELLO??????

(In Purgatory’s Shadow)

(Doctor Bashir, I Presume?) the way these were aired practically back to back.

deep space nine

Do not doubt my power

[thank you @greggslife for knowing me, knowing I would know this, and for also recognising it]

Snippets of some more Garashir fanfic fanart *_* I'll be fixing proportions (my mortal enemy) and inking today