These Boys Came In A Matching Set Swear. Same Daddy Issues HELLO??????

Does Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek DS9 eat pussy?

Deep Space Nine and U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 General Plans, from Doug Drexler's Facebook.

consider this: klingon rap battles

Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

It's both of them

Julian is moping about turning 30 in a universe where humans regularly live to 150.

You vain little twink.

Do not doubt my power

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

My faaaaaaavorite thing that Garak calls Julian in the lovely meadow of fics for them is "Impertinent Boy" 😊 makes me all warm and fuzzy inside hehe *kicks feet* 💕

Putting out what sketchiness I can cause like idk if I'm just lazy but EVEN MY STUPID SIMPLE DRAWINGS take like a day to realize. I have 20000000 WIPs rn pls accept this

"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

Garashir repaint of The Temptress by Pio Ricci :)