I Love Garashir Because It's A "I Love Every Part Of You Despite Myself" Type Of Situation. It's A "I

I love garashir because it's a "I love every part of you despite myself" type of situation. It's a "I know I shouldn't but you've carved a hole in my heart and made it a home" type of longing. It's about loving and hating yourself for it and finding yourself a little more whole despite yourself and healing from the childhood trauma you couldn't even bring yourself to recognise at the time because someone had the gaul to say you deserved better without even opening their mouth

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3 months ago

could we see julian bashir please? i'm curious to see how polarizing he really is...

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1 year ago

Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around

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1 year ago

In my defense your honor I had really good music on and it made me want to do something evil

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5 months ago

The concept of Bashir knowing nothing about cardassian biology until Tain gives him a bunch of medical files in The Wire. Which he then abuses to learn every reproductive fact about Cardassians he possibly can.

Therefore abusing Garak's dad's gift to give his son the best bj a cardassian has ever received.

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11 months ago

a one-panel grayscale comic drawn in the style of gay comic artist gerard p. donelan, featuring garak and bashir from star trek deep space nine, specifically the episode our man bashir. garak looks around at the decor, and the caption reads as him saying "Tell me again, the difference between eclectic and tacky?"

rom and quark walking together. rom is smiling at quark, who is well-dressed, and talking while carrying several large shopping bags. the caption reads as quark saying, "I spend all this latinum on clothes so I don't HAVE to join a gym."

a single-panel comic of julian bashir and jadzia dax, they are in julian's quarters. julian is trying on his silver tennis jumpsuit and glaring down at jadzia, who is talking and laying on his bed which is strewn with clothes. the caption reads as jadzia saying, "Face fact, girlfriend. Butch is NOT your color."

Gul Dukat and Captain Sisko walking together. sisko is holding a raktajino and glancing in an annoyed way at Dukat, who is following close behind him with a hand on his shoulder, and excitedly saying "Tell me, Captain, is flogging still practiced on board ship?"

Garak, wearing a long, backless evening gown with opera gloves, looks annoyed as he opens his door to Julian Bashir, who is wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie. the caption reads as garak saying, "You did NOT say, 'black tie!' You said, 'formal!'"

Sisko and Garak sitting at a table together eating lunch. Sisko holds a raktajino and glances knowingly over his shoulder, while Garak leans towards him, gesturing with a spoon and saying, "He's not hung... but he IS very politically astute."

a single-panel comic of quark and odo at a brunch buffet table. odo is looking down his nose judgingly at Quark, who is leaning over to load up his plate with grubs. the caption reads as Quark saying, "Oh, please, girlfriend. Isn't brunch a little too early for attitude?"

Garak sitting and holding a glass of kanar, gesturing in an effeminate way with one hand and looking behind his shoulder at Quark, who is holding a bottle of kanar. the caption reads as Garak saying, "Darling! ... Being a bitchy queen is just about the most fun you can have without a phase disruptor!"

garak and julian bashir facing each other, dressed in reference to the episode "distant voices." julian is scowling at garak, who is handing him a present and saying, "So, is this the birthday that you officially enter spinsterhood? Or is that next year?"

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH YAAYYYY

to fight my artblock i decided to redraw some gerard p donelan comics as ds9. but once i started i could not stop....

so heres all deep space 9 of them. lol. again the poses and captions are lifted straight from his comics all i did was put space guys on there! please enjoy

(id in alt text btw!)

Meet the seven new frog species we just named after iconic Star Trek captains!

Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0

At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.

Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?

No, they're little treefrogs!

A male Boophis janewayae sitting on a leaf. It's a little brown frog with a ring of blue around the eye and a tinge of green in the slightly inflated vocal sac.

Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0

Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.

Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!

These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.

Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0

I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:

'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'

— Vences et al. 2024

There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.

On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.

You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.