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Nothing shows you just how many times Garak changes outfits like a Previously On

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Coming back to this. Bertie Wooster talking about psychoanalysis my beloved...

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Writing Garak is such a challenge, but so much fun!

Just how much Shakespeare do we think he’s actually read? I always liked to imagine that Bashir put him through all the major works, despite (or because of) his protestations. This piece sounds great.

For the writer goals list!

🦄 Is there a new POV you'd like to try writing?

I want to write Garak PoV! I'm scared to try it! Because in my analysis of him he only seems cool and scary because no one is inside his head, but I'm worried about going too far down the wet and pathetic route if I get in there.

He's competent - that's absolutely important to his characterization - but calm cool and controlled he is not.

But I'm gonna do it. After I finish Prologue this year (manifesting. manifesting) I'm going to do the Garak PoV companion piece which will cover the same timeline but will resolutely not be about his relationship with Bashir but rather about his study of the plays of Shakespeare (far more embarrassing for him tbh).

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Andy addressed Garak/Bashir slash fairly often, but this clip is one of my favorites - I love the way he’s pretending to be so shocked and yet is so totally on board with it too.  He also reveals what activity Garak loves the most. ;-)

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As we see a barrage of evil executive orders come in, they are not immediately enforceable and will takes months or years to implement.

That’s still not great, but don’t let these pile up to the point of hopelessness. Take a breath, and look community leaders who will fight it every step of the way.

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really weird that people dont seem to acknowledge garak spent 6 months in prison. I've read 40+ fics within the last 3 weeks and only one person has mentioned it, in passing?

i think that has potential for some GREAT garashir content. much to think about.

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+ bonus

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shots from j&w that wouldn’t leave me alone until i made them into gifs 1/?

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What Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were thinking of when they cast Andrew Robinson as Garak:

What Star Trek: Deep Space Nine should have remembered when they cast Andrew Robinson as Garak:

(/jk but seriously, you cast a dude who played Liberace and then get all shocked when he leans into the gay???)

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Spock’s outfit in The Return of the Archons is on point

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Possibly controversial opinion: Captain Kirk (the TOS version) is not a playboy or a skirt chaser - he is a male femme fatale

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Wooster

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It’s a good performance, though the house is not as accessible as this afternoon’s. Suddenly, from a few rows back, a mobile phone rings. Quick as a flash John says, ‘Was that a cell phone ringing, Jeeves?’ This gets a round of applause.

I hear myself replying, ‘Can’t have been sir, they haven’t been invented yet.’ More applause.

The show goes wonderfully from that point on.

Perhaps we should arrange for a phone to ring every Saturday night. (Martin Jarvis, Broadway, Jeeves? p. 109)

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My dog decided years ago that everyone is cool except for my brother. My brother is (apparently) a terrifying monster-beast who must be barked at thoroughly every time he enters the house. Bear in mind, my brother lives here. He comes in several times a day. He has never harmed the dog. He is not the only grown man who lives here. My husband and my father also live in the house, and both of them are perfectly fine. There is no reason whatsoever that he should be singled out as dangerous invader, but logic is irrelevant to the dog.

fun thing about herding and/or generally neurotic breeds: they are really good at following rules you have instituted, but they will also make their own Dog Rules they will follow stringently whether or not you like it

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