#Dax irl

[canisalbus]

This tile at my place of work reminded me of Vasco ✨️

That's him!

[fizzie]

Trifecta of sluts

[sysig]

Everything falls into place so nicely when they’re together (Patreon)

[deeplovelydark]

thinking about how many of jadzia's 'unfeminine' qualities are kind of legitimized by them having been curzon's–or one of the other dax's male hosts'–first. interest in klingons, attraction to women, love for gambling, a violent streak, a free-spirited and somewhat reckless nature, sleeping around... an interesting outlier is her taking up martial arts which seems to be a synthesis of curzon's klingon obsession & appreciation of a good fight and emony's gymnastics, particularly the control it gave her over her body and mind. jadzia was a shy and somewhat self-conscious young woman but with great ambition as well. she was incredibly clever and excelled in sciences. but nerdiness is not one of jadzia's prominent qualities once she's joined. is it because it's not 'hot' and in that way even worse than the transgression of being 'masculine' as a woman? is it because as dax jadzia for the first time in her life feels confident enough to be anything else but nerdy? does she know who she really is except a scientist and a joined trill? were all these desires present in jadzia but suppressed? or maybe there is a certain freedom in it: she's worked hard and thought for this, achieved this and now she gets to enjoy being dax. those qualities and desires may not come from jadzia but now they're hers, they're jadzia dax's and she will indulge them.

(I want to be someone else but for it to feel like it's natural. like it is who I am. and jadzia did work for it. just like a person irl works to change themselves).

[earlyspringtranscendence]

ok i made this post already but tumblr ate it and also it started to get far more in depth than i intended so perhaps it is good i’m redoing it with better formatting. anyway is anyone else deeply unwell about mjf and dax harwood meeting in the ring again for what (iirc, but my brain don’t work too good) is essentially the first time since the pinnacle break up or is it just me. it’s about the devotion. it’s about changing when a beloved can’t change alongside you. and THEN it’s about a whole lot of twitter drama

i think what has always gotten to me about max and dax (and specifically them, though mjftr in general is of course a large part of this and also something i’m crazy about) is how during the pinnacle days dax was part of mjf’s family and max was part of his. ftr stood in a position of higher standing than wardlow, sure, but their relative normalcy in the friendship they had with max is what made him so utterly devoted to them in a way that is truly painful to see especially now when comparing it to the whole mjf + adam cole tag team.

something that stuck out to me in that bit where they’re playing video games is when max says he’s never played multiplayer cause he’s never had friends, but the pinnacle was like... beyond anything he’s been a part of since. i think what has come closest before adam was the specific twitter relationship btwn mjf and bestsmileinthebusiness lee moriarty (remember when they were firmly flirting with each other on twit? god those were the days) but then i’m also sensitive about the pinnacle so this is like besides the point

anyway, there wasn’t dead much going on with ftr in the pinnacle and part of that is of course their recent arrival to aew and them coming into their own as wrestlers with more creative freedom than they had been afforded before. they were cast as heels because that’s what they had always been and as such is what the audience expected and what made the transition go along smoothly, but as always with wrestling you gotta pick and choose where the line btwn kayfabe and reality lies and for now i’m gonna focus all my attention on the fictional because while all that is interesting from an irl perspective, it’s got fuck all to do with the emotions i’m feeling towards these crazy kids

regardless, when max has a new friend he will do anything to keep that friend. the only line he has never crossed in friendship is the one where he trusts the other person. an interesting dichotomy in the character of mjf to me has always been how easily he subjugates himself and humiliates himself (in the eyes of toxic masculinity, ykwim) to please one of his baser instincts (winning, saving face, love) and it’s something he did with ftr a lot by the end

i’ve been thinking about that one interview he did with barstool where ftr come in at the end and it’s awkward because it’s in the stage of separation before the eventual breakup. cash is all smiles and happy to be there, max is praising them both like nothing else and dax is... starting to get a little bit annoyed. he’s bothered. something’s rubbing him just a little bit wrong.

(this already is like sending me into a spiral but thats neither here nor there)

(cash is pointing at max here btw, i couldn’t get the screenie quite right)

this subtle thing is so important to me. cash’s persona during this period (and for the most part it still is) is so like laid back. he follows whatever dax wants to do but only because he’s sort of just good with whatever. even in this video there’s an element of refereeing or messenger boy-ing he’s doing between his friend and his other half that’s so dynamic to watch. (also it doesn’t hurt that the angle of the camera cuts off dax’s eyes so you only see his slightly defensive seeming posture towards max. it’s something i’m reading too deeply into by far but it’s something that does, like, enhance this experience for me)

(yt subtitles are wrong, he said heat not hate but like. whatevs) in this bit dax thinks brandon’s talking abt dax towards himself and he’s quick to interject, but when it’s clarified he’s talking about mjf there’s a considering look and a bit of a grimace. anyone else going crazy or is it just me

DAX SAYS THIS SO QUICKLY. HE SNAPS TO THIS SO QUICKLY. I’M CRAZY ABOUT THIS DYNAMIC

ok we have to move on from this because i still have so much to cover

i wanna talk about the second part of my motivation for caring so deeply about these two and that’s the ‘changing and being spitting mad a beloved isn’t changing alongside you’. beloved may have been a big word, i’ll allow for that, but please do recall that ftr are the ones who loudly proclaims that mjf is their family in pinnacle promos

thank you cash for making me absolutely insane i appreciate it now onto dax

i refuse to be normal about them.

anyway this disgust that ftr started showing once the pinnacle fell apart (and, crucially, punk became their bezzie) because they started turning face (due in part to the wardlow sitch, the other part, you guessed it, punk) and max couldn’t follow them there is in such dire opposition to this that it feels real. like i’m a mark and all but like it feels really genuine. the (learned) masculine inclination to turn to anger rather than sadness when someone disappoints you.

then max, you know, left us hanging for a veritable fucking age and in the meantime this all happened (bear in mind that more than this happened this was just what i could bear to actually reblog bc i’m not joking i’m like genuinely very unwell about this group it made me feel like so upset when it happened so you know. this isn’t the absolute worst of the worst it’s just what i could bear):

(ngl i thought i had a little more than just this post saved but they were talking supreme shit and i guess my fragile self wasn’t having it. good on me for knowing boundaries. anyway you get the idea tho, this was all happening and there was general mjf smacktalk all while mjf couldn’t respond to it because he was on his little getaway getting built as fuck)

and this:

(post found here, idk what this is from originally) you see what i mean too though about cash being this benevolent, laid back bystander and dax being angry. what’s that sentiment about being angry because you care?

what this all boils down to at long last after many paragraphs of me making very little points is this: next saturday at collision mjf is going to be doing his shit with adam cole and ftr is going to be husbands as all get, but i don’t care about any of that in the face of this final showdown between dax and max, even if i know, in my brain and my heart, that none of this will even be all that relevant to the story anymore. pour one out.

(and also final disclaimer i’ve never actually heard of any like shoot nonsense btwn these two and i’m Preddy sure this is all just part of the narrative, but i could be wrong. if anything btwn them is real well that’s none of my business and they shouldn’t have put it on the internet then. i mean im mostly kidding but if it’s real obviously disregard this reading of that situation)

[zeldurz]

Being a house cat means a lot of time to ponder. I am familiar with your fic as it relates to Pellaeon/Thrawn, henceforth, referred to as Prawn. Lately, I have noticed that you have shifted away from this pairing into unfamiliar territory for me, mainly Firmus Piett/Maximilian Veers & Tiaan Jerjerrod/Conan Antonio Motti. Since I am firmly ensconced in my tiny corner of the fandom, I had to ask around, who are these guys?

Now it’s time to ask you. Welcome to my little corner at the Asker’s Studio™️ (don’t mind the ferocious Mini-Panther🐈‍⬛)

Where I go in the fandoms is determined by where ‘my’ authors go, thus, I often find myself in unfamiliar territory. I got my start with Harry Potter, moved on to Gargoyles, enjoyed a long visit with Thrawn, and currently I happily reside in TNG. As person who merely comments, it’s easy to jump around, but as an author, I would think that it would be more complicated.

What made you decide to branch out to these new pairings/fandom? While they are still Star Wars, I view them far enough away from Thrawn to consider them a different fandom (as it is an enormous departure from the Thrawn universe to the Original Trilogy)

I admit that my only knowledge of your new pairings (newer to your fic) is what Wookeepedia tells me, and what more experienced fandom inhabitants add to that. It makes me want to go back to the OT and watch it through a different lens.

What is it that you would want new readers to know about these ancillary characters?

What characteristics do you admire or dislike about them?

Do you see any parallels to characters that you have written about in the past?

I am behind on my Fic reading, but know that I have been enormously entertained by your Whatever it Takes, and I hope to see additional updates sometime in the near future.

Ahhh thank you for having me back on Asker’s Studio, it’s always a pleasure to be here. I will put this under a cut to make everyone's life a little bit easier

I have indeed shifted my preferences into the adjacent world of OT Imperials, at least for the moment. While I can firmly say that this is all the wonderful @alexx-dax’s fault – since I started following him on tumblr and was left with many similar questions to those you have posed to me: who are these men? How can I tell them apart? Why should I even care? – the question of “why” still remains, and for that, my answer is two-fold.

I would say that the jump from Thrawn to the OT Imps is not as far as it looks on the surface – much of the internal politics and settings aboard a Star Destroyer in Thrawn’s time (be it in Canon before the Battle at Lothal or in Legends aboard the Chimaera) remain the same. This makes it both easier to write (as I already have an idea of The Empire and how it operates) and easier to integrate characters that are still very near and dear to my heart – in fact, while I have yet to make full use of it in a fic, the fact that Grand Admiral Thrawn was the one that recommended a then Corporal Veers to Darth Vader for his Death Squadron has a lot of room for potential. I also think it helps that the Imps have a much less wide-reaching fandom – there’s a very small, very enthusiastic community that has made me feel very welcome as I undertake my studies into Background Men, and I really appreciate that.

Without going into too much detail, I would also be remiss if I did not touch on the issue of Writer Burnout and how that has contributed to my step away from writing Thrawn. I have the curse of non-functioning executives (aka ADHD/autism), and writing something that isn’t the topic du jour is a painful and tedious process for me (astute readers will also recognize this is why I rarely do outlines/planning and why I almost never edit/proofread my fics before posting them). For every fic that reaches AO3, there are 8-10 more that are half finished on my google drive, and I tend to lose creative steam on things very, very quickly. Between a bunch of stuff IRL and the rise of people discussing Thrawn and his characterization in fandom spaces(1), I’m having a very hard time getting my ‘voice’ for Thrawn back (it doesn’t help that my largest and most popular fic has spiraled into something much, much larger than I had originally planned, and I’m very much struggling to figure out how to tie it off in a satisfying way lol).

But back to these new guys. Who are they and why should you care?

First of all, if you wish to join me in my corner with my dolls, I would actually recommend watching the OT again but considering the perspectives of the Imps – in particular, Ken Colley’s portrayal of Piett in Empire Strikes back and Michael Pennington’s Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi(2) give a lot of depth to the characters that we often just see as “bad guy henchmen”. People have written many things about these characters over the years (some of which I agree with and some of which I do not), but I always come back to Piett’s expression as he watches Admiral Ozzel choke to death beside him; these characters are Imperials, yes, but they are not all Tarkin or Palpatine – that is, they are not simply evil for the sake of being evil. Veteran Thrawn fans will know that writing from the perspective of the antagonists can be a lot of fun – and for my brand of fic (ie the hurt/comfort), there are a lot of Rebel Victories that bring pain that’s worth exploring (not unlike Bilbringi in the HTTE Trilogy).

I have spoken a lot about the Imperials as a collective, so now it’s time to get into the individuals. While I will touch a little bit on my favourite ships (Piett/Veers and Motti/Jerjerrod), I think that another fun part about writing these particular characters is that they work well in many different pairings, depending on the vibe you’re going for (I will spare you the chart, but I do have one). Anyway, without further ado and in no particular order, the incomplete summary of Imps:

Firmus Piett (ESB, ROTJ):

Piett is the character that got me hooked on the imperials in the first place – his “goddammit I’m just trying to do my job and not get murdered” energy combined with his otherness (in that unlike most other high-ranking officers, he is neither from a core world nor upper class). His days fighting in the Axxilian anti-pirate fleet only add to this vibe, and much of his characterization (that I go off of, anyway) centers around him being scrappy and resourceful – useful where other, snobbier officers might not be.

As with all things Fanfiction and particularly with the Imperials (as there is comparatively little material to work with), there will always be flavours of characters depending on who is writing them, but I enjoy Piett’s potential for a found family, along with his biting snark and ability to survive only on caf and spite.

Maximilian Veers (ESB):

Veers has the distinction of being in the Imperial Army, rather than the Navy, which automatically gives him a different flavour than the others. It’s my understanding that there’s a rivalry between the Army and the Navy, which lends itself well to a back and forth banter that is easily one of my favourite things in an Imp fic. Veers is also the strong and stoic character – he’s not intimidated by Vader, and he’s going to do his damn job, no matter what.

I’m a big sap for the “hard on the outside soft on the inside” trope, and Veers is perfect for this. He protects his Herd with a fierce loyalty, and is a proven competent leader, but he’s also the sort of guy who teases his partner and loves physical affection. Veers is a giant, blond puppy, and I love that about him. His vibe works especially well with Piett, since they have the whole "tol and smol"/Army-Navy/slowly opening up to one another vibe that I love.

Tiaan Jerjerrod (ROTJ):

Listed as a “cold technocrat” on every official description, Tiaan is another one of those characters that has many layers to him. He is the rich snob from the core, but he’s also an extremely competent engineer who was hand picked to handle some of the Empire’s biggest projects. He’s also comparatively young (a full fifteen years younger than Pellaeon, and ten years younger than Veers, if Wookieepedia is to be believed), and yet has made his way to the top of the top. Tiaan also has the distinction that (at least in the deleted scenes) we see him hesitate – even when given an order, he is conflicted about firing the Death Star II at Endor, given the number of Imperials still on the moon.

Tiaan is usually characterized as being neurotic and anxious – a sort of wet-cat energy that contrasts well with the competence he is known for. His background – a rich aristocrat coming from a long line of decorated Naval Officers from a conservative planet – only adds to this effect, and I’m a big fan of stories that explore how he navigates (or doesn’t) the enormous pressures he faces.

Conan Antonio Motti (ANH):

Loud, Obnoxious, and American, Motti stands out among the Joint Chiefs in the one scene he is in. He has the balls to challenge Vader, and the gusto to back it up – he’s also quite young, having risen to be commander of the DS-I in his early 30s (based on his actor’s age, Wookieepedia does not have a birthday for him). While there are scant few other canon appearances for him, it’s also worth noting that one of them is him writing a letter to HR regarding Vader’s Force Choke, and another is a passage from the Death Star Novel about how he works out in only a speed-strap juggling balls in heavy gravity.

Motti can be summed up as the “Go Big or Go Home” guy who is crass, loud, and gets in everyone’s face. He can be a lot of fun to read and write because he’s so obnoxious, and that makes him fun to include even if the story is primarily about someone else. He pairs well with Jerjerrod because they have similar backstories (young, wealthy) but wildly different personalities, although I have been enjoying the Motti-Thrawn friendship lately (that would give Pellaeon a migraine)

Overall, each of these characters (and Captain Lorth Needa, of course, everyone’s favourite Dad Friend and holder of the single brain cell) has a unique vibe that they bring to the table, and it’s fun to see how they interact with both each other and the Situations they find themselves in. I also find them to be very relatable – every author pours a little bit of their heart and soul into the characters they write, but for me personally, there is a lot I can draw from my own experiences (not unlike how I have written a very few very personal Thrawn fics).

With that being said, I do struggle sometimes to hit the right notes and strike a balance between “canon”, “fanon” and the story I want to tell. While Thrawn has (for the most part) been consistently written and it is easy enough to see a through-line for his story, that is absolutely not the case here. There are many examples I could speak to (Needa as “ruthless”, Veers refusing prosthetics due to stigma or Jerjerrod “loving war”), but for the sake of brevity I will only touch on one: Piett as a schemer who sought to deliberately have Ozzel killed.

While this is… an interpretation of the source material (IE Empire Strikes Back) and has since been made canon by From Another Point of View, it disregards the intentions of Ken Colley in playing the character. He wanted Piett to come off as more relatable to the audience, to give depth to the Empire as more than just a faceless monolith, and I would argue that he is quite successful in doing so(3). Undermining this (and his backstory notes about being an underdog within the Empire) take away some of the aspects of his character that I really enjoy – but does it make my Piett OOC if he wouldn’t do something like that? Does it matter?

Anyway almost two thousand words and three footnotes, it’s very much time for me to wrap this up (as bad as I am at writing endings). Suffice it to say that I find the Imps to be an excellent sandbox with which to play in, and I appreciate both the time you’ve taken to ask me about them and the time it’s taken to read through this essay of sorts.

I’m hoping I’ll get back to Whatever it Takes sooner or later, but I would rather wait for inspiration to strike me than to keep beating my head against a metaphorical wall until an ending falls out. Until next time, thank you again for the ask and all the wonderful comments you have left for me 😊

(1)I should note that this isn’t targeted at any group in particular and isn’t meant to be a negative statement – just that the Thrawn fandom continues to grow, and with the upcoming Ashoka Show, there are a lot of people with a lot of different opinions about the character, and for someone who isn’t particularly adept at navigating the sea of fandom, it can be extremely overwhelming.

(2)If you are able to watch the deleted scenes from ROTJ, that’s even better – there are some excellent Jerjerrod scenes that did not make the final cut

(3)I do own two Piett action figures and haven’t read Another Point of View yet, so I could be a little bit biased

[transcodedcharacterstournament]

Winners from the first round on the left side

So to make things a little easier for me send your asks here @transcodedasks

Also I'm going to start tagging my tournament post with "trans-coded-characters" to make it a bit easier to find

Btw it's going to take me a little while to get the right side out because of some personal problems

Jesus of Nazareth (the bible)

Dean Winchester (supernatural)

The tenth doctor (doctor who)

Shigeo "mob" Kageyama (Mob psycho 100)

Penelope Garcia (criminal minds)

Anakin Skywalker (star wars)

Crowley (good omens)

James (pokemon)

Toph Beifong (A:tla)

Odo (star trek)

Julian Bashir (star trek)

Jadzia Dax (star trek)

Luke skywalker (star wars)

Hunter (The owl house)

Dipper pines (Gravity fall)

Shadow the Hedgehog (sonic the hedgehog)

Pidge (voltron)

Ejirou Kirishima (my hero academia)

Hatsune miku (Vocaloid/irl)

Test tube (inanimate insanity)

Black hole (bfdi)

Saw (bfdi)

Animal (the electric mayhem)

Janice (the electric mayhem)

Zoot (the electric mayhem)

Zuko (A:tla)

Pyrrha dve (the locked tomb)

Silver the hedgehog (sonic the hedgehog)

Howl Jenkins pendragon (howls moving castle)

Jesse Pinkman (breaking bad)

Noelle (deltarune)

Jim Lake Jr (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia)

Danny Fenton (Danny phantom)

Fox Mulder (the X-files)

Edward nygma - riddler (gotham)

Neo ( the matrix)

Worf (star trek)

Saavik (star trek)

Kurapika (hunter x hunter)

Miles Edgeworth (ace attorney)

Link (the legend of Zelda)

Chip (just roll with it)

Jay Ferin (just roll with it)

Ashe Winters and Kian stone (just roll with it) (they tied)

Gillion Tidestrider (just roll with it)

Leonardo (rise of the tmnt)

Madeline Hatter (ever after high)

Shuichi saihara (Danganronpa)

Hajime Hinata (Danganronpa)

Chihiro fujisaki (Danganronpa)

Jonathan Byers (stranger things)

Max Mayfield (stranger things)

Cecil Palmer (welcome to night vale)

Lena Sabrewing (duck tales)

Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4)

Futaba Sakura (Persona 5)

Ricky Potts (ride the cyclone)

Narciso Anasui (Jojos bizarre adventures)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Ferdinand von Aegir (fire emblem)

Gomez Addams (the addams family)

Yellow caballero (pokemon adventures)

Silver (pokemon adventures)

Bow (she-ra and the princesses of power)

Lilith Clawthorne (the owl house)

Franky (one piece)

Shiki Misaki (the world ends with you)

[originfurtkm]

Here's our Caravan Fam IRL! 🚛🏕️🏔️

Soba Momiji Dax Nosa and Thank

[orangexmachina]

🌀 and 🫂 for the ask game?

🌀 If the holodeck was real, what would be the first thing you'd use it for?

🫂 Character you'd like to be friends with.

If the holodeck was real I'd 100% use it to act out books and films I like. And if I was living on a ship I'd miss nature so probably to go for a hike. The holodeck is the one piece of star trek tech that I really want to happen irl.

I'd be friends with Jadzia Dax! She seems easy to get along with and non-judgemental, and she has so many past lives we'd never run out of things to talk about.

[clown-femme]

I know people say no one wants to hear about the dream you had but I'm writing it down anyway so I can look at it.

There was a wedding going on. San/sa Stark and Th/eon Greyjoy from fucking g*me of thrones were getting married (like they were in an arranged marriage). But Theon had like a panic attack halfway through the wedding because I guess he was all fucked in the head from when whatshisnuts was torturing him. And for whatever reason Ty/win Lannister was like THEON FUCKING CALM DOWN SO WE CAN GET THIS OVER WITH. so he did. Meanwhile I was just standing there doing my eyebrows.

And then the reception was populated almost like 80% by muppets. My friend's oc Dax was there. So was the Belcher family from Bob's Burgers. Tina fell asleep on a couch. The muppets were going fucking hog wild ape shit dancing like felted fools, forming muppet mosh pits and hurtling each other in the air, and eating food ravenously, grabbing at it with their fuzzy little muppet hands. These muppets were having the absolute time of their lives.

I sat down to eat some food, and Brendan Fraser was there eating a very tiny ice cream cone. Comically small, this thing was. Strawberry. I mentioned trying to move, and he was like "i'll help you put down for a house," like I was his daughter or something. This is the second dream I have had in not much time where Brendan Fraser has treated me like a sort of daughter/neice figure. Not sure what this means. I don't have any sort of close appreciation or association with Mr. Fraser. I have only seen two movies he's in and one of those is Monkeybone. Both movies I saw in adulthood (the other one is The Mummy) so it's not like a childhood nostalgia thing. That said if he wants to hit my line irl and give me a hug like he did in that other dream and offer me a house like in this one he's welcome to. Anyway after that I woke up.

[playing-with-dax]

Hey I know your slowing down posts here cause of IRL stuff, but I just want to say I lowkey love this blog. So glad I found it while scrolling through tags, your writing is top notch tbh.

I really wanna draw dax fanart, but I suck at drawing males/masc bodies lol.

Sorry if this comes off as weird, I just really like this blog haha.

Bruh 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you so much!!???! I'm so glad you're here and that you like my writing 🥺

Oh my god I would be so honored to see fanart holy shit. Everyone has full permission to draw my characters but please please let me see it if you do 👀

I'm gonna ramble a little about the "I suck at drawing x" feeling because I relate so much. BUT! I started this blog literally last month because I was like "I'm really not comfortable with drawing anatomy. When I want to draw for fun I often avoid it because the ideas I have involve bodies so I just...don't"

And that's no fun.

So I started this blog for myself so I could play with my OCs and have motivation to practice. I really didn't expect much engagement at all lol. I'm still not amazing at drawing bodies and that's ok! I can see how much I'm improving by drawing more often and that's really encouraging.

I had barely drawn faces/bodies at all before starting this. And I had never written any sort of fic/short story, much less a spicy one. But here we are and I'm like ???? People like what I'm making?????

Anyway, if you want to do something you should! It doesn't have to be "good", but allowing yourself to suck at something a little is the way you build skill 💚

[onetragicalnerd709]

"After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own, back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known" "It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well..."

Truly late to the party but back when it was the 30th anniversary of of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, I finished a beautiful piece to commemorate my favorite badass space worms and their Ridged Warrior "poet" husband.

To many older DS9 fans, Ezri is the lower-rate, largely disliked replacement for Jadzia, mostly due to the tragic and overwhelmingly unfair exit of the well-loved character, a unanimous show favorite. I, however, alongside younger fans, have adored Ezri from the start, her sensitive, bubbly personality, and her caring nature captured my interest and heart. More importantly, her journey of self-discovery and fears/doubts of her true purpose, mirror many emotional experiences that young people face IRL. Because of this, I have found space to love both Dax's equally without question.

To additionally commemorate the memory of Jadzia Dax and the relationship she built with Commander Worf I wanted to show the growth of grief into acceptance of the new with both his "wives" embracing him, Jadzia looking on with pride and adoration for the warrior she soothed when she was alive and continues to soften alongside and within Ezri.

I would have liked to have seen a rekindling of their relationship with Ezri in the last seasons of DS9 run, however, some things aren't meant to be. I can only allow my imagination to run wild instead with a handy pencil and procreate at my side.

Behind them are lineless interpretations of swimming Trill symbiotes, The larger lighter blue symbiote is inscribed with Trill markings which spell out "Jadzia" while the darker smaller symbiote reads "Ezri"

I thoroughly enjoyed expanding upon the images I have seen of on-screen symbiotes and giving them some extra flare of my own. The little flowing tail whiskers are my favorite. I'd like to think they would be of similar proprioceptive use and tactile use to symbiotes while swimming and attaching to the host's body pouch.

To top off this tribute, I added a song I have seen associated with Ezri, Jadzia, and Worf on TikTok. I know that even though Worf may deny it, he's Taylor Swift-coded as much as his space wives are. "All to Well- 10 Minute version" is by far my favorite song of "MOTHER" and because DS9 is my all-time favorite Trek , I knew they were a perfect match.

This is the TikTok and image that inspired it all!

Now do you "remember it all too well?"

[hingabee]

Genuine question, for real: why do you think Kira is straight? Also why Kira/Bashir? I’ll be honest I feel weird shipping it because of the actors’ real life relationship, but that’s just me and they did seem to have a lot of chemistry in Fascination. What do you think of Kira/Damar which seems to be one of the more common F/M Kira ships in the fandom right now. Honestly I just find a lot of the femslash fandom in DS9 kinda boring: I think I’d be more into Kira femslash pairings if people wrote fics and meta for them that didn’t just feel like middle school slumber parties

the easy answer is that i watched ds9 at age 9 or 10 and rly liked kira/bashir. fascination blew kid mes mind lmfao it was my favourite episode (i know i know) i think its partially bc they simply have awesome chemistry (though julian has good chemistry with pretty much everyone on the main cast, hence him being so easy to ship) but i especially like them bc kiras taste in men is just so awful and julian IS AWFUL (pls no hate to julian lovers, i myself like him bc hes awful in many a ways) and somehow they just work in my head, especially if you look at them leaning towards post canon. its just fun little barbie dolls i can smash together idk (i also really do not care about actors/voice actors in any of my fandoms so i wasnt even aware of any irl relations until like. two years ago or smth. and yeah i dont care lmfao i dont know these people)

also yeah im not big on kiradax myself, but i rly have come to enjoy kira/ziyal (partially in thanks to the lovely @ectogeo-rebubbles and @the-last-dillpickle encouraging me) bc its just the right levels of sweet and freaky that i enjoy as for kira being straight, man i really just like joking abt it bc its funny to me with her bland men. and while my private identity is irrelevant in my enjoyment of fiction, PERSONALLY i struggle seeing her as being mostly attracted to women. ive also seen people call kira butch, and i disagree with that too. obviously everyone is entitled to their personal interpretation but i actually think kira is more traditionally feminine... femme... whatever than the other female leads (both daxes)

also kira/damar is very fun. i also like damar/ziyal and damar/mila lol my mans can get it

[abracadaxbra]

♡︎Welcome To My Blog!♡︎

Hello, I’m Dax! I use He/They pronouns and am transmasc. I mostly do art but I’m also into music! I currently live with my boyfriend and our very silly cat. Also I lean more into goth aesthetics IRL!

Here’s some more info about me and this blog!

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➥︎What is this blog?

This blog is an art/personal one! I’m trying to expand my reach as an artist so, I came back to Tumblr as a part of that. This is my main I guess in simple words.

It’s just gonna be my art or me promoting my Redbubble and such mostly on here but sometimes I’ll say thing a little bit.

➥︎What Am I Into?

A lot of things actually! I engage in activities a little.

A comprehensive list of things I do:

Draw (usually Sonic or my creation the Smumkleverse)

Video game (usually Persona or BlazBlue Cross Tag or Guilty Gear!)

Write (I’m currently working on a google doc of my personal Sonic OC lore)

Making Master docs on my interests

Watch silly things on the television

Want some specifics? Here you go 🫵😋

Games

Paradise Killer

Guilty Gear Strive

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle

Persona

Minecraft

Halo

Madness Combat: Project Nexus

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R

Skullgirls

Cookie Run: Kingdom

My Singing Monsters

Castlevania

Cyberpunk

FNAF

Shows/Movies

Dorohedoro (completed)

Aggretsuko

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (caught up)

Chainsaw Man (caught up)

Trigun (completed) + Trigun: Stampede

One Piece

Smiling Friends (caught up)

Mob Psycho 100 (completed)

Madness Combat (caught up)

Castlevania

Dr. Stone (caught up)

Hunter x Hunter (caught up)

Like every Ghibli Movie I can find

Promare (completed)

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (completed)

Beastars (caught up)

Music

All Persona soundtracks

Paradise Killer soundtrack

Tyler The Creator

The Vanished People

KoRn

Slipknot

Limp Bizkit

Kaya

DAMAG3

Austin and The Powers

Joywave

IDKHOW

Sleep Token

BABYMETAL

Jhariah

Muse

Joey Valence

The Guilty Gear Strive and Xrd soundtracks

+ more…

➥︎︎Fun Facts

I have a cat named Selene! She’s silly

I’m Italian/Puerto Rican!

I was once a Homestuck fan but now Andrew Hussie is my sworn enemy 😁

At one point I aspired to be a vet tech but now I’m more interested in music and being a Behavioral Technician for special needs children

I love building gundam model kits sm you don’t understand a demon possesses me as soon as one is in my hands and I don’t stop until it’s finished

My favorite YouTubers are Nexpo and every channel that uploads ocean documentaries

Mermaids and sea animals (sharks and the ping pong tree sponge) are my current special interests! I have a huge merfolk google doc I’m slowly working on

Spider-Punk is my fav Spider-Man

I’m a former competitive Smash player but I’m very slightly considering getting back into competitive fighting games due to my love for Skullgirls and Guilty Gear

I’m not super invested in most fandom spaces but I will draw just about anything and am technically a furry I suppose as I do have a fursona

I used to Cosplay! I plan to eventually revisit this when I have the means though

My persona I draw myself as is a creature named Smumkledorf and here he is:

➥︎Other Things I Like?

Alright this is mostly just so I can talk about Baja Blast but:

Drinks

Baja Blast…..

Kola Champagne

Sprite

Cucumber lime Gatorade /shame

Foods

Pasta (I am a stereotype I’m sorry)

My boyfriend’s dad’s cooking tbh

Taco Bell

Taquitos

Cherry tomatoes

➥︎Where Am I?

https://twitter.com/abracadaxbra

➥︎What Am I?

I am every single creature ever. This is my kinboard for reference:

[obrienpolycule]

15 Questions and 15 mutuals

tagged by @bijoumikhawal

Were you named after anyone? - I was almost named after Jadzia Dax, but alas my parents couldn't decide how to spell Jadzia

When was the last time you cried? - Yesterday, I started crying while laughing at a Stargate meme

Do you have kids? - Nope

Do you use sarcasm a lot? - Sometimes but I'm bad at sarcasm in general

What's the first thing you notice about people? - Hair and noses I think

What's your eye color? - Brown

Scary movies or happy endings? - por qué no los dos?

Any special talents? - drawing, singing, idk if this counts but I'm really good at memorizing song lyrics (has entire musicals memorized and will play through them in my head when bored)

Where were you born? - Texas 🤠

What are your hobbies? - reading, drawing, DnD, fiber crafts, watching way too many tv shows, listening to musicals

Have any pets? - Yes! My cat Circe. She's very small and pretty and likes to sit on suitcases

What sports do you play/have you played? - I played baseball/softball for 10 years growing up but didn't have time to continue when I got older

How tall are you? - 5'6" ish

Favorite subject in school? - art, history, literature, choir, languages

Dream job? - I'd be the person who star trek writers go to check lore. But like irl I'm trying to be a librarian.

@kellerkuschelassel @lloveyouinsecret @tarobytes @ohgirlieplease @hauntedarbys @free-to-be-impaled @rubyjean-jacket-blog @dumpsterfireofsubtext @hannibalatemyheart @mymotherisverymadatme @heressomestuffs @ivytwines @trans-mulder @evil-squint-etc @lady-sigyn

as usual, these are no-pressure tags!

[dexterlittle]

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Nickname/What you can call me: DexterLittle, Dexter, Dex, Dax

Pronouns: They/Them, He/Him, Open to trying NeoPronouns

Age/BD: 32 / 26/11/1991

Country: QC, Canada

Languages: French, English

Height: 5’ (Pocket Edition Human)

Favorite Color: Beside Black (Duh!) it’s Green!

Other Info: Neurodivergent, Goth, Alt, Darkly Inclined, Gothic, Plant Parent, Insect Owner, Satanist (Global Order of Satan-Steel City)

Things I Love: Reptiles and Dinosaurs, Fictional Horror, Death/Necromancy/Occult, Paranormal/Ghosts/Aliens, Zombies, Cryptids, Mythological Creatures and Monsters, Insects/Bugs

Queer Platonic Partner: @nekoeshiblog

{Myself in one of my favorite IRL outfit! Yes my eyes truly are that color, just not as bright!}