#also the post-war scenes have me screaming crying throwing up I CAN'T BELIEVE THE DUDE WHO TORTURED PICARD SHOWED UP
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Things that I have learned about A Stitch In Time after finishing Part II of the audiobook:
Ohhhhhh you are all heartless bastards I cannot BELIEVE none of you thought to tell me about goalkeeper Garak. When I tell you I lost my fucking mind!!!!!!!
HANS JORTS I OWE YOU MY LIFE FOR THAT ONE FR
The Tain reveal. The Tolan interactions. The Mila interactions. The final Tolan reveal. The way this book will not let me rest for a single god damn second.
SHE MARRIED HER OWN BROTHER TO HIDE THE FACT HER EMPLOYER GOT HER PREGNANT??????? NASTY YUCKY TRASHY PLANET <3<3<3<3<3<3
I recently read in an article how Mr. Robinson said the Bamarren bits were his favorite to write and imo you can really tell cause the plot seemed much less tight in Part II but it was still sooooooo good and soooooo much fun precisely because I had no fucking idea what was going to happen from sentence to sentence. I love this book I love this book I love this book I love this book--
PALANTIR X CINNABON 1 CRINGEFAIL MARRIAGE REAL >:3 HUGE WIN FOR ME PERSONALLY even if at least one of them IS still dead and it IS Garak's "fault" (he was sooo right to do that though <3) so I did not get everything I wished for. but still.
Oh hey speaking of weird threesomes Garak gets inadvertently sucked into, remember the judge and his "lady friend" who let Garak live in their house for free and sat there openly leering at their new handsome young tenant doing manual labor out in the hot sunshine? Elim babygirl it was NOT the orchids that got you that living arrangement.........
Ok this isn't funny or relatable to anyone else but as a queer religious person the Oralius storyline makes me so excited and happy I love it I love it I love it it's so much more and better than anything I was expecting I love the Hebitian lore I love Palandine and Tolan being the ones to encourage this in him I love his visions and his nightmares I love him talking to Julian about it I love him singing in church I love Oralius and I love you Mr. Robinson
The way Pythas has been Garak's foil each step of the way, succeeding every time he fails and taking everything that was meant for him. And every time Garak is just like [nodding approvingly] That's my bestie and he deserves nothing less! <3
The Pythas situation and the Palandine situation combined are both adorable and insane to me. Garak really said if you showed me even one single shred of kindness in highschool I am ride or die for you for life. Cinnabon 1 really was the dumbest bitch ever huh
[Dukat Sr. voice] the same people who want us to KISS THE FEDERATION'S ASS!!!!!!
greatest book I have ever read. one trillion out of ten. no notes.
Things that I know about A Stitch In Time prior to listening to it:
Garak goes to spy school, which is for spies (for some reason the idea of this is amusing to me. like I get it duh of course the Order must have some sort of training system but also. fanfic ass trope. Spy School! For Spies! it's even a boarding school and everything. DARKEST ACADEMIA)
Garak performs a classic bisexual rite of passage by falling in love with both members of an older(?) married couple (or well textually probably only the wife. I feel like I'd have heard about it if he were Betacanonically Queer (TM) in this book. but here's hoping I'll be astonished while listening!)
I can't remember if I read anything specific about it or not but just based on vibes alone I do not have high hopes for this couple's like. life expectancy.
Based on vibes alone I do not have high hopes for ANY character's life expectancy in this book tbh. If it involves Cardassians in general and Garak in specific I usually just assume everyone involved is doomed. This is going to be a FUN 12 hours and 28 minutes!
There was a post somewhere that mentioned that some supernatural magical stuff happens in this book and I'm SO FUCKING STOKED. HERE'S HOW GARAK ORB EXPERIENCE CAN STILL WIN!!!!
The entire concept of this book is so funny to me. Garak goes 7 years being ohhh so mysterious to Julian about himself or his past and then just spills his whole life story to him in a letter as soon as they're separated. Babygirl is going through Bashir Withdrawal Syndrome.
Most importantly KELAS MY BEST FRIEND KELAS FROM ONE (1) LINE OF CANON!!!!! I have no actual evidence that he ever shows up in this book but like he has to right. right. he's absolutely everywhere on ao3 y'all had to have gotten him from somewhere. I assume.
#I know I'm forgetting so many other things I wanted to mention because TOOOOOOOO much happened#didn't even touch on the whole thing with that Bajoran lady on DS9. will discuss later. this fucking BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#also the post-war scenes have me screaming crying throwing up I CAN'T BELIEVE THE DUDE WHO TORTURED PICARD SHOWED UP#AND GARAK CANONICALLY THINKS HE'S TACKY AND HATES HIM. FANFIC ASS NOVEL I LOVE YOU#A Stitch In Time#Star Trek: Deep Space 9#Elim Garak#some of the garashir interactions in this book have me utterly nonplussed#but then other ones have me like fully lying down on the floor for real in real life#I only let myself listen to this book on Tuesdays when I clean the house so I can motivate myself to fucking finish my cleaning on time#cause I'm in such a fucking flop era rn you don't even know evrything is too much work and utterly pointless#and also I'm fat and also the fucking temperature#it's truly giving ''tailor exile'' vibes#so I use the book to power through it but unfortunately the book wants to eat me so it just makes cleaning take longer ghjkghsjgslkjfdsjk#starting Part III today let's fucking GO!!!!!!!!!!#I'm up on my podium after watching DS9 presenting my double magna opa Garak Eating Disorder Thesis + Garak Incest Thesis#whole crowd booing and hissing#and then from the back row a voice emerges and says ''They're so right actually :3 Here is the evidence'' and we turn to see him:#Andrew Robinson himself. holding this book he wrote specifically for me <3
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