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#the girls are fighting!! STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE • 3.07 “Civil Defense”

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Thinking about where the line between lies and storytelling sits with Garak. How trauma (especially childhood trauma) forces you to morph your life into stories to tell the truth when the facts are too all encompassing and terrible for you to face.

Thinking about the queerness inherent to Garak and Bashir's book club. The way they interrogate the subtext of their books the way only queer people can, when the realities of our lives are rendered unspeakable by homophobia.

The way they dance around each other, creating a hidden story within the story - the truth of their relationship too large and unforgivable. Queer repression as text becoming repression subtext. An ouroboros of enforced shame. It remains hidden but in doing so, reveals some new truth. Neither knows who they are without the obfuscation they have worn for so long that it has become their face.

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i love this guy so much hes asking the real questions

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Hey tumblr, want to read/listen about a gay hero who risked his life to shine a light on America's far right milita? The law might never catch up to these fuckers, but that doesn't mean they get to operate indiscriminately, working actively to destroy the country.

"But Williams wants to let his former comrades know 'a faggot is doing this to them.'"

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life is fraught-less

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shop prints here

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*puts the tip of my sword in your mouth* enough, you will only talk when I tell you t- stop sucking on it

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much to think about

i love when you just click the share link on a picture on your phone and you get a bunch of batshit insane options. yeah let me email this selfie to the periodontist office. let me send this to my boss on teams. perfect suggestions.

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all that space in the holosuite and they're standing cock to cock

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If you've started a movie and got at least half way through, that counts as yes.

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Sloan finds out that AU Garak is married to an EMH Bashir and decides that maybe he could try to do that for himself, but every Holo Bashir he tries, no matter how many times he resets it, or tries to reprogram it, ultimately ends up annoyed and disinterested in him, and not even in a fun fetishy degradation way.

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Quick: what's your favourite colour? Doesn't matter. Capitalism has conspired to eliminate it. Every car now is silver, grey, white, or black. Choice is the enemy of all free people. This improves resale value. Critically, this reduction in choice also reduces the chance that a dealership will end up with a, say, dark-blue(!) car that is totally unsellable except to the mentally ill. We gotta do our part for the dealerships, they're really hurting.

Cars used to have cool colours. For instance, I'm fairly sure that my '78 Volare was brown when it was new. You could also get it in tan, or what Plymouth audaciously called "Augusta green sunfire metallic." Daring stuff, but we had no idea that we were secretly bankrupting them. Back then, cars were ordered on demand, and you'd wait a few weeks before someone in a historically economically disadvantaged area of the USA finished spraying it with paint and put it on a train. No more of that nonsense.

That's why I joined up with a secret band of rebels. We don't want to put a name on our organization, mostly because none of us can agree on what it should be. Our job is to sneak into car dealership lots, and give the cars waiting there a high-quality paint job in extreme wacko colours like "orange" and "red." This, we believe, will eventually bankrupt the dealerships and hasten the fall of our corrupt order.

If that fails for some reason, and we are tortured to death by the politicians who obey those dealerships without question, there is a side benefit. That benefit is that we'll be able to see other cars in a snowstorm even if they forget to turn their headlights on. Is that grey blob over there a car or just another snow squall?

So when you show up to the dealership in the next couple weeks and notice that it suddenly looks a lot more colourful, you can thank us. Maybe just don't look too closely at the quality of the work. We're in a bit of a hurry, and sometimes Tapemaster Theodore doesn't do a really good job masking off the mirrors, handles, tires, and windows, so the paint gets places that it shouldn't. Hey, it's like the 1970s all over again.

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being anticapitalist with a strong work ethic is so fucking embarrassing like my managers don't deserve this

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Follow-up to this and this.

This has been sitting mostly-finished on my computer for a long time now. I finished it up today. Maybe I’ll shade it and put more detail into it in the future.