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Dr. Bashir’s puzzled expression here is doubly funny because aside from all the subterfuge, he just got handed a (vaguely) historically accurate 20th century suit jacket. Like it’s the 24th century equivalent of someone saying “here! Quick! Try on this suit!” and casually handing you this:

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One of my favorites from last year. Mixing practical lighting effects and invisible edits.

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linus takes a trip to the nether. birthday gift to my sister

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Look I'm sorry to anyone who thought the Saja Boys were a real band, but it was obviously fake from the beginning.

Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.

In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.

But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.

Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!

But the Saja Boys were never real. I mean they got real guys to pretend to be a boy band and do the dancing and lip syncing obviously, but come on, most of them didn't even have names.

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Root beer tastes so, so sincerely bad. How do people like this?

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Have I got a permit for this?

Yeah I’ve got a perm. It’s alright

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@a-regular-snail

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trying to understand fungus sexes

it's not going well

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I just came up with a really inconvenient, possibly unplayable four-player game: The Evil Advisor

All you need is a completely normal chess board and a deck of cards that you can somehow divide into an even amount of cards that mean "yes" or "no". Out of the four players, only two need to know how to play chess - those play the role of advisor. The other two play as rulers. At the start of the game, both advisors pull a random card from the deck, which dictates whether their goal is to win the game, or lose it. They keep their respective card, showing it to nobody else.

The rulers, who ultimately choose where to move the pieces, always aim to win the chess game, and also know that the advisor may or may not be on their side, and don't know whether to trust the advisor or not.

If the ruler wins the chess game, they win the whole game. An advisor only wins if they reach their own goal - if an advisor's goal was to lose, but the ruler wins, the advisor loses, and vice versa.

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Call his dick a cherry stem the way it has one ball and is highly fibrous

enough about rearranging my guts I need to tie his dick like a cherry stem

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Billions will die in the fruitless pursuit of me lucky charms

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I feel like a lot of people don't really pay attention to the way queer masculinity underpins Garak and Bashir's characterisation. Like so much of Garak's interaction with other Cardassians is subtextually about his failures in heterosexual masculinity but Garak excels specifically because they underestimate him due these failures.

Meanwhile so much of Bashir's behaviour is about performing straight masculine archetypes, the British ones especially - 007, RAF pilots. He hides behind these rôles and it reeks of compulsory heterosexuality and toxic masculinity because Bashir makes himself play these rôles - be the hero and kiss the girl. He's so desperate to bé normal, average. Never think too much about who you are and what you really want. Maybe because he's terrified of who is if he isnt performing. He's been told all his life about the horror of augments, so if he ever put down the mask what if its Khan underneath.

That's why OMB fucks so severely. Its about performing masculinity with Garak, the gayest bitch around, critiquing it in the background the whole time. Its about sexualising the straight male archetype for a gay male audience.

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Garak: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Kira: You're literally holding a knife covered with blood.

Garak: And I love it.