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Malevolent S1-2: What if I gave you the jitters when you drive at night

Malevolent S3: What if I made you confront the reality that your fave isn’t a good person

Malevolent S4: What if I showed you there’s light at the end of the tunnel

Malevolent S5: What if I broke into your house and killed you

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for me? it was s2e8 “necessary evil”. that’s when I knew deep space 9 was going to be different.

star trek has done murder mystery episodes before– yanno they’re fun, they’re a great format for a well paced forty five minutes where we can learn more about our characters and get some cheeky twists along the way.

“necessary evil” elevates that trope by setting the mystery on terok nor. it’s literally our first flashback look at the ugly political past of the space station. as an audience we’ve been learning to love and trust the warm vibes of the show’s setting– seeing a version of this place that’s dystopian, that’s horrific, that nonetheless features so many of the characters we know? it feels so fuckin visceral.

I will never forget the final twist in this episode. I will never forget learning alongside Odo what it really means for people to make the choices they must in the face of dehumanization, and the fallout that’ll haunt them for years. the realization that sometimes the most obvious truth is the profoundest one, and that sometimes all the twists in the world land you right where u started

the moment the character asks Odo if he can ever trust them again, and the shot lingers, and ends.

the episode ends there

that’s when I knew that this show wasn’t going to be like other trek. that’s when I knew this was going to be a story about the nuance, the incongruity, the unresolution and the things left hanging behind when an episode ends. that’s when I knew the writers on this show would wake up and choose artistic greatness in defiance of conventional tv wisdom.

thank you for my life, s2e8 necessary evil. we should talk about u more. xo.

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well. it’s the middle of june. and one could say we’re in a heatwave.

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terezi dont look now but theres an ugly BITCH next to you saying twinnnnns

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He's a dork

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Hank 3 needs to CHILL

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Too shy to show the full bunny one maybe another day lol

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i miss bathroom yaoi often

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You’re laughing. They made Matt Mercer voice an anthropomorphic d20 on Date Everything and you’re laughing

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Yep that is in fact a Brennan Lee Mulligan character

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when I‘m in a torturing my ocs competition and my opponent is harlan guthrie

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I like that quark and odo had their own pon farr on the hot sands of vulcan moment only it was freezing cold and also they were both yelling "I hate you" and "fascist" and also starving to death and also no one was in heat and also it wasn't pleasurable at all. So not really anything like that actually.

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idk if someone made it but

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i think youre crazy, maybe… i will see you in the next life.

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This is so stupid

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Sir Hop-A-Lot and Tadius meet one day. The old frog is utterly delighted that Ella has such a devoted knight by her side, but the young man still has a lot to learn, and so Hop vows to take him under his wing, so to speak. This is how Tadius gains his new, greatly beloved nickname.

Tadpole.

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aos if it fuckin rocked hard