Willow - they/them - 25Star Trek sideblog where I get to be unhinged. Mainly ds9, but tos, tng and voy get their moments. I follow from @the-willow-tree
I’ve graduated from art school! I’m really enjoying my summer break and allowing myself time to recover from creative burnout. Here’s a garak & bashir painting I started months ago and just finished!
Also, keep an eye out on me possibly opening commissions again soon 👀⭐️
garak x bashir truly the epitome of shipping. reading into every second of screen time they *don't* share constructing a timeline of their romance. the highs. the lows. the downfall. it all makes perfect sense. have to remind myself that it's not what the writers intended. it's all in my head. a fantasy. but what a fantasy it is
This is just to say the Bell Riots don't take place on August 30th. That's the day Sisko, Dax, and Bashir will have been being arrived* in San Francisco. The Riots will be September 1-3, 2024.
That said, instead of rioting, today I honored Gabriel Bell's heroics with a donation to a couple of charities that help the unhoused and the hungry. I've donated to the Hollywood Food Coalition and the SF Marin Food Bank:
Hollywood Food Coalition Building Community since 1987 - Hollywood Food Coalition (hofoco.org)
San Francisco-Marin Food Bank - Every $1 Donated Provides 2 Meals (sfmfoodbank.org)
I made the donations "In Memory of Gabriel Bell." Please consider honoring Gabriel Bell with donations of your own to these or other organizations that helped the unhoused.
Thank you! Stay safe out there. Live long and prosper!
I want to write something deep and meaningful and wise about Past Tense day, but I feel like there is nothing to say that isn’t already there. Watch Past Tense. Just go watch it. There’s no analysis I can write that isn’t on the wall already. I’m not even gonna say happy past tense day, because I don’t think there is frankly anything happy about it.
It is Past Tense day. No analysis need be written because it is already there. Look at it, it’s on the ceiling. Perhaps, with effort, we can make the rest of the episode’s predictions come true as well. May we turn society hereafter towards the common good.
– You don't know what any of this is about, do you? You work here, you see these people every day, how they live, and you just don't get it.
– What do you want me to say? That I feel for them? That they got a bad break? What good would it do?
– It'd be a start.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993–1999)
⤷ Paste Tense (parts I & II)
I saw a comment on the DS9 Reddit saying they planned to celebrate The Bell Riots by donating to charities that help aid those experiencing homelessness under the name Gabriel Bell or in dedication to Gabriel Bell!
Of course Garak is submissive. He's spent his entire life without autonomy, acting only in the service of a higher power and deeply ashamed of any personal need. A man like that needs the excuse of a greater power making him take pleasure in order to not feel great shame. Especially if that greater power is Bashir who he views as the sweetest of uncorrupted morality, allowing him an excuse for any action he takes in service to Bashir.