#<- putting this here for Nine

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[quarkfancam]

don't you feel ashamed of what you've done?

[old-skyguy]

The silly stupid alien show about ghosts that steal your cock and balls just pulled the most gut wrenching, poignant shit possible and portrayed it so artistically and meaningfully what is even life.

This was MASTERFULLY done. The visual and environmental storytelling, the subtle foreshadowing, and inject those motifs into my fucking BLOOD.

Ho. Ly shit. Good fucking lord.

[martianbugsbunny]

My TNG poll is over (Data won and I should not be surprised lmao; proud of dealer's choice Will Riker for pulling a solid third) so let's do another one!

Dax and Odo don't get to be in it because that feels like cheating. they're actually trans.

[jestiamy]

nüwa doodle. finished season 5

[comic-sans-chan]

these polls pitting epic ship against epic ship need to stop, they are SO toxic

anyway here's another

[kitmarlowe]

NINE STEVE PEMBERTONS ↳ Inside No. 9

[mylittleredgirl]

unpopular opinion but i really enjoy "field of fire," the ezri dax "to catch a serial killer" episode. for all the scenery chewing and deep space nine's continued vulcan smear campaign, i'm not going to pretend it's objectively the best of the ezri a-plot episodes, but it's my favorite for what it reveals about her.

jadzia was emotional, headstrong, and sometimes impulsive (as was curzon), but ezri is reckless.

of course she is! she's young! she's unqualified for everything that has happened to her, and honestly, so are all her peers. she ran away from a fucked-up home to starfleet at a time when, as we saw with nog, they're field-promoting cadets at top speed to fill the ranks as starfleet suffers massive war casualties. she's more or less the same generation as the red squad cadets on the valiant who decided to fight the dominion war by themselves behind enemy lines.

and she wouldn't be ezri dax otherwise. the reveal in "equilibrium" is a secret known only the symbiosis commission and the starfleet offiers who were physically in the room. to the medical staff on the destiny and ezri tigan herself, the odds of rejection from an improper trill joining are overwhelmingly likely and fatal. but ezri still volunteers to join with dax! she's probably going to die in this uniform anyway, right?

jadzia was a focused, rule-following, straight-a student before she met the party worm, and it took dax a season or two to loosen her up, but ezri was probably already unhinged.

so of course she's the one who decides to take her inner murderer off the leash at the slightest provocation. sisko asks her to help odo out, and ezri somehow interprets this as feeling like she's solely responsible for finding the killer when she only took one class at the academy in forensic psychology and didn't even like it. odo and o'brien are continuing their own investigation off-screen the whole time! meanwhile, she probably had to look up the trill emergence ritual in a book. she has not read the fine print on ANY of this.

and she sticks with this crazy plan, even when it becomes clear that she's right on the edge of becoming a danger to society. but ezri's whole starfleet career, maybe her whole young life of ignoring and plotting her escape from her emotionally abusive family, certainly her whole joined experience, has been lived right on the edge.

all the scenes she has with joran in and around quark's bar to me are her technique for staying grounded in reality. they often happen after joran pushes her too far, so she uses being public as a distraction from that one-on-one intensity—even though it means she looks insane and everyone's staring at her. even joran is like ".... shouldn't you have told sisko about me?" she is full in dax stubbornness on this deeply dubious plan.

and it works!! and in the final account, i think she liked it a little: the power of playing a killer, the power of being stronger than joran, and the soft ending she has with him during reintegration.

her symbiont, her whole life on the station, her friends, her romantic interests, they were all jadzia's first, but jadzia was afraid of joran and would never have played this game. in this one way, ezri has a closer relationship to her unearned symbiont than jadzia did.

ezri's beta canon trajectory of switching to a command track is okay, but it makes me sad to think she'd ditch her chosen career entirely. i could see her getting into criminal psychology. her brother's a murderer (she hasn't unpacked that AT ALL), one of her past hosts was a murderer... with that backstory, she'd do numbers in a federation law & order procedural series. i'd watch it.

but honestly, in the federation spirit of rehabilitation, she might be uniquely qualified to treat violent criminals as well, rather than hunting them down. she could reach in and heal that part of herself and then use that experience to reach others.

[redfirefox-55]

I’ve done a bit of complaining lately, but one must adapt and and overcome

Unfortunately due to recent situations involving the user

@/hmrgarita on Pinterest (I KNOW you go through the Nine Sols tag on tumblr)

All my artworks will be posted like this from now on, with my lovely username covering at least 30% of the picture, at least until they take down the drawings of mine they reposted, without my permission or even credit, like I requested THREE times.

Also while I am here, if you have drawn fanart for Nine Sols and care about your art being reposted, please be aware that this person hasn’t only reposted my artwork, but LOTS of artwork I’ve seen on the Nine Sols tag on tumblr. Like, so so much. I advise looking up their account on Pinterest and checking to see if they’ve reposted your work, and reporting them if you’re able.

[ladyofthebookcase]

goumang standing on this filthy street in the rain

[unbreakablemouserat]

Okay I know I just started to watch Psych but for some random reason I want to put all these characters together in the same room.

[quarkfancam]

Hi! I've been thinking about that one post you made about Rom/sisko all night. could you draw anything related to that?

is this anything..... they could be insanely two single parents who are forced together in a rom com movie - coded if you think about it

[spaciebabie]

MONKKEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[forbiddenmattressstain]

i’m suffocating.

[heartsfortwotpot]

hopefully the last and final nine redesign

[morrigan-sims]

Nine of Swords

anxiety, hopelessness, trauma, sleeplessness, despair

Inspired by this piece by @sarakipin (Please check out her work. They're an amazing artist, and their suit of swords is some of my favorite work of hers.)