[ID: five gifs from season 2, episode 5 "cardassians” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show julian bashier and elim garak in front of a computer.
1st gif: julian is leaning on the right side of the computer, while garak is seated on the left. garak is working on fixing the computer. julian tells garak, “i continue to underestimate you, garak.” julian shifts to rest his cheek on the palm of his right hand.
2nd gif: "oh, it's no more difficult than sewing on a button, actually.” garak replies, still focused on the computer.
3rd gif: "excuse me.” garak gets up and shifts places with julian to stand in front of the computer screen. he takes off the tool he was wearing on his left eye and hands it over to julian.
4th gif: "you carry this everywhere with you, do you?“ julian asks garak while taking the tool from him.
5th gif: “a simple tailoring tool. you’d be surprised how often someone needs their pants let out.” garak replies, he is still focusing on the computer screen. to his left, julian is playing with the tool, putting it up against his right eye./end ID]
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speaking as someone who wasn't part of the DC fanbase in the 2000s by virtue of being a small child, can you. fucking imagine. what it was like to be a fan of tim and kon back then. nothing huge, they'd be cute together now that they've grown out of their past antagonism and are now the best! of friends! who support each other -- tim assures kon of his own humanity, refers to kon as family. kon, in turn, helps tim shoulder the grief of losing jack and is notably territorial over tim's status as robin. aw, that's sweet--
and then kon fucking dies, as one does. crosses the wrong rainbow bridge. body's going cold by the time tim reaches him. they were his colours.
and then, for the next few years, you're periodically hit with the most deranged content possible. what happens next far, far exceeds whatever inhinged nonsense DC's own timkon fans could have come up with. tim is pretending to be coping well, and a full year later, he is in fact coping so well that he's trying clone or ressurrect kon through any means possible. this brings him (and the titans) in direct opposition against the brotherhood of evil, whose leadership consists of, wait for it, a gay gorilla and his gay lover, a gay brain in a jar. their gay evil goal is to give the brain in a jar a new body so they can live happily ever after. tim is quietly devastated when their attempt at cloning Brain said new body fails. their final appearance in that issue has the Brain quote nietzsche: "there is always some madness in love. but there is also always some reason in madness."
seven (7) pages later, tim's ninety-fifth attempt at remaking kon fails. he starts destroying his lab equipment in a fit of rage. cassie exclaims that even if tim did succeed, it wouldn't really be conner, to which tim says, he'd be close enough. we could make him close enough.
hey tim what the fuck is wrong with you (don't answer that)
absolutely nobody at all, zero people:
DC: this disembodied brain and his boyfriend, a french gorilla named monsieur mallah, mirrors tim's struggle to live without his beloved friend and show tim the futility of trying to bring him back to life
it. it just keeps. just keeps going. no time to catch your breath. my best friend died. i couldn't accept it, tim says melodramatically, a single manly tear rolling down his cheek. i couldn't lose you too. i know it wouldn't have been you, conner, but it would have been something.
and it keeps going. bleeding out. will i see conner? hope so, tim thinks, because his priorities are in order. the rooftop hug. why so happy? let me guess. sale on leather?
if you need me, just yell. i'll hear you. i know you will, conner. and thanks. for what? for believing in me.
elsewhere, a sentient plant makes kon hallucinate his greatest fears and they are, get this,
1. tim not liking him (agh!)
2. tim hating him (agh!)
3. tim dying (agh!)
we haven't even reached you'll always be my robin. you'll always be my clone boy. that's the gratuitous, almost vestigial cherry in top at this point.
... like. imagine being a DC fan pre-infinite crisis and thinking robin and superboy were pretty cute, and had great chemistry, not expecting anything too crazy. and then spending the next five to six years getting repeatedly kicked in the face. i just know those livejournal forums were popping back when adventure comics #3 (2009) dropped
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