#our man julian

[startrek-by-secret]

You can't tell me Garak wasn't incredibly turned on by Julian almost shooting him

[havi-fart]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH YAAYYYY

to fight my artblock i decided to redraw some gerard p donelan comics as ds9. but once i started i could not stop....

so heres all deep space 9 of them. lol. again the poses and captions are lifted straight from his comics all i did was put space guys on there! please enjoy

(id in alt text btw!)

[bribinart]

so uh guess what i watched

(prints!)

[youngpettyqueen]

I love Garak rolling his eyes at Julian's flirting with women in Our Man Bashir because I truly believe that if Julian started laying those moves on him, Garak would explode

[fvckingcrazybutfree]

THEY WERE CRAZY FOR THIS

[orangexmachina]

Their joint slay

Episode: Our Man Bashir, Deep Space 9

Song: Americano by Lady Gaga

[cucumbermoon]

I feel like Our Man Bashir has got to be one of the worst possible introductory episodes of Star Tek. In order for it to work at all, it expects you to come in with so much background knowledge, both in regards to tech and the intricate relationships between all the characters. Just look at the first five minutes. Some twink in a tux wastes a guy with a champagne cork and makes out with a woman before getting mocked and also hit on by a lizard monster in a matching tuxedo.

Who are these people? Why are they in the sixties; I thought this was a future sci-fi show?Why is the human standing so absurdly close to the lizard monster but pretending he doesn’t want him there? Is this foreplay? Where did that lady go and why are they acting like she isn’t a real person? Why are they flirting on top of the corpse of a guy one of them just murdered?? Am I supposed to be seeing this? Should I call 911?

[vaguely-concerned]

another really interesting thing in our man bashir to me is that I think this is the point where garak finally mostly relinquishes his self-appointed role as bashir's teacher. he seems to have taken it upon himself early on, for inscrutable but probably partially horny, partially cultivating a promising (and lovely) contact reasons of his own, to imbue julian bashir with some spysmarts and basic bastard thinking literacy skills, in the hopes that he won't go get his bright beautiful excitable ass killed at the first opportunity. there's a lot of mentor/protege undertone there in the early years. (if you want to get into asit stuff, very much in the same vein as palandine and garak's relationship in the beginning.)

but in omb garak really only has one of his little lectures, and it's basically about The thing about being a spy (and a person) that has most shaped his life: That's something else you've yet to learn, Doctor. A real intelligence agent has no ego, no conscience, no remorse. Only a sense of professionalism. There is no joy, no magic, no real delight to this, no winning, no recognition, and most importantly no connection; the reward for work well done is only ever the work itself. You don’t kiss the girl, get the key — you simply get on with turning yourself into nothing as best you can. and julian, who had just been trying to momentarily imagine a world where secrets can be cool and glamorous and for good, meaningful reasons that empower him to help the world rather than shameful and isolating and alienating and like a damocles sword hanging over him and everything he cares about, shoots back with 'well, but what if not that, though? that's the whole point of this game! this is my story not yours, trust me to know it better than you do. (I have more things to teach you too, if you’d just listen. And once he gets shot a little bit, garak does listen.)'

(somewhere beneath all this is almost exactly the same debate they will have explicitly later on -- "Sentiment is the greatest weakness of all"/"If that's true, that's one lesson I never want to learn". Something something the freedom to imagine and play around with different worlds in your head, no matter how cringefail james bond LARP nonsense that world is as long as it brings you hope and joy and new perspectives, kill the part of you that cringes etc. Garak you're allowed to get out of the closet in your head now, Tain is gone, you can imagine different things than what has been and no one will turn it against you. Im… sad)

through most of this episode garak is observing, and when he's not simply bitching about everything from the sidelines (<3), he's tentatively trying to throw in comments to play along, to figure out how the flow goes like he's learning a different language, and he's BAD at it hahaha. he barged in there to put himself in a position to learn something about julian bashir's ~*hidden inner psyche*~, but UH-OH spiritual uno reverse card time he's having to face some shit about his own psyche and the immense barrenness it's been forced to operate under for so long.

The learning between them has of course always been two-way (that’s partially what the whole relationship is built on), but in giving up the more ‘formal’ role — mask — of teacher, garak is also opening up space for realer emotional intimacy, letting one layer of artificiality fall and allowing more realness to shine through. even so he doesn’t let go of control completely until he’s faced with irrefutable (horny) proof that julian’s sentiments and ideals are backed by real conviction — julian knows (possibly better than garak does) what is a game, and what is real, and where he draws the line between frivolous and deeply necessary is different from where garak would and by the end of the ep I think garak trusts julian more, enough to leave the story in julian’s hands without trying to steer or form him even indirectly/sneakily. And to top it all off, the way julian uses his last dramatic speech to signal that he did also listen to what garak told him… augh.  

the teacher role, along with the lies (ever his swiss army knife god bless), has helped garak keep a sort of fine-tuned control of the level of emotional intimacy possible between them, stay in control of what narratives are even on the table. and I think finally letting that fade more into the background transforms their relationship in ways that can pay off big time down the line, for all that it leaves things a bit strange and tentative in the meantime. by garak standards he’s being positively transparent in this episode. for the first time he talks about his time in the order without any coy prevarication, he states his hunger for knowing julian better right down to his ~*hidden inner psyche*~ almost pathetically openly (<3<3<3<3). And this is just my headcanon and definitely not what was meant at the time of airing, the unplanned nature of the augment reveal being what it is, but in context of the whole show as it became it feels a lot like garak offering some of his own authenticity to signal that julian could trust him with his. It feels like garak has figured out at least the rough outlines of what julian has uh got going on and tried to make this gambit, having… perhaps underestimated the extent of the defenses julian has internally/psychologically against Being Known, quite aside from the practical real world consequences of his secret getting out. Anyway. Lots in this episode. Many thoughts.

[moonhibs]

Sillies

[shapelytimber]

This is kind of a our man bashir swap au vaguely inspired by this post (by @elemental-queen-writes ), but I thought that Kira would make a good Pussy Galore and she deserves a group of 'flying pussies' on top of the sick lesbian fit :3c and Garak looks good in pink <3

So good in fact I rendered the last panel and made it a print :)) if your interested it's up on my Inprint [LINK]

PS : for this comic I watched parts of the movie Goldfinger (not *the* atrocious scene, I spared myself) to better know the character pussy galore... And she's doing queen shit tbh but omg this movie looks so fucking boring and I hate Bond so much (and it's saying something coming from someone who watches shitty Hammer movies for fun)

[startrek-by-secret]

Nothing better than Julian and Garak being in suits and constantly fighting while Julian flirts himself through the entire holosuit program

[ineskorth]

So - some OMB love. I wanted to copy the old Bond posters from the 60s (Thunderball, Goldfinger etc) als close as possible with all their roughness and hard contrasts and awesome colours. Also, we all know that Garak is cosplaying Pussy Galore but not 100%, so I adjusted his clothes a little bit. Now it's even more Pussy! Julian was already wearing Bonds light grey suit from that scene on Goldfinger's ranch, I just added the waistcoat. Thanks again for your comments and tags on my previous illustrations <3! My wedding was a really nice event :D

[sebastianmercier]

bashir’s internal monologue as he turns garak’s chin to the side to examine his wound: ha! i finally got one over on him. i’m in control now.

garak’s thoughts as he uses every ounce of his self-restraint not to launch himself at bashir: doctor if you aren’t out of my way in two seconds i won’t be responsible for what happens next

[youngpettyqueen]

Garak saying "I know when to walk away" is so funny with the context of A Stitch in Time because like. yeah he does know when to walk away. and then he never does

[qcon-tinuum]

Shall we begin? STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - 4.09 OUR MAN BASHIR

[stopthatbluecat]

Julian Being Pushed Against Walls Masterpost