#quark tag

[goose-books]

3 for Anna and Errans, and also 20 and 21 :3

i meant to remember to answer these before the last day of pride month. and then! anyway,

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

(godsong WIP page with links) (for context, anna is god's specialest girl ever and the main character, and she's a transfemme nonbinary lesbian. errans is a minor side character with terrible sideburns and transmasc unswag)

anna grew up in a city where priests have a special gender and pronoun, and she was designated a priest at age 11 by the gods, so her transness started as sort of an occupational thing; she was like, "okay, i'm priestgender," and then progressed to, "wait, i like this gender stuff." you are allowed to be priestgender and also another thing, and getting to explore her presentation at the temple lead to the realization that her Other Thing was womanhood (nonbinary-flavored). more a sister than a woman etc <3

as for the lesbianism, i don't think that was ever a discovery for him; there's no homophobia in ivander and his parents are in a bisexual polycule, so i think he just always knew his future person would be a woman. (i say "person" because ivander doesn't have legal marriage, but there is a religious equivalent if you want to dedicate yourself to someone long-term; otherwise you can just do Whatever. city that is absolutely bursting with gender and fruitiness)

errans i'm less sure about dskhfkdsfkdsnfsd. i know he came out as trans when he was around sixteenish; i think he knew he was bisexual first, and the image coming to me is errans experiencing the "do-i-want-to-date-that-guy-or-be-that-guy" about someone he probably never actually spoke to. i don't get a vibe like he ever loathed being a woman, more so that eventually he just realized he could simply be a man. for free. and was like. "well this is clearly so much more what i'm supposed to be doing"

now i'm thinking about awkward teenage errans and his awkward genvy crushes. god bless him

20. Have your ocs helped you in self discovery? How?

sigh. well i have to tell the story don't i. POV: you are [max], age 12, working on the first iteration of the story that will become TMR (my on-hiatus YA transgender evil-faerie high fantasy). you give the character who will become moon marigold all of your uncomfortable feelings about your body, feelings that are certainly not physical dysphoria because you are cisgender. about a year or so later, you realize that this WIP is full of cishet white people (i have since remedied this), and you should really add some diversity. hey, moon's got weird body feelings! what if you made her genderfluid? that sounds great! you are not thinking at all about where those weird body feelings may have come from or how this may reflect on anything at all.

POV: you are [max], still age 13ish, and you've got a new WIP (it's my also-on-hiatus NA monsters-in-NYC thing). you are going to put a binary transgender person in it. not for any specific reason. you just wanted to. who can say why. certainly not you. anyway you've never done this before and you are a little nervous because how can you, as a cisgender person, accurately represent a trans character? you muse about how to write dysphoria as you dress up for an orchestra concert, in an outfit that is extremely feminine. halfway through, you get derailed by crying real tears about said feminine outfit, because now the boy who sits beside you in the orchestra will know that you are a girl (because your long hair and name clearly couldn't have tipped him off beforehand). could you draw on this experience to describe dysphoria, you wonder? or maybe that other time you cried in the shower? but that's bad and wrong, isn't it? because you're cisgender. so comparing your own... whatever this is... to dysphoria would be an APPROPRIATION of dysphoria! how villainously cis of you! how horrible! you'll have to figure out some other way to write this character.

...anyway. thank you to moon and augustus for that. my kings my brothers in arms. and they BOTH do arson in their respective WIPs, so maybe i have another plot twist in my future?

21. Free ramble card wee

FREE RAMBLE WEE... hmm, well, since i've already touched on it a little in this ask, one of the most interesting things about worldbuilding for godsong is that most of the major settings don't have homophobia/transphobia/misogyny the same way that our world does. (i say most because ambergris is stuck in misogynyville. it's probably fine and i bet she won't get violent.) i honestly didn't think super hard about this; i just wanted to write a high fantasy world where women and nonbinary people and bisexuals and lesbians can hold positions of (sometimes corrupt) power, or where the chosen one can be a transfemme lesbian whose issues aren't transphobia but how to complete her quest.

except then i realized that not having homophobia/transphobia/misogyny invites so many other questions about the social fabric of a society. i mean, the modern legal concept of marriage is rooted pretty solidly in heterosexual relationships wherein women move from one family to another, right? so if gender relations are entirely different, do these places even have marriage? do these places even have gender? this is something i'm still figuring out (and honestly, if anyone has suggestions for media that pokes at this kind of thing, i'd love to hear them!). the two main cities in godsong are ivander (a theocracy) and farria (a democracy with a new revolution every tuesday), and i've been playing around in my head with some of the differences--for example, in ivander, being trans is generally considered holy, because the city's patron god is many-gendered; in farria, being trans is something nobody thinks twice about, because everyone is focused on Just Getting By. in ivander, there are at least three defined genders (man, woman, and priest) which can all overlap. in farria, gender doesn't define social relations so much as a parallel hierarchy of military and/or governmental power--eg, farria's very own neopronouns marc antony isn't afraid of "emasculation" in the gender sense, because xir gender is "if you like me you're gay," but xe's terrified of emasculation (for lack of a better word) in the sense of being seen as weak/submissive. in farria these things are way less connected than they are in our world. i'm still working out a lot of the details, but it's been a lot of fun to think about :3

wow that sure was a free ramble. thank you for the asks rook i love you so much <3

(pride asks!)

[loquaciousquark]

astarion? oh sure, i've heard of him, he's that sexy and suave,

cool and collected,

immune-to-all-physical-touch,

slightly cruel vampire, right?

yeah, that's him, that's the guy

[quarks-pussy]

Remade this post of mine

[nagusposting]

heyyyy my insta people can see these in high quality!!!!

i guess ill post these....(these are not all the ones i made but the best ones i think)

[trillscienceofficer]

I got a copy of “The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition” and the whiplash I got going from rule #112 to #113...

'by Quark as told to Ira Steven Behr' indeed lol

[m0rbs]

This is my primary ds9 takeaway

[mincedpeaches]

I just got to the final s6 dominion occupation episode in ds9 and Quark's reaction when he killed the two Jem'Hadar guys was SO fascinating to me that I had to go look up the script to see if that was in the direction or not and

Oh my GOD. thats my blorbo. my poor little meow meow. thats my blorbo!!!!!!!

[ffc1cb]

played thru all of zero escape games recently... it was an experience

[404sketches]

Hey, about time I post something on here, right? Well, just did these two studies of random stills from DS9. Couldn't tell you what episodes they're from, got them from google images. Kinda blurry and relatively low resolution, but salvaging them from that is almost kinda part of the fun!

[cornflakesdoesart]

this is inpired by the line in @soft-galaxies’s wonderful precanon fic, words and tricks :  ”They look at each other and Odo wishes he could simply download his thoughts into Quark’s mind somehow, or transmit them without having to rely on mere words.” that made me go ooh, what if Odo actually tried to link with Quark before he knew what that even was, just the need to be truly connected and undertsood in a way he instinctually knew he could be overriding he’s impulse control, wouldn’t that be a wonderful disaster? : DD

also I’ve drawn this back in february for a free star trek valentine themed zine that is still available on @startrekswimsuitspecial along with more really fun free zines, go check it out ! Anyway I’m posting only now bc I lost the quote that inspired the piece and Softy has so many (wonderful, wonderful) Quodo fics that I had a lot of trouble finding it again lmao OTL

[abstrekt]

Finally got around to doing some redraws of THE BEST lower decks episode!!!! No I am not biased

[goose-books]

hello I am here to 🎶 at ambergris and 🎶 at dawn please and thank you :3

(give me a character name + 🎶 and I’ll put their playlist on shuffle and tell you the most fitting lyric of the first song I get)

ambergris comes from godsong, the project du jour that is eating my brain. specifically, she is That Bitch in godsong who decides to tame a dragon to eventually find a way to get out of her abusive household and maybe kill her parents on the way.

shuffling her playlist brings me absinthe by IDKHOW!

I don't believe whatever this is Until you burn all of the witches I won't believe whatever this is Whatever they give you Stop drinking it down

this one isn't that complex ngl. you see. ambergris hates her family and the duchy they live in and its misogynist rules and the ableism she faces and the tired ideas about religion peddled here and she's just about done with all of that shit!!!

moving on: DAWN DAWN DAWN! MY BEST FRIEND DAWN FROM QUARK (the speculative fiction monsters-and-magic-in-NYC-thing!), my favorite totally-not-the-chosen one art student <3 shuffling her playlist produced gold rush by death cab for cutie!

They're digging for gold in my neighborhood Where all the old buildings stood And they keep digging it down and down So that their cars can live underground The swinging of a wrecking ball Through these lathe and plaster walls Is letting all the shadows free The ones I wished still followed me

Change Please don't change Stay Stay the same

yes quark is about monsters but a lot of it is about nostalgia, missing what you used to have as a child or the future that you imagined that never panned out--history, after all, is fate backwards, or something, and quark is all about fate. dawn specifically spent her first seven years in new york city's magical sister city and then ended up jerked rather quickly into the "Real World," so, yeah, she's got some weird vibes about her childhood. also, haha, shadows, just like her magical powers--

[loquaciousquark]

do you love the color of the dice?

[quarks-pussy]

Y'all holy shit

This might already be common knowledge and only news to me as a recent trekkie but before the day is over in most time zones, well...

I had assumed that all the lizards were puppets and the babies might be (couldn't find anything that would indicate otherwise) but. Salamander Janeway and Paris were played by human beings in costumes.

Susan Rossitto and Cindy Sorensen are the ones who played the Threshold lizards.

Both of them went uncredited and Susan Rossitto also passed away in 2013, but here are pictures of them:

Everyone say "Thank you Susan and Cindy!" 🫡

[beauxjangles]

guys welcome back to star trek deep throat nine here for the main characters we have nonbinary lesbian goop, trans woman who is a worm, captain who did war crimes, terrorist with a soft spot for halter tops, dr tennis twink, unstable exiled lizard spy with severe daddy issues, guy who we put through hell for fun, the captains little bitchass shit son and guy who gets mad pussy by owning an arcade

inspired by the post by @ratfuck

[noodelak]

The episode where Quark gets married to the Klingon and when his wife shouts “ENTER HUSBAND!” and Quark runs in and does a fruity lil pose for the Klingon council, that’s what life’s all about