vulgarvulcan:
NanaVisitor: 6:30 am walk. Still trekking after all these years.
iām not- no, youāre emotional!
spiders-hth-is-an-outlier:
thegaymccoy:
Representation matters.
Happy Star Trek Day!
I was at DragonCon one year when Avery Brooks was on a panel, and a Black dude stood up and talked about how the year DS9 came on, he became the sole custodial guardian of his small son, and he was *terrified* and felt helpless, because he hadn’t really had a father himself, and he didn’t really know any Black fathers he particularly wanted to emulate, and no Black single fathers at all. He talked about how every week he’d put his kid to bed and sit down and watch Deep Space Nine, and think to himself, “Okay, this, I want us to be this kind of father and son,” and how, silly as it might sound, the idea that Ben could be there for Jake, all the time, successfully, and earn his admiration and trust, was the only source he really had of inspiration, the only voice that was telling him he could handle this job.
I swear to fuck there was a whole auditorium of people in tears by the time he was done, including both him and Brooks. It was one of the most beautiful moments I ever saw about the sometimes bloodless-sounding term “representation,” and about fandom in general, and I will never forget it.
almaasi:
Sid talking about hanging out with his little nonsense children fans during the Sid City Social Club, and about Garashir!
He says THE SWEETEST THINGS about us, about me, and my Garashir play Little Achievements.
In Little Achievements, the second fanfic play that you performed, the relationship between Bashir and Garak is openly romantic. What inspired the decision to perform a fanfic with that element rather than just leaving it to subtext?
AS: Well, there’s a lot of things. First thing is that Elmie, who wrote it, is a very prolific fanfic writer in the community. Everybody seemed to know them, and they certainly seemed to know everybody else and seemed like a really, really nice person. We had a chat online in our Zoom thing, and they said that they would love to write the piece if I wouldn’t mind. And I said just deliver it and we’ll have a look at it and see what we think. [Andy and I] thought that they’d done a really good job — it was charming, it was pure, and it was completely non-canonical, but that’s not the point!
This [play] is different and delicious, so it’s kind of an amuse-bouche. Ira [Steven Behr], funnily enough, said in front of everybody that had he been able to write a little bit more explicitly back in the 90s, he would have, regarding Garak. He just knew [then] that there was absolutely no way he was going to win that fight. So in a way, [performing Elmie’s play] was a full circle. It was really nice to go, oh, this is what’s happening. I just think it’s a very sweet story.
But this is my favourite part:
Myself, I was a fairly awkward young man. A stranger in a new land. Always been an outsider, having never quite been Black enough, and never quite been white enough. I could fulfill [Bashir], imbue him with my sense of respectful awkwardness, and sudden flurries of enthusiasm that I probably had myself. I’m very proud that the LGBTQ+ community and the neurodivergent community wrap their arms around him, and in a way I think this Sid City Social Club is me saying thank you [by] actually getting people’s stories. We have a disproportionately high percentage of those communities in the social club who have become great friends as a result of being together in this. I’m really proud of that. And I’m really proud of Bashir being the catalyst for that.
Bless you, Sid <3
Anyway, the whole article is a great read, so go check it out!
almaasi:
almaasi:
sippingteabythesea:
almaasi:
almaasi:
today on sid city social club: julian bashir confirmed bi-romantic as heck by sid, garak thoroughly re-confirmed queer by ira behr. garashir shipped by everyone.
dan-gheesking: Wait Sid said he’s Bi?
he said julian experienced “romantic attraction to any gender”, specifically citing the fact julian was attracted to the existence of dax’s previous male incarnations as well as jadiza and ezri.
he said something about the general mess of julian’s actual physical sexuality but my brain had shorted out at that point
this entire discussion began because someone asked about julian’s early romances, and sid was like “they never worked out but then garak came along” (literally nobody brought up garak. he brought up garak. it took him like 2 sentences to get there.)
both sid and ira VERY CASUALLY referred to garashir as a romance multiple times. in fact that’s the ONLY way they referred to it
and ira was like “they were dancing” and “it takes two to dance” [sic] (but both sid and ira agreed it was a non-sexual relationship)
if anyone remembers more accurate quotes and/or additional things, please add them!!
the video of today’s chat (friday 15th may 2020) should be on youtube in a few days/weeks. the chat host (the lovely mel) very kindly uploads them here.
Sid mentioned that Bashir struggled with recognizing platonic feelings vs romantic. He stated that Garak came along and it was “a love story”.
aura218 said: @almaasi, that link isnt working for me. What’s the name of the channel?
The Sid City youtube channel is here
The video of this entire meeting is here
Garak and Bashir had “a romance of mind, if not body” (starts at 23:30, goes to 30:50)
Sid confirms Bashir as bi-romantic (starts at 26:52)
Ira: “Both people were involved in that dance” (starts at 28:55)
oh, and the part where Sid said “and then Garak came along” starts at 12:06, and the exact quote “it was a love story” is at 13:50
mooonpie:
Nana Visitor on Kira/Odo romance and her romance with Siddig
amandawtwong:
“Then this is the way I want you to remember me.”
crowtoed:
You may ship it, but Bryan Fuller ships it more.
(And Andy ships it even more)
