




I don’t think I’ve ever drawn an obviously slashy drawing of Garak and Bashir sooOOO. I was going to make it super nude but baby steps.
NOT MUCH ELSE TO SAY HERE
I know that we’ve grown apart and that’s as it should be. We learn what we can from certain people, then we move on after we’ve taken what we need. When we learn nothing new about ourselves in a relationship that’s when the relationship is over. Or it’s over the moment we’re afraid to learn something new about ourselves. But what I have been learning about myself… whatever it was inside me that was sparked and challenged when I first met you… is deeply connected to this story. I’m an unfinished man, Doctor, like a suit of clothes hanging on a display rack waiting for the final touches that may never come; I need to tell this story to make a peace with those parts of me that were left unfinished. A healing. Indulge me, if you will; I need you as a witness.
- Garak to Bashir in A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson.
The Trill taboo against “reassociation” was something cocreator Michael Piller had suggested early on in the series. “He felt they’d have to have a very strict taboo in order to avoid an aristocracy of the joined,” says (René) Echevarria. “Otherwise, they’d all only want to hang out with each other, their dear old friends from five hundred years ago, and it would become a really screwed-up society.”
[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion]
Oof, well I tried. XD I feel like I kept trying to fix/improve this one for so long and spent so much time looking at it, that I’m blind to any flaws. >_<
Used this color palette.