lemonsweetie:
Bashir: I’m a doctor. You’re my patient. That’s all I need to know.
Garak: Wrong again… You need to know who you’re trying to save.
Of the final farewell scene between Garak and Bashir, Behr comments, “A lot of people thought their relationship had been forgotten and we didn’t need to give them a goodbye scene, that the important thing was Bashir and O'Brien. But I felt that we needed it. For seven years, this guy had been wanting to get out of exile, and he helps free his planet, helps his people do the right thing, and finally he gets to go home to ruins. Bashir gives us this human, kind of well meaning but not really helpful response to all that’s happened, while Garak has his eyes wide open." (x)
anunfinishedman:
7. Cosplaying
Still working on the Our Man Bashir poster, but then this happened.
Never enough Garak in turtlenecks.
Reasons I Ship Garak/Bashir
lemonsweetie:
A visual guide of a ship between a professional puppy and a space lizard, illustrated with pictures and other people’s lovely gifs.
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ladyyatexel:
Scan of signed painting, here is the original. I can’t thank both of them enough for indulging me and being so sweet, even if Sid had to do it by insinuating at me and Andy talked about ‘balance’ and made me babble at him like a giant nerd. They were both so lovely and now I get to be a dork and frame my own art because this piece of paper is my new favorite thing.
So I had wanted to read a fanfic that talked about the events of ‘Empok Nor’ for some time now because I do love some old good angst, and then I found this one - and while it’s not always that I appreciate older fanfiction, this one it’s pretty good ~~
I wasn’t going to rec it because this is a story with some good years and lots of people in the fandom must have read it already, but there’s always new people in fandom, so…
Garak/Bashir, NC-17, some angst and some pretty… curious Cardassian anatomy.
Link for the story: Trust
"In that first scene, Garak’s clearly cruising him."
—Andrew Robinson, talking at STLV about Garak meeting Doctor Bashir. (via
ladyyatexel)
ladyyatexel:
During the DS9 panels a ‘moderator’ spent both panels trying to force his perceptions of the show upon the cast. While all interpretations are valid, he was really just shoving it at them regardless of their answers. He tried to tell Michael Dorn that Worf was changed by love - Dorn said no, Worf…
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Robinson’s novel is structured as a letter from Garak to Dr. Julian Bashir - his best friend and longtime breakfast companion on Deep Space Nine. Much fan fiction about Garak speculates that his feelings for Bashir went beyond the platonic relationship depicted on television, a belief Robinson does not refute. Indeed, in A Stitch In Time, Garak has crushes on both men and women.
“I loved that sexual ambiguity,” Robinson states. “I wanted to get away from our sexual prejudices. I thought, this is an alien! Who knows what alien sexuality is, if indeed there is strict heterosexuality or homosexuality, those delineations? That’s something that I kept in the book. Though that was more interesting to me in the playing of Garak than the writing of it; this book is for kids too, so I chose not to get more explicit sexually because of that.”
Interestingly, the book scarcely mentions Dukat’s daughter Ziyal, Garak’s onetime lover, who was murdered by Damar when he believed she had betrayed Cardassia. “The reason for that is that the writers never got that right,” sighs Robinson. “They had three different actresses playing Ziyal, and when Garak comes back and finds out that Ziyal has been killed, basically it’s, “Well, that’s too bad,” and he moves on with his life.”
Near the end of the series, Garak and Damar worked together without any conflict over Damar’s murder of Garak’s love. “So I figured, what the hell. I guess he didn’t care as much as one would have thought.” Was the romance with Ziyal an attempt to heterosexualize Garak because the writers got nervous about the Bashir/Garak dynamic? “Probably,” admits Robinson. “It never really developed. There was never really any investment on their part.”
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