I'm Klayre. I'm 19 and I'm a student from the Philippines. I have too many fandoms to count and I will get out and be responsible after this reblog.
Fuck, I'm 28 now. Still a student. Made Choixes and is now in law school. Send help. Send men with hairy chests who want to hear me compare cases to Shakespearean plays while ignoring my alarming daily coffee intake.
was thinking about Julian “Jules Bashir died, you killed him!” Bashir and Elim “I once had a friend named Elim” Garak again and eventually got to thinking that Julian at least has Kukalaka as a tether to his child self, to “Jules.” It’s like the one facet of his past identity that he really holds on to and how it’s kinda sad that Garak doesn’t have something like that
And then I got to really thinking about it. Garak’s Kukalaka is just the entire concept of Cardassia, isn’t it? His dedication and constant praise to Cardassia as this idealized version of his home is the thing that he holds on to from his days as “Elim.” I mean you can argue that the persona he puts on with the whole “A spy???? Who, meee????? Noooooo ;)” bit is his tether to his “Elim” identity but those two things are linked. The idea that Garak holds onto the concept of Cardassia the same way someone holds onto their childhood teddybear is just very striking to me. Except he can’t literally hold onto it and take comfort in it the same way because. It’s a concept. You can’t hold a concept. It’s not real.
We talk a lot about how bad the dominion camp must have been for Julian and I do think that’s true but I’d like to spare a thought for poor Garak.
In the course of three days he experiences the worst possible combination of events that he, personally, could.
He witnesses - for the second time - the death of a father to whom he is loyal with the fervency of a cult adherent.
He has the possibility of an end to his exile dangled within his grasp and snatched away in the space of a few sentences.
He learns that his absolute least favorite person is now in charge of his beloved homeland.
He has to spend long hours inside a goddamn wall which leads to:
His claustrophobia is triggered and revealed in front of a bunch of Tal Shiar agents.
It’s incredible. If some enemy agency had tried to devise a perfect torture for him they couldn’t have done a better job. And then on top of it all he has to contend with the knowledge that for the last month he’s been fucking a changeling.
The worst star trek episodes are the ones where a main character gets a ride-or-die love interest out of nowhere and all their characterization and ambition go out the window for this random person until the end of the 45 minute episode where they’re tragically separated, but the next episode everything is back to normal and it turns out nobody cared and the love interest will never be mentioned again.
It’s actually pretty nuts how there is no real mass media coverage of the protests that are happening all over the US. It demonstrates fairly conclusively that the unlawful activities at the White House aren’t just limited to Trump. There’s a lot of wealthy people in powerful positions in the US and around the world helping to support the dismantling of the US federal government.
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