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I just wanna say I am LIVID with Andrew Robinson and Alexander Siddig for this 😤

I'm one of those lesbian who had a yaoi/mlm obsession as a teenager (embarassing, but also both hilarious and validating that this is a whole thing?), and y'know I thought I got over that and could try to be a half-normal person?

Y'know I went into Star Trek fully aware of it's gay communist tendencies, but y'know I thought I'd be safe (I watched Voyager when I was a kid and I'm convinced it's at least 30% why I'm as gay as I am). After re-watching Voyager and watching the Next Generation (I know weird order), I decide to naturally give Deep Space Nine a try.

And then HERE COMES THESE TWO.

I'm on AO3 again.

I made a playlist.

I HATE how obsessed I am with them.

They're so perfect 😭💖

And then Lower Decks (with Andy and Sid of course) basically says "their love transcends the boundaries of space and time."

Obviously congratulations to the OG shippers of this pair.

But I'm still pissed

I was talking to @paper-erythrocytes and described Bashir thusly, she said she needed it on a shirt, so here you go!!

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

I showed my parents this and they said I was being extreme 😂😂😂

Brent Spiner being made up as Data ❤️

some guys and their lizards :3

(cw suicidal thoughts)

Headcanon that Julian's parents moved to San Francisco while he was at the Academy to keep an eye on him/ "support" him and he was invited round to theirs at least once a week and they would randomly show up at his dorm with some dinner ("we know you're working so hard, Jules") (half the time it's something he doesn't even like that much) and while he is enjoying his time at the Academy - and it's still better than living with his parents and he gets actual time away from them now - his post at DS9 is the first time he's ever been able to properly distance himself from them.

This is also partly why he became such a ladies' man - his mum turned up once when he was entertaining a girl and she quickly apologised for interrupting and then the next week when they were eating together all his parents' questions were about the girl and they were saying "if you don't have as much time for us, do let us know, we wouldn't want to get in the way of true love future grandchildren 😉😉" and Julian gets kind of used to having a girlfriend as a sort-of form of, like, self-defense? Which is an awful reason to have a girlfriend and is not a mindset that particularly serves him well, but at some points when his parents are being particularly intense, it becomes literally about survival.

(Also, a reason why he's so weird about turning 30 - he's kind of freaking out because there were lots of times when he never really thought he'd make it, but it's a lot easier to stick to the socially acceptable line of "I feel so old :/" rather than telling people "I only stopped being actively suicidal sometime after I left Earth and still can't quite believe I ever escaped")

congratulations to voyager for portraying the first gay teenager homophobic parent relationship through 2 middle aged guys played by the same guy at the same time

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