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memory-for-trifles replied to your post “ sonictoasterreplied to your post: Star Trek: DS9 Notes - S5, Vol. 6 …”

Sorry, forgot a deet! They had a competition of sorts among the production staff: people went out to Goodwills and such and brought in old teddy bears. The winner was a lady who brought in her very own teddy bear she’d had since infancy.

Yeeesss. Gosh it really is amazing how recognizable the wear patterns are on a beloved stuff animal. I just don’t think you can replicate that!  #True Love

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post “Your DS9 reviews are pure perfection!! <3 I haven’t read them all but…”

Damn I would love a Civil Defense recap. Also I love that Tarra Treks is unfolding past my wildest dreams.

ALRIGHT OKAY IT’S GONNA HAPPEN  :D

I mean I have to, actually, because to complete the pattern of recapping one episode per season, S3′s gonna need one. This is just math.

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theglintoftherail asked:

1. That meta is great and gives me a whole new appreciation for that bizarre dynamic of theirs 2. To bring it waaaay back around, it strikes me that the whole Garak-and-Bashir 'weirdly intimate relationship based on ultra heightened performative lies that we both know are lies' thing is very Hannibaly!

wellntruly answered:

Thanks! and ACTUALLY, for a while now I’ve assembling a sort of mental rubric for testing the Cardassianness of a behavior by how much it resembles something I’d get from Hannibal Lecter. As a people, they are VERY LECTER.

Some points:

- casually grand killitude
- grudges
- monologuing
- superior assholes
- it’s too bright in here [turns out half the lights]
- instigators
- thinks their abuse has made you stronger
- privilege the psychopath’s ability to make ruthless but advantageous choices
- “Sentiment Is A Vulnerability”
- or: my compassion for you is inconvenient Ziyal/Elim/Bashir
- would wear brocade

This is a work in progress and fun, I welcome collab

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“Courtship among Cardassians may include bitter, ferocious arguing, a fact not remembered by the confrontational Miles O'Brien, who engaged in repeated disputes with his female Cardassian co-worker Gilora Rejal only to be shocked when it led to her becoming infatuated with him.”

[wellntruly]

Oh EXCELLENT. Top notch work.

plus:

memory-for-trifles replied to your post “1. That meta is great and gives me a whole new appreciation for that…”

Will talk at length about art and philosophy over a meal. Although I can’t tell if that’s a Cardassian thing or a Garak thing.

The image of Gul Dukat mansplaining Cardassian art to someone while cutting up something on his plate is SO GOOD that I will headcanon it into reality if I have to.

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post “sonictoaster replied to your post “Star Trek: DS9 Notes - S5, Vol….”

I know this is not the takeaway, but your tag got me wondering: who would make Bones jump out of an airlock first: Garak or Julian?

The answer is: Julian.

For while Bones wouldn’t trust Garak farther than he can throw him (and we’re talking DeForest Kelley’s dude-throwing ability, not Karl Urban’s), mostly he’s just gonna try not to have anything to do with that Lizardman.

Unfortunately, McCoy cannot flee far from fellow Doctor Bashir, who would be all up in his infirmary chattering away about neuropeptides and getting all dazzled about the majesty of space, you idiot, space will kill you faster than you can blink — and generally behaving like he’s trying to get Bones to roll his eyes so skyward they get stuck that way.

And unfortunately more, Julian Bashir is also the nearest thing to Jim Kirk on Deep Space 9, an overly optimistic heroically reckless sweet flirty space bi whom you cannot convince me Bones has ever once not called “kid.”

So Julian is wholly intolerable, and therefore would be the first to drive the good Doctor out an airlock.

Thank you for this question I had a great time.

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@memory-for-trifles: “‘it is so magical that Julian’s new way of being annoying is by truly being a goddamn hero.’ It’s like the fairy of character development reached through my laptop and threw glitter right in my fuckin’ face.”

I just want this on my blog

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[memory-for-trifles]

@wellntruly, I follow Robert Hewitt Wolfe on Twitter and when he was answering DS9 questions the other day this one made me think of you.

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oh SHIT YEAH. O’Brien Must Suffer: Fuck-Marry-Kill Edition. Nice.

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[memory-for-trifles]

At the rate you’re going, I’m afraid to drop the ball and miss a season, so here are your Season 5 Deep Space Nine recommendations, @wellntruly! I also changed it up a bit and also included a few to skip since it seems like you’re watching more and more episodes.

Keep reading

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Alex your season guides are such hilarious reads, I seriously just—

“5x25: A delightful, light-hearted breather before shit gets real.
5x26: Shit gets real.”

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sonictoaster replied to your post: Star Trek: DS9 Notes - S4, Vol. 5

Kukalaka! We def get to see Kukalaka at some point. And the Julian as savant storyline thing gets…better? or worse, depending on who you ask.

Well thank god, and wait this is a STORYLINE?? THOSE WERE IDLE MUSINGS. Ah hell.

memory-for-trifles replied to your post: Star Trek: DS9 Notes - S4, Vol. 5

Fun Fact: the guy playing Brunt (F.C.A.) is the same guy who played Weyoun. Space makeup champ, that guy.

This fact IS fun, but more fun is you making sure to add the (F.C.A.), and also being cagey about Weyoun. SUSPICIOUSLY CAGEY.

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[memory-for-trifles]

Phrases Tumblr user @wellntruly has used to refer to DS9′s Dr. Julian Bashir:

• space fawn

• The Flirty Wunderkind

• sweet, starry-eyed loon

• my bell

• Dr. Baby Gazelle

• a puppy who has no idea what he would do with a car if he actually caught it!!!!

• you fancy idiot
  

• Dr. Insecurities

• BISCUIT

• our tiny doctor

• floppy stripling
  

• you clueless medical fawn

• HAPLESS FLOPPY BERTIE BASHIR

• that pipsqueak space flirt

• bouncy pipe-cleaner

• ~Dr. Ladykiller~

TO BE CONTINUED.

[wellntruly]

AaaahhhhhahAHAHAHA

#a very leslie knope-ann perkins dynamic — Oh Julian, you beautiful, naïve, sophisticated new-born baby

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post: Deep Space Nine: 4x09

YES I CAN’T WAIT TO SAVOR THIS. I’m jumping down here ril quick to say that I’ve been sitting on that quote all these weeks just in case you forgot you’d said that.

When I was going through your and @rainbowrites‘ S4 guides and you both were all JAMES BOND EPISODE, that’s when I first stopped to take a close look at the timeline of my life, reconcile it with my memory, and come to nO CONCLUSION about how much framework I could have had for making that ~request~ during ‘The Siege’

But I guess reasonably the most I could have known was that someday Julian Bashir would find himself in a pretty literal James Bond situation…. meaning all talk of his own personal The Hero’s Journey arc was on me. Oh criminy.