Okay, I signed up with the community (wasn't sure if I should the instance since I didn't make it. Not sure on etiquette there). Also submitted an application to be an ambassador for the community. I chose community forum for the category, as there isn't an option for faith & spirituality/religious content. If it's within your purview, I'd suggest adding that as a category. Lemmy doesn't have a ton, but there are a few around here. Especially when moving toward the wicca and pagan end of the spectrum. Cool folks at the witchy memes community, for instance.
I made the community, not the instance. Not sure if that's what you're asking. Haha.
Ha! You're right, very similar. I haven't thought of that episode in years
Oh my God, you've just given me the idea for the best trek fanfic ever. Julian and Garak keep trying to secret away for a date, and whenever they do, Odo interrupts them to question their behavior. They sneak into a supply closet, Odo is the door. They slip away to a cargo bay, and suddenly a crate of self sealing stem bolts morphs into the familiar security officer. They finally get a nice table at a Holo restaurant under someone else's name and Quark's promised discretion, and lo and behold Bashir tries to take a drink of his champagne for it to suddenly become the changeling, relentless in his need to discuss this aberrant behavior. Finally they give up.
Bashir: yes, Odo, what can we do for you?
Odo: I need to discuss this sneaking around. It has become a security concern.
Garak: Trust me, Mr. Odo, had we been involved with anything concerning to the security of this station, you would never have discovered us.
Especially Julian, tbh. He strikes me as the "but what would people think!" Type when it comes to dating a Cardassian. Lol. Not that he's prejudiced... But simple Garak may well be a spy for the obsidian order!
After I posted this, I tried to find it and I can't. Either I'm using the wrong search terms, or I dreamt it. Lmao.
Iirc, it was a reading of a portion of a stitch in time. I mainly remember it because it was the first time I'd seen someone other than me think that Garak was queer. I wasn't big into online trek communities at the time, and my brother didn't twig to it.
This just made me realize Tim Curry has never been on Star Trek. We have been wronged, and the situation must be remedied immediately before it is too late.
Exactly. The actors aren't robots or AI, running solely off the prompts of directors and writers. They are part of the collaborative art project that is the show. Their input, motivations, intentions behind the character are just as valid as the writer's. Garak is queer, because Robinson says so. During the pandemic, Bashir and Garak did a video where they exchanged letters, and they made it clear that they romantically involved in that. Regardless of if physical sex occurred during the timeline of the series, suggesting that it could not have because none of the characters, in the tiny fraction of a percent's time we actually see them during that year run, never outwardly exclaimed "bee tee dubs, me and Garak are banging" is such an insult to the actors who put so much of themselves into that role.
Internalized homophobia?
As a gay man, my head canon with Garak and Bashir has always been that Garak was some form of bi/pan/Omni/what have you, and that Bashir was the clueless straight guy that teaches every gay man the valuable lesson that "he's not into you, you're just so totally unaccustomed to men being nice and decent"
However, your comments in this thread have convinced me that Garak bangs Bashir nightly.*
Homophobic indeed. What bullshit.
Edited to reword slightly
I can absolutely see these fucking galaxy brain jagoffs saying you're gay if you sleep with a voting woman.
How do I use it to find new communities? Might be a mobile browser issue, but when I try, it doesn't populate a list in the subreddits section. Was hoping to see if there were some alternatives to my former subs