Loves and stratagems

Jun 16

star-trek-dumb-comics:

lil sketchbook joolian for the soul

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Jun 15

ectoimp:

podplease:

sublingualspiro:

sketiana:

favorite kind of tweets that make me love people a little more

technically u cd fill it with neutron degenerate matter and change your problems from exceeding the weight limit to all the consequences of somehow having a piece of a neutron star on earth

Funnily enough

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smokeyloki:

lhoandbehold:

Server at work was down for 2 hours so I rigged & animated this little medieval bat friend. I couldn’t do any fun texture work this time around but

@apenitentialprayer

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Jun 14

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Jun 13

Anonymous asked:

can you show us some more forbidden beans

pictures-of-dogs:

I;m thinking about thos Beans

Jun 12

iosaturnalia:

niche meme for a niche fandom

(also listen when I’m talking about “niche fandom” I’m talking about the weyoun fandom specifically, not the DS9 fandom as a whole)

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Jun 11

The Orator - apolesen - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [Archive of Our Own] -

Among the ruins of Cardassia, Garak and Bashir come upon a man proselytising an unlikely faith.

A one-shot about religion on post-Fire Cardassia. 

discotechnician:

Second Skin

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Jun 10

macaroniandpheez-deactivated202:

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Jun 09

evstrrratt:

apolesen:

I tend to think of DS9 as fairly recent (likely because, if you compare it to TOS, it is recent), but sometimes I get reminded that the audience it was originally written for had a different set of outlooks. When we discuss that, we tend to focus on issues of social justice, but it’s not just that. 

My parents grew up during the Cold War, with the Soviet Union on the other side of the Baltic Sea. As the country was neutral, Soviet was not quite as closed off as to people from countries allied with the US. That, of course, meant that not only was the humanity of regular Soviet citizens more obvious, but the sense of everyday brutality was more well-known. (I promise this is relevant.) 

While my parents been Trekkies since the 90s, they didn’t watch DS9, so I showed it to them a few years ago. I was excited to show them Destiny, because it’s a great episode, and I love Cardassians, and there are some great twists in the story. 

When Dejar, the stony-faced undercover Obsidian Order operative, turns up at Quark’s, my parents both sat up straight and shouted: ‘Politruk!’ My reaction was ‘what? What’s that?’ ‘She’s a politruk - a political commissar, like the ones the Soviet Union would send with delegations to keep and eye on them - she’s there to make sure they don’t step out of line!’ I was flabbergasted. I definitely got a weird vibe off Dejar when I first watched the episode, but I didn’t figure out she was Obsidian Order before it was revealed towards the end. But my parents knew exactly what she was and why she was there. 

For some reason, that moment really stuck with me. There are things in DS9 that may be obvious to people who grew up during the Cold War, which to me, who only caught the last few months of it, doesn’t register. 

as a russian I thought it was obvious allusion and that from the beginning it was clear that she is from Order, apparently it’s not xD And I grew up AFTER the Cold War

BUT actually Dejar is more like a member of Fifth Directorate of the KGB, not a politruk (which is military rank) (in case anyone is interested)