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Cardassian women’s hairstyles: Children

chroniclesofkanarnia:

Here we see Asha, one of the Cardassian orphans on Bajor. She wears a super cute braided style.

Headcanon: Considering the fact that Asha is an orphan on Bajor being taken care of by Bajorans, this is probably a bajoran hairstyle.

Jill Orra is the daughter of Gul Madred. I love how her dress is reminiscent of the Cardasian military uniform. Jill Orra wears her hair pulled back from her face (showing off her cute Cardasian ear ridges) but mostly down. The effect is very youthful and adorable.

Headcanon: I believe this would be a very typical hairstyle for a young girl on Cardassia.

Jill Orra’s pet wompat, played in this episode by a ferret. 

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hushpupper:

the-storming-sea:

the-storming-sea:

Actually yknow what. WTNV should be considered revolutionary and significant gay media that played an important role in the growth of gay representation in media especially in podcasts. When people talk about important gay media in the early 2000s I want wtnv to be one of the ones people talk about. No if ands or buts about it.

Actually I cant shut up about this. In 2012, people did not even think about putting gay representation in popular media. Gay representation wasn’t considered profitable yet. Gay marriage would not be legalized for another three years. The Legend of Korra, a show that fought to the death to have their main lead hold hands with another woman, just released their first episode earlier that spring. Steven Universe, a show well known for its gay representation, including having the first gay proposal + marriage on a kids cartoon tv show, would begin a year later in 2013, but wouldn’t show their gay representation hand until 2015 with the episode Jail Break. The Adventure Zone, a podcast currently well known for it LGBTQ+ representation, wouldn’t begin until 2014, and didn’t show their hand until 2015. In my young queer experience, representation was covert, secretive, only implied or dead. 

and then in the summer of 2012, wtnv introduced itself to the world, proclaimed its main character gay in the first episode, and played it gay (pun intended) for years. Being gay wasn’t a trope, or a goof, it was normal. Cecil Gershwin Palmer was just a canon, gay character who fell in love and stayed in love and was happy. and that was that.

if we talk about revolutionary queer media, we talk about Welcome to Nightvale. No exceptions. 

I think it’s really important Cecil Baldwin credit for this. I’m not saying Fink and Cranor and later Dylan Marron have nothing to do with it, because of course they do. But Cecil being gay was not something the writers intended. Because initially, Carlos was not intended to be a love interest for Cecil. He was just meant to be a character that showed up occasionally to be a tongue-in-cheek goof on scientist characters in shows like Fringe or the X-Files. But Cecil Baldwin made the decision to make his character utterly in love with Carlos, because he was gay, and wanted his character to be as well.

For those who don’t know Cecil Baldwin is HIV+, and he’s openly discussed his struggle with it. This is a large part of why his playing a man who is openly gay and sexually active is also really important. The importance I think of having LGBT people playing LGBT people really shines through with both Cecil and Dylan’s characters. They can be authentic, they can be a source of hope and representation. Behind the scenes, Night Vale is just as diverse as the show itself. Cecil Baldwin’s pretty incredible and it’s worth it to read what he’s had to say on WTNV if you have the time.

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planet-motherfucker:

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ettaberrytea:

Do you think that Garak cries relatively often when he’s all alone and thinks that he won’t be disturbed, or is he one of those people who’s so emotionally constipated they just physically can’t cry most of the time?

Imo, he hold it in for as long as he can, and then he spends an evening crying once in a while. Sometimes, when he’s in a bad way (think Afterimage), he’ll be on the verge of tears half of the time, and to cover it up he pushes everyone away, claims he has a cold and is just generally mean. 

gaycism:

IMPORTANT!!!!

journen:

asgh0sts:

Stop worrying about getting old and start embracing the joy of being cringe. You know what’s not cool? Being mean to yourself. You know what is cool? Making people (youths) cringe by doing silly things you enjoy.

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