Loves and stratagems

Anonymous asked:

maybe if garak showed a little more skin he wouldnt have been exiled.......

pyrrhic-victory1:

fishpillowses:

what is this?? a painting??

yishaqeni:

fishpillowses:

it’s parmak!

my boy!!!

dreadshredder:

i still think part of why tng and ds9 have such different cast dynamics is that sisko stays in his office working most of the time while picard feels the need to sit in his very important la-z-boy and babysit his large adult subordinates all day long and only uses the ready room for brooding and chewing riker out. as a result picard trembles with nearly imperceptible rage every time someone farts on the bridge whereas sisko’s like oh the old man’s screwing someone in the turbolift again? well i’d better not have to do any paperwork about it 

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bekjaneway:

bizships:

lost-in-the-delta:

ienbluwu:

bhc89:

What if….

the turbolifts played elevator music?

#during red alerts it changes to boss fight music (via @herenya-writes)

I’m sure turbolift music sounds something like this…

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This is fantastic!

That video just filled the empty void in my soul.

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milfbailorgana:

Spock absolutely has a thing for captains. My proof? This passage from the trek book Vulcan’s Glory. This is Spock’s reaction to seeing Captain Pike for the first time

Spock definitely had a crush on Pike. There’s this from Legacy by Michael Jan Friedman (pp.125-126): 

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leehallfae:

thinking thoughts about cardassians again… on biology and gender and clothing and related topics… here are some interpretations/hcs that absolutely no one asked for

so im pretty sure that the only cardassian whose chula we actually see (that teardrop shape on the chest) is natima lang, because she wears clothes that are cut low enough to show her chest

at first i took it to be a general cardassian anatomy thing, like they all have chulas, but then i noticed that rekelen (natima’s student)… does not have one? and ziyal does not have one either (this could be just a result of her being half bajoran, but she still has a visible chufa despite this, while her chest is completely smooth. it stands to reason that she would have a similar faded teardrop shape on her chest)

so it got me thinking, as i am prone to do when it comes to this show, what determines whether or not a cardassian has a chula or not? also, are there any cardassian men who are ever shown wearing clothing that’s cut low enough to definitively tell if they have or do not have a chula?

it seems almost universal that cardassian men wear relatively conservative clothing. men’s necklines are almost always cut higher than the line of scales that surrounds the chula like we see on natima lang. also, cardassian military uniforms have enough chest coverage to completely conceal the chula or lack thereof. this makes it impossible to tell if people like dukat or damar, who are always seen in military attire, have such a feature

it’s also worth noting that women’s attire in professional settings varies, with some (like rejal and belor) wearing higher necklines while others (like kejal) wear lower cut tops, not dissimilar to men’s casual clothing. in kejal’s case, though, enough unscaled skin is showing to make the assumption that she does not have a chula.

something else to note is that garak has some more… risqué fashion choices from time to time, showing off just a little more neck and chest. and judging by the placement of natima’s chula and surrounding scales, relative to where garak’s neckline is, it seems like garak does not have one either.

cardassian men’s necklines are pretty universally similar in that they cover most, if not all, of the chest, and almost all of the designs (with a few exceptions in garak’s case) seem to align with the scale pattern of the chula, perfectly concealing it. it seems like the vast majority of cardassian men deliberately wear clothing that conceals their chula or chest.

i take this to indicate that cardassians assigned male at birth are born with chulas, and the chula is associated with masculinity (perhaps a secondary sex characteristic?) as a result, therefore the vast majority of cardassian men have them.

cardassian gendered fashion is mostly cisnormative, and is subverted by people like natima lang (who has a chula). she has no feminization surgery to make her chest smooth but still wears traditionally feminine clothing (low necklines). garak not having a chula is an indication of his own transness as well, and his wearing of some lower necklines exposing his smooth chest (and not to mention the traditionally feminine makeup that he sometimes wears) are also subversions of these norms.

I think there is a very strong case for amab Cardassians having chulas, and that ‘s this: 

[image description: publicity photo of Damar, with a red arrow pointing to the diamond-shape on the front of his uniform.] 

That diamond-shape would be basically where the chula would be. It’s not too uncommon that uniforms are simply updated versions of earlier uniforms/warfare-ware (man what a word) - for instance, the golden braid generals wear goes back to armour. With that in mind, it doesn’t seem unlikely that Cardassian uniforms are a highly stylised version of a Cardassian version of this: 

[image description: a Greek bronze cuirass fashioned to look like a naked chest and stomach.]

(This particular one is kept at the Met.)

My personal headcanon is that all Cardassians have chulas (with the exception of Cardassian-Bajorans, which might mean that Rekelen is part-Bajoran), but I will die on the hill that, if anyone has chulas, it’s AMABs, so I love this analysis. 

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