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7.26.2018 ⭕🌐🔆 tender feelings molecule 

A spicy ‘mating cycle’ garashir fic from @damnhardwork, with a little bit of ‘fuck or die cry.

The call had come in around 1300 hours. A simple request for assistance, Odo uncharacteristically vague, the only specification made that it be Dr Bashir in attendance.

Alone.

Julian had some inkling as to why he had been specifically requested. The current occupant of Holding Cell Three was one of the station’s more recalcitrant individuals: Elim Garak, former spy, current tailor, and all-round pain in the posterior. Though Odo professed to care little for solids and the intricacies of their interpersonal relationships, even he knew better than to send a Bajoran to tend to a Cardassian, exiled or otherwise. Garak’s ills would be treated, yes, but would be done so with cold hands and an equally icy bedside manner.

If there was one thing that could be said for Julian Bashir, it was that his hands were always warm.

(The less said about his bedside manner, the better.)

In which, Garak gets himself into rather a sorry state due to lack of privacy. And Julian is… Well, all Julian about it.

Yet another fuck or die get really uncomfortable fic. Not that I have an obsession or anything…

I was just thinking about this today. 80′s Kurt just looks like he gives a great hug. The way he’s a little thicke™ in The Thing under those sweatshirt layers (the tum!). Needlessly caked up in those stupid camo pants in EFNY. 

I think also that a more ‘realistic’ physique has a more humanizing effect on the viewer as well. Arnold and Dolph are coded as untouchably great/infallible in their action roles IMO, even if there’s an emotional throughline to the contrary. It’s usually an emotional failure rather than competency/capability issue - see Arnold in Total Recall or True Lies. In EFNY, The Thing, and Die Hard there’s a much greater sense for me as the viewer that the hero could fail their physical mission and are in believable peril, thus making their struggle more intriguing in ADDITION to any emotional challenges. Bruce Willis is just a regular guy at an exceptionally bad Christmas party. Kurt Russell doesn’t know what the fuck is happening ever, looks like a snack doing it.