#apolesen

Oooh, thank you! Sorry about taking so long to answer, I can’t seem to ever write anything quickly. (This fandom meme.)

M - Say something genuinely nice about a ship that you don’t ship (or its shippers, or anything related to you)

I don’t particularly ship kiradax (just doesn’t flip a switch for me) but the ship makes a lot of sense and I think the two of them could make each other very happy. And Jadzia is 1000000% more interesting with Kira than any of her canonical love interests. Including Odo. 

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

I’ve said before more scary Garak in sexual situations, but actually I would like to see a bit more ‘scary’ in explicit pwp fic in general in garashir. It’s not something I write, and I really do appreciate pretty much any explicit garashir, but I feel like there used to be more ‘out there’ sex in garashir in the past and I miss it. 

Time travel! It’s one of the reasons we chose ‘time’ as the theme for our fest earlier this year, and we got some amazing fics (time travel and otherwise). But I’m always up for more!

Explicit garashir art. I know it’s partly because Tumblr decided to be awful a few years back, and it’s a tragedy. 

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending, about anything at all (gender identity, sexual or romantic orientation, extended family, sexual preferences like top/bottom/switch, relationship with poetry, seriously anything)

Hahaha, I mean obviously I don’t feel THAT strongly about anything. People will headcanon what they headcanon and who am I to say they’re wrong? Also I have a lot of contradictory headcanons that I like equally. Like that Mila was a victim in her way but also that she was just as awful as Tain or worse (either as a person or as a parent). 

For @ourfinaldecember or @apolesen: the last couple of sentences of The Turing Test, illustrated.

The Doctor led us up, into the fire that was not the fire of salvation but the sort that burns, with smoke and hurt and tortured bodies and death. He walked arm in arm with Turing, and they talked, probably about miracles and the mysteries of the universe, but I couldn’t hear them anymore. And anyway, it was probably all in code.

Oh no senpai noticed me

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julian Bashir & Kelas Parmak Characters: Julian Bashir, Kelas Parmak Additional Tags: Post-Canon Cardassia, Hospitals, Background Relationships Series: Part 5 of Adventures in Cardassian medicine Summary:

Parmak shows Bashir around one of the Union Capital's new hospitals. It doesn't go quite as planned.

Independently-heated hospital units! BRILLIANT! Of course ectotherms would have that! And of course Bashir would need special gear to work in them!

Also, the wonderful take on Knossos aesthetic, and the pre-watershed friendly Minoan dresses that still look like Minoan...

though they did mess up with putting the procession fresco on the wall because hello that is definitely not a larnax. And it's really, really hard to fuck up Minoan frescoes. I MEAN THE BULL LEAPING IS RIGHT THERE.

And it's a really weird combination of Minoan-era Knossos, Thera pre-eruption, and the Mycenaean-dominated Aegean, given the mentions of Poseidon and Zeus. As somewhat of an expert on the Middle Minoan era (because by this point, I am), I can say that the side-split miniskirts on the men were wonderfully historically accurate, with the tight belts and the shortness but they might be missing red codpieces, though its most likely said codpieces were of ceremonial and religious use. They could've used a bit more eyeliner and some jewellery, but this is Doctor Who.