shameless indulgence

I’ve been off Tumblr for months but thought I’d swing by to share some great Garak, Bashir, Garashir memes I’ve collected recently.

Wendy

TNG/DS9 Divided We Fall #2 (Wildstorm Comics)

This is fine, I guess. It’s not good, but I’m not personally offended by it. I appreciate the shiny anime eyes, but that is not Julian’s skintone (which will be a common theme.) 4/10 do better

The Q Conflict #4 (IDW)

The point of this series is that crews are pulled out of their own time - generally about the same time we knew them - and pulled into a sort of nether dimension. So why is Julian a full commander here. I’m all for promoting the boy but the crews in this series are meant to be from about the same time we knew them - note the teal shoulders. The face is…I’ve seen worse. More anime eyes and another bad case of whitewashing. +1 for being more pleasant art but -2 for whitewashing and bad rank research. 4/10.

Star Trek DS9 #3 (Marvel/Paramount)

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS. +1 I guess for him not being white but there is nothing acceptable about that face. 2/10.

Star Trek DS9 #27 (Malibu)

Bonus points for actually making him cute but minus a couple again for making him cute like a 1940s movie star and not like, well, Sid. I don’t like this but it doesn’t horrify my soul. 5/10 I guess.

Star Trek DS9: Fool’s Gold #2 (IDW)

You know what? I don’t hate this. There’s a certain aesthetic value that does seem to be present. Skin tone is okay. Let’s not talk about what they’ve done to Sisko, though. 6/10.

Star Trek: Waypoint #3 (IDW)

IT’S CUTE! It’s not an exact likeness, but it’s cartoony in a pleasing and cute way instead of being awful. +many points for getting the nose and skintone right. 9/10.

Star Trek DS9 #6 (Malibu)

WHO AND WHAT IS THIS UGLY WHITE MAN. 0/10. I AM ANGRY.

Star Trek DS9 Too Long a Sacrifice #1 (IDW)

The top panel is so much worse than the bottom one it’s hard to judge this fairly. This art almost feels like a weird filter over a screenshot. I kind of hate it, even though it’s not the most inaccurate. 3/10 because I hate it for no good reason.

Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone (IDW)

This is another one that feels like it was traced, maybe? But traced badly. There’s features of his face that really make me feel like they traced this but just did a poor job of it. It does actually sort of look like Sid, though. 6/10.

Star Trek DS9 #18c/ Maquis: Soldier of Peace

Hey what the fuck. WHAT THE FUCK. I can’t say anything about the face because I’m looking at those pecs. What is this nonsense. 1/10 never draw Julian again please whoever drew this.

Star Trek: The Q Gambit

THE FACE! THE NOSE! THE GENTLE SPARKLE IN THE EYES! I think these are traced too but they’re so so pretty I don’t care. This is a Julian I want to kiss on the cheek. Look at that smile in the top panel! THAT’S MY BOY. 1000000/10.

Star Trek DS9: N-Vector #1 (Wildstorm)

(HORRIFIED SCREAMING)

so i accidentally came across this article about a ds9 comic released this year and there were some great garashir nuggets in there

It was nearing two a.m. when Julian made it back to their quarters, his mood bright, basking in the memories of the day.  It was not easy for him to forget.  His mind was a mirror, constantly reflecting the reality around him.  It took a lot for the images to blur, for him to be able to just enjoy himself.  He’d had that today, and he was grateful.  Kath had treated him to a whole day of hiking through the ice caves of Andor.  They’d warmed up afterwards with an overpriced but non-replicated Aldebaran soup and fresh-baked bread from the Starbase’s only restaurant before meeting up with some of her friends at the bar.

It was a long night, and a loud one.  If he hadn’t been enhanced he would have fallen asleep over his beer after suffering through the Klingon party the night before.  That had been the other thing, the other reason he was humming quietly as he keyed in his entry code.  His augmentations hadn’t come up, not even once.  They’d talked about idiotic things and snorted beer out their noses, everyone eager to build a wall of forgetfulness to blot out the ugliness of war on display around them.  Julian wondered if Kath had told her friends that they’d better be nice to the augment, or whether it genuinely didn’t bother them.  Two drinks in, he decided he didn’t care much either way. Being treated as normal, especially when you knew you weren’t, wasn’t a thing to be questioned.

The door to his quarters slid open and Julian winced at the near tectonic hiss it made.  Wondering if anything on the station worked right, he stepped inside.

Garak bolted upright.

Julian froze, staring at the highly illegal disruptor pointed straight at his head.

(844 words post-canon Garashir, AO3 link)

And while on Deep Space 9, he forms real attachments to the crew and after a lot of struggling, he does the right thing over and over. He's instrumental in the war against the Dominion. He uses his knowledge of Cardassia to assist Starfleet. He uses his skills as a saboteur to lure the Romulans into the war on their side. He proves himself. He takes the terrible things he was trained to do - indoctrinated to do - and uses them to save the literal universe.

And in the end - this is the most important bit - he doesn't have to die to right his wrongs. After helping on the warfront, he goes back to a ravaged and broken Cardassia to help reform their way of life. Having a character build something new will always be more appealing to me than dying because they did bad things in the past.

Writing this historical Irondad and Spiderson historical au has become my passion! I’ve become absolutely engrossed in developing it. Please consider reading it!

I have finished the first story in the series and am more than halfway finished writing the second story.

The premise is: at the turn of the 20th Century, Peter Parker is a tender-hearted ceramics apprentice trapped in a contract with a mistrustful and skinflint master. Tony Stark discovers his talent by accident and grows unspeakably fond of him.

They begin to take an important role in each other’s lives. And their friends and family begin to become one cohesive group.

This series spans five stories and will chronicle their relationship as they learn about each other and themselves.

There is a very slow burn non-binary theme and a strong focus on found family, generosity, trust, and tenderness. So, check it out on my AO3:

Chapter Summary:

Jarvis’s health is failing. While Peter waits helplessly at his home, Tony has taken Jarvis back to the cottage in Long Island to spend his last hours.

The cottage is more than Jarvis’s home, however. It was Ana’s. And, in many ways, it was Tony’s. It was the beginning and ending of many important paths in his life.

This chapter highlights the far-reaching power of father-child bonds.

Chapter Seven: “The Sheep May Safely Graze”

Summary: As Tony prepares to care for Jarvis during his last days, he’s reminded of the turbulent days following Ana’s death, when he was a teenager. In his youth, Tony reacted to grief with violence and self-destruction. Jarvis, however, trusted him to rise above these compulsions.

With Jarvis’s life ending, how will Tony cope with the loss now that he’s grown up?

Now up on AO3

Chapter Nine — “Standing by the Luck of Fools”

Summary: After Ana’s death, Tony’s reckless and self-harmful tendencies begin to peak. Jarvis, however, fully accepts his role as Tony’s father figure, despite everything that had kept him thus far reluctant. The grace he extends toward Tony battles to outmatch the young man’s self-destruction.

In the present, Tony shows signs of the man Jarvis knew he could be. Facing the death of the man whom he needed his entire life, Tony has the chance to resist the unhealthy coping methods of his past.

Summary: In Tony’s past, Jarvis comes to his rescue, finally facing the battle he had been preparing for.

In the present, Peter desperately tries to spend time with Tony, who is distraught and distracted by his own guilt and sorrow.

Summary:

Tony survives his confrontation with Howard, in no small part because of Jarvis’s intercession. Yet, there is something unresolved between Tony and Jarvis. Neither seem to be able to meet each other in directness.

Chapter Twelve: “Since I Don’t Know My Father, I Won’t Be a Son”

Summary: Tony introduces Peter to the Sort-Out Club, a sports club built on the Brooklyn Train Yard. Though, Tony is acting distant and Peter feels forgotten. In the past, Jarvis prepared to confront Tony for his self-abuse.

My most current story is something I’ve never written before: a romance. This is an attempt because I believe that the romance and sexuality of these two characters together shapes other, larger parts of the main narrative. They learn together and support each other.

This story is only the beginning of their romance; I would write more if it becomes needed.

I would encourage you to read “You’ll Rise Up, Free and Easy” along with this.

Summary: Samuel “Pepper” Potts visits his boyhood friend, Tony Stark, for his eighteenth birthday. Seven years have passed since they formed an important friendship— a friendship kept alive through correspondence, even across the U.S.-Canadian border, throughout their adolescences.

In writing these letters, Pepper and Tony revealed more about themselves to each other, becoming increasingly vulnerable with each other. However, what is the true difference that distance makes in an intimate relationship? Both young men find themselves challenged by the proximity of the other.

Their friendship may well shatter.

Chapter Two

Summary: As an adolescent, Tony’s only reliable source of candid, meaningful knowledge was Mrs. Ana, his governess and mother figure. Because of his trust, he brings a very sensitive topic to her.

Chapter Four: “Tony: Paramore”

My most current story is something I’ve never written before: a romance. This is an attempt because I believe that the romance and sexuality of these two characters together shapes other, larger parts of the main narrative. They learn together and support each other.

This story is only the beginning of their romance; I would write more if it becomes needed.

I would encourage you to read “You’ll Rise Up, Free and Easy” along with this.

Summary: Samuel “Pepper” Potts visits his boyhood friend, Tony Stark, for his eighteenth birthday. Seven years have passed since they formed an important friendship— a friendship kept alive through correspondence, even across the U.S.-Canadian border, throughout their adolescences.

In writing these letters, Pepper and Tony revealed more about themselves to each other, becoming increasingly vulnerable with each other. However, what is the true difference that distance makes in an intimate relationship? Both young men find themselves challenged by the proximity of the other.

Their friendship may well shatter.

Chapter Two

Summary: As an adolescent, Tony’s only reliable source of candid, meaningful knowledge was Mrs. Ana, his governess and mother figure. Because of his trust, he brings a very sensitive topic to her.

Altogether (not including the drabbles and such that are only on tumblr) I have written 1,202,969 words in stories for the Irondad fandom! 

Then I did some extensive research (one google search because I’m dedicated to the truth) and found that that average novel is around 80,000 words.  So I did more math (divided my total word count by average novel length), and I found that since April of 2018 (so in about 2 years) I have written the equivalent of 15 novels holy shit ya’ll!!!!

SO I was wondering, for other writers, how many novels have you written in your fandom!!??  Can this be a tag game?  I want to make a tag game!  So I’m going to tag some people that I think might be up for it! 

And now I’m on vacation so we’ll see if I get to finish a novel😂