So Much Of Garak As A Person Starts To Make Sense Once You Know His Childhood Was A Fucking Gothic Novel.

So much of Garak as a person starts to make sense once you know his childhood was a fucking gothic novel. His main playground was a graveyard and he'd play pretend by perfoming improv eulogies to an imagined audience. For a long time his main touchstone for most important figures from recent history is 'oh yeah I know about that guy my dad buried him. great flower arrangements for that one'. He finds out later his 'parents' are actually a brother and sister who had to get married to avoid the utter shame and social devastation of having a child born out of wedlock, and they live in the basement of his biological father's house. (the madwoman in the attic vs. the tiny elim in the basement.) His biological father calls himself his uncle and locks him in a closet whenever he fails to live up to his insane and unpredictable expectations and everyone just has to act like that's normal and expected, and his will hangs over everything at all times, unseen but always felt keener than anything else. The father who actually raised him grows the world's most beautiful (and as it turns out, most poisonous) orchids and keeps the mask of a god hidden in a box in his work shed. Everyone in the house is choking down secrets like it's the only air they know how to breathe anymore.

What I'm saying is that right from the get-go this guy never had the faintest shot at turning out normal, so I'm glad that by middle age he's found a way to get a bit silly with it as he continues to be deeply deeply not normal about anything ever <3

He really was the cuntress here

i was getting ready for another day of spying and murdering, practicing my interrogator death stare with my piercing blue orbs. just then, enabran tain came in. “pack your things.” he said. “i’ve sold you to pay our debts. meet your new owners, the crew of deep space 9.”

Garak is so sad and confused in Engima Tales, he just wants people to see he's changed and he misses Bashir so much :(

Gender neutral ways to address a crowd:

❌ Ladies and Gentlemen

❌ Gays, gals and nonbinary pals

✅ Attention Bajoran workers

not to be rude but picard is the most boring of the trek captains to me. text me when you’ve lied, cheated, bribed men to cover the crimes of that men. become an accessory to murder. and the most damning thing of all is that you think you can live it it. and if you had to do it all over again you would