And The Whole Time Shes Reading It Shes Like Omg My Son Is Stupid. Tolan Really Fucked Him Up - Tumblr Posts

I was thinking about how if Julian picks up skills and information he must have made an intentional effort to avoid learning as little history as possible to have such a blind spot for it in canon

And then I thought about how impossible it would be to have proper analysis of something like Shakespeare without historical context

And then I thought that logically Julian must not have been terribly into classical literature as a result, and he must've only started reading it so he could take part in the culture exchange with Garak

And then I thought of the headcanon that Garak actually has trash taste in literature and is pretending these cardassians novels are Great Works of Art

So these two idiots are sitting there every week just having The Worst takes on everything because Julian is bullshitting his way through a justification of the text with only half an idea of what is actually going on in it himself, and the only reason he's torturing himself with this stuff instead of talking about the 24th century's Jack Reacher is because he wants to look cool and sophisticated to Garak, who really has the literary taste of the average Mills and Boon reader