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#disabled artist gnaws on disabled charcaters like a dog with a bone#ive been thinking about this all day guys how has nobody drawn this yet#hes a full time ambulatory wheelchair user around the station and uses crutches when on away missions that arent like just on the defiant#star trek ds9#myart#deep space nine#julian bashir#disabled julian bashir#yes hes in the exact same doctor possition btw#i should draw julian and jadzia with their t swag btw#and tgirl jadzia and quark#im a tgirl quark truther#and tgirl odo but shes tgirl in a different way#sorry off topic disabled julian swag#BTW if any wheelchair users have tips for drawing or writing (writing for drawing) charcaters using wheelchairs pls lmk!!!!!#or if you have critique or sugestions cause im only familier w canes an crutches feom the most part
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julian found out he was an augment at 15 and I’m sure he had a lot of (extremely justified) huge emotions about that but because of his age I can’t help imagining dealing with them in the most hilariously over the top teen agnsty way possible.
he’s writing bad poetry about it. he’s dying his hair black. he’s listening to this animal I have become by three days grace and monster by skillet on the shuttle to school. it’s amazing.
#shut up abe#julian bashir#ds9#deep space nine#star trek#am I projecting things I did as a kid because of the way my disability made me feel Different? yes.#does this still feel in character? also absolutely yes#I have other less fun hcs about how he delt w it during that time too but let me have this
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It's admittedly been a year or two since I've watched Doctor Bashir, I Presume, so it's possible I'm forgetting something, but I don't understand why people act like Amsha Bashir is less guilty of genetically engineering and making Julian feel unwanted than Richard is. I mean, yes, the text does treat it that way with Richard going to prison and her not, but I tend to read that as a consequence of the gender politics of the 90s.
But I get the impression that people feel like Richard pressured and/or forced Amsha into going along with it. And I understand that people may be coming to that conclusion because Richard Yells. But the line that I find most upsetting in the entire episode is Amsha's line about how Julian understand how painful it is to have a disabled child and see them fall behind and how bad it makes you feel. Which is just so Autism Mom, and it very much reads to me like she was 100% on board with "fixing" him. And admittedly, I am clearly projecting my own issues onto that line, but I do nonetheless think that it is the intended reading that she was a fully consenting partner in genetically engineering him.
So am I missing something? Or am I just misreading the general consensus when I get the vibe that people think that if Amsha and Richard had gotten a divorce, it wouldn't have happened to Julian?
#this post brought to you by me putting a piece of fanart in my queue of a physically disabled julian#which was dope as hell#but was captioned as being an au where richard and amsha were divorced#julian bashir#amsha bashir#ds9
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Ignore all logistical considerations of "would they ever meet each other under these circumstances". If you don't think Jules Bashir would have chosen to join Starfleet, imagine he is on the station for some other reason, or they meet in some other location.
I wanted to make this poll because I've seen various fics where Garak reassures Julian that far from being upset over him being augmented, Garak is grateful for it, either explicitly because (he thinks) they wouldn't be able to have their usual conversations if it weren't for the augmentations, or simply because he likes Julian "just the way he is" and wouldn't want him to be "different". I disagree that Garak would think like this (or at the very least, I think Julian would react negatively if he did, rather than be reassured), so I wanted to hear everyone else's thoughts.
#garashir#Star Trek: Deep Space 9#this is not just a shipping question btw so please answer whether you view them platonically/romantically/whatever!#Julian Bashir#polls#Starky's original posts#I'll admit. to me there is a very clear right and wrong answer here.#again not in terms of Garak's characterization so much as in terms of JULIAN'S.#I would be fine if Garak said this and Julian felt at least somewhat conflicted about it but I've never seen even that........#I've wanted to make this post for SO LONG but it's a very common thing in a lot of fics that I otherwise REALLY LIKE#from authors that I REALLY LOVE AND ADMIRE#and I have no idea if I'm just being completely insane and oversensitive OTL#but I just read yet another fic where Garak was like ''I have no choice but to be grateful you were genetically enhanced#because Jules would never have joined Starfleet so we never would have met.''#and I just want to yell WHY DO YOU ALL ASSUME THAT#like not even getting into assuming that Jules would be permanently significantly intellectually disabled#based on limited information about his early childhood developmental delays#but more importantly assuming he wouldn't (read: couldn't. because I KNOW that's what you mean.) end up on the station#You! Star Trek fan! Do you think people with intellectual or learning disabilities are allowed in Starfleet? Answer quickly! :)#sorry I told you I've held onto this for too long. and now I'm a deranged bitch about it :|
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Let me tell you how warped people are today…
So I got my whole blog deleted
Someone and I know who flagged my page and got it deleted
so I was commenting on how I hated a Star Trek storyline that they have in deep space nine about Bashir being mad at his parents because he had augmented genes and how he took it was they didn’t love him enough and that he’s like a creation more than a person which was so stupid because all they did was heal his learning disability and they clearly loved him. They clearly were affectionate towards him. They didn’t treat him any less human than any other children. They just healed a problem that he had .
And somebody commented back-and-forth with me about how his parents took away his ability to write to choose, and I was confused about why that would be an issue because if any parent who had a child who had any kind of disability of any kind they would want them healed because who wouldn’t want to be healed from blindness, having no limbs one limb Missing fingers missing eyes.
Not only doesn’t make it an easy quality of life, but you also get to engage other things as well that in richer life more.
And we just got to the whole back-and-forth and she just twisted my whole words to make it seem like I was over here making it seem like disability disabled people aren’t people and that they were not enough and that they don’t have quality of living and I didn’t say that, I said these parents Love their children to want to see them have a better quality of life.
No one said anything about being a person or being valued because a lot of parents are very unconditionally loving to their children, especially the ones that have extensive needs. These people sacrificed our whole lives for their kids.
Parents shouldn’t be able to do that or the parent isn’t able to do that they do it because that’s their children.
Confused why she would even care because I’m pretty sure they were pro life and so that means that they’re pro abortion so that means that the parent or the mom could choose to do whatever with the clump of cells that she chooses to do with the baby definitely confused I can’t imagine how healing your child of any disability or lack they may have in their physical body is somehow worse, as opposed to getting rid of a fully healthy and capable of baby.
They didn’t throw Bashir in the trash. They didn’t abort Bashir because he was disabled. They just said we can fix this if there’s a way to fix it we can fix it..
Idk how many parents in real life may have done that they don’t document those at the abortion clinic. Even if it was it wouldn’t be socially celebrated. People would tell any mom who thee away her baby because of a disability that she’s terrible woman and mother.
Doable people are protected and provided for in our society. They are loved and respected and even catered to . It’s ILLEGAL to not have any ramp accessible business in the USA. You even have to have bars for the bathroom for the disabled and at hotels.
So I’m confused what this persons “proof “ or point was
But I had a problem with the storyline because of how he reacted, and how he was completely missing his parents intentions of doing that as was the person who got my page deleted was missing the entire intentions of doing that. And it was very OOC of them.
This is crazy we live in
Like here are these people who have to do all these extra steps that they eventually get used to who can’t function, but or can’t function by themselves, depending on the severity of the disability or not or what it is and you wanna make it seem like having full functional ability of your life and creating an easier life for you a bad thing?!?
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Ok I’m FINALLY in a place where I have a minute and brain space to recount some of my Convention highlights:
I got 2 hugs from Nana Visitor. And she told me I look good as a Bajoran, asked me what I do, and when I told her, she asked what I do to take care of myself.
I also got told by multiple people that my eyes look similar to Nana’s (brown eyes next to the nose ridge?)
On Saturday, I wore my Kippah with my cosplay, going from Morning Services to Convention.
At one point, Robert Picardo was talking and John Billingsley was crouching down in order to surprise him and his face turned red. I thought he was having a heart attack.
I put my hand on his shoulder and was like “sir, are you okay,” until someone was like “he’s fine he’s just heckling Bob Picardo.”
Thankfully, he didn’t notice
I was a bit late for my photo with the (present) members of the DS9 cast. They had to bring Penny Johnson-Jerald back, but everyone was very gracious, understanding, and sweet.
“Who am I taking a picture with! Oh my goodness, you are too cute,” she (Penny Johnson-Jerald) also wanted to know my first and last name
They stationed Rosie, my Rollator, “center seat.” Terry Farrell complimented my vest, which I crocheted myself, and very excitedly told me she just learned how to crochet.
(I commented that despite my disability, I am unable to sit still and was taught to cope with hyperactivity and keep myself from fidgeting too bad).
J.G. Hertzler at one point approached me and was like “that [my Rollator] looks handy! Can I take a seat?” And growl chuckled and clapped my shoulder ( Klingon friendly style) when I was like “that is not honorable.”
Later he stopped me again. Apparently, one of his loved ones has MS, uses a rollator, but unlike Rosie, hers is not upright, and they are worried about it contributing to back problems. He wanted to know more, how to find one.
I asked Siddig a somewhat rambling question about Julian’s disability, Eugenics, and how that may have affected his relationship to other disabled characters, and disability in trek vs our Society as a whole.
I had my hand up for a minute and he was like “relax, you got next question” I was kind of embarrassed but then he was like “I don’t think you’re hyperactive, I just want you to not exhaust yourself“
He listened attentively, and he gave a vent like answer where he was like “I see your concerns about Star Trek obscuring / erasing disability… my general thoughts are that we are all racist (i was born in Arab Africa, in Sudan, riddled by geopolitical conflicts, Africans are also racist) we are all ableist, and all have the potential to be disabled . And unfortunately, it’s your job to appeal to me as an able bodied person, and my job to appeal to [another audience member] as a brown person …And why we need to work to change laws first, before we work on everything else. Sorry, didn’t mean to get all political.”
Later, I was sitting outside the venue for mingling because of autism ears and photosensitivity.
And he approached me and was like “hey, how are you doing? I just wanted to check in on you.”
Naturally, I aspirated my saliva and stammered something about avoiding the noise and migraines.
I didn’t think he remembered my name (one point I was attempting to steer around him and he was like “so sorry, sweet thing,”) but later when he was signing my autograph! He did! I did have to spell it, but I usually do anyways bc it’s spelled not the typical way.
At one point, I dropped a change of clothes I had packed and Bonnie Gordon came up to me “Darling, I thought your days as a stripper were over.”
Thank goodness I developed a tolerance for making a damn fool of myself.
There’s so much more. I met many cool people, including several folks I knew previously only on tumblr (hi, @xenobotanist @philosopherking1887 @cardassiangoodreads @ettaberrytea and multiple others I am forgetting just now) I got to hang out IRL with some people from the SidCity Social Club, which previously I only lurked at.
I’m still absolutely filled up with warmth. Like I can take anything
#sorry this is so long#and sappy#last year was incredibly difficult#it’s gotten so much better but I’ve still been really isolated in many ways#Star Trek#convention#dni con#ds9#voy#ent#disability#Rosie the Rollator#julian bashir#siddig el fadil#nana visitor#jg herzler#martok#kira nerys#terry farrell#penny johnson jerald#jadzia dax#kasidy yates#ramblings#personal shit#ngl there’s a demon on my shoulder that’s like “they were nice bc you were the poor little cripple”#but sometimes you have to take kindness at face value#and I also truly think Siddig is among the kindest people I’ve met
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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 4, Poll 9
A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.
Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.
Julian Bashir-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Qualifications:
Disability: Along with being generally awkward with conversation and not knowing how to talk to people, a part of his backstory is that he was “underperforming” in school so his parents got him illegally genetically enhanced to “fix” him (in the show this is treated as a horrible fucked-up thing that they did LGBTQ+: He has a relationship with another male character on the show that everybody behind-the-scenes (except the homophobic producer) treated as canonically romantic. The homophobic producer had to tell the writers to stop putting Bashir and Garak in scenes together because they got along too well and he didn’t want the audience to think they were a couple. The non-homophobic producer said in a documentary looking back on DS9 that one of his biggest regrets about the show is not making the relationship actually canon.
He was canonically intellectually disabled as a child, which his parents attempted to "correct" with illegal gene editing. This eliminated his intellectual disability, but he displays many many autistic traits still (socially awkward, infodumps, hyperempathetic, echolalia, blunt). This lends itself to the popular interpretation that the gene editing couldn't "correct" his autism, but it did change exactly which autistic traits he had. One of his closest onscreen relationships is with Elim Garak, a relationship that both actors have since said is romantic in nature, and Andy Robinson (Garak's actor) has explicitly said he played Garak as being attracted to Bashir. There is also some possible evidence of Julian being trans; in one episode, he says this of a situation in which he had to transfer a fetus from one of his friends into another due to an emergency (paraphrased): "The fetus was in distress, and the only available candidates were Major Kira... and me." This line potentially implies he is capable of carrying a fetus. Furthermore, he canonically has a name that his parents used to call him that he refuses to answer to now (Jules). In-universe, this is due to him finding out about his genetic engineering, but it is very transgender of him.
Propaganda:
He uses all of his free time to role play historical events with his best friend - He intentionally got one question wrong on his finals so that he wouldn’t be valedictorian - On like 5 separate occasions he gets invited to medical conferences then kidnapped on the way - Season 2 episode 22 “The Wire”
He is so awesome. Very autistic, very interesting character. He's an extremely caring doctor, to the point he once stayed on a plague-ridden planet with no futuristic tech, mixing medicine by hand for weeks in an attempt to cure the populace. Which he succeeds at, by the way!! He also, after finding a rogue group of former enemy soldiers who have managed to kick their dependence on the drug used by the enemy government to control them, Julian agrees to try to formulate a way for all of the soldiers to be free of their dependence. He only fails due to interference. Also, when Garak is suffering withdrawal from a brain implant, he stays by his bedside for days on end, caring for him, and even going to the heart of hostile territory to ask the head of the Space KGB how he can cure him. And that's not all! In addition to being a very dedicated (if often unethical) doctor, he is also a space tennis player! He has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth immediately upon meeting anyone new, and not just because of his canonical foot fetish! I'm not joking about that. It is canon.
The qualifications and propaganda paragraphs correspond, @convenient-plot-device is the second submitter.
Frankie Stein-Monster High
Qualifications:
Frankie has always had detachable limbs, that sometimes are useful and other times bothersome. Frankie has also often been hcd as some kind of queer. In G3 of Monster High, they now additionally to their detachable limbs, have a prosthetic leg. And Frankie is now canonically nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. As well as apparently having something romantic going on with Cleo (idk i don't keep up with the cartoon) (but any relationship would be queer for them, as they are nb, lol)
Propaganda:
I love Frankie. I love Monster High. I have loved it since G1. And I do like a lot of the changes (although very much not all) that they made with G3. Especially Frankie. Having them be femme presenting nb is awesome. And also having a prosthetic leg!! I love this
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Brb just had a thought about how we deserved a ds9 episode where julian met a parallel universe version of himself where his parents hadn't augmented him and he was disabled but still successful. I think it could have done so much for the character and for the eugenics idea they tried to push, doing it more effectively for disabled viewers, Julian as a character, and Julian's viewpoint on him being born disabled. I'm fucking writing this. I'm posting this to keep me reminded to write this, because I will. I can't currently because I'm super busy, but I will.
Disabled Julian fans, your fellow disabled Julian fan has your back. If anyone would like to contribute ideas please do, I want feedback and suggestions from all of the disabled community, not just myself.
Julian basically got told by his parents he was defective for being disabled and had to be fixed to have a good life. He was made to believe his disability would forever hold him back. He never got a choice on whether or not he wanted his disability to be "cured." He deserved to have gotten a chance to see what could have been. To show that disabled people don't need to be fixed. We can be successful as we are.
Anyway fanfic will come out eventually, update soon.
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I like how they tried to sexualize and or make fun of certain characters but ended up just transexualizing them instead
#t’pol#julian bashir#ds9 quark#ig??? idk#t’pol is so fun man they messed up so bad but she has t girl swag so#julian literally has an entire metaphor that can be directly translated into disabilities/ neurodivergencies and or being trans#i just love them a lot#st ds9#st enterprise#star trek
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content note: ableism, eugenics
Lurking on the periphery of DS9 fandom, I was so relived that most people (if sadly not all) noticed and were horrified by the implications of what Bashir’s parents did to him.
but I still get pretty bummed when the trend tips a bit too much towards “he’s autistic [not the part I’m bummed about, I love that headcanon!] and he’d probably be a doctor / researcher / Starfleet officer anyway”.
Julian’s explanation in the episode made it sound like he had an intellectual disability (which doesn’t mean he wasn’t / isn’t autistic as well!), and I see the conversation dodging around that a bit when it comes to outlining why what happened to Julian was so sickeningly ableist...
just from what I’ve seen and read, it sometimes feels like there’s this caveat where the wrong hinges on “he probably could’ve ended up on a similar path anyway**”, rather than “no matter what path he ended up on, people with disability - including people with intellectual disability, who get left behind and looked down on even by other disabled people - have an inherent worth and should not need to do or be anything whatsoever to be respected and valued as a human being”
the episode was very vague and also a dumpster fire, and there’s no real indication of what disability Julian had or who he would have grown up to be if his parents hadn’t had him genetically altered...but idk there’s a very strong societal belief that people with intellectual disability should be pitied / don’t accomplish anything / don’t have any reason to enjoy their lives, so i wanted to float this post into the ether because that’s an insidious, ableist misconception that does so much damage.
No matter what disability Julian had, or how it affected him, his future had an inherent worth, in whatever form it took.
not to say that anyone is wrong for the headcanons they have or their take on the episode, just pointing to a general trend which everyone - including disabled people without an intellectual disability - should keep an eye out for in their sci-fi 😊
**i honestly do understand the interest in this angle, because addressing the low expectations people have towards disabled folks is so, so, so important and you’ll never catch me saying otherwise. Not to mention how the Bashirs’ motivations smacked very strongly of wanting a “~normal~-according-to-ableist-societal-standards” child but were waved away in the end as “concern” for their child’s happiness, as if disabled people can’t live good, meaningful lives...gah, such important themes to unpack!
(note: I am disabled but do not have lived experience of intellectual disability so that’s the context I’m writing from)
#deep space nine#julian bashir#ableism cw#eugenics cw#star trek#star trek: ds9#disability#this is the opposite of a call-out post i pinky swear#everyone experiences disability differently#and we aren't all genius-level phaser-slinging Starfleet officers#but we all deserve a place in the future
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Can't decide if kissing in low gravity is cheesy or sweet. Maybe both.
#not qualified to comment on the handling of disability#but she broke the curse of episode love interests! yay!#the julian bashir chronicles#space station squad
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#toxic yaoi except its not about the toxic yaoi#space puppy returns!!!#more wheelchair user bashir for you#our man bashir#myart#julian bashir#elim garak#garashir#artist#theres something so important to me about cool roleplaying spy julian in a wheelchair yknow#hes the disabled hero he wants to see in the world!!!!!!!!!#fuck the abelist future earth that some of the epsiodes imply#also this scene btw holy balls#star trek ds9#ds9 fanart
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There's a thought/theory/whatever I've long had about a specific pair of episodes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ever since I was a teen, and I'm putting this post out there to see if anybody else had the same thought.
I think Julian Bashir from Deep Space Nine, especially his plotline about having been genetically altered at a young age, is a commentary on neurodivergency.
Bashir is characterized as being highly intelligent, albeit lacking in social insight. He excels in academic matters but frequently finds himself floundering around women, being led by the nose by more charismatic people, and not picking up what other people are putting down. This alone would make him the average stereotypical TV depiction of an autistic person, but what I want to focus on is the episode that provides a canonical reason for these traits: the season 5 episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume.
In this episode it's revealed, or retconned really, that Bashir owes his intelligence to genetic tempering. Bashir originally suffered from a learning disability. He was not as intelligent as other children his age, falling far behind his peers, and his parents resorted to illegally altering his genes to "cure" that disability. As a result he instead became exceedingly intelligent. In essence, it took away a symptom that made his life more difficult, and traded it for one that made him more functional.
That episode on its own isn't a super strong nod towards autism. Though it does establish that Bashir is at least neurodivergent, it's more a discussion on eugenics and the theoretical ethics of removing disabilities through genetics. What I really want to focus on is the sort-of-sequel to this episode, and the only other episode that really focuses on these themes: the season 6 episode "Statistical Probabilities." In this episode, Bashir sets out to help other people who underwent genetic alteration, but for whom the treatments didn't go as well. The people he meets all display symptoms of one neurodivergency or another. One of them is very hyperactive and lacks empathy, another is very childlike despite being an old man, and another is entirely unresponsive.
For me, as someone who grew up in special education, I couldn't help but recognize some of the people I knew. To me, the metaphor was clear: "genetic alteration" was really just sci-fi talk for neurodivergency. Julian was the savant, the high-functioning autistic person who successfully integrated into society, because his neurodivergency gave him intelligence and insight that made him useful. And the others weren't as lucky, struggling to lead normal lives because their symptoms impeded their ability to function by themselves.
Bashir spends the episode trying to prove that the other genetically altered people have something to offer society, that there is a place for them. It felt very on the nose to me. But no one I've seen talk about this pair of episodes ever seemed to have taken from them what I took from them. I can't find anyone else online who interpreted the episodes the same way. Maybe my perspective is very particular, as someone who spent so much time in special education growing up, and who has personally struggled with finding a place where I can offer something to others. But idk. Am I seeing allegories that aren't there? What do yall think?
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how people go about interpreting dr bashir I presume? really frustrates me sometimes ngl especially the “jules bashir died” scene.
like that whole scene is about julian revealing the depth of how deeply his augmentations fractured his sense of identity and who he is - which feeds into the themes of the whole episode surrounding how disability and then by extension disabled people are often viewed as a problem to be solved and because of that are often denied the ability to have fulfilling lives because the able bodied people around them don’t believe that they can.
but… idk, when the fandom talks about it there’s always seems to be a push to read a trans allegory into it that I don’t think is really there? I keep mulling over this post in my mind and when I initially reblogged it I didn’t really want to talk about this because the post is about how stories about racism can be hijacked by white people to be made about their own transness and it felt like as a white person, using that post to complain about ableism would be missing the point. but it really helped me articulate in my mind why the trans reading of this episode feels off to me because the same general principle seems to apply and that is taking a story trying to discuss a specific type of marginalisation and putting a trans reading above it because you can relate more to it personally.
“jules bashir died in that hospital because you couldn't live with the shame of having a son who didn't measure up!” this scene is the culmination of julian expressing his pain about what was done to him as a disabled child by his parents due to how they viewed his disability. but often when I see it being discussed, people aren’t really interested in talking about that. instead supplanting it with a trans reading instead which, in my opinion is an allegory that doesn’t even really work when you think about what’s going on in the broader context of the scene.
julian didn’t stop going by jules because he came to the conclusion on his own that the identity didn’t suit him similar to the way a trans person questions or rejects the gender they were assigned at birth, he stopped going by jules because he felt like the identity attached to that name was taken from him because of what his parents did. it’s not julian affirming who he wants to be it’s grieving over who he can’t be and to me at least, it’s honestly kind of harrowing.
and as an aside: when people read transness into a story about parents who change their child’s body and mind at a very young age without consent, which is literally a narrative projected onto trans people by transphobes to justify the curtailing of trans rights, that also doesn’t sit well with me. I think people latch onto this reading because of the idea of “killing a name” but again in the context of the whole episode the trans reading really doesn’t feel appropriate.
I think it’s okay for people to have trans headcanons about julian of course or literally any character they want to really, but I think saying that specific episode codes him as trans isn’t all that great honestly.
#shut up abe#julian bashir#ds9#star trek#I’m nervous to post this tbh and I’m not trying to come for anyone specifically#this is just a general trend I’ve noticed and have been frustrated w for a while#and I’m not trying to say that like you can never relate to a narrative that’s textually about a marginalisation you don’t experience#like something that fascinates me about spock is how his arc is written in a way that is relatable to many different marginalised people#and that overlap in experience is interesting to talk about#but we also shouldn’t forget that *textually* a lot of what spock goes through is a metaphor for being biracial#and I’ve seen people get frustrated bc like. people often do forget lol#it's just a thing where I think we should think about what readings we give the most attention to and why yk
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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Dynamic Duos Chaos Rounds
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Dynamic Duos here are two characters that have a notable relationship, be it familial, platonic, or romantic. Normally there will be character qualifications and propaganda, but we’re not doing that for the chaos rounds. Submissions for the main showdown are still open here, as well as submissions at our other disabled characters showdown here.
Check out the other Dynamic Duos here.
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