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Reading "No Gods for Drowning" and I think one of the 4 leads (Arcadia) is trans. It's a subtle couple lines that made me think this, I had a feeling there was something about her not quite in line with everyone around her. That said, it could be something else entirely since this is a fantasy-horror-mystery novel.
Hoping the author never confirms one way or the other though and let's the audience see what we need to in her. She's an incredibly complex character regardless and I adore her.
Mind you I'm maybe half way through so we shall see what's what soon enough. Can definitely see myself reading more by the author in the future.
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forgotten playthings, forgotten child 🧸
Jack from my series Lost & Found Children 🤍🖤
i hope to showcase more of my ocs in 2024 hehe! im FINALLY getting around to finishing art i left to rot in my folders (the pandora hearts drawing last month being one of em). if you saw the WIP of THIS particular drawing 2 yrs ago... no you didn’t 💔
my charas are very personal to me, but tbh ive always been a bit hesitant to share their stories. over time i realized ... it’s kind of a shame to not make art from one’s heart. which is something i regret a lot year after year whenever i make my yearly art summary reflection. i'm like damn i need to make more emotionally evoking pieces!!! so i'm gonna keep going in 2024 with that in mind ❤ i have to admit, although this drawing started 2 years ago, and there's a lot i would do differently if i were to supposedly draw it now - this concept goes pretty hard.
the final drawing stayed pretty close to the original concept which im so relieved for! i think part of the reason why i left it on the backburner for so long, was the fact that i included so many details, and i was unsure of how to colour the "background". (not to mention stuff like cons & real life getting in the way).
i'm glad for discovering a really handy watercolour brush, it's helped me a lot in my last few drawings, bc i dont have to colour in each detail. especially since the witch hat atelier: eternal ephemera zine piece i did. otherwise if i coloured this back in 2022 with my usual method, i'm pretty sure i really would have included a shading and highlight layer for each individual toy... HAHAHA. much to think about
oh yeah and in the last few days of drawing this i was listening to some visual kei bands. i love how some of the band members literally have been performing since like the 90s or something and DO NOT AGE and are literal vampires. every so often i fall back into visual kei (you can tangentially thank aggretsuko although yes i know it's not the same). and i kind of realized. i like Jack's edgy design so much because he looks like. a visual kei esque vampire.
#illustration#artists on tumblr#original#original character#my ocs#jack#i will post more on my ocs eventually... slowly.. this coming year#2024 will be the year of the oc..... definitely want to lean into developing my stories & charas & gothic aesthetic a lot more hehe#leaning into like. whatever late 2000s manga had going on with their dark aesthetics - pandora hearts. black butler. d gray man etc#those mangaka were drinking some good shit. permanently altered my little teenage brain forever#i also managed to record a timelapse of this drawing#but my computer cant handle timelapses on csp so i had to like. save this drawing in different parts#so ill have to stitch together the timelapse videos#sorry. got rid of the closeup bc it didn't look that great#ill post it in the read more later#lost and found children
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(do you love me like that?)
you're a reckless driver
(I'm a reckless driver)
and one day it will kill us if I —
#yellowjacketsedit#yjedit#akilahmari#lyricsongifs#yellowjacketscentral#ok i WANT TO DISCLAIM. im not 100% sold on pitgirl mari im not 100% sold on anything. the show will tell me when its ready!#that SAID im incapable of giffing unless theres tragedy involved and also i think it would be an interesting trajectory for them#akilahmari work imo because while different they are both very vulnerable in the same way#they want to be seen and cared for and they arent in an environment where thats easy#and like. yeah the you tell me all the time to keep my eyes on the road gif IS the gay scenes#but its also akilah being in tune with people and their emotions. ofc she knows taivan love each other ofc she knows lottienat need a momen#and later ofc she knows lottie and nat need a moment!!! that skill serves her as tension escalates#whereas mari cannot read a room + does not filter herself. and akilah often gets the best of that from her!#but also. akilah shoots her a look when she presses javi about the missing bear meat. but also. mari isnt wrong to be concerned#mari is vulnerable and scared !!!AND!!! heavily concerned about survival. so whereas akilah and mari are both scared to hunt javi#mari is the second to run to grab javis body. akilah follows still horrified. mari is better suited to survive in a lot of ways#but also tends to step on toes!!! but also mari is so loyal and so like. attentive? eager? in a way akilah isnt#so mari says more controversial things but ultimately follows status quo in a way akilah is less inclined to#even in terms of skills mari can cook and akilah can sew but eventually what good is stitching people up when they need to eat. you know.#IDK i think theyre soooo interesting and im rly looking forward to their relationship hopefully developing bc i think theyre cute and fun#but i think their dyn could get sooooo interesting. even in terms of letting mari go. like. many connotations#akilah can giggle when the jokes are still funny and they can find each other in any given space. but does that matter if it cant save them#anyway ive run out of tags to tag the chars for my blog and im being really brave about it btw.#also its 2 am and i wanna post and im being even braver about that (not deleting this tag but its not 2 am my time as i post im drafting<3)
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To whoever might read this. I need you to go listen to 'That Unwanted Animal' and 'The Rockrose and the Thistle' by The Amazing Devil and think of Kaori!Kenjaku and Jin. It's so Itadori family-coded it's unbelievable. The overall eeriness striking the uncanny valley effect. The miscommunication. One partner being oblivious to the other one's condition and ignoring the issue. The marriage coming apart at the seems. The stitches getting mentioned. The metaphor of possession standing for wrestling one's inner demons and mental illness. The feeling of being watched by some haunting unwanted presence that you cannot shake. Those songs have it all.
#hello kenjin nation this is my contribution#i guess i'm back at my 'everyone please listen to the amazing devil' agenda#but they're truly amazing!!#i mean it's in the name!!#also yep the unwanted animal is kenjaku#the rockrose is jin with his fanon pink hair#the thistle is kaori with stitches like a crown of thorns above her brow#and the thimble that's handed over to the narrator is baby yuuji bundled up in blankets#yes i'm a little bit out of my mind#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#kenjaku#kaori itadori#jin itadori#yuuji itadori#also the amazing devil's 'wanderlust' reads a lot like kenjaku i think
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I love these berserker rage episodes Garak goes into in his youth because while he seems to have outgrown those for the most part come the show, we still see glimpses of them. a habit he could never truly shake off, it seems
#star trek: ds9#a stitch in time#elim garak#just reading the bit where they win the Competition#and he has to be pried off of the student he's attacking#reminds me a lot of the episode he goes into in DS9 where he tries to open the airlock#he mentioned feeling moisture on his face and I thought it was gonna be blood#physically felt my chest ache when he realized it was tears#because he was so scared he was gonna suffocate
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This Time
Found it! By popular request (@sleepy-sheep-inn @gryphonablaze @lil-dabbler), here’s the story about someone years after a portal fantasy adventure.
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I hated driving this route. But part of me was still drawn to it, with a kind of sickly anticipation that hadn’t been completely ground down by the years of disappointment. Maybe this time would be different. Maybe I’d see more than trees and ferns and long, winding road.
Maybe this time I’d feel the thrum of magic in the woods, smell the crackle of ozone, hear the distant bugle of a dragon calling me home.
This world wasn’t my home anymore. Hadn’t been since I was thirteen — the first time I was thirteen. The second time, I had to relearn how to move in a body that was soft and small, with no scars. A body that had never lost a hand to mage-fire.
I tried not to think about it now, clenching my right hand harder on the steering wheel to prove that it was there. Of course it was — why would I think there was anything wrong with it, and why was I using my left hand so much now? Hadn’t I been right-handed as a kid? I shrugged off people’s questions, claiming to be learning to use both hands just for fun. I didn’t really care if anyone bought it.
There were a lot of things I didn’t care about now.
Like the work conference I was driving north for. I’d tried to weasel out of it, but no dice. I was stuck taking the highway through the redwoods again, on a gray afternoon that had rained once and probably would again. I scowled at the wet forest as it rolled by. Checked the gas level, turned the radio on, then off again.
I wanted a distraction, but…
If I missed something because I was listening to crappy music, I’d never forgive myself.
Three more turns in silence, with no other cars on the road, and I slumped in resignation. Sighed. Opened all the windows and slowed down, taking deep breaths and listening for all I was worth.
The air was rich with damp bark, wet mulch, and the tang of wet asphalt. The redwood trees stood brown-black under feathery green leaves. Blank sky peeked through, that kind of grayish that makes it look like someone took an eraser to all the blue, or dropped this part of the world into an empty void.
If only. I could probably find my way home from a void.
I shook my head, wanting to close the windows on the breeze that carried only normal Earth scents. But of course I didn’t. As hard and pessimistic as I fancied myself to be, there was still a spark of childlike optimism, the last remnants of the determination that everything will be okay because I say so that had helped save a world years ago.
All it did for me now was open old wounds.
Specks of rain pattered onto the windshield, some finding their way onto my sweater and cheek. I pulled in one last lungful of rainy-weather smell and fumbled for the window buttons.
Wait. What was that scent? It was faint, but familiar. I knew I was deluding myself, but I froze and drove even slower. Stuck my head out into the raindrops and breathed deeply.
Phoenix musk. It couldn’t be. Aside from the obvious impossibility, this forest was far too wet for a firebird to tolerate—
The echoing hoot of an offended phoenix made me stomp the brakes with everything I had, jerking the wheel to send the car skidding into the ferns. I was out the door in a heartbeat, standing in the road and casting about desperately. Everything was quiet except for the tap of rain and the click and hiss of my car’s engine cooling down. I stepped away from the car, moving with heel-to-toe stealth like I was avoiding enemy sorcerers. My right arm rose of its own accord, as if the casting-crystal prosthesis was there ready for battle. I consciously dropped my hand to my side and listened.
Nothing. Nothing.
Then a chirp and a murmur and a snap that I felt more than heard, and a rush of heat as magic flowed toward me like water to the roots of a dry tree. Humming filled my head.
I broke into a grin and dashed into the woods, plowing past wet ferns with abandon, not caring if the water on my cheeks was from rain or tears.
“Wait for me! I’m coming!”
#my writing#I wrote this years ago#*Stitch voice* 'Yah. Still good.'#portal fantasy#and what comes after#as someone who grew up reading books about that sort of adventure#and who took road trips through woods like these every year#this one still means a lot to me
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I need to be strong and hot and also get new (thrifted) clothes and I have been feeling the creation of self so much so intensely lately and its such a joy but I'm SICK and been laying here ALL DAY and there is. Only so much tv I can watch and fluff I can read. Before I'm like. I can't sit still any more
#the duality of fran#i had the shakes so no cross stitch#and my attention span for passive media consumption is. low#i DONT binge things. i am mentally incapable#i watched like 4 eps of snk and 4 eps of derry girls. took a nap. read almost a full vol of mdzs#and now its like. ok. ok. can we stop feeling sickm thanks#its too dark out to craft (strian my eyes when I'm ALREADY fighting a headache)#im not sleepy given i slept a lot last night and then laid about all day today#im just. AHHHHHHH#video games probably noy a good idea bc head. and also. it is easiest to lie down rn#sitting. hurt.#its such a stupid thing some 24 hr bug itll be gone by morning#but for rn im just. AHHHHHHHHHH#everything feels worse when u feel sick and ur hair feels greasy. tbh#I WASHED IT LITERALLY THIS MORNING#i wish i was a tv enjoyer more. tbh#i just. cant sit still i get distracted idk why#and i dont with books or video games in the same way#stupid brain
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forever maimed by how oba yozo felt like everyone in the world had been given a script on what to do and how to act except for him
#no longer human opened up a lot of stitches that i’ve been wanting to pretend have scarred already#aesukhia reads#dazai osamu#no longer human#books#japanese literature
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It’s all fun and games until you get a bad ending
#💟#Doodles#Art#Scriabin#Edgar#Dating Sim#A solid mix of dialogue and UI this time lol#This time with the actual Affection symbol! Heart heart heart ♥ ♥ ♥ Haha#I didn't mention it in the UI sketchdump but one thing I've been thinking about A Lot is how the yarn in the text box might change over time#The more the affection grows the more the yarn stitches itself into a pretty pattern - visual evidence of you being laced nicely ♪#And though not shown here the inverse also being the case - not necessarily in losing stitches but if you grow a negative relationship...♪#Anyway!#Scriabin's was meant to look more like a spiderweb but I kinda like it looking like his bonewings more :D Self-expression and confidence!#I considered adding little gemstones or pieces of mirror as well - little facets of his personhood ♥#Edgar needed a flowery reaction as well so there he goes happy lad ♥#I like the contrast of him being more open and smiley if the interaction could be read as positive and platonic#As soon as love hearts are involved he gets more shy and nervous hehe#And then the last set ♪ Scriabin gets the ❌s this time hehe#Depending on how the player approaches Edgar as a topic to Scriabin he could take it well or poorly#The player trying to step into Edgar’s place is a losing battle and Scriabin is not into it#Even at high levels the player comparing themself to Edgar is not taken well only Scriabin is allowed to be clingy lol#It’s actually a soft rejection compared to what he could say#Coded language that basically says ''You're not nearly important enough to be acting like that to me so don't even think about it''#It'd be fun to see him go all out on the player if they weren't even at a point to be slightly polite to hehe ♪
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YET ANOTHER long and obnoxious stream of my thoughts while watching greys anatomy for the first time (SEASON 16 bc i decided i will try to catch up to you guys who are awaiting S20)
-tom koracick, despite all outward appearances, is far too nice
-bailey pisses me off sometimes bc she usually isn’t wrong, but within the parameters of how everyone behaves on the show, her decisions feel wrong, yk? like irl absolutely she should have fired them without a doubt. but in this soapy medical show in which everyone commits malpractice five times a week, it feels like she’s overreacting lmao. does that make any sense?
-meredith in her community service outfit is kind doing something to me
-a man on a scooter just ran into maggie and amelia’s car and it startled me so bad i drew blood with my cross-stitching needle!
-lisa ann walter!! and charmed cast in the same ep!
-bailey and i are beefing actually
-do NOT have another affair, richard webber
-“how come my mom hasn’t called from sleepover community service?” sleepover community service PLS
-a lumineers song in the background!!! the music is good again
-why is owen pulling this bullshit again!!!!!!!!!!
-bailey is making me so fucking mad right now. she has no room to act morally superior considering some of the shit she’s pulled. she also continues to have this attitude that meredith should owe her something for being her teacher…. which is sort of valid but let’s not pretend that bailey doesn’t owe meredith quite a bit too. idk again it’s one of those things again where in real life, she’s be perfectly justified but within the fictional guidelines set up by the show, she’s being a vindictive asshole.
-patricia!!!!!
-“she is the sun and she is unstoppable” !!!!!
-addison wrote one too!!!!
-this episode is potentially a little too sentimental and overly emotional but i really really like it. the nostalgia bait made me like it even more actually
-more lumineers!!!! i really like this episode. (i’ll stop now but it’s the first episode in a really long time that i’ve really enjoyed the entire thing)
-everyone is being really dramatic about koracick he really isn’t that bad
-i want to like schmitt it just feels like we were sort of thrown into deep emotional story lines for him without getting to know him beyond surface level. maybe it’s just me it just feels like the show wants me to have a certain level of emotional investment in him that i don’t have (yet?)
-beanie feldstein!
-teddy’s sparkly little winter hat is so cute
-TEDDY NO. i don’t mind if you cheat on owen tbh but plz don’t play with tom’s feelings instead of facing your problems.
-i’ll not comment a lot on the alex thing bc i had spoilers for it and honestly it’s just so ridiculous. it’s one of those things that i don’t blame the character for bc i know it was the writers and other irl circumstances. i imagine from izzies perspective this is the culmination of a beautiful crazy love story akin to the notebook. but from our perspective this sounds like the lie you tell your kids when the family dog dies- “oh he went to live on a farm”
-does richard have another brain tumor??? this doesn’t seem like a relapse but…
-i know it’s wrong but i wouldn’t mind this affair if i thought the show was treating teddy/tom as a serious option. as it stands, i just think teddy is being selfish
-i knew the baby wasn’t gonna be owens
-i KNEW this would be a boy who cried wolf situation with deluca. unfortunately, he also is struggling mentally i think but i don’t know if he’s manic or suffering from a break. they had me convinced i was wrong for a minute, but i knew it would turn out that he was right about the girl being trafficked. but i definitely think that he was nowhere near ready to come back to work and that the psychologist should not have cleared him. i hope he gets the help he needs soon bc i really like deluca :(
-the conference in LA would’ve been the perfect opportunity for an addison cameo
-OOH A TWIST IN TEDDY’S BACKSTORY. this explains a lot
-OOH SO MANY TWISTS THIS EPISODE.
-i am fighting for my life trying to defend teddy in my head. i hate owen as much as the next guy but this whole thing is brutal to watch.
#greys anatomy#is anybody still reading these!!#lmk when ur sick of these#the show is getting meh but i am powering through!!#i’m actually a season ahead of what im posting bc i waited so long to post 11 or 12 iirc#but also i am a hermit with no life and i watch a lot of tv#i’ve finished season 17 as well (but not my cross stitching project grr)#meredith grey#teddy altman#andrew deluca#jo wilson#these are all tagged under#greys reactions
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This is mostly amusing to me but like. I am intrigued by fic authors’ commitment to Rough And Tough Men pouring alcohol on literally every injury sometimes
#why are you putting whiskey on rope burn#what is that even going to DO#anyway#this is not entirely exclusive to fic but I’ve been reading a lot of trigun fic lately and noticed it lol#admittedly I do come from a family where like#when I cut off a chunk of my fingertip#my sister’s reaction was *DEEP SIGH* *pour a water bottle over it on the deck and slap a bandaid on*#mine was. of course. pop that shit in my mouth to staunch the bleeding and ask for a bandaid#bc. I have a super accurate assessment of injuries as well#neither the first nor the last time I have probably needed stitches and been like nah it’s fine if I just layer bandaids & squeeze real hard#personal
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i just finished rewatching the finale and i cried just as hard as the first time
#i cried harder in some parts lmao#i've read a lot of analysis in the past month and it made it so much more impactful#i was trying to cross stitch and i had to put it away like 20 minutes in cause i was just as captivated as the first time#i love this series too much#attack on titan
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thinking about how i want to write again and read a million books and play ts4 and finish my piano duet arrangement and work on my percussion ensemble project and cross-stitch and and and but i only have the energy capacity to work on one project at a time and by the time i finish something (or just make progress cuz let's be real, when was the last time i finished something), i don't have the stamina or momentum to work on anything else so i just lull in a state of inertia.
#rilla.txt#dl#i am finishing a book today - that is non-negotiable#after i finish that book i am going to do something with my hands - idk what yet but it will be SOMEthing#i might cross stitch while listening to an audiobook of the hobbit which my roommate found and really liked#then I'm killing two birds with one stone cuz I've said I'd read the hobbit for 3 years straight now. and I'm yet to read the hobbit.#but i also have to keep in mind that I'm starting another semester of schoolwork and i won't have time to do much at all#i love math - i really do - but i don't like the amount of time it takes to learn a whole new class of math#part of the reason i liked calc iii so much is that it built on stuff i already knew. it was mostly piecing things together#instead of starting from scratch. but I've been in starting from scratch territory for a while now and I'm getting tired of it#cuz it takes so much time (not that calc iii didn't take so much time but at least i enjoyed it a lot more)#there are many benefits to studying as obsessively as i do but it comes at the price of ALL MY HOBBIES
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the fact that chronically Charlie probably has the ability to read minds...
#It's theorized that she has a lot of the same powers as the stitch wraith which means she can read minds and in view people with agony#charlie emily
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im gonna make a separate post for my thoughts on the Garak/Julian content in A Stitch in Time because I want to first give all my thoughts on what most of the story was about, of course, which was Garak and his life. so, without further ado and under a cut for your convenience, my thoughts on A Stitch in Time!
first of all I loved this book with my entire heart and soul. its an incredible piece of character writing, strong from beginning to end, and it came as no surprise that Andrew Robinson captured Garak perfectly. you can really tell how much love and work went into this book and into capturing Garak at these different points of his life, and so much of what we see of him in his early life really tracks for what we see of him in the show, and reinforces in writing what we could've already gleaned from him in the show. seriously, just on the basis of how good the character writing is, I will recommend this book to any DS9 fan
I was always looking forward to reading this book just as a Garak fan. he's a fascinating and compelling character, with a lot of layers and complexities, and an incredible amount of emotional depth. and this book truly delivered in diving into all those layers of all, all those depths and nuances. Andrew Robinson makes it very clear why Garak is the way he is in DS9, and how he's always been the way he is, for better or for worse. there was never a moment of this book where I went "this isnt Garak", from childhood to post-DS9. you truly get to see how Garak's youth shaped him, and set up who he would become, and it all makes such beautiful sense
I love that throughout the backstory pieces, Garak's sentimentality is constantly his undoing. and I especially love that no matter how hard he wants to stop, he cant. this comes through the most with Palandine, from his days in Bamarren with her, to when he has an affair with her, to when he cant help but see her one more time even when he's been warned away and it ends with his capture. but we dont just see this with Palandine, we also see it with Lokar in Bamarren when Garak lets himself be lulled into a false sense of friendship, and is subsequently blindsided and betrayed. and again, with Remara, even though he is suspicious of her, he cant help but be drawn to her. and later still, to the Federation negotiator. he's a sentimental sap who craves connection, and love, and this bites him in the ass over and over again, but he cant stop himself from trying. how compelling, how beautifully tragic. it makes the end of the book, with its hopeful look at Cardassia's future and heavy focus on Garak's connection to Julian, all the sweeter. because finally, Garak can be sentimental and open and connected. finally, its working out
I love the unflinching approach Andrew Robinson takes to Garak's past. we know from the show that Garak's past is dark and unpleasant, and in this book it isnt sugarcoated. Garak hurts people, he kills people, he manipulates and lies, and he enjoys controlling others through fear. he's capable of great cruelty. I love that this is an internal conflict at times- when he's on Romulus, raising a deadly poison in the garden, and he wonders how Tolan would feel if he saw what his teachings were being used for. but what I love for the most part is that Garak treats torture and killing like its just another day at work, cause to him, it is. its just another job. another assignment. the casualty of the horrific things he does is just so well written
speaking of ways that Garak sucks- love the way his feelings towards Bajorans was presented. in the show I always felt it was a bit unclear whether or not he actually believed what he was saying about Bajorans, or if he was just doing it to piss people off. A Stitch in Time makes it very clear that Garak does believe that Bajorans are an inferior species, and that he is incredibly prejudiced against them. but it also establishes that even with that, he's BETTER than a lot of Cardassians are about Bajorans, which I find interesting. he thinks Dukat is a barbarian for how he treats Bajorans, the enslavement of Bajorans disgusts him, and there's an extent to which he feels pity for them. like dont get me wrong, he's still awful about Bajorans, but its interesting to see where he draws the line compared to other Cardassians like Dukat and Lokar
Garak's family life had me by the neck the entire time I was reading. finding out he didnt even know Tain was his father until he was into adulthood... I need to rewatch every episode with Tain but especially In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light because I need to see that final scene between him and Garak again with this knowledge. and Tolan, I loved Tolan. I loved him a lot. I love that he wanted to be Garak's dad, and desperately wished that Garak could've been his son. I love how influential he was throughout Garak's life, and how he was the source of his sentimentality and all his soft parts. I love that Tolan clearly wanted to save Garak from the path he saw him going on, and that in many ways, he succeeded. it wouldnt be for years and years to come, but eventually, as we see- Garak is on the right path. Garak embraces what Tolan taught him, and thats what allows him to heal. to step up into his place and work for a better Cardassia
to me, one of those important scenes for this in the book is right towards the end, when Garak is in the meeting with Madred and the others. and how he's fully planning on being here as a double agent, doing what he's always done best, and then it just hits him how ridiculous it all is. how ridiculous this group is. and he laughs, and he leaves. this is Garak choosing not to stand in the shadows. this is Garak stepping fully into the light, and stepping up, and embracing a brand new role. he's no longer one of Tain's night people. he's free. its a beautiful scene, I could've honestly been cheering if I wasn't so sick while I was reading it last night. one of my favourite scenes in the entire book
ill tie that scene into one of my favourite dynamics in the novel- Garak and Pythas. I love that they were genuinely friends, and that they took pleasure in each other's company, and cared about each other. this is really the one major instance where Garak's sentimentality doesnt do him in as he's growing up, and I love that, and I love how it makes him cling to Pythas all the more. I was fucking ecstatic to see him and Pythas reunite towards the end. I love that Garak got that one bit of happiness, to see his old friend alive, and still happy to see him. that was incredibly important to me, and I couldnt be happier with how it turned out for them
I did love the Garak and Palandine relationship. it was sweet, and desperate, and always doomed to end in tragedy. to me, Garak's relationship with Palandine confirmed what I already knew- Garak has never been able to deny himself what he wants. he knew having an affair with Palandine would end badly for him, but he couldnt stop himself, because he loved her. I also love that we dont get to find out what happened to Palandine. personally, I think shes either dead, or she fled off-world. and I think its important that Garak doesnt get that closure, and he doesnt pursue it- to me, this is where he has to deny himself what he wants, and I think its crucial that he does it not for his own sake, but for Kel's. and he's right to do so. Garak is the man who killed her father and broke her family, so to pursue her for answers about her mother would be an incredibly selfish act on his part. him choosing to leave Kel be, to not approach and to simply attend the meetings, is a massive sign of growth. I was legit emotional while I was reading that bit, but that might be partially because, again, I was incredibly sick last night while I was reading it so I was very sensitive
some other Garak dynamics I loved seeing. I loved that we got a few scenes of Garak and Odo, and their very strange friendship. I love that Odo asks Garak to make clothes for him. I love that Garak genuinely enjoys the task. I love that Odo will join Julian and Garak sometimes for their lunches. I love that we saw the first stages of Garak and Quark's relationship, which I would read as somewhere between professional association and genuine friendship, as much as either of these characters will allow. and the surprising sweetness of the Garak and Rom dynamic took me by surprise, and left me wanting more. I love that Garak is just genuinely fond of Rom and likes him, and that Rom is just chill with Garak and talks to him. the Garak and Kira scenes were so good, and so insightful into them and their strange dynamic. I love that Garak looks back on talks he's had with Kira, and finally has to understand her rage. I'd love to know if he ever reached out to her sometime post-DS9. that would be an interesting relationship to explore
gonna wrap this up now. I truly loved this book so much. what an incredible character exploration. I cannot give Andrew Robinson enough props for so effectively setting up everything we know about Garak, from his sentimentality to his tailoring to where he'll go post-DS9. every chapter had me by the neck, wanting more more more. I could barely put the book down. I think the scenes inserted into DS9 were incredible, and read so well I had no trouble visualizing them. but most of all, I just loved getting to see all these different stages of Garak. I loved seeing what made him into the man he is in the show. I loved seeing what he's doing after. I loved where this book confirmed what I already knew, and where it challenged me and kept me guessing. every choice and interaction and line felt so true to Garak's character, and thats a truly impressive feat. seriously, I cant praise this book enough. I thoroughly enjoyed myself every page of the way
if youre a DS9 fan and you love Garak, and you havent read A Stitch in Time- I highly recommend it!
#star trek: ds9#a stitch in time#in case I havent said it enough: FANTASTIC FUCKING BOOK#it truly kept me sane the last few days because things have been a lot!#im so happy I read it#I loved it so much#I wish I could read it again for the first time#anyways yes I will be doing a separate post on Julian and Garak throughout this book#because while I have a lot of thoughts on them they also weren't the primary focus#and I wanted to get down all my thoughts on the majority of the story before I focused on them
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I don't mind french knots, actually, I hate satin stitch instead, but even I have decided that this is too many french knots to do in one go and am sick of them for this pattern I'm doing 😭
#this is abt embroidery for those who will read this and be like????#i am still too wiped out to move around a lot but at least today i can sit up and do some stitching for a bit
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