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dearweirdme · 7 months

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Good God how can someone have such a negative outlook?? How can you see that picture and feel anything but pure adoration on both of their faces and esp jk's. Of course he is basking in compliments and love coz it was his day. But how did you decipher that from those pics? He is literally squished in the back in the first two. Even in the others he isn't taking the spotlight. And the one strip with tae is just pure love. Just look at jk's face. He looks like he just got home from a long and exhausting day. That expression is home. Not arrogance or selfishness or whatever the hell y'all think.

As for suchwita, if you watched that episode and felt any negative emotion, I think it's time you quit shipping them coz you seem to be someone reliant on grand gestures. But you aren't happy with jk talking about the skiing trip either. Why don't you just send him a script or smth? Just send him an instruction manual on how to talk about taehyung in public for max relationship revelations.

That suchwita episode is so fckng adorable. Just look at the subtleties ffs. They aren't going to start singing ballads or making out in front of the cams 🙄.

Lastly, give tae some credit. He is a grown man. He knows good from bad. He has a family and many close friends who all support jk. So maybe you and I should shut our mouths before criticising one of them coz if the people close to them don't think along the same lines as you, then you must not be right.

There's so much more I want to say but I don't think anyone wants an essay and I am pretty sure I've not changed your mind.

Hi anon!

The footage isn’t the problem, the problem is anon’s preconceived ideas about Jk not caring enough about Tae. Anon clearly sees Jk as the bad guy, and Tae as a lovesick victim. Nothing (!) annoys me more than people totally misunderstanding their characters. For all the years we have seen both Tae and Jk, what in the world makes anyone think Jk is toxic like that, and Tae is unable to stand up for himself. Like seriously (I’m in drama-mode right now, excuse me 😅). If anon thinks partners have to always be together, always have to show their love on socials, always have to keep in mind what outsiders might think, can never joke about each other because someone might misunderstand… good luck to them!

The real nice thing about having a trusting relationship is that you can be informal, you can tell the other you need space, you can bicker, you can go out with friends alone. If anything Jk and Tae’s interaction keep showing closeness.

Tae at Suchwita was so nice, so supportive and letting Jk shine. Yoongi’s reaction to them together was that of understanding and knowing. Jk just loves Tae, he might’ve joked.. but his smile and laughter just speak of love. I know jkkrs have trouble with understanding banter, but this anon clearly does to. Seriously, you really have to want to think badly of Jk to have the kind of reaction that anon has.

#taekook #fandom shenanigans

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scientific-tricorder · 3 years

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"If Wishes Were Horses" through an aromantic/a-spec Bashir lens because it works out surprisingly well for an episode for which Bashir's legacy is having his sexual fantasy come to life for everyone to see.

So this is the one where everyone's imaginations come to life by aliens essentially playacting (to explore the concept of imagination and make first contact or something). Bashir's imagination-turned-to-life is a version of Dax utterly besotted with him. Which sure sounds like he is very romantically/sexually interested in Dax, if this version of her is being pulled from straight from his imagination. But I argue that that isn't what's actually happening.

One key point for this is the idea that the manifestations don't come straight from our character's imagination, but rather what they say/other things outside of the characters' minds that the aliens can access (namely computer records; Sisko even explicitly says that's where the aliens' info might have come from). O'Brien summons Rumplestiltskin - when he is explicitly telling Molly a story about Rumplestiltskin, so the alien playing the role just goes off of the story. Jake Sisko summons Buck Bokai, a long dead baseball player, who starts as a character on the holodeck and has memories and knowledge programmed into the hologram character. The thoron emissions and corresponding scientific catastrophe seems to start from Dax theorizing about ship traffic and then everyone building on with theories. We don't know who the Promenade ones that Odo tries herding come from. Quark summons a pair of scantily-clad ladies (who at one point disappear only to reappear once he describes them), Odo summons Quark in a security cell, and Kira summons a horrifying vision of someone burning to death in a fire (one of these things is not like the others, but that's a different discussion). We don't explicitly see these characters talking about what they summon before they appear, but it's still possible that it happened off screen or that it comes from accessing computer files.

With that concept as background, let's look at Bashir's interactions with his summoned fantasy.

The teaser features Bashir trying to flirt with Dax and initiate a romantic relationship over dinner, with her politely refusing and pointing out his recent pursuit of two other women. So here we have Bashir speaking aloud what he ends up summoning: a Dax interested in him as a romantic partner. As well as this going after any woman thing, which under this reading is the usual over-exaggerated playacting of romantic interests.

When this imaginary Dax (Dax #2) does appear, it's while Bashir is sleeping (looks like he just fell asleep when studying given the padd and him being in full uniform). The moment he wakes up, he is, well, not at all interested, and pointedly constantly leaning away from her advances. She keeps trying to kiss him, and instead of reciprocating, he talks to avoid it (can't reach lips if they're constantly moving) and pulls out his tricorder as an excuse to completely pull away, sometimes physically pushing Dax #2 away from him. He only reciprocates after she asks why he's fighting this, he asks himself the same question twice, and can't come up with a good answer. And as soon as Kira calls senior officers to ops, he immediately breaks it off and deflects the whole thing by calling it a joke.

Once they're in ops, Bashir appears distinctly uninterested in and uncomfortable around Dax #2. And when she says that she must have come out of his imagination? A confused look, almost as if a Dax besotted with him isn't anything he had been imagining.

[Image description: Screenshot from the episode, showing Dax and Bashir in profile from the shoulders up, looking at each other, with ops in the background. Dax, who is on the left, has a hand on Bashir's shoulder and is smiling at him. Bashir, on the right, has his mouth slightly open and eyebrows down, as if confused.]

(That screenshot is immediately followed by a shocked Bashir when Dax #2 goes in for a kiss)

And this discomfort and disinterest continues throughout almost the entire rest of the episode. The one time he isn't? At the end when Dax #2 is injured and becomes a patient, and he goes into Doctor Mode.

Admittedly, most of Bashir's avoidance behavior could be explained by him not wanting to play out sexual fantasies in front of his coworkers, embarrassment and humiliation that that is what his imagination conjured, and not wanting to take advantage of a Dax clearly behaving abnormally, but wouldn't someone genuinely interested in pursuing a romantic relationship have a bit more positive of a reaction? At some point, other than the one time when he tries to come up with a reason why not and can't? I mean, if one wants something, why would they be starting from a default position of refusing it and need to think and convince themselves that they don't have a good enough reason to refuse? And at that point he believes her to be Dax, supposedly a literal dream come true, and since it occurs right after waking up, for all he knows, it is an actual dream.

Now, this is definitely not the intended reading because the writers absolutely meant this to be direct imagination coming to life story and show a Bashir obsessed with Dax. But since when do we have to limit ourselves to the intended reading.

#Star Trek #DS9 #If Wishes Were Horses #Julian Bashir #Bashir #Queer!Bashir #a-spec!Bashir #analysis #Disclaimer that for me being aro is not understanding what romantic attraction even is and am thus conflating split attractions here #And reading facial expressions is definitely not my forte #I am rather a fan of the a-spec Bashir headcanon because #A. Projection (we always like to think of our favorite characters as being similar to ourselves)#B. I think it does work well with some of Bashir's later storylines (you know what I'm talking about if you've watched through DS9)#C. It helps explain all his creepy behavior towards women early on in the series (although still not justifying it)#I've also become weirdly interested in looking at all these early episodes with hindsight about what we learn about the characters later on #and seeing what the writers turned into accidental foreshadowing (which was a thing they did) and what they ignored/forgot about #Tricorder log

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