#forgot to actually post this so I did technically start listening by now but shhhh

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Things that I know about A Stitch In Time prior to listening to it:

Garak goes to spy school, which is for spies (for some reason the idea of this is amusing to me. like I get it duh of course the Order must have some sort of training system but also. fanfic ass trope. Spy School! For Spies! it's even a boarding school and everything. DARKEST ACADEMIA)

Garak performs a classic bisexual rite of passage by falling in love with both members of an older(?) married couple (or well textually probably only the wife. I feel like I'd have heard about it if he were Betacanonically Queer (TM) in this book. but here's hoping I'll be astonished while listening!)

I can't remember if I read anything specific about it or not but just based on vibes alone I do not have high hopes for this couple's like. life expectancy.

Based on vibes alone I do not have high hopes for ANY character's life expectancy in this book tbh. If it involves Cardassians in general and Garak in specific I usually just assume everyone involved is doomed. This is going to be a FUN 12 hours and 28 minutes!

There was a post somewhere that mentioned that some supernatural magical stuff happens in this book and I'm SO FUCKING STOKED. HERE'S HOW GARAK ORB EXPERIENCE CAN STILL WIN!!!!

The entire concept of this book is so funny to me. Garak goes 7 years being ohhh so mysterious to Julian about himself or his past and then just spills his whole life story to him in a letter as soon as they're separated. Babygirl is going through Bashir Withdrawal Syndrome.

Most importantly KELAS MY BEST FRIEND KELAS FROM ONE (1) LINE OF CANON!!!!! I have no actual evidence that he ever shows up in this book but like he has to right. right. he's absolutely everywhere on ao3 y'all had to have gotten him from somewhere. I assume.

#forgot to actually post this so I did technically start listening by now but shhhh #anyways it just occurred to me that there's like a trillion ST books and multiple different ones that deal with Cardassians and with Garak #and maybe some of this stuff is actually in some entirely different book for all I know :| #look it's not my FAULT there's no like fuckin CHART of which books I'm supposed to read in what order #I need like. an idiot's guide to the betacanonverse. #starky's original posts #wasn't there one book where like Julian was in a coma?? is that where he's canonically at rn in the betacanon?? in a fucking COMA??? #I know there's also one where Garak Fucking Dies (??!!) #do all these take place in the same universe??????? #WHATEVER. BABY GARAK TIME. LET'S GO. #A Stitch In Time #star trek: deep space 9