I Can Make A Fanart That Is So Out Of Character

Rom has an honest-to-goodness stutter. He stammers and sometimes has trouble expressing himself.

Before Deep Space 9, I had never seen that on any screen without it being a joke. Or a couple times as a character that appeared for less than 2 minutes.

HOWEVER, on DS9, not only does Rom have a decent-sized part, but:

- he's portrayed as a loving and supportive father, son, brother, and husband

- he LEADS his co-workers in forming a union

- he leaves a toxic workplace for an equally menial but safer job, and does it with dignity, and then earns promotions

- he invents new technology, and comes up with it almost as a side thought while planning his wedding, showing the genius that he's usually not recognized for

- and ultimately, he's chosen as the next ruler of an entire planet

I still don't see anything equivalent to that now, in the 2020s. And DS9 was made thirty years ago.

If movie and television producers are so keen on reviving things from the past for the sake of nostalgia, how about looking at Star Trek for ideas on not only increasing diversity and inclusion, but normalizing and celebrating them?

Embarrassed Abe

I found my old drawings and for some reason decided to redraw this one

Well... it didn't work out very well, to be honest

But who cares, it's Abe✨

Aww❤️

another doodle page to celebrate the fact i finished watching ds9 for the first time i love star trek so much, its so stupidly silly

Me starting a new anime: My Hero Academia? Hmm. Ok I'll try it out.

Toshi comes on the screen:

Me:

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The way Quark launches himself at the security guard stationed in front of Odo's quarters after finding out the founder hadn't left Odo's quarters in 3 days was the gayest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life.

“haha odo is so beige and bland and boring despite being a literal shapeshifter” like ok yes I laugh at those jokes too and find them funny I literally have no issue with them but sometimes I also wanna talk about how that’s kind of the whole point of his character.

like odo’s abilities and way of being is so unlike any other known species in the alpha quadrant that it’s shown to be disturbing and off-putting to a lot of people — or at the very least that’s what he was led to believe. like we see this in the alternate where mora tries to convince him he’ll either be locked up in a prison or put in a zoo to gawk at if he’s perceived to have committed any sort of crime or transgression.

so despite being able to literally become anything he can think of, he chooses his default presentation to be as standard, bland and uninteresting as he possibly can. male, always in a beige uniform, very standard hair cut.

odo is so plain because he was made to be afraid of being literally anything else

Sometimes remembering that Abe Sapien exists is enough to keep me going. Like swooning over here.

“Dead Clade Walking” - a term for animals that are alive but from a functionally extinct species.

concept art 4 a horror comic about the dinosaurs that survived the initial meteor impact and are now living in a sort of last of us/annihilation-esque world

Me, seeing her for the first time: Wow! What a gorgeous woman!

A second later: Shit... I definitely shouldn't feel this way...

ds9 AU where everything else is the same but they actually had a budget and modern-day special effects and could make the changelings look like the genuinely, properly fucked up amorphous blobs they deserved to be