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Garak/Bashir resurfaces in my life.
Nov. 13th, 2008 08:22 pmWhile not doing my work last night (kind of like right now), I found some Garak/Bashir vids on YouTube. Wow. Seeing DS9 transformed into fanvids was a weird experience. I've said this before, but I was a huge Star Trek fan without seeing or participating at all in any organized fandom for it, so going back now with a corrupted fannish mind or even with slash awareness is like encountering entirely new shows. And mostly it's been okay.
Here's an example that isn't half bad: Flawed Design, by diftorhehsmusma. Actually, it's growing on me with repeated viewings. The music is perfect for Garak, the clips fit the lyrics even if they don't always cut away soon enough or match the beat the way I'd like them to, and the footage is astonishingly suggestive. It shouldn't be, I suppose, when at least one of the actors (Robinson/Garak) was deliberately playing his character to be attracted to the other. Silencing the dialogue, which is usually snappy and requires concentration, might make the difference.
This, by contrast, is just wrong. And I liked Bashir/Sarina. It's the song that does it. I can't bring myself to watch more than the first five seconds.
Obsidian Order Man makes it all better, though. (Garak gen, humor, set to "Secret Agent Man.")
Funny how I want to scrub my brain thinking about slash or any kind of graphic sex with most ST characters, but Cardassians are a-okay.* Probably because they've always been synonymous with sex to me, even before I realized it consciously. They're very sexy, aren't they? Maybe you have to be a Trekkie to go with the makeup, but besides that, they're also silky-sly, and ruthless and powerful, and have low-pitched voices, and tend to have chemistry with anyone else in the room, and wear black and gray, and torture people naked, and...
*cough* Where were we?
* So's Odo/Kira, actually, but that took a while to get used to, and Odo has the benefit of having a very alien body; he's like a sexless being who happens to be able to grow a phallus if he wants to or if someone else wants him to. Picard/Q is another obvious one, but I haven't yet worked up the courage to go read any. And I've found that I'm okay noticing and making jokes about Kirk/Spock or Kirk/Spock/McCoy, but I draw the line at anything actually sexual.
Here's an example that isn't half bad: Flawed Design, by diftorhehsmusma. Actually, it's growing on me with repeated viewings. The music is perfect for Garak, the clips fit the lyrics even if they don't always cut away soon enough or match the beat the way I'd like them to, and the footage is astonishingly suggestive. It shouldn't be, I suppose, when at least one of the actors (Robinson/Garak) was deliberately playing his character to be attracted to the other. Silencing the dialogue, which is usually snappy and requires concentration, might make the difference.
This, by contrast, is just wrong. And I liked Bashir/Sarina. It's the song that does it. I can't bring myself to watch more than the first five seconds.
Obsidian Order Man makes it all better, though. (Garak gen, humor, set to "Secret Agent Man.")
Funny how I want to scrub my brain thinking about slash or any kind of graphic sex with most ST characters, but Cardassians are a-okay.* Probably because they've always been synonymous with sex to me, even before I realized it consciously. They're very sexy, aren't they? Maybe you have to be a Trekkie to go with the makeup, but besides that, they're also silky-sly, and ruthless and powerful, and have low-pitched voices, and tend to have chemistry with anyone else in the room, and wear black and gray, and torture people naked, and...
*cough* Where were we?
* So's Odo/Kira, actually, but that took a while to get used to, and Odo has the benefit of having a very alien body; he's like a sexless being who happens to be able to grow a phallus if he wants to or if someone else wants him to. Picard/Q is another obvious one, but I haven't yet worked up the courage to go read any. And I've found that I'm okay noticing and making jokes about Kirk/Spock or Kirk/Spock/McCoy, but I draw the line at anything actually sexual.
