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The Wicked Cry Alone

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Abby | British
This is me still crying over Wicked ...and a bit of other stuff too.
I'm also an expert at getting sleeping bags back into their little bags.
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hellotailor

the thing that makes Julian Bashir a Truly Great character is the fact that the writers of DS9 fully understood how fucking annoying he is.

i ordinarily hate the trope where someone is a professional ~genius while being a jackass in their personal life, but DS9 found a perfect balance with Bashir because his behavior is the butt of the joke. (also, his day-to-day obnoxiousness is pretty lighthearted, more like an annoying coworker than a genuinely damaging person.) he’s a dweeby LARPer with an overinflated ego, and his ridiculous flirting is intentionally cringeworthy. but at the same time, the show avoids that Sherlock thing where he’s ~forgiven for some social transgression because he Saved The Day. they just make it clear that he’s simultaneously an immature idiot and extremely good at his job. 

i just watched the s5 episode “Nor the Battle to the Strong” (EXCELLENT ep, btw), and it has such a great balance between the two sides of his personality. it opens with Bashir bragging about some scientific achievement while teenage Jake Sisko rolls his eyes in the background, but once they end up in serious danger, it’s like a switch flips. he becomes efficient, professional and brave, without any grandstanding. so while most of the time he’s a cheerful disaster zone, he can be a perfect starfleet officer when he needs to be. 

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Wonder Woman wearing an evening gown over her suit of armor while arriving uninvited to a fancy dinner party with an entire sword strapped to her back ready to kill a man is by far the Biggest Mood of 2017

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