This Is So Incredibly Stupid I Love Them

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I am not a mcspirker but that doesn't mean I don't care about Bones or think he's close to them. He's family.

You can play a lot with the dynamics. The one I like best is where Jim and Bones are best friends, then Jim starts getting close to Spock and Bones feels jealous because he fears he's losing his best friend spot. So they hang out together with this obvious competitive air, putting each other down for the benefit of Jim, trying to prove to Jim that they are the best friend and the other isn't.

And then Bones gets it. Spock isn't after his spot. He wants to be something very different to Jim; he wants a romantic relationship. At which point Bones gradually quits with the competitive shit and wingmans each of them to the other. Complaining all the while that they're giving him gray hair with their slow burn nonsense. He's the first to congratulate them when they finally get together.

By the movie era he is genuinely like a brother to both of them, confident in his place in the family.

This is all yet another manifestation of my "romantic love isn't by definition closer than platonic" hobby horse. Kirk and Spock don't love Bones less. They love him differently.

*takes drag* but that's just, like, my opinion, man. Those of you who do ship all three together, I get where you're coming from.

Thinking about how ds9 came out on the tail end of the AIDs crisis. How Garak and Bashir represent two very different types of gay men in that landscape: an older gay man who has watched so many people die, is riddled with guilt and PTSD; and a young man just finding himself, bright and full of hope.

How Garak looks at Bashir and sees everything the world has stripped from him: his ability to trust, his hope, his gentleness. How Garak has been forced to harden himself to survive. How he looks at all of Bashir's goodness and is terrified for for him. And how much of that is how I feel when I look at younger gays.

Anyway this is Garak.

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I wish DS9 had dared give us Garak in a Princess Leia bikini in this scene.