Compelled to post this old post I found in my folder of random good images:

@sinituulia so does twink doctor

@Artemis201 They're married! He should!

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I must object on the idiot: Rom wasn't an idiot. He was just somewhat autistic, and in a wrong place. Once he starts respecting himself and finding Marx, he becomes an union leader, and finally becoming [spoiler].

Wikipedia says that according to Lower Decks, he was a succesful leader who led Ferengis into the Federation.

@sinituulia LOVE IT!
"Goblin does a crime" !

@sinituulia Finished a rewatch last month and there were a lot more Watch the Irish Man Suffer episodes than I remembered.

@iju I didn't read the idiot as derogatory, he was a good person who tried his best even if he didn't always have the right knowledge or tools! Certainly people thought he was, but I don't recall the show ever being cruel about its depiction of him? Might be misremembering

@nausicaa Sort of a disproportionate amount, really

@sinituulia who was the bisexual fashion lizard.. is it Garak?? That sounds frightening. I missed a lot of DS9 growing up for what reasons I can no longer remember. I've just started catching up

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The early seasons saw him somewhat as a punching bag without feelings.

So not as much intentionally cruel, as dismissive. Which in someways is worse.

(Though I'm not throwing stones: it may well be they had the arc for Rom designed before-hand, and felt that to make it work they needed him to take several hits for the team.)

@LibertyForward1 Why frightening?
I tried to find that incredible video edit of Garak and Bashir meeting, but my bookmarks are a mess. It's just very incredibly gay and it's so good.
Edit: Found it! https://eldritch.cafe/@sinituulia/115128585195875909

I watched as a child, and then a couple of times after that. Most recent rewatch was years ago at this point though

@sinituulia and like all cops, Odo is a fascist at heart. ACAB.

@iju @sinituulia I don't think they had Rom's arc planned, but rather it came naturally as Nog's arc evolved (and Nog arguably has the best arc in all of star trek). Rom really changes because of Nog, there's a very specific moment where Rom stands up for Nog joining star fleet which is his turning point. That entire turning point is setup entirely from Nog. It's one of my favorite moments in the show, Nog's courage inspires Rom to stand up for Nog, which in turn give Rom courage. Nog is awesome

@iju @sinituulia He was more than a hero. He was a union man!

@sinituulia "Pope Karen"

@sinituulia We do get a spaceship later on! It looks like a vacuum cleaner made love to an anteater.

@sinituulia @nausicaa He's really good at it

@sinituulia I like the hologram of Frank Sinatra much more than I thought I would. He's not "trapped between two worlds", he's not angsty about being a hologram or trying to become "more human". He's just a guy who is all about helping other people be happy.

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There's certainly a lot that can be shown about how Rom fought through institutionalized concepts of his upbringing and learning to accept others through the medium of his own son and breaking a cycle he would have been stuck in. There can be some queer parallels in this realizing that one doesn't have to take familial abuse. Rom is big hearted enough, though, to continue to associate with his brother and even soften some of Quark's edges

@sinituulia I was hoping this is a Fediverse instance

@sinituulia If you are interested in ANTIFA lizards, try out #Babylon5 for a while. Our policeman is also part-time liquid but gets sober in later seasons. Our captain tells the gods to fuck off and not interfere any more.