[ SECRET POST #2809 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2809 ⌋

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Comments

[annethecatdetective]

They did-- the writers eventually started really limiting their scenes together and doing more with Julian and O'Brien (which... only made people 'ship that too, honestly, with Julian insisting that Miles preferred spending time with him to spending time with Keiko. Really bad way to write characters as Totally Hetero)

But yeah, they toned everything down and avoided giving them as much interaction after a certain point.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahaha omg are you serious? If they wanted to go that route, then the scene where Bashir and O'Brian are stuck in Section 31 guy's head and awkwardly discussing their feelings for each other was the wrong way to go about it.

[(Anonymous)]

This scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WpsaJldNYU

Yep. Totally straight. Not.

[(Anonymous)]

IA partly, but how is that "Not Hetero" though? I personally never really got any slashy vibes from Bashir and O'Brien -- to me they really seemed like just inseparable super-close best friends. It's not an impossibility to enjoy being with your friend as much as with your wife. (people keep arbitrarily telling me that for some reason you are supposed to love your wife *more* than you love anyone else, but I guess that's something that's never made sense to me and feels vaguely immature. If you love your wife thiiiiiis much, what's the big deal if you love someone else thiiiiiis much too as long as you love them in a different capacity?)

I just think the rationale of that ship is totally different from Bashir/Garak. Bashir/O'Brien is more "aww, they're so cute together, it would be so much fun if they were gay" while Bashir/Garak is "wow, they are actually gay." The *smouldering* and *longing* and slow-burn flirtation/seduction that Garak and Bashir had going on really *was* a candidate for Not Hetero because it was literally almost explicitly full of sexual desire, and intentionally so to boot, not just As Close As A Married Couple, which has nothing to do with sexuality and therefore isn't necessarily Not Hetero.

[annethecatdetective]

I never saw Bashir/O'Brien as a romantic thing, either, but I've seen a lot of fanworks that cropped up when even more focus moved to their relationship (and... in all the years since, I suppose), so I know that for some people it became sort of more slash-worthy after some of those scenes.

But yeah, I totally get where you're coming from.

[arcadiaego]

That was SO AWKWARD.