Saw It On Twitter Maybe A Week Ago And Still Can’t Stop Thinking About It

That’s it. That’s them

Garak: How is the most beautiful person in the world? Julian: *blushing* I— Quark, butting into the conversation: Odo is perfect, thanks for asking.

odo art for today

and heres just the lineart because i love nice crisp weighted lines.

rene had such a great way with body language which he leaned on during his performance as odo- i assume because his face was covered by a creepy skin-mask the whole time, limiting his facial expressions. very fun to see how he portrays this really gruff grumpy dude in his posture. he’s always skulking around with his head low and his nose high.

so i’ve finally got a good grasp on how to draw odo with stylistic flair. drawing goo is both meditatively fun and horribly tedious, 7/10.

i like his eyes. look at em. what a freak.

These clips are from the first six minutes of S2E12, 'The Alternate'. And I had to talk about the journey that Odo takes us on with his body language and mannerisms here.

Armchair body language analysis under the cut. Grab a snack; I am a person who is full of words.

In the beginning, Odo is rigid as usual, but he starts to change as soon as he walks into that bar. In that first moment of him looming over Quark, it's like he's eagerly anticipating the verbal spar he's about to engage in.

You quickly see him become more and more relaxed as he talks to Quark. He becomes increasingly animated, to the point of being downright playful. His tone rises and falls with his sarcasm, reaching almost cartoonish levels on occasion. There's a warmth to him even when he's expressing annoyance with Quark.

Eye contact with Quark is constant and intense. He's distinctly leaning towards Quark the whole time. He says more than he needs to, because he's having fun screwing with Quark, and it's overall just an adorable scene.

And then Dr. Mora shows up, rudely interrupting their psychosexual makeout sesh.

The change is instant. Odo's posture becomes incredibly tense and avoidant, leaning back slightly. The sassy head-swaggles are gone, replaced with frantic attempts to find anything to look at other than Dr. Mora. He seems to desperately hang on to every opportunity he has to look at Quark instead. (There's a joke somewhere here on tumblr about how Quark is Odo's 'emotional support criminal' - in this scene, he literally is!)

Odo speaks in strained, terse tones and stares downward in a heartbreakingly submissive manner as Mora treats him like a specimen instead of a person.

Odo physically drags Mora away, not wanting him to interact with Quark any more than necessary. He further reinforces this by telling Mora he doesn't want to know Quark.

I'm guessing he just doesn't want to explain the Thing he has going on with Quark. That would be difficult enough to explain even to the people who know Odo - he sure as hell doesn't want to try to explain it to the abuser who's just going to criticize and analyze it.

Then there's that beautiful little 'fuck you' affectation on the way he pulls that chair out for Mora... and then we have an absolutely withering murderglare in the shuttle.

I think this scene is amazing because it gives us a Quodo segment that is so long and playful that it borders on fanservice, then immediately follows it up with an encounter so uncomfortable that it makes us angry on Odo's behalf.

This shows us the stark difference between how Odo behaves around the person he's only pretending to hate... and how he behaves around the person he actually hates.

How much more relaxed would Odo have become if his playtime with Quark hadn't been interrupted? Dr. Mora cockblocked all of us when he showed up, and I will never forgive him for that.

realization that odo could be really creepy if he wanted to be

So I have a new obsession XD

[Image ID: Fanart of Quark, Kira, and Odo from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. It is a short comic.

Panel 1: Kira Nerys approaches Quark and asks, “What were you doing, Quark?” 

Quark responds, “NOTHING.” He is polishing a glass and looks very annoyed.

Panel 2: Odo glances at them with a puzzled expression and says, “I am ‘Nothing.’”

Panel 3: Quark has an anguished expression. He says, “Omg!!! Odo!!! No!!!!!!!!!”

Panel 4: Kira has a placid expression and says, “Haha Quark you are banging my friend”

/.End ID]

Tgd meme (Mud has to deal with Ken's children while Ken goes to kill his husband)

Just a little reminder of how beautiful Saru is✨

cringe kawaii quodo love child be like💀🙏