froma doctor to thedoctor, here’s my concepts for a fourteenth doctor as played by alexander siddig! i’m sure the chances of him being cast are slim, but i figured i put this out into the universe before we actually get an announcement
My absolute favorite Alexander Siddig story - and oh boy I have a lot of favorites - is that one day he noticed everyone on the DS9 set was suddenly asking him these weird very carefully phrased gentle questions like hey buddy, how you doing? you feeling alright? Can we get you anything? you know you can always come to us for help if you need it and he was like wtf why is everyone being weird and it turned out that he had been showing up to set late and generally looking tired and the whole crew thought he had gotten into hard drugs but in reality what he was doing was staying up till 4 AM every night playing Ultima Online
when he gets goin he basically tells stories constantly but it is somewhat sobering because a solid percentage of them are just about casual racism he has experienced and often seems amazingly unbothered by
anyway let’s see
- a fan approached him at a con and very very nervously thrust a magazine into his hands…with a photo of James Callis. He tried to explain to them repeatedly that he was not James Callis but they were so nervous they were basically not responsive so he finally signed the photo “Alexander Siddig is not James Callis” and gave it back and they thanked him and walked away
- He was sent to the UK from Sudan on a plane alone (running from political unrest in the country) when he was maybe 3 years old and the only thing his family sent with him was a suitcase full of mangoes because he loved them and they were hard to get in the UK (this would have been the late 60s)
- He desperately wanted to be an elf in Lord Of The Rings and they offered him a different part (I forget which one) and he was like ???? okay but I would like to be an elf and they told him flatly that they only wanted white people for the elves and he very rightly turned down all involvement in the production in response
- Not only did he spend all of the 90s playing video games he very much still plays them and now and, hilariously, is always the group healer which is something to unpack if you wanted to
- He took his kid to Disneyland and the person in the Mickey Mouse costume broke protocol to say “OH MY GOD IT’S DR BASHIR”
- The first review he ever got for being in a play spelled his name horribly wrong
- there are so so many more but after a year of hearing them it’s all a soup in my head PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN LISTENING TO HIM ON ZOOM AND REMEMBER PLEASE ADD YOUR FAVORITES
Also since this post is doing numbers now I want to make sure everyone knows because I think almost everyone following me already is part of this but this is getting outside my standard circle: Alexander Siddig is an Angel. The reason I know all this stuff is that he has spent the last year+ essentially donating what is now hundreds of hours of his time talking to his fans on Zoom. He listens to everyone’s stories, comforts people, reassures people, offers advice (of varying quality, but we love him anyway), listens intently to every single infodump, answers pretty much any question asked of him, has gotten very into trans and nuerodivergent rights, remembers people, checks up on people, and is generally so incredibly gentle and sweet and kind to absolutely everyone and as of right now is still doing this when he has time despite no longer being in quarantine and currently filming on the other side of the world. If you are new to this fandom or otherwise don’t know a lot about Sid or his zoom outreach I am delighted to let you know that every bit of kindness and gentleness and generally nice vibes you get off of Julian is just Sid being Sid and he is every bit that and better in real life
Icons, 200x100, slightly sharpened, from DS9 S1 HERE.
Benjamin Sisko #26,000
Ferengi (Nog, Rom, Quark & the Grand Nagus) #9,800
Garak #161
Jadzia Dax #11,300
Jake Sisko #4,000
Jean Luc Picard #700
Jennifer Sisko #1,000
Julian Bashir #11,600
Kai Opaka #1,500
Kai Winn #900
Keiko O’Brien #1,800
Kira Nerys #19,000
Lwaxan Troi #1,700
Miles O’Brien #14,400
Odo #17,000
Q #1,700
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The 2020 sci-fi action film is the final entry in the Skyline trilogy. Liam O'Donnell - who co-wrote Skyline and wrote and directed Beyond Skyline - returns to write and direct. Lindsey Morgan, Jonathan Howard, Daniel Bernhardt, Rhona Mitra, James Cosmo, and Alexander Siddig star.
hello, star trek ds9 actors alexander siddig and andy robinson are doing some kind of weird ds9 fanfiction play on youtube about space quarantine and in the middle of it garak starts talking about how he once had a one-night stand with dukat. i can’t cope with this.
My absolute favorite Alexander Siddig story - and oh boy I have a lot of favorites - is that one day he noticed everyone on the DS9 set was suddenly asking him these weird very carefully phrased gentle questions like hey buddy, how you doing? you feeling alright? Can we get you anything? you know you can always come to us for help if you need it and he was like wtf why is everyone being weird and it turned out that he had been showing up to set late and generally looking tired and the whole crew thought he had gotten into hard drugs but in reality what he was doing was staying up till 4 AM every night playing Ultima Online
My absolute favorite Alexander Siddig story - and oh boy I have a lot of favorites - is that one day he noticed everyone on the DS9 set was suddenly asking him these weird very carefully phrased gentle questions like hey buddy, how you doing? you feeling alright? Can we get you anything? you know you can always come to us for help if you need it and he was like wtf why is everyone being weird and it turned out that he had been showing up to set late and generally looking tired and the whole crew thought he had gotten into hard drugs but in reality what he was doing was staying up till 4 AM every night playing Ultima Online
when he gets goin he basically tells stories constantly but it is somewhat sobering because a solid percentage of them are just about casual racism he has experienced and often seems amazingly unbothered by
anyway let’s see
- a fan approached him at a con and very very nervously thrust a magazine into his hands…with a photo of James Callis. He tried to explain to them repeatedly that he was not James Callis but they were so nervous they were basically not responsive so he finally signed the photo “Alexander Siddig is not James Callis” and gave it back and they thanked him and walked away
- He was sent to the UK from Sudan on a plane alone (running from political unrest in the country) when he was maybe 3 years old and the only thing his family sent with him was a suitcase full of mangoes because he loved them and they were hard to get in the UK (this would have been the late 60s)
- He desperately wanted to be an elf in Lord Of The Rings and they offered him a different part (I forget which one) and he was like ???? okay but I would like to be an elf and they told him flatly that they only wanted white people for the elves and he very rightly turned down all involvement in the production in response
- Not only did he spend all of the 90s playing video games he very much still plays them and now and, hilariously, is always the group healer which is something to unpack if you wanted to
- He took his kid to Disneyland and the person in the Mickey Mouse costume broke protocol to say “OH MY GOD IT’S DR BASHIR”
- The first review he ever got for being in a play spelled his name horribly wrong
- there are so so many more but after a year of hearing them it’s all a soup in my head PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN LISTENING TO HIM ON ZOOM AND REMEMBER PLEASE ADD YOUR FAVORITES
Also since this post is doing numbers now I want to make sure everyone knows because I think almost everyone following me already is part of this but this is getting outside my standard circle: Alexander Siddig is an Angel. The reason I know all this stuff is that he has spent the last year+ essentially donating what is now hundreds of hours of his time talking to his fans on Zoom. He listens to everyone’s stories, comforts people, reassures people, offers advice (of varying quality, but we love him anyway), listens intently to every single infodump, answers pretty much any question asked of him, has gotten very into trans and nuerodivergent rights, remembers people, checks up on people, and is generally so incredibly gentle and sweet and kind to absolutely everyone and as of right now is still doing this when he has time despite no longer being in quarantine and currently filming on the other side of the world. If you are new to this fandom or otherwise don’t know a lot about Sid or his zoom outreach I am delighted to let you know that every bit of kindness and gentleness and generally nice vibes you get off of Julian is just Sid being Sid and he is every bit that and better in real life
Reblogging/saving this just because I adore him and really would like to visit his zoom chats if they are still happening. I’m off to the doctor now, but…I deeply hope this is a current thing and not a tumblr thing from weeks/months ago.
Alexander Siddig is a beautiful person, both inside and outside, and more of him in my world would be really delightful.
