Wow, people whose skulls I apparently find impenetrable: Benjamin Sisko.
I’m writing this scene from his POV and it’s like rolling rocks uphill.
Switch it to Miles O'Brien POV, and suddenly everything is mildly irritated sunshine.
Vyc, kudos to you on “Held” and spending so much time in that man’s head. It’s difficult.
Title: No Wrong Answers
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Deep Dish Nine AU)
Genre: Fluff
Rating & Warnings: G
Words: 1445
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary: Once the question of when, exactly, is Garak’s birthday pops into Julian’s head, he discovers that it’s unsurprisingly difficult to answer.
Author’s Notes: Written for tinsnip's birthday. ♥ Figuring out what to give you as a gift was amazingly easy, and consequently, you're one of the only birthdays I've been on time for all year. :D;; Thank you for being an absolutely lovely person and a supreme beta, and I hope you have a phenomenal year. ♥♥♥
Crossposted to AO3 and my writing journal.
You know, it’s kinda funny how where we live colours our expectations for even things like scifi-based AUs. I saw a discussion on the DD9 blog about Julian’s mode of transport as a grad student, and how it was really unlikely that he’d be able to afford a car. But I think that really depends on whether the tuition in the Federation is like the United States or places like Canada, Australia, etc. Because, I mean, my closest friend in undergrad was as broke as broke could be, but even she had enough money for a succession of (really shitty) cars to get around, because tuition in Canada is so much lower than in the United States.
(Not to mention I know a couple of people who got their degrees debt-free because so many scholarships were available.)
…Yeah, idk where I’m going with this anymore.
Vyc i love you (tackles you to the ground)
now that THAT’s over with
I kind of headcanon that DD9 Julian has zero bucks, but tuition in the Federation operates on a very socialist model: you wanna be a doctor? Okay. We’ll pay for it. Mostly. But when you’re done, we own you. You spend at least five years in the setting of their choice, practicing in your specialty. After that, you’ve paid your dues. But this means, in my head, that right after Julian’s done school, he’s getting sent to fucking Andor. Because it’s cold in Andor. Nobody wants to go to Andor.
And he doesn’t have a car because a car is a huge monthly expense, and he’s got a little stipend and a crappy job, and if you could just take the bus, why wouldn’t you?
(and also because in my head, Alpha City is kind of like Toronto - huge and sprawling and good public transit and driving just gives you an ulcer, so why drive?)
(funny to actually think about these things!)
i love ds9 but i hate how the tumblr fandom seems to focus only on the garak/bashir ship. like it’s cute but please stop deep space nine is so much more than the limited relationship between less-than-major characters
amango-tea said:
So I had to go look this up on Youtube because apparently I’m in the wrong part of the country or something, but 1) really good song and 2) ilu.
I am going to write a G/B ficlet about it I STG.
With Garak as the giant squid.
No, shut up, I’m serious.
I watched Skyfall today for the first time, to do research and give myself material to write another Deep Dish Nine fic.
I think I got a little more material than I was bargaining for.
do it do it DO IT!!!!
Oh, I am definitely planning on it, believe me! It just might…take a while. Last I checked, I had over 90 ideas in my DS9 fic idea file in various states of fleshed out-ness, so, uh, yeah.
But this one is higher priority than most, so at least there’s that?
/looks at ficseeds folder
/looks at notes app on phone
/looks at one… two… three… four… is it four fics in various stages of being written? nope, it’s five.
/sigh
/high-five!
feltelures reblogged your post (via The Sixth Plain Simple Z… and added:
…OH NO THEY DON’T SHIP OUT OF THE STATES. D-Do you think they’d reconsider if I begged?
I’d hope so - it’s not like this is something with ridiculously wide appeal after all. ;) As my husband says, “this stuff is a little bit niche.”
This was phenomenally adorable. Right what the doctor ordered (harhar I’m a genius) to significantly improve my day.
/shuffles toe in dirt; grins sheepishly
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Porn With Very Little Plot, Flirting, Kissing, Alien anatomy, Cardassians, speculative reproductive xenobiology, Songfic
Summary:
Cardassian cultural studies are much more fun when accompanied by the occasional field trip. And field trips are much more fun when learning is interspersed with time to play…
Elim Garak and Julian Bashir get frisky in a holosuite. Very light, very chatty (Garak POV, and he does love to talk!). Approached from a Cardassian viewpoint. Translations incorporated as hovertext. Have fun!
Ah, my goodness, here I was, all ready to get a ton of work done and then oh, is that the last chapter of “Ticks"? Being a responsible adult can wait….
Sometime next week when I have time to breathe, I’ll most definitely need to get up a review worthy of this, but in the meantime, thank you for posting this delicious, delicious thing. It’s been terrific. <3
/happy squealing noise
I get so nervous when you promise to review things. I mean, it’s always good news, but then you’re like, by the way do you realize you have used the same adjective five times in this page? And my blood runs cold because you are always right.
This is not, by the way, a bad thing. This is a good thing. Feltelures/Vyc views improve my fic every time~~~
(and i’m so glad you liked it!)
Title: An Evening With Schoenberg
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Genre: AU/romance/humour
Rating & Warnings: PG (kissing, language, slight internalised homophobia)
Words: 5867
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Summary: Garak invites Julian to a concert of music by the “dangerous" Arnold Schoenberg. Julian has no idea what to expect, but he’s about to find out.
Author’s Notes: Another of my installments in the DS9 pizza shop AU, Deep Dish Nine. This one is significantly more serious in tone than my previous outing. I was inspired by the fics and discussions of tinsnip and Lady Yate-Xel into trying my hand at Julian and Garak’s relationship in this ‘verse, though I more or less went off in my own direction to a degree. So, for example, I ended up loosely basing Cardassian dating on turn-of-the-previous-century courting to give it some of that different flavour that’s present in DS9, rather than stealing any thunder.
Jane Bond is the idea of humon, whose take I love rather a lot.
Dedicated to tinsnip, who not only is a fantastic beta (posting this ahead of schedule is my very small way of thanking her for all her help), but a lovely person and friend. The DS9 fandom is lucky as hell to have you. ♥
Crossposted to AO3, my writing journal, and the Deep Dish Nine DW community.
chequerootlurks
I’m an apprentice tattoo artist. An artist who owns a few shops invited me to their team.
I’ve got a long way to go. I’m still learning basic shading techniques. Working with a tattoo pen adds depth to the traditional flat plane I’m used to working on.
One is never too old to learn a new skill.
At times I feel like a complete newb.
So, here is a meme that I love. I’m sharing it for everyone who is learning something new.
