empresshoshisato-deactivated201 asked:

hi! ive recently gotten into ds9 and garashir (i've read some of your stories, they're great!) and as you seem to know a lot about garak/bashir, i was wondering if you knew if there is a garak/bashir day, like theres a day for spock/kirk. :)

I have NO IDEA, but there really should be~~

Anybody know?

[dilithiumdime]

can “Garak wants to come along” be added as an afterthought to every DS9 episode summary, please?

[tinsnip]

“Miles O'Brien is having flashbacks to the Cardassian war on an abandoned and terrifying Cardassian station. Garak wants to come along.”

“Sisko is having a crisis of conscience. Garak wants to come along.”

“Bashir is in bed, in his quarters, with the door locked. Garak wants to come along.”

(and let’s not even talk about our man bashir)

Fic: 30-Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge [12/30]

[feltelures]

Title: 30-Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge - 12. Arranged Marriage AU
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Genre: Pre-slash
Rating & Warnings: G
Words: This part 2415, ?? overall
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Summary: After the business with the Maquis, Cardassia’s Central Command suggests a grand gesture to demonstrate the renewed commitment to peace between the governments of the Federation and the Union. They also know exactly who will be making that gesture.
Author’s Notes: So from about this point on, things started getting away from me. :D;; My fics started getting longer and longer, and a few of them spawned their own AUs for me to follow up on later.

This would be one of them. Normally, “arranged marriage” is a trope I’m rather tired of—before learning how to find good romance novels as a teenager, I read anything I could get my hands on and that rather burned me out. But this, however, is another of my very favourite pieces in the entire series. I’ve even written a follow-up, with one more planned (although when I’ll get to it is anyone’s guess). So, uh, there you go.

Crossposted to AO3 and my writing journal.

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Looking at the scene in which they meet, it is impossible for me to see how anyone could not see the sexual aspect of Garak’s predatory interest in the naive young doctor, “I do appreciate making new friends,” says Garak, leering, thrilled that Bashir has heard of him, offering discount apparel or “a bit of enjoyable company now and then.” Before he leaves, Garak squeezes Bashir’s shoulders and says again that he’s so glad to have made such an interesting new friend. I suppose that if all Cardassians were so effusive, it might be possible to interpret this as something other than an attempted pick-up, but in fact the only other Cardassian who ever leers as much as Garak toward Bashir is Dukat toward the Bajoran women he finds attractive. Even if Garak is only looking for a potential Starfleet ally in his double-agent spy games, how curious that he doesn’t attempt to appeal to Bashir’s intellect or medical curiosity, but instead checks him out and discusses how he’d look in a new suit. Considering that to this day Star Trek’s producers resist depicting gay people in the 24th century, Garak and Bashir make me positively gleeful.

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heeeeee~~~

Srsly, though, the whole review is quite enjoyable - lots of good discussion of Kira and Bajorans in general, parallels to 20th century situations, Kira & Odo as friends, Kira’s potential for growth, did I mention the reviewer likes Kira?

And even some fascinating bickering in the comments!

I like these reviews. Thanks to the lovely tumblie whose name has escaped me who tipped me off to them - I hope you see this and know it’s you!

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Ticks (10317 words) by tinsnip [AO3]

Chapters: 3/?
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!

Chapter three! Um! So! This appears to have gone straight past mature and on into explicit! I’ve updated the rating accordingly, and I apologize to those of you who were expecting something a little less racy… but to those of you who were really rather curious about details, my goodness, this may be something you’ll enjoy. Dear me!

[ladyyatexel]

the truth is bent

got some new paper, brushes, inks, and paints
seemed as good an excuse as any

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Ticks (7432 words) by tinsnip [AO3]

Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Mature
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!

Part two is up! Oh, Julian; will Cardassia ever stop trying to kill you?

when you have the smutty part written but you can’t post the next chapter because you can’t get the dialogue right

[ladyyatexel]

‘deception pulls us in’

 

watercolor in my awful awful sketchbook, with some fun times in Photoshop

Garak and Doctor Bashir from Deep Space Nine again. I’m not sorry, though I promise I will be doing more scary, bloody people very soon.

hoo boy now i’m naming these after birthday massacre lyrics, i am in trouble

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Ticks (1551 words) by tinsnip [AO3]

Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Mature
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!

First bit. Good fun!