especially the lies

My (mostly Garashir) art and fic! My ao3 is plain_and_simple_tailor (ectogeo)

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Btw, in the event of tumblr going down, I plan to continue to do my fandom-y things over on dreamwidth. Feel free to go add me there now if you want, my username is ectogeo (there isn’t really anything going on there yet lol).

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I want to know about "mutual pleasure" for the WIP game!

Oh thanks for this ask!

That one is a short PWP of Garashir’s first time together and mostly just involves them jerking each other off. 🥰💖 It was loosely inspired by one of the early smut scenes in Heated Rivalry (not the dialogue or circumstances, just the desperately horny vibes and the particular sex acts I think? i just know that i watched the scene and was like “damn that’s hot, I think Garak and Bashir should do that too. 👀 and I have the power to make that happen 📝” I ought to rewatch that scene though bc now I can’t seem to remember it very clearly lol… I basically HAVE to rewatch it. for research, you see).

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Julian jealous of imagined siskarak?

That wip is about Julian being all lonely and frustrated because Garak and Sisko have started working together more closely bc of the Dominion War, leading to Garak having no time to flirt with Julian anymore. The vibe is that feeling when you are so overwhelmed by something, but it’s TOO big to process, so instead you feel yourself repeatedly getting irritable over petty nonsense that you KNOW you’re overreacting to. And then, you just squash all those feelings down. 🎉

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Ooooh shrapnel for the wip gaaaame

So basically, I saw this post by @knivesandteeth and went insane. 😂 Pretty soon after I saw that post, I wrote a draft of a scene setting the stage (establishing that Garak and Bashir are roommates on the Defiant, with mutual horniness and yearning for intimacy, but Garak thinks he is just a creep for wanting him so badly), and then I STARTED to write the part where Julian gets hit with shrapnel and Garak has to take care of him and finger his wound and feel guilty about finding that hot, and of course then the words stopped flowing (right as I got to the part that had initially inspired me and was the whole point of it, come on 😔), and so I set it aside for awhile.

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WIP titles game

Tagged by @dftea thank you!!! ^_^

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

shrapnel

cuteness aggression

inconstant moon (answered here and here)

mutual pleasure

baby doll

TDIC AU

swapsies (answered)

mirror kirawinn

messy drunk Julian (answered)

I Will Possess Your Heart

Julian jealous of imagined siskarak

all i’m in is just skin (answered)

my “ficlet prompts April 2026” document also contains many fragments of wips that you can ask about individually, including:

garak meeting the Bashirs

fujoshi mirror Kira (answered)

Invisible Wounds by Aurora

Sloan put a chip in garak’s brain (draft already posted on tumblr, so don’t ask about this one, it’s just here to help illustrate what a mishmash of fics the file is lol)

Okay I think those are all the wips I wanna talk about right now lol! Also, some of these are real fucked up, so beware! ^_^

Tagging whoever wants to do this! <3

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Got tagged by @lady-lazarus-13 for this game again just now (thank you!! 💖), so I’m reblogging this post from last week (with links to my responses!) in case anyone wants to send me more asks about my long list of wips! And feel free to send me another ask even if you already sent me one a week ago! 😂

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inconstant moon please!

[CW: dubcon]

Inconstant Moon is my one (1) soulmate AU that I will ever write, and it is about Sloan convincingly faking a soulmark to match Julian’s. It’s Garashir endgame of course, but they must suffer a little first. Anyway. Come for the unpleasant Sloanshir dubcon, stay despite the author’s audience-alienating, purpose-defeating cynicism about soulmate AUs! 🥰 I have had to make a worldbuilding sooooo convoluted just so that Garak and Bashir can never ever for as long as they live (and they will live happily ever after) be certain that they are each other’s soulmates in this fic! …which I have also been gently informed, by multiple friends, is really Not what people would want from a soulmate AU fic at all 😂 But alas, the uncertainty is part of my vision and I’m sticking with it lol

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I answered another ask about this one here! (I wanted to give everyone who asked something a little treat!)

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I feel like I would read the hell out of "messy, drunk Julian" but I'm fascinated by "all i’m in is just skin" and would like to hear more.

all i’m in is just skin is the title of my siskarak strip poker wip!!!! 🥰 It’s a crack-treated-way-too-seriously angsty smutty oneshot about Sisko and Garak and Admiral Ross playing strip poker to take their minds off the war and the weight of their command decisions!! (I really want to finish this one, it’s like so close… I have no idea anymore quite what is blocking me on it haha.)

messy drunk Julian is a short wip set post-canon and it is about Julian drunkenly confessing his feelings to Garak in a recorded video message, but, like, he gets too close to the mic or something and tries to whisper it to him all intimately and it just totally garbles that one part of it, the most important part, the part where he was like “i’m lowkey in love with you” or whatever. So then they talk in a real time video call the next day to clear the air, and Garak has to pretend he knows what secret Julian attempted to tell him, so it seems like he’s avoiding the subject by giving equivocal answers, and so then Julian dances around it too bc he doesn’t want to have to say it out loud again (bc it was so embarrassing to reveal his feelings like that when Garak apparently doesn’t reciprocate…). Any it is all probably resolved very quickly within the realtime conversation lol, but I haven’t actually written that part yet 😂

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I would love to hear about inconstant moon👀

Got this wip asked about twice! Answered here!

Something I failed to say in the other ask is that while Julian is going through the HorrorsTM of being stalked and schemed upon by Sloan, Garak is experiencing mostly melodramatic self-pity due to contrived misunderstandings.

Anyway, here’s a sentence I’m (nearly) proud of:

“Oh, you could never hurt me, Doctor,” Garak said so gently that Julian now felt sure of his own guilt in the matter.

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inconstant moon please!

[CW: dubcon]

Inconstant Moon is my one (1) soulmate AU that I will ever write, and it is about Sloan convincingly faking a soulmark to match Julian’s. It’s Garashir endgame of course, but they must suffer a little first. Anyway. Come for the unpleasant Sloanshir dubcon, stay despite the author’s audience-alienating, purpose-defeating cynicism about soulmate AUs! 🥰 I have had to make a worldbuilding sooooo convoluted just so that Garak and Bashir can never ever for as long as they live (and they will live happily ever after) be certain that they are each other’s soulmates in this fic! …which I have also been gently informed, by multiple friends, is really Not what people would want from a soulmate AU fic at all 😂 But alas, the uncertainty is part of my vision and I’m sticking with it lol

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FUJOSHI MIRROR KIRA?

[CW: noncon]

So I got the following prompt from an anon when I asked for prompts recently:

Fujoshi mirror Kira excitedly flirting with our Kira by making our Bashir make out with assorted men and trying to work out why our Kira is not excited by this

And I could just instantly visualize it, so I started writing it!

Instead of Bashir making out with various men, though, i’m just having mirror garak both make out with and fuck him. And in this fic mirror Garak is either straight, or so repressed that he thinks he is, so this is an unpleasant experience for everyone except the Intendant who is having the time of her life fondling Kira while spectating some gay sex absolutely no one is consenting to. ^_^

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So many tempting options, but I’m going with “swapsies”

[CW: noncon, incest] My doc called swapsies explores a concept surely on the forefront of everyone’s mind, which is:

What if Bashir and Tain swapped bodies (with Garak’s knowledge), and then Tain-in-Bashir’s-body had sex with Garak, as some kind of a weird power play? Maybe also Bashir-in-Tain’s-body (unaware of the rape and just sending that Garak is having a bad time) would cuddle and comfort Garak afterwards, just to make even the sweet Garashir part of the fic have gross vibes. It seems unlikely I will finish this one, but I do have two other WIPs about Tain/Garak noncon set during In Purgatory’s Shadow/By Inferno’s Light, so it seems likely I will eventually write and post something in that vein, though I would almost certainly post it anonymously regardless 😂

Anyway, wouldn’t it just be so fun if a lot of things that seem like too good to be true fantasies happened to Garak all at once (Julian doing a big selfless romantic gesture, Tain surviving a little bit longer, Garak getting to finally touch Julian’s body intimately…) except all of it is absolutely miserable? Well, I think it would be fun.

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WIP titles game

Tagged by @dftea thank you!!! ^_^

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

shrapnel

cuteness aggression

inconstant moon (answered here and here)

mutual pleasure

baby doll

TDIC AU

swapsies (answered)

mirror kirawinn

messy drunk Julian (answered)

I Will Possess Your Heart

Julian jealous of imagined siskarak

all i’m in is just skin (answered)

my “ficlet prompts April 2026” document also contains many fragments of wips that you can ask about individually, including:

garak meeting the Bashirs

fujoshi mirror Kira (answered)

Invisible Wounds by Aurora

Sloan put a chip in garak’s brain (draft already posted on tumblr, so don’t ask about this one, it’s just here to help illustrate what a mishmash of fics the file is lol)

Okay I think those are all the wips I wanna talk about right now lol! Also, some of these are real fucked up, so beware! ^_^

Tagging whoever wants to do this! <3

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Please go read this amazing Grashier fic. So funny im still wheezing!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79552446

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Hahahaha, this is great! Thank you so much for capturing Worf’s suffering! The pillow over his ears… 😂🥹💖

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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Have a Worf POV camp 371 Garashir exhibitionism crackfic based on this impeccable post by my wonderful friend @dreamerdrop !

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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garashir prison reunion should have involved garak and bashir fucking each other until neither of them could move. right there in full view of worf, martok, those two romulans, the breen, and especially tain.

just full on going at it right there in the middle of the room until they both pass out while one of them still has their cock inside the other. floor is slippery with cloaca juice and seminal fluids and everything reeks of sweat and sex.

martok is cheering them on the whole time.

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I wrote the fic! 🥰💖💕

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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WIP poll game

Tagged by @horrorfilmlesbian (thank you!!)

Make a 24 hour poll of WIP titles that you want to work on (if you have one, that’s fine just do the one)

Write a sentence for every vote you receive on the winning fic!

what WIP should I work on?

mirror kirawinn

[redacted fic for an exchange with an anon period]

prison reunion garashir exhibitionism

[redacted bc idk if I want to post it or not - not that problematic]

messy drunk julian voicemail

[redacted bc idk if I want to post it or not - very problematic]

TDIC AU (Garak torturing Bashir)

Julian jealous of imagined siskarak (Defiant era)

inconstant moon (garashir soulmate AU feat. sloanshir noncon)

i will possess your heart (sloanshir possession horror fic)

all i’m in is just skin (siskarak strip poker)

Voting ended onJan 14

No-pressure tagging @sapphosewrites @hellostuffedtiger @cardassiangoodreads @wanderingwriter87 @lorenzobane and anyone who sees this game and wants to do it!

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Here's my 2025 ao3 wrapped!

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Leave the Bow Tie On is def my most popular fic for the year, unsurprisingly! I jumped in on a post-deadline pinch hit for an exchange because the prompt was exactly my jam, and it was very fun to spend a week frantically writing it! ^_^ (Also, I say it's unsurprising, because humorous garashir smut is of course going to appeal to more people than my whumpy rarepairs, which is what most of my fic output was this year haha.)

But my favorite fic to finish and post was (why don't you just) take what you want from me. >:3 This one is my evilest, insanest siskarak smut yet (it involves Garak and Sisko being the ones to reach out to Section 31 prior to Inquisition - not fully aware of all the consequences of doing so, but certainly aware enough that they will feel guilty about it later, tee hee). It actually took me multiple years to write this one, so it feels extra good that it is finally DONE, and now this tiny little bit of my insanity can live on an ao3 page instead of in my head, hurrayyyy. ^_^ <3

Also, for "comments" I put the number of comment threads, and for "total subs" I put the number of work subscriptions from 2025 works (I only posted oneshots this year lol). (My current number of user subs is 83, if I was supposed to put that number instead.)