write a brand new page, then write again

i know your act is staged, yet you pretend

[cardasssians]

Hey everyone!

I made an (18+) discord server dedicated to DS9 fanfiction for both readers and authors. It includes a space for getting help on writing, a fanart channel, and a section for sharing and discussing your favorite fics. In the future I hope to organize watch parties as well!

Here’s an invite link, I hope to see you there!

[dilfsisko]

(Image ID: Two images of Hawkeye Pierce from the series MASH. In the first picture has been edited so he is wearing a medical uniform from Star Trek: The Original Series. The second image has been edited so he is wearing a medicul uniform from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. /end ID)

heehee hoo hoo mashtrek time

[garakism]

i think everything would be greatly improved by giving garak ridiculous red-tinted glasses (to help him deal with the painful station lighting, of course)

[starbashir-deactivated20241016]

bad edit but here u go

[worflesbian]

had to scroll to the end of my camera roll to find this i made it years ago expressly to send to the group chat

[xenobotanist]

[spaghettinatural]

my contributions

[garakism]

i think everything would be greatly improved by giving garak ridiculous red-tinted glasses (to help him deal with the painful station lighting, of course)

[starbashir-deactivated20241016]

bad edit but here u go

[worflesbian]

had to scroll to the end of my camera roll to find this i made it years ago expressly to send to the group chat

[incorrectgarashir]

Julian: Bottling up negative emotions is bad for your health, so you shouldn't do it. Garak: I know, that's why I bottle up all my emotions, both positive and negative, so it cancels out. Julian: Th-that's not how that works-

[incorrectgarashir]

Julian: Please, I'm begging you to let me examine you. Garak: I'm sorry is this OUR stab wound?

[garakism]

i've seen the joke about the combination shopping mall and war outpost, but in my heart deep space nine is more huge-international-airport than standard-shopping-mall. i have a lot of reasons for this but just know i am correct

[dunmertitty]

tbis is deep space 9

[cardasssians]

do you ever think about julian “i’m different, don’t you see, jules bashir died” bashir having to listen to garak talk about how he killed elim and then finding out that elim is his first name. like. both of these guys believe on some level that they killed a version of themselves that existed in the past. and theyre Both like that

[cardasssians]

so glad we can come to a consensus

[cardasssians]

just gonna drop my art commisions link down here, i don’t have any prices for writing comms but those are negotiable too!

[garakism]

i've seen the joke about the combination shopping mall and war outpost, but in my heart deep space nine is more huge-international-airport than standard-shopping-mall. i have a lot of reasons for this but just know i am correct

[cardasssians]

[cardasssians]

do you ever think about julian “i’m different, don’t you see, jules bashir died” bashir having to listen to garak talk about how he killed elim and then finding out that elim is his first name. like. both of these guys believe on some level that they killed a version of themselves that existed in the past. and theyre Both like that

[garakism]

i wanna see you'll settle again

this entire thing is me toying with my personal belief that the events of improbable cause, where tain has all the former order operatives assassinated, is actually a test to see who was still useful. if you can't survive getting assassinated then obviously you're a useless operative. but i'm taking that concept and kind of messing around with some of the internal dialogue from garak, and tain's entire... existence. i fucking hate tain. anyway, excerpt under the cut.

lyric title is from "I'll let you live" by taking back sunday

Perfectionism was illogical. It was idealist and impossible, a concept more suited to the soft motives of the Federation than the timeless rigidity of Cardassia. No, Cardassians didn’t make errors, but choices that would be rectified in the next move as if they were never played at all. That was how it should be.

Which would all be well and good, were Garak not such a damn perfectionist. The Order played itself always precariously on the outside edges of good society in order to uphold it, and as such its values were more liquid than should be admitted. The singular constant was a suffocating lack of space for mistakes. The moves were limited, with no extra step to revoke an unwise choice. The only way to fix a mistake was to remove whoever made it in the first place.

[garakism]

WIP Tag Game

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little  snippet of it or tell them something about it.

i got tagged by @cardasssians who is correct in that i have like... no wips. also i'm so new to this fanbase i have nobody to tag so hey. any writers that see this, haven't done the game yet, and want to? do it.

that being said i have like. two ish:

you'll settle again (wip)

doctors and tailors aren't all that different (concept)

[whaliiwatching]

i think julian and odo shoulda been buds

bonus, for my o’brien-loving friend:

[cardasssians]

i think he should laugh more

[impliedbass]

The average space tailor doesn't actually own eight deadly weapons.

Weapons Garak is an outlier adn should not have been counted.