Hello! I write a lot of short fanfics, and I have a little tradition of making a big tumblr post about everything I've written so far whenever I reach a total of 10 for one fandom! I was expecting to be making one of these for Star Trek TOS first, but while I'm waiting for my assigned day to post my 10th TOS fic for an upcoming event, DS9 snuck into the lead! The following links are 70% Garashir and 30% shipping Julian with everyone else also, consider checking them out and I hope you enjoy. <3
My Ongoing Garashir Series
Apéritif (~2k words, rated M) - Garak doesn't directly appear in this one, but Julian confides in Jadzia about having a crush on him, and Jadzia basically doms him into heading off to go make a move already by the end of the fic, leading into . . .
After Hours (~3k words, rated E) - . . . some light bondage and other fun activities taking place in the tailor shop!
I have plans to continue this one with more about their relationship developing and also more of Jadzia being extremely helpful, so stay tuned!
Other Garashir One-Shots
The Greatest Adventure (~1k words, rated T) - A cute little missing scene in which Julian reunites with Garak after being presumed dead there for a bit in the season 2 episode "Armageddon Game."
Buy Me Dinner First (~3k words, rated E) - My favourite comment I've received on this fic was a friend of mine just saying "soft cock Garak my beloved."
Nobody Else Could Forgive Me Quite As Often As You (~4k words, rated M) - Some Post-The-Wire angst with a happy ending!
Late-Night Literary Studies (~7k words, rated E) - I put my encyclopedic knowledge of Sherlock Holmes to work in this one featuring their gay little book club.
Lessons in Humanoid Behaviour (~1k words, rated T) - And now for one in which Julian doesn't directly appear! Instead, Odo tries to understand a complex kink dynamic he and Garak apparently have going on, and mostly gets deeply confused by it.
Julian Slutting It Up With Other Members Of Starfleet Instead
Sweet Dreams (Julian/Data, ~2k words, rated E) - Inspired by the absolutely insane chemistry on display in that brief crossover from the TNG episode "Birthright Part 1."
Not in Front of the Klingon (Julian/Miles/Worf, ~3k words, rated E) - What if they fucked while they were in a holding cell overnight because of that bar fight they got into during the Ferengi workers' rights episode?
The Trouble with Time Travel (Julian/that hot lady he thought he might be related to in the tribble episode, ~2k words, rated E) - I thought this would be funny and a good writing exercise, what can I say
Hope anyone who checks any of these out enjoys them! I will be writing a lot more very soon and that is a threat.
you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid
i'm hoping to do more soon! they actually have a pretty nice variety, specially scully. feel free to reply if you have any suggestions for next ones :D
Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that I’ve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So that’s cool I guess
it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.
normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!
n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."
m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).
on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear
like so.
and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash — this definitely done in published writing too! — it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.
i do like that garak’s starfleet badge just appears in season 6 but i would have enjoyed seeing the disgust on his face while recieving it and also him abusing it liberally to comm o’brien in the middle of the night to complain about the heating in his room on the defiant and the lack of cardassian food in the replicators. it’s a pressing matter, chief!
My Deep Space 9 self-insert fantasy is working for Garak in his tailor shop, however, I also know for a fact that he would be a terrible boss. He would be liable to snap and yell at me over tiny mistakes just because he's having a bad day. He'd drop everything and leave me to man the counter myself, no matter how many customers were waiting, the second Bashir showed up and asked him to lunch. He'd get drunk and oversleep the next morning and be late to open the place, but expect me to just stand there waiting indefinitely on the promenade and be ready to start working whenever he feels like showing up (obviously I can't unlock the door myself, he would never give me his constantly changing series of complex security codes). And then I'd probably die because he forgot about me when he blew it up.
Hey, but listen, OP: you could fulfill your fantasy and LIVE if you were hired as a temp during those six months Garak spent in custody after he definitely didn't attempt to commit genocide.
He gets out of jail and flies into a rage when he sees that I've dared to re-organize a few things in his shop. He kicks me out and tells me I'll never work on this station again. I prove him wrong by opening my own shop across the promenade from him and we maintain a homoerotic rivalry for a few years until he goes back to Cardassia
This sounds exactly like a ds9 subplot. He keeps trying to rope odo into petty shenanigans and odo sees right through it. Quark would call him out directly if pushed.
i hate when apps know that i’m screenshotting something. when i screenshot something, that’s me acting outside your realm of understanding, app. i am beyond what you consider the observable universe. you’re not supposed to perceive me. we don’t know when god screenshots the earth. we don’t know when he’s like, “okay i’m just gonna take a pic in case i ever want to add dinosaurs back to something later and don’t remember how.” and if we did, we wouldn’t act all smug about it like, “hey, you wanna share that post? you could just click here to share it.” no, man. you didn’t catch me. i screenshotted this for my own reasons. what’s next? i can’t take a photo of my computer screen with my phone out of laziness without being shamed by the printer i don’t own?
