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@reflectedeve replied to your post “john “everyone’s gay at boarding school” le carré”

Did you mean ... all of British fiction for the last few hundred years? :p

yes but specifically this

you can tell he’s john le carres self insert bc this is literally the novel le carre wrote about having an affair with his friend’s wife (and also, possibly, the friend as well), but also bc his surname begins with c and johnny’s habits Die Hard

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Benjamin Sisko Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Espionage, Section 31, Sharing a Bed, Accidental Cuddling, Light Angst, Friendship/Love, Post-Canon, DS9 Novel References, First Kiss Summary:

Julian was done with the Section 31 and all their methods, but he agrees to participate in one of their missions when he learns of Garak's involvement.

I’m late, but I’m finally posting my gift for the @startreksecretsanta exchange!

My secret santa was @reflectedeve - you asked for Garak/Bashir, fake-to-real dating and it was impossible to resist. Garashir is my DS9 otp, but I never wrote it before and it was an interesting challenge. I’m just sorry for how late I’m posting this, but I had a crazy busy month. The fic is... longer and slight less cheerful than I wanted to, but I still hope you’ll enjoy it.

Christmas is gone now, but I wish a happy new year for you and your loved ones, happy holidays!

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Garak smiles fondly at his glass of water. “Quite. Even then, people who have 'sides' or 'aspects' like this in literature – especially of the sort that is seen as contrary to their sex – are generally not to be trusted. They're traitors.” (I wanted to paste in everything up to “For now, back to a story about a death.” but it seems that exceeds the ask box limitations, if not the meme's stipulations, so!)

Haha, far be it from me to be held to the limitation of a meme I didn’t author.  I’ll paste the relevant bit anyway.

Garak smiles fondly at his glass of water. “Quite. Even then, people who have 'sides' or 'aspects' like this in literature – especially of the sort that is seen as contrary to their sex – are generally not to be trusted. They're traitors.”

And then Garak's eyelids flick and he looks up at Julian and it's not sweet or pleasant or even romantic. He hardly moves, the glance is all in his eyes, and yet it's like the entire man is different. Julian isn't foolish enough to think that he knows Garak extremely well, but he likes to think he sees more than most. Quark certainly doesn't notice that Garak's smiles for him are full of venom. Miles wouldn't recognize sincerity on Garak any more than he'd know a radius from an ulna. Julian sees Garak wearing many faces for others because Julian himself does it so well. But this is a smile he hasn't seen before.

This one is a dare.

“And are you a traitor?”

“I'm a tailor.” Garak's smile widens and his eyes narrow. He is very pleased with Julian's question, as much as he had been at being called 'irritating,' and possibly just as pleased that it's territory they can't cross in public. Julian can't go any further with this now, but this has to be an invitation. For now, back to a story about a death.

There’s something in this story, somewhere, about the difference between Cardassian things and Garak things, and that both things are foreign enough to Julian that he’s still sorting them into a nice little venn diagram.  This is some of that.   

In their current world, Garak doesn’t line up with any of the assigned gender paths no matter what culture he’s sitting in.  I thought of the Cardassian scientists we met in the show and how they were very, “Silly man! You don’t have the head for science!”   And sure, Garak skews more toward literature, but he certainly can rewire this circuit and reconfigure that computer.  And from where Julian is standing, nail polish and fuss about scarf configuration isn’t something he initially expects from a man and is learning to rewrite.

Garak’s interested not only in dropping hints, but seeing how Julian handles them - if he picks them up and then how he deals with them if he does.  He’s not interested in direct, but he’s also not interested in being totally hidden from the right people.  Julian is revealing himself to be the right people.  That Julian asks the single question which would naturally lead to a torrent more and yet presses no further because he’s assessed the nature of the game and the setting in which he’s asked is the exact reaction Garak wanted.  He may be the type interested in just letting what he wants Julian to see out letter by letter rather than ever fully pronouncing the word.   There will be a time when they both know things without ever having spoken the full extent of the thing aloud.  Miles would get very, ‘Okay, you ‘know’, but do you know?’ about it.  And Julian may be in the space between ‘know’ and know for a long time until one day he realizes that he didn’t notice when he shifted from one to the other.

This bit was meant to call back to a lot of their gender discussions, but also to get Julian considering Garak’s entire life in the way he’s just seen on stage.  Garak can indirectly make comments about his own life through the vehicle of this story, which is how it’s used in his world anyway.   Using a story about masks as a mask.  

There’s layers to their layers, these assholes.

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reflectedeve replied to your photo “i highly recommend putting your interests in a jar and rattling the...”

This ... isn't a Castle Waiting AU, is it?

it isn’t, but that looks like a series I need to check out!

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reflectedeve replied to your photo “I thought I had posted this, but I can’t find it, so here it is again....”

I'm ... so deeply jealous ... ��

AJ is the largest of our set, though males can get even bigger (up to 600lbs).  They are the second largest species of tortoise in the world.  Their beak is very powerful and can bite a corncob in half.

He likes to have very noisy sex with his girlfriend approximately 5 times a day, to the amusement of staff and guests alike.

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reflectedeve replied to your post: STLV17

Aw, I’m so glad you had such a great time! And you do look great. ;) (Also I’m a bit curious about this ’Kirk woman’ tbh …)

The Kirk Woman is very rude and self-indulgent.  Every year she goes up to the mic at nearly EVERY Q&A session and takes like 5 minutes introducing her son, who is named after Captain Kirk.  I can understand doing that once with his favorite performer, but to do it at every single panel when there are so many other people who want to ask actual questions that would interest the entire audience is incredibly selfish.  I was glad Marina gave her what for.

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reflectedeve replied to your post: What do you think about Julian's parents? (If you...

I think it’s perfectly possible both for Julian’s parents to have loved him and for their actions to be considered abusive, honestly? It’s a complex topic and one that a lot of people in this fandom appear to have personal connections to (I don’t really feel qualified to go into it in depth). That said … I don’t remember how old Julian was supposed to have been when he first expressed an interest in becoming a doctor. Do you remember when that came up (which episode)?

I think it is possible for abusive parents to love their children (as sick as that is); I just don’t think this is one of those cases.  They did not fundamentally change who he was.  They didn’t change his personality - his kindness, his warmth, his goofiness, his awkwardness, or any number of other things.  They changed the level of his abilities to give him the opportunity to pursue his goal.  He mentions wanting to be a doctor and Kukalaka being his first patient - not sure if it was Doctor Bashir I Presume or another episode, honestly, because I actually find Julian to be a bit dull.

I think the main problem with the genetic enhancement is the same thing as the Mirror Universe schtick.  It’s just lazy story telling on the part of the writers. “We don’t know what to do with this character, so let’s just make him genetically engineered.”  It’s filler and really, it doesn’t work.   

But I do not think for a second that his parents did that for themselves.  I think they had his best intentions at heart.

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7, 9, 13, 16? :)

7. Who would make up your crew dream team? Captain Janeway, First Officer Damar (now, hear me out - I know he’s not Starfleet, but it doesn’t specify Starfleet and he’s a good first officer; he’s clever, he questions his superiors, and Janeway would benefit from a little Cardassian ingenuity now and then), Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres, Science Officer Jadzia Dax, Chief Medical Officer the EMH, Chief of Security Tuvok, Ops Nog (I’m going to stick Nog on ops because I think Janeway would mold him into a great bridge officer), Helm...  I don’t know?  Sulu? Who was a good pilot?  Non of them really stood out to me.  Let’s have Deanna Troi and Neelix resume their roles as counselor and morale officer respectively too.

9. Which episode plot do you prefer?

     a. Time traveling to the past or dealing with time travelers from the future?

     b. Going undercover to spy on enemies or going undercover to explore pre-warp planets?

    c. Holodeck malfunction or space anomaly?

    d. Ship being taken over or being stranded on a planet?

    e. Rapid aging or de-aging?

    f. Diplomatic negotiations or all out battle?

13. A ship you wish had been canon and why? My silly brain was thinking like starship at first and I was like....?  LOL.  Hmm.  I’m not as into Garak/Bashir as I once was, but I really wish the powers that be had had the balls to not back down on it.  But I’m going to have to say Seven/the Doctor on Voyager.  I think it was hinted at very strongly.  I think they had a lot in common and wonderful chemistry and if Seven was going to be paired off with someone, he was the route to go.

16. If you could steal the basic plot of an episode for one show and apply to another which would you choose?  I like things the way they are, though I think it would be interesting to see DS9 and Voyager get flipped for a little while - see Janeway interact with Weyoun and Dukat and take on the Dominion and see Sisko struggle with all the dangers and unknowns of the Delta Quadrant.  He would have never gotten them home.  LOL