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Chapters: 1/1

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: POV Julian Bashir, Light BDSM, Blindfolds, Orgasm Control, Masturbation, Dom Elim Garak, Sub Julian Bashir, Aftercare, Dom/sub, Desperation, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Emotional Porn

Summary:

Garak controls Julian's pleasure.

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All this and more evidence to boot:

When one of the Birds of Prey without shielding turns into an ancient Klingon sailing barge, no one stops to question what universe it's from; all they know is that it's from the past and definitely not space-worthy, as they note that all lives are lost. More on this in a bit.

The way I see the appearance of Discovery's Klingons is not a retcon or an AU-ing of Disco; it's a nod to Discovery, and the fact that it took place in Lower Deck's past. Because it isn't just possibilities across the multiverse they need to contend with; it's all possibilities along their own timeline and the recent past and near future timelines of the surrounding universes.

Why? - Because we know something vital from Discovery, that the universes move away from one another. That they drift, which is why Georgiou had such trouble keeping her atoms together when they went to the future - she physically either needed to return to the past or her universe of origin to survive, so the Guardian had to return her to an earlier time.

Meaning that: Any universe where the Klingons were still using ancient sailing barges... Probably would have drifted away by now, and the crew of the Cerritos were seeing a possibility not from another universe but rather from their own in-universe past.

So, the Disco!Klingon-transformation was either from a universe very closely aligned to the Prime Universe where all the events in ST:Disco happened or happened slightly differently; or - they were transformed into an in-universe past-version of themselves.

Which hardly makes Discovery non-canonical; merely non-contemporaneous. HUGE difference.

I had so many thoughts when I saw all the "DISCO is No Longer Canon" posts but I didn't gather them until just now when I saw your post, @lizardsfromspace - I felt so strongly about Discovery (favorite modern Trek, second-favorite all-time Trek, after DS9) - and for people to think that a few-second animation provides confirmation for their hatred of all things Discovery, just didn't sit right with me.

The Claim: they've erased Discovery from canon. It's not longer canon! CONFIRMED! They announced Star Trek Discovery was WIPED from canon, even though it has one ongoing spin-off, has a spin-off movie set to debut, another spin-off series filming, and has been referenced extensively in every other modern Star Trek show, and the producers and writers of it are still in charge of modern Star Trek, they definitely made it non-canon just to appease internet people who are mad at if for reasons that are definitely not just racism and misogyny

The Article: not linked in this tweet! Odd! Why would you not want to link your source?

The Evidence: Lower Decks featured a cameo by the alternate Klingon makeup

This brief cameo PROVES Discovery is in an alternate universe.

Which wouldn't make it non-canon. After all the Kelvin timeline movies are set in an alternate universe, and they're unambiguously canon to mainline Trek.

On a Watsonian level, they could've become a Disco Klingon from another universe while they still exist in the main one. Or maybe in another universe that's what that Klingon looks like. It's canon that Klingons have multiple appearances due to the virus from Enterprise's final season, so why not?

But confirmed! The show they definitely didn't just hate for having a woman of color as its star is no longer canon because of a brief Easter egg in a cartoon! Multiple sites are reporting this!

Discovery is no longer canon! Thanks, one second long joke, for giving shouty man nerds a chance to Make Trek Great Again

One fun aspect of this is that you can tell the first article I capped was written by someone not really familiar with the show himself who was just copying this other article; because the earlier one - linked & paraphrased frequently in the article the alcoholic film screamer shared - says the show was retooled after season two, and the quote-filled article mangles this as "the show was sent to the future for the last two seasons". Which isn't true - they spend three seasons in the future, not two. The rabid internet nerds aren't even watching the shows they're quaking with rage about, they're just copying from each other. "Why don't these networks not care about pleasing people who provably don't watch their shows? HIRE NON-FANS PLAGIARIZING OTHER NON-FANS!!!!"

The wild part is, these pieces present it as if the only flaw in Discovery is that they changed the Klingon's makeup design. This alone is enough to exile it from canon. You may think "wait, but the show already addressed it, first by having them grow hair in season 2 of Disco & explaining why they hadn't, and then by restoring the original makeup in SNW", and they have an explanation: SNW is still canon bc it's not canon to Disco, the show it references many times, because it's actually about a slightly different Enterprise in an alternate timeline, since establishing two parallel Enterprises that are 90% the same but in different universes, and never directly stating this except via buried clues in a different spinoff, makes a lot more sense than saying a popular TV show you don't personally like exists

It's funny how they harp on about how the Klingons look and ignore other changes. SNW has turned the Gorn from an allegory - seeming aggressors who turn out to be the ones who were invaded, and whose Captain is clearly set up as an analogue for Kirk - into pure evil slaving xenomorph knock-offs who not only have zero depth or meaning, but who are proudly Just Evil. Seems like a much more important change than the Klingons having somewhat different heads, but I've seen basically none of that crowd comment on the Gorn except to say they're Totally Badass Now, while they're still so enraged by a change in Klingon makeup design that happened seven years ago & that was retconned five years ago & abandoned fully since over a year ago they're writing long articles analyzing how a throwaway gag in a cartoon is a secret sign a show they dislike for totally not racist reasons is non-canon. After years of speculation that Kurtzman was secretly fired, they've now just evolved into full on Trekanon. Incredible

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Is Lower Decks Ending Tomorrow?

Asking for a friend.

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I Found God...

I found God in a book I was reading, so I gently closed the pages and slowly backed away while chanting the pagan song of my people.

It all worked out in the end because it was a library book.

The moral of the story: If you find God, return to sender.

Caption for all the Captains out there who can't see the GIF: Elvis singing and dancing to his song, "Return to Sender," looking entirely too happy about the fact that, as subbed, the mailman came: "Bright and early next morning, he brought my letter back."

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ds9 pairings i love

O'Brien/Bashir ("I like you just a little bit more")

Garak/Bashir ("my dear doctor...")

Odo/Quark ("just to let him know I'm thinking of him")

Dukat/Damar

Kira/Damar

Damar/Weyoun

Damar/Garak ("you never told me you had a secret mountain hideaway!" "I was going to surprise you.")

Jake/Nog

Kira/Jadzia Dax

literally whatever they have going on in the mirror universe

i feel like there should be more femslash here

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My Newest Polycule Obsession

okay so honestly my toxic trait at the moment is re-imagining the post-canon DS9 polycule with Damar and Weyoun 6 (or 9) and basically it's consuming my spare time :

Julian & Weyoun bounding over their respective augmentations

Weyoun getting into trouble intentionally just to see Odo

And Damar bailing him out

While Garak makes them all matching outfits

Caption of the above GIF for all the Captains that can't see it: Weyoun reacting strongly to poisoned kanar, probably saying something along the lines of 'quite toxic' although his words aren't subbed and I don't remember them entirely.

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This Year's Christmas Fic - Now By Popular Demand

The title is only a *little* misleading, but hey, folx, it's not Christmas yet!

I will be writing my traditional yearly Garshir Christmas Fic - You can find the previous ones below:

2023's "The Present Plot"

2022's "Meet Me Under the Mistletoe"

And now you can help me decide what to write for this year's Christmas fic!

Let me know what you would like to see, folx. Ahem hopefully y'all decide to endorse my own (private/secret) choice - for I'll be voting, too, but only once! But let the people speak!

Caption of the GIF for all the Captains out there who can't view it: Garak waving away Dr. Bashir's incredulity about one of Garak's more illicit skills, saying, "It's... a hobby of mine."It depicts him from the waist up before he turns and walks away. It shows him being approximately 10 percent bitchy, 20 percent smug, 30 percent *done* with people underestimating him, and 40 percent reluctantly being a hero, but it's kind of clear from context clues that he's only doing it as a favor because it's for his dear doctor....

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The Ongoing Saga of Units Alpha & Beta

Update on the ongoing conflict between my clan and our neighbors in Unit Alpha: This is war.

Unit Alpha attempted to pilfer food from us. Unit Alpha was unsuccessful in such tomfoolerly, because I called them out on it.

Now I'm just fucking with them.

The Man from Unit Alpha: It could have been anyone's food. Sad puppy face.

Me:

Et tu, Brutus?

The Man from Unit Alpha: You aren't Caesar. But this salad was.

Me:

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe - Shakespeare

The Man from Unit Alpha: I returned your goddamn salad. What more do you want from me?

Me:

You already betrayed your people, Admiral! You've made your choices, sir! You're a traitor! Now, if the bitter taste of that is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry. - Captain Jean Luc Picard

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Three Secrets About Me

I am actually descended from a long line of earls, barons, and other such nobility. You'd never know it from the way I eat.

I can trace my family line back 31 generations.

I just found this out recently.

In other words - Where's my crown?

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That feeling when you realize all those fics you bookmarked when you were 15 for 'later' are still on your computer but they're too cringe to click on - so later never came?

RIP all my old fandoms looking at me like: 🪦

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and as for what state I live in....

put me down as residing in a state of permanent denial.

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Personal Log: Things my Neighbor Has Done in the Past Week to Annoy Me, Possibly on Purpose

🚙 Why yes, they DID cross a crowded, busy street in the middle to avoid me when they saw me waiting at the bus stop. Very demure. VERY mindful.

🤔 They also failed to tell me about a problem in the house we share. I won't specify but it does have to do either with (a) water, (b) pipes, (c) ventilation, (d) heating, (e) all of the above, (f) some of the above and/or (g) none of the above. Choose wisely. Or don't.

😈 And when I texted them to explain that a house divided falls against itself, they flat-out ignored me.

🐝 Oh and when I asked them in person, they literally made up the world's lamest excuse NOT to talk about it so I walked away without saying much of anything at all, save for, "Okay."

I really do hope somewhere on Tumblr there's another account denying or confirming these accusations and/or clarifying, correcting, or simply providing a different perspective on them.

Captain's Log. Supplemental. Crossed the street to avoid my nosy neighbor. Almost got hit by not one but three vehicles. Said neighbor texted me. I did not text back. Neighbor wanted to talk about the issue again. I ran away, but not before giving a clever excuse as to why I had to do so. Note to self: Browse tumblr to see if neighbor has created a similar such log.

Yes this post is petty... But so are they!

Over and out.

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it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows

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I know this gives Janeway vibes but I think I'd want my beverage to be coffee... Hot. Two creams. No sugar.

Either that, or a raktajino.

If I was a Starfleet captain my drink of choice would be “Coconut water, chilled”, not only for the fun tropical vibes, (they are just an added bonus) but because I am constantly dehydrated and need electrolytes.

(Come to think of it by the 24th century they probably found a more sci-fi magic way around that)

To be a Fleet captain you must a favorite drink (apparently), what would your be?

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Chapters: 1/1

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: Trektober 2024, Spanking, Kink Negotiation, Consensual Kink, Sub Elim Garak, Dom/sub, Smut, Eventual Smut, Loving Marriage, Dom Julian Bashir, BDSM, Hardcore, Punishment, Shameless Smut, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Hurt/Comfort, Oral Sex

Series: Part 9 of Trektober 2024

Summary:

Trektober Day 9 - Spanking - Garashir

Garak asks Julian to help him pay penance.

AKA the hottest thing I’ve written in a while~

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Chapters: 3/3

Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Julian Bashir & Miles O'Brien, Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien, Keiko O'Brien & Miles O'Brien

Characters: Julian Bashir, Miles O'Brien, Kira Nerys

Additional Tags: Rare Pairings, Trektober 2024, Miles O'Brien is a Good Friend, Augmented Julian Bashir, Pining Julian Bashir, Julian Bashir Needs a Hug Series: Part 8 of Trektober 2024

Summary:

Trektober 2024 - Day 8 - Away Mission (gone awry)

Julian and Miles encounter a certain type of stupefying pollen on a Bajoran moon, one that is also used in truth serums and designer drugs elsewhere in the system.

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Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak

Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir

Additional Tags: Trektober 2024, Rough Sex, Top Elim Garak, Bottom Julian Bashir, Orgasm Control, Coming Untouched, Dirty Talk, First Time, or it could be, Consensual Kink, Dialogue Heavy

Series: Part 5 of Trektober 2024

Summary:

Trektober Day 5 - Garashir - Rough Sex

Julian knows Garak is holding back, but he can take it and asks Garak to go harder.