#garashir i love

[animentality]

Your AO3 handle reveal got my hopes up for some filthy Garashir or at least a Dukat fic… I’m assuming the evil lizard and human fascination transfers from Durgetash? If not…. what are your DS9 ships? Inquiring minds are desperate to know 🙈

Sorry, anon. I do ship Garashir, and it has INSANE angst and porn potential...but I don't tend to write Star Trek fanfiction, because I first watched Star Trek when I was 9.

I have a hard time sexualizing the characters because of it. Like obviously, as an adult, I can say Garashir is sexy...I can share Quodo sex, and horny posting about all the characters... but my brain can't writing PORN of them MYSELF, because I struggle with this mental block of...those are my uncles?

I grew up with them? That crew...they're my family...my friends... I'll watch em be goofy on Tumblr, but...I don't know. I myself have a mental block that keeps me from writing porn of any of the characters from DS9, or actually, any of the Star Treks.

That's just my burden to bear.

Now that being said...

I did feel a twinge in my gut...when I re-watched DS9 recently...and there's that episode...with Sisko and Dukat trapped on a planet together....and uh. Dukat is losing his fucking mind, and Sisko is injured...and can't get...away from this madman...

Heh.

Hehehe. Well.

Enemies to...lovers...except...not exactly...

Anyway.

It was a passing fancy, but no one really likes that particular toxic ship, nor should they.

So uh, let's pretend I never said that. I'm ashamed to even say I thought about it. I'm just THAT toxic.

[bribinart]

something something the wireeee

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I do think my favorite on-station Garashir dynamic is where Garak is just. painfully pathetic about Bashir. It's very funny to me.

Various Bajorans on the station will watch Bashir's and Garak's little lunches, and they'll be like, "oh no. the poor naive doctor is Going to be taken advantage of". And then they look a little closer and they see that actually Garak is fully whipped for that twink.

Like, sure, he's a former spy. He could kill you. But he's a little busy trying desperately to seduce Bashir without letting on that he's sad and also pathetic. He's making skimpy clothing in his shop that is Very Clearly Bashir-sized. He's arguing shamelessly. He put his hands on Bashir's shoulders during their very first meeting, for Prophet's sake!

Bashir is, of course, oblivious to this and, to their embarrassment, the watching Bajorans actually find themselves feeling bad for Garak. Is he morally dubious? Certainly! Was he a spy in the Obsidian Order? That's the rumor! Has he killed in cold blood? They'd stake their bets on it! But when a guy is pining that pathetically over the shiniest most naive Starfleet twink imaginable...

Well.

It's a little hard to stay afraid of him.

They figure that as long as they don't do anything to harm Bashir or Cardassia, they probably don't have anything to worry about.

[highway-stars]

Every fabric seems to suit you, dear Doctor :3

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

can 2024 please be the year where we stop acting like Jadzia's bisexuality was subtextual and that her queerness should be treated with the same validity as other common headcanons. i love queer headcanons! i love thinking about gay subtext (intentional or unintentional)! but i cannot possibly understand how kissing a woman, professing your love to her, and risking your future to spend your lives together is somehow subtext. (well i can understand because 1) fandom doesn't like to focus on queer women nearly as much as queer men and 2) seeing queer women who later marry men as somehow not "actually queer" is just. classic biphobia.)

[vaguely-concerned]

can't believe garak went from 'hope you have fun following my little breadcrumb trail of maybe-truths doctor it builds character ;)' at the beginning of the show to '*sigh* fuck it here's the whole loaf. the entire fucked up bakery of my soul. if you somehow still wanna have sex with me after this you know where I am, yours in infinite longing etc.' in a stitch in time. has anyone ever been so pathetically horrifically enduringly down bad as garak is for julian (laudatory)

[taya-ki]

More of my small garashir series..

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

"You know, I could hunker down at your place. Slither over and watch you eat cake." ⁠ —Crowley to Aziraphale in the Good Omens Lockdown special

[hvezdnastreka]

WIP i'm probably never going to finish, because IT'S ANOTHER KLAUZURA SEASON BABYYYYY!!!!

^^(a black and white walk cycle animation of a girl, who's legs aren't drawn yet ) GET CONCEPT ARTED LOSER (This time we're making concepts for our own video game! :) )

[bacteria1dino]

why is everyone in Star Trek so ridiculously Gay

[urghblergh]

Garashir + accidental TOS colours. ✨💙💛

[dustykneed]

not a SINGLE day goes by where i don't think about that post with the photo of andrew's death grip on alex's waist. you know the one

(i have, regrettably, once again, lost the damn post. if anyone has any clue as to its whereabouts i would be much obliged if you could drop the link lol. but at the very least i had the presence of mind to download the photo so here yall go xDD:

[kaphkas]

Humbly requesting more fics where Changeling-Bashir beats Real-Bashir to the punch 🤲

[lofan]

Sci-fi shows + tenderly holding your lover's hand in medbay

[azrael08]

The symbolism of Garak being an assassin who has taken many lives and Bashir forgiving him for it.

Paired with Bashir as a doctor who saves and heals lives and Garak falling in love with him for it.

[dreamerdrop]

I think my favourite part of Sloanshir when contrasted against Garashir is that Sloan and Garak are both liars made of secrets, but they are so polar opposite in the fundamental person underneath that veneer.

Sloan talks endlessly about the greater good, speaks of Section 31 and doing what's needed to protect the Federation, to protect the innocent ideals of men like Julian.

Garak practically revels in being able to portray himself to Julian as a monster, alluding to atrocities, talking about how he would sell everyone out for Cardassia, and how Julian needs to be more cynical.

But Garak shows so much kindness, compassion, genuine remorse through his actions, even when he denies it with his words. Garak likes that Julian is idealistic, likes it when Julian pushes back on Garak trying to argue for cold pragmatism and says "no, we're going to do the right thing even if I have to drag you into it by force".

Sloan very clearly wants to corrupt Julian while claiming he's just trying to get Julian to understand why Sloan is actually the Good Guy in everything. Talks about protecting Julian's idealism while leveraging it in situations that make Julian cry himself to sleep.

Sloan plays on making Julian feel guilty no matter what actions he takes. Garak looks to Julian to remind him that there is always a chance of forgiveness.

Garak puts Julian in situations where Julian is forced to pushed back, and Garak is happy when Julian refuses to fold on his ideals. It makes Garak love him even more.

Sloan treats Julian's commitment to Not Being A Monster as a childish fantasy that he needs to be broken of. He's disappointed and almost mocking when Julian refuses.

Honestly, I think what Sloan really wants is to be the Tain to Julians' Garak. He wants Julian to have a complex, unhealthy attachment that allows him to push Julian into doing terrible things. He wants Julian to be loyal and broken and beholden to him.

Sloan thinks he can fulfil whatever Garak is for Julian, and fails to recognise that he is, instead, a mirror of the man who made Garaks life an unbearable nightmare.

Garak probably thinks to himself now and then how grateful he is that Sloan did not meet Julian sooner, when Julian might have been breakable after all.

Garak may not have been able to wrench himself away from Tain, but I do think that if Sloan had succeeded in becoming an equivalent for Julian, Garak would probably have worked out some of his personal trauma while getting rid of Sloan.