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[walkingstackofbooks]

Phew. Wow. It's far too late, but Keiko's chapter is done, now I've just got Julian's final chapter to do tomorrow and editing and I'll have finished it? Sounds easy when I put it like that 😅

Not quite sure how this has ended up spanning into a 10k word fic in the last 3 days, but sure, I'll take it. Keiko appeared and just started running the story, and who am I to say no to her, y'know?

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

Adding some sloanshir fic recs.

Honey and Sting, by DS9ItchToScratch - Sloan training Julian how to be a honeypot

Consummation, by @the-last-dillpickle​ - Julian honeypotting Sloan ^_^ <3 (This one was def a big influence on my own Julian honeypotting Sloan fic, a drop of honey, lol)

More Than One Way to Die, by @hellostuffedtiger​ - Sloan torturing Julian, and desperately trying to make him stop loving Garak

How to Fall Further, by @nostalgia-tblr​ - Just some good ol’ enemies to enemies who fuck <3

sloanshir for ship asks

(for this ask game)

Ship It

What made you ship it?

It was @the-last-dillpickle's fault, I am absolutely certain lmao <3 There's also been some amazing fics from a variety of people that really cemented it for me as something to obsess over (maybe I'll rec some of my favorites when I'm less sleepy)

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

The contrast with Garashir! <3 Like, at a surface level, Sloan and Garak seem like the same type of guy, but the way they treat Julian is so different and the way that Julian treats each of them is so different that the dynamics couldn't be more different. And I love Sloan's obsession with Julian and how unwelcome it is. And I love when Julian's values are tested and he has to do things that are a little fucked up because of Sloan/in order to get rid of Sloan. ^_^ AND I love imagining scenarios where they do end up banging. Like, Julian hates Sloan but still WANTS to fuck him, Julian hates Sloan but HAS to fuck him, Sloan seduces Julian before/instead of Inquisition... it's all scrumptious

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I feel like my fellow sloanshir shippers and I are generally all on the same wavelength about it lol XD I obvs don't think it's an endgame ship, but I do think them fucking (or, more likely, hatefucking <3) is, like, not that out of the question. Hmmm, okay, here's something that might be unpopular? I love the eps Inquisition and IAESL a lot (which I think is an unpopular take in the trek fandom in general bc most people hate everything to do with s31 and to be fair, I kind of agree... like, I love it in ds9, as Sloan's fun little conspiracy, and I also think ideally it should never have come up again in any other series lmao) and I hate the ep Extreme Measures (which is maybe an unpopular opinion amongst the sloanshirs? but idk. anyway, I think the concept is solid but I hate the execution for a lot of reasons)

[ao3feed-ds9]

Interrogation

https://ift.tt/RgHfqct by stuffedtiger Sloan takes a drugged Julian to a meeting with his confederates. Written for AugustofWhump. Prompt: drugging Words: 300, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 5 of August of Whump 2024 Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Luther Sloan, Julian Bashir Relationships: Julian Bashir/Luther Sloan Additional Tags: drugged, Whump, Dark, Ambiguous references to possible rape/noncon, Interrogation, Truth Serum, Section 31 (Star Trek)

[the-last-dillpickle]

top 3 sloan stories you wrote

top 3 sloan stories other people wrote

Whoof, this took me a while to decide! Just three from others? 🫨 XD I decided to narrow it down a bit by only choosing one per author, and leaving out ones I feel I've talked about lots already. Still difficult tho. In no particular order:

Nightmare by ectogeo: Sloan gives a sleeping Julian a noncon handjob.

Imprisoned by walkingstalkofbooks: AU where Sloan uses Inquisition to imprison Julian. He then manipulates Julian into agreeing to wear a chastity device and allowing Sloan to jerk him off.

Dance of Fools by stuffedtiger: Humorous fic where Sloan forces Julian to pretend to be his boyfriend (for 'spy' reasons) at an event attended by the dastardly. Garak decides to attend with Sisko to thwart Sloan's designs on Julian.

My favorite Sloan fics that I wrote, in no particular order:

A Nocturnal Mission: crackfic about Sloan trying to entice Julian into doing a mission for S31.

New Lows: IAESL smut fic where Julian gets frustrated with Sloan during the conference and does a sexy lil powerplay.

The Jet-Setter: post-canon AU fic where Julian is depressed and living in the lap of luxury while playing to S31's whims.

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

Sloan Fuh-Q Fest 2024

Posted by: stuffedtiger   We are reviving the old Trek fandom tradition of Fuh-Q Fests by hosting one in honor of no one's favorite guy, Section 31 agent Luther Sloan from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! What is a Fuh-Q Fest, you ask? In short, it's a ficathon challenge focused around a particular character or ship. We are hosting our Sloan ficathon on AO3 and have written over 70 Sloan-related prompts that participants may claim and fill. The goal of this fest is to promote the writing of Sloan-centric fics in the year 2024, 31 years after the airing of the first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Feel free to write shippy stories, smutty stories, or gen stories--all ratings are welcome. We do, however, ask that all participants be at least 18 years of age to participate, since many of our prompts are intended for 18+ writers only. The deadline to claim and fill prompts is December 31st, 2024. To learn more, check out our AO3 Collection page. comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/JkLAv6l

[walkingstackofbooks]

My absolute fav atm: Escapees or Exiles series by serakit -- Julian's enhancements get discovered in his 3rd year at the Academy and he is forced to go on the run, eventually ending up on Terok Nor 2 years before the Occupation ends. It's INCREDIBLE and has such a great ensemble cast of both familiar characters and ocs that fit in absolutely seamlessly. I adore it to pieces.

Fav Odo fic: With a Little Help From My Friends by stuffedtiger -- "Following the events of "Broken Link," Odo has been having a hard time getting used to his human body. Julian Bashir offers to spend a day with him teaching him the 'how to' basics of taking care of his body--brushing one's teeth, shaving, doing one's hair, eating, bathing, etc." It's super sweet and charming!

For the feels: open up my eyes by sonhoedesrazao -- Miles & Julian and Miles/Keiko moments through season 7... It's so tender and I cried multiple times.

A couple of cheeky self-recs: Vision Awry - my WIP baby, a 3x17: Visionary remix, in which Julian is stuck in a time loop - and keeps being unable to save Miles from dying. And Don't Call Me Son (based on Hamilton's Meet Me Inside) - Ben's pretty sure that Julian's struggling after his month-long imprisonment. And he's certain that Julian should not be working -- so why has the doctor been holed up in his office all morning?

Other authors I've loved reading: ectogeo, sahiya, JacklegPenwright, thelastdillpickle, dukesmulcahy, Maeselc, DS9ItchtoScratch, Philosopher_King, Mercury17, AldaratheAlbatross, sapphose

Hey who's got the DS9 fic recs?

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[walkingstackofbooks]

My Julian ships, ranked

So someone commented on one of my Sloanshir posts the other day "I don't ship Sloanshir, but..." and that started me thinking - do I ship Sloanshir? What makes a ship?

And then that spiralled into thinking about all the other/actual ships I enjoy and I always enjoy getting an insight into how other people conceptualise shipping, so this came about...

(Now that I've done this, I realise my basis for a lot of these ships is basically where can the best hurt/comfort stories be found? ... Yeah I really should have been able to predict that 😅)

Platonic ships

Jadzia&Julian - best friends, understand each other so well (but also sometimes not at all), there for each other and just so much love.

Fluff: 8/10. Hurt/comfort: 10/10. Angst: 6/10.

Kira&Julian - slightly awkward, not thinking they're that close to each other until suddenly they are and there's a lot of love and respect. What their post-canon friendship could become is 👌👌👌

Fluff: 7/10. Hurt/comfort: 7/10. Angst: 7/10.

Romantic (mostly) ships

Miles/Keiko/Julian (+anyone else) - just the fluffiest, all the group hugs, all the comfort, everyone loves Julian and I'm happy 🥰

Fluff: 10/10. Hurt/comfort: 10/10. Angst: 5/10.

Miles/Julian - all the hurt/comfort, all the awkwardness and love 👌👌👌 top tier, I just love them.

Fluff: 8/10. Hurt/comfort: 10/10. Angst: 7/10.

Garak/Julian - there's a lot to be liked, but I can never quite believe that Garak's great at comfort, so it goes below Jiles, sorry. But all the parallels, all the mutual pining, an their arguments and banter and ridiculous fondness for each other despite everything - yeahhh that's the good stuff.

Fluff: 6.5/10. Hurt/comfort: 7/10. Angst: 9/10.

Leeta/Rom/Julian - I like Julian/Leeta well enough, but if you've got J/L you might as well add in Rom because as a trio they are just so cute. All of them having special interests and encouraging each other and listening to each other, all of them bent a little insecure and building one another up - idk, this is just really special to me (tysm to Udaberri's Fly Me to the Moon, this ship has never left my brain since).

Fluff: 10/10. Hurt/comfort: 8/10. Angst: 3/10.

Martok/Julian - mmmm internment camp angst and a highly accomplished Klingon admiring Julian and looking after him? Yissss. There's so much to love here.

Fluff: 5/10. Hurt/comfort: 9/10. Angst: 9/10.

Ezri/Julian - I just think they're neat. Cute and adorable, both absolutely rubbish with their feelings, an oasis of messy fluff in the middle of the war.

Fluff: 8/10. Hurt/comfort: 6/10. Angst: 5/10.

Sisko/Julian - I love the mutual respect, I love the desire overcoming Julian's insecurities and Sisko's doubts if his position makes this okay. I'm very here for them both looking after each other when everything gets too much, and both probably giving *too much* to each other and taking turns to overextend themselves and get scolded by the other.

Fluff: 6/10. Hurt/comfort: 8/10. Angst: 4/10.

Odo/Julian - I don't think this is endgame, but I can see it when Odo is human and Julian is helping him figure out how to do it (stuffedtiger's fic, while platonic, left a mark on me here) and also I love their parallels in their treatment and upbringing by their parental figure(s). 10/10 if there are no romantic feelings but they both act as if there are because they're curious and lonely and aren't quite sure what the difference between platonic and romantic is anyway (arospec solidarity for the wiiiiin)

Fluff: 7/10. Hurt/comfort: 6/10. Angst: 4/10

Data/Julian - it's just cute. The most autistic vibing ever. 😘😘😘

Fluff: 8/10. Hurt/comfort: 5/10. Angst: 2/10

Worf/Julian - I'm so here for Worf grudgingly admitting he likes the doctor, and Julian being surprised but pleased. Youngpettyqueen's fic and Worf's "he takes the pain well" are FEELS. Actually I think this is more of a fluff pairing than I'd realised XD

Fluff: 7/10. Hurt/comfort: 8/10. Angst: 4/10

Worf/Julian/Jadzia - I don't think it would work, but it would be fun to see them try. Everyone thinks they're more on board with it than they are.

Fluff: 6/10. Hurt/comfort: 5/10. Angst: 5/10

Not-ships... but I love to see it

Sloan/Julian - so creepy, so angsty, all the non/dubcon possibilities and Julian hates it. 👌👌 The mindfuckery that Sloan can bring is especially appealing.

Dukat/Julian - often brings a revenge-on-Garak vibe, again I enjoy it purely because Julian's not into it 😅

[nonbinary-odo]

Hello I am also on the hunt for more so here's a few I've enjoyed :)

Home and Vater/Vater/Vater/Vater by wetzelsfretzels are my big recs I am not normal about the Garak chapter of the latter.

Late Night Laments by bonfire_at_dusk

With a Little Help from My Friends by stuffedtiger

Hello, It's Me by beat_me_with_a_bag_of_coins

Does anybody have any Odo-centric fics recommendations? The character tags on ao3 sadly do not distinguish between someone being a main character or a side one. I'm mostly interested in character studies, exploration of frienships and hurt/comfort, but not opposed to shipping.

My guy for attention ✨

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

for the 2023 in review ask game

1, 18, 23

Yay, thanks for the ask!! <3 (2023 in review ask game)

one. What’s something new that you tried in a fic this year? How did it turn out and would you do it again?

I never thought I'd write about Garak dying in a fic because it makes me too sad to even consider, so that was a new thing for sure. As for how it turned out, the fic ended up amazing tbh (Julian goes full mad scientist and brings him back to life). <3 But I also don't plan to write that particular scenario again lmao. Anyway, the fic in question is save me from the dark (The Wire AU).

In terms of craft rather than content, in nothing to hide (holo!siskarak OMB AU) I used the format of switching back and forth between a series of flashbacks and a conversation about the events in those flashbacks to great effect. I managed to avoid writing all of the tedious descriptions of how characters got from point A to point B, as well as the rehashings of an episode everyone knows by heart, and ALSO skip over the gaps in the dialogue I didn't know how to bridge seamlessly. Felt like such a lifehack when I realized I could structure the fic that way. It won't work for everything, but I really am gonna try to apply what I learned from that experience to writing future fics.

18. What was the hardest fic to title?

home is wherever I’m with you (post-Second Skin garak exile angst + garashir first time). Pretty sure that I had that fic written and postable like weeks to a month before I had a title for it, like, that was the ONLY hold up. And I'm still not fully satisfied with that title tbh, but it's Fine.

23. Share the final version of a sentence or paragraph you struggled with. What about it was challenging? Are you happy with how it turned out?

Hmm. One kind and helpful thing that my brain does for me is that I immediately forget all the details of the parts that I struggled to write and/or was not happy with, once I've posted the fic. XD

(I just went back into a fic to try to quickly find a part I struggled with and ended up making minor wording tweaks and typo fixes throughout the whole fic, so at least I can definitively answer the "Are you happy with how it turned out?" part of this question with a resounding "ALMOST, but not entirely," which is basically applicable to every sentence I've ever written+posted lol!)

Anyway, here's some sentences from a section of the world will never take my heart (In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light whumpy hurt/comfort) that I def struggled with:

Julian presses his cheek hard against Garak’s shoulder and greasy tufts of his hair brush the side of Garak’s chin. Under the sharp smell of his blood, there’s an additional sourness that makes it clear that Julian hasn’t had a chance to wash up since his stint in solitary, but Garak doesn’t even consider pulling away.

This bit in the first draft was originally much more focused on Garak enjoying the feeling of having Julian in his arms but I changed that (upon your excellent and much appreciated suggestions, stuffedtiger! <3) in order to better fit the tone that I was going for. I do think it still reads romantic but at least now the romance is not the focus, the focus is more towards the horrible situation they're in.

[ao3feed-ds9]

Infinite Diversity Infinite Combinations Infinite Dimensions

https://ift.tt/ZFWrVv7 by stuffedtiger You seek a new experience with the non-corporeal wormhole aliens Words: 718, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Other Characters: The Prophets (Star Trek), Reader, Benjamin Sisko (discussed) Relationships: The Prophets/Reader, The Prophets/You Additional Tags: Reader-Insert, Crack, Parody, Rare Pairings, Xenophilia, non-corporeal beings, Multidimensional Sex

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[twinturboturtle]

A girl and her tiger! #kids #kiddos #kidsofig #kidsofinsta #instakids #daughters #stuffedtiger #fencesitting

[the-last-dillpickle]

ao3feed-ds9 seems to have been down for the last week, so I just wanted to point you Sloan fans over to stuffedtiger’s recent fic A Good Man, where Sloan lives out his fantasy of taking Garak’s place in Julian’s life via holosuite