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Garashir Defiant Fic

Sorry for the delay -- I had dinner and then the SCSC screening of “The Big Battalions” to get to :-)

Partly because @revolutionarygirlnerys was wondering whether my series was going to stay angsty and I thought I should try to get my head out of the angst pit for a while, I wanted to go in a more fun direction. Not that being at war on the Defiant is super fun, but where I see the timeline going is that the relationship is open at this point because there’s no way, no need, and no motivation to hide it anymore.

Here’s the first sentence for a sense of the tone:

Hahahaha! Good question! 

K - Say something nice about someone in any of your fandoms

@the-last-dillards is someone I am delighted to be in the fandom with. An excellent writer, invaluable archivist and garashir historian, creative mind, and just a lovely person. 

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

1. I like the recent spate of Garak and Keiko are plant friends fics in the Garashir fandom and hope there will be more.

2. More Datashir OR just Data on ds9.

3. More epic plotty fics that aren’t post-canon Cardassia (though I love those too!) Something like the tragically unfinished When the Farsei Blooms. 

O - Choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of

I asked Siri to play a random song and she came up with Skellig by Loreena McKennitt. The first line of that song is ‘Light the candle, John’ and that made me think of Beverly Crusher and the infamous Candle Ghost Episode. 

B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind

R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships

I always thought the awkward vibe that gets canonically addressed between Miles O’Brien and Kira Nerys while she’s knocked up with Yoshi could have been, you know... extended a little further. Like, I always wonder what would have happened if Keiko would have successfully TALKED the both of them into going on that vacation together! I know the polycule dynamic isn’t necessarily rare, but I find the idea of an illicit affair of which Keiko would certainly not approve to be... creatively interesting? If certainly not, like, APPEALING. And this has almost nothing to do with a Miles/Nerys pairing. More like... Miles and Keiko struggle to understand one another as committed partners; how would they function as nearly or perhaps even outright HOSTILE co-parents in the wake of a bitter split? Again. Like, I don’t treasure this notion. But I am curious about it!

U - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms

In no particular order other than that which comes to mind:

1) Hooded Justice / Will Reeves from the Watchmen TV series

2) Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse

3) Elim Garak from DS9

4) Han Solo from Star Wars

5) Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

I answered a bit about it here! I had so many time travel ideas after reading your fic that I had to jot something down, but being me it has to be unnecessarily angsty. 

Here are a few more excerpts from Through Tangled Glass:

Oh, I’ve got a number of interestingly named ones I could’ve dropped ;) (‘Slutty Cardassians’ and ‘Jadzia’s Ringworms’ being two of my faves.)

But Dukat’s Peens! (Very very important to talk about those.) I have been slowly chugging along at this one forever but I am determined to finish it. Basically, Dukat goes to Dr Bashir for a very sensitive problem (his hemipenes have prolapsed, oh no!) and he gets not the solution he was hoping for. He’s also just generally a dick during the appointment.

Excerpt:

“I must say, Doctor, you have a confident hand. You seem to be very familiar with holding a man’s ch’och.”

Bashir sighed and looked up from where he was examining the dried out tissue. “Dukat, if you’re going to be making comments like that, I can hand you off to one of the Bajoran doctors.”

Dukat lounged on the biobed in an examination gown, watching with amusement as Bashir worked.

Thanks for the ask! (For the Fandom ask meme)

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

Off the top of my head, 

1. At the moment, more edgy PWP where Garak is actually kind of scary. I am totally into all sorts of iterations of garashir, be it soft and cosy domestic or disturbing or silly or Garak is totally submissive and wants nothing more than to be dominated by Julian (which your excellent Blue Ink is a fantastic example of, OMG, and which I write a bit of myself because I do love that dynamic a lot), but when I first got into the fandom, and when I got back into it more recently, there was a lot of ‘scary, dominant Garak’ sexy fic and now there isn’t and variety is the spice etc.

2. Post-canon garashir in which they do not end up on Cardassia. I do think it’s very natural that they do, given how much Garak longs to go home, but it’s fun to explore the idea of them ending up on Earth, like in my fic The Park, or on a Starfleet ship, like in @aurora-nova-fic‘s Starfleet spouse Garak works, or on another world, like the Vadari Chronicles (also by AuroraNova). But there aren’t many more examples that I can think of other than what I’ve listed here.

3. Readers interacting with each other in the comments of fics. I am not sure if other writers would like this or not, so I don’t tend to do it myself on other people’s fic, but occasionally two readers will get into a (short) conversation in the comments on one of my fics and I just love that. I would love to see it more.

W - 5 favorite ships and 5 kinks you like best for said ships

Ha, I’m not sure I have five ships, really, and I’m not sure I am really into kinks as such, more dynamics. Let me think...

1. Garashir - okay, like I said, I think Garak really likes to be dominated by Julian. He really likes it when Julian tells him what to do, orders him to get on his knees, and uses his body a bit for his own pleasure. 

2. Jeeves and Wooster - I don’t know! I really like these two as a pair, but not sure about kinks. Maybe Bertie likes to be blindfolded and held down sometimes? Spanked a bit? Yeah, that’s kind of hot.

3. Garashir again - public sex, like in a closet in the Infirmary or a quiet corner of the station.

4. Garashir again - scent marking. I really like the idea of possessive Garak marking Julian, and Julian maybe not quite understanding exactly what that means at first.

plots murder???

[ WIP ask meme ]

"Bad End"

lol that’s the one I think I’ve told you about where jezri ended up going on way too long, long beyond what either of them was getting anything out of; he has 2 kids with ezri one of whom is special needs he can’t even pretend he doesn’t resent, they’re divorced, he’s a grim and frustrated person and anyway, he gets sent to try to recover a federation spy who got captured by the cardassians on their way back from a mission to romulan space, and that means petitioning garak who is frankly not jazzed to see him, but nevertheless grants him the favor and then tells him to fuck off forever