#icepixie

(Or if you prefer, ✨! Or both!)

🤍what's one fic of yours you think people didn't "get"? ✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

these questions brought home for me that i'm extremely lucky, because i write for small-ish fandoms but my fic is pretty well-read and well-received in them. i don't have a good specific answer, so here are a few lesser-known fics that i like and that some people may have missed:

Palinopsia - Star Trek: The Next Generation. A short, gen post-ep about the ways Picard grieves/resolves the experience in "The Inner Light" so he can become himself again, while interacting with the Enterprise crew.

Dead Souls - Babylon 5. this one was written for you, for your niche OTP (ivanova/garibaldi), but i think i ended up with an interesting alternate season 5 character piece even for people who wouldn't go looking for that ship. susan stays in command of babylon 5, and i got the chance to visit with the lingering impact of some of my favorite unresolved ghosts (talia and marcus).

Lady and the Tramp - Stargate Atlantis. TOTAL mood shift from the above, but this is a very old season one era sparky fic that recently came to mind, because i think that we as a fandom sometimes ignore how deeply annoying john sheppard would be to date. (this was written in 2005, so long before "the real world," but there's a line in here about elizabeth's childhood fear being alone in a dream she can't wake up from, and that makes me a little sad now.)

choose violence 10: worst part of fanon:

all of fanon garak tee bee haitch. my GOD i cannot stand fanon garak. that man is a murderer! he's an assassin! he's genocidal! for fucks sake, he's not a softboi like i swear i see people write him as sometimes. He's a liar and manipulative and generally a bastard! julian forgives because he is a good man. i do not. (also it's EXTREMELY rare that I see a garak that actually LOOKS like garak in the face. idk precisely why.)

18: it's absolutely criminal that the fandom is sleeping on...

who else indeed!??!

7: most and least favorite things: Julian'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite thing about Jadzia, but her unabashed love for life is up there. Least favorite thing is her inability to refuse to accept that she's a bad cook.

Jadzia appreciates Julian's undying curiosity, and his desire to help people. She has mixed feelings on his typical arrogant attitude whilst he goes about doing that, though. (Sometimes his arrogant in-charge schtick is hot. sometimes it's just annoying)

15: What habits or characteristics have they picked up from each other?

A better question would be what habits haven't they picked up from each other, lol, especially considering Jadzia is already an amalgamation of eight beings and Julian has spent way too much time masking in public (he doesn't. like. show that he does absorb a lot of stuff, much to the Chief's chagrin, but internally. yeah). They're both very sciency and basically will infodump at each other in an unending feedback loop. Or, alternatively, they don't need to pick much up from each other because they already fit together well. I do think they'd pick some small unconscious habits up, though--Julian could well pick up Jadzia's penchant for walking with her hands behind her back, for instance.

18: Would they have kids together?

Oh look, I have unpublished fic about this! Basically, yes, though it would be damn near impossible for it to be an accident (so far as Julian knows) given genetics, and once they do decide to have kids (or at least do the requisite genetics research), Julian will get Major Nervous about becoming his parents, but Jadzia is there to pick him up and reassure him.

26: How are they with PDA?