Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
don’t get me wrong, the “we can’t be together publicly because of the optics” thing that is often used in garashir fic is very very juicy content, but every time i go back to the source material to try and figure out how their relationship would actually play out in canon, I find shit like this
BASHIR: How did you get Delavian chocolates? GARAK: I promised my supplier I wouldn’t tell, but since I deprived you of your dessert, I’d be more than happy to bring some by the Infirmary later this afternoon. BASHIR: Why thank you, I’d like that.
they LITERALLY already act like boyfriends. we don’t see this happen because garak goes and blows up his shop right after this and the chocolates don’t reappear until julian regifts them to him at the docking bay but that’s what he was planning to do! just stop by his work and give him a box of chocolates in front of the whole staff, presumably.
then after garak leaves julian goes and has lunch with miles and openly pines for garak’s stimulating conversation, but that’s a discourse for another day
Another little song vid :) that’s my three top Garashir songs out of my head and into the universe .. This one was much improved by great advice from @ectogeo-rebubbles - many thanks indeed
sometimes the klingon restaurant owner serenades garashir with love ballads on his little space accordion like the dude from lady and the tramp. due to cultural and language barriers he doesn’t understand that they’re supposed to be closeted because their home planets are on opposite sides in an interstellar conflict and also because they are Tele Vision characters and the year is 1995. there has probably never been a closeted klingon ever. he’s very earnest and passionate and the only thing he loves more than food is love. he sings to everyone who comes in on dates. bashir tries to get him to stop at first but then it’s like, whatever…. fuck it…… it’s a small station….. it’s not exactly That secret that they’re together anyway. plus it does make garak smile a little bit even though he pretends to hate it
I mean obviously I would fuck a monster but more than that I would bond emotionally with a monster over our shared sense of alienation and rejection from a hostile universe. together we would explore our deep-seated fear of being inherently unlovable, and reassure each other of our innate value as sentient beings deserving of love and kindness. i will hold them gently, and wipe the tears from their googly eyestalk-tentacles, and something will begin to heal