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“We would like to offer our sincere condolences regarding the passing of your husband,” Ethrand states in a lofty drawl.
Julien sees Aranessa’s jaw go taut. “Thank you for thinking of us in our time of mourning,” she grates out.
“Of all Houses, House Tachonis would never seek to downplay or invalidate the importance of a mourning period. However, certain circumstances warrant a loosening of the proscribed timelines.”
Julien’s jaw falls ajar. He can't possibly mean...?
“I fear I fail to understand you," Aranessa hisses. "Elaborate.”
“All this recent unpleasantness was the consequence of years of unfortunate misunderstandings between our two houses. In contravention of what one might expect, I am pleased to say that I am here with an entreaty of peace.”
Aranessa allows a long silence to transpire, one that seems to make even Ethrand uncomfortable. “I will hear the details.”
“In exchange for a lasting peace, we only seek to solemnize this new alliance with a vow.” Ethrand smirks. “Accordingly, my father offers you the hand of my brother Occtis in marriage.”
Julien looks down at the rug. If he doesn’t look down at the rug, he’s going to start shouting.
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28 Jun 2026
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[Spoilers for C4E31.]
“You embarrassed me,” Occtis hisses. “You embarrassed me today.”
The boy is standing over the bed, gaze fixed on the mattress, seeing nothing as his clever mind fixates on some unknown fact of Julien’s prior conduct.
Julien tries to play the day’s hectic events back through his mind, but their flight from Dol-Makjar was a fearful one plagued by paranoia, so much so that he finds his recall hampered. He’s sure he was an asshole to everyone all day, but he doesn’t remember aiming it at Occtis, at least not on purpose.
Waiting for Occtis to volunteer information tends to involve more patience than Julien has handy, so he’d might as well ask. “When did I embarrass you?”
Occtis still doesn’t look at him. “You picked me up like a sack of grain in front of all of our colleagues.”
Of all the things to have a fight about right now, Julien feels like this isn’t the one he’d personally pick, and a stupid part of him wants to say so. An even stupider part of him wants to point out that that was last night, not today.
He manages to hold his tongue on these two points, but he can’t keep his ire from his tone. “What did you expect me to do? Leave you behind?”
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27 Jun 2026
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House Davinos is in debt. House Halovar has wealth―as well as an increasingly desperate need to improve public opinion on their church’s traditional hostility toward faerie kind. Marrying into a faerie-blessed family, especially one which needs to quietly solve their financial troubles, is simply good business.
Julien, after spending several years being a disappointment to his father, is finally asked to step up and secure this alliance―he will be marrying the eldest Halovar son, Wicander.
Occtis, a pariah of his own family and Wicander’s closest friend, is dedicated to his studies and has all but withdrawn from high society―he has no particular interest in marriage, or any attention at all.
Neither Occtis nor Julien expect their chance meeting at a ball, nor the instant, magnetic connection that they share.
Also known as the regency AU I simply needed to get out of my brain ☕
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24 Jun 2026
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"What–?" She sounds as blindsided as he feels. She takes him by the shoulders, turning him to face her. "Occtis, I leave you alone for one day and now I find out you're betrothed to Julien fucking Davinos?"
"I-I—" Occtis stutters, heart pounding in his ears, "didn't know?"
Over Thaisha's shoulder he can see Julien glaring at him like he's personally at fault for this mess, nevermind that he most certainly is not.
Or: The Tachonis temporarily stay their hand and Occtis survives the night at the Palazzo Davinos. Turns out there's more than one way to try to protect an unwanted son.
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24 Jun 2026
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What Ho, Garak! by LadyYateXel (XelBleedsGlitter), tinsnip
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, DS1920s
28 Mar 2017
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Well, it's a bit of a complex sort of story. I mean, it's hard for a fellow to know where to begin. Was it when Dax finagled me into agreeing to get hitched? Or was it when my man Garak dropped callous words on my astounded ears? Or was it the hungry look in the Lady's eye?
Oh, it's no good: I'll just have to start at the beginning. Brace yourselves, and let Uncle Julian spin for you a tale that'll have your locks porpentinial in about two-and-a-half shakes.
(PG Wodehouse's 'Jeeves and Wooster' meets DS9's 'Garak and Bashir'. Expect ridiculous dialogue, giggle-inducing hijinks, and Garak to make it all right again after Julian's made it all wrong.)
Written by tinsnip. Illustrated by Lady Yate-Xel. (For more of Lady's art in this 'verse, may I suggest perusal of the tumblr tags ds1920s and what ho garak, among others?
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31 Aug 2025
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Garak writes to Bashir. Bashir writes to Garak. The letters, and the spaces in between.
(This one got me called the Jane Austen of Outer Space, which I will probably get tattooed on my forehead. It took ten years to write and I’m tremendously proud of it. If you like dialogue, pining, dialogue, flirting, dialogue, and Cardassia, please enjoy!)
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29 Aug 2025
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Garak grabs his wrist. Hard.
“Don’t look back. Keep your eyes on me.”
He’s going to have a bruise. He tries to tug away, can’t budge. “Garak! Let me go—”
“Trust me and don’t look back.”
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- Part 2 of Every lyric tells a story
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29 Aug 2025
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“So, I’m to understand that you’re upset because — barring further daring heroics in the name of frontier medicine — you may only attain the average human lifespan?”
Julian inspects his own toes. “A bit, yes.”
After a moment, Garak says, conversationally: “The meteoric trajectory of your medical career may have to be compressed, I suppose. Carrington Award rescheduled for, what, forty-five or so? Admission to the Interplanetary Consortium of Physical Medicine bumped up to seventy? Now, don’t scoff, my dear Julian. If anyone can do it, it’s you.”
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Julian's actions on Cardassia have bargained-for consequences, and Garak grapples with ghosts.Bookmarked by InnocentAlice
28 Aug 2025
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Garak picked through the detritus that remained of his shop, and considered his options.
It wasn't going to be easy. Of course it wasn't. The Federation had every reason to be exceptionally careful with the artifact the Bajorans had so courteously lent them—and every reason not to let a Cardassian in the same room with it.
(Set during 1.01. Garak receives an unexpected visitor—and is taken to an even more unexpected place.)
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17 Aug 2025
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Innogen Bashir had always known exactly what she wanted to do with her life. She’d planned it out in early childhood and made sure to do whatever she could to keep everything on that path: pursue design as a vocation, move to London and take a job at a prestigious firm, marry the woman of her dreams and create a body of work that would live on long after her, and to top it off, still have time to go out dancing. That was her plan.
But as the saying goes, when man makes plans, God laughs.
(Sidestory/prequel to Stubborn Mouths: Humans In Translation.)
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- Part 2 of Stubborn Mouths
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16 Aug 2025
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It just figured that the first time Julian Bashir set foot on Cardassia after the war, it would be halfway around the world from Elim Garak.
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12 Aug 2025
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Julian doesn't think about it much these days. Why should he, when it's been so long?
But when he does, if he does, well—he considers it part and parcel of Garak, that's all. Disconcerting at first, a little invasive. Awfully close to a line but not quite crossing it, and leaving Julian with absolutely no idea what he's meant to do in response. Garak in microcosm, summarized in a single unexpected gesture.
(Or: Julian has always thought Garak just had a weird little habit. Until another Cardassian does the same thing to him, and seems to imbue the gesture with a meaning Julian really had not anticipated.)
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12 Aug 2025
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Bucky Barnes Is Five Eleven, and Other Lies He Tells Supervillains by AggressiveWhenStartled
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
08 Aug 2018
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Sam Wilson trudged back into the house, dripping with sweat, stumbling out of his running shoes and stripping his shirt off as he went. He made it to the kitchen and pulled a carton of orange juice out of the fridge, got the cap off, and almost wore it instead when Bucky Fucking Barnes smacked him upside the back of the head.
“Use a glass, the rest of us gotta drink that,” Barnes complained, sliding a tumbler across the counter at him. “I don’t want your germs.”
Sam looked Barnes in the eye, raised the OJ, and took a healthy swig.
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27 Mar 2025
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Cold Frame by NamelessDragon
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
21 Jun 2026
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“There’s a body in the garden.”
The words were spoken calmly, while Bucky kept his eyes locked onto the gangly form prostrate in the dirt outside. When he’d spotted it in a casual pass of the window, he’d experienced shock for all of half a second before he’d quickly transitioned into acceptance and wariness.
He stepped back from the window as Steve rushed up, a damp blue dish towel in his hands. Steve’s eyes immediately narrowed in on the form that was face down by the tomato plants. It was a good sign that Bucky wasn’t hallucinating, and a bad sign in that it meant the corpse in the garden was real.
Steve gave Bucky a look, the corners of his mouth sternly downturned.
“I didn’t put it there,” Bucky said, just in case that was in question.
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A mostly-dead Loki shows up face-planted in Bucky’s garden one day while Steve’s over for lunch. (Throws Infinity War/Endgame deaths and other parts of canon out the window.)
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24 Mar 2025
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ain't really quaint by quietnight, silentwalrus
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types
01 Apr 2019
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Natasha stops by on a Tuesday, early enough in the morning that it would have been late by Steve’s old standards. Now, though, it takes him nearly three minutes just to limp to the door, yawning, and when he opens it he has to lean heavily on the doorframe.
“Hi,” Natasha says, over the beginnings of birdsong. She’s not alone. “Can we come in?”
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- Part 1 of farm hell
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17 Mar 2025
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Steve Rogers Ruins Christmas: a Thanksgiving Miracle by AggressiveWhenStartled
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
05 Dec 2020
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“I know I spent a while frozen in the arctic,” Steve said as he slowly reshut the driver’s side door and stepped back to take in the view. “So I guess I haven’t had a chance to see everything here in the future. But I was not expecting a Bavarian-themed Taco Bell with the KFC guy standing out front wearing lederhosen.”
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16 Mar 2025
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Bucky Barnes and the Embarrassment of Spidermen by AggressiveWhenStartled
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
13 Dec 2020
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“Peter,” Steve said into the table. “Please tell me you didn’t bring home someone from Tony’s alternate dimension.”
“Of course I didn’t,” Peter said, looking indignant. “I wouldn’t do that. I brought him to your place.”
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- Part 2 of The Old Codgers Greatest Hits Album
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16 Mar 2025
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The Thousandth Man by Ophelia_j for greenforsnow
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series
30 Dec 2018
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In the wake of pon farr, the events on Vulcan are weighing heavy on Spock and his Captain. But will their attempt to fix the problem only make things worse?
Now with beautiful art by the amazing Seraph5: 😍❤️
https://seraph5.tumblr.com/post/647820342703931392/kissing-this-one-is-for-opheliaj-over-at-ao3-for#notes
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09 Oct 2024
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Stranded on the planet Sigma Nox while searching for a missing away team, Spock and Kirk find themselves pitted against a disturbing native life form. With the captain out of commission on a regular basis and Spock struggling to preserve his stoicism, staying alive is difficult enough – but when a slim chance for escape surfaces, their resolve is truly put to the test. Together they must fight for survival in the heart of an alien jungle, and in the process, uncover the mystery of the planet’s past. Slow build K/S.
Written for the 2011 Star Trek Big Bang on Livejournal - look for links to the mix and art there!
Warnings: Minor character death. Mind control themes and sort-of-zombies. Dark at times due to twisted xenobiological shenanigans. Mild themes of stress-related weight loss. Heaps of TOS references and/or spoilers. Eventual smut. Freakishly long chapters.
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08 Oct 2024
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Jim escapes to Iowa to avoid the media frenzy following the Narada incident, but a late-night miscommunication results in Spock turning up on his front porch.
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- Part 1 of Entering Orbit
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03 Oct 2024