



Title: The Death of Dignity
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Genre: Fluff
Rating & Warnings: PG (for fail!seduction oh Julian)
Words: 1768
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Summary: Dr. Bashir and Garak learn that the ideals of masculine beauty are not standard across their species and experience the loss of the illusion of constant attractiveness.
Author’s Notes: So I’ve been reading A Stich In Time lately, which has had the direct result of turning all my fic into ludicrous amounts of silly fluff because there is only so much heartbreak any one person can be expected to bear. This would be some of the particularly silly stuff that sprang from an amusing mental image and my fascinations with species differences, the effects of politics on fashion, and words and phrases that hang around long past the point where they’re obsolete (“batten down the hatches,” anyone?).
Additional disclaimer: I am not an artist. I am someone who was bored in class for years and years. If you’re looking for actual, properly illustrated fanfic, please go read Lady Yate-Xel’s.Crossposted to my fic journal.
Julian is trying to sleep when suddenly his door opens:
Garak: Come, Doctor, get dressed. We need to be going.
Bashir: Going? Going where?
Garak: To Bajor.

Just in case you were all concerned that I forgot what they looked like in space.
….i just noticed i forgot to give Bashir even a hint of clothes.
drew this with a ballpoint pen in the back of a moving car! Lady uses bachelor’s degree! it was very effective!
lady sobs quietly
Freak transporter/mirror universe incident switches Deep Dish Nine!Garak and Deep Space Nine!Garak’s places. DS9 Garak and DD9 Julian literally have no way of helping the switch back thanks to the lack of technology and they have to hope that everyone on DS9 will be able to figure it out while they hide DS9 Garak in DD9 Garak’s apartment. They both try to deal with the real possibility that the swap is permanent Julian sees a more dangerous version of Garak who is also a literal alien to him, and DS9 Garak discovers that apparently all he needed to be for DS9 Bashir to be interested in him was human.
and then Lady hates herself for drawing this and puts it on Tumblr to make others suffer