replicarters:

REAL FUCKING TALK i love that deep dish 9 is where people collectively decided to go with a ds9 au… it’s so pure… this show about war and death and the highs and lows of life and they’re all just out here making pizza. it’s the level of peace i wish for every one of them really. i want their biggest drama to be running out of pepperoni on a friday night. they deserve that much

finalfrontiiers:

ok someone who has been in the ds9 fandom longer than me seriously needs to explain to me what deep dish nine is. I get that it’s a pizza shop au, but there’s tons and tons of content from all different people about it rather than just like one fic.. so is it kinda like an au that lots of ds9 fans latched onto and it grew into like a sub-fandom of the ds9 fandom??

It’s sort of a collective AU that still goes around to this day, tons of people love it (me included, I wrote some DD9 fics too). It all started with this post here and everyone kind of loved the idea from the start. Dozens of headcanons came up in matter of days, but there are no real rules, except for two: everyone is human, everyone is alive.

There’s also the  Deep Dish Nine tumblr and the Deep Dish Nine archive if you want to know more. Also someone made a video about it a while ago: