Recs Request: DS9

[rsadelle]

So I'm watching my way through DS9, and the second season has a very large number of episodes that focus on one character. This weekend, I got to "The Wire," in which Garak's implant causes him pain and Bashir has to take care of him. Through the withdrawal. It's a serious Garak/Bashir episode, which got me looking for Garak/Bashir fic. Sadly, I'm not having much luck. Happily, I did find "Letters from the Northern Continent" by Hoyden, which is excellent. Anyone know of any other Garak/Bashir worth reading?

Comments

[dine.livejournal.com]

thanks for the rec - I enjoyed that story!

DS9 has never been one of my fandoms, but I've read Garak/Bashir on occason. I bookmarked this site ages ago - can't speak to the quality of most of the stories (can't even remember which I've read) but you might find something decent. http://www.strangefits.com/sfop/archive/archive1.html

[rsadelle]

Thank you! I found a later issue of that zine, which was uniformly bad, but I'll try out the earlier issues!

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

It's been forever and a day since I read DS9 fic, but I do have a rec for one of Kathryn Ramage's stories here (http://norwich36.livejournal.com/15604.html#cutid3), and that will probably get you to her website--I remember her being very good.

[rsadelle]

Yeah, I'm working my way through her stuff, which I've read most of before. It's mostly bad, in an overly melodramatic way, but there are a few moments of good. ("
Green Silk" is one that I was thinking of when I started looking for Garak/Bashir stories. I like the concept, but it doesn't quite hold together - it's too melodramatic at the end, and the plot holding it together is too flimsy. It would work better as a comedy.)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I was going to warn you about the "things I used to love that I now think are crap" factor in a lot of old fandoms of mine, but I see you've discovered it yourself. I was a lot less discriminating in my early days of reading fanfic, I think, and the DS9 period definitely counts as the early days.

I hope you find some decent Garak/Bashir somewhere, though.

[rsadelle]

I don't know that I loved any of this before - I didn't read Garak/Bashir until much later in my fandom days - but I do know the effect you're talking about!