amalthia: (Firefly Zoe)
[personal profile] amalthia
To be more specific does anyone know of any good long Bashir stories? I'm kind of totally falling in love with his character and don't even know where to start to find good fics for Deep Space Nine.

Date: 2010-02-21 12:43 am (UTC)
garryowen: made by signe (enterprise)
From: [personal profile] garryowen
Okay... I posted a comment, and it didn't show up. What's the deal, DW? Seriously, both LJ and DW have been eating my comments all day.

Anyway, as I was saying:

I have found some good stuff in older fandoms at AO3. Also, Ad Astra has some seriously long novels in the DS9 section, and the first one to show up has an award. Whatever that's worth. I've never seen the show, so I'm not that helpful.

Date: 2010-02-21 12:47 am (UTC)
garryowen: made by signe (Default)
From: [personal profile] garryowen
Oh! No, Ad Astra is an archive, not an author. In the DS9 section there, you'll find novels -- it looks like it might be good stuff.

Ad Astra

Date: 2010-02-21 12:52 am (UTC)
garryowen: made by signe (enterprise)
From: [personal profile] garryowen
Sorry I can't be more helpful. There might be some TOS authors writing in DS9... I should really watch that show sometime. It's on my list.

Date: 2010-02-21 12:55 am (UTC)
garryowen: made by signe (enterprise)
From: [personal profile] garryowen
You know, I got into Smallville fandom by reading fic first. So, if you come across any stories that someone unacquainted with the show could read, send them my way!

Date: 2010-02-21 02:04 am (UTC)
intransitive: (ds9 left behind)
From: [personal profile] intransitive
Well, they are not the longest stories ever, but thehoyden @LJ (sorry, my LJ user tag isn't working!) has some amazing Bashir/Garak stories that are my favorite for that pairing, here: http://thehoyden.livejournal.com/tag/fic:%20deep%20space%20nine. The best is Letters from the Northern Continent, set post-series. It's kind of hard to find good long Bashir stories since so much of the fandom was originally on listservs and zines. If you like the Garak/Bashir pairing I can probably dig up some other stories.
Edited Date: 2010-02-21 02:05 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-21 03:33 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] intransitive
Okay! A Dark Stone for a Heart is a great post-series story from Bashir's POV. Then there's the Garak & Bashir Mysteries series, which is super long, and even though it kind of ends up seeming a little out of character, it's such an dramatic story that I couldn't stop reading. Oh, and this story is an awesome re-write of the episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" that obviously focuses on Bashir.

And it's a lot of work to dig through, but this rec list has some great stories in it. I've also had luck going through the Garak/Bashir tags on Delicious, though I ended up having to use the Wayback Machine to access many of them. There's also the LJ comm, Doctor, Tailor, which is definitely an exercise in patience to go through, but it was worth it for me when I was in my Garak/Bashir fic obsession.

Hope some of this is helpful!

Date: 2010-02-21 09:15 am (UTC)
intransitive: (garak <3 bashir)
From: [personal profile] intransitive
I really wish DS9 had been aired a few years later than it was, just so the fandom would have more of an online presence. It's my favorite of the Star Trek franchise and it's too bad there's not more fanfic online. There's been a recent upswing in the LJ comm lately, I think because the new Star Trek reboot kindled peoples' interest, so that's been kind of neat.

Date: 2010-02-21 10:55 am (UTC)
intransitive: (Default)
From: [personal profile] intransitive
I hope you will write your own :) There can never be enough good fic!

Date: 2010-02-21 07:17 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] slrcosmos.livejournal.com
Here's a fic that I read a long time ago, managed to find it again on Fanfiction.net. It's long and involves time travel. I will warn you that there's Bashir whumping, but that's one of the reasons I love it.
Oswiecim by Gabrielle Lawson (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3636/1/Oswiecim)

Date: 2010-02-21 08:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] slrcosmos.livejournal.com
It's been a while since I read it, but Julian ends up in 1943 on Earth during World War II. I think he ends up pretty beat up and there is original character death. It involves the Holocaust. If I remember correctly, there's no sexual violence.

Date: 2010-02-22 08:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] slrcosmos.livejournal.com
Okay I found another one that I remember. It has plenty of violence and non-con. Gul Dukat forces Bashir to become his slave. It has some spoilers for events and characters that happen later in the series, but it's not a prominent part of the story. It just adds to the enjoyment. I had to find the link on Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/web/20010425123850/http://www.yowf.clara.net/sexyscalyscary.htm