I feel a little bit alone in my DS9 ship
Now, this is absolutely NOT me having anything necessarily against Garashir, as it’s a ship that does very much have its merits and it’s my headcanon that Garak’s pansexual and Julian’s bi, but here’s the context: ever since I first got into DS9 all the way back during the lockdown, I’ve been imagining Julian shipped with a fem OC of mine, a half-Romulan Starfleet engineer but that’s not important, and in more recent months I’ve been starting to feel a touch of loneliness in being one of very few Julian x OC shippers.
The vast majority of people are in the Garashir camp - which as I say is absolutely not a problem and it does make me snort to imagine that Julian and his OC wife of mine have a dynamic with Garak where it’s like the latter can be seen as The Crafty Other Husband Who Came Free With the AccommodationTM - but it sometimes makes me feel a bit isolated when I see how few Julian x OC/Reader fics there are, as though if I try getting out my thoughts and my ideas for mine, no one’s going to like them. I know it’s irrational but it’s just a little thing niggling at me. ❤️