I am down in the gutter of yet another ship, folks.
Give me your recs for Garashir fics, I'm a Sucker for hurt confort, heavy angst and the whole sadness ordeal, but I'm not interested in smut.
Important note: I am autistic - therefore insane about Julian Bashir
Give me something cuz I'm eating ao3 whole right now.
I am also not overly fond of smut, so I have the ones that are straight-up not smut and the ones where you can skip the smut scenes without losing the overall story.
No smut:
The Epilogue Tales by treepyful: Postwar, a re-exiled Garak winds up as a civilian spouse on Julian's next posting.
The Carrington by Anguilliformes: Julian has to go back to Earth with his Carrington Award nomination to attend the reception/awards ceremony in person. Really not wanting to go to Earth, he invites Garak as his plus-one. Romance ensues.
Invisible String by cemetrygatess: Soulmate fic where Julian and Garak have an empathic link and Julian has a lot of augment angst about how Jules was Garak's soulmate, not Julian.
marry me a little by susiecarter: Julian marries Garak to keep him from getting extradited to Cardassia and romance ensues.
Murder on the Lakarian Train by Steerpike13713 is sadly abandoned but what's there is great fun-- it's the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries AU, featuring Julian on a Cardassia where the withdrawal from Bajor was accompanied by a revolution on Cardassia, seemingly exiled from the Federation for mysterious reasons. And Garak as a detective who has to deal with this flashy human crossing his murder cases all the time.
Yesterday is Heavy by sapphose: Starting towards sleeping with Julian triggers a panic attack for Garak; Julian helps him through the aftermath.
Skippable smut:
Into That Good Night by sahiya: Post-series, Julian's PTSD overcomes him and he attempts suicide; Garak is summoned back from Cardassia to help him; we get a close look at what mental healthcare in the Federation looks like and also much hurt/comfort. (Really anything by sahiya is good on the hurt/comfort.)
Differential Diagnosis by Trillion_G: Julian is mysteriously ill with something he can't diagnose. Garak is worried. Also the Enterprise is visiting the station.
And if you'll permit me a self-rec (firmly in the no-smut category), my Escapees or Exiles series, which is an exile Julian story where he gets outed as an augment partway through the Academy, runs, and winds up on Terok Nor helping the Bajoran Resistance. It's the slowest of burns, but the Garashir is most definitely present throughout. (Also autistic trans Julian.)
That should be enough to keep you busy for a bit!