#interrogation was something

[ok-rookie]

Cabernet's kinda 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔃...

She's been eyeing the Chief like candy the entire interrogation. Chief's so much better than me, I'd fold on the spot

[kohi-karasu]

accomplice au where akira actually partners up with akechi when he asks him to, but his plans are already set in motion, so the whole interrogation room still happens except this time akira escapes with akechis help

[sinful-lanterns]

Thoughts on Graves in the Demon AU?

Something unique with Graves is that she is a Demon who chooses to form a blood pact with you, rather than form a pact through sexual fluids 😅

While the other Demons formed a pact with you by having sex, Graves opts for something far more romantic. She pricks her finger and lets her blood drip onto an enchanted wedding ring of her own creation, and then slides the band over your finger to seal a pact that reads more as a marriage than a sex contract. Also, whenever you summon Graves, instead of a collar-like symbol glowing on your neck like the other Demons, Graves’ sigil is wrapped around your left ring finger, forming the shape of a ring rather than a collar. It’s something unique only to Graves as none of the other Demons’ magic allows them to do this.

Graves definitely has urges though just like the other Demons, but she holds off on sleeping with you until the contract is complete. Graves is a traditional romantic at heart after all, she wants to sleep with you only after marriage <3

[sillystarr565]

does little shadow milk have any agere gear? Like pacis or toys or something? He seems like the kinda little to looooove to be wrapped in soft blankets

Hihii!! I think he’d most definitely really like plushies a lot,, plushies a dolls a puppets of the like yaknow.. bein like a plushie maker an all!! The little bunny toy would be his favorite me thinks hehe :3 I do agree with you with the blankiets a lot I feel he’d just wanna wrap himself up in warmth and niceness when he’s stressed or down or tired to feel secure n comfortable ,, need a moment to him self to calm downsss

I don’t think he’d use any gear gear stuff though like soothers n sippys and stuff thouhg, a big hc for me is that he’s not aware that he regresses, so he wouldn’t have stuff like that,, I see him chewing on his nails/fingers and sleeves n the like as a substitute for like teehtiers n stuff so like. He wouldn’t have blatant obvious gear but he would find ways to improvise subconsciously :3

And even if/when he eventually does find out about it I dunno!! I’d imagine if he did start using gear it would take a while to get comfortable with it after goin so lomg without it? Maybe he wouldn’t use it at all a find comfort in habits he already grew accustomed to? Or maybe there’d be comfort in finding things quite literally made for his makeshift habits?? I haven’t really thought about that a lot to be honest :( maybe sometimes he does and sometimes does not! I’m sure the way I portray and think about him will be inconsistent though lol

[satoblue]

it is so canon to me that nanami’s daughter has a crush on satoru’s son

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 119

Sam and Danny accidentally blow up social media. Except Danny just gets to laugh at the headlines.

Recluse Manson daughter and *insert Batkid name here* caught red handed

It was another fake out make out fiasco. Sam had agreed to go to a stupid gala. Only because vlad was going. Danny hated his eyes in front of his mom to make vlad take him along. He doesn’t trust the fruitloop.

Of course she and Danny were finding out why vlad had to come to this particular Galla in Gotham. It was some stupid overshadowing scheme. They put a stop to it and Danny phased them into the coat closet.

They didn’t think a reporter had managed to get into the gala. Let alone get a picture of them.

[dangcrabbit]

What if Hoffman was in the interrogation room who’s pants are coming off first

[3liza]

if you're a person who's helping a Palestinian with a fundraiser can you answer a question for me? im trying to get a handle on how and why certain failure states keep happening. my primary question is why do campaigns keep getting banned with money still in them? GoFundMe allows the account holder to withdraw the money at any time, so why are people letting it sit there where it can be lost?

[fleet-off]

The Magazine Quiz Conundrum (part 1)

This bulletfic adapted from a delightful conversation with @lu-sn lu and @supernovasimplicity boots.

After a few awkward visits postcanon, Tankhun magnanimously decides to break the ice with Pete by giving him one of those “how compatible are you and your lover” magazine quizzes

The goal, he assures Pete, is to find Pete a different boyfriend figure out who Pete is because Tankhun doesn’t know anymore have fun. Tankhun is the best at fun, ask anybody

Naturally, Tankhun picks Vegas’s answers. He generously allowed Pete to answer for Vegas a couple times, but Pete kept choosing wrong and that cannot be allowed

And Pete’s type, going by the quiz, is a home cook who will respect Pete’s grandmother—really Vegas ought to save everyone some trouble and give him back now

…The quiz comes back “98% compatible”

The next quiz says “soulmates”

The sixth one proclaims “your love is HOT and SPICY 🌶️🌶️🌶️”

Well, a few of them were bound to be broken. Sometimes you can’t tell right away which quizzes are trustworthy and which ones will betray you in the end. Right, Pete? *tosses magazine into the growing pile behind the sofa*

Tankhun eventually decides they’re getting bad results because these quizzes are asking the wrong questions. How can you expect to learn the truth from a faulty premise?

He’ll just have to design his own quiz for next time Pete comes over

(By which he means he’ll write the first three questions and then delegate the rest to Arm and Pol with firm instructions to ensure that Pete fails)

(Wanting Pete to fail is not pettiness, by the way. Tankhun is awakening Pete to the truth—it’s actually the kindest thing he could do)

The result is a winding and incredibly specific quiz that features several pointed mentions of Pol getting shot and descriptions of Vegas’s general inability to love anybody

Pete navigates the quiz awkwardly but flawlessly. He scores “a love that spans lifetimes,” it’s horrid

Afterwards, Tankhun looks over the quiz outcomes and realizes that not just one but several of them are positive. Enormous oversight on Arm and Pol’s part

Tankhun only punishes them a little. This is still fixable. And at least while Pete’s playing magazine quiz with Tankhun, he’s not in that dreadful apartment with dreadful Vegas

Arm, make the next quiz infinite

[fatalism-and-villainy]

One major overlap between Julian Bashir and Seven of Nine is the way they both have heightened, extra-human awareness of their own bodies and cognitive functioning - Seven runs self-diagnostics, Bashir is capable of raising his blood pressure at will - and yet they are both susceptible to human error, in ways that are deeply frustrating to them.

Seven’s initial struggle was in adjusting to being severed from the hive mind and thus reduced and weakened in her perception and capabilities; furthermore, she grew up in an environment where she was only a cog in a machine and any significant physical damage would result in termination. By extension, she is very unwilling to acknowledge physical weakness or vulnerability (as seen in episodes like Imperfection). And much of her arc revolves around her making mistakes despite her assurance of the efficacy and superiority of her methods, and learning to cope with her fallibility.

Bashir, as seen in episodes like The Quickening and Chrysalis, has enormous amounts of trouble dealing with failure, and the former episode makes it clear that his arrogance is wrapped up in his desperate fear of not measuring up (similar to how underneath Seven’s arrogance, she still has traces of the frightened, vulnerable child she once was). The augmentation reveal with Bashir gives a lot of context for that inferiority-superiority complex, and once his genetic enhancements are made public, he seems to feel pressure to make his abilities uniquely useful despite the socially marginalized position in which his enhancements threaten to place him. In Statistical Probabilities, one of his motivations in getting the other enhanced people involved in the statistically generated prognostication is his desire to prove that they can “contribute to society.”

With this in mind, there are some significant threads connecting Statistical Probabilities to The Voyager Conspiracy. Both episodes involve Bashir (along with the other augments) and Seven, respectively, undertaking massively complex cognitive processes in order to synthesize vast amounts of data into speculative conclusions - for potential outcomes of the Dominion War, and for theories regarding how Voyager came to the Delta Quadrant. Both are motivated by the desire to make their unique abilities useful to the institutional structures of which they are a part. And both episodes follow a structure in which each character is able to uncover something true and small-scale - with Bashir and the augments, it’s that the Dominion wants to acquire a planet that will allow them to produce ketracel-white, and with Seven, it’s that there is a photonic flea infestation - only to then have their speculations become much broader in scope and threaten to undermine either the ideals or the cooperative structures surrounding them.

There are significant differences between the episodes. Seven’s speculations are revealed to be straight-up false, and a result of her trying to assimilate more information than she can handle. With Bashir, the veracity of his observations is left ambiguous, and his putting a stop to the other augments’ plan to leak confidential information to the Dominion is largely spurred by political necessity (though the war does unfold differently from anticipated, in large part because of variables no one could have known about at that point). Seven’s failure is more directly linked to human limitations kneecapping her attempt to use her heightened cognitive abilities. But in both cases, their attempts to use mathematical precision in mapping out broad-scale events and systems of cause and effect, in ways that only their minds are capable of, ultimately cannot fulfill the social function they intend for them.

[redgoldblue]

so assuming Avery is actually pregnant / doesn't early-trimester miscarry (which is not a given), there's two reasonable ways this can go, right. number one is she gets an abortion, the plotline is used to pull them all back together again, and they all have some collective hurt/comfort about it. number two, the one i would write - don't get me wrong, i'm all for women getting career-driven abortions, but hear me out - is the one where she does have the baby. under the cut bc it got long.

she goes to med school at first while pregnant - Max is right, it can be done, people in my cohort did it - and either gets lucky with the timing of the actual birth being during holidays, or just works her way to getting time off for a few weeks around it. And then... there's a baby. And you know what else there is? There's two dads (because we're 100% Mamma Mia-ing this bitch. they never find out who the bio dad is and they never seriously try. Baby comes out with Avery's exact skin tone so that's no clue.), and an entire cruise ship worth of backup babysitters. So Avery goes back to med school, and leaves the baby with Tristan and Max.

And, yes, raising a baby while also running an infirmary with a rotating cast of temporary substitute nurses filling Avery's role isn't the easiest thing they've ever done, but Robert loves fulfilling grandparent duties any time he's not on duty; Rosie gets one of those strap-on baby carriers and walks her (i don't know why i've decided the baby is a her but i have now) around the engine room pointing out parts and explaining concepts and hey, the baby never complains about her Michigan stories; Corey gets a cart and a bundle of clean sheets and pushes her down the corridors until the smell of laundry powder automatically makes her start laughing.

Max and Tristan make a pact to send Avery at least two photos a day - which ends up getting supplemented by everyone else who's with Baby - and FaceTime her most days, and whenever she gets a few days off she meets them in port. (The most expensive part of baby-raising ends up being her flights to wherever the Odyssey happens to be at the time, at least until Robert finds out and figures out a way to start paying her 'maternity leave', despite her insistence that the whole point of this is that she isn't maternity-leaving and he should probably be paying himself that and anyway, isn't she technically not an employee right now?)

And the thing is, during this time, Max and Tristan start... realising some things. Like how neither of them feel like they've lost their only partner, because they.. haven't. Like how the co-parenting's been working out better than either of them expected, because they fell instantly (minus a few minor bumps) into a shared rhythm. Like how sometimes they look at the other one holding Baby and feel like their heart's about to explode.

Also, they've both started sleeping in Max's bed. Because Baby's spent so much time sleeping in the corner of the infirmary that now if she wakes up at night and can't see both of them, she starts crying inconsolably. And obviously Max's suite is more suited to multiple inhabitants, and they're usually too damn exhausted to even remember the first time they were in this bed together.

(usually. most of the time. and when they're not, they don't make it the other's problem)

So at the end of the first year of this, the last two days of the year's last cruise have been packed with crisis after crisis after demanding patient after crisis, and as soon as they finally wave the last passenger off they hand Baby gratefully over to Robert and go crash out in Max's bed.

Avery was supposed to be meeting them on board tomorrow, but her last exam gets unexpectedly moved up by a day (believe me, med school loves to pull that kind of shit on you), so a couple hours after the passengers have gone, she shows up to surprise them. And finds Robert (a known ody3 shipper) first, who lets her take Baby with minimal captainly sulking about it, and while she rocks and kisses Baby, tells her (as a known ody3 shipper) that the two dads will be on the Pelican deck, but they're probably asleep.

Avery kinda frowns at him, but doesn't question it, and takes Baby up with her to Max's suite to find them. And they are both fast asleep, on either side of Max's bed with a space carefully preserved between them (because it's usually where Baby would be and they're both terrified of accidentally rolling onto her in the middle of the night). She's also exhausted after exams, so she crawls into it, lies on her back with Baby on top of her chest, and goes straight to sleep.

Tristan and Max wake up before her, and when they look across at each other, at Avery and Baby between them, they both simultaneously realise, oh. oh. oh, this - this three, two-and-half, four people, all together - this is it. this is the love, this is the children, this might even be the home - the second, third, fourth bucket list items to happen in this bed.

[syndrossi]

I mentioned this in a reply, but now I feel like I've gotta bring Ser Berry to Resonant proper somehow.

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

zolf smith is so relatable actually

today a friend of mine was really rude when i mentioned having read a romance book over the weekend, implying that it wasn't "intellectual" enough and judging both me and the book despite not even having read it

and now i completely understand zolf's decision to leave the london rangers after hamid critiqued harrison cambell's novels

[leonardalphachurch]

something i’ve noticed with the grifs is that kai is consistently drawn as lighter skinned and skinnier than grif. and i think it’s worth questioning why you feel like the woman of color should be the one out of the two of them that’s closer adhering to eurocentered beauty standards

[home-of-the-squirmle]

Squirmles as an interrogation method (but wholesome)

Oh buddy

Once EDEN allowed other institutions access to squirmles, their potential was instantly recognized...

Let's say you have a low-risk criminal or hostage, but you've been instructed NOT to harm them at all. Solution? Dumping a whole jar of squirmles down their back >:)

It may seem silly or unorthodox, but the success rate is surprisingly high! Turns out being tied to a chair with a whole swarm of tickly critters in your clothes is unbearable.

Luckily, the squirmles love it >:) they are monsters after all...some evil tickling is their favorite.

[bagheerita]

I reread Julius Caesar after watching IC/TDIC and I have a question: At the beginning of the play you meet a bunch of random citizens on the street, and the most prominent of these is the Cobbler, who has a very Garak-esque "who me? I certainly did not insult you with word play, I'm just innocently doing my job sir" vibe.

In "Improbable Cause" when Sisko calls the Romulans, the woman he talks to literally says, "That would be Mister Garak. A cobbler, I believe" before Sisko corrects her.

...Was that a reference on purpose???

Anyway, the two part episode begins and ends with referencing the play. In his conversation with Bashir, the part that Garak chooses to critique is the fact that Caeser didn't see the betrayal coming (he says: "Supposedly, this man is supposed to be the leader of a great empire, a brilliant military tactician, and yet he can't see what's going on under his own nose." which is like literally my entire critique of tain as a character lmao) Obviously this is important to the plot because Tain is Caeser: the one who doesn't see "Lovok"'s betrayal coming.

But like... I want more. Was there any part of the play that Garak did like? If Tain is Caesar that kind of thematically makes Garak Antony ("When Caesar says, 'Do this' it is perform'd."), but given that he later quotes Cassius, Cassius is the most paranoid and melancholic of the characters, and the assassins claim to be working for the betterment of the state, it seems likely that Garak identifies more with that faction? Though I'm sure he finds the concept of the "republic" quite silly and all of the characters overdramatic, even by his standards. I mean, who even assassinates someone is broad daylight in front of literally hundreds of witnesses? How unprofessional.

Not entirely Shakespeare related but nested within the two-parter, the "The Die Is Cast" also has a smaller bookend in that Garak and Tain's first conversation in the episode is about Doctor Parmak, in the context of who Garak used to be and how good Garak was at his job. (For the purposes of this specific comparison, I like that he tells Tain: "Oh, I learned from the best.")

Their last real interaction in the episode (that Tain is entirely mentally present for anyway) is this exchange:

TAIN: How could this be? What could have happened? GARAK: I'm afraid the fault, dear Tain, is not in our stars but in ourselves. TAIN: What? GARAK: Just something I learned from Doctor Bashir.

So they basically start the episode with Tain saying "do you remember when you used to eat doctors for breakfast?" and end it with Garak saying "I eat lunch with them now."