#quark recs

[loquaciousquark]

I also forget every time that @baejax-the-great is a neuroscientist and truly the safest person to leave that brain cell with.

Now I'm getting flashes of Abbie Normal except instead of the body fearing fire, it's fearing unfinished fics, and instead of yelling Puttin' on the Ritz it's yelling AND THEN THEY KIIIIIISSED.

I like to read other people's comments after I drop one and sometimes I discover in the process that I am such a dope.

Fic is Impact by Baejax.

[nival-kenival]

I started watching Leverage on Saturday and y'all it is directly up my street. Fucking found family of losers where they each "work alone" but now are emotionally attached to at least one member of the family? Love it 100000/10

And I love that they just kinda keep forcing their way into Nate's life, because they know they all are happier when they are together.

Also I'm only on season 2 but we've currently had 3 cameos by star trek actors and I love it

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

It's Fic Feature Friday, hurray! This week I'm recommending Stain by @tinsnip! It's about Quark and Natima Lang's relationship pre-canon, and it's sooo compelling, and how it plays out slots so well into their dynamic in Profit and Loss. I love that their affair is both transactional and romantic <3

[loquaciousquark]

THESE TWO DESTROY ME

Astarion drinks Tav's blood while she's high, it has an effect

"I want that man seeing every non-real color that ever didn't exist" - @loquaciousquark

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This had been the worst day of Astarion's life. Well. In recent memory, at least. Alright, maybe not as bad as their time spent in the sewers. Or Shiv waving a severed clown hand in front of his face. Or getting thrown down three flights of stairs by fucking ghosts. Nevermind all that business of confronting his past, killing Cazador, etc etc that happened ages ago and maybe even counted as a good day, all things considered, no need to go into that right now anyway, thankyouverymuch, he'd-

"I really want to thank you again for your help today, Astarion. We may not have found any clues as to my father's whereabouts, but protecting those vulnerable refugee orphans... ah, maybe one day a tale will be told about The Blade and The Fang, Protectors of the Innocent! What do you think?" Wyll smiled at him with shimmering eyes and clapped his shoulder. He was being companionable.

No, this was the worst day of his life.

"Innocent? I'm pretty sure one of those nasty little rat bastards tried to steal from me while we were fighting off... whatever those things were." Astarion took a deep breath, preparing to unleash a long tirade about the absolutely mortifying and offensive concept of 'The Blade and The Fang', but before he could even start, Wyll clapped his shoulder again and laughed.

"Good times, good times. Ah, I see Karlach's gentle glow in the distance; we've reached camp. I wonder what Gale will be cooking tonight, it is a mystery and a wonder every day, isn't it? Ah, my mistake, you're not as interested in that sort of food, are you? I apologize, should I have maybe bought you a lively chicken as thanks for your help today?" "I'd rather not have a mouth full of feathers, thank you very much. I hate you. Goodbye." Astarion sped up his steps, to get away from the walking annoyance behind him as quickly as possible, eyes searching frantically for his Shiv. He needed to be with someone normal, as soon as possible.

"See you later, my friend!"

Argh!

Ah, there she was! His Shiver! How much she must have missed him today. Never again would he leave her side, no matter which unappealing things she wanted to do. He'd thought he hated the sewers and Githyanki politics more than he hated Wyll's prattle, but oh, how he'd been mistaken.

"My darling, I have returned" Astarion loudly proclaimed, to draw her attention away from Halsin, who she was sitting next to while looking out at the water.

To his immense satisfaction, Shiv immediately turned around and smiled tenderly when their eyes met.

Instead of saying anything, she just extended her hand, and tugged him down to her side as soon as he took it. After a quick glance to make sure she didn't look and smell like sewers anymore, he put his arm around her, so she could snuggle up to his side.

"I assume everything went we-ah!"

A bear tongue licked his cheek.

"No! Bad Rosie! Shiv, tell her to stop - NO!"

Rosie licked his other cheek! And all Shiv did was giggle.

Ah. Overly affectionate magical bear, very relaxed and giggly Shiv... Right.

Astarion started giving Rosie scritches and she immediately collapsed and put her head in his lap, huffing happily. He turned to look at Halsin who smiled at him a little sheepishly.

"There was a merchant in the sewers. Or something akin to a merchant. She had some... rare herbs."

"And you indulged before dinner? I am scandalized." Astarion was a little miffed. Just a tiny bit. Because usually Shiv didn't chew on her mushroom and other assorted goods when he wasn't around, at least not to the point she got like this. She'd explicitly told him, that she only felt safe enough to fully relax when he was there. And what, now Halsin was good enough?

"I didn't mean to! I just wanted to have a little taste, to see if it even was any good." Shiv looked up at him with large, apologetic eyes, her pupils gigantic. He was a little touched that even though her mind was in the Astral Plane right now she could sense what was bothering him.

"Well, I am happy for you that you were able to acquire some good drugs." He sighed dramatically. "While some of us have to simply endure the hardships of the day without the sweet relief of helpful substances."

Shiv snorted, obviously immediately understanding what he was getting at here. "Aw, no, we can't have that! Want a treato?"

Astarion happily took her offered wrist, but before he could bite into it, Halsin made an alarmed sound.

"Are you sure that's wise? This stuff is pretty strong and combined with the effect her blood already has on you..."

"Oh, please. Your concern is sweet, my dear, but it would hardly be the first time we've done this. It'll only make my Shiv taste... well-seasoned."

"Like pickled hook horror meat!" Shiv happily croaked, though neither Astarion nor Halsin felt particularly inclined to ask her to tell them more about that topic.

Instead, Astarion lowered his head and consumed his treato.

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Floating, he was floating. In an ocean of purplebright. No, a deep blue. Deeper than any blue that existed, it was all-encompassing, he could taste it.

He heard and felt the waves in the distance or maybe right next to his ear.

"Astarion?" A hand on his cheek, turning his head around, and around, and around. Shiv looked down at him from below, her eyes as black as the night sky. He could see stars in them! "Oh shit."

Shiv laughed and he could feel that, too. Her laugh gently rocked him like the waves and he clung to her hand, not wanting to float away from her.

Then they were moving together, together in the ebb and flow of the ocean. Where were they going? Not important. He put his face against Shiv's neck and inhaled. Mhmmmmmmmm. He started laughing, but then didn't know how to stop.

"Here, sit down." Her face appeared in front of him again and when he touched her cheek, he was so happy when she didn't dissolve into dust. He touched her nose. Still there!

She took his face between her hands. "The drugs appear to be very good. But we're alone now. So don't worry and just... enjoy." He wanted to tell her how beautiful she was, but he'd forgotten how to speak. Ah, there was a simpler way anyway! Astarion kissed her and opened his mind to her at the same time.

Shiv's eyes full of stars, her smile the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Astarion presses a kiss to my skin before he bites me, nobody has ever been this gentle with me. I stroke the shaved part of her head, admiring my handiwork. Now she won't even think of trusting someone else to do this. He waits until the others are a few paces ahead, then hands me a wooden bear figurine. "I thought it looked a bit like your Rosie. Thankfully without the slobber." Never before have I fallen asleep next to someone and felt safe. Never before have I... never before. I love you. I love you. Never before.

[stuffydollband]

Y’all voted and I’m happy to debut the result! Here’s a little preview (that I screen-recorded from my Insta Reels because if there’s a better way to lift that video, I’m 30 and don’t know it) of my new song that YOU chose, “Charm Quark”!

It’ll be available wherever you get music on Oct 20

Special Thanks to Liz Donehue (@/whatsnewdonehue on Insta) for the incredible artwork on this track, and thanks to Hank Green and @scishow for teaching me about Charm Quarks (and Disaster Taxons, which is another song title on this album!)

[youngpettyqueen]

starting Vengeance and we're off to a GREAT start with Quark walking around wearing ads and being furious about it

[letmesleepy]

Would it be insane to say that I want more star trek head mugs

[cormorant-red]

The long-awaited(?) VLR journal is complete! I was A LOT WORDIER in this one. And all the words at the beginning are hilarious to me bc I so clearly saved and quit in the middle of exposition and then sent Storm a bunch of messages from work the next day, completely forgetting what colors the next doors were, and completely clueless to the fact that the bracelets were going to change. Great job theorizing, champ.

I did eventually learn to use my colorful pens without causing so much bleedthrough, but not in time to save the title page. rip

Transcript below the cut:

Corrie: "so which colors would you mix to get magenta?" sorry what was that, zero? i heard "murasaki"

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Dio, K, and I gingerly lifted the woman up and carried her to the infirmary.

Perhaps he just didn’t consider himself one of the “boys,” or maybe it was something else… But whatever the reason, Tenmyouji only stared.

Corrie: me, averting my eyes from character tags: that’s some weird behavior, old man who i’ve never met before!

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Corrie: The astronomy theming is fun and I’m interested to see how relevant it becomes! I haven’t been spoiled in any detail but I have seen references to concepts such as “time travel” and “the moon”

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Corrie: girl you got the distributaries?

Phi: Time to see what the results are.

Phi: Maybe it’s different this time…

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Corrie: it's interesting that per the rules so far, unless something changes (and i hope it will), i'll never be in an escape room with K or clover, and i'll never be in one without phi

also quark and dio but i care somewhat less about hearing from them

Storm: you don't want to hear the magnitude of dio's wit? Impossible

Corrie: i'm surprised that zero said we weren't limited to three rounds or some other arbitrary number. if we all agree to ally we could just boost up to 9 for everyone no problem. but that's not going to happen is it

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Corrie: ooough they weren’t lying that thought experiment CAN dilemma. the smartest play is probably to stick with magenta doors for as long as I can and keep building up points with luna…but the most interesting play is to hear from as many characters as possible. also that strategy doesn’t account for the fact that people who betrayed in the first round have a head start to 9, and there’s no guarantee they’ll wait for everyone to catch up. the fact that there’s a second dilemma, layered on the first, in which you could ally by waiting or betray by opening door 9 asap is so goooood

Storm: yeah!!!!

and what's really fun is throughout the rounds you will see those varying situations, everyone stalled or trying to keep the top points people from getting to 9

just the mix of people and personalities alone ensures if it was just the A/B rounds and rooms in a vacuum it would already be fairly complex

Corrie: i loooove the choice to hold the first AB game without explaining the rules thoroughly. make the player (and characters) act on limited information and then scramble to salvage the situation

Storm: yeah

Corrie: that’s good game design baby!!

Corrie: for pete’s sake.

Sigma: Yeah, it did change… Mine changed from red to cyan.

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Corrie: I FUCKED UP

Dio: K! Goddamnit! Wait, you son of a bitch!

Storm: LMAO THERE HE GOES

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Corrie: sigma getting dizzy in the robot workshop. squints.

Storm: what have you been up to. where have you been.

Corrie: first round was the lounge with phi and luna, second was the rec room with K and alice, and now i've backed up one decision and am in the "gaulem" workshop with luna

i feel...overwhelmed with information! i have no guesses about murderers or motives yet. it's a little harder when all the completed doors are open to everyone, and i'm having a harder time keeping track of teams when bracelets change every round. the AB game makes the web of potential motives so complicated

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Corrie: so i take it there are one or more gaulems amogus

Storm: lots of possibilities there…

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Sigma: So let's choose "ally" and get the hell out of here together. Sound good?

Luna: Okay...

Sigma: Come on, why do you look so sad?

Luna: Well, it's just...There's a part of me that can't feel genuinely happy about that...

Corrie: hey my steady friend. what’s up with that

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Corrie: clover i'm on my knees. please don't axe murder my AB buddy

Phi: You’re going to make me repeat myself. I never said Luna was the killer.

Phi: Still, I have a feeling Alice thought she was.

Phi: Which would mean that Clover probably does too…

Storm: clover no!!! remember the bookmarks

Corrie: welp she’s dead. or is she? with all the nonsense going on I feel like I’m in danger of forgetting about really important details like the presence of the gaulems. the artificial skin is apparently very convincing…but does that extend as far as temperature and a pulse? presumably a muscle relaxant would have no effect on them. I highly doubt alice is playing possum, but luna could be, if the gaulems don’t have to play by the rules regarding bracelets falling off

----- Corrie: sigma gets woozy brain fog while they're poking around in gaulem computer caches. okay

this is exactly what i'm talking about! i'm forgetting important info like the weird plague newspaper!!

For just a moment I thought of Radical-6…But I didn’t want to worry Phi if I didn’t have to.

which everyone took bizarrely seriously considering they found it in a carefully staged puzzle room. guys please learn what a reputable source is

Storm: zero iii only provides the most reputable sources. come on.

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Corrie: hang on a sec. I’ve been trusting that the game is actually set in 2028, but my evidence for that is

it said so at the beginning

Clover is here

but

there could have been a sneaky time skip after the prologue

there are robots

so actually I’m completely untethered!

I’m imagining a scenario in which they actually rigged a model for the gaulems, and later you meet back up with luna in a new skeleton terminator frame that’s speaking with her voice and using her animations… but sadly I don’t expect that to happen or they would have used it for Golm

that would be so sick though. a girl can dream

Storm: god yeah ;;

Corrie: this also makes sigma suspect. I stand by my vote that it’s more fucked up to find out you’re a robot

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Corrie: new theory based on spoilers (the existence of ZTD): phi and sigma are both gaulems. they got…scanned? in 2028, released back into the wild, and reconstructed much later. the phi and sigma(? pretty sure) that I see in the ZTD cover art are the originals, not the ones I currently know

Storm: that's a good theory!

whether it is good (accurate) or good (extremely amusing)....

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Corrie: i love how they simply did not bother to put sigma in group shots

Storm: sigma yelling from across the room

he's shy of the fourth wall. doesn't wanna be seen.

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Corrie: ooooooh she's got the distributaries!!

Phi: Where…where are we?

Her voice was low and rough.

Sigma: Huh?

Phi: Ah, I see. Hm.

Phi: This timeline…

Corrie: "he must not have made this jump"??? do i get to be reality-hopping buddies with phi????

i didn't think the flowchart was going to be diegetic!!

Storm: oh are you far enough in now that I can ask for more character thoughts

Corrie: my character thoughts is. i love phi. let that girl be ruthless!

other character thoughts...hmm...quark is basically absent in these branches. REALLY was not expecting Dio The Eugenics Cultist. have a feeling this is going to be a "wellllll the plague was good because it Purged The Weak" type organization. even though phi had the opportunity to kill him in the cryopod, i now doubt she did because she needed info from him. it seems like she knows what's going on in other instances of the game, but not the context of the outside world

luna...i like her and really want to trust her but you know that lady has an Agenda. it might be a benevolent agenda though. unclear as yet

wonder who K's dad is. trying really hard to pretend i don't know who the senior citizens are

ride-or-die with phi. but part of the riding is saying "not now, ferb" when she wants to backstab people

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Corrie: it's a shame they mostly avoid showing sigma in key artwork, and that he doesn't get a voice. junpei felt like more of a character

Storm: yeah it's a very interesting choice that they decided to do that

Corrie: he certainly has personality! and character details like...being in a research cohort?? so it's extra weird to me that they show his face so little

Storm: I will say it's a conscious and thought out decision but now I must recuse myself on this topic. aiat

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Corrie: oooh three people were in cryosleep in the treatment center. my guesses are....clover and alice, but by my current pet theories, everyone else has something that precludes them

[18:13] another no-evidence spitball: assuming that sigma is indeed a construct recreated in the future, what if his organic self went on to develop some of the technology that’s critical to the game. it’s cool that he’s doing undergrad research(?) and i think this would be fun

lmao what if he’s K’s dad

this series rules. I’m just taking potshots bc nothing is off the table

[18:36] I’m seriously mulling this now. it’s tidy in a way I have come to expect

[21:56] ooooough I am hoping more and more that this is the case. I’ve been kind of foolishly proceeding as if sigma is some unlucky doofus who got dragged along for the ride, but that’s not really how previous nonary games have worked. and perhaps this way lies madness, but: neither junpei nor date was that. they were hopelessly entangled

Storm: zero saw his outfit and was just "ugh I need to put this guy through the torment nexus"

Corrie: [12:19] help I’m really invested in this theory now shdjdksl. in that same flashback sequence sigma is like “boo hoo, why me, I haven’t tangled with organized crime or anything like that”

well sigma then the simple answer is that it’s not about what you have done, but what you will do, someday, in another life

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Corrie: WHAT

I lifted it slowly, carefully, to my neck, as if someone were guiding my hand with theirs…

…And drew it across my throat.

wait asldfksd. let's say one million people were to decide to do a handstand right now

Storm: THAT WAS MY FIRST ENDING

Corrie: clover’s comment about a more powerful esper being able to suppress her attempts to use the field, combined with the stuff in the first game about the power of suggestion, have me eying quark pretty suspiciously

everyone dies bc this kid’s dreaming too hard

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Corrie: WE’RE BACK BABY LET’S GOOOO

Zero: I have chosen two things of great importance to tell you.

Zero: First, I will tell you about termites.

WEIRD MONOLOGUE TIME

Storm: sigma forced into unskippable termites cutscene

Corrie: i want this to be future sigma soooo bad. mr uchikoshi please

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Corrie: jesus. when tenmyouji said "salvage business" i did think "post-apoc" but i didn't consider that it meant quark had grown up post-pandemic

Storm: remember when the pandemic was a prop,

Corrie: GOD. yeah.

Storm: I ran into the ending where everyone is brutally dead first and hadn't explored many other routes yet so I think I believed it fairly early... you being skeptical for so long was so different from my experience and really funny

especially since things are so ambiguous! sigma feeling weird during/after the gaulem bay... that's such a clever place to put a reaction

also to be fair a disease that puts you on fast forward is much weirder than... idk a secret robot having damaged processors

Corrie: in the gaulem bay he just feels dizzy for a second or something like that, but in the security office when they're looking through gaulem footage, he has the serious episode. so i was like "oh phi is poking around in his shared storage/taking up RAM without even realizing"

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Corrie: FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

Sigma: Wh-What….

Sigma: It’s…it’s my face…

MY LONGEST YEA BOI EVER

when i first proposed that sigma’s research would be relevant i was also thinking of cryogenics, robotics, AI development...but now i feel confident saying it's genetics huh

i am a little confused because i was predicating my theory on the assumption that sigma was a robot and therefore had an organic self who diverged. but i guess maybe we're dealing with multiple timelines?

Storm: the game is going to def do its best to confuse you further from here on

Corrie: for now i'm going to continue operating on the assumption that k's dad is an alt!sigma and say: the dissonance between sigma in the game and k's memories of his cold, detached dad is really striking. sigma could have said "dio's got the antidote, go dose yourselves while i go in a white door." but instead he got himself killed trying to save them

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Corrie: current thinking:

present-day people, no stasis: K, tenmyouji, quark, dio, luna (who i suspect of being a robot)

past (2028) people: alice, clover, sigma, phi (a mystery to me)

treatment center seems to indicate that only three people were in cold sleep, so i'm either wrong about one of those or there's a pod/other method of stasis that i haven't encountered yet. hmmmm

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Corrie: the crew quarters were not my favorite in terms of actually doing the puzzle, but i did appreciate how strongly everything was mirror/reflection themed. like the astronomy and alchemy i assume this will only continue to get more thematically relevant

Storm: oh good catch

Corrie: oh it's driving me wild that i haven't seen sigma's face except in flashback. YOU'RE torturing ME

he could look like the guy from the projector and I would have no idea (except that we have some rude bitches on staff and no one has said hey sigma what’s up with your weird eyeball)

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Corrie: I like the contrast between K and dio bc their demeanors are so completely opposite but as soon as they get in the AB rooms they’re playing for keeps

K doesn’t want to kill but that’s the only line

Storm: yeah

I do appreciate someone polite who is also very ruthless

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Corrie: i promised to meet phi at T-5 minutes to die together and then i spent too long talking to luna T.T

GTF-DM-L-016 is formatted like a gaulem designation and the unique part is what clover wrote in blood...but i have no idea who that could be. 016 looks like dio if you mirror it and squint but i don't actually think that's important, i'm just fully spinfoiled now

and now i see that the solution to the "you got injected" lock is probably going to be "amputation"

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Corrie: ohhhh i see why this is one of your favorite endings. lunaaaaaa ;;

we did get quite close to "luna reappears as a terminator." i'll take it!

"sayonara, doctor"? OHOHOHO

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Corrie: she’s so….

Phi: We’ll give the dead the closest thing to a funeral we can manage…

Phi: And when that’s done, we’ll start looking.

Phi: Even if I never leave this place, I’ll figure out why we were here. I swear it.

Corrie: i’m gonna weep

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Corrie: dio called me a senile old fuck and I thought well I don’t have time to unpack that but I can’t. I can’t ignore it. is zero NOT an alt!sigma? was he just regular sigma, now a secret second amnesiac?? what is going ON

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Corrie: trust…your partner….

Sigma: I promised. I said I’d choose “ally.”

Luna: Yes, but… Phi has 6 BP.

Luna: If she betrays us…

oh she's such a good character. i love her so much because i can't quite be sure

Storm: pressing my face to the glass

the teetering precarity of trusting phi but also. you know she could...

Corrie: and she did. we love her for her bright clear line…

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Corrie: realized it’s worse than I thought: not only will the game not let me see sigma’s face, it will only let me see the artificial parts of him

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Corrie: root structure as an analogy for interconnected consciousness is a really good visualization

elegant and i like it. also wise of them to put that root scanner in the reactor control so you just had to deal with cross-sections

i like that the hologram is explicitly from before the game but akane still says "the construct you refer to as zero jr." nice little touch

LET’S GOOOOO!!!!!! [new flowchart destination]

so could they go back...further? when this is all done, could they go back to a version of 2028 where they weren't put in cold sleep or whatever happened?

YES. YES. YES. YES. YES

Akane: You can inhabit your body in the past…or in the future.

Phi: We’ve done what Jupiter can’t.

Phi: We can find our lost opportunities.

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: Your Accent Mixing with Mine by spacebubble

Title: Your Accent Mixing with Mine Author: spacebubble Canon: Star Trek DS9 Pairing: Quark/Odo Rating: Teen [🍋] Word Count: 8,931 Summary: The station’s universal translators are malfunctioning, but Quark and

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[need-him-pregnant-poll]

FANFIC FRIDAY #3

Here are this week's fic recs, sent in by my lovely followers! Below the cut :)

[Jayce Talis]

The Glorious Epilogue by @saltslimes (Rating: Explicit)

[Light Yagami]

For the Pups by Rainbow_fairytale (Rating: Teen)

Sedes Sapientiae by Iwovepizza (Rating: Explicit)

[Wei Wuxian]

Out of Office by @aawrightworth (Rating: Explicit)

wondrous by Anonymous (Rating: Explicit)

[Megatron]

How To Not Say Goodbye by Languidly (Rating: Explicit)

Window of Opportunity by Anonymous (Rating: Explicit)

untitled fic by @brandwhorestarscream (Rating: Explicit)

[Shen Qingqiu & Shang Qinghua (eventually)]

冰清玉洁 | Clear as ice, clean as jade by Anonymous (Rating: Explicit)

[James T. Kirk]

Growing the Family by f_fandom (Rating(s): Teen-to-Mature)

[Tomura Shigaraki]

I fell in your arms tonight by @decadent-blair (Rating: Explicit)

if you hold me without hurting me you’ll be the first who ever did by Mokki_Kitty (Rating: Explicit)

I'll Never Leave You On The Wire by @dabideserveslove (Rating: Teen)

I'd Sacrifice My Beating Heart Before Losing You by @dabideserveslove (Rating: Teen)

[Keith Kogane]

The Auction by @rangoatemybabynsfw (Rating: Explicit)

[Shockwave]

memento by Radio Rascal (Rating: Gen)

Emergence by Hambone (Rating(s): Explicit)

Another fucking shockblurr fic by Anonymous (Rating: Explicit)

[Soundwave]

Enough to Go Around by Merrypaws (Rating: Explicit)

[Mydei]

to fields of adonis annua by cistus (Rating: Explicit)

[Elim Garak]

Love for a Laying Lizard by @autumnleafauthor (Rating: Teen)

[Quark]

Return by @chacusha (Rating: Gen)

[Silco]

Protection by orphan_account (Rating: Mature)

[abbyshrimpburger]

Tribble with cheese lol

finally got started on DS9, thought the crew deserved some pizza

bonus dukat:

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[sapphosewrites]

Trektober Day #30: Rec Room

Quark looked around the transformed holosuite with an impressive glower. Miles' own face was all baffled innocence.

"It's just a holoprogram, Quark. A completely accurate replica of Ten Forward on the Enterprise."

"Exactly! You rented one of my holosuites just to play a program of another bar? It's insulting, is what it is."

"Look, sometimes I just want to drink in a little more quiet, is all. Without everyone shouting dabo all the time."

"Bars with dabo tables bring in 30% more profit."

"This bar wasn't run for profit. All the drinks were free."

"Even worse!"

[garaks-sewing-gun]

hi!

starting a whole new blog instead of just an alt on my ancient old account! I had 27 alts on that one, it was untenable.

I'm a transmasc 33yo trying to get back into like... idk the interactive community part of fandom instead of just posting/consuming. I'm trying to find people who like trek/ds9 in a god-dishonoring way please, and boy it is tough to find that for an older fandom.

not to clog these tags but if you spend a lot of time here and have recs for who to follow lmk c:

**edited to add more info: I'm here for the garashir first and foremost, plus anything abotu the two of them individually, don't know the ship names but definitely quark/odo, kira/jadzia, odo/kira, in tng it's all data all the way down and also data/geordi, also v interested in the cardassians and dukat. truthfully tho I am open-minded and low on squicks so the sky's the limit

[quarkasgod]

READ IT

For the love of gods, read it

GUYS I JUST READ THIS DOFLAW FIC AND NOW MY HEART IS SO FULL AND I WANT TO CRY

The writing is so good, too. Usually I skip all the details, but the world is so interesting and full of tactile descriptions that it just sucked me in. It’s so *chef’s kiss*. And the ending was surprising.

Everyone should read it, it’s that good, I can’t cope, use google translate - it translates really well, too, it’s like reading translated russian literature

[novafire-is-thinking]

Music time

Thanks @decepticon-nerd and @aecholapis for tagging me in this game! Since I was tagged twice, I’m going to double the amount of songs and have people pick their favorite out of 10. Also, unlike last time, I’m not going to shuffle the playlist; I’ll just pick ten songs from it that I want to put out here purely for music rec purposes.

Song links and “why I think this song is cool” blurbs are below the poll.

Tagging: @spiritshaydra @brb-on-a-quest @theconfusedtissue @sphnyspinspin + anyone else who’s interested

All We Are (Spotify | YouTube) - A white pegasus gallops toward me over the salt flat. Sunlight dances across its white armor and the accents of gold. The dichroic glass embedded in its wings scatters light into a dazzling array of brilliant colors. I know the Fire in its eyes, and in its chest.

Right before the beast reaches me, it launches into the air, its massive hooves spraying me with water and salt. It soars up, up, up…before it disappears into the clouds. The Wind and Sun have called it away, and one day, they will call it back.

I wipe the salt from my face.

Bright Like Stars (Spotify | YouTube) - Young Shockwave, young Soundwave, and the bond between them (in Constellations).

Dreams pt. II (Spotify | YouTube) - I’m not sure how to describe how this makes me feel. At the very least, I can say the lyrics make me think of the tragedy of Brainstorm and Quark, even though the music and vocals don’t match the vibe.

Fear (Spotify | YouTube) - There’s something about the way Ryan chooses to capture the emotion of fear in this song. I can’t put my finger on it, but I like it.

Gravitational Forces (Spotify | YouTube) - This makes me think of Constellations!Ravage, especially the part beginning around 1:28. If I could draw and animate, I’d make a little animatic of Ravage pulling off a gravity-defying feat or two, maybe with Soundwave. Or Jazz, because my brain refuses to let go of a Ravage-Jazz team up.

Halo (Spotify | YouTube) - There’s something about this song that feels Cybertronian.

Nautica (Spotify | YouTube) - *points to the title* For obvious reasons, I linked this one on the Nautica-focused chapter of my Bang fic :)

Opaline (Spotify | YouTube) - Novo Amor is one of my favorite artists of all time. In my opinion, this is the “happiest” of his songs.

Til the Light Goes Out (Spotify | YouTube) - Zenith vibes, especially the part beginning at 2:45.

Transcendence (Spotify | YouTube) - This song and the entire album (Spotify | YouTube) have impeccable Cybertronian vibes. Highly recommend. (Looking directly at you, @lets-try-some-writing)

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