#save dirk gently

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

*endless internal screaming for the rest of eternity*

[biscuitfeatures]

Just finished rewatching Dirk Gently. It’s funny: Netflix have left it up all this time, but still they’ve never considered funding a third season. What gives? The show is magic. Everything about it is amazing. Even the theme song makes my soul happy. It is an absolute tragedy that it never got approved for a third season. I think about poor Bart, realising she’s walked into a horrible trap. And Amanda - what kind of adventures did she go on to have? Did Todd and Farah make a go of things? What about Dirk - how do things change for him after talking to The Boy and getting some answers to his biggest questions about self-identity??

So now I’m spamming Netflix with title suggestions for third season of DGHDA to allay my distress at being so horribly cut off still.

[roadworkaheadyea]

Honestly mad about first kill too (can’t believe travelers made the list) and ofc DIRK GENTLY

[felis-draws]

Quick doodle I thought would be funny with my interest but realized most of my favourite shows were canceled and featuring queer characters... anyways...

Literally my comfort shows in this economy

Featuring from left to right :

Dirk ; Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency

Charles ; Dead Boys Detectives

Jade ; Willow

Calliope ; First Kill

[I cannot get over Disney literally DELETING shows after canceling them like…]

[projectmarzannaa]

first vs last episode … 💔

[miryel89]

Even the sun needs a vacation – a holistic one.

[couldpolyamorysavethem]

DIRK GENTLY, TODD BROTZMAN, and FARAH BLACK from DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY

Justification:

"theyre all bisexual and it would've been amazing" - @candlecanoe

[cringefaillosersummit]

Round 1 - Group 7B

Submission notes under cut. Some submissions had notes others did not:

Bart Curlish:

Lives in filth and blood. Just goes around killing people and has no idea how to live life. Has no emotional literacy, but that’s not on her she was raised as an experiment in a government facility.

Look at her. She’s grimy and never takes a bath and doesn’t know what friends are and kills everyone she sees

Sha Hualing:

Went from one of the top three wives in the original book to underpaid secretary of the same dude. AND was forced into a front seat of his insane love life (him spending 5 years trying to resurrect his dead teacher whos also his gay crush). Also at some point she tried to prove that the girl who is considered extremely beautiful aint shit, tore off her veil, and promptly Screamed. That wasn't really explained further in the book, but fandom consensus diagnosed this as a gay panic moment.

the most bisexual disaster cringefail pathetic girl you have ever met. she literally screamed in the face of the girl she immediately caught feelings for. i love my failwife so bad

[frodo-in-a-fez]

HOLY SHIT LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT MY HALF PRICE BOOKS!!!!!!!

[couldinfinitytrainhavesavedthem]

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

I need the second season of Kaos YESTERDAY

But I also need the third season of Shadow and Bone and the first season of the Six of Crows Spinoff and the second season of Dead Boy Detectives and the third season of Dirk Gently and the -

[stealingthings]

The top shows that were cut too early and I would sell my soul to revive are, in no particular order:

Lockwood and co

The owl house

Agent Carter

Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency

Firefly (I haven't personally seen it but I know how passionate some of you are about it and I really want that for you)

[gracechastityinthetardis]

yeah dirk! like ur road safety habits. where is your seatbelt?

theres clearly a bigger problem here dirk

[pwnyta]

the thing i love about silas and stone is that they feel both really similar and like opposites at the same time. silas is not great at combat at all but stone is incredibly skilled. theyre both head over heels for their respective guys and super goofy. stone has his judgy and rude moments while silas is just a sweetheart every time we see him. idk if this makes any sense, they just feel so different to me but they've also got their similarities that cant be overlooked. i love lee majdoub.

sorry for the rant in your inbox, i just know that you've watched dirk gently and HAD to say something sdhfakj

Rant all you want about the obsessions Nonny. Thats why I leave anon on.

AND YEAH Im sayin. My idea for the little doodle comic im makin(Noble really took me out at the knees with that stray thought SMDH) was like Wendimoor is a distant planet (like the mushroom planet) and somehow Silas gets warped too Earth. Unlike Wendimoor its not this fun fanciful magic world its just baseline Earth even without the warping space hedgehog nonsense yet so theres nothing Silas can do but adapt so he tries to apply himself into bein the brave warrior his mother would have wanted him to be and uses all the knowledge and skills Wygar had tried to instill on him to do it! and eventually ends up with GUN.

After a couple of long trying years Silas just gives up on his hope that Panto will save him and doesnt expect his mother to go out of her way... shes got his little brother who'll be a better leader anyways. They wont miss him.

Silas isnt as whimsical and open anymore just due to the crushing environment hes in for years. Then he gets assigned to Ivo... and Ivo is just a silly whimsical mess and it makes Silas feel like home for the first time in a LONG time. Even though Ivo is kinda mean to him... its not like hes not used to someone being cruel to him even though he loves them (like his mom).

Although Ivo saying 'I wont miss you when your gone' would probably cut a little deeper in this AU.

Anyways Panto has been searching for Silas the entire time. Getting to different planets any way he can.

⤥(ツ )⤦

AND LIKE.... Panto wants to bring Silas back home away from this bleak ass planet but Stone is reluctant because whos gonna protect the Doctor is hes gone? Pantos like babe he said he doesnt even care if youre here... and Silas is like you dont know him like I do...

And Ivo doesnt care and hes not even mad that Stone drew hearts on another mans latte at all. And hes not upset that Stone might leave and like why would he even care? He already let Stone know he wasnt gonna miss him. So hes not upset at all.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

I would be curious to hear your thoughts on Feferi through the classpect lens and being a witch of life?

yayyyy i get to talk about my favorite Mean Girl!!!

Witches are mercurial, temperamental, and start the game with some "outsider" status to society, meaning they've bypassed the usual rules of common sense and morality/ethics. Feferi is an heiress who lives all alone at the bottom of the sea (it's implied that others are too scared to get close because of Gl'bgolyb, including Eridan, who refuses to go underwater), Jade lived on an island and was practically raised by her demon dog, and Damara was an immigrant from East Beforus who presumably spent a lot of time hanging out with the Lost Weeaboos as their leader's GF.

As such, they tend to leave their sense of morality up to their emotions - what the Witch deems good is good, what the Witch deems bad is bad. Jade was considered by the beta trolls to be the primary cause of Bec Noir's creation, as from their point of view, she was a dangerous maverick who basically just took direction from the clouds of Skaia without questioning any of their directives, and Damara starts wishing to serve LE because she just wants her teammates to suffer (understandably) - a wish it turns out she would regret on Alternia, where she legitimately attempted suicide to get out from Doc Scratch's control.

This also leaves them fairly gullible and vulnerable to control by evil entities and poor sociopolitical beliefs, just because they're pleasant or easy. Jade is remarkably nicer to Tavros than Eridan, letting Tavros down easily and gently despite the fact that he literally just admitted to killing her grandpa, and demanding her romantic affection as a prize for his confidence and heroic gesture, whereas Eridan not only donated to her his legendary rifle as a gesture of kindness and goodwill, but also asked her about something that was bothering her and earnestly shared information about his own race when asked - because Tavros was "nice" to her, and Eridan was a rude jackass. If you look at what's happening objectively in those conversations, Jade honestly doesn't look good:

tavros: so i used bec to save your life and kill your grandpa, not understanding that that was a family member and not a threatening adult to you. i did this because heroic actions and self confidence get returned with romantic affection. i'm owed yours now! jade: well... i think it's good that you're confident, but i'm sorry, i don't really return your affections! let's try becoming friends first, okay?

eridan: so i don't really need my rifle anymore but i noticed that you use them, so you can have mine for free, it's super powerful and a family heirloom. jade: stfu asshole i hate you and i hate your shitty rifle. i'm going to throw this in the trash. explode

Damara is also remarkably kind to Rufioh, offering him genuine romantic advice, even though he really doesn't deserve it, pretty much purely because he can speak her language - her bar is so low that that's enough "kindness" to earn a regular conversation from her. She should've been allowed to kill him twenty times

Life players, meanwhile, are defined by optimism, stubbornness, and a sense of "normalcy". They're very normal people; Hussie notes this explicitly in the book commentary. They're just kind of stable, normal guys! They look on the bright side, and tend to ignore the downers, which, unfortunately, can include people who are in dire straits. Jane remains stubbornly skeptical of Roxy and Dirk's claims of being from the future and of Crockercorp being evil, and Meenah refuses to listen (at times seeming physically incapable of listening) when people tell her that it's not possible to just kill the invincible demon with unconditional immortality. She idolizes the Condesce, pretty much never acknowledging any wrongdoing on her part (except when Cronus calls her out lol), and doesn't give a fuck what anyone else thinks of her - to the detriment of the team.

Put these together and you get Feferi. She's kind of just a really normal girl, whose emotions define her view of morality and ethics... and that means that, while it's really awful that everyone murders each other all the time, casteism is actually great because being a princess is awesome.

CC: GLUUUUB oh fine. CC: I will suspend my neato quirk just for you. CC: I hereby renounce the royal mark of sea dweller supremacy in the interest of INT-ERSP-ECI-ES DIPLOMACY. [...] CC: Okay, you win. I have officially humbled myself before you. Entirely glubbing peasant-IFICATED for your pleasure. CC: Shall I clip my fins for you as well, your majesty? [...] CC: Hey! We're the aristocracy. We've got a duty to be weird.

Also she loves slurs. Despite how little dialogue she has, she says the R slur like 2 times? And also says this to Jade:

CC: PSH WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT, MISS HORNLESS MCFINLESS.

where have we heard that term before... oh yeah!

ERIDAN: hey finless this doesnt concern those wwith mustard sludge slippin through their vveins

Because, like... being a princess rules. It's so fun, and great, and awesome, and Feferi has such a great time, so who cares if casteism still exists, right? Because Feferi's having a good time with it! We just need to PAMPER those cute, helpless little lowbloods, instead of kill them! That's the ticket!

Witches change their world to suit their wishes, the core of their ability to "change" their Aspect. As the ruler of Beforus, Feferi created a world that suited her ideals exactly - the ultimate nanny state, the perfect realm... for Feferi! And for very few besides herself.

Obviously, if she's been set up as this casteist, then her full actualization and character development is about learning that casteism is Bad, and that a truly good society means giving up many of the privileges she's enjoyed, tying in with the Witch character arc of needing to learn to see beyond themselves and their own feelings about the world. Thus, I think it's very important that the hemocaste is tied directly to lifespan, and it's why the trolls kind of can't have a happy ending if Feferi doesn't survive to the end AND complete her character arc: as long as coolbloods live longer than warmbloods, casteism is an inevitable outcome, as coolbloods amass power with their vastly longer lives.

Witches manipulate their Aspect, changing it directly. A Witch of Life, with its control over not just life and healing, but over biological and genetic properties (as it's implied the Condy's genetic experiments resulting in her ability to use every caste's psionics is an expression of her Thief of Life abilities) is pretty much the ideal classpect for equalizing troll lifespans and psionic abilities - in fact, given that it's implied that Feferi can't revive people like Jane can, it's very likely that Jane can't equalize lifespans like Feferi can.

But doing so would mean renouncing the very concept of a throne, of the society she wanted to build, and the privileges of royalty she's enjoyed so greatly. And that's beautiful. And also why she should hate date Nepeta, the anti-casteism troll -

[not-a-princess-but-a-queen]

Ok only one episode into Dead Boy Detectives and

Dirk Gently 🤝 Edwin Payne

Using their past trauma and pain to help save others and being v passionate about their cases despite the absurdity of said cases. (Seriously the scene in the meat shop with Edwin gave me huge Dirk on the Staircase with Riggins vibes)

British

Constantly trying to make deal with their worlds Higher Powers

Punk BF

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