#they can be malpractice polycule

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Guys guys guys I was taking my 3pm shower and had an IDEA,,I’ve been watching house md lately and hear me out:

IT FITS ABSURDLY WELL????

Spinister fr the type of guy to walk in and say “youre dying” then inject you with something with zero warning. There’s no way he doesn’t commit malpractice and he’s got the whole absurdly super good doctor thing and I think they both have autism because they have never understood a social cue ever

Fulcrum and Wilson are like…so similar with the whole pathetic guy who’s super miserable thing. You expect him to say “don’t do that it’s wrong!” But instead he says okay you can do super heroin if it’ll get us out of this situation!!! Also the whole running away thing Wilson does??? Hiding things??? Yeah.

And krok. He’s their leader and boss, the most put together, and seems somewhat normal until you realize oh no he’s also a freak. The episode where she gives hilson the worst couples therapy ever??? Krok with his want to open up a mental health clinic. The specific way cuddy chastises Wilson for trying to leave the clinic? Krok.

Also cranky is foreman, nickel is thirteen, flywheels is Cameron, grimlock is kutner, cons4eva is chase, and misfire is…hear me out…amber.

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This gif screams of your Kallamar to me, like Narinder or Heket are chewing him out for something until he notices the camera and he's just :3<

(POV: you are a cultist who just got noticed by your bishop, who is being reprimanded for prioritizing medical malpractice over answering prayers)

I think all the bishops' cults are kind of in shambles for various reasons (leshy keeps killing followers because 'it's funny', heket is always being stretched too thin, shamura is bedbound) but the pestilence cult can be run into the ground and still retain their faith because of the HUGE anchordeep polycule I refuse to believe isn't canon. As long as kall's followers aren't immune to being hit with the :3< then they're not gonna dissent lmaooo

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Harding lording his wealth over Hutter, making him feel insecure, dependent,... displaying his masculine dominance on him... kicking the Hutters into the streets... this is why we have no polycule here sir

Going to hold up a very flimsy shield for Harding and say that, yeah, he is very much not an Arthur Holmwood. He is an ass to Ellen outright after Anna is attacked, to say nothing of rolling with the tie-her-to-the-bed-to-spare-the-walls suggestion from Dr. Sievers. Tossing both Hutters out while Thomas is still barely on the mend and Ellen is trying to save their lives was a Bad Friend Move. Also, thanks for the pandemic shout out in the dialogue, Eggers, he is absolutely the kind of guy to break quarantine rules because He and His People Specifically are Too Important.

But all that said, for a period accurate snob, he does have sympathetic elements, and even some decent reasoning behind all the BS he pulls.

His house has become bedlam since he let first Ellen then Thomas in. Ellen's fits are a mystery to him and he follows what the actual (hi there ye olde malpractice) doctor told him to do. He's as panicked and stunned as Anna when Ellen has her seaside fit and when Von Franz does his stabbing blood work.

When Thomas falls over half-dead at his doorstep, he doesn't throw up his hands all at once and have a carriage cart him off to the hospital or the little Hutter home. Thomas is his friend and the guest room is already there and waiting. He plays host as long as his fraying nerves can take it. Then Anna's attack happens. While it was a callous move as a friend to throw the Hutters out, it makes sense for a man very clearly worried for his family in the midst of a huge freak plague to want to reserve all his attention for said endangered wife and kids. The Hutters have turned from friends in his eyes to mad and raving millstones that he has no time or energy for. All that matters to him is Anna and the girls.

To that end, I do believe that he does not/did not hate Ellen--the snap at the funeral was a combo of grieving scapegoating and the plague dissolving his sense--but he did look down on her. Anna's friend she may be, but even with Ellen masking as best she could, Harding clocked that she was Other and outre and did not Mind Her Status. A new status, he must know, as she came from wealthy upbringing, but now she is Thomas' wife. And therefore lower on the ladder, being a non-endowed woman. Know your place.

For Thomas' sake, he mentions.

And, perhaps to save face with himself, he starchily offers to provide the Hutters a ride back home...which the Hutters observably decline, hobbling away on their own feet. Something I think was both Hutters' own parting cold shoulder.

Which circles around to Thomas. Thomas, who took a loan from Harding, who states aloud that he envies his friend and that he is working to pay all back. Harding dismisses this airily. It's clear he either doesn't care or doesn't expect recompense from Thomas. While that can be taken as a sign of genuine friendship/charity, it also carries a hint of a running theme with Thomas in contrast to other more masculine, powerful, moneyed men.

Harding the wealthy charmer who takes care of Thomas' various needs in the doting way one might cover the expenses of a child or a sugar baby.

Orlok, the gravelly Old World overlord, snapping at Thomas to obey one moment, assaulting him another, and thrusting gold at him the way you'd pay it to someone you'd rented out for the night.

Harding is by far the better man in the comparison, but his warm regard towards Thomas is braided into an unspoken social superiority and pseudo-ownership born of Thomas' debts to him. And, in lieu of finally getting the money back as Knock continues to wring him dry, Thomas plays Harding's own (probably) platonic Scheherazade.

tl;dr: No, the polycule was never going to happen here. Anna and Ellen? Ellen and Thomas? Perhaps. Harding and Thomas if another loan needs to happen? Maybe. But not a full cozy conjoining of couples.

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terrible kink etiquette (a notfic)

I’m still thinking about the BDSM etiquette poll, and how it applies to the VK polycule, because even when I’m obsessed with other fandoms, I’m always thinking about the rotten ot4 and how they could cause So Many Problems On Purpose

CW for vague discussions of kink under the cut

The VK polycule is doing GREAT at safe bdsm practices, if you ask them. They know all about Badness, Dumbassery, Scandals, and Malpractice. That's why there's four of them. Mal handles badness, Jay covers dumbassery, Evie's in charge of scandals, and Carlos does scientific malpractice. 

Most of the sex they have together is not, strictly speaking, all of them together. They usually break off into pairs, or sometimes trios, if they're feeling wild. The four of them tend to stick together when it comes to things like sleeping in a pile for warmth, and split into smaller groups when it comes to the Auradon definition of bdsm. 

Mal definitely doesn't know what safe practices are. She got an evil version of abstinence-only education, which means that she was told "all relationships are a weakness, don't have them ever", and rolled with that until Jay, as her totally platonic sidekick/minion/BFF, suggested that they should make out. For rebellion reasons. Going against their parents wishes, and stuff. 

Mal 100% likes to be In Charge, and she's not especially risk aware about it. She gets in her own head and forgets to consult others about it. (See: D2, when she's trying to talk to Evie and then Carlos about being unhappy. My awful babygirl does NOT know how to read a room when she's emotional). So long as nobody gets hurt in ways they don't want, it's FINE. She knows how to stop when they REALLY mean it. Like that time with the unfortunate strap-on incident. She stopped! She gave her minion/sidekick/partner in crime SPACE TO CALM DOWN. She totally didn't freak out and dip. Not at all. That was RESPECTFUL DISTANCE, which is what she'd want if she was the one on the other end of things. 

Jay is the opposite of Mal, in that he prefers to Not Be In Charge Ever. I know we all (meaning all three likeminded mutuals, you know who you are) like to talk about Jay being the loyal knight/guard dog/protector, but I think we can make it weirder. A knight in service to his queen does whatever he's asked. A guard dog follows their master's lead. Protecting Mal from herself means that when she's feeling an emotion and wants to fuck about it, he's going to be ready and available so that she doesn't make worse choices and go looking for a pirate hookup. I truly, deeply believe that Jay would be into service submission. With Mal, that probably looks like him being up for anything his fearless leader wants to try, regardless of if he's actually okay with it or not. 

With Evie, Jay gets to be a lot sweeter. Evie wants to be treated like the princess she is, and unlike Mal, she actually got sex ed, and knows that they're doing kink. She got her sex ed from her mother, which means she learned all about how to use sex for emotional manipulation and pushing men's buttons, but what is kink if not pushing all of the secret buttons that men try to hide? Evie and Jay do sweet, careful service submission, and Evie makes sure to bring him down gently after their marathon oral sessions. Her mother told her that men are most vulnerable after sex, and Evie would never leave one of her gang members vulnerable and alone. She's a good caretaker. She takes care of her toys. 

Evie and Mal have surprisingly vanilla sex most of the time, except for when they're arguing. When they're mad at each other, they have mind-blowingly good hate sex, and then Mal gets embarrassed and refuses to cuddle with Evie because that counts as Having An Emotion and that's illegal. Also, this one time when Mal was getting distracted, Evie threatened to tie her down with an iron necklace chain so she wouldn't move until she was done with her?? And Mal?? Just???? Brain overload?? Too hot?? 

When they have hate sex, they both know that no means more, stop means keep going, and fuck your entire bloodline means I love you. They don't have a safeword, but they both have a strong sense of personal boundaries (unlike the boys) and know how to say seriously, no, I don't mean that in a fun way right now. 

Carlos prefers to keep his kink out of the other's sex lives, thanks. He prefers the scientific malpractice to happen with clothes on, because it's easier to conduct behavioral observations when the others aren't acting weird about being naked. He can enjoy watching Jay blush and squirm with his pants still on, and if Jay's getting off on hearing him say filthy, stupid things, then that's none of his business. 

Unlike the other three, Carlos gave himself unfiltered access to the dial-up internet at a young age, and spent some formative years reading online kink forums. He's fully aware of kink discourse, and read up a bunch on the merits of SSC vs RACK vs "just don't be stupid". He's tried some solo stuff. Didn't get a lot out of it. Decided that he's ace, and then never brought up any of this reading to the rest of the polycule, because he DOES NOT WANT TO KNOW about their sex lives, so he's not going to start that conversation. 

(later on, after the polycule absorbs Ben, they start to have the responsible kink conversations. Ben was a lonely kid with largely unrestricted internet access. He's known since the first throws of puberty that he's a monsterfucker who wants to play all his options. He's PREPARED, okay. He's got worksheets. He's going to drag his villains into Doing Responsible Kink, kicking and screaming if need be). 

(later-later on, after the VKs are a lot more settled in Auradon, and somewhat less afraid of being dumped for being Horrible Deviant Villains, Carlos does some self-searching and realizes that he's willing to experiment a little bit with sex, so long as it's only guys, and he doesn't have to be the one keeping it together the whole time. He's Not the kind of bossy dom that works well with Jay's flavor of kink, and he's not interested in casual sex or sex with girls, so it took until he got really comfortable with Ben, who is a much softer flavor of switch, to realize that he's open to experimenting) 

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mifht as well leave the basic plot summary (so far) of infernuscare here

this au is centered around the cuddles x livings x party polycule, 30 years later after the events of sc, kind of like a cc but there aren't any patients

however the things that go down at the hospital are far more sinister than just medical malpractice and murder: something spinch has been trying to hide which broke loose.

cuddles and his partners are the main characters here. cuddles, subcounsciously guilty of everything that happened but trying to deny it, unaware as karma will eventually pounce on him - party, even more quieter and mysterious than before, desperate to hold something back, something not even its partners know of - and livings, holding onto a happier past that never happened.

after being tormented by vivid, grotesque nightmares he can't understand the meaning of, and in the brink of his family collapsing, cuddles senses a calling to visit the abandoned shrouds of his hospital - which at this year in time, has become a conspiracy theory, a rumor, due to the sheer surreal, horrific nature of what happened in it - to confront the past with new eyes and finally resolve what had been left to rot in his and everyone's memories...if he makes it out alive.

trigger masterlist: body horror, gore, suicide, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts, child abuse, death (possibly?), and neglect, transphobia, homophobia, queerphobia in general, cannibalism, and the rest of the other base sc tws

this AUs main inspiration is analog horror, so expect to see things akin to that. be aware it is also a massive wip and so this basic story, lore, designs, characters, are quite subject to change, i will edit it accordingly if it happens and let yall know here. also, since this is in ita early development stage, suggestions, questions, and/or just general feedback are welcome and encouraged so the final result is as best as it can be !

oh yeah the polycule has kids btw though theyre not like super duper important in the story atm

[walkingstackofbooks]

DS9 4x24 Body Parts thoughts (I’m re-watching, so beware spoilers for future episodes!) [8 Sept ‘23]

Jadzia knowing what Keiko likes :3 "She's been talking about this for a long time."

Not Quark having to face his own mortality. Something's clearly up as soon as he walks in.

"How good can he be? He doesn't even charge!" XD Pretty sure you'll be regretting not going to Julian soon...

"Everyone will want a disk of Quark on their desk!" Oh, Rom, you're trying so hard :3

"You're a liar. But I love you." Aww, Quark <3

"The baby... just had a change of address, that's all." Golden XD

"The only two people available were major Kira... and me." Iconic -- yeah, Julian really didn't have to phrase it like that if he didn't want us to think he was a viable option!

"So you're telling me Major Kira's going to have my baby?" Both of their faces XD

"Oh, forget the bidding. This has all been a mistake. My life, coming here, putting a bar on this Cardassian monstrosity of a station. What was I thinking?" Quarrrk

"He always liked me." "He used you when you suited his needs. I don't think that's the same thing." Oh Rom, sometimes Quark should really listen to you.

KIRA AND KEIKO IS SO PRECIOUS. SO PRECIOUS.

"I GET TO SUE FOR MALPRACTICE! And I'm going to live." XD XD Quark's priorities are certainly clear!

Brunt is the best villain. I love this as a plot so much.

"Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm not dying." "Maybe I wasn't clear. I don't care." 👌👌

"It's people like you that give honest Ferengi businessmen a bad name." "I can reform." I love this whole conversation, seeing the flip side of Quark being better than other Ferengi rather than "worse" then the Federation lot.

Miles is so soft with Keiko <3 It's strange seeing her being the vulnerable one, usually Keiko's the one to look after Miles when he's Been Through A Thing. I like it though. :3

"I shouldn't have to make an appointment to see my own child." Ohhhh 😭

"Defying Ferengi tradition isn't so bad." XD

"As an assassin." Garak's face going to complete shock. He has a perfect :o face

"We have an idea that we'd like you to consider." "It's just an idea. We don't want to pressure you." "We have an idea we don't want to press you." "Go ahead." <3 The way Miles and Keiko exchange nervous looks <3 <3 <3

"Garak? If you're in here, I'm not gonna be surprised!" Yeah, this isn't going to work. 😂

Rom's acting as the Grand Nagus is very impressive

Oh this is an actual dream? Not Rom in a holosuite?

Keiko's casual touch :3

"Are you my aunt?" "Well--" caught in headlights. "Sounds right to me." Awww. Yay DS9 polycule! :3

Sisko and Odo being overly dramatic XD

"Where do you want this" "You can't do this! Not without paying a storage fee!" Hah! Funny how fond I've come to be of Quark's ways.

"And you thought you had no assets." Awwww. Sweet. Only a few episodes ago Quark was saying friendship was pointless, now look at him 😂❤❤❤

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2024 FICS IN REVIEW!!

gorefics have (GORE) written next to their titles.

JRWI

the court sanctioned universe (a modern, powerless au where i gave 3/4 of pd chronic illnesses. you're welcome.)

love me, normally!! - william gets bridal carried by vyncent, gets nervous, confesses, and almost passes out several times. featuring a single line of tidalwave, a heaping helping of awkward gay fluff, and ashe calling will a monsterfucker (1/1)

hey, lover! - a sequel to love me, normally!! where they kiss. that's it. that's the fic. featuring vyncent's tail having a mind of it's own, the phrase oh how the turns have tabled, homophobic dakota, and one demonkicks line (1/1)

lotta true crime! - a chatfic that takes place both before and after love me, normally!! and gives cs!will's backstory. featuring my upp ocs, my chemical romance references, deadwood slang, and breaking into a dunkin donuts (7/?)

canon compliant fics (stuff that could have happened, but we didn't see. mainly gore)

(GORE) the monster tutorial - william wisp plays operation in a gas station bathroom after his stitches come loose. featuring danganronpa blood, pity versus fear, using your home ec class, and a bearing of teeth. (1/1)

false sense of security - cantrip wasn't in the spirit world. maybe she's exactly where they left her. featuring missing teeth, the taste of blood in your mouth, david bell being the worst motherfucker on the planet, and memory loss. (1/1)

(GORE) WAKE UP, PUPPET BOY! - the trickster eats a guy. ashe wakes up afterwards. featuring eyes where they shouldn't be, a bonedeep sort of tired, skin confetti, and longing. (1/1)

loose fics

i think you're worth hanging onto - technically a sequel to WAKE UP, but they can be read seperately. winters family comfort nexus. featuring autistic mark winters, a healthy smattering of tidalwave, cutting your own hair in the bathroom, and much needed hugs. (1/1)

saying something stupid like- a five plus one for tidalwave. five times they pointedly ignore it, one time they don't. featuring the inherent attractiveness of being covered in blood, dog metaphors, the princess bride, and homoerotic fighting. (1/1)

and if dreams can come true (what does that say about nightmares) - the greater rockfall polycule (aka grp) chatfic. co written by me, vic viceroy phoebastria-albatrus, and randy a-cat-in-toffee. sheer crackfic. featuring bloody yuri, everyone being tired of ghostknife's shit, unhinged summer, and forcefem mushrooms. (5/?)

RADIO SILENCE - MY BABY..... completely voice acted podfic that also has a written version!! post-apocalyptic pd in a radio station. featuring stereotypical bisexuality, dead rats as a love language, fruity pebbles, and loserboy william wisp. (4/28)

TMA

The Usher Foundation Archives- the place where i publish statements i write!! speaking of said statements... if you send an ask with info on your tma oc, i'll write a statement abt them!! please make the ask as detailed as possible!! featuring emo teenagers, covid-19, medical malpractice, and the inherent horror of apple stores. (2/?)

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Have I done Cuddy ship quiz yet? Sorry I’m gonna do a Cuddy ship quiz. PPTH polycule on a follow-up quiz bc I think we love it too much for the rest to properly compete lol

Other ships in the tags! I’ll put the follow up with the medical malpractice polycule follow-up tomorrow :-)

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I cannot ignore these tags by @thechy-fychannel:

All Hail the Ultimate Medical Malpractice Polycule. Can I talk to you today about our lord and savior, the Medical Malpractice Sedoretu?

The Sedoretu is a polycule/family structure created by Ursula K. Le Guin, our Queen.

Wilson’s Dom and sub are arguing over pooped sheets and he’s having the time of his life.

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Guess That Ship Tournament: S3 Round 1

Hell polycule

Content warning: imprisonment, drug addiction, medical malpractice (why does this sound vaguely familiar)

Character A lives in solitude, but is psychosexually obsessed with Character B, an advertisement giant. After a series of scandals, B attempts to commit suicide on live television, but ends up at the hospital, and A comes to visit him and takes him to her home to fix his addictions through guerrila psychology and sex therapy locking him in her basement, a tactic that's bad for both of them, but they keep on it due to an ouroboros of codependence and amazing kinky sex.

Enter character C, who they found eating orange slices from their trash one night. They take him in under the premise that both of them haven't had cock in too long and soon enough he starts acting as a natural balance to their dynamic, turning it into a more healthy and loving relationship as a whole, allowing all three to heal from their personal traumas.

Now the three of them terrorize the gated retirement community they live in through being as queer, proud and happy as they can possibly be.

Emotional Support Humans

One's a former cult member who is only restrained from killing people because he's so nice most of the time. The other is a minimum wage retail worker who doesn't sleep. They work the same job at the same small, shitty store, and they're just about the only things keeping each other sane. For lack of a better term, they're each other's emotional support humans. Which is good, considering how often they face The Horrors. Their relationship is often a bit messy at times, but they care about each other on a deep, personal level, and they would both die and kill for each other without hesitation. And. I mean. They already have done that a couple of times now. What's a little homicide when it's with your bestie?

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Versace Zelus | meatcopter69 | 4.4

It's not the right time or place, but he can't help it. He physically can't help it. Lindsay pogs the moment Tomie goes for the jugular and he doesn't stop until Guy Cleansgoode begins a crusade of mental warfare against him for his Guyo-doxxing crimes. And even then? He's still grinning. Something about her furious tirade... it's snapped him out of his fugue. Once she's done he gives her a round of applause and a wolf whistle.

"Tomie Katsukawa!!!! You are the most valid motherfucker on this train!!!! We stan a legend. I'm going to get you into mainstream Hollywood after this even if I have to expend the last of my fragile dignity and considerable clout to do it."

"But!" "✨ Let's put Hollywood aside and focus on that clout thing, huh?✨"  

An insufferable smirk creeps across his face as he pulls his arm away from Akaji for the first time all trial, resting his elbows on the table to lean forward. Lindsay Tsai is, in every respect, not a dangerous person. He isn't. His ex was, if we're all reminiscing about our fucked up former girlfriends in the trial today, but he'd never really been able to come close to her incomprehensible levels of casual violence. (Not that he wanted to. That woman could have killed five people without breaking a sweat.) What he is, however, is a massive pain. God has let him live until now and he is about to make it the polycule's problem.

"Thanks for that condescending horseshit, Kishinami! Real big words for someone who posts cringe everywhere they go! I mean, you're sssssooooo right, bestie, except for one thing- Jinki isn't loveable unless you got botched under the knife and they replaced your heart with a septic tank. Did that happen to you? Is that the sad, tragic malpractice backstory you were hinting at on the golf course? Or at least part of it? Is that what your dead French ex did? Fs in the chat, lads!"

"...So what we've got here is two situations, right? The first is that we take da Jinki's story at face value and vote for him, despite all the contradictions. The second is that we go with what I'm thinking and he killed Magnolia while Kishinami killed Sato. And, I gotta tell you, I'm leaning towards suggesting we vote the latter. Why?"

He tucks his hands under his chin. Chinhands. What a shithead. 

"If we vote Jinki -> Sato and Sato -> Magnolia, and we're wrong, we get two mistrial punishments and these fuckheads are free to crawl back into Karasu's arms and gloat about it. We all get taken for a ride by God's Biggest Mistake and we have to live with that until the end of our days. But if we vote Jinki -> Magnolia and Kishinami -> Sato, and we're wrong and he was telling the truth (wild!), then we get the two mistrial punishments but at least Jinki isn't a total piece of shit."

"So that's that. And I'm fully down to try and sort the rest of this shitshow out ourselves between us relatively sane and non-psychotic human beings. But I'll just add this in as a meaty little treat for you to chew on, Jinki."

"If you're telling the truth, good on you! Wow! But if you're covering for Kishinami's involvement, consider this. Ume explicitly told me her family does crime scene fuckery. Kishinami has some type of medical malpractice we have explicit evidence of. Your life is already a shitshow and I can't ruin it more, but I can use all my money and clout to snitch to the cops the moment I get out of here. ✨ I'll ruin Ume's whole family. ✨ I'll ruin that circus you wanted to go marry her in. ✨ If they're corrupt, I'll just pay them more. ✨ I'll do a ✨ viral callout post ✨ on Kishinami and make sure they never work in medicine again. ✨ I'll make all of your lives a living hell.✨"

"So either tell us how your original story works with all the consistencies Kishinami pointed out, or give up and show us what's under your shirt." 

He smiles, sweetly, and goes back to clinging to Akaji's arm.

"And don't even think that you can just get rid of me after this trial. Didn't you hear? Ume's sworn to protect meee. And she neeever breaks her promiseeeees. RIGHT?"