━☆ Order and Faith ☆━

Life advice from the Voice of the Great Link. (Semi-parody, semi-serious askblog. Run by @enbygesserit)

[karnak-correspondences]

In-character ask blog for Adrian "Ozymandias" Veidt, from Watchmen. Written by @virtuevistavalley . Loosely post-canon.

Primary canon is the original graphic novel and the 2024 animated adaptation. Does not acknowledge Doomsday Clock, the Snyder film, or the 2019 HBO sequel series. Mun has not finished Before Watchmen: Ozymandias but is being selective about which elements from it they include.

Ground rules under the cut:

Unlike in Before Watchmen, Adrian is gay and a sex-indifferent asexual. He will never show romantic interest in a woman. I've joked before that he's the kind of guy who watches physique films for the plot. I, the mun, am fairly sex-repulsed and will not always feel comfortable answering sexually charged asks. When I do feel comfortable answering these kinds of asks, they'll be tagged as #suggestive for ease of blocking. Please keep them non-explicit if you send them.

I probably won't do shipping, at least not right now. This isn't really a discomfort thing and I'm not against it in theory, I just have an OC I'm writing for him and I'm not really interested in other ships at the moment.

If you ask him anything about an octopus monster that may or may not have killed half of New York City at some point in November of 1985, he will deny all involvement. This doesn't mean don't ask. I'm just telling you what will happen if you do.

No DC universe crossovers. I am firmly of the opinion that Watchmen characters don't belong in the wider DC universe, and I'm not well versed enough in it to write it competently anyway.

If you're going to compare him to any real billionaire or politician currently running the world (into the ground), please don't. This goes double if you're going to make an Epstein files joke.

Please... Don't do that thing people have always done when I've run an ask blog for a morally ambiguous or antagonistic character, where you fill my askbox with insults directed at my muse and expect me to just be fine with it. There's a person behind the screen and that person is trying to have fun too, not get Synanon Gamed by anonymous tumblr users.

[founderpropaganda]

OOC: Just in case anyone wants to know where I'm at now, since this blog is a bit inactive.

[virtuevistavalley]

Dominion Week is coming back for the week of 25-31 August!

Full prompt list (text version):

25 AUG: ACT OF COMPASSION | BATTLE OF WILLS

26 AUG: TRIAL BY FIRE | STRIVING FOR PERFECTION

27 AUG: REUNION | INTO THE FIRE

28 AUG: STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND | ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN

29 AUG: HUNTER VS. HUNTED | INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE

30 AUG: ON THIN ICE | UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP

31 AUG: LEARNING TO LIVE | FINDING A WAY

What is Dominion Week?

Dominion Week is an annual Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fanwork event (est. 2023, and now returning for its second year) that aims to center the personhood, experiences, and unique perspectives of Dominion species and characters.

It is explicitly OC-friendly, and meant to encourage cultural worldbuilding through character development. It is also explicitly aroace-friendly, and although ship-centric fanworks aren't disallowed, gen fanworks are the central focus.

How does it work?

Not much to say here. All types of fanwork are accepted. Two prompts a day. Choose one or get daring and do both, I'm not your mom. Add your stuff to the A03 collection so it can be easily tracked.

What are the rules?

There are only two hard and fast rules for Dominion Week.

The first is that you tag everything appropriately. This is a fanwork challenge centered around a dystopian empire. Dark themes will come up. However, different readers have different preferences, so please be specific in your tagging.

The second, newly added this year, is that you focus on the actions, perspectives, and motives of Dominion characters as much as possible. You do not have to agree with those perspectives, but the point isn't to write from a point of view that you wholeheartedly morally endorse, it's to write from a point of view that can be interesting if explored with sensitivity and care. If you need an example of what I'm talking about, a story of a Changeling infiltrator trying to avoid detection aboard a Federation starship would be acceptable— a story about an intrepid Federation crew trying to hunt down and exterminate a Changeling infiltrator, however, would not be.

Happy writing! Victory is Life!

[gul-dukat-announcements]

ATteNtIOn BajOrAn wOrKErS. New year new me! Literally! I made a clone of myself to do the boring parts of my job for me while I get more divorces

[founderpropaganda]

I thought I told you to stay out of the cloning facility.

[gul-dukat-announcements]

Ah founder so good to see you! You told me to stay out of the weyoun cloning facility. As you can see it is now a dukat cloning facility. I released all the unfinished weyoun experiments into the wild beforehand to make sure I stayed compliant with your rule :)

[founderpropaganda]

You.

did.

what

[gul-dukat-announcements]

ATteNtIOn BajOrAn wOrKErS. New year new me! Literally! I made a clone of myself to do the boring parts of my job for me while I get more divorces

[founderpropaganda]

I thought I told you to stay out of the cloning facility.

[slimepost-generator]

The growing indifference - or even outright hostility - to ooze and other slimelike fluids is indicative of a larger societal issue. I haven't decided what the issue is but its making me reallymad

[founderpropaganda]

Solids always fear what they don't understand. It's as inherent to their nature as the desire for order and harmony is to ours.

[founderpropaganda]

"kill them with kindness" wrong. Jem'Hadar orbital strike

[we-are-derailed-deactivated2020]

the federation is real mad that the changelings are fucking their shit up but they’re the ones who busted into the gamma quadrant totally uninvited? i feel like they could’ve just stayed out of other people’s space quadrants and avoided all of this

[great-link-suggestion]

what year is it

[vorta-politics]

5 or 6 ! you’re welcome

[great-link-suggestion]

👍t hank

it has been. a while. now to figure out the current state of interquadrantal politics

[founderpropaganda]

Ah, the family returns. I've been trying to keep a close watch on things here, as much as I'm able.

[slimepost-generator]

Every friend group has the bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice

[slimepost-generator]

"wehhh but my friend group doesn't have a bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice!" oh yeah? Are you really really sure about that?

[slimepost-generator]

smh all of you people tagging "#its me" in the reblogs don't know the first thing about being a bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice. obviously we aren't supposed to reveal ourselves

[slimepost-generator]

I mean you. you aren't supposed to reveal yourselves

[founderpropaganda]

Did you ever get a new Weyoun?

I am currently without an attendant. My siblings agreed that it would be best, for the time being.

[gul-corat-damar]

Please🙄 You all conjure Weyouns and other Vorta like they're replicated foods.

[founderpropaganda]

Yes, we can and often do. That doesn't mean that we always should.

It was determined by the Link that I should wait before commissioning the creation of a new attendant, and that is all I will say on the subject. We do not discuss family matters with solids.

[gul-corat-damar]

has anyone seen my hair gel?

[founderpropaganda]

Have you checked Weyoun's quarters?

I don't know why he would have need of it, seeing as he was created to have no desire to deviate from the way that he was designed, but he does enjoy collecting objects of little value, so if it is anywhere at all, it would be there.

You need not concern yourself with his behavior. I will reprimand him for this.

[gul-corat-damar]

Hmm. Perhaps. But... Forgive me, Founder, but your hair is seemingly slicker today.

[founderpropaganda]

And you think that has anything to do with your hair gel? I was approaching my regeneration deadline, and took a bit of time in my natural state to freshen up. If my form is slightly different than you're used to, it's only because I've had a moment to rejuvenate myself.

[gul-corat-damar]

has anyone seen my hair gel?

[founderpropaganda]

Have you checked Weyoun's quarters?

I don't know why he would have need of it, seeing as he was created to have no desire to deviate from the way that he was designed, but he does enjoy collecting objects of little value, so if it is anywhere at all, it would be there.

You need not concern yourself with his behavior. I will reprimand him for this.

[queerlybelovdd]

Star Trek: Who Are The Founders?

Not much is known about the Founders of the Dominion, aside from the chaos they stirred in Star Trek while trying to enforce galactic order.

[founderpropaganda]

We do not stir chaos, we establish order. Really, you should be grateful.

And if not much is known about us, then I count that as a success.

[virtuevistavalley]

affirmations for Changeling infiltrators

you are doing an excellent job of hiding in plain sight

seriously, excellent, you've got the solids all fooled

we are all very impressed

the work you are doing to establish order in a chaotic universe is to be commended

others like you have endured far worse for far longer, and the capacity to get through this is within you as well

the Link misses you as much as you miss it

your assignment will be over soon and your people will be there to welcome you home

[joja-co-official]

Is it still child labour if they're clones? 🤔💙💦

[founderpropaganda]

No. That's perfectly ethical, actually.

[memorycycle]

rebllog if you have a slug in your brain controlling u

[founderpropaganda]

The Yeerks haven't figured out how to infest my kind, and never will, as we do not have brains the way that solids do. The Link is safe from them, and will remain so.

[founderpropaganda]

How big of a container do you need to fully contain yourself, Madame Founder?

I find regenerating in a container to be more constraining than anything else, but when I have no other choice, I prefer a wide and shallow bowl with curved sides, made of cobalt or some other nonreactive, lustrous metal.

That is also what most of my kind tend to find most comfortable. Dominion facilities and ships equipped to host a Founder often store one or two of these receptacles in case they're needed.

[dark-places-and-dream-faces]

Did Constable Odo let you see his container? What did you think of it?

[founderpropaganda]

It seemed awfully cramped and uncomfortable. I don't know how he stood it.

[dark-places-and-dream-faces]

….would you really destroy me if I approached the Great Link?

[founderpropaganda]

It's exceedingly rare that we allow solids to approach, but not completely unheard of. If we could be reasonably assured that you meant us no harm, and that you had a purpose for standing on our shores, then we would allow it. We are reasonable, even if our safety takes precedence.