#soft-galaxies

[ambassadorquark]

playlist: quark flirting badly

well unfortunately you’ve opened the pandora’s box of embarrassing songs that remind me of quark for some reason

whatever - asylum street spankers

dating tips - that handsome devil

whipped cream - ludo

id engager - of montreal

[dialogic]

M for the fic ask!

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

i dooooo and i honestly really really want to get around to them 

so the two wips i have are a) a fic of the whole ds9 cast and the farewell messages that they record for their loved ones. (i think i have it in google docs as ‘wilfred owen quote’.) and b) a fic about julian and ezri’s breakup being catalyzed by them getting called back to cardassia. i think i will definitely try to finish those over the summer? 

there’s also one i haven’t started because it’ll be kind of new territory but it would be about old kira and sisko running their idyllic subsistence farms on bajor and having a conversation about witnessing your people’s oppression in a way a good portion of the people around you could never see in the same way (sisko in far beyond the stars, kira during the occupation - because at this point there’d be an active generation of bajorans born post-occupation) and the loneliness of this experience, but the importance too.

oh yeah i also at one point really wanted to write a stuck-in-a-runabout-together fic about ezri and garak

OHHHH and i also want to write a fic about kira’s first kiss, with trentin fala (one of the girls who died in the one bryan fuller episode, the one who wasn’t in the resistance but was an informer for them) but the only other thing i know about that one is that i’d get the title from easter 1916

[eldritchtribble]

@soft-galaxies you owe it to yourself! I've only seen the first episode so far and just...the aesthetic, the characters, the soundtrack, the setup...it's something. Truly.

[eldritchtribble]

.@soft-galaxies: this is really interesting to think about like... one of their four brain lobes focuses on music as a separate component from regular conversational/non-musical noises (i imagine there's something you could do w/ their brains vs how they can survive in non-ferenginar environments with so much auditory stimulus, also quark is canonically just a loud person so he's obviously not modulating himself, generally his whole family is loud besides rom i guess)

Brilliant headcanon about Ferengi using a separate auditory process for music.

like you'd imagine a people who are canonically sensitive to noises and sounds most other humanoids can't hear would be softspoken but they seem to be loud as a rule, and tv handwavey they don't speak any more quietly than other humanoids they encounter... they can prob hear music at levels non-ferengi can't hear but might also just be able to tolerate it at regular non-ferengi levels (e.g. nog listening to klingon opera) without pain, so low volumes might not be a thing

The handwaveyness of the show can be so frustrating! Quark is canonically capable of hearing Odo sloshing around upstairs, but he works in an extremely noisy environment with no apparent ill effects. Ah well. I do have a few possibilities in mind:

1) auditory desensitization as an evolutionary adaptation, selectively bred into well-to-do families whose children were expected to do interstellar business (not that plausible and rather boring);

2) hearing dampeners, perhaps integrated into the universal translator (more plausible, but still boring)

3) selective hearing loss after a certain decibel level has been reached - in essence, Ferengi having the opposite hearing range of a human. The quieter an environment, the clearer it would sound to a Ferengi; louder than 65 db or so, certain auditory receptors might shut themselves down defensively. (my personal favorite)

ALSO, all Ferengi are synesthetes to some degree or other and nobody can convince me otherwise.

as for genres, completely unrelated to xenobiology headcanons, i tend to associate more overproduced pop/hip-hop/r&b with quark (things for dancing, movement, grinding... versatile songs), rom with acoustic n gentle genres, nog with experimental ambient, electronica instrumentals (supported by that one ds9 books excerpt about nog enjoying atonal stuff)... i'd imagine there's a vast amount of stuff b/c competition in a capitalist industry etc.

I also imagine that certain individuals (coughBruntcough) would be uncomfortably into ASMR.

[eldritchtribble]

for the fic prompt meme! 48 seems very quodo, but if anyone picked that already, 9 or 37 :)

@jazzypizzaz also requested 9 :D

9.) “I appreciate thethought, but I don’t need a thousand condoms, thanks.”

Odo reflected that it was past time that he learned to bewareDaxes bearing gifts.

True, Jadzia had seemed sincere enough when she had stopped byearlier to thrust a large wrapped package into his hands. Brimming with mirth, tobe sure, but sincere all the same.

“Quark wanted you to have this,” she had confided in asing-song voice. Instead of answering her directly, Odo had elected to open thebox. Inside were thousands of what looked like a malfunctioning replicator’sattempt at test tubes.

“What are these?” Odo had inquired – not unreasonably underthe circumstances, he thought. He had held one up to the light and given it a gentle shake.

“Ask him. I have no ideawhat they could possibly be.”

In retrospect, that had been his first clue.

[eldritchtribble]

@soft-galaxies - a fic prompt inspired by our latest convo:

Deep Space Nine hosts a diplomatic envoy of Romulans shortly before their entry into the Dominion War. Over the course of a few days Odo starts shifting bigger and bigger shoulder pads onto his uniform. Quark pulls him aside one day at the bar after said shoulder pads knock over a paying customer. He questions Odo’s rationale for doing such a thing in the first place. Odo would do it for the intimidation factor, possibly, or perhaps as a sign of cultural respect. Odo shakes his head and replies that he just liked how they looked.

Quark proceeds to grumble about how Odo seems to have...stopped making sense.

[eldritchtribble]

50. A random headcanon?

I was literally just writing one in my drafts and had no idea what to do with it!! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to sound clever :]

After 3x04: Equilibrium, once Joran Belar’s memories have been reincorporated into Jadzia’s consciousness, she will occasionally stop to serenade people on the promenade - badly and with intent to embarrass. Quark books her at the bar during a slow week but vows never to do so again after she plays Trill disco hits the entire time.

[eldritchtribble]

@soft-galaxies: headcanoning on this headcanon, she tosses in a lil earth wind and fire - september for good measure, sisko forbids quark from turning it off until the song's over

SHE WOULD WOULDN’T SHE

also that’s totally what sisko listens to while cooking. he shimmies happily along to it while adding dashes of spice to his jambalaya. jake is perpetually Mortified.