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guljerry

For the Star Trek Rare Pairs Swap

Damar/Weyoun (in the Deep Dish 9 AU verse)


@the-capricious-one who requested a fanwork featuring Damar/Weyoun.

I wrote this in the Deep Dish 9 universe. I have been stuck on writing and @ladyvean suggested I try to write something lighter since I tend to write heavy things. So this is what came of that and I really enjoyed it. @the-capricious-one I hope you like it too!

~Shoddy Customer Service~  

Summary:            

Most of the staff of Terok Northside Pizza is out sick, it’s a busy night, and Damar has to deliver pizzas on his scooter… and he meets Weyoun who only makes his terrible night even worse.

*Deep Dish Nine AU*

                      


Damar grumbled to himself as he fitted the visor over his slick black hair. As management, the right hand of Dukat, he didn’t have to wear the full Terok Northside Pizza uniform but tonight Damar was not management. A large portion of his staff had called off for the night and the store was busy. The phone was ringing off the hook with orders, and the lobby was full too. The problem was that there were no delivery drivers and that was going to make things very difficult. He wanted to take Ziyal and Rugal from up front and send one of them out. But the front was so busy it would be quicker to just go out and deliver the pizza’s himself. Damar sighed. It was a bad night for half of the store employees to come down with stomach flu.

Damar loaded pizza boxes into their insulated carrier to keep them warm and carried them to the parking lot. His shoulders slumped when his gaze fell upon his scooter. It was more than embarassing but he’d gotten one too many DUI’s and now his prized possession, his baby, the only really nice thing he owned, was sitting in his garage at home collecting more dust than the envelopes piled on the kitchen table that held his credit card statements. His house may have been shitty, and falling apart, and he may have had to grimace when drinking his cheap booze, and the coat he was wearing was probably decades old—but his car was a dream. The older model Porsche was out of his league but he felt like a sex god when he was behind the wheel. He had restored it himself in a labor of love and the day anyone so much as breathed on it wrong would be the day that he went away for murder. He had caught Rugal in the parking lot one day snapping a photo of Ziyal sitting on the shiny red hood and had nearly murdered her with a pizza slicer. Had her father not been visiting the store that day things probably would have gone far worse than they had. Crushing the screen of Rugal’s I-Phone beneath his boot had not been revenge enough.

His baby certainly would have been his friend this night, though he would have had to have scrounged up a blanket to lay over the leather seats. Greasy pizza boxes would not dare to touch that pristine interior.

Damar narrowed his eyes at the scooter. Having to ride the pathetic little thing instead of sliding into the drivers seat of his beloved car made him feel as though he’d been castrated. He adjusted his visor with purpose, and marched forward, deciding he needed to just get the pizzas to their recipients and get the dreaded task out of the way. He had brought out some bungee cords that he’d found in the utility closet and he used them to secure the pizza to the back of the scooter. Once he was satisfied the boxes weren’t going to be roadkill once he got going, he straddled the vinyl seat.

Pretend it’s a beautiful Harley with a cherry red gas tank, and a sexy pinup girl painted on the side of the tank too. Yeah, and her tits are falling out of a top that doesn’t have enough buttons.

Damar’s dreams were dashed when he started the scooter and it sounded so pathetic. Certainly not the roar of a motorcycle that would vibrate between his legs as he rode it like a beast.

I need a leather jacket, Damar thought to himself. I bet Dukat has one… with studs down the shoulders.

But Damar did not have a leather jacket, just a thin, faded, canvas jacket, a visor with hair grease on the inside of the band, and a scooter full of pizza and bad life choices.

(full story below)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/10346547

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subspacecommunication

@outerspace-iiinnerspace

Tagged: nice nice, but it covers the nose? i may be misremembering but didn’t a while ago you say that covering the nose up would be disorienting, bc of sensory organs being there?, i’m probably mixing something up.

You remembered correctly! Originally (as I posted I think a few years ago now, ahhh) I was going to remove the helmets entirely, I posted that they were simply trialed and then dismissed as too much of a compromise with too little gain.

I’ve changed my mind on this matter (and here’s the reason I don’t make master posts haha)! Or rather, I revisited armour design a few times to see what I could do to protect Cardassians. Their military uniforms leave a shocking amount of exposed vulnerable neck and head considering. That’s sort of fine in the show, where the majority of combat is energy-weapon based (and therefore it probably doesn’t really matter what you’re wearing much), but with redesigns, Cardassians are clearly a lot more physically involved, even if their combat may still be majority energy-weapon based. 

It’s not really easy for you to see unless I made a cutaway diagram, but this design doesn’t sit directly flush with the snout. If you drew over the artwork to trace where the Cardassian head would be under the helmet, they’ve got a bit of “wiggle” room in the snout area. Since the helmet does not apply pressure to their snout (the “pressure”, ie where it’s held on, is more around the crest and eye-ridges), it won’t cause problems. Cardassians experience disorientation if you apply pressure to the snout, so without that, they’re A-Okay. In fact this time round, the helmet protects them from others trying to disable them in this way. It’s the best compromise I think. It could be even more armoured and secure, but then it would start causing navigation problems.

It was just a matter of me figuring out a design that worked with that vulnerability really, which I’m sure is something Cardassians themselves would do asap!

quietflorilegium
What he did not feel, he realized as he caught his breath again after the coughing jag, was afraid. Not of the Count and Countess, anyway. Their public faces and their private ones were… unexpectedly congruent. It seemed he could trust them, not so much not to hurt him, but to be what they were, what they appeared. He could not at first put a word to it, this sense of personal unity. Then it came to him. Oh. So that’s what integrity looks like. I didn’t know.
Mark Vorkosigan, Lois McMaster Bujold, “Mirror Dance”
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“ Star Trek The Next Generation: “The Wounded”
In 2367, Gul Macet and Glinns Telle and Daro board the USS Enterprise-D to cooperate in tracking down the rogue USS Phoenix.
Macet and his Glinns wear what could loosely be termed...
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Star Trek The Next Generation: “The Wounded”

In 2367, Gul Macet and Glinns Telle and Daro board the USS Enterprise-D to cooperate in tracking down the rogue USS Phoenix.

Macet and his Glinns wear what could loosely be termed as “Cardassian Ground Troop Armour”. It sometimes translates to “contact suit”, sometimes to something florid along the lines of “When Fire Approaches”. The meaning of such a phrase is still not widely known, but this armour is associated with a particular kind of fear. It is rarely seen only because it is intended for physical combat, and is much more heavily armoured than the black military suit more commonly seen.

Elements of the design date back to before Cardassia Prime experienced unity. It was originally developed by the Cardassians who lived in volcanic mountainous regions, with scales as red as the rocks they lived on. It is distinctly different to the armours developed by other Cardassian races of the time, in that their armour was the first to weaponise their venom beyond their natural method of dispensing it (more on this in future). 

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vulcannic

Why don’t we ever talk about the fact that leonard nimoy had to walk off set because of tooth pain and show up at his dentist dressed as spock

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Also Brent Spiner broke his mandible during the filming of ‘The Game’ and had to be taken to hospital dressed as Data

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an earthquake happened near the DS9 set once and Armin Shimerman went racing home to his family in full-on Quark makeup

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Andy Robinson also went home after that earthquake in full Garak makeup and the traffic lights weren’t working so people had to make eye contact at the intersections and he says everybody always let him go first

vulcannic

This post has been circulating around for a couple of years and this is the first addition that I genuinely didn’t know about and gOD HOW DID I NOT KNOW