#CAPS. ( dirk gently. )

[fanboundbooks]

A Road Song in Quartet that Smells like a Trio by @capriciouslyterminal

Fandom: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016) Word Count: 62,086

Cover design is a faux black leather spine with denim front and back panels. I was going for a punkish theme to help tie it into the folks the story is about so I leaned into their graffiti aesthetic. I used a pair of graffiti style fonts for the titles, drop caps, and page numbers.

This was my first time airbrushing for a book! I had originally thought I would put down a stencil of the title and airbrush all around it, but to create the graffiti look I wanted I realized I needed the words to have the color. So I airbrushed and sealed the vinyl of the titling and then added that to the cover. I love the way it pops. And definitely want to do more with airbrushing in the future.

The character's abilities are represented by a neon blue light so I went with light blue elements through out the book; the fore edges, drop caps and end papers

I used a variation of the stickman symbol used by the characters to represent their group as the header for each section of the story. This is a story about how the group came together so the number of stick men grows each time to reflect the added member.

For the double wide title page I was able to incorporate the van used by the group in the show.

And as always, it is the best to see a finished book in its forever home. Thank you capriciouslyterminal for giving me the opportunity to bind this for you and for the great photos I was able to add to my own to make this post. (Since I got a bit over zealous and mailed the book out before I took complete photos of it)

[tapedsleeves]

Part 2 of going through my AO3 history and reccing a couple from each month. Take this Journey of the past year with me, I hope you enjoy these recommendations.

part 1

July

Bonus Fandoms: Shardlake, The Mummy, & Check Please! 

 wrapped up in her satin and lace by blaahaj

3850 words, E, Connor McDavid / Leon Draisaitl

Rule63, lesbians, strapons!!!

when you find out by nymhciv

10779 words, E, Leon Draisaitl / Connor McDavid

Beer League, exhibitionism

evil bad eric series by anonymous

9166 words, 5 works, E, Jeff Skinner / Eric Staal

Rape / non-con, temporary character death & revivification, blood and dore. Dead dove do not eat. 

why can't it be like that by lurlur

24307 words, 2 works, E Vince Dunn / Adam Larsson

Breakup / makeup fic, angst, hurt / comfort

dare not speak its name by bruinss

42622 words, E, Jonathan Drouin / Nathan Mackinnon

BDSM Au, first time - tradsub Jo

Thicker Than a Velvet Ring by anonymous

3319 words, E, Jeremy Swayman / Linus Ullmark

Handfeeding, kneeling

August

Bonus Fandoms: Daredevil & The Bikeriders 

it's not a new wave, it's just you and me by sphesphe

16331 words, E, Patrice Bergeron / Brad Marchand

Non-traditional omega, dom/sub au, pining

but close aint close enough by lagerlout

6363 words, E, Leon Draisaitl / Connor McDavid

Pregnancy kink, feminization, ethical non-monogamy

Animus by toxotes

28285 words, M, Travis Konecny / Nolan Patrick

Curse AU

grind'r verse by whitchbhitch

28686 words, 2 works, E, Travis Konecny / Nolan Patrick

Loss of virginity, commitment kink, consensual somnophilia

good choices, all around series by shamrockette

15042 words, E, 2 works, Thatcher Demko / Quinn Hughes

Grindr, Getting together

from high hopes to the ground by anonymous

23291 words, T, Morgan Barron / Josh Morrissey

Supernatural, haunted house, pod-person replacements

September

Bonus Fandoms: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency & Kingsman

the curious mating habits of the homo sapiens hockii by nasobem

7505 words, E, Tim Stutzle / Brady Tkachuk

Coming out, obvlivious

with my feelings on fire (guess i'm a bad liar) by crispierchip

27176 words, E, Tyson Barrie / Gabe Landeskog

Accidental mpreg, getting together fwb to lovers

Blooming by canary

42375 words, M, Kent Johnson / Owen Power

Accidental mpreg, getting together, alpha/beta/omega dynamics

rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints  by anonymous

32861 words, E, Jack Eichel / Connor McDavid

Jack Eichel Trade discussions

quarters halves and wholes by ladyeggplant

23040 words, E, Mathew Barzal / Anthony Beauvillier

Vacation fic, getting together

October

Bonus Fandoms: Star Trek & Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Earn It by Hooked_from_Behind

1704 words, E, Jonathan Droun / Nathan MacKinnon

trans!Jo, masturbation, videos

next one by cuprun

3809 words, E, Connor McDavid / Evgeni Malkin

Proxy fucking

Becoming Who We Are by Anonymous

13456 words, E, Nico Hischier / Jack Hughes

Grinder Fic, sexting, idiots to lovers, mistaken identity

In Your Wildest Dreams by TheSeventhL

2705 words, T, Leon Draisaitl / Connor McDavid

Wet dreams, miscommunication

Taking care of you by tigragrece

1107 words, G, Connor Bedard / Victor Wembanyama

Fluff, comfort

Lose some, Win some by Nasobem

5669 words, E, Tim Stutzle / Brady Tkachuk

Mistaken identity, miscommunication, first time

November

Bonus Fandoms: Merlin & Ready or Not

Zenith by devils

4732 words, E, Nico HIschier / Jack Hughes

Mating cycles, angst, knotting

The MoJoe Show (On The Road) Season 2 by pushingtothedge

42822 words, E, Moritz Seider / Joe Veleno

Pining, fwb to lovers, jealousy

got my finger on her trigger by creamsicle_melt

6063 words, E, Jonathan Drouin / Nathan MacKinnon

Rule63, cunnilingus, size kink

Sentinel Caps by Ferritin4

9361 words 2 works, E, Nicklas Backstrom / Alexander Ovechkin

Sentinel AU, teasing, slow burn

I like your face by CanadianAsPuck

1567 words, G, Thomas Chabot / Josh Norris

Getting together, drunk confessions

you make me happy by CanadianAsPuck

8561 words, T, Thomas Chabot / Josh Norris

Josh Norris injury, mutual pining, getting together

bottle up by selkiefinalist(sarcangel)

924 words, T, Colby Armstrong / Sidney Crosby

Hockeybot colby

It's not really gay panic (if you're embracing it) by dharma_club

5467 words, E, Erik Johnson / Nathan MacKinnon 

Rule63, bad at flirting, idiots to lovers

December

Bonus Fandoms: Arcane

wait a year by daiisysusan

16813 words, E, Quinn Hughes / Brady Tkachuk

Miscommunication, getting married, didn’t know they were dating

What're We Doing Here? By jtmikay

35075 words, T, Connor Bedard / Kevin Korchinski

Pining, slow burn, kissing

from this day forward by greenteam

91664 words, 2 works, E, Nico HIschier / Jack Hughes, Nico Hischier / Jonas Siegenthaler, Nico Hischier/Jonas Siegenthaler/Jack Hughes, Jack Hughes/Jonas Siegenthaler

Slow burn, royal au, arranged marriage au, getting together, bodyguard 

une ivresse qui m'anéantit by puckthisshift

5746 words, E, Thomas Chabot / Josh Norris

Selective bisexuality, sexuality crisis

bro-me is where the heart is by ladyeggplant

23308 words, E, Casey Cizikas / Matt Martin 

Farmstead AU, slow burn

As Above, So Below by Lurlur

200 words, G, Zamboni / Jumbotron

Love, romance, poetry

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

I listened to this audiobook last week, and found it very interesting. If I were someone who was extremely familiar with every tiny facet of Douglas Adams' entire career, I'd probably consider a lot of that audiobook an unnecessary re-hash of it. And if I knew nothing about Douglas Adams, I don't know if I'd be all that interested in the book's minutiae. However, I know the perfect amount about Douglas Adams to enjoy this. I've read all his novels (Hitchhiker's x5, Dirk Gently x2), his books that are not novels (Meaning of Liff x2, Last Chance to See), and the brilliant posthumous release The Salmon of Doubt.

The Salmon of Doubt is a book I read over and over and over as a teenager, and dip into at random as an adult too - it's a collection of little writings that Douglas Adams did over the years. Speeches, interviews, opinion pieces, and even stuff that was found on his computer after he died, just musings and things that he'd written (it's worth noting that this was all done with consent from his wife and none of it was incredibly personal or anything, so I assume they're all right, in terms of privacy violation). It's capped off by the first few chapters of a novel that he was working on writing but died before he could finish, which would have been called The Salmon of Doubt.

The Salmon of Doubt is a wonderful book. It taught me a lot about the mind behind Hitchhiker's Guide and Dirk Gently, what interested Douglas Adams and what drove him toward those topics. I learned why he could write so intelligently about technology - it's because he knew an enormous amount about it, particularly for a guy who worked in the creative arts. He said once that he thought it unfortunate that people had to pick their path - go into arts or into sciences - so young, and it's hard to switch. That he became a creative type but was deeply fascinated by science.

Some of the predictions about technology that he made, in various writings that were published in Salmon of Doubt, were shockingly accurate. He could comment amazingly insightfully on the effects of technology that hadn't even started yet, at the time that he was writing. At one point, he mentioned that people often ask him how much he thinks the internet will change culture and society, and the people who ask him always seem to be hoping that his answer will boil down to "not very much". But, he tells them, he can't give them that answer. He can't give them any answer that adequately explains how much the internet will change things, because its scope can't be comprehended in a pre-internet world. He said it's like telling a river that the ocean is coming, and normal river rules no longer apply.

I listened to the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series last month (somehow the first time I've ever heard that, despite having loved the books for 20 years), and throughout the series, I kept having to remind myself that Douglas Adams died in 2001. There is so much searing satire on tech companies, and technology in general, throughout the Hitchhiker stories. There are so many accurate statements about technology in The Salmon of Doubt, like the one about the internet as an ocean. Yet, every single thing Douglas Adams ever said or wrote, he said or wrote before 2001. Most of it, such as the Hitchhiker's stuff, was written many years before 2001. He could see all that stuff, even though so much of the digital age hadn't happened yet.

In the forward to Salmon of Doubt, Stephen Fry wrote that it's sad Douglas Adams died so young, and so won't get to tinker with an iPod, or come up with an insightful angle on any new gadets that are invented in the future. But now that many more years have passed, I think Douglas Adams correctly foresaw a hell of a lot of the things that would get invented after his death. But it's a tragedy that he never got to see it all come true. (Just to be clear: I mean that Douglas Adams knew a lot about technology and was very intelligent so could accurately predict what effects it would have, and what people would do with it next. Not that he was, like, psychic.)

So that's what I already know about Douglas Adams, and that is the perfect amount to know about him, going into the audiobook that collected a bunch of his BBC work. That audiobook functions as a bit of an autobiography, which was interesting. There's a fair amount of basic biographical stuff I didn't know about Douglas Adams, the mechanics of how he got his start in writing and performing. I pretty much only knew he used to be in Footlights and crossed paths with Pythons sometimes, so it was cool to hear those stories fleshed out. And the audiobook had excerpts from various projects of his that I've not heard before, stories about his lesser-known stuff.

I cut out a few clips from it. Firstly, here's a sketch that Douglas Adams wrote when he was younger, and apparently talked John Cleese into appearing in it, but only if Cleese could pre-record his part and have his voice just played in on a speaker during the live show:

That was funny (it's a pity that John Cleese died on the same day as Douglas Adams and has not existed since then and nothing he's ever said or done since ever happened so we're all still allowed to find his older work funny), but one thing that particularly jumped out at me was when she said he sounds like the guy from the post office advertisements. That's the exact type of joke that someone would make, years later, about someone like David Mitchell, but saying "Apple adverts".

I still find it weirdly interesting to hear how classic, canonized legends were talked about in their own time. I don't even mean cases where something that's now considered great was dismissed in its own time - John Cleese, and all the Pythons, were clearly very successful in their own era. It's just that now, if you invoke John Cleese in a joke, you're invoking untouchable comedy royalty (okay, if you invoke John Cleese now, you're invoking Very Talented Comedian Turns Into Old Man Yells At Cloud, but I'm talking about before he went too obviously off that particular deep end), and it's funny to hear people talk about him when he'd more recently become famous (still not that recent, but not long enough ago to have passed into "classics" territory yet).

And that brings me back to Douglas Adams, because the Hitchhiker's Guide stuff has also passed into the status of legendary classics, so it's fun to hear how it was treated when it was just a wildly successful series in its own time. For example, the Douglas Adams at the BBC audiobook also featured a sketch that some other comedians did, many years ago, to parody the Hitchhiker's Guide radio show:

That audiobook also featured a bunch of clips of Douglas Adams talking, in interviews and things like that, and on his Guide to the Future radio show (which I've not heard, and probably should). Here's a clip I cut out, initially because I thought it was interesting how well he predicted the effects of media piracy, given that, as I've said, he died in 2001:

I started thinking I should cut out this clip, because it was interesting that Douglas Adams was able to predict some major ways in which the internet would change the way we share media. However, about 40 seconds into that clip, he said a word that made me think I definitely have to cut this out, because what the fuck? What the fuck? I will ask everyone to listen to this clip, paying particular attention to the word he says 40 seconds in, and to, again, remember that Douglas Adams died in 2001. It feels absolutely wild to hear that word said and know that this was pre-2001.

I've checked, by the way, and it's true.

I also saved this other clip, of Douglas Adams' own voice talking on his Guide to the Future radio show, giving us an heartbreakingly optimistic vision of the internet's effect on politics:

I think this is a rare case of Douglas Adams getting it mostly wrong, in his predictions about how technology would affect the future. Seeing the way that the internet connects us to the consequences of our words and actions, and thinking that will lead to more consideration from people, rather than less. I can see how he arrived at that conclusion, I can see exactly which factors he missed. But isn't it a beautiful dream?

Anyway, I enjoyed the audiobook, and I recommend it to anyone who knows exactly as much about Douglas Adams as I did before I listened to it, or to anyone who finds anything in this post interesting.

[chaoskiro]

[Image ID: two edited barbie posters side by side one showing Bart from Dirk Gently's holistic detective bureau, wearing a pair of orange workman's overalls and spattered with blood. It reads "This Barbie is an holistic assassin." The other shows Ken from the same series with his hands bound by gaffa. It reads "He's just Ken" in all caps. End ID]

[pensivespacepirate]

JUST WATCHED DIRK GENTLY FOR THE FIRST TIME

THE PATHETIC MEN AND THE BLOOD COVERED WOMEN???? HELLO???????

[thegothamtimes]

So I wanted to see what would happen if I typed basic words into the tags and picked the most weirdly specific suggestions and here we are

[dreamy-hearts]

WHEN FRIEDKIN HAS TO TELL MR. PRIEST NOT TO TAKE THE SHOT AND HE MAKES THAT FACE BECAUSE COL. RIGGINS HAD TO TELL HIM NOT TO TAKE THE SHOT IN SEASON 1

[fanboy-sloth]

Me, has an ungodly, primal  U R G E to rewatch Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (the one with Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood).

Also Me, is lacking any and all motivation to do anything, other than rediscover the amazing music of Alt-J [thank you OBX] and The Black Keys.

[kidneys-and-custard]

IZZIE STEELE JUST SAID “BITCH, ME TOO” TO ME ON HER INSTAGRAM LIVE

[tuppencetrinkets-a]

~20,000 screencaps from Dirk Gently, Season 1.

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[leezardweezard]

dirk strider’s holistic detective agency

[clowniconography]

dirk, about to get arrested, standing next to a car that just fell out of a tree with his friends one of which is holding gun: THIS IS A PICNIC!!

[asdcats]

(Anon please) this is for the SI Sunday thing. Okay, so DGHDA (Dirk Gently a holistic detective agency) is the purest most beautiful show with everything I love in it and iTS GETTING CANCELLED! They do every character in it perfectly even though it’s completely different from the book it’s still amazing and I hope a cross over between the two comes about at some point. Though many think this Dirk is actually the past version of book Dirk, he mentions meeting Thor in the show which means that the events of the book must have already happened to show Dirk and it’s not as if we need continuity between them, we’re used the incontinuity of Douglas Adams works already. And I just can’t handle it being cancelled, it’s such a good show with such amazing representation (a main asexual character, many openly bisexual characters, actually strong women that can be badass without having to constantly look amazing and even though this is set in present day they manage to work in a medieval gay romance and really the list could go on forever). Oh, did I mention that there was at one point a soul switching cult and a shark inside a kitten, or that there are scissor fights (similar to sword fights but with giant scissors) and oh so much more. I really could go on forever I have a few fab theories that I want to discuss but my fingers are starting to get sore so I’ll leave it at this. Thank you. #savedirkgently

[possumnest]

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🦐 ETSY STORE (stickers + tat permission slip)

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[meet the artist format august 20, they/them, white. (symbols for the astrological signs leo, taurus, and cancer, an infinity symbol representing autism, and an american flag.) taking up the left side of the image is a slightly fuzzy line art drawing in a simplistic style of me, a tall thin white person with dark short hair in a mullet haircut. the background of the image is a pale greenish white, and the drawing of me is lime green, in the drawing i have a baseball cap, a small pearl necklace, a t-shirt with a mesh long sleeve under it, dark skinny jeans, and dark shoes. i'm holding a fanny pack over my shoulder and giving a thumbs up. there are lime green stars scattered around my head, as well as simple drawings of ants and a centipede in the empty space. to the right of the drawing of me are some small drawings of items i have with me most of the time: a green water bottle covered in stickers, over ear headphones, a book about birds, and a mask.

on the opposite side of the drawing is a list of musicians i am into right now. the title of the list reads "now playing..." with two musical notes next to it and lists the following:

daði freyr, ezra furman, autoheart, dorian electra, of montreal, orville peck, perfume genius, sophie, aurora, montaigne, mika.

on the right side, below my name and basic details, there are two bubbles. the one on the left has a heart describing my likes and the one on the right has a circle with a slash representing "no" describing my dislikes

likes: sour candy, biology, green, citruses, birdwatching, soup. dislikes: cars, open water, loveless art, milk chocolate, hot weather.

below the bubble is a square with the words "i heart media" (there is a symbolic heart in place of the word), and the text inside the box is the following:

what we do in the shadows, dirk gently's holistic detective agency, jurassic park, ofmd, barry, disco elysium, hannibal, venom, little shop of horrors, nope, the good place, stardew valley, the muppets.]

[pensivespacepirate]

WHERE DID THEIR CLOTHES GO IN THE DEATH MAZE?????