#Will has security cameras

[stripydottycat]

What if Franklyn wasn't such a benign presence? He invented the anxious personality as a reason to see Hannibal after reading about him in the social pages & becoming obsessed with him. He reads everything he can about Hannibal, scouring the web for any snippet. His medical career combines with his support of the Baltimore cultural scene means there’s plenty of fuel to feed his obsession.

He puts a tracker on Hannibal's car so he can - oh what a surprise! - bump into Hannibal at a farmer’s market, or delicatessen, or at a purveyor of fine pocket squares.

He causes subtle but nasty harm to anyone Hannibal seems to befriend or spend time with.

Mrs Komeda's prized roses all suddenly die.

Alana finds her tyres slashed several times within a few months.

Another patient who Hannibal sees just before Franklyn finds someone has keyed their car while parked outside Hannibal's office.

And Will….

The possibilities are endless. Will’s house is so isolated.

He empties bags of rubbish collected on the way out to Wolf Trap on Will's porch.

Spray paints graffiti on his shed.

Leaves strings of sausages on the front door step. The dogs can't get to them, but they create chaos inside the house as they bark at the strange man, & the sausage smell drives them wild.

Will comes home to a mess as they leapt onto tables & chairs while Franklyn was there taunting the dogs. He is puzzled by the sausages & disposes of them in case they're poisoned. This does worry him.

He calls up an ex colleague from the NOPD who now has a security company. He installs a very discrete security system for Will, mates rates.

Will is surprised to get a security notification during a lecture. On the app he sees a short bearded man park his car and approach his house with a bucket of what looks like paint. The man stands on his porch steps, bending over to pry off the lid. The camera quality is so good, Will can see the paint is bright pink. “What the hell are you doing? Get the fuck away from my house.”

The man jumps, looked spooked and glancing around anxiously.

“Go on, get out of here or I’ll set the dogs on you! Raaaaaarrrrrrrr” yells Will.

The man drops the lid of the paint and dashes to his car, driving off in a hurry.

Will chuckles, then remembers he’s in the middle of teaching a class.

“Just interrupted an intruder. Or someone who thought my house would benefit from a Barbie makeover.” He explains, and continues with his lecture.

After the class he goes to see Bev and asks for some DNA swabs & a fingerprint kit to see if he can identify his visitor. Plus the vision from the camera is great.

An hour later while doing some marking in his office, his security app pings again.

This time…..it’s Hannibal.

[swan2swan]

Hey, CampFam, so...a thought just occurred:

Kenji isn't calling his mom this week.

There's gonna be a news story about how Daniel Kon died in a dinosaur attack, and his son was unavailable for comment. Also that Yaz's campus suffered a dinosaur breach and three people were killed or wounded, also there was a van that got rammed off a bridge. A van whose plates will be matched to a Ben Pincus, whose friend was living on the campus, and who was spotted with Sammy Gutierrez a day or so prior at a roadside show disruption. No bodies will have been recovered, but neither will at least one of the bodies from the campus.

Obviously DPW will provide forensics on the Becklespinaxes' waste (assuming the PH level is low enough), and probably find that only two humans were devoured (maybe even positively identify whom), but the fact remains that for at least a week....

All of the Nublar Six's families are going to think their children are dead. Again.

[salamanderpickle]

🚨 PSA FOR MY COLORADO HOMIES 🚨

If you live in an apartment complex or have a mail locker of any kind

GET YOUR MAIL EVERY DAY.

Colorado mail lockers all use the same master key and that key has been stolen. Mail theft is on the rise. My apartment's mailboxes have been broken into 3 times and management never told us. I did not find out until I walked into the mailroom and found a bunch of lockers open and empty.

I recently applied for my passport. When you do that they mail you back your identifying documents. My fucking original birth certificate and my new credit card were both stolen out of my mailbox this weekend.

The only thing you can do to prevent theft from your mailroom is to get your mail every single day.

[hella1975]

a post about fic updates! so the fics im currently juggling are dog teeth, tams, and of course, taob. my original plan was to start posting the second installment of the dog teeth series by sometime in april, bc it's the fic im most into atm and i already have the first chapter done, i just want to bank another one or two because once i start posting it i want to KEEP posting it with regular updates, hopefully every 2 weeks like with kaiein. HOWEVER this will put my atla fics on a back burner. april is a good writing time for me (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) bc i have the entire month off from uni to prep for may exam season, and i always want to write when im procrastinating my degree. which is. it's own thing im sure i'll graduate it's fine i'm fine. so if i focus on dog teeth, neither tams nor taob will get focus until like. june. which is par for the course with taob but im NOT happy about doing with tams.

SO my thought process was i can either be normal about this and just accept it's literally my final year at uni and im trying to graduate and it doesn't matter if updates are slow on ANY fics, or i can do my usual and implement an insane deadline that i somehow always make by the skin of my teeth. can you guess what i went with?

and thus i present unto the crowd my tentative plan: have the next taob chapter done by middle of april (im aware this is quite hand-wavey but it gives me a month to work with, so in my head this means anything between april 10th-20th), have the next tams chapter done by the end of april, and dog teeth can follow.

[theangrycomet-art]

Glamrock Kids: Finding Defenses

Each kids has to have their own way of defense, some are just more destructive than others.

[coquelicoq]

i know we're all losing it at this sudden insight we've gained in the [tarik voice] uhhh why is there a drone in my face scene, so i wanted to pull out some moments from previous books in which murderbot uses drones to look at people and see how differently they read if we now assume said drones are hovering inches away from their faces. reviewing my notes to look for examples is how i found out that mb doesn't pilot drones to look at people's faces until FT/NE, with one exception, and it's a doozy:

When it [the drone] reached Wilken, I had it stop and hover in front of her face for twenty-six seconds. Okay, so I was a little angry. (RP, ch. 5)

so like, it knows putting a drone in somebody's face is gonna freak them out, and it uses that to fuck with a human that pissed it off. lol.

that's really the only moment in the first four books where mb could conceivably be droning right up in someone's business, and it's made explicit. so i don't think we missed anything there. FT and NE are another story. here are some of my favorite moments:

FT

Indah faced me and asked, "You have experience at this?" Watching her via the drones, I kept my gaze on the Starchy Foods!!! sign, which had little dancing figures around it which I guess were supposed to be starchy foods. (ch. 1)

there's something about having a drone in your face while you're trying to talk to a person who is staring very seriously at a whimsical sign that contains three exclamation points...

Indah stared at Tural. So did I, with my drones. (ch. 2)

MULTIPLE drones in face incident! plus your boss giving you the eyeball?? tural is doing their best u guys please have mercy!

He [one of Mensah's assistants] was used to me and used to confidential council stuff, so he didn’t even glance up at my drones, just nodded to us and slipped out as we stepped in. (ch. 6)

whose job is it to tell newly hired assistants "ignore it" when there's a drone in their face? it's probably part of the standard onboarding procedure at this point tbh.

Then me, Aylen, and Indah were standing in the office looking at each other. Or they were looking at me and my drones were looking at them. (ch. 6)

mexican standoff if instead of guns you had eye contact and also one of the people involved doesn't like making eye contact. or something.

NE

The drone I had watching [Mensah's] face increased magnification, its low-light filter rendering her features in black and white. (ch. 2)

POV you're having a tense conversation about trauma therapy in the dark with a little flying camera buzzing around your head. just little secunit teammate things! (i actually think mensah finds this very comforting though. she smiles at the drone four pages later <3)

I wanted to use my drones to look at [Amena], but while that was calming for me, it wouldn’t be for her. (ch. 3)

hmm would it not be calming for amena to have something hovering in her face right when she's about to be abducted by raiders? ya think??

I had a drone view of Amena watching the hand scanner, her brow furrowed in half-wince, half-concentration. (ch. 6)

it doesn't have to be like this [mb 🤝 performing surgery] when it can also be like this [putting a drone in amena's face 🤝 mb 🤝 performing surgery]. mb has two hands (metaphorically)

My drone watched [Amena] eyeing me. (ch. 20)

every time mb says it sees through a drone that someone is watching it gets 200% funnier if this means that the person is deliberately ignoring the drone invading their personal bubble in order to look at the person that is outside of their personal bubble. like that's commitment.

[Mensah] came and sat down next to me in the lounge and I adjusted a drone to be able to get a view of her face. (ch. 20)

read: "a drone zoomed down from where it was circling above my head and stopped an inch in front of mensah's nose." i mean, you don't have to read it that way, it's never made explicit and i'm not the boss of you. but isn't it fun to imagine?

[alvindraperzzz]

DC Special: Return of Donna Troy #2 // Teen Titans (2003) Annual #1

Cassie canonically keeps scrapbooks. It’s unclear if she always did it, or if she was inspired by Donna’s photo albums, but I like to headcanon that she started making them as a way to commemorate Donna, and it eventually became a hobby she genuinely enjoyed.

Teen Titans/Outsiders: Secret Files and Origins (2003)

[vixscribs]

The trope where a character overhears themselves being insulted then leaves right before the redeeming statement is literally never good why do writers use it

[rodentchild]

I am immediately in love with Usha

[lady-harrowhark]

went home for lunch, got out of my car and realized that someone had left me a little gift in the form of a piece of some sort of industrial metal cabling, which they have helpfully used to tear through the front bumper of my car. they even ripped out the grille to make room for this new acquisition, very thoughtful!

[marvel-lous-guy]

Tony: What do you do for a living?

Peter: he's unemployed

Harley: actually, I prefer the term 'work single'

[ace-and-ranty]

I swear to God I haven't been so peeved by anything as much as I'm peeved by people saying "El and Liesel came out of nowhere"

[fagbearentertainment]

Oughhh… hot robots…

[dayyash]

Look who I caught on my security camera guys 😱😓

[aq2003]

genuinely impressive to me how well hamlet 2009 works as an audiobook lmao

[missjashin]

Steve’s dad making him work at his company but starts regretting it rather fast because there’s this guy who keeps showing up and distracting Steve. He already made a big deal out of his son coming to finally work for him and this is how he is rewarded? Some boy in his ripped jeans and chains and with his long wild curls comes in and makes his son goddamn giggle.

And no one even knows how the guy gets in. The security guys have no idea where he comes from. Definitely not the front door, they would see him enter.. But without a doubt he will always appear at some point, chat up with his boy until he gets kicked out. And Steve refuses to tell anything about the guy, claims he doesn’t really know him.