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Clothing Construction by Wadi Playtest Hall (ponchard)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
07 Sep 2025
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Starfleet students practice wearing scratchy, pre-replicator clothing, in case they get thrown back in time.
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[Meta] Does Garak actually sew? by Wadi Playtest Hall (ponchard)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
02 Sep 2025
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Garak refers to his own work as sewing, and seamed clothing canonically exists in the 24th century. But do those seams really need to exist? How much does Garak do what we would think of as sewing?
Previously in this series, I explored a workflow for replicator-assisted tailoring. In that meta, I said people would probably delete seams from their replicator patterns. For this meta, I’ll be doing a deeper dive into the structure of seamless clothing, and how replicators make it (much) easier to create.
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- Part 2 of Warp Threads: Star Trek Replicator Metas
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Julian helps the changeling impersonating him.
It wasn’t like the other time, on the Founders’ planet. The connection was much more direct, and there was no point in hiding what was happening. He didn’t have exact control over his- its body. He couldn’t have controlled it anyway; the signal was too laggy, throttled down to a trickle so it could slip through the wormhole disguised as background noise.
Still, it let him leave his quarters and play darts with Miles.
He considered spelling out some sort of message. Nothing overt, nothing that would be obvious in one meeting. Perhaps clustering the darts to one side, or in some other odd-but-not-impossible pattern. The clacking of the dabo wheels stuttered across the connection. Miles lurched from one position to the next, not quite as smooth as he would be in person. He didn’t even know if this was happening in realtime, or if it was some composite scenario the changeling was researching for later. But he could see Miles, and Leeta, and Morn, and even Quark, and they were alive, and the station was peaceful and he was home.
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With Anders barred from Kirkwall, Justice starts to look elsewhere.
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These damn Cardies, Miles had said. Put me through all those medical procedures when they’re planning to execute me anyway. Didn’t have the decency to just kill me.
Something in that conversation had stuck with Julian, and was stubbornly refusing to get unstuck. It was only that… well. That part of Miles’ report, with the chair and the samples and the holding his head still, had put him in mind of some difficult patients he’d had in the past. One thought led to another, and he’d started picturing a very particular difficult patient under those too-bright lights. Not in the chair, exactly, or maybe, if he could be wrestled into it?
None of this was anywhere near appropriate to voice aloud, which is why he was halfway through the question before he realised he’d opened his mouth.
“Do you think you could pull my tooth?”
Recent series
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Warp Threads: Star Trek Replicator Metas by Wadi Playtest Hall (ponchard)
Fandom Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
02 Sep 2025
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Chill, plotless explorations of alien worlds and creatures.
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They Are All Real - Stories of Minor NPCs by ponchard
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins
11 Jul 2020
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Stories from the Fade. Each one highlights a different minor NPC. If the Hero, Champion, or Inquisitor appear at all, they're too busy with Important Business to be more than a footnote.
None of these stories are related to each other, so I've put them in alphabetical order. You can read them in whatever order you want.
- Words:
- 21,699
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- 9
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Good Old-Fashioned Passive Aggressive Discussion by Chameleon (ponchard)
Fandom Doctor Who (2005)
05 Mar 2020
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- 3,251
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Literal Elf Nerds by ponchard
Fandom Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
07 Apr 2017
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IN A WORLD where ancient elves are honest-to-god actual literal programmers and live in modern cities but post-Fall Thedas is totally normal and canon compliant, as if nothing weird had happened, ONE ELF NERD hacks, types, and skinny-jeans his way to the eventual FALL OF HIS CIVILIZATION, ROCKETING THEDAS BACK TO THE DARK AGES. Meanwhile, in the present, HE MUST LEARN TO COPE with vastly inferior technology and COMPLETE LACK OF MEDICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. The clock is ticking on our hapless hero!
For reasons that remain baffling, even to myself, this is a series now.
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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Inquisitor Lavellan secretly hoards romance novels, such as copies of “Swords and Shields” and The Randy Dowager Quarterly. She reads pretty much any smut she can get her hands on, fangirls big time, and finally starts writing her own series anonymously, and terribly. For her characters, she uses poorly-veiled pseudonyms for herself and Solas, because of course that’s who her fantasies are about. The trouble only starts when Solas finds it...
Bookmarked by ponchard
26 Sep 2015
Bookmarker's Notes
This story had me doing hysterical leg-pedalling motions in the air, then curling into the fetal position to try to stop shaking with laughter. Every time I thought I had a handle on myself, pokey took it to a whole new level that I couldn't deal with.
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Julian visits his parents on Earth, and the elaborate construct of his adult reality collapses in an instant.
Written for the Trans Trek Big Bang.
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Bookmarked by Wadi Playtest Hall (ponchard)
13 Aug 2025
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The way this captures that sensation of being rocketed backwards is so so so exquisite. +it’s especially intense at Julian’s age. Just. Perfectly captured.
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“Are you saying I'm too - selfish to sacrifice myself for a great cause?”
“I'm saying, my dear doctor, you're too selfless to wait for such a thing. You'd risk your life for a single patient.”Julian Bashir turns to Garak after the events of 'Life Support'.
Bookmarked by Wadi Playtest Hall (ponchard)
10 Aug 2025
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The word economy on this is incredible, so much is layered into each sentence.
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The weight of Earth history bears down on Sisko. He knows intimately what men will justify to themselves in times of war. Odo swears that Laas is one of the hundred Changelings put forth into a hostile universe by the Founders. Sisko knows the danger of looking upon Laas and seeing a crime instead of a victim of that crime standing before him. Still, he needs to learn whatever he can about the Founders from the most experienced neutral Changeling that the Federation has ever encountered.
Laas has spent two hundred years among Solids and his antipathy for them runs deep. He has learned more about himself and his people from a few brief linkings with Odo than he has in decades worth of solitary pursuit. He now seeks to learn more still… if Sisko is amenable.
Bookmarked by Wadi Playtest Hall (ponchard)
04 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Yesssssss weird changeling stuff.