Emotional Manipulation (Blackwing-style and otherwise)
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Shell Games and Yellow Herrings by vanillicose
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
16 Jun 2025
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He huffed in disgust. “I solved the bloody case.”
Todd’s eyes went wide. “You… usually seem a little happier about that, when it happens.”
----Five months after Bergsberg, the Holistic Detective Agency is finding a groove, and Dirk is maybe—just maybe—starting to trust a good thing to last. But a bout of cat-subsidized calm draws to a sharp close when Dirk and Todd find an impossibly-severed head on a rare day off. Unbeknownst to the Agency, the ever-accumulating Rowdy 3, or even the enthusiastic new leadership at Blackwing, a decades-old play for control is poised to ripple across a fractious, fractured, and fractal Universe. Survival will mean holding true to oneself, even in the face of friends and family—whether given, chosen, or fatalistically entwined.
A longform take on The Season 3 That Never Was; 3/2025: finally started updating again. We're on the home stretch!