#hugo friedkin

[fans-of-wet-circles]

Hugo text posts because he is such a loser and I love him

bonus (he still doesn't get it)

#he is literally the definition of himbo #also I've decided every time i have art block I'm just going to draw stick figure hugo #<- dghda server you know what I'm talking about #all hail stick figure hugo #hugo friedkin #dghda #dirk gently's holistic detective agency

[arc-angel-o]

Whenever someone says they can't forgive a character, it's like Girl you've never interacted with them. Bro thinks he's on the team.

#ofmd edward teach #izzy hands #regina mills #nathan prescott #long xiang #hugo friedkin

[orzamara]

DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, 2x09

#dirk gently's holistic detective agency #dghda #mona wilder #hugo friedkin #dirkgentlyedit #dghdaedit #dailytvedit #tvedit #usertelevision #моё #дирк

[frenchfriedgiraffe]

friedkin being basically the only other person who seems to (slighty) understand people’s holistic abilities (aside from the holistics themselves) is such a good fucking ending for his character. for the entirety of the show he was reduced to a “dumb idiot”, so much so that when he pulls a gun on ken in the final episode, ken just tells him to stop being a moron. thats how much he’s underestimated by all the other characters, even when threatening someone they just assume he doesnt know what hes doing. but despite working for blackwing for years, and eventually “running” the place, he still has a sort of redemption at the end, proving that he can push through everything he’s been told, proving everyone wrong about his intelligence. “you can’t control it, that’s not how it works” damn right friedkin. rest in peace you would have loved audiobooks.

also: in the backstage, todd and amanda both have black blobby eye thingies. but friedkins eyes are red. idk what that means but it measn something.

#s2 spoilers #dghda #hugo friedkin #i finished rewatching s2 so expect more meta shit from me #i have too much to say about this #dirk gently holistic detective agency

[sacred-algae]

Riggins: We need to find a way to get Project Incubus under control again.

Friedkin: They’re vampires, right?

Riggins: Energy vampires, yes.

Friedkin: I’ve got just the thing, sir.

Friedkin: *runs out of the van brandishing a cartoonish t-bone*

Riggins: *rushing out after him* WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING FRIEDKIN?

Friedkin: Vampires are weak to steaks, right?!

#dghda #dirk gently #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #dghda incorrect quotes #hugo friedkin #colonel riggins #blackwing #rowdy 3

[urlocallesbiab]

#dghda poll #vikarambles #vika's personal dghda tag #dirk gently #todd brotzman #farah black #bart curlish #osmund priest #the rowdy 3 #amanda brotzman #hugo friedkin #dghda #dirk gently's holistic detective agency (tv 2016) #spoiler i'm voting for bart <3 she's my ANGEL she's so beautiful and wonderful and i would take her to every restaurant on earth #and help her kill and gingerly wipe blood of her face...... #farah is obviously the most beautiful and attractive person to ever exist but i'm wayyyy outta her league 😔 not even in my wildest dreams

[h3rmitsunited]

I think a funny thing they could have done for season 3 of Dirk Gently is if they had Riggins like on the down low secretly looking for holistic people to try to keep Blackwing from finding them and he's tracking down these readings using some holistic sensor made by plot magic or whatever and things are going off the charts and he's like oh shit this is gonna be a good one because he hasn't actually found anyone yet but this is looking really promising and he goes into some nondescript location and it's creepy and weird and you're getting all that good sexy movie tension because maybe they've shown clips earlier in the season of other dangerous holistic people out there so you're thinking it's gotta be one of them...

And Riggins walks down the hall and pushes open and door and finds

This guy just like sitting and scribbling in some a Lisa Frank notebook.

And Friedkin looks up and he's like ahhh you! All excited because he got spat back out of thr backstage of reality and his brain feels all kinds of fucked up but Riggins was like... he was smart and less mean than Ken and less scary than Mr. Priest so Riggins will know what to do.

And Riggins is just like... no... no... and turns to leave and friedkin runs after him because he's like nope we're partners now

And it turns into another season of Riggins is a tired man strapped unwillingly to this guy that doesn't have any grasp of what's going on except now he kind of sort of does but not really in any way that makes any sense which feels like a thousand times more frustrating

And Friedkin will just do weird cryptic shit all the time while Riggins is like... man I'm just trying to have coffee. It's 4am. Please stop telling me about the void moths that are creating black holes under the ocean. I told you I can't do anything about that.

And I just think it'd be funny for Riggins to have been like yes I'm free of this guy and of the CIA so now I can do my own thing and then it's like nope.

Also Friedkin casually explaining how he fucked shit up at Blackwing and also brought Mr. Priest back in to bring the holistics back and Riggins is like very uncomfortable because he worked with Priest and knows what he's capable of.

#dghda #dirk gently’s holistic detective agency #hugo friedkin #colonel riggins #dirk gently

[protecticarus]

i’m rewatching schitt’s creek for some comedy to take a break from all the dark af shows i’m watching otherwise and it’s so funny to see dustin milligan and think nothing but “oh he’s so cute” and “he’s the only sensible and sweet character in this show” and then suddenly be hit with the thought “…that’s hugo friedkin.”

#sara speaks #aw what a cutie #…NO. BAD. #dustin milligan #dghda #hugo friedkin #dirk gently's holistic detective agency

[nigellica]

I really love shows that can make you love a character you hated at the start. Or make you hate a character you loved at the start through GOOD writing, not through poor plotlines.

Dirk Gently was amazing at that, showing different perspectives of characters to make you judge them one way before giving you the chance to know them and seeing you were wrong. It's just realistic, you can misjudge people when you first meet them, getting to know them can show you a whole different side.

Ted Lasso does it through character growth (and character shrinkage? I dunno, whatever you call what Nate did), and also does it amazingly.

There's just something so gloriously satisfying, and frustrating to realise, dammit, I love this little bastard. How dare you.

#dirk gently #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #bart #rowdy three #todd brotzman #ken #hugo friedkin #suzie boreton #ted lasso #jamie tartt #dammit i love them #character growth #by poor plotlines that make you hate characters I'm looking at you teenwolf #nate #nate earned his loathing #so did suzue boreton #god I wish we had more Dirk Gently #so underrated #i need more seasons and a movie

[alchemocha]

I love Hugo friedkin so much he’s so stupid (affectionate)

#hugo friedkin #dghda

[arc-angel-o]

The DGHDA fandom isn't evil enough. Not enough villain appreciation. Any other fandom would've adored Friedkin. And been delighted to see Ken become an antagonist.

And you know what - speaking as a Once Upon A Time veteren - not enough of you want Suzie Boreton.

And I get it, especially for the more genuinely terrifying ones, not everyone's thing, but c'mon. If you don't love Ken at his evilest, you don't deserve him at the start.

It's been a while since I've been really active in the fandom, so maybe this attitude has changed, but i definitely noticed this a couple years ago, and as I'm looking for fics and meta and the like for these characters today, I'm still not finding as much as I'd like. All the villains in the show are so good.

#dghda #dirk gentlys holistic detective agency #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #hugo friedkin #ken adams #suzie boreton

[generalized-incompetence]

“You have, like, books here, right?”

Myrtle, the librarian, looks up from her desk, at the library, where she has been finalizing a new order of library books. 

“Yes,” she says. “We do.”

Read on AO3 here

“Oh!” says the man with a relieved smile. “Great.”

Myrtle eyes him over the stacks of books and notepads on her desk. She has been a librarian for nearly four decades, and she’s seen all sorts, though she can’t recall anyone ever asking this particular question. The man in front of the desk is… hm. Muscular is the best word she can think of, though she would have more choice adjectives if she was a few decades younger and/or inclined in that direction. Chiseled, perhaps. Blonde, predictably, with the sort of haircut that had been popular on Ken dolls, back in the day (do they still have Ken dolls? Barbie has certainly traveled; she’d heard something about a breakup?). His smile is pleasant enough, though somewhat vacant, and judging by his question, this might be the first library he’s entered in his life.

But, librarians didn’t judge - not books by their cover, and not patrons by their questions - so she shifts away from her computer and says, “Can I help you find anything in particular?”

“Oh!” says the man, brightening at the offer of help. “The thing is, this guy Mike? He’s, like, really smart? And I’m not? So I thought, maybe, if I read some books and stuff, he might like me more?”

He looks so hopeful that Myrtle doesn’t have the heart to tell him that changing oneself is rarely worthwhile, and that his best hope with this “Mike” likely involves who he is now. The man misinterprets her silence and blunders forth with, “Not like like, obviously. Just as, um. Is there a word for, like, people who hang out all the time, and talk a lot, and think the other person is really smart and cool and funny and just make each other, um, I guess. Happy?”

Myrtle raises an eyebrow. “...Friends?” she says.

“Yeah!” says the man with the biggest smile yet. “Yeah. Friends.”

Myrtle has always considered her duties as a librarian to extend past the books and towards the well-being of her patrons, but she feels this man may need more help than she is able to provide. “What kind of books does this Michael enjoy?” she asks. “Any subjects he’s interested in?”

“Aliens,” says the man instantly.

“Aliens?” says Myrtle.

The man nods enthusiastically. “He knows everything about them,” he says. “Like, all the stuff the government’s been covering up - he got access, or I guess I gave him access, and he says it’s just what he thought the whole time and people are super not paying attention. And then he said a bunch of science things that sounded really smart. So maybe if you have some books that could, um, explain that?”

“You’re looking for,” says Myrtle slowly, “scientific books about aliens?”

“Yeah!” says the man.

Myrtle takes off her glasses, polishes them on her sweater, and puts them back on. “I’ll… see what I can do,” she says.

“Oh! One more thing,” says the man. “Sorry, I know you’re a librarian and everything, but reading, like, kinda sucks? So if there’s any books you have that you, like, don’t have to read to get smart - could you find those?”

Ah, she thinks. Thoughts of UFOs fly out of her head as she recalibrates her illicit judgments. There are reasons she is a librarian, and this man is one of them. She is suddenly and overwhelmingly grateful that this man has chosen this library, on this day, to walk in and present her with an opportunity to unlock literature, outside the written word.

“Have you ever tried,” she says, “audiobooks?”

An hour and a half later, she has loaded the man down with several audiobooks; a stack of graphic novels; links to browser extensions for changing font size/spacing and rendering text to speech; and, of course, a brand-new library card. 

“Now, these are all just starting places,” she says, methodically scanning out each graphic novel in turn. “If any of them don’t work for you, you don’t need to push it. But if it does work, then you feel free to come back and ask me for more, alright?”

The man, who, to his credit, did not flee when she went Full Librarian, swallows. “I - I guess,” he says. “But, I mean. Are you sure? Like, this isn’t really reading, right? Picture books are for babies.”

“These aren’t picture books,” she says snippily. “They’re graphic novels. It’s a perfectly legitimate form of literature, and if anyone gives you a hard time, you send them straight to me.”

He pulls the closest book towards him and flips through the pages, lingering over some of the more vivid illustrations. She’s had this conversation so many times she could have it in her sleep, but it still breaks her heart a little, to think a little thing like formatting has stood in his way for so long. 

“We’ve only had writing for about five thousand years,” she tells him, “but we’ve always had stories. True purists should still be sitting around a fire carrying on the oral tradition. There are plenty of ways to read that don’t involve words on a page.”

“Huh,” says the man, staring at a full-page spread of a detailed spaceship. “That’s - that’s kinda cool.”

“It certainly is,” says Myrtle. She finishes checking him out and slides the rest of the books and resources across the desk. “Good luck with your Michael,” she says, looking him straight in the eye. “And everything else.”

“Thanks!” he says with a bright smile. “You know, I always thought libraries sucked? But you don’t suck at all.”

Myrtle refrains from a sigh. “Thank you,” she says instead, and waves him out.

—

She thinks of him a few times over the next couple weeks. She doesn’t seriously expect to see him again; there are return bins outside, and her shifts are fairly irregular. But roughly three weeks later, she looks up and there he is, with a slight, nervous-looking man in tow.

“Hey, it’s you again!” says the man with an oversized wave. “Mike, this is the nice librarian lady who gave me all those, um, graphic novels. Hey, librarian lady, those links you gave me were so cool! I never knew there were all those things that would read emails and stuff to you, so you don’t have to read them at all!”

Myrtle does try to remain somewhat detached, but she can’t help but feel warmed by this outcome. Even better, Mike responds to this speech with a fond smile, first in the man’s direction and then in hers. “Thank you,” he says. “That was, um. Overdue, I think.”

“Oh, no, I turned all the books in on the day they said!” says the man quickly. “No library fines here!”

Mike laughs and pats the man’s arm. “Come on,” he says. “Didn’t you want to look for the Predator sequels?”

“Yes,” says the man, and tows Mike inside. Myrtle watches them go, still feeling like a job well done. Maybe she needs a new slogan, she thinks. Libraries: We don’t suck at all! She snorts and shakes her head. She’ll work on it. She has plenty more patrons to practice on.

#dghda #dghda fic #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #hugo friedkin #assisfriedkin #(lightly) #my fic #he just needs help you guys #he just needs a little bit of support #he is Trying #i wrote this fic last year and forgot about it SURPRISE libraries are still great <3 <3 #some resources in the ao3 link #including!! accessibility kits at the library #literally they have everything #give your local librarian extra love it's a rough time and they're so so important

[golyadkin]

Remember season 2 of Dirk Gently?

#gore // #gun // #dghda #Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency #osmund priest #hugo friedkin #martin dghda #project incubus #fanart #don't mind me just slamming out some fanart while i'm home #saw a mr priest post and was like oh yeah! that guy was fucked up! i wanted to draw him! #also rip hugo he had a weird character arc #super interesting dude tbh #art tag

[urlocallesbiab]

TELL ME ABOUT ASSISFRIEDKIN!!! I assume it’s friedkin and lt assistent?

yeag themst! i was promising myself i would someday make a Proper most (and even kept a similar ask as a reminder for myself, sorry i never got back to you tumblr user dykebarbie, i SEE U and APPRECIATE YOU), but i just never have enough energy/motivation for that (maybe i should've changed my blog name lmao, but also i love assisfriedkin :3), SO. instead.

i'll hand you this mcfucking google doc that was meant to be a collection of resources for me to make a post from. tysm for asking, genuinely, and have fun! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rLpDet6hLlWWxq4c9NIe63BZ5KdCcUfNw5QOkcGt33U/edit?usp=drivesdk

also if im bothered enough times there's a chance ill finish the outline for that au where friedkin is replaced with an alternative friedkin from a timeline where he wasn't a bad guy (i call that alt!hugo au), and that makes both him and mike have soooo many kinds of existential crises <3

oh also both kp (@generalized-incompetence) and phoebe (@clockworkcheetah) have assisfriedkin hcs — guys, would you mind sharing, or adding screenshots/links of old stuff?

also kp i beg of you to link that library fic of yours, i love it so so much :3 :3 :3 my fac thingie, my comfort read!!

#vikarambles #vika's personal dghda tag #dghda meta #(<- in the doc that i linked. so it counts) #hugo friedkin #lieutenant assistent #michael assistent #dirk gently's holistic detective agency (tv 2016)

[farahblack]

he's hot he's stupid he's evil he wants to take the shot he got role reversal'd with his boss and an assassin he's allseeing he's dead he has access to the entire universe i didn't say his name but you thought of him didn't you?

#is this meme still going. did i do it right #hugo friedkin #dghda #misc

[clockworkcheetah]

(not using the special characters bc its a pain in the ass to copy them on the app) old age hc for dirk, quirks/hobbies for todd, bedroom and appearance hcs for character(s) of your choosing who isn't dirk, todd, farah or amanda, please?

∇ -. old age/aging headcanon (Dirk)

hes pretty insecure about it. i hc him to be slightly older than todd (not drastically like 36 to todds 33) but hes the oldest of the agency and due to having his childhood wasted (and the first years out of blackwing he was just trying to function in the world again) he feels like a lot of life was wasted and hes very aware of it overtime hes a lot more at peace with his age now he has friends/family

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon (Todd)

he likes to collect things- usually cds of obscure bands and also his growing collection of clocks (he just finds them neat) he also stitches and sews (he had to make his cool guy jacket somehow)- when he gets into his stride (its quite rhythmic) he finds it very relaxing (even if he pricks his finger a bunch)

■ -  Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon (Mike)

in his childhood he was pretty ignored by his parents so he filled his bedroom with x-files merch and various other shows/movies with aliens and/or conspiracy theories in blackwing (assuming he has living quarters there) he dials it way back cause blackwing uses shit against you (regardless if youre a project) plus i doubt blackwing lets you personalise your room all that much even if you work there

☼ - appearance headcanon (Hugo)

he uses this

thanks for the ask!

headcanon asks

#dghda #dirk gently #todd brotzman #michael assistent #hugo friedkin #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #the last one is sort of a joke #i was gonna write a ken hc but my brain went blank with the wording #maybe todd does tinker with the clocks and i can appreciate a man who likes clockwork #clockworkcheetasks