dumb cats

what happened to tain’s fortune after he died? i imagine garak was not in the will, but did mila inherit? i assume garak would be her heir after her death. is garak actually (jean ralphio voice) fluuuush with caaaash or did it go to some other unnamed relative? are there half siblings running around?

FWIW, I think the money was all his never-seen-on-screen posh society wife, but the house was Tain’s, and it’s in his will that Mila gets to live there for as long as she needs, then it reverts to the wife. There is absolutely categorically nothing for Garak, not even a mention: come on, Tain’s made that watertight. But Garak outlives the lot of them (including any putative and imho entirely possible half-siblings) and nobody else wants this heap of rubble piled up over his dead mother. Well that’s cheered me right up!

Do you think Tain's estranged wife and Dukat's ex-wife hang out?

Absolutely not, they hate each other's guts. Madame Dukat (conservative, dutiful, twinset and pearls, played by Anna Massey) thinks that Madame Tain is tacky, and Madame Tain (glamorous, dripping in jewellery, never seen without a cocktail, played by Joan Collins) thinks Madame Dukat is tedious. It's like the rivalry between the military and the Order only far, far more vicious and terrifying.

Chef's kiss, perfect. Madame Madred is saying all this to Mrs Damar who is sitting there with glazed eyes in her off-the-rack John Lewis dress, drinking steadily.

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

TIL the largest battle of the american revolutionary war did not occur in north america and involved no forces of the united states (it was the Great Siege of Gibraltar from 1779-1783)

YES OMG BRÜNNHILDE

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?