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Elijah "Delta" Wilson

Name: Elijah Wilson

Nacionality: American🇺🇲

Age: 28

Date of birth: 27th april 1995 - Sacramento (U.S.A)

Residence: Killeen, Texas, USA

Afilliation: U.S Army/ 75th Ranger Regiment Specters

Rank: Corporal

Callsign: Delta (Current)/ Charlie 4-3

Occupation: Recognition especialist

Height: 1.80 m/ 5'11" ft

Weight: 75 kg

Blood type: A-

Pronouns: He/ him

Sexuality: Straight and aromantic

Languages: English (Native), Russian, Portuguese, Chinese (learning)

AFILLIATIONS

Specters members:

-Captain Alicia Marchant (alive)

-Lieutenant Luke Michaelis (alive)

-Sergeant Jackson Blackwell (alive)

-Sergeant Edward Jackson (alive)

-Corporal Noah García (alive)

-Airman First Class Nicholas Fowlett (alive)

-Private Marcus Lombardi (alive)

-Private Elliot Stevens (alive)

-Private Alexander Christensen (alive)

-Private Francis Scott (alive)

CIA:

-Chief Station Dominique Wright (alive)

Underworld:

-Liù Xiao Chen (alive)

FAMILY

-Jacob Wilson (Father) (alive)

-Grace Wilson nee Montgomery (Mother) (alive)

-James Wilson (Big brother) (alive)

PERSONALITY

-He was, and is sometimes, animated and disposed to tell bad jokes and talk always with sarcasm. At least that was at first, but after his time with his first Ranger team, it changed quite a bit. Now he's usually anxious, quiet, mostly when the superiors of the team are involved.

-During the conjoined missions he gets paranoid, untrustful of other high ranked officers or non-comissioned officers. He passes the time mostly around Noah, Luke or Alicia, and even Jackson stays near just in case.

-During the time he has been with the Specters, slowly his animated personality come back from time to time. Jokes during the trips between the bases, conversations filled of bullshit when they're on a bar and something like that.

-Deep down the surface, he's loyal. One of the most loyal people you might find. If someone ever ask James about it, he always says: "my brother is just him. Help him, he'll help you no matter what happens. Protect him and he'll burn everything to protect you as well. Attack him...and God forgives your soul."

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Sacramento, California, he is the little brother. His childhood was a happy one with the usual fights between siblings, everythings was normal. Everyone who met him during his kid days can say something similar, he was agile, quick and strongwilled, someone who doesn't bend down easily.

He enlisted after high school, motivated and talented, he was soon took as a recomendation to the US Rangers. And he passed, he became special forces with blood, sweat and tears. But then...everything went wrong. He really doesn't know why, what he did or what the motivations were, they just started. It was one hell on earth, cuts, punches, abuses, everything was daily and so recurrent that he started to think he did something wrong.

Month by month he stopped to be that excited and confident young man, he became shadow of what he used to be and the anxiety and nightmares were worst everytime. When he was back home, Elijah tried to not reveal anything, not wanting to worry anyone...except that James noticed something. Once his brother confronted him, he denied everything, telling him once and once again, he had the fault, he provoked them somehow...

Back on Fort Hamilton it was the same routine, and during the missions he never expected something else, but then he met Noah. The SEAL tried to be his friend and was decided to do something, for the first time in a while he felt hope. But he commited a mistake when he told HIS command officer...that night was one of the worst, and they threat him with doing the same to the other recruits inside the team.

More time passed and during 2018 he was called by Alicia and Jackson, with him watching the pure rage inside the Sergeant's eyes once he noticed the bruises and scars. When the medic walked away, he followed, just being curious. And then he heard what the Sergeant told the Captain, the risk he was in, and he went back to where he was feeling dizzy.

Die? They could've...? Why?! Wasn't enough with what he's been through?!

Then Alicia told him to go and pack. They were taking him with them to their base that same day. And soon he was in Texas too, where he found Noah as well, surprised to see him so...relieved when he saw eachother. That first hug was such a relieve, with him relaxing for the first time in a long time.

And soon Alicia told him about the trial, the lawsuit she was planning against those monters he had to cope with. In that moment all the rage and pain he had came out, and he asked her to destroy them. The smile on the Captain's face was of understandment, and so, they sunk every single one of them.

It has been difficult, the therapy, the pain and the nightmares. Everything still there, but slowly he has improved and he has become a bit similar to who he used to be. Now, if anything happens in the future and he's meant to choose between himself and his team...well, the answer is pretty much clear.

Everyone else has something to come back to.

SKILLS

-Specialized on stealth missions and recon assigments.

-Fluent on the languages he writes and speaks. Quick to learn others when he has the time.

-He prefers when he has to go undercover or with a little squad (usually with Alexander and Francis). But also he's part of the infantry group most of the time.

COMBAT

His combat style is mainly focused on stealth, it's the combat he was teached, and his first choice weapon is a Bowie knife as well. He is learning the combat it's taught to the Navy SEALS and he's teaching Noah the combat he was taught with the Rangers.

TRIVIA

-He consider Noah another brother and Elizabeth as his sister, also he host reunions with James and the García's siblings on Sacramento. Their favorite activities are go play paintball and airsoft, he and Noah are the most competitives of them all.

-Luke has taken, somehow, the place of a mentor along the time of being of the team. They are the ones who keep together most of the time during missions, the Lieutenant keep him calm as well that protect him and he learns about some things Luke and Alicia do during the missions.

-He has a Camaro, a 2005 model, and he's so happy to have it. Once he lent it to Elliot and almost had a heartattack, since then he FORBID him to be even near to his car. Now he understand why the Captain keeps everyone except Luke away from her car.

-Elijah adores to sing, so when he's doing anything at the base, except training the recruits, he humms or directly sing. When they go to karaoke, he shines, and Noah has a video of him singing at a duet with Marcus.

-He has zero interest on a relationship, and knows as well that Jackson is on the same boat. They have even joked about living together once they retire, and the medic always bicker that it would be an amazing chaos.

-His callsign was beacuse one day, during lunch inside Fort Hamilton, some of the recruit screamed "Yo Delta!" just because. He looked on his direction like he was expecting they talk to him, since then he's 'Delta'.

-His favorite drink are peach ice tea, even during winter. It freak people out. And his favorite food is a beautiful good grilled meat with all the sides.

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beatrice-otter · 2 years ago

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Yuletide Recs! 60 fics in 46 fandoms

This year was amazing. All three of the fics written for me were absolutely perfect in their own way, exactly what I hoped for, and there was a fourth that wasn't written for me but felt like it was, because it matched a long-term request I've had in multiple ficathons over the last several years. (I also wrote two fanfics, one assignment and one treat, and I'm curious if anyone spotted either as possibly coming from me.)

Here are the fics I received:

Children of the Universe (4006 words) by Anonymous Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Meg Murry O'Keefe, Calvin O'Keefe, Alex Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, Kate Murry, Mrs. Whatsit (Kairos)

Summary: Of course, people don't just go back to their lives, after experiences like theirs.

It's so perfect an encapsulation of the love and the pain together and trying to build something together and heal in the midst of it.

follow your memory upstream Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

This is amazing and I love it. It's a wonderful conversation between the two of them, and I love that her dad validates her anger.

Employment (100 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mamusu "Rose" Grant, Elsie Winstanley Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational Summary:

One universe over when Peter is ten and Mamasu Grant’s future is about to take a new direction.

This next one wasn't exactly written for me, but it feels like it was; I've been asking for Mamusu-and-Elsie adventures for years, and making sure they're in fanwork exchange tagsets, and this year I was not the only one asking, and someone wrote it!

Bintumani Working in Freetown, Elsie gets a mysterious letter that sends her on a journey across Sierra Leone. Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

All the details about life in Sierra Leone and who Mamusu and Elsie are and an adventure, it's everything I've been wanting for years since first reading A Rare Book of Cunning Device.

Other fics I loved:

16th Century CE RPF Periapsides (2303 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn Summary: Five things Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn could have been to each other. I love all the what-ifs, they’re such interesting ideas. Ask A Manager Blog my wife doesn’t know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more (2007 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots, Ask a Manager Blog - Alison Green Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Alison Green (Ask a Manager) Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Llamas Summary:

It’s hench week at Ask a Manager!

Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian Reconciling the Irreconcilable (1938 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin Summary:

Jack and Stephen must rescue a double agent from prison, provoking an unusually frank conversation between them

Jane Austen Gratitude (5880 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Persuasion - Jane Austen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edmund Bertram & Fanny Price, Fanny Price & William Price, Henry Crawford & Fanny Price, James Benwick / Fanny Price Summary:

What if the Harvilles took Fanny in, instead of her spending three months with her parents in Portsmouth? This is a gift for everyone who wanted to see someone other than the Crawfords and the Bertrams being truly nice to Fanny. Constant (2183 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth I love all the details of life at sea and how well it suits Anne. Righteousness and Respectability (10506 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marianne Dashwood/John Willoughby, Marianne Dashwood/Colonel Brandon, Elinor Dashwood & Marianne Dashwood, Elinor Dashwood & Margaret Dashwood & Marianne Dashwood & Mrs. Dashwood Additional Tags: Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Sexism, Alternate Universe, Racebending, Age of Sail, Non-Consensual Kissing Summary:

The Dashwood ladies are mixed race. Some things change, but others do not.

Batman If I’m Shining Everybody Gonna Shine (3902 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas, Duke Thomas & Jason Todd, Duke Thomas & Bruce Wayne Characters: Duke Thomas Summary:

Duke is finally going to his first gala and needs some advice. The quality of advice some of his siblings give is questionable. Very questionable.

“You would be wise to listen to my advice, Thomas.” “Which is?” Duke asks. “Bring a weapon.”

Featuring the return of the Wayne Family’s inability to tie a tie.

Dance, then, wherever you may be (1431 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne Summary:

Dick understands why Cass loves to dance.

World’s Okayest Detective (2690 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary:

Bruce tries to shake a present. Tries being the operative word.

proper rites (7215 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown Summary:

Being a cat for three weeks has repercussions, it turns out.

Jason snacks his way through one of them. Damian reads books. Both of them drink a lot of tea. It’s nice, mostly, which Jason finds highly suspicious.

can everyone please stop touching Bruce Wayne’s bust (2998 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown, Selina Kyle Summary:

Everyone in the family just can’t stop touching Bruce Wayne’s bust.

Wait, no, that’s not quite right…

Love the shenanigans and sibling fighting. Katie, Bar the Door (2915 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Duke Thomas, Batfamily Members Summary:

Duke’s never been to a hockey game. Jason thinks that’s a shame. Blackadder Private Party (2448 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edmund Blackadder/Kevin Darling Characters: Edmund Blackadder, Kevin Darling, Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, George Colthurst St. Barleigh, Baldrick (Blackadder) Summary: A dubiously merry Christmas in the trenches. The author has all their voices down cold! Cabaret From Cradle to Tomb (2193 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Cliff Bradshaw, Emcee (Cabaret), Sally Bowles, Ernst Ludwig Summary:

In which Cliff finishes the first draft of his manuscript before he leaves Berlin, and receives advice from a friend.

Or: history is dust. You are not.

A fascinating look at all the ways Cabaret is about stories and storytelling. Cadfael Christmas Rose (3797 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hugh Beringar & Brother Cadfael, Aline Beringar/Hugh Beringar Summary:

Cadfael reminisces about an old investigation.

The characterization is lovely, and the mystery feels like the sort in canon. Chalion Saga Demon Touched (3634 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Adelis Arisaydia, Penric kin Jurald, Desdemona (Chalion), Nikys Khatai Summary:

Adelis’s entire life changes in an instant. Set somewhere post-current-canon.

The Inverted Chord (8705 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Penric kin Jurald, Nikys Khatai, Adelis Arisaydia, Desdemona Summary:

Adelis returns from leading Duke Jurgo’s army against the Rusylli to meet Penric again, this time as his brother-in-law.

I love this, both the insight into the Father here and the way Pen helps with Adelis’ lingering trauma over what happened to him.

A Christmas Carol Fellow Passengers (3453 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tiny Tim & Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley & Ebenezer Scrooge Summary:

Paying Marley’s debt comes at a cost. Tim is a comfort.

This made me cry, and it really captures the Dickens voice. The Price of Salvation (5780 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jacob Marley & Ebenezer Scrooge Summary:

Scrooge received only one visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.

Jacob Marley came many times.

Angsty in the best way Dune (2021) hear them chant (burn the witch) (2295 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Duncan Idaho, Jessica (Dune), Leto Atreides I Summary:

the witch had to die.

I like the subtleties of this. Future Tense (1172 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Paul Atreides/Duncan Idaho Summary:

“If I became Emperor, would you still serve me?” (Duncan lives!AU)

Enchanted Forest Chronicles Witchcraft and Dragons (10102 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Morwen (Enchanted Forest), Archaniz (Enchanted Forest), Morwen’s Cats (Enchanted Forest), Kazul (Enchanted Forest), Deadly Nightshade Gardening Club Summary:

How Morwen arrived at the Enchanted Forest

The worldbuilding was perfect and so were the character voices, it felt like a part of canon! Enola Holmes i’ll hide underneath my pride (18834 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Enola Holmes/Viscount “Tewky” Tewksbury Summary:

Enola doubted that when Tewksbury had invited her to his childhood friend’s countryside home for a weekend away that he had planned for her to solve the theft of a very important item. But luckily for everyone in attendance, Enola Holmes was always on the case.

Ethan of Athos Time Enough (20075 words) by Anonymous Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart Summary:

Terrence Cee had spent most of his life feeling jumpship caught in the gravity well of a blackhole. Engines on full bore. Only able to keep out of the crushing center, but never able to escape. Now in his new life on Athos, he found himself unsure of how to find a new pace.

Ethan wondered if there was a way to get his love life gestating again. Not frozen like zygotes stored in a bio-freezer against some eventual future.

step by step (planet by planet) (950 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Unresolved, Oblivious Ethan Urquhart Summary:

“We’re being watched,” Cee said, and then, before Ethan could respond, “Don’t look.”

Fandom For Robots Stay In Touch (1019 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots) Summary:

Computron and bjornruffian stay in touch. Fiddler on the Roof firebrands (3894 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hodel/Perchik (Fiddler on the Roof) Summary:

In a world where Hodel is also a revolutionary, she and Perchik fall in love.

I love this exploration of what Hodel could have been, and the exploration of her and Perchik’s relationship. The Goblin Emperor On the Twelfth Hour of Winternight (2060 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Csevet Aisava/Maia Drazhar Summary:

Edrehasivar smiled, and Csevet marveled and despaired in equal measure at how that smile still hit him like an arrow to the gut, even after all this time.

Or: Csevet’s emperor needs help fetching Winternight presents, and Csevet is only too happy to assist.

Really sweet, in the best way Need To Know (2151 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Csethiro Ceredin, Maia Drazhar, Csevet Aisava Summary:

After Eshevis Tethimar tries to assassinate the Emperor at the Winternight Ball, information is shared on a need-to-know basis - and Csethiro needs to know.

it gets okay to praise the day (5770 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Maia Drazhar, Anora Chanavar, Velhiro Tomasaran, Othalo Rasaltezhen Summary:

Thara, while gradually recovering from the aftermath of his encounter with the revethavar, discovers that he is not so alone in the world as he tends to think.

The Grief of Knives (1841 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Velhiro Tomasaran Summary:

The moment of catharsis in the Orshaneisei maze had lightened the pain Thara carried. It did not eliminate it. But this time, Iäna is there.

As long as thou com'st back (1438 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Developing Relationship, Hopeful Ending, Canon Continuation Summary:

A man like Thara Celehar is worth waiting for. Iäna does.

A look at what their next interaction after The Grief of Stones might look like, from Iäna’s eyes.

Great Iäna perspective Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie favorites (3414 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Justice of Toren & Original Character, Justice of Toren/Original Character Additional Tags: Identity Issues, Grief/Mourning, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Summary:

Justice of Toren and its favorite officers.

I love this perspective on what it was like to be a ship and all the ancillaries together and taking care of officers. Very interesting. Henry V I’ve no language left to say it (1014 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Henry V/Montjoy Summary:

“Read for me, Montjoy?” He pushed it to the side. Montjoy picked up the letter.

“In English or in French, your highness?”

“En anglais, s'il vous plaît.”

Into the Woods careful the tale you tell (that is the spell) (2555 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Rapunzel (Into the Woods), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Baker (Into the Woods), Baker’s Mother (Into the Woods) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rapunzel Lives, Family, Parenthood, Trauma, Past Child Abuse Summary:

Rapunzel learns to tell her own story, and just what story it is she wants to tell.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Lost Works of the Dry-Cræfticen of Wherwell: a New Approach (1450 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Magical Realism, Pseudo-History, Academia, Archaeology Summary:

An article from the book Female Magicians in Pre-Aureate England, published in 2006 by York University Press.

Really interesting worldbuilding The stones shall make a throne for me (5756 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Stephen Black, Original Characters, John Uskglass | The Raven King Summary:

The new king of Lost-hope is not like the last.

What a great perspective on the Nameless King and what he might do next. King’s Progress (3840 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Stephen Black, John Uskglass | The Raven King, Original Characters Summary:

The man once Stephen Black, as the new King of Lost-Hope, decides to make a Royal Progress through his demesne on the advice of a raven after realizing how little he knows how to rule a fae court. He meets the Raven King himself with surprizing consequences for both.

I love the poetry in this. When Once We Are Buried, You Think We Are Dead (3186 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: John Uskglass | The Raven King, Catherine of Winchester, Martin Pale, John Childermass Summary:

The great Cathedral at Winchester seems as near timeless as any work of man in England. But time and magic can intersect…oddly.

L'Empereur (5043 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: John Childermass, Stephen Black Summary:

Childermass’s search for the meaning of the King’s Letters leads to an unexpected encounter.

Kings (2009) All this, and love too, will ruin us (8080 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jack Benjamin/David Shepherd Summary:

Everyone thought him pampered beyond measure, but this…this was where Jack felt most alive: soldiering had been the first place he’d known who he was, and hardship and deprivation had never been punishing, not when he was with his men, his comrades in arms. His brothers. And that was what David was, right now—his brother in arms. His brother.

Little Women (2019 Movie - Gerwig) Happy (2144 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Theodore Laurence/Amy March Summary:

“Anything interesting from the girls?” Aunt March says. They’re in the drawing room of the hotel, and Amy still has the letter from Jo held tightly in her hand. She carefully places it down on the writing desk.

“Oh, not much Aunt March,” Amy says, turning the information over in her mind. Beth is ill…and they’re not sure what to do, and mother has been called. “Beth is sick,” she says.

Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers Scene on a Balcony (1965 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Eiluned Price, Sylvia Marriott, Gerald Wimsey Viscount St George, Helen Duchess of Denver Summary:

8th October 1935 and it’s the wedding of the year - Lord Peter Wimsey and Miss Harriet Vane have finally tied the knot. But the wedding breakfast (served at the Dowager Duchess’ London house) is getting a little heated. So the balcony is an excellent place to which to escape.

A Little Princess Rajasi (2067 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Becky/Sara Crewe Summary:

Four princesses Becky met, and one she loved.

MCU Moon Knight Scarlet and Moonlight (4769 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Moon Knight (Comics), Moon Knight (TV 2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marlene Alraune/Steven Grant, Gena Landers & Jake Lockley Additional Tags: Marvel 616/MCU Crossover, Comics AU Layla El-Faouly, Layla El-Faouly-centric, Multiplicity/Plurality, Team Moon Knight is in So Much Denial, Alternate Origin Story, POV Outsider Summary:

Phantom thief Layla has finally tracked a stolen artifact to some rich couple’s collection. Shouldn’t be too hard to break into their mansion and retrieve it, right? This Steven Grant and Marlene Alraune are probably total pushovers.

(Spoiler alert: they are not total pushovers.)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Awkward (1775 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katy Chen/Xu Xialing, Katy Chen & Shang-Chi Summary:

It wasn’t that Katy was ashamed of her relationship with Xu Xialing. She was, in fact, rather proud of herself for locking that down. In a world of superhero tens, Xialing was an eleven. Brains, beauty, an entrepreneurial spirit combined with a hard work ethic—Xialing had it all.

It was just awkward.

I love the way they wrote Katy. Ms. Marvel (TV 2022) Three Times Kamala Thought About Revealing Her Identity And One Time She Didn’t (1312 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kamala Khan, Nakia Bahadir, Muneeba Khan, Yusuf Khan, Tyesha Hillman-Khan, Aamir Khan (Marvel), Sheikh Abdullah (Ms. Marvel) Summary:

Three times Kamala Khan thought about revealing her secret identity and one time she knew better.

Paristan (1166 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Sana | Kamala Khan’s Grandmother, Muneeba Khan, Kamala Khan Summary:

Sana Ali leaves home behind, and finds home anyway.

Men’s Hockey RPF i’m your passenger (2382 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Joel Farabee/Travis Konecny Summary:

“I figured it out!” his staffer exclaims—Sarah, the tiny white embroidery on her polo reads—holding TK’s hand up like a prizefighter. “TK will fit.”

He blinks at her. “Fit where?”

One of the staffers steps back and he sees it: the neon orange fluffy monstrosity, slumped bonelessly against a chair.

(Or: Gritty needs a body. TK provides.)

Right Where You Left Me (9913 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Carey Price/P. K. Subban Additional Tags: post-retirement, Age Regression/De-Aging, but not to childhood, Getting Together, Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, totally ignoring vast swaths of real life Summary:

PK hasn’t seen Carey much in the past eight years, but he doesn’t remember him looking quite this young.

Grindin’ It Out (In the App) (6464 words) by Anonymous Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jeff Carter/Mike Richards Summary:

A chance Grindr encounter leads - eventually - to a reunion.

Miss Marple Three Card Trick (3816 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jane Marple, Raymond West, Joyce Lemprière, Henry Clithering Summary:

A Christmas party and a small magical mystery.

An interesting little mystery, very much in the style of Miss Marple. Murderbot Diaries Heuristic Analysis (10965 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries) Summary:

Three makes some choices.

I love this whole thing. The worldbuilding of PUMNT. The way they build and raise baby AIs. The philosophy students having just enough knowledge to do some really stupid things. Three’s choices and reactions all the way through. Perfect. Paint Your Wagon Wandrin’ (3763 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pardner/Ben Rumson/Elizabeth Rumson, Pardner/Elizabeth Summary:

It’s been five years since Ben Rumson was on the road to No Name City.

This sounds much more likely than Pardner and Elizabeth just settling down and becoming farmers. I love it! Philadelphia Story Unionville, PA. (2194 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tracy Lord & C K Dexter Haven & Macauley Connor, Tracy Lord & Liz Imbrie Summary:

“I have the most wonderful little house in Unionville. It’s up on a hill with a view that would knock you silly. I’m never there except in the hunting season, and not much then, and I’d be so happy to know that it was of some real use to someone….There’s a brook and a small lake, no size really, and a patch of woods, and in any kind of weather, it’s the most wonderful…”

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Oh okay cool because I was wondering if you could do one where Beniot goes I to labour, but his water doesn't break until after he solves the case (for both films?)

I can totally dig into that!

Okay, I’m going to follow the anon that brought up both Philip and Benoit carrying their children this time, as I love every scenario of them having a lot of kids. Let’s say that, by the first film, he and Phillip have had their first kid, a daughter, and their twin boys. I’m going by the logic that “Knives Out” takes place at the end of 2018, in which Benoit is pregnant with their son. I would imagine that, when he gets the envelope from Ransom, he is quite far along, like overdue far along, but the case intrigues him so deeply that he takes it despite Philip’s concerns. He brushes them off (“Darlin’, this boy’s takin’ his sweet damn time. If he hasn’t come out yet, I imagine he’ll wait a while longer.”). This is definitely kind of awkward for everyone involved, given how massive he is and how the kid’s definitely dropped by this point, but he doesn’t seem to pay it any mind. Only when they’re chasing down Marta and Ransom does he begin to feel some pains. He does his best to ignore them and even his singing while listening to music is his attempt at calming the kid and easing the discomfort. Hell, he completely brushes off the doctors that ask after his health when they’re in the hospital for Fran. Only after Ransom is arrested and he has spoken to Marta on how she may handle the Thromby family does he pull Elliot aside and ask him is he’d kindly drive him to the hospital, as his water broke some time during Ransom’s stabbing attempt.

When Helen arrives at their apartment, Philip has to resist the urge to slam the door in her face and pretend there’s a mistake. He has nothing against her and is quite sympathetic to her plight. But the last time Benoit went on a case while pregnant, he missed the birth of their youngest son because he was in fucking Massachusetts. And I like to imagine that Benoit carries long, so he is significantly farther in his pregnancy than most would make it with twins. But come on, Philip, she needs his help. And surely, there’s no way such a birth situation would happen again (famous last words). Even Helen is worried about asking him to come, but Benoit won’t be stopped. He gets a doctor’s note, flies to Greece, and arrives at Miles’ island. This group is also a bit shaken by how far along this guy is, but it doesn’t play much of a role in things compared to everything else going on. Hell, things only come to a head when he leaves Helen to destroy the Glass Onion and he’s sitting outside with Derol, taking in the chaos. The man beside him offers him his joint and he declines, only for Derol to gesture to his chair (“Hey, man. I think you spilled something.”) and Benoit curses and hurries off to meet the police that turn up, thankful to see a medical crew amongst them. He’s in too much pain to think about how much Philip will tell him “I told you, Blanc!”.

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Will Cowboys trade or cut Ezekiel Elliot?

Photo credit: AP Photo/Tony Avelar

By: BenJarmin Munguia

Date: November 3, 2024

The second reunion for running back Ezekiel Elliot and the Dallas Cowboys almost looks like they are coming in for another divorce.

On Saturday, it was announced that running back Ezekiel Elliot would not be traveling with the team to Atlanta to play the Atlanta Falcons. He’ll be inactive for that matchup due to disciplinary actions. According to NFL Reporter Jane Slater, Eliiot has been “distracted this season” and has missed three team meetings, with Friday’s meeting being the final straw.

At First, Elliot was drafted in the 2016 NFL Draft from Ohio State; he was drafted 43rd overall by the Dallas Cowboys. Elliot was the NFL’s rushing leader in 2016, and in 2018, everything fell off afterward, and he was cut after the 2022 season.

After spending a year in New England, the Cowboys needed a running back after Tony Pollard signed with the Tennessee Titans in free agency. They tried the Ezekiel Elliot experience again, signing the former Ohio State standout to a one-year $3 million contract, this time with more negative results.

Elliot has only rushed for 148 yards on 41 carries, scoring 2 touchdowns in his second reunion with Dallas. It’s also important to note that the Cowboys are last in rushing yards on the season, with 519 yards.

It’s pretty possible that Elliot could be traded before the trade deadline on Tuesday, or the Cowboys could pull the plug on the reunion early and release him since they do have Dalvin Cook and Rico Dowdle on their roster.

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20 Netflix Series To Watch Right Now in 2023

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A Hip-Hop Salute to Mad Skillz for Being A Light in His Community

February 13th, 2023, marks the fourth year of celebrating Mad Skillz day in the greater city of Richmond, Virginia. Skillz spent the day commemorating by giving back. https://twitter.com/SkillzVa/status/1625160790398435328?s=20 A Big Honor for Mad Skillz In 2019 the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, named February 13th Mad Skillz Day after the prolific rap artist with larger-than-life talent and an even more significant contribution to the hip-hop industry and the city from whence he hails. https://twitter.com/LevarStoney/status/1095797205716348932?s=20 The Rise of Mad Skillz 1996 signified a breakout year for artist Shaqwan Lewis aka Mad Skillz. His album "From Where?" pushed him center stage in the industry, but it wasn't unexpected. Hip-hop was an undeniable passion for Lewis. His voracious appetite to consume everything he could hip-hop was a hunger he nurtured throughout high school in Richmond, Virginia. According to Skillz, "he'd been a hip-hop fan since day one. It always seemed like it was speaking to him directly." But Hip-hop was not merely an elusive dream that Lewis couldn't touch. Lewis had the skills to match his passion; he was madly skilled. Lewis was nice with the verse but even nicer with the pen. And it was through hard work and dedication that he caught his first spotlight. It was only a short time before Skillz transitioned from performing to scribing lyrics. Skillz eventually hooked up with producer extraordinaire Timbaland through Magoo and signed with Timbaland's label. While working under Timbaland's label, he collaborated on several projects and toured with The Missy Misdemeanor Elliot. But Skillz was just getting started. A Strong Pen Game Lewis went on to sign with Rawkus records. While with Rawkus, he released what is now known as the hip-hop classic "Ghostwriter." https://youtu.be/CTOCHnYsv4Q Ghostwriter would be a lyrical revelation, a snapshot into Skillz's super talent and his contributions to the industry that few knew about. According to Got Mad Skillz, his biographical platform, "Eventually, he came to be known as a first-rate lyrical gun-for-hire and went on to write songs for Diddy and Will Smith. More to Accomplish But still, Skillz was only scratching the surface. He had so much more to contribute, and he did. Lewis recorded seven albums. He also was the creator of the feature series Hip-Hop Confessions, which hosted some of the biggest names in the industry. https://youtu.be/l0pAdujRDgk Lewis toured extensively as MC, and of notable mention is his time on stage with DJ Jazzy Jeff. https://youtu.be/qXeH_QW7-b0 He became a legend for his iconic yearly wrap-up, where he recounted the most important events of the year through creative lyricism for 17 years. Skillz Gives Back Despite all that Skillz has contributed to the industry by demonstrating his prowess and talent, he still wasn't done. The artist then turned his attention to empowering through education. In 2018 and 2020, Skillz poured more of his abilities and knowledge into the community as an artist-in-residence at the University of Richmond via a course entitled "Hip Hop in America." In Conclusion FM Hip Hop honors those who excel in their craft and use their talents to empower the world. Mad Skillz has done both. This is a salute to, as inscribed in his bio, "Venerable Richmond, Virginia rapper Skillz, the hip hop head's hip hop head, the guy who spun on cardboard as a kid, sprayed graffiti, and deejay'd by connecting his mother's turntables together." But most importantly, this is a nod to all he has accomplished and continues to accomplish. Written By: Renae Richardson Read the full article

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2022. Elliot had what she had always dreamed of: a farm in the middle of nowhere Montana at the foot of the mountains. She had moved to Whitefish, Montana, a small town two hundred and fifty-two miles from Spokane, Washington. It had a population of seventy-eight hundred people, so just about everyone knew everyone. She had purchased a farmhouse with a barn and stables for around three million dollars. At thirty-five years old, she could pick and choose projects.

Brad had a hard time saying goodbye and letting her move out of LA, as did Mike and Phoenix. But, she was an adult and they had to let her chase her dream. She had purchased a second-hand truck, along with two six-month-old fillies, or female baby horses, and everything they needed. For months, she had done research into taking care of horses, so she wasn’t unprepared.

The horses were given the names of Lady and Duchess. They loved grazing around the fenced-in corral. She checked on their food and water every morning after she ate breakfast. Her other animals included two German shepherds, Rocky and Bear; two Siamese cats, Milo and Lily; along with an aquarium of ten koi fish in the living room. She had taped the cover of the tank closed to prevent them from being eaten by the cats. Would she get more animals? Of course!

She had a big four-bedroom, three-bathroom two-level house with a gorgeous view of the mountains at nine thousand, eight hundred thirteen square feet. The house included an open living room with a fireplace, a tv with a DVD player and floor-to-ceiling windows, a kitchen, a dining room, a bedroom with a private bathroom, and a door leading outside.

Upstairs had a balcony looking over the living room, two bedrooms, and the master bedroom. The master bedroom was open with a sitting area that could be closed off by a curtain, windows, a fireplace, a mounted tv with a DVD player, and an outdoor balcony. Her master bathroom had a whirlpool bathtub with tv, two separate vanities, two walk-in closets, a detached shower, and another fireplace. Her bathtub was her favorite place to be after a long day outside, especially during the winter.

During the pandemic of 2019, she packed everything up, rented a u-haul, and drove almost twenty-four hours to Whitefish. She stopped along the way to eat, use the bathroom, and sleep in a hotel. Mike and Brad were updated whenever she stopped to keep them from getting anxious.

I made it to Whitefish! I got a little behind because I accidentally slept in later than I wanted to. It’s at least better to be rested than be tired lol. I’ll video chat with you guys when I get to the house. – Ellie

Because she was new, she introduced herself to the locals. She had moved from Los Angeles. They wanted to know why she had left California for their little town in the Rocky Mountains. She told them of her dream and how she was taking a chance to do something she had never done before. After she went into remission in 2005, she started dreaming about her future. The thing she always came back to was having a farm filled with animals at the foot of the mountains.

Mike and Phoenix, who had gotten married in 2010 after being engaged for two years, visited her. The band was at a standstill after the death of Chester. He lost his battle with mental illness and addiction in 2017 at the age of forty-one years old. His housekeeper had found his body. Their fans were in shock, as was everyone who knew him. They mourned him as their hero.

Mike had the hardest time with his death because he was his best friend. Chester’s sister had launched a campaign blaming him for his death. With help from Phoenix, his family, and friends, he was slowly able to heal. In 2018, he released his solo album, Post Traumatic, which was his way of expressing himself and his grief. He also started interacting with fans through the app, Discord, and his social media. Joe took on personal projects while the other guys stayed away from social media.

Phoenix was the only other person active on Instagram. In 2011, they hired a surrogate who used Mike’s sperm. Nine months later they met their son, Otis Akio Shinoda. They were talking about either adoption or hiring another surrogate for their next child.

itsthepitts: Lady and Duchess giving me attitude.

When they arrived on her farm, they were taken by how beautiful it was! She helped them bring their luggage into the guest room downstairs. They then went around and met all of her animals. The dogs were warming themselves up by the fireplace in the living room, while the cats were asleep on the couch. The fish were anticipating dinner, so they swam around opening and closing their mouths. Food, human! We want food!

After feeding them, they watched them eat. Yum! She brought them upstairs where they were in awe of her master bedroom and bathroom. How many fireplaces were there? There were three. One in the living room, one in her bedroom, and one in the bathroom. Phoenix joked he could swim in her bathtub! Mike laughed. Yeah, it was big!

“Taking a hot bath feels amazing after working outside all day, especially when it’s cold outside!”

“Oh, I bet! That sounds so relaxing!”

Outside, they were introduced to Duchess and Lady in the temperature-controlled barn. They both got up and walked over to the humans. How old were they? They were both twelve months old. Lady was a little more stubborn than her sister. She also had a white spot on her nose. Were they twins? Yes, they were born at the same time. What breed were they? They were American Quarter Horses. She had given them fresh hay and water that morning, so they were happy as clams.

They could pet them if they wanted. The horses bowed their heads. Their coat felt like velvet. Their hair felt like the hay that they ate. She had braided it, so it was out of their eyes. The horses’ ears were forward and their bodies were calm because they trusted the humans and their owner. Lady nuzzled her face against Mike. He laughed.

“That’s her way of getting attention. It also means she likes you.”

“I know he’s attractive but it’s not going to work out”, Phoenix joked.

He laughed again. Back inside, she had hungry and impatient animals waiting for dinner. She fed the cats and dogs. They were starving to death! The cats had nine lives, but the dogs only had one and they could feel it slowly slipping away. Finally, they felt their energy being restored! Did she ever take them hiking? Yeah, she did that a lot during the summer and spring when the weather was nice.

Winter was from November until March and the temperatures could go down to negative fifty degrees. She took the dogs out for up to ten minutes at a time because it was just too cold for them. It made her miss California. They would have to visit in the summer! She could take them out hiking. Yeah, they could do that. That sounded fun. What kind of chores did she do?

She fed the animals, bought bales of hay in town, brought the horses outside for exercise, cleaned the barn, cleaned the equipment, and cleaned their hooves. It was a job that took all afternoon. She liked to play music to give her motivation to keep going.

Cleaning the barn usually was sweeping, taking out manure, and not getting kicked in the face. She also had to clean water and food bowls, scoop kitty litter, changed the water for the fish, and cleaned up dead cat toys.

Wow! That was a lot! Did she do that every day? Yeah. There were other things she did around the farm once a month, like checking to make sure the gates weren’t damaged. She would show them the next day, though she planned on sleeping in for as long as the cats would let her. Yeah, they could do that! Speaking of cats, Milo came over to inspect the new humans. He thought he was the man of the house. They laughed and petted him.

@zoeykaytesmom @feelingsofaithless @alina-dixon

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sometimesraven · 2 years ago

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Truth Saga Webweaving: >Reckless Truth >Found Family

christine feehan , toxic game // mike wheeler, stranger things (s2e02) // @wecametobealonetogether, superhero team dynamics // sophia and vivenne, level 16 (2018) // raven elliot o'connor, reckless truth

DESCRIPTION: five images arranged in a column straight down. The images are as follows

First image: black text on white background. Reads: “That was the first time I realized that some people had something truly beautiful and it was called family. I wanted that for myself-and that tea set. It was elegant and beautiful, and it represented that bond they has as well as their connection to the past.”. The first sentence is highlighted in yellow.

Second image: a still from Stranger Things in which Mike Wheeler, a young boy of about twelve years old, is center frame, speaking to Will Byers who is blurred at the right hand side of the frame. The subtitles read: "if we are both going crazy then we'll go crazy together, right?"

Third image: black text on a white background. Reads: "I help you fight evil. I let you sleep on my lap when we get back home. I know everything about you, things your parents never will. We've almost died together. We study for tests together. We are discovering ourselves. I hope I still know you in ten years. You turned evil once. I still got you a birthday present."

Fourth image: a still from the 2018 movie Level 16. The image is under red lighting and shows a teenage girl over the shoulder of another young girl she is hugging tightly. The subtitles read: "You came after me." "Of course I did."

Fifth image: black text on a white background. The first part of the text is blacked out. The rest reads: "I think... when all you have is each other it's easier to feel like the whole world is against you than to risk putting your trust in someone new."

#web weaving #web weave #comparison #found family #reckless truth #truth saga #truthsaga #recklesstruth #stranger things #level 16 #christine feehan #ghostwalker series #this is book promo read my book #truthvibes #;recklessinspo #truthlore

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scabopolis · 2 years ago

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1. Is there one movie above the others you think particularly nailed the setting? The costuming?

2. What do you think makes for a good or bad modern adaptation? Is there an Austen book you think is particularly due for a modern re-make (or re-remake, in the case of those that already received a modern film interpretation?)

Peep the list of Austen adaptations I've recently watched here and then send me some asks! Just got word my copy of Persuasion (1995), Little Women (2018) AND Little Women (2020) all arrived at the library, so I will be updating the list soon. (YES! I KNOW JANE AUSTEN DID NOT WRITE LITTLE WOMEN.)

Other responses to Austen adaptation asks are here and here.

Okay! Let's get into it. Always lovely to hear from you @shireness-says, my darling.

1. Is there one movie above the others you think particularly nailed the setting? The costuming?

This question I think truly comes down to personal preference and what people are most hoping for when they sit down to watch an Austen adaptation. For me, and this is bonkers bananas pants, I think of the quote from Peter Gallagher's character from the cinematic classic film Center Stage (2000): "I need to see the movement, not the effort behind it."

I know for some people what they most want out of setting and costuming is period accuracy. What I want is specificity. AND I want it to make sense within the world in a way that I do not question. I don't necessarily care that it is historically inaccurate that Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot wore her hair down in Persuasion (2022). What confuses me is why SHE specifically wore her hair down and no one else did. What were the filmmakers trying to tell us about her? Why did it need to be said at all? When I am so distracted by these questions, that tells me it is not a smart setting/costume choice. I want the setting and costume to help me move through the world the creators have developed. I don't want to see the effort behind it.

So, with that preamble out of the way, I am going to hype up (again!) Sense and Sensbility (1995 film, screenplay by Emma Thompson) and Emma (2009 BBC series, screenplay by Sandy Welch).

Both adaptaions, imho, use their setting and their costuming to their advantage. They establish the rules quickly of how this world looks, how this world functions, and why it looks and functions the way it does. In Sense and Sensibility there is a marked difference between the dress of the Dashwood sisters prior to their move out of their home and after they move into the country. I can acclimate myself into the significance of a scenario, the formality of a scenario, their economic status, all through dress. Also, Ang Lee directed this film and it is utterly beautiful, and yet doesn't feel idyllic. The cottage the Dashwood family lives in is lovely, and yet I believe in all the ways it is a huge economic shift for them to live there.

As for Emma (2009), I admit I am very biased. Emma is my favorite Jane Austen, and I think Romola Garai gives the most well-constructed, complex, performance as Emma. Everything about Emma's constumes specifically speak to her class, her social standing, and her place in Hartfield. She stands in contrast to Jane Fairfax (always dressed in lovely and yet simple blue) and Harriet (whose evening dresses are fantastic, but they also could function as day dresses), by the colors of her dress, the complexity of her dress, and the subtle detailing of her costumes.

Also, 2009 is one of the few adaptations I've ever seen where they re-use costumes throughout the film. It's such a small nod to reality that I cannot help but love it.

(Re: the gif above, I adore this adaptation's use of light, and how it uses light to cut across Emma's face at very key moments.)

I do have to give shoutouts to the costume of Sir Walter Elliot in the 2022 Persuasion. This was an example of a stylized costume that I believe worked perfectly to convey an essential element of his character (vanity). It also clearly owes a lot of influence to the style of the costumes in the 2020 Emma, specificially in the styling of Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse. Mr. Woodhouse is on the left, as played by Bill Nighy, and Sir Walter Elliot, as played by Richard E. Grant, is on the right.

To quote someone else (someone significantly less embarassing than a character from a movie I watched when I was 15), Steve Martin says a modern adaptation of a classic text should go through three stages of development: fidelity, separation, and then divorce.

You start with fidelity, because that reminds you of the text you are working to adapt, then you put in wrinkles that start to make it its own story, and then you have to (I believe) divorce yourself from the original story and take steps that make sense for the story you are currently creating. I think where modern adaptations go wrong is they want to live in the world of separation and are unwilling to broach the next stage of divorce. The consequence of staying in the murky middle is that I am usually unequally unsatisfied on both ends. I'm not quite getting the source text, and I'm not quite getting a new thing. As Ron Swanson might say, these stories tend to half-ass two things rather than whole ass one thing.

This is why, while I enjoyed large components of it, I was ultimately disappointed by The Lizzie Bennett Diaries (a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice), particularly how that series ended, and still think Clueless (a modern adaptation of Emma) is almost perfect. There were points in LBD that I thought would be significantly strengthened by divorcing itself from the original plot points; something that Clueless did not have qualms about doing.

Nancy Meyers said that when you're working on a piece of writing you "just keep following the story" and that, I think, has to be the modern adaptation you're writing, not the source material you're adapting. It's why I love that my favorite modern adaption of Much Ado About Nothing ends with Hero and Claude not reuniting in the end.

As for books that could use a modern adaptation, I would love to see a modern take on Persuasion - the trick there is, I think, that in a modern context you need to find a reason for Anne to break off her engagement that goes beyond "my family friend doesn't think it's a good idea and that I am too young," because long-distance is a thing, social media is a thing, etc. etc. etc. In a modern context, what would drive someone to break off a relationship with a person they dearly loved? And how do we have a heroine who stands by the decision she made then, but at the same time wishes for a world wherein she made a different one? Do you go time loop? Maybe dual realities?

Northanger Abbey I also think could be the basis for a fun, zany, teen or young adult rom-com. True crime, and the deconstruction of true crime, is very big these days, so you could have Catherine Morland, a true crime obsessed 19-year old, who meets and falls head over heals for Henry Tilney, who's mom died tragically. It'd allow you to do the main plot points of NA, but also explore the exploitative nature of the Tik-Tokification of true crime, and if you set it in a fun, sunny context, could have summer beach bash vibes.

#shireness-says #austen adaptations

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variousqueerthings · 4 years ago

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Tom Hardy Movies rated least to most queer

I made a list of some Tom Hardy movies and I rated them based on my own, non-specific criteria about what makes a movie queer. Results below the cut.

(Some films not included, because I haven’t watched them yet, because Mr Hardy’s only in them for a few minutes, because the subject matter doesn’t lend itself to this list, or because I just don’t want’em here. TV series also not included. The list is organised into both groups and ratings, because I’m doing The Most.)

Movies are divided into four groups and rated from 0 – 10 on the Queer-Scale, scroll down to the bottom if you want the ratings without the commentary.

Disclaimer: This list is subjective. Don’t come at me because I didn’t rate Inception higher, Nolan himself is as queer as cargo shorts.

1. This movie would make more sense if it were queer

If this movie were queer it… might not become a perfect film all of a sudden, but it’d make a hell of a lot more sense than what’s actually going on. With an occasional dose of “are the cis-straights okay?”

This Means War (2012): So Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are ostensibly both in love with Reese Witherspoon, but say “I love you” to each other pretty much constantly throughout the movie and their friendship is often presented as a domestic partnership. Cool, cool, cooool.

Queer Rating: 2 out of 10. This movie hate-crimed me by having Tom Hardy literally spell out his relationship with Chris Pine, only for the script to then have him say… “can you imagine all that… but with a woman…” Later on the movie explicitly denies polyamory is possible. Fuck this film.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Batman movies should always be queer. Mr. Hardy’s the only one who acceptably camps it up, despite Nolan’s best attempts to make him “acceptably gruff.” No matter what you do, Bane is a massive daddy in a mask and thanks to Mr Hardy’s honestly iconic fucking speech pattern in this film, it goes from pretty atrociously straight to just queer enough to imagine a future where Robert Pattinson plays batman and maybe adopts a bunch of kids.

(the only truly decent mask in this franchise tbh)

Queer Rating: 3 out of 10. Mr Hardy’s back is the one that’s actually broken carrying any semblance of fun in this overly long movie all on his own.

Lawless (2012): Wow, this really was the year of the not-queer-enough, wasn’t it? Look, it’s “based on a real story,” but it’s also a movie and movies don’t need to stick to the truth, and this one certainly doesn’t. Was the guy queer in real life? I don’t know. But that doesn’t matter, what matters is that it’s just kind of an eh movie and maybe being queer would add something to it. One of those “but why make someone queer? because it’s always more interesting to do so,” movies.

Queer Rating: 3 out of 10. It’s just not queer. But Tom Hardy wears cardigans and described his character as a “mother figure,” which adds an interesting dynamic to him.

2. Actually Queer but in a homophobic way

Tom Hardy plays a canonically queer character, yaaay. The whole movie contains a strange sense of the director being too not-queer to actually engage with that and everything around him is almost aggressively straight, noooo.

RocknRolla (2008): Honestly this movie has the funniest coming out scene ever + that familiar undertone of “all these manly men secretly want to fuck each other” is only heightened by one of them actually being gay and in love with his best friend. It’s such a fucking… it’s such a movie. Personally I find Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Thandie Newton, and, of course, Tom Hardy to be really hot in it, so that’s a plus. There’s a scene in which Strong’s character teaches another gangster how to do a proper backhand. It’s really gay of him. Also slow-dancing at a gay club. Butler’s character needs to get himself together, you really don’t think 2008 Tom Hardy is hot? Mate.

(left to right: functional queer, disaster queer, distinguished queer)

Queer Rating: 6 out of 10, for having an actual gay character who is played by Tom Hardy doing a sexy phonecall voice to another guy, but then there’s that feeling you can’t shake that the whole movie is vaguely uncomfortable about it, like a family member awkwardly patting you on the shoulder after they found out you were queer second-hand, but they’ve still got 50 years of bias to unlearn. Also Thandie Newton is killed, fuck that noise.

Legend (2015): If I had a nickle for the amount of times Tom Hardy’s played a gay gangster, I’d have two nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but weird that it happened twice (looks at Peaky Blinders and thinks it ought to be three times). I’ve watched Legend three times and every time it just… loses me. And because this is a biased list, I’ll only specifically mention that it fails to make Ron’s queerness anything but a way for him to shock others. Gangsters could be gay? Gasp! On the upside Tom Hardy has so much sexual tension with everyone in this movie, including himself (why would you do that? Asks Ron, bemused. Because I can’t kill you, no matter how much I fucking want to, hisses a blood-soaked Reggie right into his ear. It’s hot).

Queer rating: 5 out of 10 because the film is just not very queer for a movie with several queer men in it.

3. Straight as a forced family dinner

It’s straight.

Locke (2013): He’s a married man who had an affair and trying to deal with the fallout of it. This isn’t a spoiler for most of the movie, it’s a pretty neat movie where we look at Tom Hardy having a bit of a mental breakdown and taking lots of phonecalls (my personal hell). Is it queer? Not in the slightest.

Queer Rating: 2 out of 10 for Hardy’s face being in almost every shot.

The Revenant (2015): Yeah, yeah, DeCaprio’s and Hardy’s characters are obsessed with each other, yeah it’s a man’s world where the only women are dead wife, kidnapped sexually assaulted native princess, or background whore, yeah, they fight each other and there’s a ton of grunting, but also… I just fucking don’t like this movie. The thin line where a storyline like this one becomes queer might be crossed for others, but not for me. Fuck these guys and their stupid bear fights.

Queer rating: 3 out of 10 for it being about dirty men in the middle of nowhere (but you could just watch Brokeback Mountain or The Lighthouse or God’s Own Country or any Mad Max, or, or, or…)

4. Queer? Queer. Queer? … Queer…

The plots, aesthetics and/or characters played by Tom Hardy lend themselves to a queer reading, even if there is no overt intention towards queerness. Often this is because of a deliberate lack of heterosexual and/or cisgender writing, which in this day and age is still pretty uncommon not to include within a plot.

Inception (2010): Okay, I don’t even need to write about the added “darling,” or the “go to sleep Mr Eames.” I don’t need to go on about the absolutely bonkers amount of fanfiction written for Eames and Arthur, based on a few minutes of film and a boatload of chemistry. It’s queer.

Queer Rating: 7 out of 10, because the actual plot of the film isn’t very queer, but between the Arthur/Eames dynamic and Elliot Page, Nolan was really given a gift he didn’t deserve.

Warrior (2011): Okay, so first off, this might be my favourite Tom Hardy film, at least some part of my brain is fixated on it at almost all times and I’m considering watching it for the third time in two weeks. I don’t only consider it queer based on Mr. Hardy’s character, although he has no romantic or sexual interest and could be read as aroace, but because of the themes, especially those surrounding said character, who is coded as a caregiver to women and through close emotional connections to men. It’s got possibly unintentional deconstructions of masculinity and two men (brothers) who need to forgive each other and can only do so through the catharsis of violence. It speaks to me as a transmasc with several cis brothers, struggling with my own masculinity. It’s not at all written for me, but I find myself all over it. I could talk about this movie forever.

Queer Rating: 8 out of 10. I’m not allowed to say any more or I’ll never stop writing about it. I love you Tommy…

The Drop (2014): Bob’s lack of sexual and/or romantic interest in Naomi is so strange to her that she doesn’t know what he would want from her otherwise. Bob really just wants to raise a dog with her (and also forgiveness for past sins). Bob is such a rare ace and possibly aro coded character, it really throws me every time I watch this film how obvious it is. Bonus points for also being autistic-coded and not in the stereotypical ways.

(Tom Hardy’s most challenging role: pretending he doesn’t know dogs)

Queer Rating: 9 out of 10 because it’s so fucking rare to see ace and aro coded characters that aren’t, you know…. serial killers. Also Tom Hardy adopts a puppy and has a very cute, kinda lispy voice. How often does Tom Hardy play softer men like this?

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Very deliberately no sexual or romantic writing included in Max’s and Furiosa’s relationship. Sure, there’s not a lot of time for that in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it was also done with a purpose! “It was always going to be two warriors on par, starting off with very little respect for each other and ending up with a massive respect for each other.” - Charlize Theron. “So of course they meet, of course there’s a relationship, an unspoken understanding. A recognition.” - Tom Hardy.

Queer Rating: 9 out of 10. It’s not just the characters, but the world and it’s apocalyptic BDSM leather scene, the questions it asks about sustainability and about people as tools, and the found family. It’s about overcoming violence through multiple kinds of love. And it’s about watching a guy playing flame-thrower guitar. What could be queerer?

Venom (2018): Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same… No, but Eddie is queer. The only question is whether the sequel will acknowledge that aspect or not, but even if not. Even if it manages to straightly bypass the reality of a symbiotic relationship with a genderless? genderfluid? being from another world that is linked to you down to your very cells and understands you more intimately than any other person possibly could… even if all that: Eddie is queer. Venom and Eddie are in a relationship. Any relationship Eddie ever enters into will automatically become a thrupple. He makes out with Venom in the movie! Eddie is queer.

(aw yeah that tongue is going down his throat)

Queer Rating: 9.5 out of 10, because it’s still coded by the creators in the language of bromance (hey, bro, is it gay if we’re physically and emotionally closer than any other people on earth?), but the movie is so, so camp and Mr Hardy’s acting choices are beautiful – the screaming? The lispy soft voice and lack of taking up space? The lobster tank? The only people who don’t know how queer this is are the people making it apparently. Fingers crossed for that sequel!

Hon. mentions:

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002): Star Trek – even at it’s worst (especially at its worst?) – is camp af + Hardy is a straight-up baby in this film.

Bronson (2008): It’s about a real person who’s still alive, so I won’t comment on the actual man. However the film seems to code the character Bronson along an ace line and also has genderqueering Vaudeville. Someone let Tom Hardy do more of whatever was going on in those stage-bits.

(this right here: this the good shit)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Another ensemble piece not massively about Hardy’s character, but it’s a movie that centers around queerness in a strange, depressing way. Tom Hardy’s character isn’t queer. Colin Firth and Mark Strong are though. The book makes me cry.

Peaky Blinders (2013-): Because it’s a TV series I left it out. There’s a lot of straight nonsense going on there, but Alfie Solomens is gay. There’s nothing in the series that disputes that and plenty that lends itself to the reading.

Dunkirk (2017): Tom Hardy plays an RAF pilot in a deep emotional connection with the other main RAF pilot. That’s immediately gay. However he’s not in the movie much because of the way it’s constructed, so I left it off.

Queer Ratings (least to most)

No queer to be found here traveller:

This Means War: 2 out of 10 - illegal movie, Tom Hardy swore he wouldn’t do another rom-com after

Locke: 2 out of 10 - straight Welshman and his straight problems. He pretty though

Lawless: 3 out of 10 - cardigan-Hardy being a mother-hen, but very straight for all that

The Dark Knight Rises: 3 out of 10 - a superhero movie that doesn’t deserve Mr Hardy’s camp talents (unlike Venom)

The Revenant: 3 out of 10 - doesn’t give me what I want out of a movie full of dirty, bearded men

Queer but we deserve more:

Legend: 5 out of 10 - timid homosexuality, considering the source material.

RocknRolla: 6 out of 10 - hey bro, is it gay if we kill the only female lead in our massive ensemble cast

The queerest of Hardy’s:

Inception: 7 out of 10 - Elliot Page and JGL kissing was an all-around terrible choice that made no sense, we know the truth, Nolan

Warrior: 8 out of 10 - I’m still crying, Edgerton’s crying, Hardy’s crying, we’re all crying, and I think that’s really emotionally healthy and queer of us

Mad Max: Fury Road: 9 out of 10 - non-romantic love in the time of BDSM post-apocalyptic wastelands is something that can actually be so personal

The Drop: 9 out of 10 - “Fucking punk. Go out to dinner dressed like you're still in you living room! You wear those big hippity-hoppity clown shoes! You speak to women terribly! You treat them despicably! You hurt harmless dogs that can't defend themselves! I'm tired of you man. I'm tired of you. You embarrass me!”

Venom: 9.5 out of 10 - Sometimes a relationship is an anxious reporter, the sentient goo inhabiting his body, his kinda-ex-girlfriend and her new doctor boyfriend, and I think that’s beautiful

#tom hardy #mad max: fury road #venom 2018 #inception #rocknrolla #warrior 2011 #legend 2015 #the drop 2014 #the revenant #the dark knight rises #lawless 2012 #locke #this means war

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winterscaptain · 4 years ago

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immovable object.

Aaron Hotchner x Fem!Reader a joyful future fic

a/n: happy birthday aaron hotchner!! here’s a little something i cooked up, just for y’all who wanted to see something from aaron’s point of view. i figured a birthday would be as good a time as any to share a little bit of aaron’s head, even if it’s not his (actual) age this year. as always, i love to hear what you think! takes place au!november 2018

words: 2.3k warnings: language, implication of sex, light drinking/alcohol use

summary: “the years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. you are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” - t.s. elliot

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Fifty.

Aaron wasn’t sure where he’d be by fifty. He’d only had loose examples over the course of his life, as his father kicked it before he got to that point. But then again…

His father never appreciated what he had. Two sons, different to the point of extremity, a wife who loved him even through all his (many) shortcomings, and a big house in northern Virginia that he could afford with his very plush salary working on The Hill as a prosecutor. Nevertheless, he drank himself to death at forty-seven.

So…

Where am I at fifty?

He looks down into his lap, finding Caroline tucked into the crook of his elbow with a hand in her mouth while they sit in his armchair. She’s teething now, but she isn’t half as unbearable about it as Isaac.

Isaac.

Aaron scans the room, finding his son with Spencer and Hank at the formal dining room table. Spence has them both in his lap and reads aloud from whatever Russian novel he’s flying through. As Aaron listens closer, he realizes Spencer is translating as he goes, reading the book in English.

Tolstoy should be fine for toddlers...right?

Another scan sends him to you, sitting on the floor with a bottle and a spit-up rag, Sophia snarfing down her afternoon snack like it’s her job.

You find his eyes, double-taking a little. What?

Nothing. Aaron’s mouth presses into an amused little line.

With a fond roll of your eyes, you turn back into the conversation with Sean and Derek.

And that’s another thing.

Aaron never expected to really have his brother in his life as an adult. To his surprise, it's a rather pleasant change of circumstance. Once he moved out of New York and back to Virginia, Sean really got his act together. The arrival of his second nephew didn’t hurt. At your behest, Aaron called him in Isaac’s first weeks, inviting him over to meet the new addition. He feels silly now, for starting a spat with you about it in the moment. It’s not easy, but it’s good.

He’s the first one to admit that you did most of the heavy lifting, leveraging your similar age and propensity to draw flocks of the struggling and confused.

Your Honor, I’d like to present Exhibit A in regard to struggling and confused - Aaron Benjamin Hotchner - before the court.

He laughs down his nose at his own train of thought. Caroline fusses, but once she’s sitting up in his lap, one of his hands across the entirety of her chest and little belly, she’s happy.

Will she continue to insist on seeing everything? Will she always be so quiet?

There’s something about Caroline’s eyes, even as they continue to settle into their permanent color, that is inherently wise. He knows, logically, that Caroline and Sophia are near-identical, but neither of you have ever had any trouble telling them apart.

If someone asked, he wouldn’t be able to articulate the differences. He just knows.

Aaron almost startles when you appear at his side, Sophia freshly burped and smooshed against your shoulder.

“You look pensive.” It’s a gentle accusation.

Aaron snorts. “It’s my birthday. I’m allowed to be pensive.” He holds Caroline up for a minute and you accept the invitation, planting yourself in his lap. Sophia’s still in your arms, so it’s a bit crowded, but nevertheless, you swing your legs over the arm of the chair and melt against Aaron’s chest.

The girls, of course, are delighted to see each other and make a happy, babbling pair sitting on your abdomen and thighs, watching all the action in the living room.

Aaron presses a kiss to your head and just for another second wonders how he got so lucky.

“Hey. Quit.”

He looks down, meeting your eyes. “What?”

You look at him, soft and affectionate. “You’ll never stop, will you?”

“Probably not.” He adjusts again so he can cradle you in his arm while he keeps the girls stable with his free hand. “But that’s why I’ve got you.”

“Unstoppable force meets immovable object?”

Aaron squints, making play at thinking. “Wasn’t that on our wedding announcements?”

You huff a laugh and pat his chest twice. “Maybe it should have been.”

Realistically, he knows he should be out socializing with everyone there to celebrate him and the fifty years he’s lived (only a couple of them in dog years), but he can’t bring himself to care. His cheek rests against your head, his fingers tracing patterns on your arm. Caroline has the other one of his hands, playing with his fingers (and putting those in her mouth, too) while Sophia sits back against him, threatening sleep.

But really, nobody minds. They’re all having too much fun off the clock, with children of their own. Derek and Savannah lounge in the rec room, watching Tara, Sean, Will, Jack, and Henry play Mario Kart. Not far off is Kristy, wiping illicit frosting off her oldest son’s cheek before he rejoins the boys on the makeshift tournament arena.

Matt, Dave, and Emily are gathered around the kitchen island, their wine glasses never far from their hands. JJ flits between the groups, her puttering instincts inescapable even outside of her domain.

Luke and Penelope pretend they aren’t following each other from room to room, activity to activity. They are horrible actors, and Aaron wonders if the kid will ever pluck up the guts to do something about it.

You didn’t.

That doesn’t count.

Yes, it does.

JJ finally comes to rest beside Emily, propping herself up by her elbows as she sits backward on one of the barstools. “I’d never thought I’d see Hotch so happy.”

Emily looks over her shoulder. What does she see?

She sees a man she’s known her entire career at the bureau, a man who hand-picked her to replace him when it was time for him to leave his post as unit chief, a man who lost almost everything and somehow found it again.

She watches as Aaron says something to you, a wicked kind of humorous glint in his eye. She watches as you let out a loud laugh, accidentally startling your daughters in your lap. She watches as the girls process and pick up on their mother’s joy and start to shriek and clap.

She watches Aaron live.

“I dunno,” Emily says, finally. “I always thought those two might make it if they faced themselves.”

JJ humphs in the irony of it. “That’s a lot to ask.”

“And yet -”

“- Somehow, they’ve managed.” JJ looks to her own family just in time to see Will taking advantage of the high ceiling, throwing Michael into the air and catching him. “It’s kind of funny, how things work out.”

“I can’t believe he’s fifty.” Emily’s non-sequitur drops into JJ’s thoughts, which were rapidly devolving into the abstract. “It doesn’t seem right.”

Dave taps Emily on the shoulder, reminding her he’s been there the whole time. “You’re in your late forties, I might remind you.”

A kind of dissatisfied noise leaves her throat. “Thanks.” She turns, looking at him with a glare that could cut glass, but all in play. “Thanks for that.”

“Just doing my civic duty.”

Emily rolls her eyes and stands, wandering farther into the kitchen to pilfer a bag of animal crackers from the snack drawer.

“Alright!” Penelope calls from the kitchen archway. “It’s time for cake!”

That gets the attention of all the children in the vicinity who have experienced the unadulterated joy of Aunt Penelope’s buttercream frosting.

Aaron tolerates the attention as you and the girls get shuffled (or in your case, shuffle yourself) off his lap. Emily takes Caroline while Savannah has Sophia. A quick glance finds Isaac on Dave's hip. With a little bit of a start, he realizes just how big his family is. They’re all here.

For each other.

For him.

Soon enough, Penelope brings the cake - candles all lit (and no, there are not fifty of them - that was a hard no from the birthday boy) and places it in front of Aaron at the head of the dining room table.

You kiss him on the cheek, distracting him while you put a ridiculous party hat on his head. You can almost feel his eye roll and you hear a few phone cameras click. Of course, shortly after, everyone starts singing at him - horrifically out of pace and key, but it’s perfect.

He’s confronted with the back of a few more phones as parents and friends snap pictures out of habit. He reaches out to snag you around the waist and you end up half-sitting on the arm of his chair.

You loop your arms around his neck, leaning into his side. “Make a wish.”

After one slow blink and a deep breath, he blows out the candles to whoops and hollers and baby shrieks.

Your eyes snap up out of instinct, finding Isaac covering his ears and looking more and more alarmed by the minute. You toss another kiss onto Aaron’s forehead and quickly take Isaac from Dave, traveling down the hall with practiced haste.

If he’s honest, Aaron forgot. He should have grabbed Isaac’s headphones from your office, but he didn’t. He should have warned his son about the loud noises and all the people before they overwhelmed him, but he didn’t. He should have remembered that his son needed more thought and attention than the others, but he didn’t.

He hides his self-directed frustration well, but it doesn’t take long for him to make a quick and subtle escape. He knows the girls are just fine. Emily has Caro well in-hand and Savannah is always looking for an excuse to practice with the girls. She’s due in February, looking radiant and lovely.

In a near-whisper, he calls for you and Isaac as he tracks down the hall on light feet. He hears you murmur, then Isaac’s voice: “Here, Dad,” guides him into your office, where you’re stationed on the floor under your desk.

Isaac’s playing with the soft carpet chosen especially for him, his little fingers getting lost in the plush fabric. Aaron kneels down and rests his forearms on the ground, searching for Isaac’s eyes.

“Hey, little man.”

He hums.

That’s a good thing.

Aaron puts his hand on the carpet, about three inches away from Isaac’s. He can see it, but it’s not touching him, communicating his presence without sensation.

You meet Aaron’s eyes over Isaac’s head. Not your fault.

He shoots you a withering look.

I’m serious, Aaron. You raise your eyebrows and shake your head. Not your fault. We’re okay. Your eyes flicker to Isaac before returning to Aaron. He’s okay.

Aaron watches as you arc your body around him, getting close but not too close, running your fingers through the carpet on either side of him. Aaron wiggles his own fingers, sinking deeper into the blue shag. To his surprise, it calms him a little.

Little Man might be onto something here.

Eventually, Isaac leans back into you, and you slowly bring your hands to his hair, massaging his scalp with the tips of your fingers. You look at Aaron and nod once.

He takes his cue. As always, he’s in awe of your command over Isaac’s needs. With a breath, and very quietly, he asks. “Are you feeling better, little man?”

His eyes still on the carpet, he nods. “Just loud.”

“Yeah. It was pretty loud.” He looks up to the bookshelf, spotting his headphones on their charger. “Do you want to go back to the living room, maybe with your ears on? Or do you want to stay in here?”

The boy stills, thinking. In the two years he’s known his son, the turning of gears in Isaac’s little head enamors and amazes him. He can almost see their spokes behind his eyes. After a minute or so -

“Living room, but only for a little while.”

You kiss him lightly on the top of his head, where the band of the headphones rests. “Do you want your ears?”

He nods and Aaron rises, bringing the headphones back down. Isaac puts them on and wiggles a little where he sits. Aaron likes to imagine it’s his way of settling back into his body.

Much to the surprise of everyone present, Isaac reaches out to Aaron. With soft eyes, he takes his son in his arms, letting him wrap like a koala around his neck and chest.

The three of you return, finding everyone still milling about, eating cake, and sharing space together. Jack, catching sight of you, jogs over. “Is Isaac okay?”

You nod, brushing the hair off Jack’s forehead. “Yeah, bud. It just got a little overwhelming for a minute.”

It’s been eleven years of you and Jack, but it never gets old for Aaron. The way you are with each other - somehow balancing a parent-child relationship with a steadfast best-friendship - constantly surprises and warms him.

Jack nods, circling around so he can get into Isaac’s eye line. He waves a little, and Isaac waves back, lifting his hand briefly from Aaron’s collar. Jack offers a fist, and Isaac reaches out to tap it with three of his fingers.

Aaron closes his eyes, taking it in.

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“So,” you say, tucking into bed beside him. “Fifty.”

“So,” He doesn’t pull his eyes from his book. “Thirty-six.” He throws you a side-eye, immediately noticing the playful glint in your eye. “Don’t start.”

You raise your eyebrows, the picture of innocence. “Start what? I’m just appreciating my loving and handsome and thoughtful and distinguished husband on his birthday.” You scoot and shift, straddling him. “Are you gonna let me?”

That gets his attention. Keeping his eyes on you, he markes his place and sets the book on his bedside table. “I might.”

You lean down, pressing your lips to his, speaking quietly against his mouth, like a secret. “Happy Birthday, my love.”

If anyone asked, Aaron loved his present.

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Forget-me-not. 11

Chapter warnings: I GUESS the aftermath of last two chapters. Triplets are not great. There's nothing super extreme like in nine and ten (if you count that as extreme. Worst it's been so far) Word count: 2,000 because 9 and 10 were 6,000 words long each and I wrote chapters 9, 10, and 11 in one sitting and I ran out of writer juice Rating: T Chapter title: 11/18/2018. Beginning of part two Summary: The zinnia doesn't have any set meanings, but it's most common is friendship, remembrance, and endurance. The Victorian meaning of the zinnia is thoughts of an absent friend, or at least, one you haven't seen in a while. The blue zinnia in particular represents trust and loyalty. The zinnia was discovered in 1500 in Mexico, and brought to Europe. On a spiritual level, they represent a faith that cannot be broken. The zinnia symbolizes qualities that remind us never to take those we love for granted.

"Oh shit! A demon!"

Jaxon threw a banana at whatever was on top of their refrigerator, and was greeted with a slight yelp, and a loud thud, as it fell off the top, and Jaxon stepped backwards, panicking to find the light switch.

When he did, he was met with a sprawled out, small body, of a child in a purple hoodie and blond hair. Jaxon tilted his head, squinting in confusion.

...How did Elliot get up there? How was he still asleep?

Damn, he must have been really exhausted to go into a sleep deep enough to prevent him from waking up after being hit with a banana and falling off the refrigerator. He looked like a dead body. Jaxon panicked again. The twins would kill him if he managed to kill their brother within a day.

He felt for a pulse on the neck, sure he was just overreacting, and he was, he realized with a relieved breath, as Elliot was still alive and well and horrifyingly easy to lift up.

Sure, the kid didn't want to sleep on an actual bed, he hadn't really thought it was a real option, thought Jaxon was lying to him, so he put Elliot on the couch. He'd be fine there. It was better than the top of their fridge.

The adrenaline from the day before wore off, and left Jaxon feeling like an actual zombie, but unable to fall asleep.

Leo on the other hand, had gone to bed the moment they had gotten home, missed the triplet's adorable little argument, and had not left her bedroom for the past twelve hours.

They were due for a trip to Walmart, with the twins now staying in a semi-permanent situation, which Jaxon was totally okay with! He liked the twins a lot.

But, that wouldn't be for another few hours, it was only six in the morning, and everyone was tired from the long day before, so what he needed until then was a distraction.

He did what any reasonable person would do, and gave himself a mission.

Something bad happened between the triplets, specifically, but no one knew what it was. Jaxon doubted they would tell him. If he could figure it out, they'd like each other, and everything would be fine.

It was still early, but he had no intentions of going back to sleep, not with only two hours before Logan would wake up. On school breaks, Jaxon was usually the last one awake. Today he was the first. Whether the triplets would sleep in on account of being genuinely exhausted, or wake up early on an instinct of routine was a gamble.

He didn't dare turn on the TV, or move, even if Elliot had proven himself to be a heavy sleeper. So, he simply sat down and waited again.

---

"What's that?"

Leo jumped, puzzle pieces in her hands scattering on the ground. Elliot stood in her doorway, the blankness on his face rivaling that of Emmet from the Lego Movie.

"I swear you don't make any noise when you move, do you?"

"Sorry." Elliot pointed at the puzzle again. Only six pieces of the edge were built. "What's that?"

"It's a puzzle." Leo gathered the dropped pieces back into her hands. "Did you need something?"

"What's that?" Elliot asked again.

"...A puzzle," Leo answered again. "You put the pieces together, and it makes a picture." She pointed at the box, it was supposed to be some map of the constellations. When Elliot pointed at the box, she answered before he could ask. "It's the stars, that's what it's supposed to make. Constellations."

"What are those?"

Leo performed astounding levels of self-control. "When the stars make shapes. Don't ask what stars are."

"Okay."

Leo stood up, grabbed the remote from her desk, and scrolled through the different shows, until she found a space documentary. "Here, watch this for a while, if you want."

Leo ditched the puzzle in favor of watching the kid watch the documentary. He sat on the ground, leaning forward, eye wide. Little gasps and excited noises whenever a particularly pretty picture of a galaxy, pointing at the screen every time Leo looked away. It lasted all of an hour and a half, before Elliot asked to play it again.

"Why not find a different one to watch?"

"There's more?"

"Mmhm." Leo found a different one. "Here you go. Think this is pretty cool?"

"Cool, yes." A nod. He pointed at the puzzle. "You're building it?"

"Something to resemble it, yeah. It's supposed to be relaxing. You know, I'll bet if you go ask Dylan to paint you something like it, they would."

Leo hoped, anyway. Something had Elliot drawn to Dylan. She couldn't tell whether Dylan liked that or not.

Elliot's face lit up at the idea, he nodded, ran out of the room before Leo turned on the second documentary, and scattered the puzzle pieces on the ground again.

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Jaxon sat on the edge of Leo's bed as his friend unpacked a backpack in a simple, repetitive motion. She didn't bring much, as she had only expected to stay for about two weeks. According to her, she had everything she needed. She didn't want anything from her old house. That was good, since she would apparently actually be killed on sight if she went back.

They did their routine of worthless, useless banter, mindless conversation, talking about whatever popped up in their minds at the time.

"I could beat you in a fight," Jaxon said out of the blue. "Lighting is faster than fire."

"No, you could not," Leo retorted, tossing an armful of variously colored clothing hangers onto the bed. She'd borrowed them from Lily, the only one who had a closet, other than Leo now.

"Lightning may be faster, but fire is stronger," Leo defended her side pointedly. "Not to mention, I'm taller than you. Probably stronger, too."

"What about a fight where we don't use our magic? I think you'd win."

"Easily." Leo nodded sagely. "In a fight with magic, I'd call it a draw."

"Guess we'll never know." Jaxon shrugged.

"I can't think of any situation where we'd fight each other. Unless you spill my soda again."

"Once! That happened once!"

Leo snickered, hanging up yet another pink t-shirt. She had only five different colors of clothing; white, black, pink, red, and gray.

You could tell a lot about a person based on what they brought along for a trip. Leo's backpack was practical, but only for herself. Where Cass had a first aid kid and both of the twin's toothbrushes, Leo brought items only for herself. Rubber bands, headphones, winter clothes. A neck pillow, which Jaxon thought was hilarious.

"Excited to live here?" Just the question felt like he was treading into dangerous territory, a lion's cage, a room full of broken glass, or hot coals, or clear Legos.

Leo paused. She paused for a long time, before hanging up another shirt, gray this time. "I am, yeah."

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