#Ellis & Waller

[gogmstuff]

1908 (13 May issue) The Bystander Ladies Weldon and Annesley 1372X2008.

[purplecatruins]

Watching Killing Eve right now: does emerald Fennell have an obsession with Murder on the Dancefloor? She mentions it in season 2 and then obviously in Saltburn...

Actually, liked Phoebe Waller-Bridge's writing a bit more. But could also just be the whole storyline in Season two.

[hallowsden]

Ok, but would this take before or after the original Suicide Squad were created, cause, if Harley and the rest found out about their ghost counterparts, and depending on their age, some of them are likely to adopt them.

Random DP x DC idea/writing prompt:

Amanda Waller takes over the GIW and uses all their research & tech to make a suicide squad style thing with Ghosts. Maybe even managing to get ahold of Danny or Elle at some point in the process

[demonic0angel]

Broseidon/Danny. Attacked them because they hurt Dani, the JL didn't want to do it. But well the GIW tricked them good.

for Zeus/Danny Works for Amanda Waller

Tell me, Amanda, If I were to make you choose The lives of the American and Army or your own Why do I think they'd lose? Enlighten me, The Wall, Since Want for Powers was far too great I wonder who'd take the weight of the damned And suffer a gruesome fate to the

Adorable Dani/Ellie as Athena meeting Hera Tucker/Sam. Yes she had the same song 2 times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZrNmzbgWKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FnoGLxGiM

+ Hera:" Wait! Your Zeus doesn't cheat?" Tucker/Sam:" He is a pervert, but more in a Battle kind of way. Then really sleeping around." Danny doesn't got around, he likes to Fight.

Danny is considered a pervert because he keeps invading people’s spaces to look at their weapons and fighting style XD

[satoshy12]

Spy X Family, Danny Phantom, and DC Comics

Athanasia al Ghul x Danny

It had been a few years since Danny stopped doing hero work and worked for Amanda Waller. His ghost powers made him a good spy, and his pay is very high. It's plain cheating for him in the black ops.

Danny didn't have much of a problem with Mrs. Waller, as Clockwork would take him out if Amanda Waller tried to betray him.

He was sent with a new mission that would take longer in Gotham: finding a massive drug empire of the upper class. A mix of the drugs used by the villain in Gotham, find the formula, and destroy the empire.

To accomplish this he needed present the image of a happy family, Danny left with his adopted daughter/clone, Dani or Ellie, and over time dated and married a woman named Athanasia.

Unbeknown to Danny, Dani had gained a new power to read minds, and Athanasia is in fact a former assassin of the League of Assassins who left them after they thought she was dead. Ra knows she was alive, but her mother, Talia, and the rest thought she was dead.

Neither Danny nor Athanasia are aware of each other's true identities. As Athanasia worked to be a mother, Danny worked to find the drug empire. And Ellie is having fun at school with her new friends.

Danny and Athanasia had a good time and relationship with each other, and Danny could see a life with her. Even if dating a free-lance psychologist is a funny feeling for her.

Dani was having a good time at Gotham Academy. She befriended new friend and in such way made Danny meet the parent to find out if she befriended them. She got friends in Mia "Maps" Mizoguchi, Olive Silverlock, Jon Kent, and Damian Wayne.

Dani is pretty proud of Bruce Wayne; he is old money. If anyone knew about it or was part of it, this man or someone he knew was part of it.

[sixhours]

Chapter 2 - The Ghosts of Babylon

Series Chapter Index | Read on AO3 | Complete

Rating: Explicit, 18+, here be smut and violence Series tags: Joel Miller x You, Joel Miller x Reader, Joel & Ellie, mostly follows canon, LGBTQ+ characters, y/n is bi/pan, y/n is ~45, violence, pregnancy, abortion, medical trauma, emotional trauma, panic attacks, sex work, suicide, smut, slow burn, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, romance, no use of y/n, reader has longish hair, Joel can lift you, smallish age gap (~11 years), I've probably forgotten some so please let me know <3

~*~

Boston QZ March 2024

You were one of the lucky ones.

After the initial outbreak and the chaos that followed, you were protected, ushered into a covered military caravan and housed in relative safety. You were only a resident, but your medical experience made you valuable. Most doctors had been infected in the early hours.

Most of them hadn’t run.

If you had been anyone else, you think you would have been shot. Instead, the military sent you to the quarantine zone in Boston, and you were drafted into FEDRA without ever having signed your name on the line.

Your cowardice in the face of danger was your saving grace, and you will never let yourself forget it.

You’re six years into the pandemic when you’re summoned to the colonel’s office for a special request. FEDRA wants you to travel to a sparsely populated territory outside the QZ and embed yourself there, do threat assessments, and send the intel back to your higher-ups. They frame it as an outreach program for recruitment and a means to get ahead of terrorist threats, but you understand the unspoken implications.

They want you to be a spy.

You protest, but it’s a half-hearted attempt. You know they aren’t offering you a choice.

You train for combat and survival. You learn how to shoot, how to run, how to fight, and how to hide. And then FEDRA packs you up and sends you off into the wilderness of what used to be Pennsylvania, joining a small outpost east of Pittsburgh. There are no terrorist threats to be found, only starving, freezing civilians, hordes of infected, and so much desperation.

You return, six months older and with only a few bruises, so they send you out again. And again. And again.

As it turns out, you make a good soldier. You don’t ask what FEDRA does with the information you find, and they don’t tell you.

On your fourth mission, you come back with more than bruises. The burgh of Everglade, forty miles north of a ruined Jacksonville, Florida, wasn’t as welcoming as you would have hoped. You’d been savagely beaten and sent back to Boston, less weapons and supplies, a walking warning.

Don’t fuck with us, FEDRA.

But there’s a hard seed of grit in you that felt fair was fair, that you deserved whatever punishment you got. You sutured your gashes, reset your broken nose, and took your next assignment.

~*~

By the time Joel Miller and Ellie Williams are staggering across the Jackson threshold for the second time, in the spring of 2024, you’re opening the door of your Boston QZ apartment to a man in weathered FEDRA fatigues.

“Hey,” he says, barely meeting your eyes. “Waller wants to see you.”

“When?”

“0800 hours.”

“Fine,” you say. He doesn’t respond, lingering in the doorway until you’re forced to ask, “Anything else?”

He ducks his head. “Got any plans tonight?”

“I do if you have the money.”

Unsurprisingly, FEDRA doesn’t pay well–doctor, spy, or shit-shoveler. But you’ve found other ways to get by.

The man– a boy, really , you think–reaches into his pocket and pulls out a crumpled stack of ration cards. You take your time counting them before pocketing the payment and stepping aside to let him enter.

His hands are on you before you can finish closing the door, greedy and wanting. You let him push you up against the wall, tipping your head to give him access to your neck, already tuning out his gasps and moans and clumsy thrusts.

~*~

Afterward, he’s panting on your mattress, and you’re fumbling on the nightstand for a lighter.

“You know those things’ll kill you,” he mumbles.

“Fascinating,” you respond dryly, finding the lighter and putting the cigarette to your lips. You allow yourself one long, slow inhale. You hold the smoky air in your lungs as long as you can, savoring that first and only hit, before tamping the cigarette out and rolling it up in a piece of foil for later. “You can go.”

You feel his hand slide over your ass and you flinch away, standing and gathering your clothes from the floor.

“C’mon, baby. I gave you extra.”

“Yeah, and you shorted me five last time. Go.”

He growls. “Fuckin’ bitch.”

You ignore this, slipping a clean-enough tank top over your head, pulling on your jeans, and heading for the kitchen. You’re putting a kettle of water on the hot plate when you hear the metallic snick of a blade behind you.

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.

You tense, listening, waiting, until you feel the hint of a blade at the side of your throat.

“How about you suck me off next time and we’ll call it even,” he whispers, breath hot in your ear.

You dive to one side, wrapping the man’s arm with your own, knocking the knife away. It skitters across the floor, lost under the radiator. Your left hand grips the man’s wrist and pulls it back as you slam your right hand into his shoulder, forcing him down against the counter. You twist his arm until you imagine you can hear the tendons creaking.

The man screams in pain and surprise. “Whoa no shit I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m fucking sorry don’t–”

You slam your full body weight against him and twist his arm back and up with a sharp snap , his wrist giving under your practiced hands. Another scream, this one feral, as you release the man’s arm.

“You broke my fucking wrist you fucking cunt!”

“Fuck off or I’ll break the other one,” you pant, shoving him toward the door.

“You’ll fucking hang for this!”

“Yeah?” you spit. “You say one word and I’ll make sure your dick never touches another girl in this QZ because it’ll be sitting in a jar on my fucking desk.”

He sneers, but there’s no threat in it. He slouches backward with an angry sob, cradling his broken hand and fumbling with the door, all the while trying to keep his eyes trained on you.

You lock the door behind him and slide the deadbolt home with unnecessary force. 

Fuck.

~*~

Colonel Waller doesn’t look up at you when you enter his office, his greeting just a single word.

“Wyoming.”

You frown. You’ve never been west of Ohio.

“We lost an asset in Utah. Fireflies.”

“Shit.”

“Yeah. ‘Shit’ is about the shape of it,” he sighs, finally looking up from his paperwork. “We had someone in KC but they’ve gone radio silent. We assume the worst.”

“So…I take it the target’s in Wyoming?”

He nods. “We suspect several Fireflies are holed up in a town called Jackson. It’s big,” he continues, sliding you a sheaf of folded maps across the desk. “Our scouts…haven’t made out so well.”

“How many came back?”

He looks at you blankly.

None.

“We need to know how many warm bodies, how much firepower, do they have patrols and when, are they collaborating with anyone else in the area. We need–”

“I got it,” you say, pocketing the map, an aching exhaustion deep in your gut. “When?”

“There’s a supply run headed west tomorrow. You’ll camp with them until KC, then make your way in on foot. We expect radio contact every six weeks; if we don’t hear anything by then–”

“You’ll assume I’m dead,” you finish.

He interlocks his fingers. “Any questions?”

You shake your head.

He nods and goes back to his work. “Dismissed.”

[fundieshaderoom]

Fundie and Adjacent Families I Follow: February 2024 in a Glance

Births:

Gabby Barrett and Cade Foehner welcomed Ivy Josephine on Feb 17. She joins an older sister and brother.

Elli (Perez) and Andy Cieslak welcomed Daniel Carson on Feb 17. This is their first child.

Hannah (Wissmann) and Jeremiah Duggar welcomed Brielle Grace. She joins an older sister.

Josie (Bates) and Kelton Balka welcomed Miles Kelton on Feb 21. He joins 2 older sisters.

Emily (Haight) and Justus Stangl welcomed Brooks Michael on Feb 27.

Pregnancies:

Karissa and Mandrae Collins are expecting their 11th child in August. This child will join 3 older brothers and 7 older sisters.

Sutton and Nate Eisenmann are expecting their 4th child. This child will join 3 older brothers.

Artemesia and Isaac Anderson are expecting their 1st child. It's a boy!

Priscilla (Keller) and David Waller are expecting their 7th child. This child will join 3 older brothers and 3 older sisters.

Weddings:

Myla and Ethan Seewald wed on February 24.

Gender Reveals:

Nurie (Rodrigues) and Nathan Keller announced that they are expecting a little girl. She will join 2 older brothers.

Relationships:

Danielle Seewald hard launched her relationship with Lawson Howard.

Marriage Break Ups:

Grace Stewart went back to her maiden name and deleted all IG pictures of Ethan Stewart. She also unfollowed him. This comes after their miscarriage in 2023.

Losses:

Lydia (Romeike) and Trace Bates suffered the loss of their second pregnancy due in September 2024.

[denimbex1986]

'...23. Sherlock – Series 2, “The Reichenbach Fall” (2012)

The triumphant conclusion (which, as it turned out, wasn’t really a conclusion) to Steven Moffat’s initial Sherlock run was a tour de force in TV suspense, pitting Benedict Cumberbatch’s eponymous super-detective against his greatest frenemy, genius villain Moriarty (Andrew Scott). All anyone could talk about for the next two years — until the third season finally arrived in 2014 — was that devilish cliffhanger when, right at the end of “The Reichenbach Fall”, Sherlock and Moriarty meet for the final time atop St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Moriarty offers his nemesis-slash-wannabe-boyfriend a choice: dive from the roof to his death, or allow his closest friends and loved ones – among them, Una Stubbs’ Mrs Hudson, Rupert Graves’ Lestrade and Martin Freeman’s Dr Watson — to be murdered instead. He then pulled his cruellest trick of all, putting a bullet into the roof of his mouth, forcing Sherlock’s hand. The result, Sherlock apparently falling to his death, fuelled rampant fan speculation for months. Until he turned up spick and span in the next season, that is...

20. Broadchurch – Series 1, “Episode 8” (2013)

Murder mysteries are a game of cat and mouse for both the characters on screen and the audience at home, as both try to beat each other to nail down the killer. Bad ones make it too easy, good ones pull the wool over our eyes and great ones change the rules entirely. After seven hours of Broadchurch hunting down the possible killer of 11-year-old Danny Latimer, we knew we’d leave hour eight with an answer, expecting a final-minute reveal born from some intense action sequence that would mask the tragedy in adrenaline.

Instead, halfway through the episode, the killer, Joe, our lead detective Ellie Miller’s (Olivia Colman) husband, gives himself up, sick of being consumed by guilt and shame. It knocked the classic whodunnit structure on its head, changing the focus from the murderer to the fallout of his crimes. There’s Danny’s parents’ grief, which is finally felt in all its horrendous weight now that there are no longer question marks over the case, the town’s reckoning with the aftershock of such a harrowing crime, and Ellie’s life imploding before her eyes. Even though many viewers had worked out that Joe was the murderer, the real shock came from the horror of what it meant to be right...

16. Fleabag – Series 2, “Episode 4” (2019)

Throughout its two seasons, Fleabag became a beacon of rare relatability. It was a show about a woman actively not trying her best, self-sabotaging to bury emotion and hoping that none of it ever found its way to the surface. In its fourth episode of season two, it finally did. The episode is a bait and switch of sorts, as Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s titular Fleabag takes rejection from her hot priest crush (Andrew Scott) as a challenge, aiming to get him to relent on his spiritual allegiances and give into some good, old-fashioned carnal sin. For so long, it seems as if it’s not working, despite the pair dancing around the kind of sexual tension that feels like lightning in a bottle. But then she finds herself alone with him in the church late at night. He has had a few drinks. What starts as Fleabag in control ends with her walls breaking, the vulnerability she feels with the first person she’s connected with since the death of her best friend Boo corroding the armour that’s kept her feelings of guilt and shame and sadness locked away. He commands her to “kneel” and, well… you know the rest...

11. Fleabag – Series 2, “Episode 6” (2019)

Bringing back Fleabag didn’t seem like a good idea. Its beautifully constructed first season felt like the classic case of a one-and-done, particularly because of its gut-punch ending (the reveal that Fleabag had slept with her best friend Boo’s boyfriend shortly before she had died by suicide). And we’ve seen worse shows tarnish their legacies with ill-thought-out second runs. But, as evidenced by its dominance on this list, Fleabag series two went on to eclipse that first outing by every metric. This finale is a devastating conclusion to Waller-Bridge’s tragic romcom, with Andrew Scott’s sexy priest ultimately choosing God over love. Before that, we get to enjoy her father’s wedding to her ridiculous stepmother (Olivia Colman), her sister Claire (Sian Clifford) finding love with her Finnish namesake and a deeply moving and funny sermon from the hot priest (“Love is awful. It’s awful”). And, boy, that ending. The grim, bus-stop bench, the CGI fox, the priest’s devastating reply to her “I fucking love you”: “It’ll pass.” I defy you to see a fox at night on the streets of London and not think of it. But somewhere in here there’s a glimmer of hope, a sense that we’re leaving Fleabag better off than we found her...

9. Doctor Who – Series 3, “Blink” (2007)

Every episode of Doctor Who leans on existential wonder, conjuring concepts of the far reaches of time and space as the Time Lord navigates existence. “Blink” is a fascinating non-linear episode that introduces arguably the most terrifying monster yet – The Weeping Angels, lightning-fast creatures that can send someone through time with a single touch.

The perspective is switched from the usual Doctor and companion to place you in the shoes of Sally Sparrow, a normal girl roped into the world of the Doctor. She is tasked with deciphering the Doctor’s cryptic messages as he warns of the Weeping Angels. However, they turn into stone statues if they are laid eyes upon by a living creature – hence the iconic phrase “Don’t Blink”.

This anxiety-inducing episode prompts you to think at every moment what would I do? Every little action could prove to have deadly and unchangeable consequences. The prospect of being whisked away into another time is an unbearable thought. It is one of the best episodes of the show as it exemplifies everything wonderful about Doctor Who; evoking horror, mystifying time and space, as well as drawing upon emotion as the results of these life-changing stakes steadily come to fruition...

3. Fleabag – Series 2, “Episode 1” (2019)

“This is a love story,” says Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) from the floor of a restaurant bathroom, dabbing at her bloody nose. So begins the opening episode of Fleabag’s triumphant second season, which turns a family dinner into a tense negotiation, punctuated with cigarette breaks for gasps of air and set to the operatic thrum of classical music.

Arguably the great achievement of the episode is managing a seamless recap of the previous season, reintroducing all of the faultlines within the family while adding a new face to the table in the Priest (Andrew Scott). The tension ratchets up as an annoying waitress hovers in the wings, Fleabag resists the temptation to bite over and over again, and her sister Claire (Sian Clifford) looks as though a vein in her temple might blow like a pipeline from the effort of holding her emotions in. Andrew Scott’s performance throughout the season is astonishing, but the charm he brings to his introduction is irresistible. Among a table of family members who don’t get her, here, finally, is an equal to tempt Fleabag into opening her heart fully. You can see it in her face as she shrugs him off during one of those cigarette breaks, and he says, in that sing-song voice: “Well, fuck you then.”...'

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Batman: Assault on Arkham

Rating: PG-13

Director: Jay Oliva, Ethan Spaulding

Cast: Kevin Conroy, Neal McDonough, Hynden Walch, Troy Baker, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jennifer Hale, Greg Ellis, John DiMaggio, C.C.H. Pounder, Chris Cox, Giancarlo Esposito, Martin Jarvis, Nolan North, Eric Bauza, Peter Jessop, Christian Lanz

Release year: 2014

Genres: crime, thriller, action

Blurb: Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.

[sporadiceagleheart]

Eybymia “Effie” Babanatsou,5-year-old, Rose Pizem, 4-year-old, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, 8-year-old, Louis XVII, 10-year-old, Lois Janes, 7-year-old, Gracie Perry Watson, 6-year-old, Ava Jordan Wood, 14-year-old, Heather Michele O'Rourke, 12-year-old, Judith Barsi, 10-year-old, Ema “Emica” Kobiljski, 13-year-old, Ava Martin White, 12-year-old, Ava Johnson White, 60-year-old, Riley Faith Steep, 7-year-old, Destiny Riekeberg, 9-year-old, Makenna Lee Elrod and Eliahna Torres, 10-year-old, Ava Ellis White, 92-year-old, Nova Henry, 24-years-old, Ava Safiyah Henry-Curry, 10-months-old, Ava Carroll Overton Waller, 87-years-old, Ava Wright Hadley, 67-years-old, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Wilson, 86-years-old, Caroline Astor, 78-years-old, Emily Astor Van Alen, 26-27-years-old, Charlotte Augusta Astor Drayton, 62-years-old, Mrs Caroline Astor Drayton Phillips, 84-years-old, Helen Rebecca Roosevelt Robinson, 80-years-old, China Machado, 87-years-old, Elizabeth Grace “Bessie” Gahan Myers, 75-years-old, Dorothy Julia “Dodie” Pennebaker Brando, 57-years-old, Jocelyn Brando, 86-years-old, Frances Elizabeth “Frannie” Brando Loving, 71-years-old, Lois Ayers Coggins, 90-years-old, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 85-years-old, Irmgard Christine Winter, 3-years-old, Anna D. Crnkovic, 7-year-old, Destiny Anne Norton, 5-year-old, Michelle B. Norris, 7-year-old, Heather Angel Alexandre, 8-year-old, Serenity Gail Elmore, 6-month-old, Heather Lynn Aspin-Thomas, 10-year-old, Shirley Temple, 85-years-old, Dorothy DeBorba, 85-years-old, Mary Ann Jackson, 80-years-old, Jean Darling, 93-years-old, June Marlowe, 80-years-old, Darla Jean Hood, 47-years-old, Mary Kornman, 57-years-old, Catherine Violet Hubbard, 6-year-old, JonBenèt Ramsey, 6-year-old, Skylar Annette Neese, 16-years-old, Tristyn Bailey, 13-year-old, Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, 10-year-old,

[phoenixlionme]

DC Comics Black Superheroes with Pictures (Part 2)

Here is Part 1.

NOTE: I know I have already done this type of list in the past. I have decided to do one again but with pics of each hero. If I am missing anyone, please add them with a pic but be respectful.

1. Virgil Hawkins aka Static

2. Jakeem Thunder

3. Anansi - Static ally from the animated TV series; West African hero

4. John Stewart aka Green Lantern

5. Keli Quintela aka Teen Lantern - biracial; Afro-Indigenous Bolivian

6. Naomi McDuffie aka Naomi

7. Bolt aka Atlinta - last name unknown; possibly biracial, I believe half white

8. Jenni Ognats aka XS - biracial; half white

9. Danica Willams aka Flash

10. Wallace West aka Kid Flash

11. Duke Thomas aka The Signal

12. Catwoman aka Selina Kyle - biracial; Afro-Cuban

13. Val Zod aka Superman

14. Calvin Ellis aka Superman

15. Batwing aka Luke Fox

16. Tiffany Fox aka Batgirl

17. Maya Ducard aka Nobody - biracial; Afro-Latina

18. Amanda Waller

19. Karen Beecher aka Bumblebee

20. Augustus Freeman aka Icon

21. Raquel Ervin aka Rocket

22. Victor Stone aka Cyborg

23. Ronan Kent aka Superman

24. Rowan Kent aka Blue Lantern

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 3.3

Beer Birthdays

Jay R. Brooks (1959)

James Ottolini (1969)

Jeff Cioletti (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Julie Bowen; actor (1970)

James Doohan; actor (1920)

Jean Harlow; actor (1911)

Miranda Richardson; actor (1958)

Ronald Searle; illustrator (1920)

Famous Birthdays

Diana Barrymore; actress (1921)

Alexander Graham Bell; inventor (1847)

Edna Best; British stage and film actress (1900)

Jessica Biel; actor (1982)

William James Blacklock; English-Scottish painter (1816)

Margaret Bonds; pianist and composer (1913)

Larry Burkett; author and radio host (1939)

Cyril Burt; English psychologist and geneticist (1883)

Georg Cantor; Russian-German mathematician and philosopher (1845)

Emile-Auguste Chartier; French writer and philosopher (1868)

Paul Clayton; folk singer (1931)

Brian Cox; English keyboard player and physicist (1968)

Ruby Dandridge; African-American film and radio actress (1902)

Gustave de Molinari; Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (1819)

Bonnie J. Dunbar; engineer and astronaut (1949)

Perry Ellis; fashion designer (1940)

David Faustino; actor (1974)

Tyler Florence; chef and author (1971)

Ragnar Frisch; Norwegian economist (1895)

Ira Glass; radio host (1959)

William Godwin; English writer (1756)

Laura Harring; Mexican-American model and actress (1964)

Robyn Hitchcock; pop singer (1953)

Thom Hoffman; Dutch actor and photographer (1957)

Asger Jorn; Danish painter and sculptor (1914)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee; track athlete (1962)

Tim Kazurinsky; actor, comedian (1950)

Ronan Keating; Irish singer-songwriter and actor (1977)

Arthur Kornberg; biochemist (1918)

Artur Lundkvist; Swedish poet (1906)

James Merrill; poet and playwright (1926)

George Miller; Australian film director (1945)

Sameera Moussa; Egyptian physicist (1917)

John Murray; Canadian scientist (1841)

Thomas Otway; English writer (1652)

Mike Pender; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1941)

Charles Ponzi; Italian criminal, "Ponzi scheme" (1882)

George Pullman; train car inventor (1831)

Anri Sakaguchi; Japanese actress (1991)

Clifton Snider; author and poet (1947)

Harold J. Stone; actor (1913)

Tone-Loc; rapper (1966)

Buddy Valastro; chef and tv host (1977)

Herschel Walker; football RB (1962)

Edmund Waller; English poet, writer (1606)

Michael Walzer; philosopher (1935)

Jennifer Warnes; singer-songwriter (1947)

Doc Watson; bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician (1923)

Snowy White; English guitarist (1948)

Darnell Williams; English-American actor (1955)

Hattie Winston; actress (1945)

Beatrice Wood; illustrator and potter (1893)

Victoria Zdrok; model (1973)

Ona Zee; porn actor (1954)

[shinkai14]

Pokémon AU family List

(will give more info if needed)

Red Miyagawa and Blue Oak (Married)

Akane, Willow, Ichiro, Kaede & Samuel "Sammy" Miyagawa-Oak

Ash Ketchum and Misty (Married)

 Kyla, Caspian & Marilla Ketchum

Brock Harrison and Lucy (Separated)

Thomas, Wade" and Terra" Harrison

Brock and Rebecca (Fling)

Amethyst "Amy" Harrison

Brock and Liliana (Married)

Maria'’’, Sophia’’’ & Macy’’’ Harrison

Leaf Greene and Kris (Married)

Jade", Ivy" & Lin Greene

Trace Herrings and Chase (Married)

Kyrie, Allen & Angelina Herring

Janine Hayashi and Elaine (Married)

Haru, Kenji, Makoto" & Haruna" Hayashi

Goh Yamashita and Horace (Married)

Fumiko, Azumi, Daichi", Jiro" and Hiro Yamashita

Chloe Cerise (Single)

Lucy Cerise

Gary Oak and Domino (Fling)

Juniper Oak

Gary Oak and Zinnia (Not together anymore)

Ivy Oak

Gary Oak and Edric Ross (Married)

Samantha, Darron and Kathrine Oak

Ritchie Berry and Damian (Not together anymore)

Lexie Berry

Ritchie Berry and Derick (Married)

Alex and Daniel

Lt. Adam Surge and Violet

Nixie, Gale and Bolt Surge

Erika Kayano and Darcy (Divorced)

Fiona Kayano

Sabrina And Will Tanaka (Married)

Emiko Tanaka

Lorelei Landa And Winona (Married)

Breena, Maya, Zephyr, Neil & Claire Landa

Bruno Grayson (Single)

Casey and Mason Grayson

James De Rossi and Jessie (Married)

Jamie, Julia, Jackie and Jasper De Rossi

Butch and Daisy Oak (Married)

Rosie and Paisley Oak

Tracey Sketchit and Daisy (Married)

Heather, Holly and Wyatt Sketchit

Ethan Asahi and Sliver (Married)

Scarlett, Riku, Sumire, Haruki, Ryuki, Sierra, Ember, Talia and Gale Asahi

Elio Sunna and Lyra (Married)

Lyre, Leilani, Oliver & Kai Sunna

Lance Blackthorn and Hanako (Married, Hanako is dead)

Luna Blackthorn

Morty Ellis and Falkner (Married)

Raven, Robin and Elliot Ellis

Bugsy Withers and Whitney (Married)

Beckett Withers

Jasmine Tachibana and Solidad (Married)

Rosianna and Ross Kernel

Clair Blackthorn (Single)

Ryu Blackthorn

Karen Lee (Single)

Connie Lee

Cyrus Caddel and Saturn (Not together anymore)

Portia Caddel

Archer Lawrence and Saturn (Married)

Aries, Polaris and Rhea Lawrence

Archer Lawrence and Proton Richter (Not together anymore)

Artemis Richter

Proton Richter and Domino (Not together anymore)

Juno Richter

Professor Elm and his wife (Married)

Cedar Elm

Eusine Smith (Single)

Serenity Smith

Khoury Matthews and Casey (Divorced)

Alice Matthews

Liza Rose and Zinnia (Separated)

Maeve Rose

Brad van darn and Fantina Albret (Married)

Elizabeth Albret

Pierce Elrod and Wendy (Affair)

Freya Elrod

Attila Sharp and Hun (Married)

Demeter, Calypso and Helios Sharp

Brendan Birch and May (Married)

Madison and Henry Birch

Max and Tory Lund (Married)

Alice and Aiden Lund

Wally Harrell and Lisia (Married)

Hayden and Maybelle Harrell

Drew Campbell and Brianna (Married)

Autumn and Summer Campbell

Harley Gray and Nando (Separated)

Marianna Gray

Harley Gray and Juan Richelieu (One night stand)

Francis and Mary Richelieu

Paris Mercia And Solidad (Divorced)

Dena and Jackson Mercia

Wallace and Steven Stone (Married)

Elaine and Petra Stone

Brawly Rush and Roxanne (Married)

Mia and Alexander Rush

Sidney Parker and Flannery (Married)

Flare Parker

Korrina Derand and Phoebe (Married)

Jenna, Gracie & Erwin Derand

Looker Spade and Anabel (Married)

Layla, Helena and Edward Spade

Nando and Tucker Conners (Affair)

Grace Conners

Maxie Embers and Archie (Together)

Kyna, Hector and Darren Embers

Glacia And Ervin Sawyer (Divorced)

Elsa Sawyer

Shelly Waller and Courtney (Married)

Mira Waller

Dana Desmond and Zinnia (One night stand)

Lydia Desmond

Barry Tsumura and Lucas (Married)

Tsutsuji and Hiroko Tsumura

Dawn Berlitz and Zoey

Aurora, Weiss, Gwendolyn and Ronan Berlitz

Paul Norwood and Ursula Lovett (Divorced)

Meaghan and Sasha Norwood

Paul Norwood and Miette (Married)

Anthony and Briar Norwood

Cynthia Reiss and Diantha (Married)

Genevieve and Mariane Reiss

Roark Blair and Riley (Married)

Thea, Rhea, Noah and Lapis Blair

Gardenia Fujimura and Cheryl (Married)

Ayaka Fujimura

Maylene Olsen and Candice (Married)

Noelle & Hayley Olsen

Flint Russel and Volkner (Married)

Dustin and Sophia Russel

Lucian Garnier and Aaron (Married)

Rachael Garnier

Thorton Rhodes and Marley (Married)

Lelia and Luis Rhodes

Hunter J and Mars Seymour (Together, Hunter J is dead)

Pluto Seymour

Buck Russel and Mira (Married)

Blake Russel

Reggie Norwood and Zero (Not together anymore)

Dina Norwood

Reggie Norwood and Lena (Married)

Ezra and Stella Norwood

Kenny Hudson and Leona (Married)

Carmen Hudson

Sho Jonas and Autumn (Married)

Weiss, Lily and Mint Jonas

Tonio Hvam and Alice

Anisa and Dale Hvam

Baron Alberto and Queen Ilene (Fling)

Amaris De Rota

Baron Alberto and Lilith (Married)

Mercia. Jewel and Josephine De Alamos

Grimsley Millard and Zero (Not together anymore)

Crispian and Demi Millard

Lysandre Allard and Zero (TBD)

Vesper & Zeke Allard

Zero and Baraz Laurier (One night stand)

Arleth Laurier

Kevin Mythos and Sheena (Married)

Kyra and Roland Mythos

Sorrel Hart and Verity (Married)

Luna Hart

Verity and Cross West (Separated)

Austin West

Hilbert and Natural Harmonia Gropius (Married)

Aria, Mercy and Euphemia Harmonia (Euphemia is adopted)

Chili Gardener and Hilda (Married)

Cassandra Gardener

Chili Gardener and Burgundy (Divorced)

Millicent “Millie” Gardener

Cilan Gardener and Clemont Alarie (Married)

Adrien and Audrey Gardener

Cilan Gardener and Alain Sycamore (Married)

Cecilia Gardener

Clemont Alarie and Alain Sycamore (Married)

Ciel Alarie

Cress Gardener and Calem Xavier (Married)

Lyne and Nathan Xavier-Gardener

Lenora Abrams and Hawes (Married)

Verdona and Vincent Abrams

Serena Castillon and Shauna (Married)

Elodie Castillon

Lysandre Allard and Malva Aubert (Not together anymore)

Alexis and Bastion Aubert

Wikstrom and Siebold Blanchet (Separated)

Lucienne Blanchet

Lysandre Allard and Bellatrix (Divorced)

Cédric Allard

Lysandre Allard and Alain Sycamore (Not together)

Irene Sycamore

Lysandre Allard and Baraz Laurier (Not together)

Ausra Laurier

Lysandre Allard and Professor Augustine Sycamore (Not together anymore)

Sylvie Sycamore

Ghetsis Harmonia Gropius x Colress Keene (Not together anymore)

Euphemia Harmonia (Adopted by Hilbert and N)

Butch Cathcart x Cassidy

Mitch and Mera Cathcart

Todd Snap x Julie (Married)

James, Jamie & Madison Snap

Lysandre Allard x Concordia Harmonia

Moira Harmonia

Hugh Maes x Nate 

Violet & Blake Maes

Rosa Weiss x Roxie 

Patricia “ Patty “, Eliza’’ & Edric’’ Weiss

Iris x Benga Eales

Iona & Rex Eales 

Cheren Griffith x Bianca

April, Cornelia, Corwin, Darrell & Luna Griffith

Rudy Gate x Trip

 Davena & Bruno Gate 

Stephan Tayler x Heidi

Max, Sophie & Kelly Tayler

Georgia Morgan

Gregory Morgan 

Elesa Melbourne x Skyla

Skyler, Taran, Audra & Vetra

Brycen x Burgh Kersey

Lorraine, Colleen, Terrence, Travis Kersey

Marlon Raine x Kelly

Ariel and Clyde Raine 

Caitlin Everett x Shauntal

Emaline’’, Emilio’’, Farrell & Atlas Everett

Newton Graceland 

Lawton and Martha Graceland

Lysandre Allard x Celosia ( TBD)

Sarah Allard

Rei Eto x Yui (Married)

Akiko Eto

Akari Berlitz x Junko (Married)

Yuri and Yumi Berlitz

Volo Reiss

Verna Reiss

Adaman Hishikawa x Hayami (Married)

Akemi, Haru and Honoka Hishikawa

Mai Okumura x Jiro (Married)

Fujitsu and Kenzo Okumura

Arezu Akamine x Kimiko (Married)

Ezume Akamine

Iscan x Palina Magnolia (Married)

Rosianna Magnolia

Irida x Fredrick Castillon (Married)

Akane Castillon

Professor Laventon x his wife (Married)

Maria Laventon

Cyllene Caddel x Daichi (Married, Daichi is dead)

Cora Caddel

Melli x Ingo Collett

Tokiko’’, Tomiko’’, Kenji’’, Kentaro’’ & Etsuko Collett

Tucker x Avery Hackney

Arthur Hackney

Shielbert x Avery Hackney

Cordelia Hackney

Giovanni Forte x Rena 

Giana Forte

Lily Lynde x Hannah 

Tulip & Roland Lynde

Lara Laramie

Michael Laramie

Regina Mills x Jeremy

Garrett, Kaylie & James Mills

Valerie Bristol x Evelyn Desmond

Daphnis, Alette, Elros & Aine Bristol

Florian Villatoro x Kieran

Valeria Villatoro

Luna Blackthorn x Yellow

Tea Blackthorn

Aria Daviau

Daphné Daviau

Professor Samuel Oak x Elisa

Willow Oak

Celio x Lanette Bailey Lindsey, Booker & Ashton Bailey

Forrest Harrison x Maizie Oscar & Carl Harrison

Quillon Mittelman x Petrel Amber Mittelman

Quillon Mittelman x Danika Allegra & Marcus Mittelman

Morgan Desmond x Bridgette Bailey Marsha Desmond

Sordward x Sonia Emily, Mary, Lawrence, Annabelle and Garrett Magnolia

Lizabeth Blair x Christie

Marina & Danny Blair

(Will update more later)

[sixhours]

Chapter 21 - The Ghosts of Babylon

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Rating: Explicit, 18+, here be smut and violence Series tags: Joel Miller x You, Joel Miller x Reader, Joel & Ellie, mostly follows canon, LGBTQ+ characters, y/n is bi/pan, y/n is ~45, violence, pregnancy, abortion, medical trauma, emotional trauma, panic attacks, sex work, suicide, smut, slow burn, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, romance, no use of y/n, reader has longish hair, Joel can lift you, smallish age gap (~11 years), I've probably forgotten some so please let me know <3

~*~

You’re startled out of a drifting sleep by the loud thud of an explosion. The faint commotion outside, voices yelling. You wait for the sounds of gunfire.

There’s another explosion, closer this time. You feel it in your stomach, raining dust and debris down from the rotting cell ceiling.

You wince, heart thudding in your chest as you slide off your mattress and attempt to stand. Your muscles are weak from lack of food, and every inch of your body screams at you for the effort, but you’re intent on getting to the door.

More shouting, further away, then–

Two rapid-fire gunshots down the hall.

You hate your treacherous survivor’s heart, the way it panics, looks for a way out, a way to hide, to fight.

A FEDRA soldier in riot gear creeps to your cell and peers in. You gasp when he trains a rifle on you, sinking into the corner of your cot. You close your eyes, waiting for the crack of the gunshot.

It doesn’t come.

Instead, he paws at his belt, pulling out a keychain. He fumbles the first key into the lock but it doesn’t turn.

“W-what are you doing?” you stammer, pressing your back into the corner as if you could merge with the wall.

He doesn’t answer. The next key doesn’t fit.

“Please…”

He looks over his shoulder and mutters under his breath as he pulls the third key. “C’mon, c’mon.”

You blink slowly, wondering if you’ve misheard. 

That voice.

The key twists and the bars swing open. Joel pulls the tactical helmet off his head, glaring at you from beneath a mop of sweaty curls.

“Let’s go.”

“How did you–”

“We don’t have time,” he snaps. “Get up, let’s go.”

“My ankle is broken. I can’t walk–”

He huffs a soft “fuck” under his breath, strides toward you, and picks you up roughly, one arm under your legs, the other at your back. The sudden movement shoots a fire through your ankle as the bones grind together and you bite your lip hard enough to draw blood.

He carries you back down the hall. You see two bodies, your guards, slumped in a corner.

“How did you–”

“Not now,” he growls. The exit is ahead. You can feel Joel’s heart beating at his throat, against your cheek, wild and scared.

Outside your cell, you see that the place you thought was a compound is hardly a compound at all. There are no barbed wire fences and no visible guard posts. Just an old, run-down street with a couple of FEDRA tanks on either end.

 “Stop or I’ll shoot,” a voice yells from behind you.

Joel freezes and slowly turns. You feel the muscles in his jaw twitch. A lone soldier is pointing a gun at you. He can’t hold you and fire his weapon at the same time. 

“I have orders to take her,” he says evenly.

The woman cocks her head. “Orders from who?”

“Colonel Waller,” you whisper in his ear. He repeats this verbatim.

The woman huffs but lowers the gun, reaching for the com at her shoulder.

“Hold on,” he whispers roughly, and you find yourself falling, sagging against him as he lets you go. You put your good foot down to try to catch the brunt of your weight as he draws the rifle up and fires point-blank into the woman’s chest.

Without pausing, you’re scooped up again, and now he runs, ducking into torn alleys and down side streets.

Somewhere behind you, another bomb explodes.

~*~

Joel’s steps fall heavier as you get further from the outpost. He finds a house on the outskirts of town with a basement entrance at the back and a forest beyond. Busting off the rusty padlock with the butt of his rifle, he opens the door and carries you down the stairs into a damp cellar, setting you down roughly on the packed dirt floor.

“Where are we?”

He doesn’t answer.

“Joel–”

“South of Salt Lake City,” he grunts.

“How did you find me?”

He scowls, ignoring this, looking around for something to secure the cellar door. Finally, he breaks off a length of PVC pipe from the house’s underside and shoves it between the door handles, rattling it a few times to ensure it will hold.

Then he sinks to the dirt floor, exhausted. 

“Joel, how did–”

His eyes snap to yours, furious. “If it were up to me, I’d have left you back in that cell.”

“Then why didn’t you?” you ask, adrenaline giving way to despair.

He grits his teeth but doesn’t answer, ducking his head. “We’re gonna lie low until night. Should be able to sneak outta town. They’ll be busy for a while.”

“Do you think they’ll track us?”

“You tell me,” he shoots back. “They’re your people, not mine.”

“They’re not my…I…I…they were going to either kill me or leave me for dead.”

“Then prob’ly not.”

Suddenly you remember the colonel, what he told you.

“Joel–Jackson–FEDRA’s going to–”

“I know.”

You blink. “How?”

“We saw FEDRA encampments on the outskirts of our patrol routes. They’re the reason the hordes are moving. They’re driving ‘em like cattle.”

“They…they told me Jackson was already gone.”

“Not yet,” Joel sighs, rubbing a palm over his face. He tips his head back, eyes closed. “The council’s working on something. There’s a plan.”

“Then…why are you here?”

There’s a long pause; you can almost feel the anger radiating off him, blurring the air around him like a heat mirage.

“Askin’ myself the same thing,” he says softly. His head dips to the side as he hands you the gun. “Take the rifle. Wake me when it’s dark. I gotta sleep.”

You curl into your jacket, trying to ignore the throb in your leg from all the jostling. Joel’s eyes remain closed and after a few minutes, you think you can hear him snore. 

~*~

You watch the light fade through the cracks in the cellar door, listening for the sound of footsteps, but they don’t come. When the crawl space is almost pitch black, you wake Joel. He comes out of sleep easily, ready to move.

But first, your ankle.

Joel pulls a clean shirt out of his pack and begins tearing it into strips. You hiss when he picks up your foot, but he doesn’t apologize. 

“This is gonna hurt,” he says flatly.

It does. The pressure of the wrap feels awful, then almost comforting as the bones are secured into place, unable to move around beneath the skin.

“I’m not carryin’ you,” he says, eyeing the underside of the house again. He yanks hard on another length of pipe, this one much longer and made of copper. Eventually, it pulls free, and he uses one foot to hold down the short end, slowly pulling on the long end to bend it into an L shape. 

He hands the makeshift crutch to you and helps you up. “Think that’ll hold?”

You tuck the small L piece under your shoulder on the bad leg, letting it take half your weight. You practice a couple of tentative steps, but the crawl space is too short; you can’t stand up fully. “I think so.”

“We can follow the mountain ‘til we get to Salt Lake City. Then we’ll need to go around. Should have enough cover in the woods to avoid attracting attention.”

You manage to make it up the stairs and outside using the crutch. You find a rhythm–good foot down, crutch out, pull forward–but it’s painfully slow, and nothing can make the constant movement of your bad leg painless.

Joel blazes the path ahead of you and you struggle to keep up. You walk like this for what feels like hours, tripping over roots and ditches, scratched by scruffy pines and branches. When you fall for the second time, you can’t find the strength to pick yourself back up.

“I just need to rest for a minute,” you whisper, barely able to catch your breath. Your arm has gone numb from the pressure of the crutch and you’re so fucking weak you’re shaking.

He kneels beside you and wordlessly hands you a canteen and a piece of jerky. You realize you haven’t eaten since…well, you can’t remember. The jerky is like salted cardboard, but it stokes a gnawing in your stomach you haven’t felt in days.

You manage to get off the ground with Joel’s help, but you only make it a few yards before you’re stumbling over yourself, falling, struggling to stand.

“I’m trying,” you groan, fighting off tears. You wish he had left you in the cell.

“Then fuckin’ try harder,” he says blandly.

Anger rips through you and gives strength to ask the question to which you’re not sure you want the answer. “Why? Why are you here, Joel? I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want a…a fucking rescue.”

He shoots you a look black as death, and a voice in the back of your head pleads with you to shut the fuck up, but you can’t stop the words now, they’re coming out all on their own.

“After everything I did, after what I did to–to you …why would you come all this way? What the fuck were you thinking?”

“You were gonna fuckin’ die–”

“Yeah, and so what?” you spit. “You should have let me.”

“I made a promise,” he snarls.

“What? To who?”

“She…she said she’d never forgive me if you–if I didn’t–” he swallows hard, can’t finish the thought.

You stare at him for a long time.

“So you’re gonna get up, and you’re gonna walk, because I need to get back to her.”

He’s rougher than he needs to be, but he gets you on your feet, and you keep going.