#John wick pinball

[pirateprincessjess]

Stern pinball just announced a John Wick Pinball Machine

How we feeling pinball people? I’m personally pretty excited about the theme and can’t wait to see gameplay. John Wick is a very Kinetic franchise and feels like a perfect fit for pinball

[underlander]

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SDCC 2024: Lionsgate and Stern Pinball Showcase John Wick Pinball Games and More

SDCC 2024: Lionsgate and Stern Pinball Showcase John Wick Pinball Games and More #SDCC #SDCC2024 #ComicCon

In collaboration with Lionsgate, Stern Pinball, Inc. is bringing John Wick to San Diego Comic-Con where fans may play the new pinball game, check out exclusive merchandise, and view movie props used in connection with the actual filming of John Wick! In Stern’s John Wick pinball games, players step into the role of the world’s greatest assassin as he fights to escape his past. As the titular…

[confessionsofanarcadeaddict]

And it's a busy, hot evening here at The Arcade! Despite of balmy temperatures indoors despite the best efforts of our AC, its been a busy evening! There was a big party this afternoon, and a steady stream of customers besides! It's seeming to slow down now, so that's good news for you! $20 gets you over 150 machines representing six decades of arcade goodness!

And even better news, John Wick is here! Well not him in the flesh (though that would be awesome), but the brand new pinball game by Stern! I would include a picture, but people have been playing it nonstop. I can't even get 10 seconds to snap a photo.

I tell you, this week has been ridiculous. First all of the stress from not getting paid for homecare when I should have and bills becoming late, then Tuesday I get knocked on my butt by a vicious stomach flu. I had to call in that day, because, well, I was in bathroom every 25-30 minutes, and the stomach cramps were crippling. The less said about that horrible experience, the better.

At any rate, I made it to Friday when both checks came in, I paid all the bills and got groceries, so yeah, things are looking up again. Just have to keep the momentum going in that direction. As long as I don't have *too* much to do tomorrow, I think my voice has recovered enough to record episode 75. It's a game time decision.

[animusrox]

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[zaftikat]

Puppy pinball update: These bitches played pinball in a pencil skirt and wedges.

(Ref [Img 1] for ID) We went to Belles and Chimes Toronto last night and had an absolute blast! It was so cool to get the chance to have fun playing pinball with other women. The group was so lovely and so friendly, and we felt genuinely rejuvenated by it. It was magic.

Now for the pinball part:

We placed T-7 out of 10, with 18 total points in a 4-2-1-0 scoring system across 9 games. Mathematically, that means we averaged 2nd place in our games, which is rad! Really, what happened was we won 3 games, which was a HUGE thrill. 2 fourths, 2 seconds, and 2 thirds rounded out a very delightful night! We managed to get pics of all of our wins: Attack from Mars (Bally/Williams 1993) 1,323,387,530

(ref [Img 2] for ID) John Wick Pro (Stern 2024) 3,817,760

(ref [Img 3] for ID) Jurassic Park Pro (Stern 2019) 25,495,560

(Ref [Img 4] for ID) I can't wait for next month's tournament!

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[Img 1] The cardigan system pictured from a high angle selfie shot. Her eyes are a greyish colour in the pink and red tinged light, and she's wearing a white floral pattern blouse with taupe flowers on it, and a bright red pencil skirt. Her eyes have lightly winged liner, and mascara adorning them. Her ears have trans pride Lego earrings in them. Visible on her arm is an Aurebesh tattoo that says "make brave and heroic decisions. [Img 2] A photo of the results screen from Attack From Mars. It is a dot matrix display in green. P1 has scored 617,582,660. P2 has scored 1,323,387,530. P3 has scored 1,167,241,860.

[Img 3] A photo of the results screen for John Wick (Pro). It is an LCD showing the scores of 4 players and one of the coins from the film franchise as the background. P1 has scored 1,978,360. P2 has scored 2,013,670. P3 has scored 2,295,390. P4 has scored 3,817,760

[Img 4] A photo of the results screen for Jurassic Park (Pro). It is an LCD showing the scores for three players and an empty dinosaur paddock stylized from the film franchise as the background. P1 has scored 25,002,180. P2 has scored 25,495,560. P3 has scored 12,069,900 (nice).

[themovieblogonline]

A Vicious Circle: Ryan Coogler and Mattson Tomlin's Next Big Thing

What happens when you mix the visionary director of Black Panther with the creative mind behind Terminator Zero? You get A Vicious Circle, a graphic novel that's about to leap off the pages and onto the big screen. Ryan Coogler and Mattson Tomlin are teaming up, and trust me, this is a match made in cinematic heaven. This isn't your average revenge story. "A Vicious Circle" follows two assassins who are like, stuck in a time-travel loop. Every time they take someone out, they get bounced around history like a pinball in a cosmic machine. We're talking 22nd century Tokyo one minute, 1950s New Orleans the next. Basically, it's a hitman's worst nightmare (well, except for maybe getting whacked themselves). Based on a Killer Comic Book And guess what? This wild ride of a movie is actually based on a graphic novel series of the same name, illustrated by the talented Lee Bermejo. Think "Looper" meets "John Wick" with a dash of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" thrown in for good measure. It's a wild mix of action, sci-fi, and probably some existential angst about messing with the past (because, you know, time travel always comes with a price). Now, let's talk about the power couple behind this project. When you hear names like Ryan Coogler and Mattson Tomlin, you know something epic is in the works. Ryan Coogler, the dude who brought us Wakanda and a badass Black Panther, is producing. And Mattson Tomlin, the guy who dreamed up this time-traveling assassin saga and wrote the script for "The Batman II," is adapting his own comic for the big screen. Basically, it's a match made in time-warping heaven Coming Soon (ish) Sure, both Coogler and Tomlin are busy as bees right now (Coogler's got a vampire movie in the works, and Tomlin's got "Terminator Zero" dropping this August), but trust us, this time-traveling assassin showdown is something you won't want to miss. It's got action, suspense, and enough mind-bending twists to make your head spin. So, keep your eyes peeled for updates, because "A Vicious Circle" is about to become your new sci-fi obsession. In the meantime, let us know in the comments on FB: Who would win in a time-traveling assassin showdown? And what historical period would be the coolest to whack someone in? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y6Ka4jQRQ0 Read the full article

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Práctica con el nuevo pinball de John Wick ... https://ujjina.com/practica-con-el-nuevo-pinball-de-john-wick/?feed_id=618657&_unique_id=663b3c5b5ae04

[johnwickb1tsch]

As it turns out, John Wick can drive very fast.

You already knew this, of course. Constantine, however, seems to be regretting his life choices as Wick weaves in and out of traffic, trying to find a hand hold as you are whipped around in the cramped back seat of the vintage Chevelle. He clenches his square jaw and glares daggers as Wick makes a quick left juke, the force of it pushing Constantine into the side of the car furthest from you.

You think it's a coincidence, until you meet John Wick's eyes in the rear-view mirror, and you see a glimmer of amusement. On anyone else, it would be all-out gut-busting laughter. You open your mouth to tell him to play nice, but Tex interrupts you—just like old times.

"3 o'clock," barks the cowboy assassin from the shotgun seat. It's fitting, because he quite literally has a sawed-off shotgun in his lap, something from Constantine's cabinet of goodies with arcane symbols scratched into the barrel. Tex and Constantine fought over this seat like it was worth a million dollars, and only the interruption of the literal Hell’s Angels roaring up on you on motorcycles re-focused their attention.

They’ve been trying to run you down for blocks like wolves on a caribou, and with a whip of Wick's wrist on the steering wheel, now you’re being pursued by one less. It over-corrects and crashes into a concrete barrier. Constantine laughs under his breath at the thing’s demise.

However, there are still three more to contend with.

“The club is just ahead,” directs Constantine. “Good luck finding parking.” 

“Hold on.” 

There's nothing to fucking hold on to in the bare bones back seat—except for Constantine, so that's what you do. He holds your hand with a white knuckled grip that betrays his nerves far more than his expression does

John tricks the motorcycle-riding demons by suddenly slowing down, then gunning the engine, running one over with a sudden burst of speed, then smacking the other two like a pinball flipper with a sudden shift and drift turn.

The car is totally fucked, but so are the hellspawn, so it feels like a win. 

When one of them tries to stagger from the wreckage towards you Tex shoots it from out the window. The sound is deafening—and the ball of fire from the barrel of the gun makes you all jump. 

“What the fuck is that, John?” you demand. 

“Dragon's breath,” he answers you with a little smirk. “Nice work, Hee Haw. You should hunt demons instead of people.”

“What's the pay?”

“Absolute shit with possible stock options in Heaven.”

“No thank you then.”

The four of you pile out of the car and hustle towards the doors of Midnite's. 

“This place is supposed to be neutral ground,” says Constantine, “but it's going to be full of demonic half-breeds, so walk fast and stick close.”

Tex turns to you with an incredulous frown. “Baby, I seriously gotta question your taste. Where did you find this wizard boy?”

Constantine looks at you with a smirk, no doubt thinking about your first animalistic tryst in that alleyway by the bar, and how he’d made you cum on his dick with your back chaffed by the hard bricks behind you, your legs wrapped desperately around his slender waist while he pounded inside your needy little cunt.

It had been glorious.

Just the memory of it floods you with a searing heat from your loins to regrettably, your cheeks.

Constantine loves it when he manages to make you blush, and a wicked gleam sparkles in his jetty dark irises.   

“Shall I tell him, dear?”

You can tell that Tex’s head is about to explode.

“Not while he’s holding a fire-breathing shotgun, honey.”

Constantine has never really used lovey pet names with you before. It’s almost the weirdest thing that’s happened today.

As you push through the doors of the club it’s almost like entering another dimension, the red lights and bass thump of hedonistic music beyond, the steps down down down like a descent into a nether realm. The bouncer holds up his tarot card, the entrance exam, that Constantine passes like a breeze. “Rat in a dress.”

Bouncer turns to Wick and Tex with a new card, who look at Constantine with almost comical consternation. “They’re with me.”

“Still gotta pass.”

A beat later Constantine punches the burly bouncer out, shaking the sting off his hand. “Sorry,” he says to the unconscious man on the ground. To the rest of you, “Shit. Move fast.”

He bursts through the doors to the main club, striding with purpose on those beautiful long legs. You always feel too cool for school, when you’re on a magical side-quest with John. His broad shoulders part the crowd around you all, and when you’re with Constantine, everyone is looking at you. Half-breed angels, demons, and who knows what in between. Their eyes glow eerily in the low crimson light of the club.

Neither Wick nor Tex betray any fear or surprise at descending into this eldritch side of the City of Angels, intimidating towers at your back, glowering at anyone who looks your way.

Maybe it’s stupid, but in this moment you feel pretty fucking invincible.  

It’s definitely stupid, because the creatures on Team Lucifer start to take an acute interest in Tex, their eyes glowing. Even you can feel them pressing closer around you. Constantine is standing at the tufted leather wall, what you know is an illusion hiding a door.

A tall, unfairly hot half-breed saunters into Tex’s personal space, reaching up to touch his cheek with a sultry come-hither smile. Succubus, is your guess, though the possibilities are literally endless. For a moment Tex seems utterly entranced, and it’s all you can do not to roll your eyes. “Sorry, he’s taken,” you say, pulling Tex back with your fingers in his tooled belt to sandwich him between you and Constantine.

Are they going to open the door for you or what? Any time now would be excellent…

Suddenly the half-breed seems a foot taller, looming over you with glowing red eyes. With your heart in your throat you hold up your amulet between you, and though she doesn’t exactly flinch and hiss like you’d hoped, you can tell she doesn’t care for it, her fine features twisting in a sneer like she tasted something nasty.

“Fine,” pouts the demoness. “Change your mind, handsome, you know where to find me.” She punctuates the offer with a flash of razor-sharp teeth before she saunters off with extra swing in her hips.

Tex makes a small sound of pain behind you as he watches her go, and you know he can’t help it. Desire is the Succubus’s power, and she was clearly hunting tonight. It doesn’t stop you from rolling your eyes though, turning to catch John Wick’s gaze. You can tell he’s keeping watch on the room, but he’s also got his eyes on you; that weighty, yearning look that never fails to tie your heart—and your lady parts—up in knots. A wholly inconvenient throb of lust between your legs makes you shift where you stand; suddenly you are soaked, so aware of the solid warmth of Tex at your back, and John towering before you.

Just like old times.

A part of you wants to reach for him, location be damned, an ingrained urge that would be a terrible idea at this time in this place, because if you touch him you’ll have to kiss him and who knows where that will end.

Jesus, was the succubus’s energy affecting you too? Or is it just…them?

There is a heady weight in the air, like something malevolent is about to descend upon you all. With your heart in your throat you clutch at the talisman around your neck, and though you’re not really sure which deity you’re entreating for salvation, you pray.

At last the door swings open, and Constantine finds your elbow, tugging you none too gently with him inside Papa Midnite’s inner sanctum. Naturally, where you go, the boys follow close behind.

“John Constantine,” says Papa Midnite in his melodic baritone. “Been some time. I see you’ve brought friends.”

  “Wouldn’t go that far,” snarks Constantine with a baleful look at the two assassins at your back. “But I need your help.”

“The Great John Constantine needs my help?” mocks Papa. “Must be sometin’ bad.”

You’re not proud of the panic that rises in your throat at the sound of Midnite’s reluctance to help you. You know that pretty much everyone in the supernatural world has been pissed off at Constantine for some reason or another, but you pray this man can rise above his grudge. If not…Tex is fucked, and maybe it’s stupid after everything he did to you, but just the thought leaves a hollow ringing inside your heart.

You dare to peek around from Constantine’s imposing form. “Please, Papa?” you entreat, your eyes wide. You have met once before, and on that occasion the powerful witch doctor seemed to like you, though he didn’t cease to deride what a girl like you could possibly be doing with the likes of John Constantine. “We really need your help.”

Papa Midnite tilts his fedora-topped head to regard you with curiosity. He is wearing one of his delightfully loud shirts with a fur collared jacket. A gold necklace gleams against the dark skin of his throat. “Who needs my help, little girl? You, or him?” He points at Constantine with the jut of his chin.

“I do,” you both answer at the same time. You realize Constantine doesn’t want you to owe the powerful Bokor a favor—but you’re reading the room, and you’re pretty sure if the magic is for Constantine, Midnite is going to tell you all to pound rocks.

Midnite, understanding all of this, sits back in his throne of a chair with a little chuckle, drumming gold-bedecked fingers on the carved wooden arm.

“What is it you need?”

“A curse lifted,” answers Constantine. “And a spell cast.”

Midnite whistles at hearing that, and only then does his attention turn to the assassin at your back. “I can sense the dark mark from here,” says the witch doctor. “Let me see.”

With a grumble Tex pulls at his collar, pearl snap buttons popping to reveal the blackened circular pentacle, its 8 radii tipped with symbols, embedded beneath his skin. At the sight of it Midnite smirks, his eyebrows lifting high.  

“Set thou a wicked one to be ruler over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand,” cites Midnite. “That a powerful curse t’set on someone, Constantine.”

“It was a heat of the moment thing,” grumbles the demon hunter.

“I can tell. Takes some big feeling, to conjure a curse like dis from thin air.”

That’s when Midnite looks at you, and that stupid blush of heat ambushes you again.

Feelings were not something you and John Constantine talked about. Sure, they were there, but you never really gave voice to them. You demonstrated them, physically, and often. Midnite seems bent on embarrassing both of you.

“Yeah, yeah,” grouses Constantine, only daring to glance in your direction. But in that single moment, the raw look on his face makes you feel like you need to sit down. “So can you lift it or not?”

“Course I can,” says Midnite dismissively. “What you bring me in return?”

“’Fraid I’ll have to owe you.”

“Hmm. I’ve heard that one too many times from the likes of you, Constantine. I’ll need somethin’ up front.”

“Do you like gold?” asks John Wick blandly, producing five glittering yellow coins from his pocket, setting them on the table in front of Papa Midnite in a neat stack one by one. The pretty tink tink tink of metal fills the air, and Midnite nods with his lips pursed, paying Wick an approving look. However, as he examines the death’s head emblazoned token, it is you he speaks to.

“How did a nice girl like you get tangled up wit Underworld boys like dis?”

A shuddering sigh escapes you, as a montage of the absolute fire you walked through to get to this moment flashes in your mind. The murder, the kidnapping, the chaos and corruption. The passion, the pleasure, and the quieter moments that made you think you might be content to stay with your Boys forever—until they forced you to go.

“It’s a long story, Papa,” you answer, barely able to raise your voice over a whisper.

“Some other time, you’ll tell me, then. Step into my office.”     

Midnite leads you to his back room, a cavernous space built in the breathtakingly ornate style of the Moorish palaces of Andalusia. At first you don’t know where to look. The arabesque carved walls, the scalloped arches, the honeycomb vaulted ceilings, or the cacophony of antique relics stacked high on all sides. There are statues and busts and boxes and dolls, this and that and bric-a-brac and every category of precious old junk you can imagine, is here. Your eye is drawn to an old wooden chair against the far wall with leather straps that for some reason gives you chills.

The center of the room is empty, the demarked circle where Midnite performs his workings outlined with bones, half-burnt candles, and rusty lines on the tiles that look like blood.  

“Now then,” says Midnite, taking a sip from a bottle of dark rum before offering it to Tex. “Drink up, man. Dis not gonna feel good.”

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When all is said and done, the four of you all feel like pieces of chewed up gum. You are utterly wiped, and it’s all you can do not to fall asleep in the back of the car with your head on Constantine’s shoulder. Fingering your new tattoo, a mystical symbol that binds Tex Johnson and John Wick to your will, you think on what Papa Midnite said to you before your departure.

“Hard to live with a heart divided in three pieces, girl. You playin’ a dangerous game.”

“It’s not a game to me, Midnite. It’s just…my life, somehow.”

“Dat fair. So you know, I told that silly boy of yours to put a ring on your finger ‘fore he lost the chance. Never seen him like dis, wit any other.”

You’d paid him a grim smile, amused at the thought of Constantine asking you to be his wife. What a laughable prospect. Sweet, but there was no way he felt that about you. “Are you telling me not to break your friend’s heart, Midnite?”

He’d snorted and taken a drink of rum. “I know better than that. But you might tink about what he’ll turn into, if tings go badly.”

Truth be told, you didn’t want to think on that, because it terrified you. All you wanted right now, was to curl up in the bed you shared with John Constantine, and sleep for about seven years.

Midnight had given you a herbal potion that had to be administered to Tex every six hours for a week, and a magical salve to apply to the burn upon his chest where the symbol had, at one point, burst into white-hot flame. You’d feared he’d been at death’s door, until he took your hand with a smirk and mumbled half to you, half to himself, “The things I do for my little rattlesnake.” It had squeezed your heart with a fist, utterly wrecked you, and you knew you couldn’t kick him to the curb just yet.

You were headed back to Constantine’s house, (which you had helped him get together the down payment for, with no strings attached, so…) and the four of you would have to figure out how to co-exist, at least until Tex was back on his feet.

Then…who the fuck knew what was going to happen.

You’d think about that, tomorrow.

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😬 Please enjoy this set up for copious angst and smut... 😆 I don't even know who's going next! @treedaddymcpuffpuff @tammykelly @sweetwolfcupcake @lilspookymeh

I left the details of the ritual open aside from the tattoos, if you want to add anything, for, reasons... 😆

Yandere Tex Johnson x Witness!Reader x John Wick Imagine WIP Part 8

After 450 comments on the last section 🤣 its time for a new one. U guyz are gremlins!😆👏👏 @treedaddymcpuffpuff @tammykelly @sweetwolfcupcake @lilspookymeh

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"Come on, we've got to get you somewhere safe," says John Wick, trying to hustle you down the street.

"No," you protest, resisting. "We have to find John and Tex. They might need us."

You were skeptical about demons and the occult, God and the Devil and everything in between, at first. But after hanging out with Constantine, you'd seen a few things. Just enough that you had sense enough to be scared. You clutch the protection amulet around your neck that John had given you. You'd laughed at him at the time, but now you were glad to have it.

"They're both grown men, honey. I told Tex to leave you alone. This is what he gets."

Suddenly you're angry all over again. "Oh, you told him, huh?" You push John's chest--its like having a disagreement with a brick wall. "Do you have any fucking idea how much I've missed you? How it destroyed me to be thrown away like an old shirt you had no more use for?"

He is still as a mountain as he holds your wrists, preventing you from striking him, but not hurting you. Those dark eyes bore into you, through you. How does he not see you? "Y/n...I did what I thought was best for you."

"But you didn't fucking ask me! Or at least, you didn't listen! But you know what, it doesn't matter right now. John had to put some kind of a curse on Tex in self defense, because Tex is such an asshole, and now they're both in danger!"

"A what?"

You pause to think, and you're pretty sure you know where Constantine would go. There's an old church a few blocks over. Consecrated ground. It's where he's always told you to go if something came after you. It would be a good place to regroup.

"Come on," you say, pulling John in the opposite direction down the street.

For once, he actually listens, a shadow at your back ready to protect you, but he lets you lead the way.

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The old building looks like it should probably be condemned. It's definitely seen better days, and hasn't seen a congregation in at least a decade. However, the ground is still holy, untouchable for the Unclean, and when you burst through the doors after John has already shot down three demons, you are so relieved to see Constantine and Tex sitting in some of the old pews. They definitely look like they've been through a battle, disheveled and beat up. You wonder how much was demons, and how much they did to each other.

"Thank God!" You run to them, and Tex's expression rises and falls as you go to Constantine, pressing your mouth to his in what you know is a needy kiss, assuring yourself as much as him.

He smirks down at you, well aware of the death- stares he's receiving from both sides. It's possible he makes a show of grabbing your ass, just to rub it in to your two Ghosts.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah. You?"

You nod. Then Constantine rolls his eyes upward, over your head to John Wick. He is quietly forbidding in his black suit, standing watch by the door. "That your other Ghost?"

With a tired sigh you nod.

"Ghosts? The fuck is Harry Potter here talkin' about?"

The urge to punch Tex or kiss him is strong as ever.

"The two of you ghosted me, didn't you?"

"Baby girl, I missed you. That's why I came to get you." He shoots a telling glare over at John Wick, who only returns a disinterested look. Maybe the master assassin had been keeping tabs on you, but he hadn't shared everything with Tex, it seems.

Constantine looks between the two assassins, then you, with an infuriating smirk.

"What?" you demand, more than a little exasperated with everthing.

"Nothing. Just seems like you have a type, angel."

You can't even argue.

"Angel?" Tex snorts at your pet name. "Does he even know you?"

"Does he ever shut up?" asks Constantine, raising one dark eyebrow.

"No, never," you sigh.

There is a howl outside that lifts every hair on your body, an unearthly sound that makes your fingers grip in Constantine's suit jacket.

"What are we going to do?"

"Good question." Constantine tugs you over to a different pew, sitting down with his arm draped around your shoulders. His message is obvious, and it's new to you. Constantine rocks your world on the nightly, but he's never been possessive before. It really shouldn't, but it ignites a warmth in your chest that makes you feel ridiculously, stupidly, giddy inside.

"Seems like we're at an impasse, gentlemen."

Tex frowns. John seems less than impressed.

"Sorry, what's stopping us from killing you and taking her?"

You tense, watching the gun John holds loosely at his side. You know Wick can move like lightning, and your heart leaps into your throat. You are ready to fling yourself between them if you have to.

"John..."

"It's ok, sweetheart. He's not going to kill me."

"No offense, but I've heard that before from lots of people who are dead now."

Constantine snorts. "You can't kill me, because I've put a curse on your friend here, and you need me to lift it."

"So lift it."

"Can't. Got a friend who can though. You'll never see him without me."

You know Constantine must be talking about the famed and powerful bokor, Papa Midnite. A chill runs down your spine. You've met him precisely once. He was polite--and hot as fuck, if you're being honest--but you knew he was not to be trifled with.

"So let's go, then," says Tex, his patience lost about three dead demons ago.

"Hold up, Howdy Doody. We got to talk first."

"Bout?"

Constantine nods down at you. "Maybe I don't know all the details, but I've heard enough. And as much as I've enjoyed filling the hole you assholes left--I can't let you hurt her again. I'll let the demons feast on your souls first."

Almost on cue, that demonic howling sounds again outside, and a chorus of hellish hissing rises. It sounds like you are surrounded.

Tex leaps to his feet. "You smug little fucker--"

"Shut up, Tex." It's Wick who shushes his friend. "What do you propose?"

Finally, Constantine looks down at you. "It depends on what she wants."

Your mouth drops open at that. You have to decide that, now? As though he can read your thoughts, and sometimes you're convinced he can, Constantine pays you an infuriating smirk.

"I...don't want them dead. Or...devoured."

"That's a start, I guess. Do you ever want to be with them again?"

Your eyes go wide as saucers. The simple answer, of course, is yes. You love them. You miss them.

However, answers are never so simple, with your Boys involved. Like an idiot, you dare to look at them, taking in Tex's hang-dog puppy-eyed look, and John's quiet but intense yearning. Then, of course, there is the man beside you, who despite his aloofness and his prickly manner, has been nothing but good to you.

You've never said it out loud, but the truth is, you love him too.

"I don't know."

"Yeah. I figured." He smirks at you, inexplicably smug, and you kind of want to smack him too.

Which always leads to interesting things, with John Constantine, your stupid lady parts sing out. Jesus Christ on a cracker, what a fucking mess.

"You got a point, Gandalf?" demands Tex, paying a nervous look to one of the cracked stained glass windows. Ominous dark shapes are flying past outside. This is not good.

"I want you assholes to accept a Spell of Submission to her."

"The fuck does that mean?" demands Tex with a thunderous frown. John remains neutral as he listens.

"It means, if you ever try to make her do something she really doesn't want to do, again, she can say the magic words to fuck up your world. Pardner."

"No fuckin' way," Tex scoffs.

At the same time, John answers, "I'll do it."

Your eyes meet across the aisle of the church. That he would take such a leap of faith-- for you-- drops the floor out from under you.

Tex, of course, interrupts your moment of soul- searching eye contact with John.

"Wait, so we could be havin' an argument and she can drop me dead with the evil eye or somethin'?"

Constantine snorts. "It would probably serve you right, Hee Haw, but no. Cause you extreme pain? Yes. But it comes at a price. All magic does. I know she wouldn't use it lightly."

It would potentially even the playing field quite a bit between you three. The balance of power amongst you had never been fair.

"What's a matter, Tex? You don't trust me?"

"Only as far a I could throw you, darlin'." But his hawk-like look softens for you after a moment, and then surprisingly he grins. "Got me over a barrel now, don't you?"

You shift a little in your seat, so that you're flush against Constantine. The solid line of his lithe warmth beside you is anchoring. You glance up at him, finding he looks arrogantly amused-- and surprisingly, a little sad. If you didn't know him so well you would have missed it, like ripples in a pool.

You turn back to Tex, an uneasy excitement thrumming in your chest.

"If the curse fits?"

The cowboy sighs, frowning at the hellspawn waiting to rend his flesh and eat his soul outside. "Alright, fine. Guess you might as well take it all." He can't look at you while he says it, but you sense his surrender-- or at least, his resignation. It's not exactly a victory, but it's something, and it pulls at your heartstrings.

"Alright, wizard boy. Hoodoo me up."

Constantine snorts, leaping up from the bench. "First we've got to get out of here. You're going to want to cover your eyes." He starts muttering an encantation and walking in a circle, sprinkling a powder on the ground from his pocket. "When this goes off we'll have ten minutes. Either of you assholes have a car nearby?"

"Yeah."

"Great. Hope you like to drive fast."

His chanting gets louder, and you see he's produced a lighter. He never uses it for cigarettes anymore, but portable fire to a magician has its uses. You can tell he's reaching the crescendo of his spell, and you scrunch your eyes closed. Even through your eyelids you see the flash, and the boom of a magical fireball that should have burned you all to dust.

However, only the things outside incinerate, their agonized cries echoing through the cavernous stone building.

"Let's move."

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Hope I set this up for Midnite's club and whatever shenanigans u guys want to get up to 😆 Enjoy! @sweetwolfcupcake @treedaddymcpuffpuff @tammykelly

[travelingviabooks]

Up Next

Because I’m awful at deciding what to read next, I put all of my TBR shelves into a random generator to pick for me. Any new books will be added to the end of the list.

“Children of Hurin” JRR Tolkien

“No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai

“The Stand-In” by Lily Chu

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“War Trash” by Ha Jin

“The Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater

“Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson

“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

“Ali and Nino” by Kurban Said

“Tale of Genji” by Lady Murasaki

“Lovers of Algeria” by Anouar Benmalek

“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee

“Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami

“The Buddhist on Death Row” by David Sheff

“The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World” by C.A. Fletcher

“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire

“The Last Gentleman Adventurer” by Edward Beauclerk Maurice

“Dragon Springs Road” by Janie Chang

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

“You’ve Reached Sam” by Dustin Thao

“Evil and the Mask” by Fuminori Nakamura

“Tales from the Cafe” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“Before Your Memory Fades” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“I Am a Cat” by Sōseki Natsume

“Wind/Pinball” by Haruki Murakami

“The Island of Missing Trees” by Elif Shafak

“The Ministry of Special Cases” by Nathan Englander

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

“They Both Die At The End” by Adam Silvera

“Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan

“Absolutely on Music” by Haruki Murakami

“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

“The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Malice” by Keigo Higashino

“A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki

“Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“Watch Over Me” by Nina Lacour

“Goodbye Tsugumi” by Banana Yoshimoto

“White Ivy” by Susie Yang

“Bastard out of Carolina” by Dorothy Allison

“First They Killed My Father” by Loung Ung

“Yokohama Yankee” by Leslie Helm

“A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas

“Seoulmates” by Susan Lee

“Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel

“Silent Parade” by Keigo Higashino

“Men Without Women” by Ernest Hemingway

“Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The Red Palace” by June Hur

“Through A Darkening Glass” by R.S. Maxwell

“Inventing Japan” by Ian Buruma

“Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie

“The Gangster We Are All Looking For” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“Red At the Bone” by Jacqueline Woodson

“Stranger in the Shogun’s City” by Amy Stanley

“Midnight in Broad Daylight” by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

“Kokoro” by Natsume Sôseki

“Some Prefer Nettles” by Junichiro Tanizaki

“Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor” by Xiran Jay Zhao

“The Princess Diarist” by Carrie Fisher

“Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley

“Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All” by Jonas Jonasson

“I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai

“There There” by Tommy Orange

“The Travelling Cat Chronicles” by Hiro Arikawa

“Pearl of China” by Anchee Min

“Slasher Girls & Monster Boys” by April Genevieve Tucholke

“A Hundred Thousand Worlds” by Bob Proehl

“The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” by José Saramago

“My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman

“Memoirs of a Polar Bear” by Yoko Tawada

“Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo

“Fallout” by Lesley M.M. Blume

“Natural Rivals” by John Clayton

“The Mermaid from Jeju” by Sumi Hahn

“The Women I Think About At Night” by Mia Kankimäki

“In Praise of Difficult Women” by Karen Karbo

“On Trails: An Exploration” by Robert Moor

“Four Treasures of the Sky” by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

“Solito” by Javier Zamora

“Gideon: The Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir

“Circe” by Madeline Miller

“The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea” by Hyeonseo Lee

“Above the Clouds” by Kilian Jornet

“The Only Child” by Mi-Ae Seo

“We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez

“The Gilded Ones” by Namina Forna

“Within These Wicked Walls” by Lauren Blackwood

“In The Serpent’s Wake” by Rachel Hartman

“The Miracles of the Namiya General Store” by Keigo Higashino

“The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky

“Under a Painted Sky” by Stacey Lee

“Frankly in Love” by David Yoon

“Both Can Be True” by Jules Machias

“The Viking Heart” by Arthur Herman

“Spin the Dawn” by Elizabeth Lim

“Unravel the Dusk” by Elizabeth Lim

“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo

“Zen in the Art of Archery” by Eugen Herrigel

“Gasa-Gasa Girl” by Naomi Hirahara

“Our Bodies, Their Battlefields” by Christina Lamb

“Icebound” by Andrea Pitzer

“Cursed” by Thomas Wheeler

“Beijing Payback” by Daniel Nieh

“From Little Tokyo With Love” by Sarah Kuhn

“The Chosen and the Beautiful” by Nghi Vo

“Where Oceans Burn” by Casey L. Bond

“The Night Tiger” by Yangsze Choo

“Sweet Bean Paste” by Durian Sukegawa

“O Beautiful” by Jung Yun

“I Am China” by Xiaolu Guo

“Too Much Lip” by Melissa Lucashenko

“Songbirds” by Christy Lefteri

“Rebel Seoul” by Axie Oh

“Rogue Heart” by Axie Oh

“The Emissary” by Yoko Tawada

“Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 1” by Mo Dao Zu Shi

“The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate

“The One and Only Bob” by Katherine Applegate

“Tokyo Ueno Station” by Yu Miri

“Nowhere for Very Long” by Brianna Madia

“Mutant Message Down Under” by Marlo Morgan

“Outlawed” by Anna North

“Snow Country” by Yasunari Kawabata

“Wolf Nation” by Brenda Peterson

“Coyote America” by Dan Flores

“Adventures of a Young Naturalist” by David Attenborough

“Silence” by Shūsaku Endō

“The Lonesome Body Builder” by Yukiko Motoya

“Leaving Mother Lake” by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu

“A Personal Matter” by Kenzaburō Ōe

“Sour Heart” by Jenny Zhang

“Bullet Train” by Kotaro Isaka

“Strange the Dreamer” by Laini Taylor

“The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century” by Sarah Miller

“The Island of Sea Women” by Lisa See

“The Lovely and the Lost” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Falling” by T.J. Newman

“The Inheritance Games” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Amari and the Night Brothers” by B.B. Alston

“I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” by Baek Sehee

“This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab

“Howl’s Moving Castle” by Diana Wynne Jones

“Seven Deadly Shadows” by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani

“Empress of All Seasons” by Emiko Jean

“The Revenant” by Michael Punke

“Summer of the Big Bachi” by Naomi Hirahara

“The Sunbearer Trials” by Aiden Thomas

“Road Trip Rwanda” by Will Ferguson

“The Next Everest” by Jim Davidson

“Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer

“Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts

“The Power” by Naomi Alderman

“Six of Crows” by Leigh Bardugo

“The Stolen Throne” by David Gaider

“Tess of the Road” by Rachel Hartman

“The Big Year” by Mark Obmascik

“The Crying of Lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon

“Heaven’s Official Blessing” by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“Out” by Natsuo Kirino

“A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle

“Socrates in Love” by Kyoichi Katayama

“Sight Hound” by Pam Houston

“Two Old Women” by Velma Wallis

“The Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel

“Wilderness” by Scott Stillman

“Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat

“The Priory of the Orange Tree” by Samantha Shannon

“Eiger Dreams” by Jon Krakauer

“Siddhartha” by Herman Hess

“And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini

[keanuquotes]

The limited edition already sold out...

[theoriginalladya]

Master Fic Post

So, in an effort to make it easier to find my writings and arts of my characters, here is a list of what I have.  At this point, I only publish my fanfiction to Archive of Our Own, and you can find all of my stories here under the name Ladyamesindy.  Below are links to many of my individual series on AO3 as well as art of the characters.  I’ll try my best to keep it up to date!

Mass Effect Trilogy

​MSheps

Caleb Shepard - mshenko  (OTP: Brothers in Arms) 

Earthborn (Shannon, Ireland)/Sole Survivor/Infiltrator)

Giorraíonn beirt bóthar - Two People Shorten A Road (main ‘verse) Werewolf Effect (ME/Werewolf: the Apocalypse ‘verse) The Town of Norman (collab fic universe with @happychica​, modern AU)

(Something Wicked This Way Comes is now listed under a separate ME/WWII crossover heading below)

art 1 by xla-hainex

art 2 by rawliverandcigarettes for MEHH

art 3 by okenkrow-art of Caleb and Kaidan

art 4 by xla-hainex 

art 5 by blasteddoodles

art 6 by me1onmi1k

art 7 by theheroofrookvale

art 8 by potionsmaster

art 9 by blasteddoodles - Caleb, Kaidan & kids (Niamh & Tadhg)

art 10 by me1onmi1k

art 11 by eluvisen

art 12 by Elle_Weird

Tarot Card art by rosenkow    Caleb  Kaidan  Rosa  Athair  Abby  Coats

Michael Shepard - mshenko  (OTP: Biotic Pinball Wizard)

Earthborn (New York City, NY)/Ruthless/Vanguard

Kaidan & Kandra Alenko by xla-hainex

Kristofer Shepard - mshenko (OTP: All The Time In The World)

Spacer/War Hero/Engineer

Kristofer Shepard by rosenkow

Kristofer Shepard and Kaidan Alenko by xla-hainex

Alexandre Shepard - mshenko (OTP: Copains de Combat) 

Spacer (family is French)/War Hero/Sentinel

Alexandre by blasteddoodles

Gabriel Shepard - mshenko (OTP: Avenging Angel) 

Colonist (aka: Avenging Angel of Mindoir)/Ruthless/Adept

Lachlan Shepard - mshenko (OTP: The Music Lives On) - Scottish (sort of)

Colonist (Family from Scotland on Earth)/War Hero/Soldier

art of Lachlan and Kaidan in kilts by xla-hainex

art of Lachlan and Kaidan on their honeymoon by me1onmi1k

art of Lachlan and Kaidan post-war in Scotland by bbegrill

art of Lachlan by Eluvisen

Rhys Shepard - mshenko (OTP: People Like Us)

Variant of Spacer/Earthborn Shepard (non-Military Shepard from Wyoming, USA) - in his world, Kaidan takes on the role of Shepard in the games

Rhys is a Dr. of Prothean Studies with a love of Dinosaurs dating back to his childhood

art of Rhys and Kaidan by xla-hainex

art of Rhys, Kaidan, and Grunt by thepixelagora

Takao Shepard - mshenko (OTP: Heiwa Ni) - Japanese

Earthborn Variant (Kaidan is in the 10th Street Reds in his universe)/War Hero/Sentinel

John Shepard

mshenko 

Normandy Island AU

John Shepard

Earthborn/Ruthless/

NERF GUN WARS!

FemSheps

ShepShep Serafina Shepard - fshenko

art by Reine - close up of Serafina

art by Reine - full picture of Serafina and Kaidan

art by eluvisen - Serafina Shepard

Maleea Shepard - fshenko

art of Maleea Shepard and Kaidan Alenko by Renegone

Micah Shepard - fshenko

art of Micah Shepard by dreambled

Sian Shepard - fshenko Jayce Shepard - fshenko

screenshot of Jayce Shepard (ME2)

art of Jayce Shepard by punwolf

Clone mShenko (Aubrey (clone) Shepard/Kaidan Alenko)

Part of Me - fanfic series

Abboats (Abby Williams/Major Coats)

The Ties That Bind Us - fanfic series

art of Abby Williams & Major Coats by xla-hainex

Alenkoats (Kaidan Alenko/Major Coats)

Once and for All Time - fanfic series

art of Major Coats & Kaidan Alenko by xla-hainex

Parasenko (Gianna Parasini/Kaidan Alenko)

Fortune Favors the Brave - fanfic series

Rydenko (Scott Ryder/Kaidan Alenko)

Straight on Til Morning - fanfic series

Reylenko (Reyes Vidal/Kaidan Alenko)

The Golden Boy & The Shady Bastard - fanfic series

art of Kaidan Alenko & Reyes Vidal by me1onmi1k

Mass Effect Andromeda

Exilium  - fanfic series

Mass Effect/WWII Crossover Universe 

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Caleb Shepard/Kaidan Alenko

art 1 by dr-vauclair-art - WWII Caleb Shepard

art 2 by dr-vauclair-art - WWII Kaidan Alenko

art 3 by dr-vauclair-art - WWII Major Coats

art 4 by dr-vauclair-art - WWII Abigail Williams

art 5 by cryptid-jack - WWII Caleb Shepard & Kaidan Alenko

On A Wing & A Prayer - Reyes Vidal/Scott Ryder

Dragon Age (all games)

Fanfic Series

Will & Might - William Trevelyan & Cullen Rutherford 

Le Renard Blanc Dragon Age: Family Constants Of Templars and Kings Lysette Cousland Taryn Trevelyan Dragon Age: The Dye Is Cast

Art

art of Serafina MacKinnon and Alistair by xla-hainex

art of Serafina MacKinnon and Sean MacKinnon by xla-hainex

[explainslowly]

This is a company that actually makes a lot of pinball tables for media properties from shows to like, bands and movies? I only know this bc they are releasing a John Wick pinball table and there was an interview with the software designer on a podcast I listen to - pretty interesting

OMG guys, I forgot to share with you something I saw on a small caffe on the way to Agrigento during my trip in Sicily. You guys are gonna love this

[tomthefanboy]

Catharsis Dream Journal 7/11/2021

Just had a really cathartic dream where went John Wick on two different house/buildings full of bad guys.

The first was like if Wandavision happened, but Wanda had a dirt bag boyfriend who used her to make his gang into rich vampires. Halfway it became more gamey, like each room was a puzzle. I defeated two slobbery dog men by making them lick envelopes for flyers advertising a Sinbad comedy show.

I escaped the building and thought I had found refuge with a bunch of low grade supers at a house arcade. One emo guy was from a Gaiman comic and his hands could age you or something. A Japanese kid had a lightsaber that he had faked us out with earlier, pretending it was a peripheral for a rare arcade cabinet.

I think Ana Faris was there too...

After some kind of unheard signal everyone went battle royale (more like e5 of Loki this time).

I had a silver machete and a wood machete from my fight with the vampires. I guess my power was enchanting them to be indestructible because the wood could block the lightsaber but was still shit for slicing.

I put lightsaber kid's head through a pinball machine.

I got emo guy to lunge at me over a couch so I could slice off his hands.

Then I teamed up with the singer Meatloaf, whose power was a shotgun.

At the end he deactivated the door security while fought off stragglers.

After being victorious I went to loot a green machine gun I had seen on a shelf of decorations earlier. I wanted to have range out in the streets.

Suddenly a rag-tag bunch of heavily-armed good guys busted into the house in a scripted cut scene. Real "where were you when I needed you" energy. The leader was Ravonna from the TVA and she said I could go with them. She asked why I was taking a pipe.

Turns out the machine gun was green because you smoked weed in it. All of the 'special loot' I had been looking at was redemption prizes for the house arcade.

The dream ended with me watching a streamer, Neku_ruru, deal with the same encounter. But before the fight she said "Oh, we can use powers!?" And revealed she was a speedster by ripping out two hearts. What felt like more than an hour fight to me took her 40 seconds. Talk about a Speed Run!