#and off he goes

[survivalxofxthexfittest]

She started it. He almost laughed at Ash's words. John-Paul had used that excuse a hundred times throughout his life - damn every fight always someone else's fault even when it wasn't. But he had been a kid not a grown man. Sada and Ash made him understand what Jeremiah had felt like whenever he was called upon by school officials. He would definitely need to apologize. Later of course. After he asked Sada for clarification over Ash's allegations that she'd said something untoward that involved him. The implications had been crystal clear even in his drunken state. Whether or not he actually remember to speak with both his brother and Sada was unclear, but for now he added it to his checklist.

John-Paul only felt brave enough to glance back at Sada and scoff thanks to Jameson as Ash answered him. Even Sada knew?! Although now full of fire, his gaze lazily found Ash again. It had to be true. Charlie had kept secrets from him and Jer. Of course, they'd done their share of omitting things from her. But that had been for her safety. It wasn't the same thing. Not really. Well, maybe a little bit, but that was beside the point. Charlie had lied to them. Charlie. She wasn't a liar. Especially not to her brothers. But she'd played their own tactics against them. JP felt like he had fallen into some alternate universe.

He shook off Ash's very logical and accpetable answer as to why he hadn't told JP and had to force himself to ignore the need to find out why Sada hadn't to keep himself as composed as possible. But he was seething. He glanced down at the drink in his hand and swirled the dark liquid around before taking the final drink of it. He sucked the remaining liqour from his bottom lip, biting back his hurt. It was only a few steps to get behind the bar with Ash, but it felt like it had taken an eternity.

"Charlie's choice, huh?" he asked rhetorically as he poured a flute of champagne. He pursed his lips and nodded with a sigh, choking back an angry laugh trying to escape. "Well, then I guess it's a good thing she has no idea that you two have mutually outed her," he added finally letting his sight find Ash again, the implications he'd allied with Sada meant to sting. "So I'll just go and ask her myself. Give her the opportunity to let me in on her secret," he finished, letting it sink in a moment before taking off back to Charlie in the Atrium.

@ashton-ryder

John-Paul had been busy playing photographer for Mal and Charlie out in the atrium when the sound of fists against the bar, along with Ashton's uncharacteristically raised voice, rang out. He may have been well past tipsy, but when he saw it was Sada he'd been yelling at his heart dropped. The camera barely made it into Mal's hands as he handed it off, heading to The W to run interference.

"Hey. Ash, man. Come on. Calm down," he told him, holding his hands up to Ash - Sada safely behind his back.

John-Paul swayed gently as he glanced between them. He'd never been privy to the entire story, but he was just as aware as anyone else that these two never got along - the tension between them constantly on the edge of boiling over. But tonight was not the night for that. Tonight was supposed to be fun and carefree and normal. An escape. He was meant to be enjoying himself. Not trying to keep his surrogate mother out of harm's way from one of his best friends.

"What the fuck? Can we not tonight? Please?" he asked boldly with obvious irritation at the both of them. He was too drunk for this bullshit. But when Sada went on and explained herself, confusion immediately furrowed his brow and anger began to taint his gaze. Had he heard right?

"Charlie's...pregnant?" he asked Sada without taking his eyes off of Ash.

Hurt flashed through his features. The fact that Charlie told him before her real brothers stalled his heart - regardless of the evident beef he had with the child's father, he believed Jeremiah would have said something by now. Making it obvious to him that neither of the Rose boys knew they were going to be uncles.

"Is that true?" he asked Ash, his jaw clenching in a barely controlled effort to bite back his quickly rising anger.

@ashton-ryder

[onlythebravest]

training camp, oct 6 2023

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[oneiricfallacy]

@demon-prosecuted replied to your post ““Uh-oh, besties.””:

// bestie you're gonna lose. the gay lawyers are gonna smooch and then phoenix will party swap mid case. rip. hire saul goodman if you actually did the crime.

“Honestly I dunno, whether or not I committed all those murders is a matter of semantics more than anything.”

“…Actually, you know what? Let's get this sorted out in court. Take me away, boys.”

[sassyhazelowl]

[catadioptrics]

"Oh, that's great!"

"Time to cause the apocalypse so we have an excuse to fight. Just give me a sec!"

[platoapproved]

louis + cruelty

[zillychu]

get MOLTED, idiot

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[poobirdy]

bingqiu human/demon role reversal as requested by alliechickfics on twitter! for a modest donation to the listed organizations and individuals over at SVSSS Gotcha 4 Gaza, you too can get a prompt fulfilled in exchange.

[humming-fly]

He was feeling left out

and the higher rez stills, since gifs always export as if you're sending messages through a metal can~

[forecast0ctopus]

alien kitten……..

[artsymeeshee]

A quick idea I had to sketch out because sometimes I think about how Ford still views himself as a bad brother sometimes but Stan’s there for the very needed reassurance that Ford is a good brother and Stan can see how Ford is trying every day

[tax-ed-ea-taxus]

i've been thinking about Bruce and how he designed his suit. ive never read a DC comic ever but i saw someone post a panel from an issue where bruce melts the gun that killed his parents into a chest plate to protect his heart and thats justice or something On That Note im not sure if this is canon but i know i've read about how when Martha and Thomas got shot Thomas' jaw was shot off and the thought of Bruce using the gun that killed his parents to protect him while he avenges their memory while also leaving his jaw to be the most vulnerable part of his batsuit makes me feel things i cant articulate

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"