#carleone

[vintagehollywood1]

Happy Birthday to Al Pacino ❤️

[thisdublife]

thisdublife

[chaoticretwtau]

[afrobunnie]

Leon sneezed in Carlos' face while everyone was trading friend codes...

I was struck with the lovely idea of assigning my faves 10 animal crossing villagers, and some were more difficult to put together than others. I was also using funny face reactions as a reference, because one way to get out of same face is to draw less attractive but equally funny expressions.

Everyone chose at least 2 villagers who remind them of someone they care about. I'll let you discern who is what as some will be more obvious than others.

[hyperglqvcovs]

Sorry I had a vision...

[wisecrackingeric-2]

Based off of a conversation between @hamartia-grander and I where we came to the conclusion that Carlos and Luis would (playfully ofc) fight for Leon’s affection by flirting (And Leon is down BAD for jealous Luis + thinks his stupid jokes are just SO cute)

[possessionisamyth]

you do know why i ship carlos with leon right? like, this wasn't simply a whim or haha funny rare pair stuff (though it is just fun in general). BUT it's also an interesting dynamic in they both went into careers by choice and by force but for opposite periods of time

carlos "apparently" rolled into mercenary life from childhood into early adulthood and then was under forced employment from umbrella for a little while

leon chose to be a cop (gross) but only got to be one for a little while before he was thrown into forced employment by the us government for his adult life

Carlos' formative experience lets him catch bullshit from a mile away during his forced employment, and Leon's lack of formative experience means he's just going to take everything because he doesn't have the ability to filter the nonsense out during his forced employment

so if I can just squeeze these two together right when Leon starts to get cocky and has the general respect of his peers, I can have Carlos provide that brain cell to tell Leon he does, in fact, have bargaining power for his life sentence. whether or not Leon absorbs that information and when that absorption happens is the fun part to write!

"that doesn't have to be romantic tho", yeah, but i want them to fuck sloppy and be mushy as well, its a package deal, carlos gets leon's package up his-

[serrennedyanonwriter]

Sharing some more Polyevil hcs I have because I love them.

Going off my idea of Luis being a biology professor after RE4, he’s home alone the most because his boyfriends are off on missions a lot (Carlos included because I hc he’s with the BSAA). Because of this, he spends a lot of time prettying up Leon’s apartment and/or Chris’s house if he’s staying there. Both of them don’t care as long as he isn’t moving or breaking anything important.

Leon is the only one among them who’s not over six foot, and for that reason, whenever the others want him to stop drinking, they’ll just put his beer in a place he can’t reach with his height. He tries giving them puppy eyes in hopes they’ll allow him to have his alcohol, but it never works.

All four of them watch MLP because I think it’s funny. It started with Carlos watching it, Luis joined him, then Chris started watching it with those two, and finally, Leon, who won’t ever admit he’s watching it when it’s on.

Follow up to the last one, they all do have favorite MLP characters. Carlos’s is Fluttershy, Luis’s is a tie between Twilight Sparkle and Rarity, Chris’s is Rainbow Dash, and Leon’s is Applejack.

All four of them are cuddles, and keep in mind three of the four of them are considerably buff men. RIP Luis, you died due to your boyfriends’ cuddles (jk, he very much is alive and loves their cuddles).

I like to hc that Chris is the only cis one among the polycule because it’s silly. Leon and Carlos are trans (FTM), and Luis is genderfluid because I’m genderfluid, and his hair is very gender to me.

Between the four of them, they have “adopted” two sons and six daughters. One of them they actually raised (aka Rose), everyone else is just considered as a son/daughter to them (which is Jake, Piers, Sheva, Sherry, Manuela, Ashley, and Helena). Why am I saying this? They’re girl dads (/hj).

I recall sharing a hc about Leon and Luis having plushies, which are a wolf and a donkey, and they use them to cheer up Rose on her rough days. Chris and Carlos have one each as well, which Chris’s is a bear, and Carlos’s is a ram.

Speaking of Rose, after Ethan died, and Chris got custody of her once Mia left, the polycule have a strict rule not to replace her parents. They’ll do parent-like acts with her, but they’ll never force her to consider them as her parents. They don’t want her to replace the memory of Ethan and Mia with them.

They do movie nights to celebrate/welcome each other from getting back from work. Luis plans them most of the time as again, he’s the one home the most.

That’s all ✨

[yippetbh]

what even is their ship name help

color palette from @doctor-pepo i accidentally got converted into a kenviera fan FUCK

[shelbyshoe]

A Tall Cup of Coffee

(Unedited carleon drabble)

"What are you up to, supercop?" Carlos asked over the phone.

"Getting coffee," Leon said.

"Grab me some."

"You can do that yourself."

"It's no fun if it isn't from you."

"Very funny." Leon stood in line at his favorite coffee shop with the phone pressed against his ear, and adjusted his warm jacket over his chest.

"You free tonight?" Carlos asked. There was mischief in that voice and it broke Leon's heart that he had to turn him down.

"I'm working late tonight. Someone called out."

"Bummer. How about tomorrow?" he asked. Leon knew how this went. He'd ask until he found a free day.

"What did you have in mind? Hold on." Leon pressed the mute button and ordered his drink. He checked his watch and found he had enough time to stop at Carlos's apartment before he ducked into the police station for work.

He added Carlos's favorite drink order before he unmuted.

"I'm back."

"I was thinking we could hang at your place. Watch a movie?"

"Not a horror movie, right?" Leon stepped off to the side to let others order and wait for his coffee.

"Action movie before the action, if you know what I mean." Carlos's soft laugh made Leon's stomach flip over.

He knew what he meant. They'd had movie nights before. Leon only remembered half of each of the movies. The other half was spent with Carlos's tongue in his mouth and the touch of his warm hands against his skin.

"You listening to me, supercop?" Carlos asked.

"Yeah. Sure."

"How about this. You pick the movie and I'll grab us Joey's." Carlos knew that was Leon's favorite pizza place. He missed his family's pizza, and he'd found the closest to it at a little hole-in-the-wall place.

"Sounds great," Leon said. The barista called his name and set down the cupholder with both drinks.

"The scarf I got you looks good on you," Carlos said. Leon instinctively pressed his face into the soft fabric around his neck.

"How would you--" He opened the door to the coffee shop to leave, his words cut off in the chilled air. "Know," he finished.

Carlos ended the call and pushed off from the wall he leaned on by the door. With a smile, he pointed to the cupholder.

"Which one is mine?" He asked. Leon pulled out his coffee and handed it to him.

"You could have just told me," he complained. Carlos closed the distance and placed a warm kiss against his lips.

"That wouldn't have been fun. Thanks for the coffee." Carlos took a sip and walked forward toward the station. Leon fell into step beside him with his coffee in hand and freshly kissed mouth bundled beneath his scarf.

[flurrin-art]

What's this, a lost sheep ready to enter the fold?

[iviarellereads]

The Shadow Rising, Chapter 8 - Hard Heads

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(Dragon icon) In which those are ominous words to send off by.

PERSPECTIVE: Elayne isn't sure Rand realizes she's still in the room. She's content to wait him out quietly, anything to put off her confession a little longer.

He turns and finally realizes she's there, and stumbles over his words to apologize, calling her "my Lady" repeatedly. She threatens to start calling him Lord Dragon and curtsy at him. He's disproportionately opposed to that, so she calls him Rand, and asks him to say her name. He does so, a little slowly, as if savouring the feel of it in his mouth.

El asks if what Egg said hurt him, and he says maybe a little, but he told the truth, and he keeps calling himself foolish. She says she saw a Cairhienin lord's fool once, and Rand would look silly with all those bells on. He grins and they share a quiet moment of bonding.

He tries to make her a flower out of feathers, but can't reach saidin. He tries to find some other gift worthy of her. She bundles the feathers in a handkerchief, unable to explain to him that she wants to keep them because he wanted to make them a flower.(1)

She asks if he likes her, and he says, well, yes, he does like her very much... She says she's fond of him. More than fond, even. She's not usually so forward, but... they have to leave soon. She may not see him again for months, but she couldn't leave without telling him.

Rand starts blushing fiercely, trying to find the right words, and El says she'd like for him to kiss her. He protests that he doesn't want to promise anything, doesn't want her to think that... She laughs and says they can kiss even if they're not promised. Before she can finish her rant, Rand's lips come down roughly on hers.

He apologizes for interrupting her and jokes that he's just a backward Shepherd. She says he's uncouth, but she wouldn't say backward. Rand starts to talk again but El covers his mouth and says she doesn't want to hear anything that he doesn't mean with his whole heart. He nods, and they disentangle. El says she wants him to remember that some women see men with their hearts, and some see men only as baubles to wear. He should remember that she will come back, and she sees him with her heart.

Rand asks if she and Egg cooked up this scheme between them. She says he thinks overmuch of himself, to think they'd pass him around like a package.(2) He apologizes for scaring them, though he's not particularly sorry for pinching them when they were talking like he wasn't there. She uses a bit of the Power to ease a pinching injury she'd done to him, since he was honest about it.

Gaul opens the door, looking at the ground first and only slowly up toward them, as if he knew he might be interrupting something inappropriate. He says the High Lords are here. El makes to leave and asks Rand again to think on what she's said.

She looks back as the High Lords enter the room, thinking that Rand is like a stork among peacocks, but he has a natural leadership quality. That's something he didn't have a year ago.(3)

PERSPECTIVE: Rand, watching the door close behind El with wonder in his eyes. Dreams coming true makes him uneasy, but he can't help but be a little woozy in the wake of what just happened.

The High Lords demand his attention, though. They complain that if they lower taxes then raise them again someday, there will be a revolt. He negotiates with them, though his thoughts dwell on Egg, El, and Min. Part of the negotiation is what to do about all the farmers now that Cairhien isn't buying grain. Rand says they should trade some of the grain with Illian, despite that they're enemies.

PERSPECTIVE: Egwene, who is surprised when Mat falls in beside her in the hall. She's grumpy he hasn't been to see them, he's grumpy they keep walking all over his life. The wondergirls had barged into his room and taken back the Amyrlin's letter.

Egg says she's glad he's still willing to talk to her at least, is there a reason for it? Mat is quiet for a while then says he needs advice, but he doesn't know how to say it. He wants to know what happens next, what's in the holes in his memory, and why does he keep spouting Old Tongue nonsense? He has to know, before he goes as crazy as Rand. Egg suggests that maybe Moiraine is better equipped to help him, but Mat rejects it out of hand. Egg says there might be a way, if Moiraine doesn't say no. Mat repeats that he doesn't want Moiraine meddling in his life, but Egg waits until she's sure they're alone in the hall and explains about the redstone doorframe, its dangers and consequences. Mat says he wouldn't do it even if Moiraine said yes, he wants little and less to do with the bloody Power.

He asks her to promise she won't tell Moiraine about this discussion, she asks why she shouldn't. She wants to be sure he doesn't mean to leave or go near that ter'angreal, he says he won't unless his life depends on it, then leaves.(4) Egg decides that some things change, but Mat never will.

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(1) Even if I'm annoyed at this stuff taking up so much page time (this book is where most of my reread attempts have withered and died despite being many people's favourite), this is one of the best bits of showing feelings between these two so far. (2) Except that he's sort of exactly right about it. Just sayin. (3) He's growing into himself, just as they're all growing up a bit out in the world. (4) That's an awfully ominous not-an-actual-answer, Mat.

[gondaleer]

En ta meme

[matchalilly]

Listen...there needs to be more of this

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[afrobunnie]

I'm in the middle of getting ready to move, so I've had little energy to write for this ship and less energy to draw it. It's a miracle I got this out at all, but I've wanted to do one of these for a while! Hopefully everything is legible.

[pyjamacryptid]

so like, do you ever think about the similarities between Gwaine and Will (from Ealdor)? And their respective friendship with Merlin? Because, dude, I’ve been thinking about it all week.

These two would've been friends, I'm sure of it.

Gwaine makes the most iconic character introduction of the series, gets stabbed, continues to be a menace, and then he and Merlin bond over their fathers, and lack thereof.

Gwaine is cynical about nobility, especially Kings. As we know, his father was a knight who died in battle in Carleon’s name, and the King repaid his family with nothing.

Then you’ve got Will. Will - the most iconic man from Ealdor, which is a tall order when your mate’s Merlin, Mr “Greatest Sorcerer To Have Ever Walked The Earth” who is also from Ealdor. He greets Merlin like “your kind ain’t welcome here….. lol jk bring it in”, and then immediately squares up with Arthur, who’s kind - as far as Will is concerned - is definitely not welcome here.

Merlin reveals that Will’s issues with Arthur run deeper than how they first appear. Will, too, had a father that died in battle in service to, most likely, a King. The majority of it is inferred to the audience and we’re encouraged to make our own conclusions.

It’s very likely that Will and Gwaine share very similar backgrounds. I’m not sure that Will’s father was a knight, it’s more probable that he was a soldier of some kind and not of noble birth. Regardless of whatever rank he held, there’s overlap: a father was in service to a king, died in service to that king, that king left the family with nothing as thanks, and the son is left a cynic with no trust for people with fancy titles.

Another parallel is that in both 1x10 and 3x04, Will and Gwaine leave. For different reasons, of course. Will leaves because he refuses to fight for Arthur, a noble, and Gwaine leaves because he stood up to “nobles” bullying Merlin and was banished by Uther for it.

And then they both come back, to Merlin’s delight. Will comes back, risking his life, because it’s not about fighting for Arthur; it’s about fighting for Ealdor, his village, and to fight beside Merlin. Gwaine comes back, risking the consequences of his banishment, because he knew Arthur was in danger and Merlin likely would need some help.

But like, do you think Merlin, after Will’s death and since meeting Gwaine, sees these similarities between his two friends? Not just in experiences but personality? We only got one episode with Will, and we met him during a really desperate time, so the guy was probably stressed to the roots of his hair; and it was also after Merlin returned after moving away. So, Will - though happy to see him - was still cross after feeling abandoned. We didn’t get to see more of Will’s personality outside of that, but we know he was fiercely loyal, cynical, considered people’s lives worth more than material wealth or glory, outspoken and unafraid to tell a prince to fuck off, and one for banter (i.e. how he welcomed Merlin home).

Do you think Merlin saw Gwaine’s joking nature, his fierce loyalty, his criticisms of nobility and how he considered titles unimportant compared to who a person was on the inside, and thought of Will?

And, what if Merlin, late at night and lying in bed, thought that - if they’d ever gotten the chance to meet - Gwaine and Will would’ve been good friends.

…. anyway, that’s what’s plagued me for 6 days.