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erindrifter · 1 year ago
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Time for Halo: Infinite!! This is the final game, and it might take 2 days to play...
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systelon · 5 months ago
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「 big nap 」
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kyostarrtv · 10 months ago
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Going Live With Hyper Light Drifter
The Heart Machine kick continues as I play Hyper Light Drifter for the first time!
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Twitch: KyoStarr
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space-ninja-fashion-show · 2 years ago
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Oh you just Know that North's argument for going back to Duviri again and again and again will be that they have to fix it, doesn't matter what it is that's wrong with Duviri, they have to fix it
They have to fix something
Anything
Finally
Everything has been broken since the void jump. They have been broken since the void jump. Intrinsically and irreparably. The world fell apart on the Zariman. Duviri is a million puzzle pieces that never fit together in the first place but were still dead set on tearing North apart
And then they arrived in a timeline that was never theirs and trying to fill a hole that wasn't shaped like them so hard that it bruised, and that world was broken too, almost beyond repair, from way before the day they arrived in it
Nothing has been right. Nothing has been fixable
Certainly not North themself
But only they can go back to Duviri. So they have to be the one to fix it
Whatever that means
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megiddo-ichi · 1 year ago
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Solar Ash - Stream Announcement
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Good Morning Batheads. Par for a different course it's a night to skate or die. Meaning Solar Ash. From the creators of Hyper Light Drifter.
Tonight at 6pm cst
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virtual-scallop · 1 year ago
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It's time for more misadventures in forgetting I have ranged options… it's time for more HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER!
Dash on in~
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ink-n-shadow · 3 months ago
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outlaw!141 and their kinks…😈 (i apologize for the woman i became after writing this)
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𝜗𝜚 pairing: outlaw!141 x reader 𝜗𝜚 cw: smut (minors—DNI), reader is fem/afab, poly!141, innocence/virginity kink, possessive!price, slight dacryphilia?, praise, corruption kink, anal, marking, gun play, throat fucking, pleasure kink, overstimulation kink, face sitting, allusion to forced (?) face sitting, unedited as usual
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gang leader!price has an innocence/virginity kink through and through. he enjoys the innocence and sweetness that you exude, how pure and untouched you appear to be in his eyes. he knows you’re a virgin the first time you guys meet, can tell by the way your cheeks burn hot red with each sweet word he breathes and how your thighs tense and squeeze together beneath the heavy fabrics of your skirts. that’s why he’s the first one to sink his claws into you when you start staying at the camp with them, luring you into his tent with sweet words and the promise of a little drink from his hooch stash. you’re so pliant and willing to accompany him that you don't notice the way the other boys are leering at the both of you, the only thing stopping them from following behind being the revolver price has trained on them and the threat he'd told them earlier ("y'can listen all ya fuckin' want—but no peekin' in my tent unless y'want a fuckin' bullet between the eyes"). he would be all gentle and soft with you, easing your unused hole open with his tongue first before tenderly working you open on one, two, eventually three of his thick meaty fingers. he would kiss away the tears that begin to stream down your cheeks once he's got his thick cock stuffed inside of you (only after making you cum four times over), murmuring soft praises of just how good you feel, how sweet your cunt tasted, how tight you felt around him.
drifter!simon, on the other hand, definitely has a corruption kink. it all starts after your first night at camp, where simon was forced to lay in his bunk and stroke his fat cock to the sound of your broken mewls as price deflowered you. ever since then, he makes it his mission to corrupt you (much to price's dismay). when he gets you in his tent one night after dinnertime, he's not all soft and sweet the way price was. oh no—simon's filthy, pushing you face first into the pillows of his cot as he sinks to his knees and immediately spits a glob of saliva on your untouched hole. dirty words streaming from his lips as he bullies two thick fingers (much thicker and more rugged than price's) in your ass, smirking against the skin of the back of your thigh at the way your mewling whimpers sound more strained, filthy, debauched. you're a boneless mess against his cot, broken pleas for more dripping off your drooling tongue as you subconsciously squirm your hips back to take his fingers deeper. talking about how much of a slut you are for enjoying this treatment, cunt slick and dripping with arousal as he sinks in all the way to the hilt until his balls are flush to your drooling empty slit. he makes sure to leave marks, bruises that won't fade for days to come and imprints of his teeth that border on the edge of breaking skin—all so the other guys can see and know what you let him do to you.
it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that gunsmith!johnny has a gun kink. something about lapping messily at your cunt while your shaky hands fight to keep the muzzle of the gun pressed against his temple makes johnny's cock harder than a fucking rock. or bending you over the work bench in his tent after teaching you how to take apart his pistol, feeding his thick cock into you as he spits in your ear, “c’mon bunny—put it back together f’me. why’re you tremblin’? am i fuckin’ you that good right now?” or making you lay with your head dangling off the end of his cot, forcing your throat to swallow down his cock as he traces the muzzle of the gun around each of your puffy nipples before trailing it down to your slick cunt. he can’t help but chuckle at the way you start choking on his dick when he presses the barrel down hard against your throbbing clit, watching the way your body immediately bows and your hips buck up to find more friction. he likes the way he smears loose gunpowder and gun metal across your skin when you amble into his room once he’s finished making a new gun, chasing his dirtied thumbs with his tongue and lapping up the bitter substances from your sweet skin.
outlaw!kyle is such a giver. ik i usually talk about kyle and his overstimulation kink all the time, but outlaw!kyle literally lives and breathes to get you off. he’s so used to stealing and taking from others, his fingers sticky and grimy with the amount of things he’s looted or stolen, but he never takes from you (unlike the other outlaw!141 members). no, he lets you steal from him—wants you to take from him. absolutely loves it when you come to him all shy, thighs squeezing together beneath your skirts and fingers fidgeting with your blouse as you peer up at him with a wobbly lip and tell him how mean simon had been to you. and outlaw!kyle just clicks his tongue softly as he drags the tips of his fingers down your arms, lips frowning in faux sympathy as he pulls you towards his cot. “simon didn’t let you finish? left you high and dry, huh? s’okay, darlin’—shhh, shhh. i’ll take care of ya. come up here—sit on my face.” but little do you know he’s gonna have you up there for hours, not letting up until your slick and his spit are pooling along the cotton of his sheets and you can barely keep yourself upright. “thought you wanted to cum so bad, hon. why’re we stoppin’? i was just gettin’ started. c'mon—sit back down. don't make me force you.”
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buzzystreamupdate · 2 years ago
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Streaming Hyper Light Drifter on Youtube
Picking up where we left off
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yakiattaki · 2 years ago
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hyper light drifter! watch me suck at this game
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erindrifter · 1 year ago
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Time for some Halo 2!! I particularly like this one!!
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goobleofthekiller · 6 days ago
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Though the one and only album by the Fabulous Singing Cowby Sisters, "Not Dead Yet", would only sell around fifty copies in its initial printing, the album has gained a cult following. Initially viewed only as vanity project from famed murder victim / possible murderer BB, the "rediscovery" of Not Dead Yet has viewed it as a work of outsider art. As BB and ZZ both lacked any knowledge of guitars, the two rely exclusively on a keytar, xylophone, and their voices to capture the earthy realism of Country music, and in doing so capture the confusion and beauty of our modern drifters. A recent 10th anniversary review in Pitchfork summarized popular opinion thusly: "Finally, Nashville has an answer to The Shaggs." This renewed attention has resulted in a flood of new listens across streaming services, thus far earning the duo a well-deserved 243 dollars.
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kyostarrtv · 9 months ago
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Going Live With Hyper Light Drifter
The episode where Kyo tracks down all the items in Hyper Light Drifter (hopefully)
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Twitch: KyoStarr
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earlofbats · 3 months ago
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Discotechs died with the collapse of the gay party scene, the Reagan administration, the rise of the LGBT community and gay liberation movement.
In Disco Elysium disco fell as Revachol lost its independence and the grasp of the moralintern, coalition and the economic disparity of capitalism shut its jaws around the people.
EDM, electronic dance music birthed from the ashes of the discotech and new club music was born, similarly ADM, Adonic Dance Music is starting its journey into the main stream.
This places culturally and phonically Disco Elysium sometime in the mid to late 80s or even Early 90s.
Now I wanted to figure out what music was on Speedfreak radio:
DJ mesh says:
"...AND DE FACTO THE FASTEST MUSIC IN ALL OF R-R-REVACHOL R-ROCK CITY. ALL YOU HOOLIGANS, DOWNTOWN DRIFTERS, SIDEWAYS SALLIES AND POWERSLIDING PIERRES."
The only song we hear on Speedfreaks radio is described as:
"If, when a motor-carriage's engine was ignited, it could drive by its own accord off to a high mountain and there write a song -- perhaps it'd be something like what you're hearing now."
We know that the music is rock and it's fast and has the essence of something a car would write as well as a clear association with car culture.
Similarly around the mid to late 80s metal rock music was gaining popularity in the mainstream.
Including a subgenre of metal known as speed metal.
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Anyway, I'm not a huge metal fan, in fact I'm a complete noob when it comes to the genre.
But I've done my best collecting some metal from the time period that I think would be played on Speedfreaks FM and would be to Kim's tastes.
As well as a few more anachronistic additions plus some songs just for fun.
The mix isn't quite done so if you have recommendations leave em in the comments or notes!
Also check out my similarly done Disco Mixtape.
Also also check out my Kim fic I'm working on.
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an-android-in-a-tutu · 30 days ago
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Romancing the Exit Sign
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Art: @nickelkeep
Writing: @an-android-in-a-tutu
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 125k
Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Alternate Universe, Eldritch, Cults, Gore, Suicidal Thoughts, Mystery, Case Fic, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Canonical Character Death, Romance
Summary: A teenage boy is left to die in a shallow grave and something slithers into his bones. Devotees of an ancient god work to bring Her into the world, as with equivalent fanaticism, a man on a mission picks them off one by one. A lonesome drifter crosses paths with a mysterious stranger and finds himself inexorably drawn into the middle of it all.
Dean Winchester is adrift. All he has is his car, the next hunt, and a conversation he doesn’t want to have waiting for him in California. Then a case involving mangled bodies washing up on shore in an idyllic lakeside community puts him on the trail of a man calling himself Castiel, and the dangerous web he’s entangled in. Dean is used to living in a world of monsters, but the End of Days is a little out of his wheelhouse. Especially when his only ally is determined to keep his secrets behind his teeth, even as they draw closer together. Still, he intends to see things through, no matter how dark the path ahead gets.
It’s either that, or call his brother.
It's here! My @deancashorrorfest fic is officially live, stream it now if you dare delve into the deep dark unknown...
I'm very excited for people to see this one, I've never written a multichapter fic anymore, so thank you to the horrorfest for providing me with the time pressure, and thank you nickelkeep for your amazing art and prompt!
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dredgen-dumbass · 8 days ago
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eris has drifters coins in the lofi stream
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otrtbs · 9 months ago
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˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ an otrtbs submission for the @sillylovesongsfest ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
prompt: pierre by ryn weaver
jarty croucher | t | 4.1k | slightly sexual themes and recreational drug use
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Barty rolls over and groans at the sun-soaked tent he finds himself in. It’s sweltering hot and the thin cotton top sheet of the makeshift bed clings to his sticky skin. The tent is too bright and it smells sour with stale tobacco and weed.
It would be enough to make Barty vomit if there was anything left in his stomach.
There’s sand everywhere.
“It’s so fucking humid in here,” he groans, as his brain pounds against his skull. “I can’t breathe.”
A voice in the bed next to him makes him jump.
“It rained last night, remember?”
Barty turns to see a head of nearly white curly hair fanning out over the blue tarp next to him. A girl, no, the girl from last night laying on her stomach, still half-asleep.
“Fucking torrential.”
Barty didn’t remember. Not really.
The night before was coming back to him in bits and pieces. Alcohol-soaked frames of cognizance.
He remembers fighting with James again. Screaming so loud that his voice was hoarse and his throat was scratchy. This time was the last time. Never come back here again. He remembers hearing about some giant rager in the desert. Something about celebrating the blood moon. There were caravans of people and bonfires and music by the time Barty showed up.
He remembers not knowing anyone there. Heard from a friend of a friend. He was a drifter. A party crasher. None of that mattered once he was there though. A group of people pulled him in like they’ve known him his entire life, and soon enough he had a cup of something that burned his throat in his hand and a girl dragging him closer to the fire.
He remembers the brutal sun casting heat waves so violent that everything seemed to shimmer and dance slightly around him. Pockets of sun-induced water appeared just beyond the sand dunes and disappeared by the time Barty walked over to them.
He drank until the sun went down, he took everything offered to him. He sweats out all of the vodka in his system just to down more in a steady stream. He barely recalls the red moon rising high above him, ruddy and ominous.
When the desert got cold, that’s when the real party started.
Some man’s hand around his throat, some girl’s tongue in his mouth. Everything pulsating and dully muted around him. Bodies pressing up against his, hands through his hair, a settling chill to cool the sticky heat.
The girl pulls away. Stark white hair like an angel in the desert. Billowy white clothes like a ghost.
And Barty wants to be haunted.
Sand slipping through his hands. She weaves in and out of the crowd once she decides she’s done with him, but he follows as closely as he can.
Eventually, she stops and turns around again, the shadows from the fire flicker on her face.
“I have something to help with dullness,” she shouts over the noise, the people, the music, the blood rushing in his head.
“What?” He hadn’t realized he’d said that part out loud.
She sticks out her tongue so Barty can see a little white tab with a smiley face on it. It has three eyes, and one of them winks at him.
He puts his mouth on hers in grateful acceptance and the tab finds its way under his tongue.
“Who are you?” Barty asks, voice reverent as he eyes the tattoo on her shoulder. Little horns inked into her skin. “An angel?”
She laughs as she pulls him closer. Her nails are sharp like claws and for a second Barty thinks she might rip him apart. Feels like he’s been caught. Her teeth sharp and glinting at the sight of his throat.
“Maybe I’m the devil.”
That’s where his memory ends. For the most part.
He holds a hand up to his sore lip and winces. Runs his tongue over it and tastes the dried blood.
“Fuck,” he groans.
The girl sits up and as soon as Barty sees her pale green eyes blinking back at him he smiles.
“Pandora.”
“Hm. So you do remember.”
“Vaguely,” Barty croaks through chapped lips. “I can’t believe I slept in a tent in the desert on the floor.”
“Could’ve fooled me. You look like you do this all the time. No offense.”
“None taken,” Barty sighs, as he examines his stinging palm to see a raw and, now dried, bloody cut spanning the lifeline on his skin. “What the fuck?”
“It was the sacrifice to the moon,” Pandora supplies breezily as Barty moves to stand up.
“Right, whatever that fucking means,” Barty brushes her off.
Maybe he should be more concerned about the whole ordeal, but he wasn’t. It was actually…fun. A good release of energy.
He would’ve hated it.
He would’ve insisted that Barty stay the night at his place instead. Entertain him with something less risky. Something more self-serving.
Barty shakes his head to clear his thoughts. At least last night he hadn’t thought of him at all. Now, the harsh light of the morning was screwing things up again.
Pandora helps him search the sand and surrounding tents for his keys and his wallet, and some various other items before she points him in the right direction and Barty makes the trek back up the road to his car.
She tells him there’s another party next month. He tells her he’ll think about it.
The drive back is quiet. Barty doesn’t turn on the radio, it’ll only aggravate his already pounding head.
Instead, he thinks.
What would he think if Barty told him what he did?
Told him he held out his bleeding palm to the fire and listened as the blood sizzled on the rocks and wood beneath it. Told him he danced in the desert in the pouring rain and slept in a sandy tent as the alcohol coursed through his system. Told him he stayed out all night, not bothering to call home. Not bothering to tell a single other person where he was.
He’d be appalled. He’d probably sigh in disappointment, or better yet, he’d yell when Barty finally bothered to answer his call the next week.
It’s not Barty’s fault that James liked him because he was rough around the edges. Too sharp to hold onto without bleeding. Too impulsive to see a long-term future with. Too mean to have breakfast with the next morning.
It’s why it was fun. Something with an expiration date. Manufactured good times in a bottle– consequence-free-fucking.
But then it got confusing.
Barty wishes he would call. But he’s thankful he doesn’t.
A few weeks later, Barty finds himself at the front row of some dive bar-turned-concert-venue sipping a warm and flat beer. The place is crowded and loud, and the air is warm with the stench of alcohol and weed. He’s pretty sure someone in the back is giving out makeshift tattoos for five dollars. He’s pretty sure he’s gonna take the guy up on the offer after the show.
Some girl, in a poor attempt to dance, knocks into him and sends his beer sloshing over the side of his cup and onto the floor.
He doesn’t really mind though. Because it’s that occurrence that causes the bass player to look at him. Really look at him as he sways along to the music, and nods his head to the beat.
Barty gives a small smirk and raises his plastic cup in response and the bass player smirks back at him. A challenge. A dare. One that Barty knows well.
Barty watches him all night. Dark, muscled arms strumming along, plucking the strings. He’s so close Barty can see his short paint chipped fingernails and calloused hands. His hair bleached almost white, falls in twists that he shakes every once in a while as they fall in front of his eyes. His lips mouth the words to the song the frontman is singing. His body moves to the beat of the drummer, and his eyes shine like he’s doing it all for Barty. And maybe it’s the alcohol, or maybe it’s because Barty has always been Barty, but as the night progresses he starts to actually believe it is all for him.
When the set is over, Barty follows the bassist out back into the cooling night.
“You played really well up there,” he called after the man, causing him to turn around.
“Oh yeah?” The man smirked.
“Yeah. I’m Barty.”
“Evan.”
“Watched you all night.”
And that’s all it took really before Evan had him pressed up against some cold stone brick wall in a back alleyway.
Barty spends the better part of two months with Evan. They travel to different venues in the surrounding towns. They sleep all day and stay out all night as Evan plays his shows. Evan teaches him how to steal from unsuspecting store clerks. Barty shows him how to pick any lock. He lets Evan trace the scar on his palm over and over again. They’re high for most of it. Barty pierces Evan’s septum. Evan pierces his eyebrow. He travels with the band and plays the part of groupie dutifully.
It was much longer than his one-night desert excursion with Pandora, but soon enough the inevitable happened. He gets bored. Evan’s time was up and those soft, disappointed brown eyes flooded his mind once more.
Evan’s hands were calloused but not as rough. He was telling a joke but didn’t laugh the same. He didn’t bite to draw blood. He didn’t press to bruise.
Fuck.
Barty left with little trace. Just a text message telling Evan to text him the next time he was in town playing a show. Evan liked it but otherwise didn’t say a word.
And that was that.
Maybe this was just his way. Maybe he would be perpetually stuck chasing some unknown James shaped hole for the rest of his life. Maybe that wouldn’t be so bad. He could fill it up with other things. He could live with that.
He tries to tell himself he can live with that when it happens. His phone buzzes. Again and again and again and again and Barty stares at the caller ID displaying a number he’s more than familiar with. He answers it with a shameful eagerness but doesn’t speak.
“Hello?”
“Did you mean to call me?” Barty croaks out in the deadened air.
A stuttering pause. “Yeah. Yeah, hi. How are you?”
Barty lets out a sharp laugh. Too sharp. “How am I? I’m fine, James. How are you?”
“Good,” James tried to say brightly, but Barty could hear the flatness in his voice. “How, um. How have you been?”
“Okay, what the fuck, Bambi. You’re freaking me out. It’s almost four in the morning.”
James laughs at the nickname that was always made to be an insult. Until it wasn’t.
“No, I know. I just…” James trails off and Barty finds himself wishing he would just finish his fucking sentence.
Come on, James. It’s me. You don’t have to be nice to me, remember? That’s the deal. That’s the rule. You can be mean to me. I can take it.
Something in his chest pulls, but Barty opts to ignore it as he takes on his talking-to-James tone: Sarcastic and needle-sharp.
“Miss me that much, Potter?” Barty hears James let in a sharp breath on the other end of the line and pushes on. “What? Are you going to tell me that it’s three in the morning and this is the time I normally come slinking around your place? Miss having someone like me to knock you about a bit? Get a little too rough with you? Fuck you, smoke with you after, and leave before the lights come on?”
“Barty.” He tries not to flinch at the fact that James is using his first name. “That’s not why…I’m calling because–”
But Barty cuts him off before James can say something ridiculous. Something like ‘I’m calling because I care about you,' or 'I’m seeing someone else,' or 'I’m worried for you. This guy’s really great, not at all like you,' or 'I miss you.’
“Well, I can’t come around anymore. I just finished touring around with some bass player and his band all across the state. They just signed to a label they’re about to be huge. And Evan, the bass player, he’s like the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me, so.” Barty was aware that he was trying too hard. He could hear it in his own voice, but he was praying it was convincing enough for James. He pulled his lip ring in between his teeth and waited for James to say something.
“Oh, there’s an Evan.”
There was an Evan, kind of.
“Yeah, and he’s great, and I’m great. Never better, actually. So I think you were right to end it when you did. Whatever it was. It’s better this way.” Barty lies.
Barty lies and James goes quiet. It’s unbearable.
“James?”
Do you want to come over?
Why did it take you months to call?
Did you mean what you said when you told me you could never bring me around your friends?
Do you ever miss fighting with me like I miss fighting with you?
Remember when you almost let me pierce your eyebrow? Evan pierced mine a while ago and I thought about you the entire time he was doing it.
His hands aren’t yours wrapped around my throat. He never squeezes hard enough.
“Yeah?”
“I’m going to hang up now.”
Speak now or forever hold your peace, James Potter.
“Okay, yeah. Sorry, yeah.”
“Okay. Later, bambi.”
Barty clicks the phone before James can respond.
What the fuck was James thinking?
What was he thinking?
Barty would be lying if he said he didn’t feel a small pulse of adrenaline at the sound of James’ voice. A small sense of satisfaction that James had broken the silence between them and called first.
He was going to ignore the fact that James had used the gentle voice with him. The voice reserved for a crying child, a terminal patient, or a scared wild animal in the woods. He was going to ignore the fact that James had obviously called him for a reason and Barty had dominated the conversation to keep him from it. And he was definitely going to ignore the curiosity chewing away at his mind about what James would’ve said if only Barty would’ve let him.
No. Instead, he was going to keep on telling James, and himself lies.
He was fine.
He was happy.
He was better than he’s ever been.
Barty walks himself out to his balcony and lights a cigarette as the cool air kisses his face. He recounts his lies over and over again and counts down to the day they might come true.
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“What did you say your name was again?” Barty looks at the sandy blonde boy questioningly. He’s got a smattering of freckles and soft eyes that are shining due to the alcohol.
The bar is too loud for a Thursday and Barty wants to leave, but the man just bought him another round and it would be rude to turn it away.
“Peter.”
Barty nods, tilting his new beer towards him. “Well, cheers Peter.”
Peter offers him a smile as he tilts his glass in Barty’s direction and takes a drink, smiling coyly.
They talk for a minute. This is how Barty finds out that Peter is English and has no job and no house. He came into some money and is using it to travel to as many places as he can before the money dries up. He finds places to stay by matching with people on Tinder or Grindr and he’s out by morning exploring the city.
So in other words, he’s trouble. Which is exactly what Barty’s looking for.
Peter has honey-colored eyes and a honey-colored voice to match. Sweet on the surface with something dangerous and reckless buzzing just below the surface.
They stay until the bar closes and they stay until the parking lot clears out, and then when it’s good and dark and empty Barty slaps his motorcycle helmet on over Peter’s head and tosses him the keys.
He stands on the pavement with his arms crossed and watches as Peter starts the engine.
“Are you sure you’ve done this before?” Barty asks skeptically as Peter hesitates.
“Y-yeah.” He calls over the hum of the engine. “ I had a motorbike– have a motorbike back home but it’s in the shop getting repaired.”
Barty nods. “Well, just take her around the parking lot a few times then. Let’s see it.”
In his defense, Peter was the one who had asked to ride it. When Barty brought up his motorcycle, he watched as Peter’s honey-colored eyes went wide as saucers as he asked to see it. To give it a ride. Maybe Barty should’ve been worried that this stranger would just drive off with his bike in the dead of night with no witnesses and leave him stranded, but he was too drunk to care. It would all be just another story to laugh about in the daylight. Moonlight desert rituals and bass players and motorcycle thieves. All because of James fucking Potter.
Barty watches and snickers as Peter clearly has no idea what to do.
James knew how to ride motorcycles. He would take Barty’s sometimes to the only 24-hour corner store to pick up a watered-down black coffee and a new pack of Parliament’s when they ran out. Sometimes an orange or two if they were hungry.
Peter manages to make it around the parking lot twice before a loud pop rings through the air and causes Barty to jump. By the time he can register what’s happening, Peter is already beside him, pale-faced, and apologizing profusely.
He popped a fucking tire.
The blowout was not a gunshot. Thank god.
He lives another day.
Barty gives Peter a once over and determines that he went smashing into the concrete based on the scrapes to his face and his hands, and the tear in his pants at the knees.
For a moment, Peter looks at Barty like he might kick the shit out of him, and maybe Barty should, but the whole thing seems so comical at the moment that he can’t help but burst into delirious laughter.
Of course, someone named Peter that he met in a bar at midnight would ride his motorcycle once and make the tire pop. That was just his luck.
Without thinking about it, he sends a text to James.
‘Motorcycle tire just popped. Fucking shit.’
His phone buzzes almost instantly in his hand.
���I told you last time the tire needed air. It was only a matter of time. You should’ve let me fill it up.’
Barty watches James type a message for what seems like an eternity. Then a new message.
‘Are you okay?’
Then it’s Barty’s turn to type forever.
‘Never better, bambi.’
He makes Peter call them a cab and tow company to get the bike. It’s the least he could do. Since he thinks it’s his fault the tire blew out, and Barty convinces him that it is.
Barty says they’ll figure it out in the morning and lets Peter stay at his place until the end of the week. Just long enough for him to see that the motorcycle was getting fixed. Long enough to take him around the city and show him all the best places.
They keep in touch for a month at tops and then Peter fades into another memory. Another story to tell. Another person he was with because he wouldn’t be with James.
˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
On the fourth of July, he meets Regulus at some party in someone’s backyard.
They’re about to start shooting off the fireworks when Barty sees him. Short crop of curly black hair and a downturned frown.
“Not having fun?” Barty smirked in an attempt to make conversation.
“What?”
“Not having fun?”
“Not really.” The boy’s frown deepened. “Not at all.”
“Oh, what the fuck. You’re French?”
“Very astute observation.” The stranger says as he attempts to walk away.
“Sorry. It’s just, why the fuck would you be here if you could be in France? I’m Barty by the way.”
“Regulus,” the stranger sniffs. “And why the fuck would your parents name you Barty if they could pick from any other name in the world?”
Barty grins at Regulus’ accent and his snark. “Got it. No more questions then.”
“No more stupid questions,” Regulus amends.
They stick together the whole evening as Barty attempts to make the Fourth of July fun for the both of them.
He spends a few weeks with Regulus after that. Regulus speaks broken English, something stilted, but sure, and it rings nice in Barty’s ears long after he’s stopped talking. There’s nothing serious between them. They just spend the summer days sun drunk and carefree. Regulus attempts to teach him French. Barty attempts to make this time different. Neither of them are successful.
“I lied,” Regulus says in a passing moment as Barty gets ready to say his final goodbye. “I’m not twenty-three, I’m twenty. Also, my English is perfect. I was just fucking with you.”
Barty just blinks a few times. “Why do you think I would care about that? Regulus, what the fuck.”
Regulus shrugs. “Just thought you should know. You’re not the only one pretending to be something you’re not just for the fun of it.”
And Barty knows it’s fucked up, but he could kiss Regulus all over again.
He adds a pathological liar to his running list of adventures.
When he returns to his apartment, it’s quiet and empty. He tries to tell himself that he’s okay with that, that he likes it best this way, that he’s never been better.
James calls once again.
It’s become a routine of theirs.
James calls and Barty answers. He fills James’ head with all of his exploits, all of his stories, all of the Pandora’s and Evan’s and Peter’s and Regulus’ he’s been with since James. All of the fun he’s had since the last time they spoke.
But he couldn’t ever let any of them in, because James was already there, taking up too much space. Always there, lying in wait.
Barty keeps on telling his lies and James lets him, but they’re still not coming true. Barty’s counting down the days and still feeling more down than ever. He wishes that James would just call his bluff, hear the falseness in his voice, and yell at him for being irresponsible. But he never does.
It’s not until after Emmeline, Fabian, and Narcissa that James gives him another call.
Barty’s in the middle of recounting his latest adventure when James does it. Interrupts him with a knowing scoff.
“Listen, Crouch,” he says just like he used to. He’s fed up. Barty finally managed to press his buttons once more. “Can we stop doing this song and dance now? Drop the act?”
“I don’t know what you mean,” Barty sniffs, still trying to get one up on him.
“Oh sure,” James continues, voice flat. “When you’re ready to stop lying to yourself and to me…I was calling to tell you to come around.”
The words land like cement in his stomach.
“To come around?”
Barty’s heart picks up its pace.
It was a bad idea.
It was a horrible idea.
It would put them right back to where they were before.
Fighting and yelling and waiting for the moon to come out to talk to each other. To see each other.
It would end horribly.
They would burn each other up. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. But God, Barty missed how it felt to be on fire.
“Yeah,” James breathes into the phone receiver. “You know the code to get in.”
Barty takes a deep breath.
What did it say about him that it had been all this time, and he still thought about James and his apartment and his soft sheets that were always laundered every day? James’ hands gripping his jaw. James’ laugh when Barty couldn’t find his jeans that had all been but ripped off of him. James’ sharp sneer and clenched jaw when Barty managed to get under his skin.
It doesn’t take too much convincing. Just lighting bolts of flashing memories. Tooth rot that ached too good to let go.
“Alright. Yeah. Fuck it. Fuck it, Bambi.”
There would be plenty of time for lying to himself later.
And one day his lies would come true.
Just not today. And definitely not tonight.
“I’ll come around.”
˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
inspired by the song pierre by ryn weaver
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