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[jaydarino]

Backstabber.

[gregmarriage]

in may, it’ll be two years since succ ended, and i can’t ever even imagine leaving it behind

[quick-catton]

you ever wake up and immediately know that yes. today is going to be a sporadically crying over saltburn and felix's death and everything oliver and him could've had day. and you know it's one of those days where you just have to succumb to the emotions sigh

[hoverboards-and-dragons]

mmmmmm Caliyork angst

California is protective brother first and foremost with an learned distaste for familial authority, the one who's job it is to push away his own feelings to see people for who they really are and them keep those people as far away from the people he loves as possible while they heal

York is/was a shitty parent who only barely acknowledge it

they're laying quietly in bed together, sharing stories and bonding about growing up as colonies and it's this slow build of Cal hearing of hand comments about Gov's earlier days and he just keeps asking more and more pointed questions

until

They were both sitting up now, New York felt Cal's judgment openly bore into him. It had been a time since he'd been the target of such pure disdain from him.

York felt his own hackles raise in defence. "We all made mistakes in those early days, Continental Congress was made for a purpose, he was- just- just-"

"A tool?" York missed the searing venom behind Cal's words, the weight with which they fell from his mouth.

"Yes!" He was exasperated, over trying to justify two hundred year old actions to a state who could never understand, who wasn't there for the chaos and the uncertainty.

The silence that followed was a welcomed break. Until York made the mistake of meeting Cal's eyes.

The disgust was still there but then there was this prominent, inexplicable personal hurt.

His eyes raked over York, desperately searching for something that wasn't there. He forced a sudden joyless laugh. "Not an ounce of remorse in you, is there?"

"It wasn't ideal."

"You abused a child." He stated it so plainly, so confidently, as if a hundred other factors weren't involved at the time. "or let a child get abused, whatever you prefer."

York snapped at that. "He wasn't a child!"

With that, Cal began to get out of their bed.

"Where are you going?"

"Out." His movements were clumsy, distracted. "Away. I-" he took a breath. "I need to think."

The panic that rushed through York didn't make sense but he couldn't bring himself to doubt it as he stumbled out of bed after him. "You're leaving- you're running away over - This?"

"Nothing, is more important to me than this, York!"

"Nothing?" he asked quietly.

"No nothing, If I had to choose between your life and my brother's, there wouldn't be hesitation."

Cal took the moment of stunned silence to snap away. Leaving New York to his own raging thoughts.

[milf-harrington]

i am going to finish and post this fic tonight i am going to finish and post this fic tonight i am going to finish and post thi

[charlies-crushes]

The urge to make a male S/I for the new show that I'm into... And then make them a poly relationship... They're all daddies and all buddies-

[crowchelmist]

The blaring sirens and the flashing lights faded into the background. Those sticky, sticky eyes were all Norman could feel, boring into his skin and crawling over him, leaving trails of slime like a bloated slug. Norman needed those eyes to stop watching him.

For once his body moved faster than his mind.

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Escaping the Lambda compound doesn't come without a price.

[babydillpickle]

saved this take that aged extremely embarrassingly:

John Seabrook, "Factory Girls," The New Yorker, 2012.

[moltage]

they should've given mick war flashbacks

[robotclownindulgence]

Artists wo draw human prowl as just some milquetoast middle-aged man are literally so right tbh. You guys know what's up

[rosetta-j-stone]

Jan, creating Bolognese Risotto, probably

i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh

[trudlejack]

(+part 2)

[kensatou]

gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

[bubble-you]

pan fried BREAD

[hoverboards-and-dragons]

I actually have so many Cal/Austin+the rest of the Texas system ideas and I'm this close to writing a proper fic despite not having written in years, there's not enough of these 2(+), if anyone wants to use any of these ideas I'd kiss you for it

I think part of Austin revels in Cal's hated for Texas, the way his eyes go from soft and affectionate to hard and disdainful as soon as the switch is noticed

Austin doesn't get a lot of things to himself, he only has access to the hobbies he shares with Texas, his social group is whichever of Texas's friends can stand him, he can never trust them to be his friends, that they don't just see him as a small part of an actual whole person, he's been burned too many times before

Austin himself doesn't dislike Texas, he understands his fears and wants to make their relationship better but there's something so comforting in how willing Cal is to see them as two entirely different people, Austin doesn't really think he wants to separate but he still adores that Cal would fight for it, that he so believes Austin deserves it

and he doesn't have to share something that nobody else wants

Texas rejecting Cal so aggressively give their relationship a type of privacy Austin rarely gets, maybe it would better for all three of them if Cal and Texas could get along even slightly but Austin isn't even sure he wants that, he wants Cal to himself, even if that means their flirting is just making gay eye contact while stating policies they know the other will like

and I think this would lead into Austin being easily made jealous when anyone else in the system gets too close, not just insecure about being not being needed but really really possessive

Enter Houston, who decided Cal was hot enough to see what all the fuss was about

Austin told himself it was because Houston was being too pushy, a little sleazy, that they felt entitled to skip parts of the relationship since they've been watching Cal from the headspace even tho Cal had just met them

he was just protecting Cal, like he was suppose to

the pit in his stomach didn't go away when Houston took the hint and asked Cal to a small coffee date

it only deepened when Cal brought up polyamory, its presence had hung in the back quietly as Texas and Cal got more physically comfortable around each other but they never slipped into anything romantic

of course Austin said he was fine with it, Cal deserves it, and he's far too terrified of not being the one chosen to ever forced Cal to chose between them

there's more, obviously, but how Austin fell in love with Cal is it's own post, and so are Texas's feelings about the whole thing and Houston's, and if i write anymore about how this relationship with the other alters develops I may as well just be writing the fic so im cutting it off here until next time

[hattersarts]

im already at the south downs cottage guys, catch up