#fugitives together

[vigilskeep]

in a version of events where anders continues his whole “you need to leave me eventually, love, i can’t drag down your life forever” bit after the end of da2, and insists they can’t get married, i imagine that in whatever new village or town they run to, keir just starts already introducing anders as his husband. it’s a little passive-aggressive

[likesummerrainn]

"To cement the bond that binds our happy little family together..." The Talk of the Town (1942) | George Stevens

[deafenedsaltwater]

Finished..

Alt version under cut

[theroboticist]

The redhead slid to a stop when she saw the fire, crouched, and tapped a silvery headband, and a mirrored faceplate slid out of it. She slowly turned until she was facing the woman in the corner.

The redhead was wearing armored knee boots, jeans, a University of Michigan t-shirt, gloves, the lab coat, and a pair of high-tech bracers over the lab coat's sleeves.

After a moment of facing the woman in the corner, she let out a long hiss and asked softly, "How far away is the nearest city? And what's it called?" Despite the softness of her voice, there was something almost dead about her tone, as if she were either empty inside or so used to hiding her emotions that she was even doing it in a cave, with a strange wild woman.

The red-haired woman in the lab coat glanced from side to side, as if hiding from something, before dashing across the stream bed and into a cave on the far side. (For Persephone)

Persephone was hiding in her cave, stoking a fire with some branches and looking at her "stores". The forest was abundant with seeds for her to use! Unfortunately, while food was no longer a concern, the growing cold was. Her days, previously filled with gathering various fruit and vegetable seeds, were now spent collecting fallen branches, dead vegetation and dirt to make garden beds deep in the cave where it would be easier to keep warm. Would it have been wiser to just surrender to the cold? Probably, but the hybrid was essentially a fugitive after all. She needed to stay alert to stay safe, and that meant keeping warm. The last thing she expected (or even wanted) was a woman adorned in a lab coat to run into her cave. With no preparation for combat, she could only cower in a corner and pray she hadn't been spotted.

[frogaroundandfindout]

Part 1/2. Dick and Cass reenacting the murder to see how things could have went down (batgirl #29)

[idkaguyorsomething]

Sorry to any First Doctor stans out there, I just couldn’t add him in good conscience because of all the racism. The War Doctor is also not here because he doesn’t really do companions. ¿Do I need to explain why Ten’s not on here?

[daysofauldlangsyne]

zine link

Aghhh I'm so happy I got to work on this!!! I'm not that impressed anymore with my artwork but I know it is because I've seen it for far too long, if 14 y/o me would have gotten the chance to see this they would be THRILLED.

Thanks to the mod team of @mhanderszine for setting everything up, it was very enjoyable and a big privilege! :)

[vanmarkus]

GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: FUGITIVE TELEMETRY by Martha Wells.

Keeping the murder mystery/thriller train going after KILLING FLOOR! It is ALWAYS time for a Bot Reread, honestly, and I love that Bot could Annihilate Reacher.

[warlordfelwinter]

we're so back

(first session after a year+ long hiatus ended with Celeste and Nyalori (@cappurrccino) getting arrested lmao)

[sunnystrollblog]

Borrowers!john Dory and his lovely wife

She loves him(she’s going to skin him alive)

[carefulfears]

the biggest thing about elegy is that it takes all of that unspoken isolation of this arc, and it slowly lets the audience in. the first thing that mulder says about the apparitions, is that they seem to be an "omen." an impending prophecy. and carefully, throughout the episode, both the audience and scully are waiting to see, not who the killer is, but what is being foretold. when they're going over records, and scully's nose starts bleeding, it's the one thing that they can't ignore. she wasn't even there in the previous episode. she was in the hospital. alone. they don't talk about it. she's "fine." she has "always been the strong one." just like in irresistible, years earlier, she does not want him to know how much she is struggling. but she doesn't have any control. it is dripping out of her. the sound of his voice when he says "oh, scully." and how quickly she responds "it's okay. i'm fine."

it's that kind of childlike grimace in him, the same man who flinches away from dead bodies and stares at the ground before his father. and she's so fast to try to restore order. it's okay. i'm fine. don't worry, i'll clean it up. i'll make it go away. when she disappears into the bathroom and sees an apparition there herself...i think she decides to go to the hospital because she just needs space, honestly. she's scared. he offers to drive her, to go with her, twice. asks, "you sure?" and she says, twice, "i'm fine."

elegy builds to two separate climaxes: the first, when mulder comes to scully's apartment. but before that, we see scully in karen kosseff's office, the same therapist that she had gone to in irresistible, and presumably has kept a relationship with in the years since. she tells karen that she's been diagnosed with inoperable untreatable cancer, and when karen asks, "you've kept working?" she answers, "yes. it's been important to me."

she's taken aback when karen asks why, is surprised at the question, and tells her "agent mulder has been concerned. he's been supportive, through this time."

KOSSEFF: Do you feel that you owe it to him to continue working?

SCULLY: (quickly) No. (pauses) I guess I never realized how much I rely on him before this...his passion...he's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on.

KOSSEFF: What happened last night, Dana?

SCULLY: I saw something. I, I don't know what to trust. If I saw it because of the stress, because the image had been suggested to me or if it was a suggestion of my own fears.

KOSSEFF: Your fear of failing him?

SCULLY: (exhales emotionally) Maybe.

this is such a rare admission from scully. first of all, she's being confronted. this is not normal. it is not normal to work to your death. it's like bill tells her, a couple of episodes later, "what are you doing at work, getting knocked down, beaten up? what are you trying to prove?"

(she hadn't even told bill about her cancer. she'd been sick for months. she thought she was going to die in memento mori, she knows she's going to die sooner than later. and she instructed her mom not to tell her brother. from the moment that mulder said "i refuse to believe that," it really was only going to go one way.)

she's being confronted. why are you working? (for mulder). do you feel you owe him? (no, i need him).

she's really alone. she's sick. like, she's really sick. she spent the last case in the hospital. she's having a hard time keeping up. she's thinning, and bleeding, and struggling. but there she goes, every day, at every hour. monster chasing. telling him she's fine.

(so much conflict comes from the way that mulder's ignorance perfectly enables scully's repression)

when he shows up, late, at her apartment, he comes in a mile-a-minute, about how he needs her "help" on the case, before asking her what her doctor said. (her answer, of course, being, "i'm fine.")

he tells her that everyone who has seen an apparition, was dying. every person who reported a premonition, was near death themselves.

SCULLY: Harold Spuller is dying too?

MULDER: Well, that's what I need your medical opinion on.

SCULLY: Well, what if he isn't?

MULDER: I would be very surprised. What is a death omen if not a vision of our own mortality? And who among us would most likely be able to see the dead? 

this is one of the most hauntingly isolating moments of the series...he has just told her that she is going to die. and he doesn't know, that that's what he said. she is forced to process it, completely by herself. and she doesn't believe in ghosts, or "premonitions," but she knows that he is right. (when is he not?)

("maybe harold is sicker than we thought he was.")

the second moment that this episode builds to, is the final confrontation between mulder and scully. after the murder is solved. after harold dies.

SCULLY: I saw something, Mulder.

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: The fourth victim. I saw her in the bathroom before you came to tell me.

MULDER: Why didn't you tell me?

SCULLY: Because I didn't want to believe it. Because I don't want to believe it.

MULDER: Is that why you came down here, to prove that it wasn't true?

SCULLY: No, I came down here because you asked me to.

MULDER: Why can't you be honest with me?

SCULLY: (defensively) What do you want me to say? That you're right, that, that I believe it even if I don't? I mean, is that what you want?

MULDER: Is that what you think I want to hear?

SCULLY: (softly) No.

they come really...close here? to talking about it? she almost baits him several times this season. she spends so much of this arc thinking...maybe, this will be it. maybe if she fucks off on assignment, gets a tattoo with another man, he'll say it. maybe if she calls him out for never celebrating her birthday, he'll acknowledge why this is the year he did. maybe if they spend a friday night with a bottle of wine, they'll talk. maybe if she tells him, those things you believe are death omens? i saw it. he'll know.

i can't remember which one of you said that all of their arguments are just how to love each other. she doesn't want to believe. but she's there, because he has asked her to be. even in all of their repressed denial, there is no escaping what's happening. it hangs over both of them.

i love the moments in this arc where she just snaps. in this scene when she says, what do you want from me? do you want me to just believe you? and her quiet resignation, when he makes her answer her own question. no. she knows that's not what he wants.

MULDER: (his voice softens) I know what you're afraid of. I'm afraid of the same thing.

SCULLY: The doctor said I was fine.

MULDER: I hope that's the truth.

SCULLY: (whispers) I'm going home.

"i know what you're afraid of. i'm afraid of the same thing."

except, no, he doesn't. and no, they are not.

but she knows what he's afraid of, just as her therapist had known what she's afraid of ("your fear of failing him?") and so she dodges his admittance with reassurance. she's fine.

that last scene, when she goes out and cries in her car, and she sees harold's ghost in the backseat. she is so alone. she's working on her deathbed. they don't talk about it. she's afraid, and she's not fine, and she is going to "fail" him because she cannot keep herself alive for him, and she can't avoid it. it's in the backseat. it's in the bathroom mirror. it's bleeding out of her.

[thievinghippo]

31 Days of DA - Introduce your Hawke

Meet Wynneth Hawke

When the Blight hit Ferelden, Wynneth was working as a weaver, making cloth for sewing clothes and linens. She was engaged to a man she didn't love, a widower with four children. But he knew her secret, that she was a mage, and promised to protect her family.

Then, the Blight. Once she made it to Kirkwall, Wynneth was determined to keep the rest of her family safe. She always tried diplomacy before every other option, and if that didn't work? She had no issue using force.

She fell in love with Anders almost immediately, and once they started a relationship, fell for Justice as well. When she dreamed, she almost always found Justice in the Fade, waiting for her.

After the Chantry fell, Wynneth became almost obsessed with keeping Anders safe, even more so after her brother, Carver, also started hearing the false Calling.

Eventually, that led her to Skyhold to help Varric and the Inquisition. And then, she gladly made the choice to stay behind in the Fade, so that everyone else could live.

After that? Well, you'll just have to read the story Fade to see what happens next!

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#wynneth hawke

#otp: fugitives together

fic - A Voice of Bells and Thunder

fic - Memoirs of a Mage

fic - Fade

tarot art by @snuffes, portrait by franda

(want to join in on the fun? here’s the prompt list!)

[mazzystar24]

You know who Tommy reminds me of that it was bothering me sm that I couldn’t place it but then I remembered this scene?

Rick from Casablanca

Like Tommy says this to chimney verbatim in that one scene

He calls buck (his love interest) “kid” just like Rick does to Ilsa (his love interest)

Even personality wise something about it fits like the cool guy exterior, the struggle to be good,the sort of air of unphased energy if you get what I mean, etc

Anyways that got me thinking and if the bucktommy break up is something bittersweet like Rick and Ilsa then I would love it:

HE EVEN DOES THE MOTHERFUCKING CHIN GRAB^^^^

Like imagine this if buddie does go canon instead of Rick letting Ilsa go for the greater good of the world/politics

[spotinthespiral]

New pfp! 👍

Decided to use Ryan (my Pirate Captain) for this! Mostly because I seem to keep drawing my pirates despite Intending this as a wiz-centric blog lol.

I need to draw her and the others more often...