#jesus owen

[kaizsche]

"tyler, how'd you come to do this work?" / "well, when you love something, you'll spend your whole life trying to understand it." TWISTERS (2024)

[oocdc-tweets]

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[nutsforhim]

Owen Lindberg IG: alphahunkk

[artzyleen]

Owen Teague for Entertainment Weekly, July 2024

📸 by Max Montgomery

[vickytaa]

Snaps from your Bf Chris!

let me know if you want part 2 or Matt ver!!

[kittlesandbugs]

FHR: Circular motions Pairing: Chargestep, but make it through a puppet lens Warnings: Canon-typical assholes Word Count: 779 Prompt: Write a dialogue between two characters when another isn't there, or a setting a character typically occupies when they're not there

“Focus up!” you bark, and he freezes, looking like he's seen a ghost.

With an irritated snarl, your pale fist latches onto his wrist like a clamp and you pivot and jerk him forward. He flips over your hip, and the whoosh of air when his back hits the mat is more than a little surprised. He doesn't even really break the fall in time. You wonder how that feels on his spine, if that wince flitting across his face is from the dig of platinum biting in. Or if it's more just the shame that you caught him so off guard. 

You'd like the shame more. He's slipping against a norm, for fuck's sake. 

Sort of. 

“Good one, Jolene” he grunts as he kips back up to his feet, hakama pleats fluttering back into place.

You hate to admit that it's a good look on him. It's hard for anyone to look bad in one, really. Shame you're just a white belt, the hips on this body would rock one.

“So what's got your head in the clouds, Ricardo?” you drawl, handing him the hand towel that fell out of his gi when he sailed over your hip. 

He laughs, hound brown eyes darting to the side as he wipes his brow before tucking it back into his jacket. “Besides that trip you just gave me?” 

“That's just your face in the dirt,” you kick back, letting a crooked grin grace your lips. 

He huffs a little breath of a laugh, and the look he's giving you is hard to parse. Indulgent, but with a sharp edge. He jerks his head towards the bench, and you fall into step after him, vacating the mat space to another pair of training partners. 

“So? What's got you all fucked up today? You have a fight with your girlfriend?” you tease, knowing that you absolutely did fight last night. But you still don't entirely understand what he was implying then. Maybe good old confidant Jolene can gain you some illumination. 

“Mierda, she'd punch me if she heard me call her that,” he says with a rueful little laugh. 

“Is that a problem?” you jibe with a stupid grin, feeling pleased as punch that you can dig into this kind of shit since he took you to Hoots. It was easy to say you’d seen him sucking face with someone in an alley a few nights after, at your next training session together. Even if you had been an idiot for letting him actually do that in public. “You want to call her that?” 

“It's complicated,” he admits, groans really, dragging a hand down his face. “Everything is with her.”

“How so?” you ask, widening your pretty green eyes as a perfect paragon of curious innocence. 

He gives you an amused little smirk, and you aren't sure how successful you're really being. “She has a rocky past, and it very much complicates things,” he says with such obfuscating diplomacy that you can't decide if it's pleasing or frustrating. 

“Her family giving you trouble?” You gently poke at him, curious to see what he'd reveal about you in conversation to someone. What conclusions he's drawn that he'd be willing to share. 

“In a sense,” he says vaguely, and you're starting to feel the same frustration as the night before at his cryptic crap. It must be showing on your face, because he quickly adds, “I'm sorry, I really can't talk about it.”

“Is it… dangerous?” you venture a guess. ”Hero stuff?”

He only nods, and his unusual tight-lippedness with your puppet is making you even more curious. 

“Dangerous how?” you pry again, unable to keep your own mouth from running. What does he think he knows about you? You're dying to know. He can't actually know about the Farm. You're certain. So what could it actually be? “What, is she like part of the mob?” you joke, hoping to get even a little insight. 

“If I told you, someone would probably have to kill you,” he says with a teasing smile that doesn't come close to reaching his eyes. “Don’t worry about it, Jolene. I have it all under control.”

If you weren't concerned about your body's pathetic reach, you'd strangle him. This is the same stupid bullshit wall he threw up last night after needling under your skin. But you aren't Riley, and you need to relax. Recenter. 

Better yet, disengage. Dangle the lure. Maybe he'll cave another time. 

“Well, I hope you two sort out your differences soon,” you say with the level placidity of a frozen lake, and turn to find a new partner on the mat. 

Stupid stubborn asshole. 

[jakowskis]

owen harper, judas to jesus webweave

John 6:70 + Torchwood 1x13 // The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis + Torchwood 2x07 + Torchwood 2x08 // Torchwood 2x05 // Luke 4:23 + Torchwood 2x07 // Matthew 27:42 // Torchwood 2x08 // The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio

[vanityangel]

when ur crush starts eyeing the new girl in town 😔

[insomniamademedothis]

I take it all back torchwood is batshit insane Jack saves a man from suicide but the guy immediately says I’ll do it again btw so Jack says oh ok and sits with him while he kills himself?????????????

~200 years old and never had any mental health awareness training????

[dynamitekansai]

WWE SMACKDOWN (AUGUST 16, 2024)

[smytherines]

I think about Owen and the Chimera surveillance network a lot, because to me it isn't a question of having a surveillance network or not. It is happening. The question is: who will control it?

The surveillance network is an arms race between Chimera, the U.S. government, and I would imagine also the Russians and the British as well. One of these entities *will* succeed, Chimera is just the furthest along. Its like the race for the atomic bomb- each superpower pursued its own nuclear weapons program simultaneously, the US (collaborating with the British) just crossed the finish line first.

Here's my argument.

The first crucial piece of the puzzle is Barb Larvernor. The first time we hear about the concept of computers making spies obsolete, it isn't from DMA/Owen. It's from Barb. In A1P5, Barb says:

"Well picture this- the world's first, large-scale, information collective and archival system... Its just an idea I've been toying around with. If it worked, we'd be able to take down syndicates by doing the detective work from the safety of our desks. It would take the guesswork out of your job, hopefully saving some lives in the process- including your own. Can you imagine if this technology existed?"

There's also this conversation between Barb and Tatiana from the interludes during One Step Ahead.

Tatiana: I need you to search for an island, the size of a compound, that can store hundreds of computing systems

Barb: Easy, I have actually already been researching locations that fit that exact criteria... see, I have been thinking of a technology that can revolutionize- found one!"

From these two exchanges, we know that at the very least Barb is working on this "information collective and archival system" for the US government to use, although she seems to still be in the research and development phase.

Now, let's move on to what we know about Chimera's system, and what Owen wants from it.

First, we have this dialogue from A1P8, of DMA outright telling Curt his plan:

*recording of Cynthia plays*

Curt: where did that come from?

BVN: a little birdie told me

DMA: that little birdie being an advanced network of information surveillance that we've been-

Curt: boring!

Then, from A2P5, we have Owen explaining the system and why he wants to control it:

Tatiana: bird? Little birdies? His scientists developing... you're after the technology

Owen: Pop goes the weasel! An advanced Nazi information surveillance network to collect and archive state secrets.

They discuss why Owen wants the land (silicon babyyy), and then:

Owen: Don't you get it? Those stores of silicon from beneath the Earth's crust will allow us to mass produce Von Nazi's technology and deploy his system on a global scale! I'd have all the world's secrets. I'd be God. Now what a world that would be, eh?

The conversation continues:

Curt: my government will never allow this

Tatiana: not even the Soviets will

Owen: not at first, no. Everybody likes to do the watching, but nobody likes to be watched

Tatiana: you can't just invade the privacy of civilians without reason or suspicion

Owen: well, I like to think we are just turning everyone into a spy, they just aren't aware of it

Moving on to A2P6, the staircase scene:

Owen: YOU STILL DON'T SEE, DO YOU, CURT? There won't be any agency to go back to, once the system is global. I'm going to single-handedly dismantle everything you've ever believed in

Then

Owen: the future is happening, Curt. And it's not going to wait for you. What use will one man be, when a box in a room can do his job in seconds, huh?

Curt: sounds boring

Owen: you're a caveman, and I've invented fire

To me, this absolutely reads as Owen being aware that somebody- be it Chimera, or the US, or the Russians- will have this surveillance network. The future is inevitable. The future is surveillance (he was soooo right), the future is computers. Curt just can't see it yet, because he doesn't know technology the way that Owen and Barb do.

Going back to "I'd have all the world's secrets. I'd be God." Makes me believe that Owen is doing this so that *he* will control the flow of information. That he will be able to protect himself against what is coming. That he will never have to be vulnerable to his secret again.

Because here's the thing: we don't know if Chimera is going to use this information to punish or harm queer people. Given that Owen believes he will be in charge of the surveillance system, I'd say at the very least he does not believe it will be.

His goal seems to be "a world without agencies, a world without spies, a world without secrets." It seems to be the destruction of spying as an institution, and undercutting the nations which make use of spies to influence global events. At no point does he say that he will expose queer people if he is in charge of the surveillance network.

But, the US government absolutely will.

The US government is already hunting down queer people, even without a fancy surveillance network. Having control over Chimera's network would only make that task easier for them. Curt's secret, the secret of any queer person in this time period, is almost certainly safer in the hands of a gay man than it would be in the hands of a bloodthirsty global superpower that is already hunting down queer people.

Finally, at the end of the show, after Cynthia says that pretty soon nerds in lab coats will be running the show, we find out that Barb is getting the resources to fully work on the technology she has been talking about the entire show:

When Curt killed Owen he did not kill the surveillance network. Not for Chimera. But also, by handing A.S.S. evidence of what Chimera was doing, he likely influenced the US government to fund Barb and make her surveillance system a reality. A surveillance system that will invariably be used to hurt people like Curt and Owen.

Its possible that Curt never takes down Chimera precisely because the US now has a surveillance system to tell them that their ex-agent, the agent who went rogue, is also gay. And I don't imagine they would be very Gay Rights about it.

From a real world perspective, Owen and Barb were right: surveillance technology was the future in 1961. It is the present we currently live in. Warrantless, invasive, built into every piece of tech we use. The future happened, and it didn't wait for Agent Curt Mega.

[kairithemang0]

This has been done before right?

[existential-labrador]

I’m sorry was this a convention of my biggest crushes or what?!

[alphaclxwn]

noahvember day 2 - vampire

so i’ve been reading stakes, right? and so i’ve been wondering what if noah was the vampire instead

then i decided, what if i made it angsty, then added some alenoah as a spice

[gabbytheplatypus]

Happy Birthday Glen, the man who makes all hearts beat x2

Promised my family I would bake a cake for them, didn't say what kind of cake🤷🏼‍♀ (Also baking REALLY isn't my strength so judge me silently)

[therunwayarchive]

Allexia De Jesus at Rick Owens, Spring 2023