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The Aftermath (1982)
"What happens when you die?"
"I don't know, son. No one does."
"It's sad to die."
"No. Death isn't sad. We all have to die. What's sad is having to go on without someone you love. Just as we have to go on now."
#the aftermath#1982#video nasty#horror imagery#steve barkett#stanley livingston#post apocalyptic film#horror film#american cinema#lynne margulies#sid haig#christopher barkett#alfie martin#forrest j. ackerman#jim danforth#linda stiegler#laura anne barkett#larry latham#carole scott#nelson ackerman#john w. morgan#incredibly dumb passion project from writerâ director and star Barkett; he spent years getting this madeâ burning through investors and#deals whilst trying to maintain the integrity of his vision (his sillyâ silly vision). to be clearâ this is a lot of fun to watch but not#all of that fun is intentional; the back third of this movie contains a shootout so absurdly longâ so gratuitously violent (and with a#preposterous location change from the desert to some ruined city skyscraper tops) that it beggars belief. likewise Barkett's self insertion#as the Ultimate Action Man Hero who by the end of the film comes to resemble more of a post apocalyptic christlike figure of spiritual#salvation. it's a dumb film is what I'm sayingâ but Sid Haig is there and it all looks unreasonably good and the matte paintings are weirdl#excellent (and the fx are solid tooâ model spaceships aside). ridiculous stuff but made with clear love and self belief#in such a way that it can only end up being endearing. a pleasant surprise in my deep dive into the more obscure nasties#it's been a rough ride recently but a few more brain numbing entries like this and I'll be back on board
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a little core leadership lunch for the girls
#toronto maple leafs#mitch marner#auston matthews#morgan rielly#john tavares#i love them...#mitch w the fcijdv espresso but he is a coffee connoisseur
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Dutch's supposed "progressiveness"
Some people, both in-game and in the fandom, consider Dutch a very progressive man, especially for the time. He did include marginalized groups of people in his gang, but that was only because those people were so desperate they were willing to follow him blindly and obey him to preserve the security and safety provided within the gang.
He didn't help Eagle Flies because of his morals, it was to serve himself. He didn't "rescue" the women because he's a good man, it was because they could offer him things like free labor, assistance during jobs, and in Abigail's case sw. He saved John and Arthur, orphans with no $ or family, to mold into perfect outlaws who wouldn't disobey him.
He isn't progressive, he preys on struggling people and then uses them to his advantage and disposes of them when they no longer serve him. We see this with the Wapiti Tribe, his readiness to abandon Abigail once she got kidnapped, and his refusal to rescue John (+ etc).
Dutch's love and care have always been conditional. He didn't love anyone for who they were, but for how they could serve him.
#I do think he does this unknowingly tho#I'm a dutch hater but I'm also deeply fascinated w his character#last bit especially applies to his lovers#dutch van der linde#rdr2#rdr1#red dead redemption 2#has someone else talked ab this already??#probably#eagle flies#john marston#arthur morgan#abigail marston#abigail roberts
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COLIN MORGAN as JOHN WEBSTER The Killing Kind, Episode 1
#colin morgan#the killing kind#tvedit#smallscreensource#cinematv#not thrilled w the coloring but i really struggled for some reason lmao#i actually am really enjoying this show so far! i don't trust john at all though#ee#gifs#colin
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#white monster#cigarette#neon genesis evangelion#rotting#rei ayanami#shinji ikari#mental illness#molest k!nk#my nigga#shirtless twink#cutie w a bootie#frankenstein drug 50 times stronger than fentanyl set to cause âtsunami of deathsâ in uk & spark war between crime gangs#nintendo#nine inch nails#strictly for the niggas#red dead redemption 2#red dead fandom#john marston#arthur morgan#hosea matthews#self h@rm#rapekink#rapetoy#rapemedaddy#javier escuella#gothic#gothcore#us core#me core#girl core
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[it] makes you almost miss the smell of smoke in your clothes / thereâs no good in your eyes anymore. but you canât stay angry forever. and i know, but you canât stay angry forever, / or so iâm told. but the house gets so quiet, sitting here wishing for just an hour or two, alone with you. well, itâs always too personal, / always too close to comment, and they all mention how tired you look and you realize you havenât said a word in hours
hiding, pianos become the teeth.
early days arthur and john, at sean's homecoming party. things around camp are still tense and arthur's resentment still bleeds through.
#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#rdr2 photography#arthur morgan#john marston#i spent way too long picking lyrics for this one BUT. i hope that it helps to convey what i was going for w the screencaps#morston#morstonmonday#morston monday
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yeah, yeah, dutch and hosea forced arthur and john to take the path of gangsterism, thereby dooming them to this end, but did the boys have many options? i mean, i don't think vdm met them in expensive neighborhoods in respectable cities, steal them from rich families, or force them to give up a good life in favor of the lifestyle they had. they were orphans who lost everything, if they had something at all. at best they would have found another gang where they would have been treated much worse, at worst would have died as stray dogs at the hands of the same gang. and it's quite sad to think about it, because sooner or later you come to the conclusion that they were doomed to end up like this from the very beginning.
#arthur morgan#john marston#dutch van der linde#hosea matthews#red dead redemption 2#rdr2#âdoomed from the beginningâ sounds like quote âpeople never changeâ which i hate w all my soul#but it is what it is
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Sadie Adler - Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
#2018#gaming#western#Red Dead Redemption 2#Red Dead Redemption#Sadie Adler#John Marston#Jack Marston#Mary-Beth Gaskill#Josiah Trelawny#Arthur Morgan#Leopold Strauss#Micah Bell#Dutch Van Der Linde#Hosea Matthews#Wild West#Smith & Wesson#S&W#Schofield Model 3
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iâm actually john marston irl, heâs literally me (the only things we have in common are commitment issues and a nicotine addiction)
#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#rdr1#john marston#arthur morgan#im also in love w abigail of courseđđđ
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this is genuinely how i imagine tilly w arthur (& john... whenever he actually lets himself be emotionally vulnerable) all the way to the end... just. thick as thieves, the three of them. will literally support each other through everything no matter what it is.
too bad r* fucking squandered tilly's character & just made her some girl in the camp instead...
#p.#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#tilly jackson#john marston#I KNOW. I KNOW!! that most if not all of my posts abt them & their relationship is basically just me crying over wasted potential...#but i literally think abt it often enough for it to bother me. i cant come up w any hcs for them because of it.
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The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) Review
Two pioneers fight for their lives and find each other against all odds during the Civil War on the American frontier. âď¸âď¸ Continue reading The Dead Donât Hurt (2023) Review
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#2023#Alex Breaux#Angela Lentz#Atlas Green#Colin Morgan#Danny Huston#Drama#Garret Dillahunt#Jason Clarke#John Getz#Marc Dennis#Nadia Litz#Rafel Plana#Ray McKinnon#Review#Shane Graham#Solly McLeod#The Dead Don&039;t Hurt#Vicky Krieps#Viggo Mortensen#W. Earl Brown#Western
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Mako: The Jaws of Death (The Jaws of Death, 1976)
"The old man told me that the inlet was a very special place where he went to give sacrifice to their shark god. His people made a living from the sea. They could only survive through the good graces of the most powerful force they knew: the shark. I had done what no man had dared to try, and by their sparing my life, and killing those who would've killed me, I became a member of the shark clan. So, in return for my life, as long as I wear my medallion, I'll find friends everywhere amongst the sharks."
#mako: the jaws of death#the jaws of death#william grefĂŠ#1976#american cinema#robert w. morgan#richard jaeckel#jennifer bishop#buffy dee#harold sakata#john davis chandler#ben kronen#milton 'butterball' smith#paul preston#bob gordon#george johnson#jerry albert#lucille blackton#marcia knight#dan fitzgerald#sharksploitation#bill grefĂŠ you dunnit again. still on my deep dive into this singularly shoddy filmography of a legitimate auteur of crap; i didn't even#make a post for the last GrefĂŠ film I watched (1970's The Naked Zoo) bc i just straight up hated the film so much (a joyless exercise in#mental cruelty with lashings of misogyny and racism). i had higher hopes for Mako; this was the film that actually got me interested in#GrefĂŠâ and lord knows I love a Jaws ripoff. im also a fan of Jaeckel (co star of Grizzlyâ one of the all time greats in Jawsalike movie#making) but despite that this wasnt the good time i was hoping for. starts off pretty fun and dumb as Jaeckel's weird loner uses his#psychic connection with sharks (yup) to defend them from evil humans (i can get behind that unexpected pov) but loses almost all its good#faith once real sharks start getting really killed. it's not clear how much is real and how much staged but theres at least one genuine#killing and one is too many; no shark deserves to die for a shit filmâ even if it is (absurdly) arguing for their better protection.#a deeply stupid and infuriatingly pointlessly cruel film which could have been good fun but burns its bridges very quickly
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Art by Morgan Robles.
#mxmorgan#morgan robles#john w campbell#john carpenter#who goes there?#the thing#the thing 1982#poster art#halloween
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My favorite thing to imagine is all the mischief Tilly and John would get up to in their youth.
Them pranking Arthur, stealing candy from general stores, and getting on the very last nerves of Dutch, Hosea, and Grimshaw.
#they're gremlins#John more visibly so#just imagine 16 yr old JM running around w 10 yr old Tilly#I like to think Tilly is only 5-6 yrs younger than John#john marston#tilly jackson#arthur morgan#dutch van der linde#hosea matthews#susan grimshaw#red dead redemption 2#rdr2
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WHAT SET YOU FREE, BROUGHT YOU TO ME BABY.
rdr2 men + short blurbs about their favorite sex positions.
ft. arthur morgan, john marston, javier escuella, and charles smith.
⧠tags : SPOILER HEAVY, fem + afab!reader, unprotected sex, light angst (in the horny post is crazy im sorry fdkjjkds), very gendered language, javier says one thing in spanish (thank u @nanamimizz), a little sprinkle of plot with each (and some canon divergency), john co-parents w abigail, otherwise just horny. 18+
⧠wc : about 1.4-8k each (6.3k total)
⧠a/n : sorry for making a multi character post for the cowboy game its cooking me to death. my john bias is showing rip. title is from rebel yell by billy idol but i listen to the bvb cover
sorry about charles and javiers but if i edit this anymore im going to level an entire city using hollow purple technique. please rb if you enjoyed i worked kind of hard on whatever this is.
sorry for . the THIRD repost of this i promise i wont after this. its just really bugging me. PLEASE
.đĽ Ý ËËâ˝Ë・â ARTHUR MORGAN + PRONE BONE ;Â
Itâs an odd feelinâ for Arthur.Â
Wanting something, he means. Wanting anything as much as he wants you. Heâs lived a less than quiet life up until now. And he ainât the brightest, certainly, but living this kind of life teaches you many lessons. One of them being, itâs better not to covet anything. Coveting something youâre not entitled to, wellâitâll lead you places you wouldnât want to go with a gun.Â
Arthur has made the mistake of coveting love before, dreamed of a future so completely out of his reach he almost convinced himself it was possible. Dreamed of it so foolishly heâd even go visit a woman he very well ought to forget. Itâs his problem, his burden to bear - always desiring outcomes unsuited to him.Â
Heâs just that sort of man he reckons. But he learned his lesson. He tries (tried?) to stay away from it after that. Tried not to pine too much for normalcy when such hopes had failed him twice. The loss of his child completely on his account and the loss of his love at the same fate.Â
So, wanting you - well, he feels like the world's dullest fool. Really. How is it that Arthur had fallen in love with someone again? It had all just happened so quickly. You were another woman heâd saved from the OâDriscolls, though it wasnât like you were no damsel. A lot of those men were dead by the time they arrived. That sort of perseverance would stick with you while you traveled together. Much like Sadie, you didnât take well to housework - you liked to earn your keep. Though youâre not nearly so trigger happy.Â
Youâre quiet, thoughtful, well-read. Plus youâre good at making money. Thatâs why Dutch don't complain about you joining them, he figures.Â
(Arthur tries not to pry into it too much at first, but he eventually learns that youâre gambling. Which is how youâre able to make such a fast turn around. A prim little lady like you makes for a fine poker player, and you love to play men out of their money. He thinks itâs one of the funniest and most interesting things about you. He canât help but love you a little more for it. )
When the feelings in him start to stir, Arthur tries to overlook it. Arthur convinces himself, time and time again - that thereâs no way heâll grow more tender about you. Eventually, itâll die down. Youâre a decent woman is all, a kind one - whoâs easy for him to love and even easier for him to confide in. In your time together, you often come to Arthur and you always seem to have some profound wisdom he is so sorely lacking. Someone easy to love, who does not expect much from Arthur at all. Itâs only natural a lonely, covetous man like him would start to dream about you. He tells himself, it will pass eventually. Should he simply let it run by him, it will pass. But Arthurs a fool, youâll remember.Â
 Of course, by the time he understood all that - he already loved you enough that he couldnât bear it. It was already too late and it wasnât going to change any time soon. Especially not while everything changed around him.Â
So, Arthur is undoubtedly a fool, but heâs lucky. He felt divinely blessed when youâd returned his feelings for him so politely. A coy little smile on your face, a laugh like you thought he was silly for being doubtful. Arthur tried to explain himself but you wouldnât hear a word of it. Maybe thatâs another thing he loves so much about you. Thereâs nothing he ever needs to explain.Â
In any case, all Arthur seems to do lately is want you. Wants you when itâs inconvenient. Wants you before he wants liquor or a cigarette or some other vice. Any time anything goes wrong, youâre the first thing his mind can conjure up for relief. That pretty smile and that self-assured way of living. Itâs hard to get time alone in camp. And Arthur is a man in love, so any touch could be enough to set him on fire. Last week you hugged his waist a little before giving him a kiss goodbye and he had to listen to you laugh yourself into a fit as he waited forâŚlittle Arthur to settle down.Â
He donât get many chances to be with you. Lay with you in that way that grown folk in love do. Though, if the two of you book it somewhere for a few days - the camp knows better not to ask where youâve been. But itâs not often you get to really be together, where itâs peaceful to do that. Someoneâs always hounding one of you to do something.Â
Arthur is a lucky man though, like he said. Today he had time. Today heâs alone with you in a beat up little saloon and today he gets to do as he likes. He gets to be greedy. And itâs an odd feeling for him, really, to want something so bad he disregards everything else in the world for a little while.Â
Feeling you, though - absolves the guilt for wanting. Heâd be stupid to want you any less desperately.Â
Arthurâs favorite way to have you is on your stomach. Laid flat, just barely pushed up against him as he fucks you deep. Youâll fuck like rabbits for a little while and Arthur will wear you out just like this, maneuvering you until youâre pinned all underneath his weight. You lose any fight you might have, too exhausted to worry yourself with pleasing him - and when youâre like that, you let Arthur take care of you.Â
(He really ainât talented at much, but heâs good with his hands. Being dexterous is part of being a talented shot. When Arthur has the time to spread you sweet in his lap and make you cum all over his fingers, he does so for as long as he can. At least until you beg him so sweetly otherwise. The same hands, soiled with gunsmoke, look so good so deep in you. At least in his eyes.)
Wet and pliable and helpless. Arthur loves you like that. He knows, he knows youâre anything but - but heâd be damned to pretend this donât feel best. Tight, wet cunt so welcoming from all the pleasure heâs ripped out of you. Your bodies pressed together, your heartbeat pulsing through your skin. All sticky, honeyed need and animal desire as Arthur lets all of him sink on top of you. His heavy, lumbering form crushing you in - trapping you somewhere you canât run from him. The curve of your spine pushed against his chest, ticklish.Â
Every inch of his body that so wholly wants for you, Arthur aches to make you feel. Burn it in you lest anything happens that risks your forgetting.Â
He can feel his hips meet your ass, backside squished against him - desperate for deeper friction. Whining. Youâre whining to him so pretty, a pillow pushed underneath you to give friction to needy clit.Â
Arthur can feel how much you want more. Maybe Arthur is greedy, but he likes that look much better on you. Your pussy is sucking him in so tight, silken walls pulsing with every shallow little measured thrust. Arthur lets his arm wrap around your neck, your face pressing into his bicep. You moan again and he laughs.Â
âArthur,â Your words come out in a messy slur. He lets his scruffy face press against your neck, a kiss behind your ear. He wants to kiss you all over. Thereâs not enough hours in the day. âOh, god, Arthur,âÂ
âStill feels good, then, Iâm guessinâ,âÂ
âShut up,â You huff and press your cheek into his arm. He doesnât bother stifling his laugh. âStill feelsâŚbig. Stretchinâ me outâhiccâso much,âÂ
You really donât try to rile him up - but you do a damn good job of it anyway. He groans, grunts as he pulls back and pistons himself in you. A gesture half-way between a kiss and the warning shot of a gun. The sound of skin hitting skin echoes, noisy and vulgar. Arthur donât pay it much mind. He laughs against your shoulder.
âOne of these days, that mouthaâ yours is gonna get me in real trouble.âÂ
You giggle back at himÂ
âWhat kinda trouble is that now?âÂ
Even from your side glance, youâve got that lovely little smile on you. Fuckdrunk and ingratiating, like you know heâs wrapped so tight around your fingers. And he is, like nothing else in the world could have him. A wave of possession curls up over Arthur, makes him press more of himself into you. Onto you. Another deep push of his cock, sliding against the tenderest parts of you. Staking some silent desire in you. He wants and wants and wants, and hopes that whatevers above him can forgive him for making the same mistake thrice.Â
âDunno,â Arthur comments, teeth grazing your shoulder and kissing the indentations âGot our whole lives together to find out, I reckon.âÂ
âIâll hold you to it, Mister.âÂ
Arthur laughs. âHope you do, Miss.âÂ
.đĽ Ý ËËâ˝Ë・â JOHN MARSTON + COWGIRL ;
John doesnât say that he loves you lightly.Â
Hardly a thing he says can be said that way. Could never afford too. In an alternate universe where nothing goes wrong in his life, maybe - but he has a hard time picturing what the hell thatâd look like. A version of himself so untainted, without all of the violence and blood and gunsmoke? Foreign. John canât picture it worth a damn.Â
Who John is without a deadbeat father and a dead Ma is somewhere far beyond his reach. Ainât nothing about his life, at any point, lighthearted.Â
On top of all that mess, heâs got a boy at age four with a woman he ainât married too. And that relationship is always on rocky waters, even though Johnâs decided to do right by his own flesh and blood sometime ago. Most things in the world he should feel good about he doesnât, and most things he should understand render him clueless. Heâs a mess on multiple accounts, and he still doesnât know how exactly heâs meant to approach this life of his. He knows what he should do, but nothing about how to do it.Â
John doesnât come to love you easily âcause he wouldnât know easy love if it hit him in his face. Quickly and painfully, but not easily.Â
Your return to the gang was an odd one. You were an old presence and your disappearance was an even older story. John thought heâd never gonna see you again for sure. Youâd been a part of the gang back long before all of the nonsense that took place in Blackwater and you left about the time Arthurâs boy died. John donât remember why you left exactly. He thinks it was a fight with Hosea, of all things.
 Dutch weren't too happy about it neither, but Dutch back then didnât make a show.Â
So you left, and John buried every feeling he ever harbored. You found all them again up in Colter, where youâd been living out your days lately. According to you, in the middle of riding, you thought youâd heard Arthur. So, somewhat recklessly, you went chasing him. Didnât matter if he was just something your mind conjured. According to you, if it was him, it was at least worth checking to make sure. Youâd reunited with Arthur and after some tears, he rode with you back to camp.Â
Upon your return, the gang welcomed you with open arms.Â
Youâd done a lot in your time alone.You spent most of that time just like that, a ghost wanderinâ the planes. You werenât gonna stay with âem, but Arthur insisted and Hosea did too. That wasnât enough to compel, so John was last to chip in. You should stay, at least until Valentine.Â
(Silently he thought, you should stay so John can trace memories of you. It was so long ago, he shouldâve forgotten all of it. You were a year older than John and always on his ass but easy for him to talk to. Didnât fuss over his failures. You just barely grew into your womanhood when you set your sights on running away. You wanted more than this life, and John never really forgave you for it. His first heartbreak, maybe - but itâs all too blurry for that.Â
You understood him though better than anyone, and one day you were gone. Nothingâs really the same.)Â
You changed tremendously and not at all. He missed you. God, did he ever. Missed you a long time. Didnât realize how much until you came back and everything in him felt right again. Your return stirred up old feelings and everyone noticed. He wasnât trying to keep it a secret, but he really wasnât trying to fall back into anything with you. Not how he did.Â
Just like you did back then, you read John like an open book. And just like he did back then, he loved you all too helplessly for it. It was just all too easy again, to be with you.Â
You stayed out of the way at first, for the sake of his family.Â
But, John ainât a half-decent man even when heâs trying to be. So he set himself on being with you. It wasnât easy - most things with him arenât as youâll see. Having you around again straightened what was left of his common sense, at least. He told Abigail before telling you. He figured you wouldnât even reply unless that was all out of the way. That turned out as well as youâd expect.
 It was settled between the two of you thereafter. Heâs lucky she didnât toss him into the street.Â
Everything works out in a way. As best they can between broken people. You make peace with each other. His boy loves you like a third parent (youâre better with him than John is). Abigail commends you for straightening out such a worthless man though sheâs a little melancholy. John just tries to stay out of the way. Youâll be together in the end. Thereâs a plan with the five of you.Â
But until it all falls apart, he doesnât get all that much time with you.Â
Thereâs moments like tonight, though. Rare ones. Together out robbinâ, cooped out some place in the woods where no one is around. A place so shaded by nightfall that John can absolve himself of every sin heâs ever committed in his life and pray at the altar between your hips. John is convinced he might find worship like heâs always hearing about there whenever he touches you, the marred skin of his hands and knuckles reading the scripture of your body with careful precision.Â
You might turn him into a literate man yet.Â
John glances up at you. Only the light of the fire and the moonlight there to accompany as he watches you over him. Youâre beautiful. John couldnât picture a single thing more perfect in his life.Â
Your hands against his bare chest, nails digging into the flesh as you lean forward. Your palm dug into the dirt, John finds his own hands rested at your hips. John looks at you awe-struck, cock twitching at the mere sight. His heart settles in his throat, but heâs calm all at the same time. With you, he forgets. All of it. The worst of himself.Â
Bare naked and so close, he watches your face as you strain. You feel soft. Every inch of you in comparison to him is. A bead of sweat slides down the valley of your breasts. John cranes his neck up to catch it with his tongue, licking a stripe up to your neck - letting his teeth sink into the space between your jaw and neck. You want to make it last and John doesnât blame you. Itâs so rare you get to have each other so unrestrained. John can feel all the ways you want him, can see it in your face - all pinched with need. Youâre holding yourself back, trying to get it to last as long as the night will allow. Itâs cute in a way.
Itâs different than how heâs used to seeinâ you, all cocky or otherwise. Youâre needy like this. Just needy. His stomach turns with lust, jolting through him like a strike of lightning. His cock twitches against your folds, sliding against them. Pure admiration watching the sticky mess of his pre-cum and your own arousal mix together and smear on your mound. You make a soft noise in the back of your throat, faint and tender as you fall forward just a little. John laughs against your neck.Â
âDarlinâ,â He says with a huff. Not malice. Something akin to bliss, where he can rarely afford it âHave I done something to piss you off today?âÂ
You pick yourself up and look down at him and frown. John kisses the corner of your mouth, resisting some crude desire to fuck up into you.Â
âJust,â You grunt as the tip of his cock passes over your throbbing clit, your whole body wracking to a shiver. John looks awed. âPent up. Goddamn it,âÂ
John figures it out quickly after that. Itâs this part of it he likes. The proximity. The closeness. Feeling the tremble in your hands as they struggle to keep up right, muscles strained in your forearms. Being able to hold you, to keep the pace or let you take the lead. The clear view of your face as pleasure travels up through your spine and melts into you. He grabs your hips, the fat dimpling underneath his fingers as he moves you along. He canât wait. You donât bother to protest seeing John canât seem to bear it anymore. You collapse into his chest, your tits pushed flat against his pecs.
His cock throbs near painfully, sliding against your soft cunt before finding himself lined with you. He thinks to himself that itâs this he was looking for, as he tucks your face against his neck and lets his tip stretch you out slowly. Such a vice like grip, stretching - resisting him like your whole body canât anticipate the sensation of fullness. You gasp against his throat.Â
âJohn,â Â
What a sweet sound from your mouth, even sweeter as he bucks himself up. Keeps you steady and lets his cock stretch you full, feel you deep. âThatâs right, my angel. Didnât think youâd remember my name when youâre all worked up like this.âÂ
âYouâre,â You gasp and John thrusts, thrusts hard until heâs buried to the hilt. You shudder, walls pulsing around him as he bottoms out and John laughs like the terrible man he is. He fucks you again, over and over - a wicked little smile watching âAwful. Just awful, John Marston,âÂ
âAinât that the truth,â He hums against your mouth as his hand snakes between your bodies, thumb rubbing against your clit. âWonder what kinda woman that makes you,âÂ
âA foolish one,âÂ
John laughs.Â
âI sure do love you for it,â
.đĽ Ý ËËâ˝Ë・âJAVIER ESCUELLA + SIDEWAYS ;
Javier hasnât thought about much other than surviving.Â
Itâs been like that. Been like that for a while, probably much longer than he cares to admit. Heâs sure any sane man would suffer the same plight if they lead the same life. Anything but survival is little more than a pipe-dream, so Javier tries not to go for anything too strongly. In that aspect heâs like many of the members of the gang heâs in, perhaps thatâs why he sticks to them. Thereâs that phrase Hoseaâs always saying - that misery loves company. Javier will take any decent company he can get. Heâs desperate for it just like heâs desperate for most things - inwardly, silently.Â
Some of that desperation may be symptomatic of who he is. After he killed a man in a crime of passion for a woman he loved and ran from a government who would sooner exile him than change, Javier decided to not dream anymore. Every revolutionary who dreams too hopefully pays the price in blood.
(Javier thinks thereâs probably nothing in the world as true as this. A form of gospel. He remembers the first dream he ever had after his uncle passed. Not a nightmare but a dream. He remembers the exact feeling of waking up, cold and confused. What is a dream, except a memento of survivor's guilt that loyal people cling onto fruitlessly. When hope starts to feel like a debt heâs going to waste his life paying back, Javier loses sight of everything. The beginning of the end in some way.)Â
His mind doesnât occupy itself with anything bigger than that. Since Dutch found him starving, there was never a desire to try and live off aspirations. He pays his penance with loyalty and honor. Practices some form of humility and tries, not too desperately, to carve a place for him to fit. All without drawing too much attention or caring too much. If you ignore the bleeding in his fingers, his penchant for knives over guns, and his refusal to talk too long about the place he comes from - itâs nearly believable that none of it matters.Â
Except loyalty. All Javier honors is that. Itâs the only thing he has some part in choosing, so he choses it every time. Living like that didnât make any difference to him. He was surrounded by mostly decent people. He didnât hate the life he was living.Â
It wasnât important. It didnât matter. His directionless-ness, his floating. Hadnât since he joined the gang. At least not to anyone but him. He didnât know what heâs meant to do or if he was meant to proceed with this forever. He was (is)Â loyal to Dutch. To the gang.Â
He hadnât thought much about what comes after.Â
And it didnât matter until he met you
Heâd sworn off love after seeing where it got him, at least until he could love more dispassionately. When the women bring you back from their outing from Valentine and beg Dutch to let you stay, Javier doesnât think much of it all. He thinks youâre pretty, if it counts for anything. But he doesnât let himself linger on you too long.Â
But thatâs the sequence with you two, really. The whole time. He doesnât linger until he does. It doesn't matter until it does. He doesnât think about you until itâs all he can think about.Â
You go for him first. And itâs in little, unimportant ways that might not mean shit to you but mean a whole lot to him. You have some kind of tenderness about you that you wear deep, runs through your blood like love ran through his once long ago. Some softness he canât really measure with his own. Itâs not that that gets him. Itâs that sometimes you look at Javier like he's ⌠someone you want to see. He forgot what that was like all together. It felt foreign to him the first time it happened. Seeing how you light up when Javier is around.Â
You wanted to see him. You noticed that heâs gone. If he sang by the campfire - youâd sit by him and listen. If he was out in the trees keeping guard, heâd hear the soft call of your voice to Grimshaw ask Whereâs Javier? And sometimes the girls will make fun of you - but you wouldnât deny anything they said. Itâs so small and ordinary. He wouldâve never considered himself simple before meeting you. Nothing is simple. Nothing.Â
(But then, Javier thinks of the kinds of songs he sings and the way he takes care of himself and the clothes he wears and maybe Javier has some kind of affinity for preciousness that explains all of it.)Â
When Javier confesses his feelings for you - he finds the affair to be like most things between you. Ordinary love, not really between outlaws but people. Itâs up against a tree while you share a drink and heâs looking at the curve of your mouth and the plum color Karenâs so kindly put on you. And his head fills with kissing you so he does. A breathless confession between alcohol stains and the feeling of your hands curled in the lapels of his suit.Â
From there, Javier is your lover. Heâs not interested in the business of secrets, but he tries not to let it show too much. Not that he doesnât want to. He wants to show you off more than anything - at least some part of him does. But the other part wants to keep you away from prying eyes, keep his love for you only where the both of you can see. If he could keep that pretty lovestruck face you make all to himself forever he would.Â
When he gets a chance to whisk you away from everything, Javier jumps at the chance. Not often, but Javier makes time for you. Makes time to indulge in love he thought heâd never find again.Â
Thatâs why heâs here with you in the middle of nowhere, a ghost town where no one knows you.. A reserved room with a bed and lowlights all to yourselves.Â
Javier canât keep his hands to himself and he doubts you expect him too.Â
For Javier, this sense of proximity is what intoxicates him most. The warmth of your bare skin in the slivers of yourself exposed. Javier is fond of finding you like this after a long day of horse riding. Of sneaking touches to your waist as you push back against him to sleep, only to find his desire for you - laid clearly. He likes hearing you whimper feeling his length poke against your back, the embarrassment when it dawns on you that he wants you after all. Always surprised, even though Javier tells you it so often. Whispers it along your neck and shoulders whenever youâre at camp together.
You like the feeling of his hands so Javier always starts with them. He squeezes your hips. Planes his palms over your chest before squeezing your chest, pushing the fat between his fingers. You like the way they look when they grope you, his chin resting against your shoulder as you spoon. In the lowlights of a cheap hotel - Javier gets the perfect view of your silhouette. Your body is sensitive over the fabric of your gown, heat prickling through you.Â
Javier who is always so gentle with you, rouses so deep listening to your whining as he explores your body. The suffocating closeness of a single bed intoxicates him.Â
âJavier,â Your voice is sweet and thin. Plays in Javierâs head like music and makes his mouth curl up into a catlike grin as you push back on him. You look slightly over your shoulder, lips pushed into a pout. âPlease,âÂ
He tugs at the fabric of your nightgown. The top half pulls haphazard underneath your tits, nipples perky and sensitive to touch while the skirt pools at your waist. What gets Javier like this is the desperation. Wanting so much but not being able to look too long. A way for you to mirror him, itâs a matter of possession. In some stupid way. Bunching your clothes up, pushing the fabric of your panties to one side, letting his arm wrap around your waist to touch and tease. All of these are imprints of his longing, tucked faithful into your side as he whispers sweet nothings into your skin.
His cock twitches as it pushes past your folds with finality, your hands curling up at your sides. You whimper softly, let your cheek rest against the sheets as Javier takes you on your side. Terribly close, you fuss as you feel him slide every inch into you slow, your hands reaching back for purchase. Itâs the fit of you against him so perfect, the silent strokes of intimacy, the hush-hush giggles between the sheets that Javier loves most about fucking you like this. Too enamored with you to look too closely, he lets his eyes flutter closed. He could get drunk just being in your space.Â
He carves out space for himself inside of you, feels your cunt accommodate for him like it loves him. A feverishness breaks out as his forehead rests on the space between your shoulders, an uncharacteristic whiny quality in his words.Â
âSer mĂo,â Javier says - as a reflection of what he really wants, to belong only to you. âBelong to me.âÂ
Darling as you always are, you nod softly.Â
âAll yours, Javier,â You whimper, finding his hand. âForever,â
.đĽ Ý ËËâ˝Ë・â CHARLES SMITH + MATING PRESS ;Â
Wandering.Â
Heâs been doing it his whole life. Not something heâs proud of. Or ashamed of either, really. Just how things have gone for him until now. Charles doesnât think his life has been any better or any worse than anyone else's. At least not when he weighs it with the same kind of pragmatism he does most things. Itâs been a hard life, and a miserable one in so many ways. Still, itâs not something Charles is too keen to dwell on.Â
Thereâs just something thematic about loss in Charles' life in a way he finds completely unpleasant. Itâs more constant than anything. Loss of his home, loss of his mother, loss of his father in an attempt to find whatâs best for him. Itâs some overarching message that hangs over his head like a shadow. Everywhere he goes, trying to rectify his own solitude seems to come back to him. It doesnât help that itâs an unfair world to start with, and wouldâve been if he had just been black or just been native. But Charles is both, and has lived a life that reflects that specific injustice thoroughly.Â
Thereâs not really anything Charles can do about it, at its baseline. When he left his father, the name of the game had simply been survival. He was well-equipped enough for that at least. But after survival comes trying to live and trying to live isnât something so simple. Jumping in and out of gangs who thought they could get away with slighting him or generally being surrounded by unpleasant people. Trying to find something in pages of book and scripture, or in the way water ripples when it rains.Â
Heâs never felt any one way towards the gang. Even when he joined them all the way back in the Grizzlies. Lost in the cold, theyâd crossed paths as Charles was out hunting. A lot of it feels like a blur. Of all the folks heâs met in his travels though, Dutch treats him fair and the rest of them (or most of them) are decent, honest folk. Charles stays in the Van Der Linde gang for such simple reasons as trying to stay alive and be somewhere that isnât actively hostile towards him. Heâs a good gunman, and a better fighter. The inner workings of gang politics and forging connection isnât at the forefront of his mind, with the exception of the kindest few.Â
The Van Der Linde gang is just a place where he can figure out what his purpose is meant to be, even if he doesnât find it there. Heâs never expecting anything to come out from his loyalties to it.Â
Of all the things Charles expects of his life in the Van Der Linde gang, love is at the very bottom of the list.Â
Maybe itâs about time he stops being surprised by these things happening to him one or way another.
 You were a member of the gang far before him, and someone Charles took to quickly. Youâd joined the gang not too long after John from what Arthur tells him. Though the brunette speaks about you more fondly than he does his brother. A problem child at the start, according to Arthur - always getting into all sorts of trouble. Something you seemingly feel embarrassed about now and refuse to bring up. Charles has a hard time picturing it having only known you as you are.Â
The woman youâve grown into is someone else completely, and Charles sees that in you all the time. Compassionate like Hosea but charismatic like Dutch, and clever. And youâre beautiful, too, though Charles feels a little shallow admitting thatâs part of what drew you into him.Â
It wasnât Charles that approached you first. You were the one who spoke to him, as often as you thought necessary but never in a way he found invasive. He doesnât know what it is exactly about you that charms him near instantly. Youâre enigmatic to a fault. Itâs like you always know exactly what to say and exactly when to say it. Even more than that, youâre a terribly pleasant person to be around. Subtly warm and free of assumptions. When Charles talks to you about anything, you listen without making him feel like itâs any sort of burden to you. You donât pry, donât make missteps. Treat him fair, and then some.Â
Itâs unbearably simple, just how quickly and how easily he comes to adore you. And, in some ways, Charles knows better than to believe that his purpose is loving someone. Thereâs more to it than that, surely - after everything.Â
But then, heâll watch you do something. Watch you do some kind of menial work that he could do for you instead. Thinks of skinning animals for new clothes and chopping wood and rubbing the soap off of you and all of a sudden it makes him feel anchored. Everything he could do for you. You anchor Charles easily, with a wispy smile. Make him want to find purpose in life with you. He never wants to be somewhere youâre not.Â
He confesses it to you just like that, and like you do with most things - you accept and reciprocate without making too much of a fuss.Â
For Charles, making love is an extension of wanting to ground himself in you. A distant siren song - the intersection of lust and bone deep adoration. Like most things, youâre the one to approach first every time. A soft hand on his forearm, a whisper that you want him. Itâs with ease that he draws you away. Drags from you camp during nightfall with his horse and blankets and picks a spot with the perfect view of the stars.Â
Charles watches you under the glow of moonlight, his vision adjusting to you easily. Naked underneath him, laid on your back with your legs folded at your knees - heaving deep breaths. He can see the sweat beading down your skin, your chest rising and falling - and the perfect view of your pussy. His hands and mouth are wet as you breathe out. He finds himself smiling at you, his own erection pressed against your thigh, pre-cum leaking out in a mesmerized haze.Â
You lift your hands up and he leans down, surprised as you wrap them around his neck and pull him closer to you. Your mouths meet like that, and Charles laughs against your lips as you kiss him so eagerly. You blink at him, pretty. Youâre always prettier than he remembers you being the last time he looks.Â
âCharles,â You frown at him. âItâs impolite to keep a lady waiting,âÂ
He kisses the corner of your mouth. âSorry, my love. I donât want to hurt you,âÂ
âWell, Iâm fine with it,â You repeat, almost petulant. Charles frowns. ââSides, it ainât my first time taking you, you know?âÂ
âWell, Iâm not fine with it.âÂ
You pout, looking at him all endeared. Charles couldnât help but love you even if he tried. âYou ainât gonna hurt me. Câmon. Please?âÂ
âPlease, what?âÂ
You look at him aghast before breaking out into a faux-scandalized giggle. âNow youâplease fuck me. Pretty, please.âÂ
Charles feels something tickling against his spine hearing you say it. He couldnât imagine getting sick of you in his whole life. âYeah, thatâs good to hear.âÂ
You make an indignant noise but itâs silenced quickly as Charles positions himself against your entrance. He has plenty of discipline when it comes to matters like these, but right now - he feels like heâs going to lose his mind. Not nearly enough patience to wait. He lets his hands go up underneath your knees just to have something to hold onto.Â
You make a little gasp as the tip of his cock pushes into you. Your walls are so soft, likely after all the orgasms heâd given you prior. You stop him in a shocked gasp, and Charles immediately readies himself to pull out. As if sensing his hesitance, you shake your head.Â
âCharles,â You gasp, the words caught in your throat and hoarse âDeep. Want it deep,âÂ
His abdomen tightens, cocking twitching hard at your words. He agrees silently to your desires.Â
When it comes to sex, thereâs very little Charles dislikes.
But this is his favorite. Heâs simple but no other position lets him see you so close. He likes the way your eyes widen as he pushes up underneath your knees and folds you underneath his weight. How you look pinned down under him, the perfect view of your eyes rolling back into your head and the proximity from your face to his. He lets his cock stretch you out slowly, throbbing each time your nails dig desperately into arms trying to keep your composure. Fuck you feel so tight like that. Soft pussy, dripping and sticky. You suck him in relentlessly, and Charles groans as he bottoms out. You take every inch of him so well. So perfect like the rest of you.Â
Your eyes flutter open as he stays there, buried in you in complete bliss. Youâre dazed.Â
âKiss?âÂ
Surprise followed by adoration, he abides by your request easily. Overwhelmed with it as he presses a chaste peck to your mouth, he laughs. âAs many as you want.â
Anything you want, Charles thinks, he would give to you.Â
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association recently released the poems that made it to the finalist stage for consideration for the 2024 Rhysling Awards for Short and Long Speculative Poems of the year. Congratulations to all of the nominees! This will be the 46th year these awards have been conferred!
Short Poems (50 finalists)
Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity!, Emily Ruth Verona, Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II
The Beauty of Monsters, Angela Liu, Small Wonders 1
The Blight of Kezia, Patricia Gomes, HWA Poetry Showcase X
The Day We All Died, A Little, Lisa Timpf, Radon 5
Deadweight, Jack Cooper, Propel 7
Dear Mars, Susan L. Lin, The Sprawl Mag 1.2
Dispatches from the Dragon's Den, Mary Soon Lee, Star*Line 46.2
Dr. Jekyll, West Ambrose, Thin Veil Press December
First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare, Emily Jiang, Uncanny 53
Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness, Ali Trotta, The Deadlands 31
Gods of the Garden, Steven Withrow, Spectral Realms 19
The Goth Girls' Gun Gang, Marisca Pichette, The Dread Machine 3.2
Guiding Star, Tim Jones, Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)
Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke, Morgan L. Ventura, Banshee 15
hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice, Ennis Rook Bashe, Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice
Hi! I am your Cortical Update!, Mahaila Smith, Star*Line 46.3
How to Make the Animal Perfect?, Linda D. Addison, Weird Tales 100
I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon, Jennessa Hester, HAD October
Invasive, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Polar Starlight 9
kan-da-ka, Nadaa Hussein, Apparition Lit 23
Language as a Form of Breath, Angel Leal, Apparition Lit October
The Lantern of September, Scott Couturier, Spectral Realms 19
Let Us Dream, Myna Chang, Small Wonders 3
The Magician's Foundling, Angel Leal, Heartlines Spec 2
The Man with the Stone Flute, Joshua St. Claire, Abyss & Apex 87
Mass-Market Affair, Casey Aimer, Star*Line 46.4
Mom's Surprise, Francis W. Alexander, Tales from the Moonlit Path June
A Murder of Crows, Alicia Hilton, Ice Queen 11
No One Now Remembers, Geoffrey Landis, Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.
orion conquers the sky, Maria Zoccula, On Spec 33.2
Pines in the Wind, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)
The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon, T.D. Walker, Radon Journal 5
A Prayer for the Surviving, Marisca Pichette, Haven Speculative 9
Pre-Nuptial, F. J. Bergmann, The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)
The Problem of Pain, Anna Cates, Eye on the Telescope 49
The Return of the Sauceress, F. J. Bergmann, The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
Sea Change, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader, Scifaikuest May
Seed of Power, Linda D. Addison, The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)
Sleeping Beauties, Carina Bissett, HWA Poetry Showcase X
Solar Punks, J. D. Harlock, The Dread Machine 3.1
Song of the Last Hour, Samuel A. Betiku, The Deadlands 22
Sphinx, Mary Soon Lee, Asimov's September/October
Storm Watchers (a drabbun), Terrie Leigh Relf, Space & Time
Sunflower Astronaut, Charlie Espinosa, Strange Horizons July
Three Hearts as One, G. O. Clark, Asimov's May/June
Troy, Carolyn Clink, Polar Starlight 12
Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary, John Grey, Medusa's Kitchen September
Under World, Jacqueline West, Carmina Magazine September
Walking in the Starry World, John Philip Johnson, Orion's Belt May
Whispers in Ink, Angela Yuriko Smith, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Long Poems (25 finalists)
Archivist of a Lost World, Gerri Leen, Eccentric Orbits 4
As the witch burns, Marisca Pichette, Fantasy 87
Brigid the Poet, Adele Gardner, Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure), Armoni âMonihymnâ Boone, Fiyah 26
Cradling Fish, Laura Ma, Strange Horizons May
Dream Visions, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Eccentric Orbits 4
Eight Dwarfs on Planet X, Avra Margariti, Radon Journal 3
The Giants of Kandahar, Anna Cates, Abyss & Apex 88
How to Haunt a Northern Lake, Lora Gray, Uncanny 55
Impostor Syndrome, Robert Borski, Dreams and Nightmares 124
The Incessant Rain, Rhiannon Owens, Evermore 3
Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis, Angela Liu, Strange Horizons November
Little Brown Changeling, Lauren Scharhag, Aphelion 283
A Mere Million Miles from Earth, John C. Mannone, Altered Reality April
Pilot, Akua Lezli Hope, Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
Protocol, Jamie Simpher, Small Wonders 5
Sleep Dragon, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
Slow Dreaming, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
St. Sebastian Goes To Confession, West Ambrose, Mouthfeel 1
Value Measure, Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish, Dreams and Nightmares 125
A Weather of My Own Making, Nnadi Samuel, Silver Blade 56
Welcoming the New Girl, Beth Cato, Penumbric October
What You Find at the Center, Elizabeth R McClellan, Haven Spec Magazine 12
The Witch Makes Her To-Do List, Theodora Goss, Uncanny 50
The Year It Changed, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Star*Line 46.4
Voting for the Rhysling Award begins July 1; a link to the ballot will be sent with the Rhysling Anthology, as well as with the July issue of Star*Line. More information on the Rhysling Award can be found here.
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