#margo x Sergei

[thefrakkintrinity15]

Dear, impressive, magnificent, amazing fanfic writers of Margo & Sergei ship… I guess you all are writing their first Xmas in Brazil, aren’t you? 🤭🙄🤗

Anyhow…

HAPPY CHRISTMAS! 🎄

[lis5664]

Do you think one or both of them kept the coasters?

We would also suggest "Soyus-Apollo" as the name of the mission. For the sake of convenience.

[midnight-els]

For All Mankind | Margo and Sergei + Apollo-Soyuz/Soyuz-Apollo

2x06 "Best Laid Plans" 4x09 "Brazil"

[ddagent]

Oh, my God. That’s… beautiful. | That's really smart. August 1983 | October 2003

Bonus:

[nadia-el-mansours]

Sergei + being a smug bastard (complimentary)

[lis5664]

For All Mankind posting, incl. spoilers:

Indulge me for a minute in thinking about the absolute heartbreak of having to be Margo Madison between 1992 and 1995. (Not even getting into everything traumatic that she went through before ... and after ... this poor woman, good lord.) You have found out that the man you've fallen in love with over the past ten years was using you for information on behalf of the KGB. You don't know if he ever actually loved you, had any feelings for you, or was even actually your friend. The one and only time he ever kissed you immediately turned into the worst night of your life. You've given up state secrets to save his life. But he disappears and you have no idea if he is alive. You obviously can't talk to ANYONE about ANY of this EVER. (Being Margo, not that you want to talk to about feelings anyway but still.) You have to bottle it all up inside. All the while you have to RUN NASA and your job is more stressful than it's ever been because you are trying to get people to MARS, two years ahead of schedule thanks to an asshole billionaire. And even the common human coping mechanism of Having Feelings And Listening To Music About It probably doesn't help much because -- the man this is all about gave you your record collection. My god, she is the strongest woman alive to even be functional through this.

[not-a-fucking-mermaid]

I made this instead of sleeping. Hope you see my vision.

song: Road To Hell (reprise), from Hadestown

[mysticalpostbouquet]

I'm a native Houstonian and just got word that Nippon will be closing after 38 yrs.

Did Margo and Sergei ever get to visit 😢 ??

https://www.chron.com/food/article/houston-nippon-closure-19853705.php

[onekisstotakewithme]

put those internationals in relations!

[h4t08]

👀

[moocowmoocow]

A prompt: In an AU-version in which they somehow simply have time to talk, or maybe at an IAC-dinner outing, Margo asks Sergei "would you have kissed me in the docking module if we hadn't been interrupted?"

He had held his breath when Margo hadn’t pushed the button to her floor. He didn’t want to tempt fate to throw one more obstacle in their way. Now he stroked her hair as she placed a kiss on his bare chest before she rested her head there. “I’ve wanted to do that for awhile,” he whispered into her hair.

She hummed in response before she kissed his chest again. “Worth the wait?”

“Yes.”

He felt her smile against his skin. “How long have you waited?”

“Since I convinced you to crawl into the Soyuz-Apollo docking module.”

“Apol - wait. Is that why you messed up the coin flip?”

He brought his fingers to follow the line of her shoulders. “No. That happened naturally. But you were so beautiful and laughing and right there. I confess I wanted to kiss you.”

“I am glad you didn’t. I wasn’t ready back then.”

He kissed the top of her head as he pulled her closer. “Now is perfect.”

[thinkmanythingsofit]

On first thought, Sergei seems more sentimental. But Margo has her conversion tables, she definitely likes to hang on to sentimental objects, too. I’d like to think they were about to leave them on the table and one of them snatched the coasters in the last second.

We would also suggest "Soyus-Apollo" as the name of the mission. For the sake of convenience.

[midnight-els]

For All Mankind | 4x09 "Brazil"

Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison Piotr Adamczyk as Sergei Orestovich Nikulov

[ddagent]

Thank you for coming. Oh. Of course.

[nadia-el-mansours]

[lis5664]

For All Mankind posting w/ spoilers, this is basically a shitpost although the whole thing is still a tragedy edition:

You ever think about how (assuming the full story became known eventually) mid-2000’s graduates of Spiro T. Agnew High in Garden City have a pretty unbeatable answer to the “What was The Incident at your high school” prompt? “One day our physics teacher straight up disappeared. Nobody knew where he was for a month. Then it turned out he was a Soviet defector who ran their space program for ten years. And he was in love with the woman who ran NASA. And then the KGB shot him.”