#matthew shepherd

[nerdygaymormon]

What do you think of the song 'Try That in a Small Town' by Jason Aldean?

Jason Aldean's song says if you try those "big city" things out here in small towns, there's gonna be swift justice delivered by the local populace. He means this as a good thing and at first the song sounds like it's about being anti-crime, but soon it moves to vigilante justice, which is a terrifying prospect for minority populations.

Yesterday a national monument to Emmett Till was dedicated. Fourteen-year-old Emmett was abducted, beaten, and lynched after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in small town Mississippi.

Emmett Till is far from the only one who met a violent death at the hands of small-town justice: Matthew Shepherd, Brandon Teena, Medgar Evers, James Byrd, Ahmaud Arbery, and the list goes on

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Small towns have a strong sense of community and togetherness, you can also find this in big cities. Big cities have people of color, allies, and queer folks, and so do small towns. Illegal drugs, domestic violence, and people being harassed and attacked for being "different" happens in both the big city and the small town. Good people live in small towns and in the big city. Urban and rural areas are in a symbiotic relationship, we need each other.

I view this song as yet one more way of saying we're a divided nation and need to view each other with suspicion. I believe we can celebrate the good people where we live without running down folks from other places. We don't have to view people who live in places different from us as enemies who have to be treated harshly.

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

[priyajoyy]

Dark!natalie x reader headcannons

From my psychotic girlfriends universe

Final of my dark! Headcannons for rabbits foot!!

My fav to write too cause Nat will always be my fav 😔

Warnings:

Force feeding, starvation, dissociation, mental health problems, typical Yellowjackets stuff, anxiety, cannibalism, toxic relationships, dark!character!!!, ect,

💋 Now Natalie is definitely the least dark out of all three of the girls

🪵 However her biggest flaw is how completely unaware of how toxic she is

🐇 Sure she feels a little guilty when she does stuff to make you upset sometimes

🥀 But she truly believes deep down that everything she does to hurt you, is for the greater good

🕊️like I’ve said before, Natalie would definitely not be against force feeding you if necessary

🍂 she’s the least likely to become physical with reader unless absolutely necessary

🦢 but with the self appointed job of caring for you, making sure you eat, drink water and get enough sleep, this is definitely where she would get physical

🍄‍🟫if you were to refuse to eat your fellow teammates, she would be quick to force you to

💌 wether it’s by holding you down and forcing it down your throat

💿 or scaring you into eating it, even with the help of Shauna if absolutely necessary

🎀 she wants to keep you happy and healthy, and she can’t do that if you’re refusing to eat their only source of food?

🍁 Natalie would also definitely restrain you if needed

📺 I’ve already mentioned before but she’d deffo lock you up in the pantry before the cabin burnt down

🧣 and you’d deffo get house arrest once they were in the huts if you needed to be punished

🎧 if you ever tried insisting to do something they do agree with or go against your wishes

🧁 she’s locking you up or restraining you real quick, speaking softly with sweet words to try calm you down as if that makes it any better

🪦 she doesn’t approve of Lottie and especially Shauna ever being physical with you

⭐️ but she definitely won’t stop them unless she feels super strongly about it

⚰️ letting Shauna bruise you up a little once she sees how effective it can be, and playing innocent and comforting you afterwards

🥤 the main time Natalie would allow herself to be particularly rough with you was during sex

📻 she’s used to letting the boys she’s slept with take charge so she enjoys being able to take charge of you

🎀 nats the most aware about the tolls the time in the wilderness has had in you

🦢Lottie thinks a lot of the effects are a gift and Shauna lowkey likes how it makes you easier to control but it just concerns Natalie

🩸she’ll take care of you when you dissociate or have nightmares/visions or hallucinations

⭐️ and the only reasons he’s not put a full stop to lotties teachings around your ‘gift’ is because she sees it comforts you

🍓when she becomes the official leader by being queen, best believe she’s ready to use it to her advantage

⚽️ just imagine she’s sat on a makeshift wooden thrown and you’re by her side

🩰 loves to have you on your knees next to her 🤭🤭

🩹 like imagine your head is on her lap while she’s sat there and she’s petting your head

🎸 eventually you become a glorified pet for these three because they don’t want you doing any work

🎞️ Natalie just wants you to sit at her side and look pretty

📷 officially you share a hut with her once the cabins burnt down

🎂 so you end up sleeping with her at night the most

🍒 she’s the one who teaches you to listen to her heart beat to calm yourself down and go to sleep at night

🧺 something you continue to do in the adult timeline, even with your husband

💋 treats your anxiety as some sort of crippling reason for why you shouldn’t do as much work or chores as the other

🧸 pretty belittling to you and makes you annoyed but she thinks she’s just protecting you

♥️ has Lottie make you tea constantly

🪞 will definitely use her being queen to one up Lottie and Shauna, which works most of the time

📼 like “no she’s sleeping with me tonight cause i said so!”

🍰 or “I’m queen so you all have to do what I say” when they’re fighting over you or something 😭

📀 like a bratty little kid that doesn’t wanna share her toys fr

Taglist!!

@homopheli

[classfelidae]

Daniel Matthews

I chose a German Shepherd for him very intentionally, being the son of a police officer. It’d make him more of an obvious target to the other victims in the nerve gas house.

I also wanted to show that he’s still just a kid, a puppy, so his ears haven’t fully erected yet.

Daniel didn’t deserve to be in a trap whatsoever, I’m so glad he made it out; I love Amanda’s bond with him in saw 2, and how he’s the only character to comfort her after the needle pit.

Expect to see him more, in his grown up form in the future ;)

In my au he ends up becoming an apprentice, and Adam adopts him as his little brother of sorts. They go on kidnapping adventures together.

Xavier is next btw

[lostfan23]

[artificialroux]

maddie swallowed hard, staring at the blood on her hands. if this was survival, then why did it feel like they were already dead?

notes and lore about my yellowjackets oc, she's still currently in development as i wait for s3 to be finished. post layout heavily inspired by @puppybutcher.

MADELINE "MADDIE" SHEPHERD ( lamb drawn to the slaughter. )

played by olivia scott welch

PRE-CRASH

born madeline annabelle shepard, first name derived from the greek name magdalenē, which is associated with mary magdalene, a disciple of jesus who came from magdala.

maddie grew up in wiskayok, in a busy but loving household as the middle child of three sisters, constantly overshadowed by their academic and athletic achievements.

she was raised surrounded by faith. church on sundays, whispered prayers before bed, the quiet presence of religious symbols in her childhood home. it was something her parents believed in fiercely even if they weren't at church every day of the week. something that was supposed to make sense, supposed to make her feel safe, but for maddie faith was never simple.

she wanted to believe—really, truly believe—but it never settled into her bones the way it did for others. she tried. god knows, she tried. she went through the motions, clasped her hands together in prayer, recited the words with everyone else. but deep down, she always had questions. what if god wasn’t really listening? what if he was, and he just didn’t care? what if there was nothing at all? doubt crept into the quiet spaces of her mind, but she never spoke it aloud. because faith was supposed to be unshakable. and maddie? she was always shaking.

at age 12 maddie was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, right as she was entering middle school. it had been building up for years—stomachaches before big events, trouble sleeping, overthinking every little mistake—but it wasn’t until she started having more frequent panic attacks and struggling to focus in class that her parents took her to a doctor.

the diagnosis made sense to her, but it didn’t necessarily make things easier. she wasn’t the type to talk about it much, not wanting to be seen as fragile or difficult. she learned to manage it in her own ways—through routines, distractions, and throwing herself into hobbies—but it was always there, a quiet weight she carried.

spirit in her step, fire in her smile—wiskayok’s heartbeat on the sidelines.

from a young age, maddie was drawn to cheerleading. she loved the way it made her feel—like she belonged to something bigger than herself. she wasn’t the loudest or most outgoing cheerleader, but she had a natural talent for movement and rhythm, and she worked hard to perfect her routines. her sisters would sometimes help her practice, holding her steady as she tried out new stunts or braiding her hair before competitions.

on game days, she especially loved cheering for the girls' soccer team, the energy of the field fueling her own as she called out chants and pushed herself to keep up with the intensity of the game.

the weight of representing wiskayok was pressing on her shoulders—but even then, she never imagined it would be the last time cheerleading truly felt like her world.

maddie hadn’t expected to go to nationals. only a few of the senior cheerleaders were chosen to accompany the soccer team, and with so many girls ahead of her, she figured she’d be cheering from home. but when the final list was announced, her name was there. it felt unreal—one last big trip with the team before graduation, a chance to prove herself on a bigger stage.

she was nervous, excited, ready. boarding that plane, all she could think about was the game, the routine, the thrill of it all. she never imagined none of it would matter.

WILDERNESS

i don't belong here.

the first thing maddie registers is the heat. it rolls over her in waves, thick with smoke, stinging her eyes before she even opens them. something heavy is pressing into her chest, making it hard to breathe. the air smells like burnt plastic and fuel—and blood, and she hears muffled screams all around her. she blinks, vision swimming. everything is sideways. the world has tilted. the seatbelt digs into her ribs, keeping her suspended at an unnatural angle. maddie chokes back a sob, throat tightening with panic.

the screaming is getting louder. she has to move. her hands fumble with the seatbelt, fingers numb and shaking. the buckle won’t—fucking—budge. her breath comes too fast, too shallow, she can’t breathe, she can’t—then it snaps open. she falls forward, catching herself against the seat in front of her. her limbs feel like they belong to someone else, unsteady and sluggish as she stumbles into the aisle. bodies. so many bodies. some still, some barely moving, some missing parts that should be there.

after the crash, most of the few cheer members were killed on impact because they were sitting towards the front of the plane, either from the plane breaking apart, being thrown from their seats, or being crushed under wreckage. maddie stands frozen in shock after running out from the plane—she now was completely alone in a group that wasn’t hers to begin with.

she saw reminders of the other cheerleaders in the wreckage—a stray pompom, a crushed megaphone, a jacket that belonged to one of them—and it made her queasy. this makes her relationships with the soccer girls more complicated. she has no one who truly understands her old world, so she either has to integrate with them or be left behind. it pushes her toward lottie’s influence later on—looking for purpose in all the senseless loss.

maddie clung to scraps of warmth as the wilderness unraveled her.

maddie becomes closest to lottie in the wilderness. while she connects with others, lottie is the one who soothes her anxieties in a way no one else does, offering a strange but undeniable sense of comfort. their bond deepens during doomcoming when lottie quietly braids some strands of maddie’s hair—just like her sisters used to do for her. it’s a small but intimate gesture, one that makes maddie feel seen in a way she hasn’t since the crash.

after the crash, her faith became something else entirely. at first, she prayed like never before. desperate. hollow. raw. she begged for a rescue, for warmth, for safety, late at night when no one could hear. she prayed for the souls of the ones they lost, even the ones they had to eat. but the more time passed, the more survival demanded of them, the more god felt like silence. she watched as lottie’s influence grew, filling the void where faith had once lived.

maddie wanted to resist, wanted to hold onto what little she had left of the faith she grew up with. but she was tired. she was hungry. and she was afraid that if she let go, she’d have nothing left. so she followed. not blindly—not like the others—but because she needed something to hold onto. maybe lottie was right. maybe there was something in the wilderness watching over them. maybe faith wasn’t about god at all. maybe it was about survival.

but even then, doubt never fully left her. it was always there, lingering beneath the surface. a quiet, gnawing thing in the back of her mind. because if there really was something out there—if something was listening—then why did it demand so much from them? and if it wasn’t god, then what the hell was it?

the lamb wasn't ready, but the wilderness was.

after weeks of winter, food runs dangerously low, and the group begins to truly fear starvation. the tension has been building for weeks, whispers of sacrifice hanging in the cold air. maddie, already weighed down by guilt and a growing sense of detachment, starts to believe she is meant to be the one to go. she tells herself it would be easier this way—that if she gives herself up, maybe the others will survive, maybe the wilderness will be satisfied. she offers herself to be eaten instead of participating in the hunt. the guilt of survival, the desperation, and lottie’s growing influence all collide in that moment—she truly believes it’s the only way to atone.

but when the others refuse, when even lottie hesitates, she’s forced to keep living, to reconcile with the fact that she’s not ready to die. because now, she isn’t just surviving—she’s waiting. for what, she isn’t sure. but the wilderness isn’t finished with her yet. this changes her, deepens the conflict within her—between faith and fear, between surrender and survival.

ADULT TIMELINE

played by victoria pedretti

she tried to outrun the wilderness, but in the end, it was always waiting to take her back.

maddie had spent years convincing herself she’d left the wilderness behind. she built a life that was quiet, structured—something she could control. a career helping children, a marriage she thought was love, a world where the past couldn’t reach her. she had been young when she married him, blinded by devotion, desperate for something safe, something certain. but love turned to control, affection to manipulation, and soon she found herself trapped in a life that felt just as suffocating as the wilderness.

by the time the yellowjackets returned to her life, so had the unraveling of everything she had tried to build. the divorce was already in motion, a bitter, drawn-out fight that left her feeling hollow. but that emptiness was nothing compared to what came next. the hunt. the blood. the whispers of the forest that had never really let her go.

at first, she tried to hold on, to remind herself that she wasn’t that girl anymore. but the more the past unraveled around her, the more she felt it creeping back in. the fear. the hunger. the aching knowledge that some things were never meant to stay buried.

[reidmoony-toast]

Guys I think I have a type... side by side goes crazy

[addiemilfgomery]

i may never be able to put my feelings into words but trust i will be able to find a way to insert my favorite ships in any conversation

[a-state-of-bliss]

Cybil Shepherd by Matthew Rolston (1986)

[greysanatomy-bts]

[duranduratulsa]

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[priyajoyy]

Dumb bunny part 1

Dark!shauna shipman x girly!reader x dark!lottie Matthew’s x dark!Natalie scatorccio

(Eventual dark characters)

Masterlist here

For more chapters the first 8 are published on wattpad @priyajoyy !! (Same story but with an oc not reader)

"Allie! Allie, Allie!"

"Come on"

Sweat coated your forehead as you sprinted across the field, stray strands of hair sticking to her skin that had fallen loose from her ponytail that was daintily tied with a yellow ribbon.

Everything was moving a mile a second. Girls were screaming to each other across the grass and spectators cheered from the sidelines.

Most of the team were currently trying, and failing, to get allow to pass the ball, only for her to seemingly ignore them all and keep with it.

"Come on"

"Nice!"

"Shoot" you cursed, or as close as you would come to swearing, as you stumbled slightly, keeping your footing as you chase after the ball.

"Ty! Over here!"

"Ty! Inside!"

Your parents were in the crowd, your fathers shouts and mothers cheers blending in with the rest of the noise.

Your boyfriend was there too. Well sort of your boyfriend, the boy hadn't officially asked you out yet, but the pair of you had spent every second away from your respective sports and schooling, together.

Ben attended another school, some fancy private all boys school that your parents would have definitely sent you to if it wasn't for your gender. But the two of you still ran in a lot of the same circles through parties and transfers.

"Forward! Forward! Come on!"

Shauna didn't like Benjamin, said he was a dumb jock. You and Jackie had to refrain from sharing that the three of you were jocks as well.

Jackie loved him. She thought the boy was perfect for you, and had been pushing the two of you together since she met him at a party in the summer.

"Ty!"

You needed for them to win today.

Ever the control freak, you couldn't cope if they didn't.

You needed their team to go to nationals. Not just because your parents and hopefully soon to be boyfriend and future husband was there. But because it was, (alike your already planned marriage) apart of your plan.

That meticulous plan you had been putting together since the day you gained consciousness and could begin to stress about every aspect of your future.

"Ty!"

"Jackie!"

The ball hit Jackie's head. Then the goal.

The whistle blew.

you halted.

ears ringing for a moment before the cheers and screams of excitement flooded your ears.

"Good shot!"

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!!" You shouted out as you jumped into Lottie Matthew's arms, too excited to care about how you had taken the gods name in vain.

You clutched onto the taller girl, the two of you bouncing up and down and running in to join the others in a group hug.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz,"

"buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz"

"buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!"

"We're going to nationals!"

🎀🧸🐇🩰

"Bunny darling!" A voice called from the bottom of a grand staircase, "you're going to be late"

You however, forever cursed with being tired no matter how much sleep you got, grumbled into your pillow in response, having been awake for half an hour and constantly trying to forget that fact as you tried to fall back asleep again, regardless of the time.

You had spent the evening beforehand doing the usual, studying, stressing out, and planning your week to the minute detail in your journal.

At your mother's voice calling once again, you finally arose from your floral patterned sheets and mountain of pillows which felt a lot more inviting than waking up.

Walking over to your vanity groggily, you rub at your eyes and slip on your slippers.

Your room was so very obviously your own. The walls were covered in gold frames, displaying photos of you with her family and friends, old photo booth strips and paintings you had made with Jackie.

You pulled at your lace curtains, letting light enter the room, your eyelashes fluttering at the brightness.

You sat, applying your usual makeup and styling your hair as you did every other day. Eventually heading downstairs once you were finally ready.

“Honestly sweetie you're going to be late!" Your mother scolded gently from her place in the kitchen, making you grimace at the nickname, your father sat at the breakfast nook table chuckling, "you better get going."

"I can't get going mummy" you respond with a smile, reaching the table and grabbing a piece of toast off of a plate your mother made you, buttering it.

"Shauna and Jackie are picking me up this morning" you tell your parents, making your mother tut and walk over to you.

"You know I don't like that Shauna girl buns" the elder blonde woman stated with a sigh, grabbing hold of your hair lightly and twirling it, "She's a bad influence on you"

"But mummy...Shauna's one of my closest friends" you say with a sigh, looking down at your toast with a frown.

"She's just so rough" the woman mutters, "she's nothing like you buns, and have you heard the amount of curses that come out of her mouth!!?"

"Shauna's one of the smartest people I know" you try to defend the girl, looking back up at the woman, who sighs in response.

"Yes well I suppose she's a good influence there...I only hope she doesn't rub off on you any other way..."

"Maggie darling" your father interjected, looking up from his newspaper.

"I'm just saying" Margret rebutted, "I mean have you seen what she wears? Anyone would think she's some sort of miscreant-"

"Mummy!" You scolded, if your mother thought what Shauna wore made her a bad influence then you dreaded to think of what she would think about you being on the soccer team with Natalie if she ever saw her outside of her uniform.

"Shauna isn't.. she isn't gay mummy" you said, knowing what your mother meant when she tries to delicately call your friend gay, as if saying the word out loud would speak evil into existence, "plenty of girls dress like that nowadays"

"Ugh I know I'm sorry" the woman muttered, stepping back from you, "I just don't get it, why would you want to dress like a boy! She's a pretty girl I mean honestly..."

You tuned your mother's ramblings out, biting on your toast and willing your friends to get there sooner.

🎀🧸🐇🩰

"I saw Jeff" Shauna started once Jackie had joined her in her car, "What happened to no distractions before nationals? Ripping off the Band-Aid, and all that?"

"I decided that..." Jackie started hesitantly, as the two continued their journey, "showing up to college a virgin is a mistake...No offense."

"We've been together for so long that, if we're each other's first, then we'll be linked forever. It's more poetic that way" the brunette tells their best friend, watching her turn down another street towards your house.

"Oh. That reminds me..." she continues excitedly, "I decided on a color palette for our room at Rutgers next year. Pink and green. It's like classic preppy meets Palm Beach"

"It's very Lilly P" she adds as Shauna finally pulls into a large driveway, the two waiting for a big gate to open so they could reach the house.

Waiting at the front door is you, a soft smile on your face at the sight of your friends.

You clutch your signature floral tote bag, wearing a light cream sweater and denim skirt. A cross necklace laying on your chest as it did everyday.

"Morning" you called sweetly as you opened the backseat door, gaining similar responses from the two friends.

"Wait, Jeff's a virgin?" Shauna states as the blonde climbs into her seat, making you giggle at the sudden question.

"I'm sorry?" You ask, as Shauna takes off from the drive again.

"Jackie wants to loose her virginity before college..." Shauna states with a strange edge to her voice, making the Taylor girl add in quickly.

"Well, we've been together since freshman year." She tells them in justification.

"Yeah, I know. It's just..." Shauna started, unsure, "you guys have broken up, like 10,000, times."

"Never long enough to count." She reassured, swiftly swinging round to you in the back seat, "what do you think bunny?"

You pout tilting your head as you tell her, "if it's what you want jacks..."

Shauna glares in the mirror.

"I do" she smiles assuredly, Turing back around in time to spot the sign they were approaching, "The hell is this bullshit?"

"What?" Shauna asks in confusion.

"These assholes were under, all season. Shauna, honk at that thing!" she tells the driver in an annoyed voice, reaching over to honk the wheel herself.

"No, they're just gonna think we're, like, saluting mediocre baseball" Shauna disagrees.

"No, they'll know" she says strongly, before reaching out the window and shouting, "Try undefeated, bitches!"

"Jackie!" You call out shocked.

"Oh, my God, Jackie"

"We're going to motherfucking nationals!"

[classfelidae]

Daniels colours!

[lostfan23]

[artificialroux]

𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔡 — 𝔶𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔧𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯

[wiirocku]

Matthew 2:6 (NIV) - “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a Ruler who will shepherd My people Israel.’”