#ninety five

[jakejeffreyperalta]

todd's birthday scene from the original script (that was later changed) makes me want to kms

[oacest]

Iain Robertson, What's the story?

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Karkat:  YOUR WORDS ARE SO FOOLISHLY AND IGNORANTLY COMPOSED THAT I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND THEM. 

[im-here-for-everything]

Today’s reminder!

FREE PALESTINE!

[z0nefive]

missing s1-s2 era five and diego rn nobody was doing it like them

[la-pheacienne]

Top 5 literary works written before the 21th century

I'll answer with my faves so this is highly subjective of course:

Les Miserables because I would have been someone else if I hadn't read that book at 14

The Great Gatsby because we stan delusional men with a pretty smile trying to repeat the past

Le Cousin Pons because old gay neurodivergent artists doomed by the narrative

For Whom the Bell Tolls because I need a room full of health care specialists before even attempting to talk about that book

Ninety-three (Hugo) because I cried for a week after finishing it

[todayisafridaynight]

kissu

[bedforddanes75]

i just think you deserve eternal happiness actually. funny and actually nice. u are jesus. anyway No pls i AM AFRAID u are simply too cool and i cant deal

[palettepainter]

Parents: Hey do you wanna join us to go see A Quite Place Day 1?

Me: Sure!

//five minutes later//

Me and my dad: *having an in depth conversation about how hypothetically in the world of A Quite Place going out to search for supplies in the rain is the most logical and safest time to go out because the white noise would disorientate the creatures and how since the creatures eat humans in the movie that means are proteins are similar enough to them that by technicality, you could eat the creatures to survive. Conversation then moves to how in a zombie human apocalypse since zombies are slowly deteriorating and rotting all you'd have to do is survive long enough in order for the tissue that holds the skeleton together and then all the zombies would just collapse cuz they wouldn't be able to hold themselves together and-*

[authenticaussie]

Anyway so I had blood test results today.

And my doctor looked at them and went. Oh. 😰 Hm.

This is a new doctor. So I immediately knew what he was looking at (my iron levels are horrendous) but the follow up was after we discussed that I take iron and b12 every day he goes:

Doctor: Well I like making this fun! The maximum level for b12 is 800 :) and the average is 400!

Me: uh. Okay? Am I. Low?

Doctor: Yes. You are :) low. This is the fun bit. :) You are 127!

Me: I'm not even half of half??

Doctor: Yes! :)

Me: That's so bad.

Doctor: It is not great! There is another one too. That you are also low in.

Me: 😰😰 yes?

Doctor: The maximum for that one is 150! And the average is normally 50-80.

Me: lmao and what am I, fucking five?

Doctor: Seven! :)

Me:

[finnyfinster]

Save me demo version of I/Me/Myself save me🙏🙏

[kybercrystals94]

To Fight Alongside Heroes

By KyberCrystals94

Read here on Ao3!

Whumptober 2023 | Day 28 | Prompt 28: Sacrifice

Rating: G

Words: 593

Summary: Fives sits with Echo while he grieves lost brothers.

Fives wakes up in the middle of his sleep cycle to the sound of the barrack’s door sliding open and closed. He glances at his chrono. There isn’t a shift change for another two hours. He leans over the side of his bed to look down at Echo’s lower bunk. Empty.

Worried, Fives kicks off his blankets, drops to the floor, and makes his way out of the barracks as quietly as his sleep addled brain will allow.

Fives can’t help but marvel at how quickly the destruction of the battle has been cleaned up. There are still major repairs that need to be done to the outside of the city; however, the halls, which only a few hours earlier were stained in the blood of their brothers, are back to their pristine, sterile white. Like nothing even happened, like lives weren’t lost. Swept away like a bad mark on a record.

If it had been natborns killed on their home planet…

Thinking like that doesn’t help or change anything, so Fives pushes it to the back of his mind, putting his focus on finding his batch mate. Echo doesn’t usually go off on his own, and certainly not in the middle of the night when he doesn’t have a shift of some sort. So, Fives wanders on hastened steps, checking down each hall he passes.

He ends up at their old training room, the door’s lock unactivated. He goes inside.

Echo sits on one of the benches along the far wall. He is leaning forward, elbows propped on his knees, hands knotted together in tight fists, head bowed. Fives sits down next to him but doesn’t say anything. Echo doesn’t move, absolutely still. Fives sits back against the wall, eyes taking in the familiar room shrouded in darkness, the only light coming from the safety lamps dimly illuminating the floor.

After several long minutes, when Echo still hasn’t moved or acknowledged him, Fives asks, “Are you alright?”

Echo’s head turns slightly. “I should be.”

“On who’s orders?” Fives leans forward, mirroring Echo, so that they are shoulder to shoulder. He nudges him. “Is it about Ninety-Nine?”

“It’s about all of it,” Echo growls. “It’s about every sacrifice we make for the Republic. I know what I said to Rex and Cody, but…it’s not fair. And I know that life isn’t fair, and never will be — but I’m tired of watching our brothers being used as cannon fodder.”

Fives reaches over and tugs on Echo’s wrist until Echo gives him his hand. Fives grips it painfully tight. “You can’t think like that, Echo. Our brothers deserve to be remembered for the heroes they were, for the lives they saved. Ninety-Nine died exactly where he wanted to be…on the front lines serving with his brothers. And we were there for it, Echo, we got to fight alongside him.”

Echo grips back. “I know,” he whispers.

“He’d be proud of us,” Fives goes on, “becoming ARCs. Domino Squad too. After they got over the shock, that is.”

A ghost of a smile trembles on Echo’s lips. “You didn’t seem surprised today, when they told us about our promotions.”

“I’ve always known we’d make ARCs someday,” Fives says.

“You could’ve let me in on the secret.”

Fives chuckles. “And ruin the surprise? I wouldn’t deprive you of that.”

“I miss them, Fives.” Echo’s voice breaks on the syllable of Fives’ name.

Fives wraps an arm around Echo’s shoulders, holding tight. “I know. I miss them too.”

And that’s when Echo finally begins to cry.

END

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[vamprisms]

builds a quantum computer to post on tumblr

[radiojamming]

Me, every time: But what if storm chaser AU

[amberskyyking]

Dying Isn't Very Regulation: Chapter 1

Fives only wanted to do his duty... But as Echo would tell him, dying isn't very regulation.

Then again, neither is touching weird force shit. And his brother isn't here to stop him from doing either of those things today.

(Or, a self-indulgent 5 chapter fic inspired by Snapback by @toomanyteefs with Fives, because I have emotions about this and he deserves the world!)

Fives couldn’t stay. He couldn’t go back now as much as he wanted to, he was being pulled away and couldn't stop it. He hoped he had said enough, hoped that Rex believed him in the end. The lights enveloped him now, drawing him forward, making him squint. He wasn’t gone… merely marching far away. Rex would see him again, one day.

“Fives! Don’t go…”

The words were so faint that he may have imagined them, but his heart wrenched nonetheless, which was strange, since he couldn’t feel anything else…

And then he was nowhere, or so it seemed. He stood in silence as a gentle glowing mist encircled him with a pervasive sense of serenity and peace… But that wasn’t right. Fives blinked a couple of times and looked around.

Where were his brothers?

“Echo?” He spoke cautiously, waving a hand through the golden mist, as if his twin was hiding in the fog waiting to give him shit about how dying isn't very regulation, vod. But no reg-manual-waving smartass appeared. Fives frowned.

“Tup?” He called out a little louder. “Hardcase?”

Full Chapter (And Story!): Sometimes Life Just Blows Up In Your Face

[nin3kyuu]

If I make another oc I think I'm to actually fucking EXPLODE