#sarah thread;

[savingthrcw]

@honorhearted Ben x Sarah

The first part of the assignment was nothing new to Sarah: play girlfriend with a coworker so they'd both be able to infiltrate a company and obtain the necessary intel. Even so, sharing a house long-term and inviting people in to become a part of the community would require a certain amount of coordination, they couldn't improvise like on a regular mission. The second part was something that hadn't been disclosed to Tallmadge yet, and wouldn't be until they were sure they could proceed: pretending to be in love with the whole world including the CIA so that they could find the rest of the traitors, if Benjamin Tallmadge didn't turn out to be one of them. But Sarah knew, being one of the few people director Graham knew he could truly count on, and that meant they'd need to be even more prepared.

So after the director was done explaining the situation to her colleague, who was now in her team, Sarah waited for them to be alone so she could breach the subject. "Before we go packing, let's discuss the details of this mission," she suggested coolly, "If we are meant to act as a couple who has recently moved in together, we can't risk appearing uncomfortable with one another. We should know what to expect and what our boundaries are."

"How familiar are you with this type of cover? Do you already have a set of rules?"

[savingthrcw]

Sarah was lost, if only for a moment, in the memory of what her baptism of fire had been. Her red test, her first murder, and a cold blooded one at that. She swallowed, eyes on Winn's desk without actually seeing it, and then, with a blink, she was back. "The CIA isn't any different, but I am," she assured him firmly, and knew Winn would never know how seriously she took that duty, especially since she had no intention of letting Winn go through what she had. No one like him should. "You are my responsibility as far as I'm concerned, and I won't leave you without a backup. I think you have the skills to do it even without me... but I'll be there. Can you trust me on that?"

Sarah was patient with him, which Winn appreciated. He knew that it wasn't exactly their favorite arrangement, for him to be going out in the field like this. The assignment called for someone with his skillset, and Winn wanted a chance to prove that he could do a little more than sit behind a computer. Even if he was terrified to do so.

"That's very sweet of you, and I think you have a point. But a lot of employers use the 'baptism by fire' method to train their employees and something tells me that the CIA isn't any different. I mean, what better way to make sure I can do the job than just throwing me into it and making sure I can do the job."

[medievalthymes]

if anyone was wondering how my read of the liveship trader series is going… it’s… uh going

EDIT: UPDATE for when i got to THAT part (I literally started pacing around the house i could not handle it)

[tanadrin]

Apparently there is cattle ranching in the Aleutian Islands (which are about the latitude of Ireland for comparison—it’s not a crazy idea). During the summer they eat grass; in the winter, storms wash tons of kelp onto the beaches and they eat kelp. Only sometimes those same storms wash cows *off* the beaches. Cows float pretty well, making them a prime source of food for the local orcas, who have learned that if they hang around these beaches sometimes they get hamburger for dinner.

[acourtofquestions]

Night Court Edition Addition of This or That

[readingwriter92]

Make your essay notes pretty to distract you from the horrors of not knowing how to write an essay!

[p-redux]

Follow up to #samarah aka the two SH's aka Sam Heughan and Sarah Holden...

Thanks Team for the multiple DMs here and on X/Twitter letting me know that Sarah is posting she is back home in Scotland with her son. Even though she posted part of his face, I'm choosing not to since he's a minor, and I don't need the drama from my haters.

👇

And Sam posted from Austria 👇

As someone pointed out in DM, if Sam's recent trip to the Canary Islands had been a work or charity trip, he would have tagged he was there, but he did not. He is tagging his Austrian location, but he didn't tag his Canarian location...because it was a personal trip. And we know there is proof positive he was staying WITH Sarah Holden. More on that later...

One of the Team also pointed out to me that on the new social media app, Threads, Sam is ONLY following 16 people and Sarah Holden is one of them! AND she is the ONLY woman he is following on there. 👇

Threads is linked to your Instagram account. When you sign up for Threads it asks you if you want to import all your follows from Instagram. Sam didn't do that. He follows 2,911 people on Instagram. If he had clicked on Import your Instagram follows, he would be following those same 2,911 on Threads. But he didn't do that, he CHOSE who he wanted to follow on Threads...and Sarah Holden is 1 of the 16 accounts he manually chose. The last time he posted on Threads was 13 weeks ago. So, he doesn't use Threads very often. Make of it what you will.

Sadly, I have to get ready for a dental procedure. I won't be back for a few hours. But when I return, I'll post more info that I don't have time to compile and post now. But I'm finding this SH SH #samarah romance verra interesting. Could Sam have found something special with a Scottish lass who is also a mum to a wee lad? I do love me a good plot twist. Stay tuned...

[acourtofthought]

Spoilers for the This Woven Kingdom series.

It's not a finished series yet so I'm unsure of who the endgame person will be but let me just say I'm a super big fan of how top authors are leaning into snarky, clever, powerful, HOT, red headed men as love interests.

I'm betting Jamie Frazier and Outlander had something to do with this trend.

[pastafossa]

How does Agent Thompson look like?

I try to keep characters vague enough for headcanon casting - I think I mentioned she's got dark hair shot through with grey, and cool eyes, though cool as in 'unflinching and kinda closed off'. However, in my head, she looks like and sounds exactly like Hilary Swank (just with greyer hair) in Logan Lucky for some reason, so there ya go.

side note: logan lucky is criminally underrated and the trailers did not accurately describe how fucking hilarious and fun the movie is, highly recommend

[savingthrcw]

!!!! you pick any of my male muses ^u^ @retrograderesemblance [plotted starter 01/??] from x meme - Sarah and Kaz

Sarah had lost track of Kaz because Jesper was in danger, and she was not one to leave a man behind, even if her only mission was the former. But after that she had quickly followed the men who had grabbed him, and was easily allowed to pass by the one left behind who had dropped his attention at the sight of her batting eyelashes and revealing dress, who didn't suspect her one bit. She had run into the room and straight to the one Grisha and knocking him out with a flying kick before he could use his powers; a moment after that, she had started beating the men out of her way one after the other, and in one heads-slam case two at the same time. Avoiding a bullet with a flip, she tossed her knife with deadly precision at the shooter, and with that everything was well again. Her usually glacial expression morphed into a concerned frown as she reached Kaz, "Are you alright?"

Bodyguard instead of assassin meant feeling responsible for him, that her goal was protection and not death, an adjustment that after years of forcing herself to be detached felt hard to accepted, but she couldn't help feeling worried for him not that it was an option again.

[savingthrcw]

"No, I meant that what you are telling me now is not enough," Sarah didn't move a muscle, staring down at him to read his face and try to learn more than what he was saying, "What did he do, how did you find out and have you done anything illegal that may make a judge drop a case against him." Why didn't you come and talk to me before acting on it? She wanted to add, but waited instead, hating that she felt outside of the action, and hating even more that maybe Winn didn't trust her as much as it seemed.

"It has to be enough." Winn knew that it might not be. He knew that if this doesn't work that there was a lot that could go back on him. He cut a lot of corners to get that information. "Nothing that I got was going to get him killed." But if it got back to Thomas what Winn had done, well that might mean Winn wouldn't be sticking around. "I gave everything to Casey and Alex, they are a surprisingly good team."

[faguscarolinensis]

Coreopsis verticillata / Whorled Coreopsis at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[sarahvansloten]

Having fun working on my quilt this summer

[acourtofquestions]

“I claim you Rowan Whitethorn. I claim you as my friend.”

“I claim you, Aelin. To whatever end.”

[lcstinfantasy]

closed starter for @houseofwisteria || jj x john b x sarah.

it wasn't like it hadn't been something that sarah and john b were discussing. they had tossed the idea of approaching jj with the offer to join them as a couple. not just for sex but to honestly just be together as one. jj and john b already had such a strong bond and sarah and him seemed to click almost instantly after he got over the whole her being a kook thing. it only made sense, especially with their attraction to the other blond. still kissing jj because of a dare by her own boyfriend was not what she expected it to go. climbing into his lap, she bites her lip gently. her hands cup her face and she can feel john b's eyes on them as she leans forward and connects their lips in a kiss.

[imminent-danger-came]

I know now probably isn't the best time with the whole SituationTM... buuuuuut i CALLED IT WITH THE FOUR SYMBOLS WOOOOOOOO THEY'RE REAL!!!!

LOL. We are taking all the Ws we can man