#smilin'!de

[spawksstuff]

Star Trek Universal Studios Tour 9 June 1988

We get a lot of fan mail, both of us do and constant letters are coming in all the time of people that would love to be a part of this show. Can't tell you how many letters state that and here is a perfect opportunity for them to really be in a Star Trek and have their own little film and the whole bit. I think it's a very exciting idea.

[mixergiltron]

Arrr Laddies!

Aye,be it that time o' year a'gin. The day where we speak the tongue o' the buccaneers. 'n t' save ye seadogs from scurvy,I've a pair o' grogs t' make ye merry. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Mix #227 Peg Leg

1oz Plantation 3 Star 3/4oz Lemon Hart 151 3/4oz lime juice 1/2oz simple syrup 1/4oz Demerara syrup 2-3 dashes grapefruit bitters

Shake wit' ice 'n pour inta mug.

Sink me,t'is a beauty of a riff on the traditional grog/daiquiri. Birthed by a landlubber named Kyle Davidson,a barman in the former tavern Blackbird in Chicago,this will send you t' Davey Jones if ya have t' many. Blackbeard hisself would'a drank dis.

Mix #228 Capt Vadrna's Grog

2.5oz spiced rum 3/4oz lime juice 1/2oz white grapefruit juice 3/4oz Demerara syrup 1 dash Angostura bitters

Shake wit' ice 'n pour inta mug.

That 'ol seadog Beachbum Berry made dis t' honor his matey Cap'n Stanislav Vadrna. 'tis a bit tart,but then mayhap so was his heartie? The 'ol pirate Hemingway would'a toasted Calypso with this'n.

'n here be some more pirate drinks I've done,t' keep ye smilin'.

Mix #10 Traditional Grog

1.5oz navy strength rum 1oz lime juice 1/2oz Demerara syrup

Shake with ice and pour into glass or mug.

Mix #11 Navy Grog

1oz light rum 1oz dark rum 1oz Demerara rum 1oz honey syrup 3/4 oz lime juice 3/4oz grapefruit juice 2oz club soda

Shake everything except soda with ice. Pour into double rocks glass and top with soda.

Mix #12 Sailor's Grog

1.5oz spiced rum 1/2oz 151 Demerara rum 3/4oz lime juice 3/4oz orange juice 1/2oz falernum 1 dash Angostura bitters 1.5oz ginger beer

Shake everything except beer with ice and pour into double rocks glass. Top with beer.

Mix #15 Black Beard's Ghost(mine)

2oz light rum 2oz orange juice 1oz lemon juice 1oz blackberry brandy 1/2oz orgeat

Shake with ice and pour into mug.

Mix #14 Pirate's Parley

1oz Demerara rum 3oz pineapple juice 3/4oz lime juice 1/2oz apricot brandy 1/2oz orange curacao

Shake with ice and pour into mug.

Mix #13 Corsair Punch

2oz Appleton Estate 8yr Reserve 2oz orange juice 2oz pineapple juice 3/4oz lime juice 3/4oz grenadine 1/2oz orgeat

Shake with plenty of ice and pour into mug.

Mix #51 Blackbeard's Ghost

1.5oz white rum 1/2oz demerara rum 1.5oz orange juice 1oz lemon juice 1oz falernum 1/2oz apricot brandy 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Shake with plenty of ice.

Mix #84 Mariner's Ghost

3/4oz dark rum 3/4oz light rum 1oz mango juice 1oz grapefruit juice 1/2oz lime juice 1/2oz allspice dram dash of simple syrup

Shake with ice and pour into mug.

Mix #94 Skull & Bones

1.5oz Lemon Hart 151 rum 1/2oz Bacardi Gran Reserva Diez rum 3/4oz lime juice 1/2oz passionfruit syrup 1/2oz grenadine 1/8tsp Pernod 1 dash Angostura bitters

Shake with ice and pour into your spookiest mug.

Mix #124 Tortuga

1oz Demerara 151 rum 1oz gold rum 1oz sweet vermouth 1/2oz orange curacao 1/2oz white creme de cacao 1/2oz lime juice 1/2oz lemon juice 1/2oz orange juice 1/4oz grenadine

Shake with plenty of ice and pour into classic style Tiki mug.

Mix #116 Buccaneer's Bounty

1oz Navy rum 1oz dark rum 1/2oz Demerara 151 rum 1oz honey syrup 3/4oz grapefruit juice 3/4oz lime juice 1/2oz cinnamon syrup 2 dashes bitters

Shake with ice and strain into glass with fresh ice.

Mix #130 Yellowbeard's Grog

2oz Pyrat XO Reserve rum 1oz lime juice 1/2oz Pierre Ferrand Yuzu 1/2oz Small Hand Foods orgeat 1/4oz Demerara syrup

Shake with ice,stagger-stagger-crawl-stagger,then pour into upturned skull of someone you don't like. Garnish with Mr Prostitute's moustache and a speared piece of Spam.

Pleasant seas me hearties,'n here be a pirate's blessin':

May your ANCHOR be tight, Your CORK be loose, Your RUM be spiced, And your COMPASS be true.

[ginnyruin]

I was watching pesky blinders and a love scene came on with the song Catherine. It reminded me so much of the last chapter

Catherine De Barra, you've murdered my thinkin'

I gave you my heart, you left the thing stinkin'

I'd shake from your spell if it weren't for my drinkin'

The wind bites more bitter with each light of mornin'

I envy the road, the ground you tread under

I envy the wind, your hair ridin' over

I envy the pillow your head rests and slumbers

I envy to murderous, envy your lover

'Til the light shines on me

I damn to hell every second you breathe

'Til the light shines on me

I damn to hell every second you breathe

Oh, my Catherine

For your eyes smilin'

And your mouth singin'

With time, I'd have won you

Within while, I'd have won you

I guess I need to watch Peaky Blinders. This song sounds so lovely! And definitely, it is reminiscent of the last chapter, especially with the “envy” lines. Thank you for sharing! ♥️

[brookston]

Holidays 6.7

Holidays

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Battle of Arica Day (Chile)

Beatles Day

Betamax Day

Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky)

Father’s Day (Lithuania; Switzerland)

Festival of All Possible Worlds

Flag Day (Peru)

Fleur-de-Lis Day

International Supply Chain Specialists Day

International Tourettes Awareness Day

Journalist Day (Argentina)

June Bug Day

Kataklysmos (Flood Festival; Cypress)

Land O’Lakes Day

Lime Tree Day (French Republic)

Love Island Day (UK)

Mother’s Day (France; French Antilles)

National Alexandra Day

National Benjamin Day

National CAPHPACH Day (a.k.a. National Citizens Against Police Harassment Police Against Citizen Harassment Day)

National Elias Day

National Goonies Day

National Journalist Day (Argentina)

National Military Working Dog Day (Australia)

National Oklahoma Day

National RV Day

Prince Day

Prince Joachim Day (Denmark)

Sette Giugno (Malta)

Shirone Takogassen (Kite Fighting Festival; Japan)

Trial Technology Day

Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

VCR Day

Vivien Kellems Memorial Day

World Caring Day

World Day of Birth Rights

World Hemochromatosis Day

World Swift Day

Write to Your Father Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bartender Day

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

World Food Safety Day

World Poha Day

1st Wednesday in June

Clean Air Day (Canada) [1st Wednesday]

Global Exhibitions Day [1st Wednesday]

Global Running Day (a.k.a. National Running Day) [1st Wednesday]

National Tailors’ Day [1st Wednesday]

Power of Youth Day (UK) [1st Wednesday]

Independence Days

Erephisian Technocracy (f.k.a. Orbis; Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Norway (from Sweden, 1905)

Feast Days

Amazing Mumford (Muppetism)

Antonio Maria Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Captain Jack Sparrow Impersonation Day (Pastafarian)

Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)

Colmán of Dromore (Christian; Saint)

Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Damien Hirst (Artology)

Edtors’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Gottschalk (a.k.a. Godeschalc, Prince of the Western Vandals; Christian; Saint)

Landulf of Yariglia (Asti; Christian; Saint)

Lanfranc (Positivist; Saint)

Ludi Piscatorii (Ancient Rome)

Meriadoc (Christian; Saint)

Meriasek (Christian; Saint)

Paul I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Paul Gauguin (Artology)

Robert of Newminster (Christian; Saint)

Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière (Christian; Blessed)

Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Smilin’ Ed (Muppetism)

Vestalia begins (until 15th; Old Roman festival to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, home & family)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [19 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 26 of 60)

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band, recorded by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (Song; 1911)

Captain Fantastic and the Brown First Cowboy, by Elton John (Album; 1975)

City Slickers (Film; 1991)

Cloak & Dagger (TV Series; 2018)

Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1971)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Film; 2002)

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Film; 1991)

El Dorado (Film; 1967)

Face/Off (Film; 1997)

Fields of Gold, by Sting (Song; 1993)

Ghostbustrs (Film; 1984)

The Goonies (Film; 1985)

Grease (Broadway Musical; 1972)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Hasty Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

High School Confidential (Film; 1958)

Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary (Novel; 1950)

I Am Mother (Film; 2019)

The Johnny Cash Show (TV Series; 1969)

Jungle Fever (Film; 1991)

Kim Possible (Animated TV Series; 2002)

The Mummy (Film; 1999)

Perfect (Film; 1985)

Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)

The Producers (Film; 2002)

Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)

The Rock (Film; 1996)

A Satire of the Three Estates, by David Lyndsay (Play; 1552)

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Animated Film; 2019)

Simple Man, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Song; 1970)

Squatter’s Rights (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Vincent, recorded by Don McLean (Song; 1971)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Anita, Eoban, Gottlieb, Robert (Austria

Valeri, Valeria (Bulgaria)

Antun, Radoslav, Robert (Croatia)

Iveta (Czech Republic)

Jeremias (Denmark)

Robert, Robi (Estonia)

Robert, Robin, Roope, Suvi (Finland)

Gilbert (France)

Anita, Gottlieb, Raimund, Robert (Germany)

Panagis, Sebastian, Zinais (Greece)

Róbert (Hungary)

Geremia, Landolfo, Roberto, Sabiniano (Italy)

Arnis, Gaida, Gijs (Latvia)

Lukrecija, Radvydė, Ratautas, Robertas (Lithuania)

Robert, Robin (Norway)

Antoni, Ciechomir, Jarosław, Lukrecja, Paweł, Robert, Roberta, Wiesław, Wisław (Poland)

Teodot (România)

Róbert (Slovakia)

Isaac, Roberto (Spain)

Robert, Robin (Sweden)

Theodot (Ukraine)

Keenan, Melody, Nidia, Nydia, Nylene, Whitney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 158 of 2024; 207 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 23 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 20 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Sivan 5783

Islamic: 18 Dhu al-Qada 1444

J Cal: 8 Sol; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 25 May 2023

Moon: 84%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 18 St. Paul (6th Month) [Lanfranc]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 79 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 17 of 32)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 6.7

Holidays

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Battle of Arica Day (Chile)

Beatles Day

Betamax Day

Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky)

Father’s Day (Lithuania; Switzerland)

Festival of All Possible Worlds

Flag Day (Peru)

Fleur-de-Lis Day

International Supply Chain Specialists Day

International Tourettes Awareness Day

Journalist Day (Argentina)

June Bug Day

Kataklysmos (Flood Festival; Cypress)

Land O’Lakes Day

Lime Tree Day (French Republic)

Love Island Day (UK)

Mother’s Day (France; French Antilles)

National Alexandra Day

National Benjamin Day

National CAPHPACH Day (a.k.a. National Citizens Against Police Harassment Police Against Citizen Harassment Day)

National Elias Day

National Goonies Day

National Journalist Day (Argentina)

National Military Working Dog Day (Australia)

National Oklahoma Day

National RV Day

Prince Day

Prince Joachim Day (Denmark)

Sette Giugno (Malta)

Shirone Takogassen (Kite Fighting Festival; Japan)

Trial Technology Day

Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

VCR Day

Vivien Kellems Memorial Day

World Caring Day

World Day of Birth Rights

World Hemochromatosis Day

World Swift Day

Write to Your Father Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bartender Day

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

World Food Safety Day

World Poha Day

1st Wednesday in June

Clean Air Day (Canada) [1st Wednesday]

Global Exhibitions Day [1st Wednesday]

Global Running Day (a.k.a. National Running Day) [1st Wednesday]

National Tailors’ Day [1st Wednesday]

Power of Youth Day (UK) [1st Wednesday]

Independence Days

Erephisian Technocracy (f.k.a. Orbis; Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Norway (from Sweden, 1905)

Feast Days

Amazing Mumford (Muppetism)

Antonio Maria Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Captain Jack Sparrow Impersonation Day (Pastafarian)

Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)

Colmán of Dromore (Christian; Saint)

Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Damien Hirst (Artology)

Edtors’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Gottschalk (a.k.a. Godeschalc, Prince of the Western Vandals; Christian; Saint)

Landulf of Yariglia (Asti; Christian; Saint)

Lanfranc (Positivist; Saint)

Ludi Piscatorii (Ancient Rome)

Meriadoc (Christian; Saint)

Meriasek (Christian; Saint)

Paul I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Paul Gauguin (Artology)

Robert of Newminster (Christian; Saint)

Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière (Christian; Blessed)

Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Smilin’ Ed (Muppetism)

Vestalia begins (until 15th; Old Roman festival to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, home & family)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [19 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 26 of 60)

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band, recorded by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (Song; 1911)

Captain Fantastic and the Brown First Cowboy, by Elton John (Album; 1975)

City Slickers (Film; 1991)

Cloak & Dagger (TV Series; 2018)

Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1971)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Film; 2002)

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Film; 1991)

El Dorado (Film; 1967)

Face/Off (Film; 1997)

Fields of Gold, by Sting (Song; 1993)

Ghostbustrs (Film; 1984)

The Goonies (Film; 1985)

Grease (Broadway Musical; 1972)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Hasty Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

High School Confidential (Film; 1958)

Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary (Novel; 1950)

I Am Mother (Film; 2019)

The Johnny Cash Show (TV Series; 1969)

Jungle Fever (Film; 1991)

Kim Possible (Animated TV Series; 2002)

The Mummy (Film; 1999)

Perfect (Film; 1985)

Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)

The Producers (Film; 2002)

Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)

The Rock (Film; 1996)

A Satire of the Three Estates, by David Lyndsay (Play; 1552)

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Animated Film; 2019)

Simple Man, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Song; 1970)

Squatter’s Rights (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Vincent, recorded by Don McLean (Song; 1971)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Anita, Eoban, Gottlieb, Robert (Austria

Valeri, Valeria (Bulgaria)

Antun, Radoslav, Robert (Croatia)

Iveta (Czech Republic)

Jeremias (Denmark)

Robert, Robi (Estonia)

Robert, Robin, Roope, Suvi (Finland)

Gilbert (France)

Anita, Gottlieb, Raimund, Robert (Germany)

Panagis, Sebastian, Zinais (Greece)

Róbert (Hungary)

Geremia, Landolfo, Roberto, Sabiniano (Italy)

Arnis, Gaida, Gijs (Latvia)

Lukrecija, Radvydė, Ratautas, Robertas (Lithuania)

Robert, Robin (Norway)

Antoni, Ciechomir, Jarosław, Lukrecja, Paweł, Robert, Roberta, Wiesław, Wisław (Poland)

Teodot (România)

Róbert (Slovakia)

Isaac, Roberto (Spain)

Robert, Robin (Sweden)

Theodot (Ukraine)

Keenan, Melody, Nidia, Nydia, Nylene, Whitney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 158 of 2024; 207 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 23 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 20 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Sivan 5783

Islamic: 18 Dhu al-Qada 1444

J Cal: 8 Sol; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 25 May 2023

Moon: 84%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 18 St. Paul (6th Month) [Lanfranc]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 79 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 17 of 32)

[norteenlinea]

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[dilaysjoker]

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[saephrond]

He didn’t need to see her tears to know the weight of what he was doing. He’d seen that kind of strength before, and it always struck a chord in him - these vulnerable women who seemed to carry all the bad of the world on their shoulders. But no one would know it just by looking at them.

It wasn’t the first time he’d been thanked for just being there, but something about the way she said his name, soft and sincere, made him believe she meant it. He wondered if maybe she, even if they had only met twenty minutes ago, was starting to trust him. That thought settled in his chest, warm and comforting like the Louisiana sun. Or maybe dat's heartburn after dat bottle o' Louisiana hot sauce on dem 'tatoes fer lunch.

When she asked about the fun he had in mind, Remy couldn’t help but grin, his unmistakable charm sliding back into place. “Oh, chere, Remy’s always got so'me up his sleeve. Could be a card trick, could be so'me a lil more excitin’. But I’ll tell you dis - ain’t no fun if you ain’t smilin’. So, let me see dem pearly whites.”

But he digressed. He had already made up his mind about showing her the Danger Room. He'd have plenty of time there for a card trick or two, sure.

"You comin'?"

Would she be smiling through it, though? Probably not.

"As much as I'd like to take you somewhere nice, belle, we goin' to de trainin' room. You show Remy what you can do, an' I'll decide if I let you take dem shades off when we in de same space, oui?" He gave her a playful wink, trying to lighten the mood even as he led her toward something more serious. “We do so'me easy ta start you off.” He teased and opened the door to let her in, walking over to the control panel on the wall where he tapped a few buttons.

“Danger Room, initiate simulation Gamma Seven," he said before the room transformed into the back alleyway of a busy city street, spawning the first charging mob of young thugs. "Jus' 'member, Evie, dis ain’t only ’bout fightin’. It’s ’bout trust, too."

He rolled his shoulders a couple of times with a grin, reached into his coat, and pulled out a deck of cards. "Now, you show Gambit what'chu got," he said with a side-eye, charging a few of them within his fingers.

Evangeline listened to his every word as he consoled her. Her summers down south when she was younger introduced her to the Cajun and Creole dialects. While some found it difficult to understand, it came naturally to her. His words flowed like butter on a baked potato.

Her fingers flinched a bit when he hovered over hand, but she buried that feeling inside, and let him lay his hand on hers. That small action, him checking for consent without saying a word, made a tear roll down her cheek, which she wiped away with her free hand. Maybe he was saying all this to get her walls down, maybe he didn’t mean a word of it, or maybe he was just saying whatever she wanted to hear. Yet, she found herself believing all of it. Maybe he was being genuine. Just maybe.

“Thank you, Remy,” she softly replied with a small smile gracing her face.

Just maybe things would work out here after all.

“What kind of fun are you thinking?” She softly chuckled as she started to wash up the dishes and put them away in the dishwasher.

[405rew-twain]

Week 8 - “Deef en Dumb” Representations

Every time I think to myself, “you know, I’ve been reading texts in this or that class for a while now, and disability hasn’t come up at all — maybe I won’t be able to write about it this time around,” that’s when the author always comes around and hits me square in the face with the “WEIRD DISABILITY REPRESENTATION” baseball bat. It’s now Twain’s turn to participate in this time-honored college tradition of mine, I suppose!

So in the latter half of Huckleberry Finn, we get this piece of exposition from Jim, pages 240-241 in my edition:

‘She warn’t on’y ‘bout fo’ year ole, en she tuck de sk’yarlet-fever, en had a powerful rough spell; but she got well, en one day she was a-stannin’ aroun’ en I says to her, I says: “‘Shet de do’.” ‘She never done it; jis’ stood dah, kiner smilin’ up at me. […] ‘En wid dat I fetch’ her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin’. Den I went to de yuther room, […] en when I come back, […] en dat chile stannin’ mos’ right in it, a-lookin’ down and mournin’, en de tears runnin’ down. […] ‘Oh, Huck, I bust out a-cryin’ en grab her uyp in my arms, en say, “Oh, de po’ little thing! de Lord God Amighty forgive po’ ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to fogive hisself as long’s he live!” Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb — en I’d ben a-treat’n her so!’

I can almost hear Mitchell and Snyder screaming from a distance about narrative prosthesis!

Twain here is trying to continue the work authors like Stowe have done in humanizing the disenfranchised African American through appealing to a white audience's sense of sentimentality — basically emotion-driven narratives meant to make you “feel something” — and he chooses to do so by presenting us with the character of Lizbeth, who’s only real involvement with the story here lies in her disability. The way it’s rendered here, the shift from Jim’s anger that she won’t listen to his grief that he’s physically hit her, stems from the revelation that she’s “deef and dumb” — corrective violence was allowed until her disabled nature is revealed. Disability is just the convenient literary device for Twain to communicate that the slave is someone worthy of white sympathy, that their capacity to be “afflicted” in such a pitiful way twists a story of simple paternal correction into one meant to twist the heart strings. This usage of disability, as you can imagine, is rather exploitative, in the exact same way we might consider Dickens’ rendering of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol exploitative of the disabled image for a quick and easy emotional appeal.

I said in my introductory post I was interested to see how Twain would participate or potentially push back on the 19th century conversation surrounding disability. For the moment, it seems, he doesn’t quite manage to rise above his temporal circumstances.

[spawksstuff]

1979 12 07 LA Times

[lediableblanc-amoureuxdechats]

The irate reaction to not being allowed in his room or being given his details was to be expected. He found it vaguely amusing she was making so much of a scene, but only barely. He was on the same page as her with preferring her be in the room with him, another mutant in a building full of humans in positions of authority, and the awful fact they'd had access to him unconscious, even if it were necessary to save his life, made his skin grow crawl. On paper, hospitals were supposed to treat you properly regardless, but paper and practice didn't always line up, and he wasn't one to trust the better angels of people when he knew all too well how prejudiced they could be, oaths taken or not.

He didn't have much time to dwell on that before the nurse had allowed Rogue in, and the anger and worry was palpable. "Gettin' full named? Mus' be in some kinda trouble." He eyed her, standing there quietly with so much tension in her body he wondered if she was going to start yelling some more.

Remy wanted to protest he didn't actually remember doing any such thing but that didn't change the fact he knew it sounded like him. And put a child or other not so capable mutant on the line and it definitely was something he would do, outmatched or not. Either way he was being shushed and he didn't have the energy fight her on her getting her say in.

Thumb shifted to grip her hand, humming a laugh since that seemed to be safest bet with how banged up he was. "You wouldn' have to. Would take Death back up jus' t'get back y'ya, mon coeur." He smirked at her, although he could tell the gesture probably wasn't enough to calm her down, the shaking translating to her touch on his face. "Fuck you mean tryna get out? You need your head checked while you in here? Sure your bell ain't been rung too? Be smilin' f'de rest de week over you hollerin' 'mah man' f'de whole floor t'hear. M'fine. Jus' need a few days rest, be good as new."

@lediableblanc-amoureuxdechats

Continued from here !

She knew she was being a bit of a bitch. In hindsight, she wouldn't feel great about it- the poor nurse was only trying to do her job. But Rogue was angry. And scared.

If Remy had been under Hank's care, not only would she know he was okay, but he'd be with other mutants like himself and she'd be at his side right now. Instead, he was stuck in a hospital. A normal, every day, hospital. And she didn't trust a damn soul in this place with his care if they knew what he was. Add to that that they weren't letting her in to see him…

Oh, her anxiety was through the damned roof. And that meant her temper was getting there, too.

"Miss, it's against policy-"

Rogue pointed a gloved finger directly at the nurse, this simple action (coupled with her tone and the expression she wore) enough to get the other woman to stop talking. "I know. It ain't visitin' hours. I ain't his wife. I'm not family. So you won't lemme see 'im. But I'm tellin' ya- that's my man in there. An' I ain't movin' from this spot 'til ya let me in t'see 'im. Ya understand me? So you can take yer policies an'-"

Her eyes snapped towards the door at that sound. Remy had hit the call button and alerted the nurse to his need for something. Rogue's heart raced.

The nurse quickly excused herself then... had to shut the door in Rogue's face because she had followed the nurse closely, as if thinking she could sneak right in behind her. Which, of course, didn't work and left the southerner practically fuming. She was right there on the verge of stomping her foot like an angry child or, worse, kicking in the door. Why the hell couldn't they just let her in? Just for a couple minutes. Just long enough to check on him. To see him. (To... probably then refuse to leave his room, all things considered.)

But she needed to know: Was Remy okay? Were they treating him well? Was the nurse being kind? Or was she the type to be short and bitter with him all because of his eyes? Oh, if that was the case…

Her foot tapped rapidly against the floor, and the sounds of the rest of the hospital still busy at work were starting to grate on her. Too loud. Too much. Too crowded. She felt it in her stomach, in her chest, a pressure at the back of her head that made her feel like she might explode…

She just wanted to see Remy. Even if she had to make a scene. There wasn't a soul who'd be able to keep her from him.

Yet she still took a small step back to let the nurse out of the room when the door opened. Except, the woman didn't shut the door behind herself this time…

Rogue's eyes narrowed at her.

"He said to let you in," The nurse explained, though she didn't seem too happy about it. Maybe she was just frustrated that she'd argued with Rogue all that time for nothing. Or maybe she was just tired of the whole situation. Rogue… hadn't been making it easy on her.

"That wasn't so hard, was it?" Rogue asked. Then, realizing she was being snarky despite getting what she wanted, she felt a bit of shame. Her next words were said more genuinely. "Thank you. I'm just worried 'bout 'im..."

"I know," Was the only answer back before the nurse walked away and Rogue was stepping into Remy's room, shutting the door behind herself.

She breathed a sigh of relief as the door clicked closed, then she raised her gaze to look at Remy. Her Remy. Lying in a hospital bed. Patched up. IV in his arm. Oxygen being fed to him through a cannula. They hadn't told her what was wrong with him, just that he was stable. He was alive.

Her chest tightened as she stared at him, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to start scolding him for his recklessness or if she just wanted to kiss him. 

She couldn't kiss him, unfortunately, so a bit of scolding was in order. (Besides, it was always easier to express herself through anger...)

"Remy Etienne LeBeau, you reckless idiot," There was some fire behind her words, arms crossed, that stern look finally spreading across her face as she approached his bed. Brows furrowed. Lips pursed. Jaw clenched. There were about a thousand things she wanted to say to him, but they were all bouncing around in her head a thousand miles per hour and she was having trouble sorting them out. So the silence that followed that first sentence wasn't because she wanted to be silent, it was because she was struggling with what to say next.

Her eyes moved from him to take in the room, as if searching for anything to be wary of. Any signs of tampering or cruelty. She saw nothing of the sort, but that didn't mean she wasn't still slightly on guard. What she did find was a chair near his bed. One that she dragged even closer, seating herself so near to him that her knees were bumping that hospital bed frame that cradled his mattress. 

Now that she'd had a second to sort her thoughts, she was back to speaking. Whether that was a good thing for Remy or not, she wasn't quite sure yet. "What were you thinkin'? Goin' out there by yerself. Ya coulda been killed!" She quickly raised a finger to stop him from chiming in despite her question- speaking was probably hard for him right now. She would do the speaking, instead. "Ya can't go doin' stupid stuff like that, ya hear me?" And there, finally, was that wavering in her tone that gave away the fear she'd felt. The bit of relief that she was holding onto for the fact that he was alive. "If you'd've died, I woulda brought ya back just t'chew ya out for it." And, she wasn't a religious woman, but god help whoever the hell managed to kill Remy LeBeau, because they'd have to face her.

She reached out towards him, trying to keep her hand steady. Carefully, she placed one hand against his. The other found itself moving up, fingers gingerly brushing through his hair. She just needed to touch him. Even with the fabric of her glove between. She needed to feel him beneath her fingertips. She was quiet again, just for a few seconds, just long enough to watch him, to calm her racing heart.

When she spoke again, her voice was softer. "Ya ain't leavin' me. Not like that. Got it? Ya want outta this relationship, yer gonna have t'do better'n tryin' t'get yerself killed," A joke. A small one, maybe ill timed, but it was an attempt, nonetheless.

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Filmography to Love and Adore (1900 - 2022 AD)

1900:

-Joan of Arc

-The One-Man Band

1901:

-History Of A Crime

1902:

-The Coronation of Edward VII

1903:

-Life of An American Fireman

1904:

-The Impossible Voyage

1905:

-Esmerelda

1906:

-The Story of The Kelly Gang

1907:

-L'Enfant Prodigue

1908:

-Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

-Fantasmagorie

1909:

-Princess Nicotine/The Smoke Fairy

-The Golden Louis

1910:

-Frankenstein

1911:

-Little Nemo

1912:

-The Beautiful Leukanida

1913:

-The Adventures of Kathlyn

1914:

-The Squaw Man

1915:

-Are You A Mason?

-Carmen

-Barnaby Rudge

1916:

-Civilization

-The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

1917:

-Charlie Chaplin: The Cure

1918:

-The Tenth Symphony

1919:

-Intoxication

1920:

-The Saphead

1921:

-L'Atlantide

-Charlie Chaplin: The Kid

1922:

-The Toll of The Sea

1923:

-The Unknown Tomorrow

-The Man in The Iron Mask

1924:

-Dante's Inferno

1925:

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Pleasure Garden

-The Phantom of the Opera

1926:

-The Great Gatsby

-The Devil's Wheel

-The Devil's Circus

-The Golden Butterfly

1927:

-The Jazz Singer

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger (The Story of the London Fog)

-Metropolis

1928:

-Noah's Ark

1929:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Blackmail

-The Broadway Melody

1930:

-Hell's Angels

-Young Man of Manhattan

1931:

-The Man Who Came Back

-Bad Girl

1932:

-Smilin' Through

-Tarzan The Ape Man

-Strange Interlude

1933:

-Little Women

-Gold Diggers of 1933

1934:

-The Lost Patrol

-Riptide

1935:

-Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps

1936:

-Reefer Madness

1937:

-Walt Disney: Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

-The Good Earth

1938:

-Jezebel

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes

1939:

-The Wizard of Oz

1940:

-Walt Disney: Pinocchio

-Alfred Hitchcock: Correspondent

-Walt Disney: Fantasia

-Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

-Boom Town

1941:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion

-Orson Welles: Citizen Kane

1942:

-Casablanca

-Road To Morocco

1943:

-For Whom The Bell Tolls

-Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of A Doubt

1944:

-Gaslight

-Double Indemnity

-Laura

-National Velvet

1945:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound

1946:

-The Best Years of Our Lives

-Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious

1947:

-Forever Amber

-The Egg And I

1948:

-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

-The Search

1949:

-I Married A Communist

-The Man From Colorado

-The Heiress

1950:

-Walt Disney: Cinderella

1951:

-Quo Vadis

-Awaara

-That's My Boy

-The Thirteenth Letter

1952:

-The Big Sky

1953:

-The Robe

-Walt Disney: Peter Pan

1954:

-Magnificent Obsession

-Godzilla

1955:

-Sissi

-The Man With The Golden Arm

1956:

-Francis In The Haunted House

-And God Created Woman

-Anastasia

-The Rainmaker

1957:

-The Bridge on the River Kwai

-Yellow Crow

1958:

-Gigi

-The Defiant Ones

-I Want To Live!

1959:

-Ben-Hur

-The 400 Blows

1960:

-Mughal-E-Azam

1961:

-The Misfits

1962:

-The Manchurian Candidate

-Sundays and Cybéle

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Bellboy & The Playgirls

1963:

-Nurse On Wheels

-Shock Corridor

1964:

-The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

-Mary Poppins

-Becket

-My Fair Lady

-Seven Days in May

-The Time Travelers

1965:

-The Sound of Music

-The Beatles: Help!

-The Spy Who Came in From The Cold

-The Shop on Main Street

1966:

-A Man for All Seasons

-Roman Polanski: Cul-de-sac

-La Battaglia di Algeri

1967:

-The Graduate

-The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour

1968:

-Psych-Out!

-Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey

-The Girl on A Motorcycle

-Roman Polanski: Rosemary's Baby

-Candy

-Wild In The Streets

1969:

-The Night of the Following Day

-Psychout for Murder

-Medium Cool

-The Arrangement

-Easy Rider

1970:

-Donkey Skin

-I Drink Your Blood

-Night Slaves

-Patton

1971:

-Harold and Maude

-Billy Jack

-Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange

-Frank Zappa: 200 Motels

-Dirty Harry

1972:

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather

-Slaughterhouse-Five

1973:

-The Hourglass Sanatorium

-The Crazies

-American Graffiti

1974:

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation

1975:

-Satanico Pandemonium

1976:

-Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver

1977:

-Rituals

-Blue Sunshine

1978:

-Deathsport

1979:

-Mad Max

-Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now

1980:

-Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

-The Exterminator

-Stanley Kubrick: The Shining

-Altered States

-The Octagon

1981:

-Christiane F.

1982:

-Silent Rage

1983:

-Star Wars VI: Return of The Jedi

1984:

-This is Spinal Tap

-Dune

-The Killing Fields

-Red Dawn

1985:

-The Emerald Forest

-Invasion U.S.A.

1986:

-Gus Van Sant: Mala Noche

-What Every Frenchwoman Wants

-Platoon

1987:

-The Girl

1988:

-Zombi 3

-Brain Damage

1989:

-Drugstore Cowboy

1990:

-Hardware

-Jacob's Ladder

-Les 1001 Nuits

1991:

-Oliver Stone: The Doors

-Richard Linklater: Slacker

1992:

-Batman Returns

1993:

-In The Name of The Father

-12:01

1994:

-The Stand

-The Crow

-Leon The Professional

-Pulp Fiction

1995:

-Before Sunrise

-The Basketball Diaries

-Billy Madison

1996:

-Mike Judge: Beavis And Butthead Do America

-Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket

-Beautiful Girls

-Mission Impossible

1997:

-Conspiracy Theory

-Harmony Korine: Gummo

-Lost Highway

1998:

-The Truman Show

-Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

-The Big Lebowski

-Wes Anderson: Rushmore

-Vincent Gallo: Buffalo 66

1999:

-Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut

-Fight Club

-The Matrix

-American Beauty

-The Blair Witch Project

2000:

-American Psycho

-Mission Impossible II

-Scary Movie

2001:

-Studio Ghibli: Spirited Away

-Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums

2002:

-Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones

-Damon Packard: Reflections of Evil

-Demonlover

-Equilibrium

-Panic Room

-Spun

2003:

-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

-Oldboy

-Just Married

-Vincent Gallo: The Brown Bunny

-Party Monster

-Gus Van Sant: Elephant

2004:

-Before Sunset

-Fahrenheit 9/11

-The Day After Tomorrow

2005:

-Gus Van Sant: Last Days

2006:

-Jet Li: Fearless

-Candy

-Children of Men

-Little Miss Sunshine

-The Science of Sleep

2007:

-Hot Rod

2008:

-Tropic Thunder

-Batman: The Dark Knight

-Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

-The Love Guru

-Be Kind Rewind

-Gonzo: The Life And Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

2009:

-The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

-Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers

-Enter The Void

-Zombieland

-District 9

-We Live In Public

2010:

-My Joy

2011:

-The Sitter

-Drive

2012:

-Dredd

-Crystal Fairy & The Magic Cactus

-Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe Standup Comedy

-Artificial Paradises

-Cloud Atlas

-Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

2013:

-A Field In England

-3096 Days

2014:

-Saint Laurent

2015:

-The Road

2016:

-The Love Witch

-Dernieres Nouvelles Du Cosmos (Latest News From The Cosmos)

2017:

-Low Life

2018:

-Mandy

-Waco

-Climax

2019:

-Joker

-1917

-Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

2020:

-Borealis

2021:

-Fear And Loathing in Aspen

-The Beatles/Peter Jackson: Get Back

-Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss

2022:

-Everything Everywhere All At Once

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[lu-undy]

Request: Lucien tries to make mundy jealous, mundy tried to make Lucien jealous as a response, Ludwig/medic is somehow caught in the middle of this. Ludwig/medic did not sign up for this and Is very done.

Here we go for a bit of jealousy on both parts ;) ! I hope you’ll enjoy!

"Bonjour, two coffees please, a long one and an espresso. Thank you, Mademoiselle." 

Spy was at the counter, ordering from the waitress. Sniper looked at him from the table. The waitress was giggling and blushing, covering her mouth with her hand. What the hell was Spy telling her…? Oh and now she was showing him something, a piece of paper? And now she was scribbling on it?

The Frenchman sat down, a smile still lingering on his lips. That irresistible grin somehow stung the Aussie, in his chest. It was a delicious sight, the Frenchman's pearly white teeth flashing between his thin lips… But it hurt too! Knowing that the Aussie wasn't the source of that small burst of happiness, of the pink on Spy's cheeks. It made his eyebrows ever so slightly twitch. 

"Got the coffees?" 

Spy sat opposite his colleague. 

"Oui, they shall arrive shortly." He answered, his eyes never leaving the young waitress in her short skirt and work apron. 

"So, uh," Sniper tried to interrupt his staring. "Got any plans for today?" 

"Apart from sharing my breakfast with you, Bushman? Non, not really." 

The waitress came to their table. 

"Who's the long coffee?"

"My friend here." Spy answered. 

"So you're the espresso, right?" 

"Exactement." The Frenchman answered with one those trademarked smiles of his, those that made the clocks stop around Sniper.

[Exactly.]

Spy carded his hair back with a nonchalant hand, brushing through his salt and pepper silky locks. Something burnt inside Sniper and the waitress left them. Silence fell at the table and Spy was smiling to himself still. Sniper couldn't help but stare at him. He shouldn't because the longer he kept his eyes on him, the more painful it was. 

Spy finally broke the silence. 

"Actually, I might do something today." He said, his irises following the young woman. "It depends, it might be a bit foolish of me." 

Sniper downed his bitter coffee. 

"Roight, I'll be in the van." He left the table, fuming with - he would never admit it - jealousy. 

When he slipped in the van, he slammed its door shut and crossed his arms on his chest. His breath was fast and angry, dry and hot. He had never thought about it but now it sounded and looked obvious. If Spy always accepted his invitations to go to town, maybe it was just to get some fresh air. Maybe he just saw him as a convenient chauffeur, and a quite entertaining one at that! Sniper had always tried to make his small talk as interesting as he could… Bah, he had never been the chatty type, even though he thought his friendship with Spy was helping him on that front. Apparently not, or not enough. 

About a minute later, Spy appeared in the van. 

"I apologise if I put you late for something, Sniper." 

"Nah, it's fine." 

The van roared and off they went, on their way back to the base. 

Sniper was cold and distant. He didn't try to initiate any conversations, and kept answering Spy with one-word sentences. The Frenchman sensed the uneasiness, the discomfort. He decided against pushing Sniper. Whatever caused him to fall silent and frown, biting his cheek, wasn't something the Aussie looked ready to discuss. 

They spent the rest of their day each in their own world. Spy had stayed in the confines of his suite, while Sniper had hung out with the rest of his colleagues. 

At the dinner table, only Spy was missing. 

"You're not havin' dinner with fancypants tonight?" Scout asked Sniper as he sat down. 

"Nah." 

"You got into an argument?" 

Sniper raised his eyes and their shine sliced the room. 

“Finish yer fries, laddie.” Demo interrupted them before Sniper murdered his young colleague.

Dinner was spent normally for most mercenaries. Only Sniper was staring emptily at his plate, but Demo noticed it. So after dinner, he went to his Australian colleague, drinking some beer on his own.

“Hey, lad.”

“Hey.”

“What’s wrong? Wanna talk about it?”

Sniper looked left and right, making sure no one else would eavesdrop on them.

“It’s…”

“Is it Spy?”

Sniper nodded, his head still lowered.

“Go on, tell me.” Demo got closer to his friend and talked low.

“He’s… It’s me, I got funny ideas again but it was all in my head.” He sighed.

“Oh, I’m sorry for you. You’re a good man, he’ll regret it.” Demo took a swig of his scrumpy.

“Don’t think so.”

“Why?”

“He uh… He met someone today and uh… I don’t want to sound weird but…”

“You can tell me, mate,” Demo said. “I’m just here to listen, not to judge.”

“Yeah, well. She’s young and a sheila at that. He didn’t stop staring at her, smilin’ like a bloody idiot. I saw him take his car and drive off a bit before dinner and uh…”

“You think he went to have dinner or something with her?”

Sniper turned to face the window. He could almost see it before his eyes. Spy and that young woman, on a table for two, a candle in the middle, his eyes shining and half-lidded, drowning in her eyes… 

“Ugh!” He shook his head and his shoulders, a shiver slithered up his spine.

“Sniper, look. I’m uh, yeah, I’m sorry for you. You liked him a lot, eh?”

The Australian smiled.

“Understatement of the century, yeah. He uh… He'd do nothing and I'd feel so good just looking at him. And when he looks back, Gosh… It's like gettin' punched but by his eyes."

"Woah, didn't know you liked him that much." Demo put a hand on Sniper's shoulder and patted him on the back. "Sorry it didn't go the way you want, lad…"

"You know what hurts the most? It's knowing that now, I can't see him the same. It's like… If I were to see him now, I'd feel the butterflies again and it's like he didn't hurt me at all. I'd uh… Bah, forget it." Sniper removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 

Demo was out of words, so he just wrapped an arm around his shoulders and tapped his shoulder. 

Unbeknownst to them, Spy entered the living-room and all his eyes saw was Demoman comforting his friend. Now Sniper was lowering his head and Demo hugged him. 

Spy's lips parted in surprise and his very bones froze, stinging everywhere. When his cigarette hit the floor, he was already back in his suite. 

Sniper's head jerked up. 

"What?" Demo asked. 

"Don't you smell it?" 

"Smell what?" 

Sniper sniffed the air left and right. He let the scent guide his feet until he arrived at its source. 

"What the… Where?" 

He looked down and Demo saw him pick something up from the floor. 

"What is it, lad?" 

Sniper turned to his friend holding a cigarette that had hardly been consumed. 

"Bugger…" 

"What's the matter lad?"

"Don't you understand?!" Sniper almost shouted. 

"No, I don't." Demo frowned. 

"Look!" Sniper brandished the cigarette. 

"It's a cigarette."

"Yeah! But look at it! It's barely been smoked and have you ever seen Spy ever drop one?" 

Demo's eye went left and right, rummaging through his memory. 

"No…?"

"He was there a minute ago and left too quickly. Something's wrong, he'd never waste one of his cigs." Sniper puffed on it and his shoulders sank and relaxed. "Gosh it's really one of his…" He melted. 

"Sniper, look-"

"I gotta see what's wrong with him." Sniper turned on his heels, ignoring his friend and headed for the Frenchman's room. 

"No, wait!" Demo stood in front of him and blocked his way. "What's the matter with ya? One minute you're sad cause he left you and the next you wanna throw yerself into his arms?!" 

"Nah," Sniper looked down at Demo's eye. "I never stopped wanting to throw myself in his arms. That's my problem." And he pushed his colleague out of the way gently to knock on the Frenchman's door. 

"Go to hell!" Was the answer he received.

"Spook…" Spy's ears pricked up. He hadn't expected Sniper to come and visit him, not after what he saw. "It's me." 

"Did I stutter? Or perhaps you did not understand it in English?" 

Spy sounded furious, even through the wooden door with the knife symbol on it. How did Sniper dare show his face to him after he clearly had misled the Frenchman for weeks? Spy had always taken the time for him - no, actually, he had always made the time for him. He had accepted all the invitations that Sniper made to take him to town, have a drink, or something to eat. Hell, Spy even never dared suggest anything on his own, because he wanted the shy, antisocial and introverted Aussie to feel at ease with him, to take things at his pace.

And all these efforts amounted to what? Sniper hugging Demoman. Demoman of all people! Putain de merde! Was it not clear enough through their banter, through the nights spent under the stars in the cold, just to watch the stars with him? Ha! Talking about that, Sniper never realised that when he was busy unravelling the mysteries of the universe to Spy, the Frenchman was absorbed in the stars, but not those in the sky. He didn't raise his head that far up to see them, non, he only had to look in the depth of the Aussie's pupils, in his kind, lagoon irises. That was where the stars were, that was where they came from, the sparks that made Spy's body fizz up everywhere…

All that happened in the best and the worst of secrets, right under the Aussie's nose but never clearly enough for him to see it. 

"Spook, please." Sniper knocked again and Spy sighed. He pushed himself to stand and went to the door that he opened in a flash.

"What do you want?" 

"A-are you alright?" Sniper asked. "I found one of your cigs on the floor. It was barely lit and uh, I know you wouldn't waste them…" 

Spy raised an annoyed eyebrow. 

"... They're bloody expensive, eh?" 

Spy sighed and let Sniper in. 

"So, uh, what's the problem…?" Sniper asked while Spy crossed the room to sit back on his sofa. He lit a cigarette and stared emptily in front of him. 

Silence fell. Spy was furiously jealous of that embrace Sniper shared with Demoman. It made his heart shatter like glass, the shards of which he was now too old to pick up. He blew the smoke of his cigarette. 

"Are you going to stand awkwardly there?" He said. "If so, then you don't have anything to say to me, thus making your presence absolutely unnecessary. You know where the door is." 

Spy's voice was cold and scathing. Sniper took a deep breath as if to gather the strength from the air he pumped in his lungs, and he went to sit on the sofa too. 

"I don't have anything to say to you, I'm just here cause I know something's not right with you." Sniper answered and Spy felt the hint of some vexation in the Aussie's voice. "But if you're gonna be a mongrel about it, alright, I'll tell you what I think is wrong with you…" 

Spy raised a curious eyebrow and interrupted him. 

"Pardon? Something is wrong with me?" He asked, with a hand to his chest. "Non, Bushman, I think I have been perfectly honest and clear. For once, I did not mess anything up by lying or anything of the sort!" 

Sniper nodded with an almost cruel smile. 

"Oh so she stood you up? It wasn't just that she didn't like you back?" 

Spy frowned. 

"Pardon?" His native tongue came to him faster than English and he was too irritated to correct himself. "What are you talking about?" 

"That sheila you went to have dinner with! The one who gave you her number this mornin' at the café, cause that's what she wrote on that paper she gave you, wasn't it?!" Sniper was now angry. 

"Bushman, what on Earth have you invented?!"

"Invented? Me?" Sniper repeated, rage boiling inside him. "I saw it with my own eyes, you wanker! She gave you her number and next thing I know, you don't come out for lunch and drive off right before dinner!"

"So you conclude I went to have dinner with that woman?" Spy asked.

"Yeah, well, is there anythin' else I should get? Oh, yeah, actually, there is! You come back to the base so pissed off that you shout at me when I knock on yer door and you throw away one of your cigs! So yeah, I think she didn't wanna get a second date at the very least!" 

Spy sighed and facepalmed. His hand sank down his face. 

"Oh so you imagine I spend my time with someone I've hardly met while you -" Spy pointed an accusative index finger on Sniper. "You fall into Demoman's arms like that!" Spy snapped his fingers. 

Sniper's eyes opened as wide as planets and his pupils shrank to a dot. 

"But let us dwell on something else first, shall we?" Spy continued. "Why on Earth would you care if I saw that woman again?"

Sniper's lips parted but no sound came out. Yes he did care very much and it had ripped him apart on the inside when he had seen Spy exchange smiles and sweet gazes with that sheila… But wait, Sniper frowned as he found a come back to that. 

"Wait, hold on, you saw Demo with me?" 

"Anyone could have! You were in the middle of the living-room! And to think that I thought you shy and prude, you hide your true nature very well, I would be scared for my own position if not for one reason." 

"What?"

"What you think I spent my day doing just shows how incompetent a spy you would be." Spy explained, his voice calming down.

"I'm not scared to lose my job. You're shit at aimin'." Sniper answered, just to have the last word. 

Silence fell. 

"You are an imbécile." Spy looked at the emptiness in front of him.

"And you're an idiot." Sniper tilted his head that he held low. 

"The waitress this morning, she didn't give me her phone number, and I didn't drive to her before dinner."

Sniper turned his head to Spy. 

"She complimented my looks and pointed out the fact that I looked like a certain actor, her favourite, she mistook me for him. She showed me a picture of him and I could see the resemblance but I explained she was making a mistake. I then asked her to write down his name, which she did. That is what she scribbled on this piece of paper." Spy retrieved it from his pocket and tossed it on the sofa. Sniper didn't need to look at it. Something in Spy's voice convinced him that he was telling the truth. "But what about you? And Demoman? Why would you invite me for drinks or to just stroll in the city if Demoman is close to you?"

"I… I was pissed off because I really thought that sheila just got you with a snap of her fingers. I was ventin' to him, I was telling him how - argh, anyway, I just talked to Demo and he was sorry for me. He just gave me a pat on the back, is all." 

Spy raised an eyebrow staring in his eyes.

"I swear, it was just that, nothin' more." Sniper insisted and Spy's eyes went to the floor. He was convinced. "But where did you fly off to before dinner then?" 

"I went to town to get this." Spy stood up and went to the TV, next to it was a video cassette. He came back to the sofa and handed it to Sniper. 

"What's that?" 

"A video cassette. It's one of the movies with the man who looks like me. I had hoped that you would accept watching it with me tonight. I was on my way to ask you and expected to spend the evening by your side, laughing at how you would mock him, or me, for our resemblance. I do admit it is one of those romantic movies that would make me gag otherwise. But…"

"But what?" Sniper flipped the cassette and observed it in his hand before raising his eyes to Spy. 

"But since a few weeks, even the atrociously cheesy songs on the radio make sense. Their lyrics get to me the way they do each time it happens."

"Each time what happens?" Sniper asked. 

"Each time I fall in love." 

The air stilled in the room.

"And since we are being truthful," Spy started and closed his eyes to push the end of the sentence out of himself. "The surprise of seeing Demoman's arms around you made me drop my cigarette. But that is not what made me spin on my heels and go back to my room." 

"What then?" Sniper asked. 

"Can't you guess?" 

"N-no, I don't know…" 

"I presume it is the same thing that made you leave the café hurriedly this morning." Spy said and Sniper understood. 

"Y-you were jealous?" The Aussie asked, not believing that the word was exiting his own lips. 

"As much as you were when you thought I was having dinner with that young woman." 

"Gosh…" 

Spy crushed his cigarette butt in the ashtray on the coffee table in front of him. 

"Now you know everything of my whereabouts for today. You may leave if you so wish." 

Sniper looked at the cassette in his hand. 

"Spook?" 

"Oui?" 

"When you said you fell in love… was it…?"

"With you? Oui." Spy answered calmly. "But I can understand if the feeling is far from mutual. After all, you have seen me without my mask and thus guessed that my age isn't quite yours." 

"Pfff…" 

"I know. It pains me to think that I used to be able to seduce anyone I wanted back when my hair was black. Now, I cannot even look you in the eye for too long."

"Neither can I." Sniper added. 

"You find me that repulsive then? Fine. I shall not bother you and take of your precious time any longer." Spy got up and went to the door. 

Sniper stood up and followed him. 

"I wish you a good night, Sniper." 

When Spy's eyes rose to Sniper, they were filled with heartbreak and grief. There was a form of defeat too. If Spy had always been a womanizer and a formidable love partner, his age now made him just powerless. He just had to accept that he wasn't attractive or charming anymore. He opened the door for Sniper.

"Right, I'll keep the cassette." The Aussie said. 

"Why?" Spy asked, confused.

"I don't want you to watch it with anyone else." 

Spy's eyes shone brighter and Sniper smiled. He pushed the door to shut it again, staying in Spy's room. 

"I wanna watch this bloke who looks like you with you. But uh, I'm not a big fan of movies… I just prefer the real thing." 

Spy bit his lip to contain his excitement as Sniper's grin widened. 

"What if we still watch it tonight?" Spy asked, almost too innocently for himself. 

"Yeah, I'd like that." 

Spy felt like he lost ten years. He took the cassette off Sniper's hand and put it on. When he sat on the sofa, Sniper was next to him, wrapping an arm around his shoulders. Spy felt warm and fuzzy on the inside. The movie started and he glued his eyes to the screen. Sniper, however, had his eyes on Spy. 

"Hey, Spook?" 

"Hm?" Spy raised his light blue eyes to him.

"I love you too." 

Spy gasped and covered his mouth with his hand. He was paralysed and stayed in that position for a few seconds, just to digest the words. It didn't fail to make Sniper a bit uncomfortable. 

"R-right, so, uh, the bloke, in the movie, uh… oh…" 

Spy leaned on Sniper's shoulder. He went to find his hand and held it, sliding his own fingers between the Aussie and clenching. Sniper clenched back. 

"I am in love as if I was twenty again." Spy said.

"Shame." Sniper answered and Spy raised his head. "I like'em old." 

"Rude, but appreciated."

Sniper rested his head on top of Spy's and their eyes finally went to the screen. 

"Hold on, that bloke, he doesn't look like you at all, in fact, he kinda looks like-"

"You, oui." 

"What the hell?!" 

Spy's chuckles against Sniper's chest had all kinds of effects on the Aussie. 

"I agree with you, Bushman. I am not a big fan of movies, I just prefer the real thing."

"You liar…" Sniper tightened his hug on his lover and Spy moaned. 

"Only when it gets me where I want, in your arms."