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kinetic-elaboration · 1 year ago
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January 15: Monty/Raven, Accurate/Indefinite
As is so often the case with me, I don't know what this is. I didn't have a strong idea going in so I just went with Dramatic.
This is part of the Ark AU, and takes place before the beginning of that story.
Monty/Raven, ~660 words, written in about 20 minutes
For the prompt "accurate, and its antonyms (inaccurate, indefinite, unreliable, faulty)" from my July Break Bingo 2023 card.
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One thing Raven and Monty have in common is an unerring desire for accuracy in all tasks and perfection in all results, paired with a stark understanding that such things will never be. Their ship is old and faulty, and it cannot ever be otherwise again. They are both only part of the shoestring and glue that holds the thing together—not that Raven would ever admit to Monty's face that she gives him as much credit as that.
Their relationship, too, is uncertain and stumbling: indefinite, and in that way, one might say faulty, too. Two months after the first time, she finally invited him back to her quarters on Mecha. But then they hardly knew what to do with each other in the privacy behind a locked door, in the space of a single bed. He showed a certain patience that she'd never felt in him before. She would not be so naive as to say it was love or even desire, because desire is something lofty and beautiful, and they've only ever been clawing and scratching in the dark. Still, he took his time and he stretched himself out and he kissed her slow. He left her with hollows of time in which to think—something she'd always avoided in the past, with him.
She's heard rumors that all his other girls are ex-Prison Station, which makes her wonder if she's special, if there's some sort of hidden meaning there. Maybe he knew Finn on the inside and figures, close enough. Or maybe Raven crept up on him in some unexpected way, and he intends this no more than she does, and is compelled to keep going like it's some kind of dare.
Sometimes she shows up on Go-Sci just to rag on him about the hole in the security system in Alpha Sector 4, something she shouldn't even know about except that any fool could see it, and sometimes he reminds her that the patch job in that section of family quarters on Farm is so weak, he could probably rip it apart with his bare hands. He grew up on Farm and knows that's always been a damn trouble spot. But if she's such a genius, why can't she figure something out?
"I am a damn genius," she answers.
He flicks his gaze all the way down her body, slow, then raises his eyebrows like a dare.
Maybe she is special.
Maybe they will always be indefinite, faltering, because they've been broken up in pieces and turned old before their time, and they cannot ever again be otherwise again. That's when she thinks when she catches sight of sweetness in him. When she spies him across the cafeteria at a crowded lunch hour, laughing and joking, hiding that laughter behind his hand. He's only twenty, looks young still, sometimes, for his age.
For a while, in her quarters, he slides himself down under the covers and just lies there, his breath hitting ragged and tired against the bare skin of her hip. She lets her hand fall down and cards her fingers through his hair. Her lungs are working hard, trying not to burst. Something's cracked up, uncertain, a story they could have had together but she just can't find the thread of it, doesn't know what she's doing. She’s thinking not about the Skybox girls but about the Station itself, how he never talks about it, how he'd up and leave now without a second-thought if she even said the word. She's the shoestring and the glue, sliding her fingers again and again through the soft strands of his hair. Holding them both together, somehow. He pokes his nose against her hip. Underneath the blanket, he must be hot, sticky with sweat, unable to ignore for a moment the lingering scent of them, too aware of the wrinkles on the sheets that, somehow, they've half-pulled off the mattress. Surrounded on all sides by the wreckage they've created and become.
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smallpwbbles · 8 days ago
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I just thought about that one face Ponyo makes when Sosuke says he loves her and ended up doing more doodles
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ark-fork · 1 year ago
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vulcan-moon · 2 months ago
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dr frankenstein amd her creature :3
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doodle17 · 16 days ago
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Yeah yeah we've all seen baby Shadow but what about baby Maria huh. What then
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I got lazy on this one but I still thought it was nice. Smiles :)
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thatshadowcomic · 6 months ago
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Maria would have grown up to be menace
Hedgehogs have sensitive noses, poor bastard
I wish I could find the video with the shaky syndrome cat reacting to the candle tbh this was inspired by it
Edit: thank you guys for helping me find it😭🫰
Inspired by this cat
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krn-art · 3 months ago
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AU where I ship em as an old married pair who meet and realize their partners suck.
Also, that whole movie shoved in a series worth of plots into 2 hours.
✧Reblogs help artists more than likes ✧ ~Please don’t repost or use my art~ (Commissions are open right now in my shop!)
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Two old farts in a haunted house? One has a kid from an old marriage, the other has a banshee x-wife who tried to kill him? Like, he meets her while trying to escape his ex and she agrees to marry him instead since her fiancé admitted to not loving her except for her money. But she needs to be married to keep the house and he wants to be human, so marriage of inconvenience but they end up liking each other and stage ghost stuff for her show. Something something he lives or she dies and we get a dramatic ending.
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♫ I don't think that I can take it~ 'Cause it took so long to bake it~ And I'll never have that recipe again~ ♫
MacArthur Park by Richard Harris
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bestjeanistmonster · 8 months ago
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Dc au- lil scamps on the Ark who love dirt
I imagine they’d often go to the section of the ark that is specifically for growing plants and food to play in the dirt and plant apple seeds leftover from their lunches
They are often chased out but they always manage to sneak back in
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strangefard · 8 days ago
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My buddy made an edit of the little guy as a chill guy ima cry 😭
(I got perms to post the edit)
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tophthedaydreamer · 19 days ago
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so uh... ark siblings iron giant au?
inspired by dark beginnings and sonic movie 3 (so i'll put in the spoiler tag juuuusssst in case :P)
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dhl-au · 3 months ago
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ghostly sweet romance
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itz-pandora · 3 months ago
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I keep thinking about these guys ... Idiots....
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smallpwbbles · 8 days ago
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I didn't think I'd get so into this studio ghibli inspired au but the wonderful fanart y'all are making of it is making me crazy. I need to have an obligatory falling/flying through the sky scene in this au
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ark-fork · 5 months ago
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I made a crime
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an absolute crime for @sm-baby
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vulcan-moon · 8 months ago
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dr maria au sketchbook lines bc ive been thinking of her so much these past couple of days
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monotone-artist · 3 months ago
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[id in alt]
i am obsessed with @smallpwbbles's biolizard shadow au
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