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Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner IRON MAN 3

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Faith crushes out a little 'tsst' where a laugh should be, half-rolls her eyes at his faux jolly but she doesn't uncross her arms to remove the antlers just yet.

Even if he is over-doing it a little on the chuckles, she has to admit that it's kinda nice to just be standing in the midway between Wet Seal and JC Penny, taking in all the corporate festiveness of a shopping mall, instead of beheading unspeakable demons --- not that she doesn't love that.

She slides her two-cents in at the end of his tirade against all-things Capitalism, "Anything's gonna sound good if you say it like that." She glances over her shoulder at the bustle of people, all dressed for an upper-Midwestern winter. Far cry from Los Angeles, where the faux leather jackets are more for show than any big need to keep warm. "At this point you're pretty much abusing sarcasm."

"So, if you got no big love for all things tinsel, the heck are you doing mall-hoppin' on a Friday night? Thought you'd be rolling dice, as per." The shoppers are a bit hypnotizing, in their hideous parkas and snow hats, arms full of packages, dragging tantrum goblins after them like a curse. Probably going back to warm cars and warmer homes, and Christmas trees, and all those things you gotta tell yourself are lame when they're just outside your reach. She's gotten so used to not mentioning it, you'd almost believe it didn't bother her. She gives Eddie her attention back and thumbs over her shoulder, injecting Slayer business into the conversation, like usual, "Tracked a couple vamps out this way, took out a nest in the back of the parking garage. Heat's busted at the motel again. I figured, while I'm here, what the hell? Might as well warm up."

for good measure, eddie adjusts the antlers on her head - exaggeratedly so, tongue poking out in focus to get them just right. " since today, apparently. " his smile has yet to fade, it isn't exactly the christmas spirit, more so faith's company to brighten his mood.

" don't you just love this season?? " there it is, the sarcasm coming through in his tone as he gestures around the mall. jam packed with last minute shoppers, tinsel && sparkling lights on every store front && the faint crackle of last christmas coming from the nearby ice cream stores shitty speakers.

" everyone going broke, wasted decorations that'll be definitely be thrown in some landfill, the rampant take over of consumerism. " eddie drones on, but he won't admit, not blatantly, that it can be nice.

" it's not all bad. it's worth it to see you with antlers on. "

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"Always do. What the hell are you doing this far south?"

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"Wow.. You are a sight for sore eyes.. You look good, Faith."

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I'll be here in a bit! While you await my glorious return, I have an INTEREST TRACKER.

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FAITH LEHANE | BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997 - 2003)

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Just a quick flyby, since I have literally no time right now for anything outside of work, I'm going to be doing my annual thread shrink for a couple of months just so i can remain active but not have a huge amount of new threads that go inactive after a reply or two. No offense to anyone at all, I totally get it, but part of my lack of enthusiasm for tumblr is just lack of active stories.

Here's basically what I'm kicking around:

I'll try to maintain a single thread with each muse Faith interacts with outside of my group verses (which are mostly on discord, anyway, but I still have a couple of threads here). I don't mind multiple threads with the same mun so long as each thread is Faith interacting with a different muse.

I'm also paring down how many threads I'll actually be involved in. I think I'm going to cap it at 20 altogether, until I have time for more. If there are threads we have you don't want paused and you're cool with moving them to discord, please reach out! My focus will be on active stories that are actively moving forward, and if a thread goes stagnant I'll likely pause it in favor of more active threads.

I've also decided against reopening Faith to new ships unless we've already talked about it. I'm going to focus on active ships in active stories.

Because of this, I'm reeling Faith back from anything potentially romantic and embracing Faith's ho side a little harder, lol. I've always felt that rp partners lose enthusiasm for me when Faith's not shippable, and then I get dumb and people please against my better judgement, but romantic ships with her are hard won and it takes a loooong time, so for the time being they're off the table. She's definitely down to get physical, but I think hand-holding has got to be a no go for a bit while I spend time on her long-term active ships that need my attention.

Once my schedule calms down, I'll be open to more things! Right now the best way to write with me is on discord because I can more easily use it on my phone when I'm cleaning at the hotel. I can't use the tumblr app for crap, lmao. Thank you for understanding!

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Just a quick flyby, since I have literally no time right now for anything outside of work, I'm going to be doing my annual thread shrink for a couple of months just so i can remain active but not have a huge amount of new threads that go inactive after a reply or two. No offense to anyone at all, I totally get it, but part of my lack of enthusiasm for tumblr is just lack of active stories.

Here's basically what I'm kicking around:

I'll try to maintain a single thread with each muse Faith interacts with outside of my group verses (which are mostly on discord, anyway, but I still have a couple of threads here). I don't mind multiple threads with the same mun so long as each thread is Faith interacting with a different muse.

I'm also paring down how many threads I'll actually be involved in. I think I'm going to cap it at 20 altogether, until I have time for more. If there are threads we have you don't want paused and you're cool with moving them to discord, please reach out! My focus will be on active stories that are actively moving forward, and if a thread goes stagnant I'll likely pause it in favor of more active threads.

I've also decided against reopening Faith to new ships unless we've already talked about it. I'm going to focus on active ships in active stories.

Because of this, I'm reeling Faith back from anything potentially romantic and embracing Faith's ho side a little harder, lol. I've always felt that rp partners lose enthusiasm for me when Faith's not shippable, and then I get dumb and people please against my better judgement, but romantic ships with her are hard won and it takes a loooong time, so for the time being they're off the table. She's definitely down to get physical, but I think hand-holding has got to be a no go for a bit while I spend time on her long-term active ships that need my attention.

Once my schedule calms down, I'll be open to more things! Right now the best way to write with me is on discord because I can more easily use it on my phone when I'm cleaning at the hotel. I can't use the tumblr app for crap, lmao. Thank you for understanding!

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A guy looks at me, let’s just say his priorities shift. Why, because you’re so hot? It is what it is, yo. Oh, please. I am so much prettier than you are.

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I TOLD MYSELF: NEXT TIME I’LL BE COLDER, BUT HERE I AM, FEELING THE WARMTH ALL OVER / ©

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cont. ; @freakarus

Faith's arms slowly fold across her middle, and it's with plenty of potential sarcasm that she watches the antlers migrate from his head to hers. Sometimes Eddie astounds her with his geekatronics - he's so much dorkier than anyone gives him credit for. Then there's times like this where she recognizes in him the pathetic wish for something real, even if it's just holiday spirit, that she's lived with herself. Something kinder than the hand they were both dealt, something that's just not meant for trash. Meh, 'tis the season, why hit him below the belt on this one? She has to strain to glance up at the antlers then shoots him a smirk, "You're hilarious. Seriously, since when are you Mr. Tinsle?"

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"Minotaur." as if she even knows what that means. If Mr. Dollars hadn't said it a thousand times, she wouldn't even be able to pronounce it but Faith's fought a lot of things with names she couldn't say, or didn't get. "Look, it's whatever. The guy who paid me to drag your ass outta there didn't exactly gimme the TED Talk about it. You okay?"

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sc. / @thatslayer.

[  ....  ]               ❝  listen,  yo,  i'm  appreciative  and  shit  that  you  helped  me  out  with  that  -  monster  or  whatever  back  then,  but  i  still  never  got  an  explanation  on  what  the  hell  that  was.  care  to,  like,  lighten  me  or  some  shit   ?   ❞

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I'm headed into the third shift of triples in about 40 minutes, but after that I'm down to one morning shift a day until Monday when I'm back on doubles! I have stuff to do, family and holiday things, but I want to hop on here for a bit when I can!

I hope to pop on tomorrow after dinner, but if I don't get a chance then definitely Saturday. <3

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reblog if your muse is   ( D R A M A T I C ™ ) 

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Heads up on my schedule! This is the first day of my new work schedule, two girls are leaving the restaurant and I've got extra shifts for the next several months. I'll be doing doubles at the brick-and-mortar jobs, triples with social media shifts in the morning, most days and I should have Sunday off from here on out -- this is at least until the middle of January, most likely until April, so expect me here on Sundays if I'm not super exhausted!

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"Blot it, smear it. What we need is some wax paper, get it in between the pages before they dry like that." Not that Faith's been in the room when manuscripts were damaged by Buffy's Starbucks, by Oz and his Caribou, by the off Willow Rosenberg and her oh-so-dangerous Swiss Miss. Giles, tea. Even Xander, who single-handedly kept Surge in business all those years. Faith's been pretty lucky, there, but the invitation to have coffee with the white hats was never really on the table. Ooof, that was an emotion she doesn't freaking like. She gets, now, why so many vamps turn them off.

She reaches for paper towels, eyes still subtly on Elena. "You know this stuff happens, like, literally every research fest, right? You're kickin' your own ass for nothing, here."

Yea it's fine. It's totally fine. Right? So fine? The most fine even. Theres no reason at all to panic about a low key acidic liquid being on centuries old paper. Surely it's fine. Surely the world wouldn't end because Elena managed to fuck up the one text that told them how to save it. Right?

"Do you think we can like.... blot it with a towel or something?" Elena sighed. "Pretty sure the longer it sits the less chance we have to save it..." This is EXACTLY what team slayer needed right now.

This is what happens when you pull an all nighter with only coffee in your system and the existential DREAD that comes with the weight of the world resting on your shoulders.

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oopsie ; @little-elena

Which probably wouldn't have been all that big a deal if the book hadn't been open to the one ancient-ass page they needed. Faith's trying to snap a pic with her own phone before the text has a chance to smear or, worse, the paper tear, "Perfect. Maybe there's another tomb guarded by zombie oracles we can break into and snag another copy." She's trying to be angry, she's not the only one who almost died getting that damn book, but the truth is Faith's just exhausted. She knows Elena is, too.

The Hellmouth in this town doesn't call in the wacky like Sunnydale did, but it's a constant barrage of horrors and the marathon of it all is draining as fuck on a good day. It's like being in the middle of a natural disaster, the amount of folks they've lost since the ground started rumbling is staggering. The few white hats left try to pick up the pieces, but the more time passes, the fewer pieces are left to pick up. If the world would stop trying to end itself for five seconds, she'd throw a couple bucks its way. She rests her weight on her hands, propping them on the kitchen island on either side of the Oracle Eye, on the fence about trying to fix this with paper towels when she shoots Elena a little side-glance, "Hey, don't freak, okay? From where I'm standing, this is totally fixable. No problemo." But it was all problemo.

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I have triples today (support desk, hotel then restaurant) so I won't be here later on but I have a couple of hours to play with this morning! I'm going to try and use what little time I have this next week and a half for Halloween things! If you have reblogged Halloween memes, LIKE THIS and my Slayer shall torment thee!