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spin off????

#And this was unexpected #but I am so here for it #give me Anastasia Belakova's backstory

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let's fucking goooooo

#for all mankind #ahh it's happening #thank god #I need Aleida and Margo back in my life

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The Shewolves of Pompeii (based on the novels by Elodie Harper

#twd is one of my fav book series #and you've captured them perfectly #the wolf den #elodie harper #twd fanart #pretty art

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old man mars

#for all mankind #ed baldwin #fanart #amazing

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Happy Boop Day!

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Keita Morimoto (Japanese, 1990) - Call Me (n.d.)

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genuinely inconsolable I can't have one of these pompeii bread plushies fr.

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For All Mankind (2.09 "Triage") Jodi Balfour as Ellen Wilson Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison

#for all mankind #margo madison #ellen waverly #margo monday #love these two cute dorks

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vintage color wheel watch // $14.00

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FAVORITE GROUP 💙💙

#cuties #hi bob #for all mankind #fam bts

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nice to see Miyazaki has the same writing process as me

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Margo and Sergei toasting to the downfall of space capitalism; you love to see it.

For All Mankind 3.03 (2019-)

#it's missing them hours #for all mankind #margo x sergei

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WIP Wednesday

As this WIP Wednesday falls on Valentine's Day I thought I'd share my take on Pam and Ellen's first meeting. I'm still working on this fic but 1. I'm a painfully slow writer, also though I am still finding more things to put into it, so it'll be done when it's done

‘So, what did you do before coming to Houston?’

‘I worked at Cavalier,’ Ellen said, a little guiltily. She had always intended to spread her wings after graduating from MIT but being the eldest child her father put high expectations on her and with so few aerospace companies hiring women she just kind of fell into working in the family firm. 

‘What’s Cavalier?’ Pam innocently asked.

‘Cavalier Airlines, you’ve not heard of it?’

Pam shook her head and Ellen supposed that made sense, her father’s airline business mainly served the Northeast. Coming out west she was just ‘Ellen’. Joining NASA was not just an opportunity to explore the universe but her chance to get out of her family’s shadow. 

Pam drew herself closer to Ellen, so close she noticed her chest tighten, her heart beating faster. She noticed her cherry lip gloss and her cheeks redden. She looked into her deep hazel-eyes and asked in a low whisper, ‘Can you keep a secret?’

‘Sure,’ Ellen said, looking into Pam’s eyes, blue as the Earth itself. 

‘Don’t dare tell anyone at NASA, but I’ve never flown on a plane before.’ 

‘Really?’

‘Nope. Tell you the truth, I’ve never even left the state.’  

‘That’s okay, I’ve never left Earth before but I’ve already started planning my vacation,’ she said. It was a lame joke and Ellen knew it but Pam still smiled anyway and from that moment Ellen knew that she wanted spend the rest of her life trying to make this beautiful woman smile. 

 Looking at each other, it was as if time and space fell away. They could forgot they were in a shithole of a bar, in a world that didn’t accept them. It was just the two of them.

The illusion was sadly and inevitably broken by one of Outpost’s loud and invariably male, patrons demanding another beer. As Pam served the customer, Ellen looked behind her to see that her compatriots had thinned out since she had gotten talking to Pam.

‘What does it feel like to fly?’ Pam said, returning to her spot behind the bar opposite Ellen. 

‘It’s like nothing else, like there’s nothing stopping you, you’re just free.’ 

‘Sounds nice.’

‘Well you could always come for a ride with me?’ 

‘You mean…?’

‘I mean, I could rent a Cessna for us, there are enough private airfields about in Houston. We could go out to Galveston… that’s if you wanted to.’

‘I don’t know, I might need half the contents of this bar to give me enough dutch courage to consider taking to the skies. But thanks for the offer, it’s really sweet.’

#wip wednesday #for all mankind #ellen x pam #ellen waverly #pam horton

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i talk my shit but do you guys remember being 12 and in 2008 and you heard viva la vida by coldplay for the first time and you were like fuck this is so powerful. i'm going to kick the ass of god

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who’s got that one gif of Captain Kirk doing this I Need it

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WIP Wednesday

The season may have ended by I'm still working on this Pam/Ellen fic, although this bit is some of Dani and Ellen catching up. I finally checked out the Time Capsule, and not only did it make me miss Gordo and Tracy again but made me sympathise for Danny. But it's an amazing bit of interactive world building, it's spurring me on to write this.

Extract from: “The Greatest Journey: A Memoir” by Ellen Wilson

[I wanted to see Danielle privately before the ceremony. She may have been the first American on Mars, the first woman, but to me she will aways be the bubbly young ASCAN I first met in Houston. 

"I’m so sorry, for putting you at risk," I said.

"Risk. Risk is our business…" she said, quoting Captain Kirk from Star Trek, one of her favourite shows for obvious reasons. Then she added, in that sweet Southern drawl I adored, "…Desky."

Desky was our shared nickname for one other, from our days in astronaut training. We all worked hard, we had to but it’s fair to say that me and Danielle were the teacher’s pets of the group. Gradually it grew from a classroom term of endearment but a reminder we would invoke when either one of us was getting too fixated and instead remember to not take things too seriously.

But even with a cheeky smile from Dani Poole, I could see the pain that hid behind her eyes. We played a game of chicken with Helios and the Soviets to be the first to land on the Martian surface, a game that cost three people their lives. Sacrifices, it would later turn out, to be entirely for nothing. Four more people would lose their lives as the first pioneers remained stranded for 15 months with the barest of rations. 

My time manning Jamestown alone doesn’t even begin to compare. 

I believed then, as I do now that competition spurs us on, that sacrifice is an unfortunate consequence of progress. But looking into Danielle’s eyes, I wondered whether it truly was worth the cost. Whether we had gone too far, too fast. Maybe the Moon should’ve been enough. But once again I was taking the easy way out, not being there in the action but sitting behind a desk (even if that desk was in the White House) knowing that my lunar glory days were assured, I would be denying others their own incredible journeys into the cosmos.

The scars we carry, whether they be physical or mental mark us indelibly; they never go away but they also don’t get any bigger either. But we can grow, and change and build new experiences so that our scars can become a smaller part of us. 

And if Congress decided to gut NASA what would that mean for Danielle’s sacrifice? Of Will Tyler’s and Kelly Baldwin’s and all of the others, not just me, who have come before to provide a better future for Earth. We had come too far to stop now. It was as true then as it was in 1969. Progress is never assured, what is easily given can just as easily be taken away.]

#wip wednesday #for all mankind #I did shamelessly nick the nickname from Mel and Hugh on taskmaster #but it was cute and they're goals #nothing's gonna beat 'hi bob' though

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LET MARGO SAY FUCK Margo Madison For all Mankind 1.06, 1.10, & 4.10 (2019-)

+ bonus

#margo madison #cursing #gotta be one of my favorite genders #margo monday #for all mankind