#gabriel x bea

[ygsunflower]

Do you see the parallels?

1. The couple dynamics between Avatrice and Ellie x Dina- personality: one’s reserved and introverted, the other’s forwarding and extroverted. Appearances: well, we all see the resemblance between Ava/Alba and Ellie (no disrespect to the tv show tlou though). And tbh, I find Bea/KTY look faintly like Dina (obviously they are of different races and ethnicities, but still… maybe it’s the freckles on their faces… idk)

2. The need to remain close to each other regardless of the external situation and constant touchiness between Avatrice and Xena x Gabrielle.

Love all my ships. ❤️

#no disrespect to any ships #just some observations of similarities between my ships #avatrice #ellie x dina #xena and gabrielle #xena gabrielle #warrior nun #the last of us 2 #xena warrior princess #save warrior nun

[spencerreidswhore187]

Hymn for Her (4)

Ava x Beatrice (Warrior Nun) 

Summary: The discovery of a resurrected Ava, believed to be lost, sends ripples through Bea's reality, filling her heart with both joy and trepidation. However, the reunion takes a harrowing twist when Ava, transformed by otherworldly forces, becomes an unexpected adversary, unleashing violence upon the Order of the Cruciform Sword. Ava finds herself entangled in a relentless battle against the forces of darkness, the mystery behind her descent into darkness deepens. Meanwhile, Bea grapples with the conflicting emotions of love and despair, haunted by dreams that connect her to Ava's tortured soul.

T/W:  Descriptions of violence, blood and gore. Brief mentions of alcohol, guns and other weapons. Please let me know if I forgot to add something.

Word Count: 1.1k

Part One: An Unholy Darkness

Part Two: Echoes of Darkness

Part Three: Whispers in the Shadows

Part Four: Dance with Shadows

Part Five: Embrace of Light

Ava and Lilith materialised, shrouded in an eerie mist that seemed to whisper malevolence. A legion of tarasks, grotesque and otherworldly, formed a sinister backdrop. Their twisted forms, with jagged horns and eyes that glowed with an infernal light, emanated an aura of dread.

Lilith faced Mother Superion, “let’s relieve you of that little sword, shall we?"

Ava, caught in the malevolent dance, remained silent, her eyes betraying a flicker of conflict. The tarasks closed in with a symphony of guttural growls. Bea watched from afar, trying to decipher Ava’s plan. 

Bea needed to anticipate every move - if it came to it, would she be able to kill Ava if it meant protecting the sword. 

She already knew the answer: even if it resulted in the end of the world, Bea would choose Ava every time. 

At last, the tarasks attacked. the courtyard erupted into chaos as the order met the demonic onslaught. Nuns clashed with tarasks, the air humming with the crash of weapons that sought to repel the encroaching darkness.

In one corner, Sister Camila used divinium-tipped arrows to fend off a demon with leathery wings. In another, Sister Dora, a skilled shooter, unleashed a volley of bullets that found their mark amid a horde.

Meanwhile, Ava found herself ensnared in a confrontation with Mother Superion. Their fists clashed in a tempest of flesh, each strike echoing the history they shared. Ava, however, held back, a flicker of conflict in her eyes as she restrained herself from delivering a fatal blow. She refused to use the halo. 

The battle unfolded on multiple fronts, Sister Gabrielle faced a colossal demon with a hide like obsidian. However, her skilful strikes, honed through years of devotion, found no chinks in the creature's armour. Her blood-curdling scream reverberated across the courtyard as she was impaled by the serrated edge of the Tarask’s horn.

As the tide of the battle swayed, Ava and Lilith, backed by their demonic entourage, seized the opportunity to approach the central focus—the sacred sword. Mother Superior, however, stood defiant, her resolve unwavering.

Ava, torn between the shadows that sought to claim her and the echo of the light that lingered within, exchanged a glance with Lilith. In that silent communication, a subtle spark of resistance flickered within her.

While the battle raged on, Bea found herself ensnared in a deadly dance with a tarask wielding twin blades. The clash of weapons echoed in the air as Bea fought valiantly, her movements fuelled by a determination to protect the sword, the nuns she considered her family and, most importantly…Ava.

Bea couldn’t force her eyes away from her, she had to make sure Ava was safe. Suddenly, Lilith, noticing the opportunity, struck with swift precision. The dark blade of her weapon cut through the air, finding its mark deep within Bea's gut. She gasped, a searing pain radiating through her as Bea stumbled backwards, collapsing onto the ground. 

Ava watched in horror. The metallic scent of blood permeated the space, her eyes widened, pupils dilating as the realisation dawned on her—the love of her life, the person that kept her tethered, had been stabbed.

A guttural, otherworldly scream tore through the courtyard, echoing the anguish that gripped her soul. It wasn't just a scream; it was a desperate wail, a manifestation of the agony that surged through her being. Ava’s body convulsed as if the scream itself was trying to escape the confines of her flesh, reaching out into the void for something that was irrevocably lost. She could not lose Bea. 

Her hands, no longer under the influence of the dark force that had possessed her, trembled as they clutched at the sides of her head. The darkness, like a violent storm, began to unravel, releasing its hold on her with a chaotic fervour. Ava’s once vacant eyes now flickered with a mixture of terror and grief.

All that was left behind was a vulnerable and shattered girl. No one dared approach Ava, leaving her alone in the aftermath of tragedy. Ava’s sobs intertwined with the fading echoes of her screams, Without hesitation, she unleashed a pulse of energy from her halo, forcing everyone away from Bea.

"Nobody touches her!" Ava's voice rang out, a raw intensity in her words that echoed a fierce resolve.

Ava's instincts took over. Without pausing to consider the consequences, she engaged anyone who sought to harm Bea. The tarasks, momentarily confused by Ava's sudden shift, found themselves facing a force of unparalleled fury. 

Bleeding out onto unforgiving cobblestone ground, Beatrice lay lifeless, her gaze fixed on Ava, who fought with such uncanny ferocity. It was as if amidst the shadows of her once malevolent presence, a sliver of the girl Bea loved broke through.

The nuns, rallying around the fallen Beatrice, seized the opportunity to regroup. Mother Superion, torn between commanding the order and witnessing Ava's tumultuous transformation, observed with both concern and hope.

Lost in the maelstrom of battle, Ava fought with a singular focus—to protect Bea. The tarasks, formidable adversaries, stood no chance against the relentless force of Ava's love.

When she started to weaken, Ava’s eyes met the prone form of Beatrice, filled with both anguish and determination, she fought on.

Bea, on the verge of consciousness, clung to the belief that love could triumph over the encroaching shadows. She held onto the hope that the girl she loved might find her way back from the brink of darkness, even if she was no longer there to witness it.

The battle ended with Ava at its epicentre, the sacred sword slipped from her grasp, landing with a soft thud on the ground. The tarasks were dead, Lilith had vanished and the sword was safe. The battle ended with Ava at its epicentre, clutching the lifeless body of the only person she would ever love. 

A/N: Thank you for reading ◡̈

#warrior nun #warrior nun fanfiction #save warrior nun #beatrice x ava #avatrice #dark ava #ava silva #sister beatrice #sister camila #mother superion #sister lilith #sister dora #yasmine amunet #avatrice fanfic #avatrice fic #warrior nun s2 #warrior nun s3 #warrior nun spoilers #warrior nun saved #fanfiction #fanfic #hymn for her

[forevercillianmurphy]

the sparkling capone x tommy shelby series.

part 1/ ?

beatrice 'bea' or 'bee' angelina capone, was born on november 30th, 1900 to gabriel and teresina copone, only one year after her older brother al capone was born. she grew up in new york majority of her life before al took his kid sister (and Irish twin) and himself to the second city, chicago where he begun his journey of dealings and life of crime.

my own storyline/timeline for actual capone history and peaky blinders. takes place between 1923 and 1924.

age gap series.

warnings: swearing.

word count: 4.2K

italicized is Italian.

a fact-paced story that takes place over a year, with time jumps.

faceclaims: young lily james as beatrice, dylan obrien as gio, zoey deutch as marissa and jacob eldori as marco.

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december, 1923.

beatrice looked at the port in this shit hole of place, birmingham her brother had asked her to go visit. apparently, he wanted to work with some folks over here and because he couldn't leave chicago at that very moment, he sent her. she was the second in command, and had more brains than he did; though he would never admit. joined by her cousin, gio and longtime friend of her and her brother, marco. she sighed looking down at the ground, heel propped and silently cursing her brother for this job. she'd somehow be undermining the current operations here in birmingham that were run by a group called, the peaky blinders. supposedly she'd get the guys they were working with to work with her brother instead, somehow someway he said. whatever it takes, and that even meant killing a person if it meant that he'd get the connections.

it was just a week ago when he sat beatrice down in his chicago office, letting her know the assignment her had for her. she quickly turned it down, but he held up one finger to let him finish. she sighed, rolling down further in the plush chair and continued to listen to what he had to say. she agreed, reluctantly. "who will be accompanying me?" she questioned, knowing he'd never want danger to come to her. how ironic that statement is. gio agreed the moment al had come to him, and then marco his longtime friend and confidant agreed quickly as well. marco had always looked out for the girl, maybe a little too much sometimes. they had shared some nights together when al was away tending to business, but it never led to anything else. she would not allow it, and she knew he'd be killed by the hands of her brother if he'd found out. either frank or al, it did not matter. the three of them boarded a boat in new york and sailed 9 days before arriving to london, and then drove to this dump beatrice called it. "remind me to kill al when i get back." she huffed, as the three walked back towards their rented car. marco chuckled while gio agreed, he couldn't believe al had tricked him this badly. the three drove into town just a bit, looking for their hotel. "lets stop there." she said pointing at a bar or pub. she was not sure what they called it here. gio nodded, pulling up across the street to a place called, 'the garrison.' marco got out first, placing a hand out for beatrice who took it. she stood up, and began to look around. brick lined streets, dirty walls of homes flooded her vision. she looked towards her right to see a man watching the three while smoking a cigarette. gio eyed the man as he got out, and marco led the girl over. she took in the smell of this city and could not wait to be back in chicago.

hopefully, sooner rather than later.

marco walked in first, looking around before signaling to beatrice that she could walk in. as if she was royalty or had notoriety. she swallowed hard before stepping into the place with confidence and swagger, as if she already owned the place. marco led her to table to the side, while gio walked behind them. as soon as she sat she for a moment before letting them know what she wanted, "just the usual." she said not thinking anything of it. however, the usual wasn't a drink here. she giggled, and asked for vodka instead. she watched as gio went to go fetch the three's drinks, and marco sat down still checking everybody out; nonchalantley. "marco...you can relax for a minute." she said touching his arm softly. "not when you have a group of people staring at you." he said and she shyly looked towards the bar and saw a group of people staring.

those must be them, she thought.

gio was walking towards the two when she looked away. she took the vodka and sipped it sparingly. gio lit a cigar, and she pushed his shoulder to give her a puff. he rolled his eyes as she took off her coat, and took it from him. thomas shelby had never seen anything more attractive, in his 33 years on this earth. the utmost power she held over those 2 was incredible. she took one last puff before giving it back to gio, and she sat back in her chair and closed her eyes for a few seconds. "ill be back, I'm going to make a phone call." marco said and she nodded. she knew he was going to make a phone call to london where the capones had a trusted business partner, who then would send word that the three had made it. beatrice clicked her tongue, taking another sip of her drink. her face scrunched with disgust, "they really need some better vodka here." she said and gio laughed heartedly. a blonde woman walked by asking if they wanted more and beatrice thought for a minute before gio began to hit on the woman. beatrice hit the back of his head, cleanly and sharply. causing arthur and michael to snicker. she took the cigar back and apologized to the barmaid, "i do apologize for my cousin. he clearly doesn't get any attention from the ladies." she said and the barmaid softly smiled at the girl. "but may i have something better than whatever this is." she said shoving the cup to the woman.

the woman took back what she had just thought, and sighed. another entitled girl she thought, but grace smiled and turned back to get the drinks. gio mumbled, and beatrice hit him once again in the head. "ow!" he whimpered, looking back at her. "don't make me shove you out of that chair giovanni!" she warned and he sighed turning around. she had had all the capone boys near and far wrapped around her finger for the last 2 decades. marco walked back into view, and Beatrice watched from the moment he did so. he walked across the bar, and he caught her eye. the two softly smiled at one another, blushing like fools. she breathed in the cigar once more before handing it back to gio. the barmaid came back with the drinks, and she stood there making sure they were fine. or rather, the snooty tastebuds the girl possessed. irish whiskey, she tasted. her blood boiled. marco and gio saw the look on her face, and chuckled. "irish. whiskey." the capone darkly seethed, before standing up. she took ahold of her jacket, threw it on and began her saunter out. the peaky blinders behind the bar were silently outraged at how disrespectful the three were being. well the one in particular.. the young capone. though, thomas found it somewhat amusing

"we'll be outside." gio said to marco who nodded, and she was outside taking in the cold air that hit her quickly. "irish fucking whiskey." she chastised causing gio to just laugh. "lets just get back, and get a long night rest." she said and he nodded, helping her into the bentley. marco walked out, and jogged over to the car after paying the bill. "all good?" she questioned as he sat next to her. he nodded, and gio started the ride to the other end of the city. back at the garrison, they shut it down and had a family meeting. they had no idea who these three were but from the looks of it (and sound) they were american, entitled and, had money. loads of it. marco threw down a 100 dollar bill and walked out. they were all curious on where they got that money from. - - "when she had the whiskey...it was like something snapped in her. like she was appalled and disgusted by it being Irish." grace said to the group who just nodded. "let me call my contact in london and see if he knows anything." tommy said thinking. "i don't know if that's a good thing or not since lover boy here has been transfixed since she took the cigar from the dude." john joked causing michael to his cousin. the two pushed each other a few times, "oi! we are not doing anything stupid lads. hear me?" tommy said with the utmost authority. everybody nodded and they dispanded for the evening.

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bea woke up the next morning, groggy and itching to get out of the uncomfortable bed. she sighed, throwing on her silk robe and walked out into the tea room she stopped when she saw marco already sitting there with a newspaper and coffee. "coffee?" she questioned and he nodded, smirking as he knew her love and adoration for the dark drink. "i thought they only had tea here." she said remembering how worried she was of not getting caffeine overseas. "do you think your brother would send you some place without coffee? god bless that place if he did." he teased and she rolled her eyes, pulling up her feet to sit pretzel-styled. she sipped her coffee in peace, as she felt marco staring. "listen bud, you cant keep looking at me and not expect me to hit you." she teased, opening one eye and catching his. "does...does gio suspect anything?" macro asked after a minute had passed. she shrugged, "if he did, as ironic as it is he is too much of a gentleman to say a word. especially to al or frank." she said and he nodded. "he just wants me to be happy, that's all. i mean we've always seen each other as siblings so i trust him in that regards to not fuck up my life." she breathed. marco leaned across and took hold of one of her hands and brought it in his, and she smiled down at it. during her 23 years on this earth, al and frank had had a way with whom she liked. through small acts of behavior (not always violence), words that haunted the men she went out on dates with, and the promise that they'd ruin their lives if they hurt bea. she wanted this thing to be strong with marco before she went and told her brothers because she knew if she did not do it at the right moment; their relationship would be history and she'd be back in her ivory tower. never able to leave.

they unclasped their hands as they heard gio's door open, and bea eyed her cousin as he poured a cup of coffee for himself. "yknow if you all want privacy just tell me, i will sleep outside." he said and she nearly spit her coffee out. "excuse me?" she said eyeing her cousin, wide-eyed now. "if you want some time together, let me know so i don't have to blow my brains out." he said non chalantly. marco just laughed and bea rolled her eyes; cringing. "come on, i'm not an idiot." he paused as bea laughed loudly. "ok maybe i am just a bit but I've been with you two for what, 2 weeks now? i know y'all have a thing, just don't hurt her or i swear to god." he said turning to macro seriously. bea tried to hide her blushing and face behind her hands before macro pulled them away and kissed her proudly. "oh god." she said pushing him away, teasingly. "leave me alone!" she said hopping up and jogging away from marco. she left the two there and decided she might as well dress before going to the seamstress she'd planned to get information from. she put on her light purple dress, with her iconic black wool coat tied together with a gold bag. "boys, are you ready yet?" she asked as she walked into the tea room. the two nodded walking out, with marco smiling widely as he looked at her. "no no, we have to go." she said walking out of the large hotel suite with gio.

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bea stood in the middle of the room with the seamstress, polly she had been told was her name. "so where does one yank like you, come from?" polly asked and bea smiled, "a far, far place from here." bea said not wanting to reveal too much. "you have a accent i cant quite decipher." polly said wanting to know more. bea knew what she was getting at, "i am originally from new york so you could say i picked up the accent there." she said acting as if she was dumb. cheeky girl, polly thought. "are you the only child?" polly asked looking up at bea. she sensed a change in the young blonde. "sometimes i feel as though i am, and other times i wish i were." bea said somewhat sadly before perking up again. she loved her brothers, but what they were doing was not for the faint of heart. her family had been torn apart when al took her and frank to chicago, and never allowed her to look back. he wanted to give her everything their parents could never give. he wanted to keep her safe from the hands of those that just wanted to take advantage of her and get even with her brothers. it had its obvious drawbacks, isolation, anxiety, and brothers who were gone more often than not. "so how did a flower like you end up here?" she questioned bea. bea cleared her throat, "a new beginning, a place to make a name for myself." and my family she did not say. after this 'operation' she'd have a bigger role back in chicago and that meant she could possibly start her new life and role in los angeles, like she'd always yearned for. bea eyed herself in the mirror, throwing the infamous capone glare through the mirror at herself.

awhile later, she was walking out of pollys shop. she thanked polly and told her that one of her two men would be around to get her outfits the following week. "have a wonderful afternoon." bea said respectfully before turning around to marco and gio. she heard some laughing coming from her right, and saw two guys she had seen last night. the one's that had laughed after she hit gio in the back of the head. "lets get going." marco said taking her hand and helping her in the car. michael and arthur eyed the three as they got in and drove off. they quickly walked into pol's to get information. "she didn't say much, i know there's more there." she said taking a long breathe of the cigarette. "you tellin tommy?" arthur asked and polly looked at him like he was dumb. "shes a peculiar yank sounds Italian- immigrated Italian." polly said and the two boys nodded. "and we all know where the italians went." she said referencing ellis island in new york. "well if she's Italian we ought to get rid of her right?"arthur said and polly shrugged. "she may not be a threat but tommy will make that decision." polly said walking towards the back.

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marco walked in with bea as gio pushed them out the door, saying they needed a proper date. so the two walked into an upscale restaurant, and as soon as they did people look towards them speaking in hushed tones. the host walked them to their table which was conveniently located to the right of the shelbys table. with michael and tommy having a clear view of them. the waiter walked up with water and asked them for drinks, "may we have a bottle of your finest champagne?" marco asked. "any special occasion?" the waiter asked and the two looked at one another unsure of what to say, "first date." marco sheepishly said causing bea to blush. "congratulations, i will be right back!" the waiter said and bea tapped her hand against his, and he just laughed in response. she shrugged off her coat and the waiter came back in time to take it from her. "thankyou." she said and she took the champagne fluke in exchange, hitting hers with his. "here's to freedom!" he said softly, "here's to taking chances." she smiled and they sipped their bubbly drink. "what did the guy say in london?" she questioned and marco set his fluke down. "just said that he'd relay the message as soon as he could. apparently, your brother left the city." he said and her eyes widened. "seriously?" she questioned and he nodded. "didn't he i don't know just get it?" she whispered, referencing the position he just made on a situation on the northside of chicago. the irish land. she sighed, rolling her eyes. "he's gonna get himself killed, marco. fucking Irish are going to kill him." she said worrying. the tensions between the southside and northside at the moment were tense. everyday there was a threat that the Irish gang was going to storm their humble abode and shoot him in the night. al even feared it at times, though would then drown himself with alcohol and cigars. marco took hold of her hand and rubbed her thumb, "if anybody can escape death its your brother." he said knowingly, but it still didn't make her feel better. she turned to look to the right of her and saw the group from last night. as well as the woman from that afternoon.

she looked back towards marco and pulled her hand away from his, feeling nervous. "marco- I'm about to start speaking in Italian." she said and he was confused. "there's people listening to us." she said, and he knew who it was. "that woman i was with today is at their table." bea added and marco nodded. "is it true, he's sending more men this way from london?" she questioned marco and marco nodded. her brothers were sending trucks of men to help out this operation and keep her safe. she sat back in her seat, trying to figure out what to say next. she had a lot on her mind, like they had been since al pushed her into this operation. "he's going to be the death of me, marco. the death of me." she said in english, sighing as she did so. the two spent the rest of the evening talking about anything but al and the family business. marco also told her that he'd be visiting poland in the upcoming weeks after new years to talk to some vodka people out there. she did not like hearing that but she knew he had no choice, what al says; goes.

later on in the evening, as the two were just finishing their meals the waiter came over with two glasses of pure irish whiskey. their eyebrows knit in confusion until he pointed over towards the group of shelbys. tommy raised his glass of whiskey ever so slightly, staring at the young capone. she gave him her fake and famous beatrice capone smile. the one that dazzled everyone she came in contact with. tommy's heart raced. she chugged it down in one go, setting it back down and then looking towards the shelbys once more. she smiled, before standing back up and taking her coat from the waiter. "thankyou." she said before marco followed her out with a hand on her back.

"fucking italian scum." tommy thought, downing the rest of his whiskey.

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it was two days later when anybody saw the young capone on the streets, after the trucks of men came through she would be able to start the operation. she had eyes and ears in factories, distillaries and pretty much all business across the city. beatrice and gio were walking down the street, minding their business as they were not too far from the cafe they had heard served coffee. just her luck, her hat flew off behind her as a huge gush of cold air hit the two midwesterners. she cursed loudly before turning around to come eye to eye with a blue eyed man. her blue eyes pierced into his soul, like he was made of glass. gio didn't like them staring at one another, so he snatched her hat from the hands of a peaky blinder. bea raised her hand and gio flinched. she snatched her hat back, and gio sighed walking a few feet away. she watched him until he was at a certain length and she turned back to the nicely dressed blue eyed man. "thankyou, for getting my hat. i apologize about my cousin. he's a menace to society." she said tucking some hair behind her ear. he waved him off, "the names michael gray." he said holding out his hand. she eyed him curiously before shaking his, "bee monroe." she said giving him a childhood nickname and her alias. "bee." he said almost mesmerized. she took her hand away and slipped her hat back on, "stay warm out here. you'll catch a cold." she said a matter of factly before smiling and walking towards her cousin. tommy stood there watching them walk into the cafe before heading off to pol's house.

"i got her name!" michael said walking into the house, not realizing tommy was there with arthur. tommy quirked an eyebrow, "her name is bee." michael said and arthur sighed. "first name, last name michael. we've been over this how many times?" arthur said as john laughed from the kitchen. tommy sat their drinking his earl grey tea. "no no arthur, bee is good. beatrice is her name." he said. "beatrice is her first name, shes called bea or bee though." tommy said confirming what he overheard at dinner the two nights before and at the bar. whoever she was with called her those three names. "she was with her cousin but she didn't say his name." michael added and tommy nodded. "are we gonna talk about this or the number of guys that just so happened to show up when she did?" arthur questioned and tommy sighed. "i was just getting to that." he said tensely. "apparently the woman you fancy, has an ulterior motive to being here and of course we are going to get to the bottom of it." arthur explained and tommy tensed softly. he had a sneaky suspicion on why she was here but there was seriously no way she'd be involved in something sketchy. "i know what your thinking michael, its true. my contact in london already confirming." tommy said setting his now empty tea cup down, trying to convince himself. "oi sit down and no more business talk!" polly said coming in and shoving her son towards the empty seat.

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bea and gio sat across from each other in the cafe, laughing and chatting about life and childhood memories. the two hadn't had some time with each other in months, with all the running around gio was doing for her brothers. "please tell me that one day you'll get out." she said seriously swirling her coffee. he sighed, "gio please." she said leaning forward and grabbing his hand. "you know your mother would have wanted that for you. to make a life of your own, away from the capones." she said softly and he nodded. "i know i know, once this job is over I'm gone. i'm heading someplace warm." he smiled and that made bea happy. she took her hand away and looked down and that's when she heard shouting. but not directed towards her but a group of men were going in on one of her men that her brother hired. her head shot up, looking at gio. "lets go!"" gio" he said not wanting to be caught in the middle of this. gio took ahold of bea's hand and they ran off the way the way they had come from. shots rang out and that made bea stop in her tracks. "bea we have to go, they cant know." gio said grabbing and then pulling her further and further towards the hotel. the guys that shot her men walked out and shot twice into the air, causing bea and others to scream. the two continued to run, their hearts beating fast. the shelbys heard the gunshot down the road and they stood up. they came outside after the next two rang out. bea and gio continued to walk back towards the hotel along with other patrons, with bea panicking at the situation. gio had an arm around her middle back, pushing her to keep walking. tommy walked out in front of pol's residence and just as luck would have it, bea and gio walking past. bea held onto gio, shaken.

out of all the years she worked with her brothers, she'd never been remotely close to the scene of the crime after she witnessed one back on new york. they made very sure to keep her away. tommy caught eye of the girl and watched as she walked with her cousin. polly eyed him from behind, smirking just a little bit. tommy of course then going into cleanup mode. as soon as gio and bea made it back to the hotel, she clung to marco with gio explaining what had happened. marco and her laid in her bed, as he rubbed her back trying to soothe her thoughts as she stared at the dresser. gio sent word back through a trusted wales associate. bea could not fathom how her brothers could live this life and continue to go on like nothing happened. bea turned towards marco and cuddled into him, unsure if she could leave his side again in brimingham.

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i know i know, there was not a lot but this is just setting up the tension and high stakes !!!

#michael gray #peaky blinders #tommy shelby #polly gray #arthur gray #al capone #michael gray x oc #john shelby #Tommy Shelby x oc #Tommy Shelby fic #Thomas Shelby #Thomas Shelby x oc #Thomas Shelby fic

[societyrv1]

grammy categorias:

1. protagonista:

Bays

Elora

jade

enzo

luiz

2. Melhor jogador:

luiz

enzo

miguel

peter/loos

fanz

3. melhor jogadora:

elora

jade

gabs

karen

bays

4. melhor duo:

gabs e luiz

jade e luiz

miguel e bays

peter/loos e andy/bea

5. melhor rivalidade:

Jade e erick x Bays

miguel e gabriel x fanzaco

Elora x Peter/Loos

fanzaco x peter/loos

enzo x liz

6. miss simpatia:

bays

luiz

gabs

jade

bea

7. eliminação mais triste:

gabs

enzo

elora

bays

gabriel

8. bom de briga:

elora

bays

fanzaco

isa

jade

peter/loos

Gabriel

9. mais ativo:

bays

loos/peter

enzo

fanzaco

10. melhor desenvolvimento/jogo interno:

elora

jade

bays

Luiz

miguel

11. competitivo:

peter/loos

enzo

elora

luiz

erick

12. estrategista:

Luiz

Enzo

Elora

Peter/loos

13. merecia mais:

Gabriel

Teo

Isa

gabs

erick

karen

14. fan favorite:

bays

gabs

luiz

jade

15. bom de prova:

luiz

jade

enzo

bays

16. incógnita:

bea

fanzaco

miguel

17. vetezeiro:

Miguel

isa

bays

18. maior surpresa:

fanzaco

elora

peter/loos

bays

19. melhor coadjuvante:

erick

miguel

bea

gabs

gabriel

20. mais coração:

miguel

bea

gabs

peter/loos

21. sorrateiro(a):

elora

karen

fanzaco

jade

miguel

[beaofwales]

ellen: and that concludes our plan for this year’s election.

ellen: let’s see if you were all paying attention.

*kahoot music starts*

#red white and royal blue #incorrect rwrb quotes #rwrb memes #ellen claremont #alex claremont diaz #alexander gabriel claremont diaz #prince henry of wales #henry fox mountchristen windsor #june claremont diaz #nora holleran #june x nora #percy okonjo #pez okonjo #princess bea of wales #beatrice fox mountchristen windsor #Oscar Diaz #rafael luna #shaan srivastava #zahra bankston #Amy Chen #Casey McQuiston #august and jane #one last stop #FirstPrince #alex x henry #rwrb #rwrb headers #rwarb #rwrb fanart #rwrb fancast

[iridescentbeetlezzebug]

Videos that would exist on YouTube if Ellen Claremont were the president of US (Part 2):

The vice-president's granddaughter and the first daughter being in love for 12 minutes straight (and the FSOTUS being completely oblivious to that)

Alex being the problematic sibling for 14 minutes straight

6 minutes of David thinking he's the next in line for the crown (and rightfully so)

Alex acting as straight as this line "~~~~~~~~~~~~" for 15 minutes straight (hah)

Actual footage of 'The cakegate' but with Wii music playing in the background

Alex flexing on his boyfriend for 17 minutes straight

Alex singing "I'm not gay" (because we all know that he's ABSOLUTELY straight/😏)

Henry saying "fuck Joanne" for 14 minutes straight (hah)

Thomas Sanders vine compilation that reminds us of HRH Henry

Bea being the savage sibling for 15 minutes straight

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #alex x henry #henry x alex #alex claremont diaz #alexander gabriel claremont diaz #henry prince of wales #henry fox mountchristen windsor #nora holleran #june claremont diaz #nora x june #Firstprince #bea fox mountchristen windsor

[abysserie]

nora: i’ll let you see one boob, the good boob

june, suddenly distracted: they’re both good

they have to have hooked up at least once, mx. mcquiston what are you hiding from us

#first prince #red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb memes #henry fox mountchristen windsor #prince henry #alex gabriel claremont diaz #alex claremont diaz #june claremont diaz #nora holleran #pez #i kinda like pez x june tho #IM SO CONFLICTED #casey mcquiston #lowkey wanted nora and bea to get together

[comfortablynumb]

Shaan and Zahra:

#red white and royal blue #firstprince #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex and henry #alexander gabriel claremont diaz #casey mcquiston #bea fox mountchristen windsor #beatrice fox mountchristen windsor #shaan x zahra

[finestmoment]

text | gabriel

bea: am i the only one who hears that person stomping above their head? it's like 10 pm, dude...

bea: i really hope this text didn't wake you up or i'm gonna feel like a jerk.

#text: bea x gabriel

[n7punk]

Knifepoint Fic Notes

Knifepoint is now complete! These are all my notes for the chapters, original idea, meta links, fic playlist, etc. The usual “post fic” summary stuff has been moved to my Chapter 14 notes since it’s a bit different for this fic.

Songs for this AU:

This playlist has a few turning points. As such, this is separated in sections. Undercover/the turning point: AViVA - BLAME IT ON THE KIDS, Paramore – Renegade, K.Flay - The Cops, PVRIS – Heaven, Alec Benjamin - If I Killed Someone For You, Ghost – Badflower (included mostly because the first verse hit me like a fucking train for Catra). Catra on her own: Phoenix (ft. Cailin Russo and Chrissy Costanza), YONAKA - Seize the Power, FLETCHER - Last Laugh, Mothica – BUZZKILL, Ashnikko – Tantrum, DIAMANTE - Ghost Myself. Catra/Adora: Bahari – Savage, Bahari - Waking Up The Neighbors, XANA – PRAY, Mako – Murder, gabriel black - jump (feat. Sofi de la Torre), Halsey – Graveyard. Act III: Hailee Steinfeld – Afterlife, Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince – Taylor Swift, CHVRCHES – Miracle, Dove Cameron - We Belong, Star Fire - Sleeping Wolf, Bonnie & Clyde – YUQI, Bea Miller & Jessie Reyez - FEELS LIKE HOME. Finale: UPSAHL - STOP!, MØ - Live to Survive, Lil Nas X - Bring U Down.

Chapter 1: Prologue

This idea came to me on March 16th when I was watching a GTA V Online let’s play. I have no idea what the story of that game is, but I was thinking about immortal/respawning criminals, and then my next thought was “Ooo, Adora respawning somewhere other than the Horde being the sign of her defecting” and the rest of the AU came from there. My focus for the AU was exploring that rivalry-while-lovers dynamic that I always liked in canon fics where Catra and Adora used to be together before Adora joined the Rebellion.

In my head this fic is split into three acts(/stages/parts). They’re a lot less differentiating than the acts in SLAS, they’re just the three story phases this fic has. Act I: The Horde/Undercover. This is the first section of the playlist and ends with the end of Chapter 6, when Catra dies. Act II: Enemies in Love. This is the Catra on her own and Catra/Adora sections of the playlist, characterized by Catra and Adora working separately and dancing around each other while hooking up. Act III: The Softening™. This is labeled as Act III and the Finale in the playlist. It’s characterized by Catra slowly coming to accept Adora’s love and Adora’s belief that Catra is her soulmate solidifying, as well as them finally coming together and the final conclusion of the fic. That isn’t a hard line between Act II and Act III, they kind of fade into each other slowly. Initially the fic was just Act I and Act II in my head with Chapter 6 as the central point of the fic, but I ended up making changes to the story I’ll talk about at the end that lead to what became Chapter 6 falling earlier in the fic and Act II having the fade into Act III.

Hint #1 that this was a soulmates AU: Shadow Weaver referring to immortals as “beings of love.”

Chapter 2: Lamb (to the slaughter)

CW addiction, suicide, child neglect: Originally it was mentioned in this chapter, but it got cut in editing, so I’ll say it here: Adora’s backstory in this is very similar to her backstory in OTOS, where her mother died and her father fell into addiction to cope. She basically just wandered off while he was on a bender. He looked for her for a few weeks, and then the grief of losing them both got to him. Adora ended up losing both her parents and becoming an orphan without knowing it. She became a street kid with very few memories of before.

Shadow Weaver says she “knew” the truth about Scorpia, but actually she never had an inkling before that moment and just began to suspect once Scorpia’s body disappeared. She turned out to be right, so then she was like “I knew all along and am all-knowing.”

Hint #2 for soulmates: Shadow Weaver mentions that immortals usually live in “pairs or triads”, referring to couples and polycules.

Shadow Weaver allowing them to finally be together was attempted murder, as stated later in chapter 6. Shadow Weaver was trying to push them into a relationship before Adora went undercover and potentially found out how immortals work. She wanted Catra to become mortal before then so she could always keep her as leverage over Adora’s head. Catra is, after all, much younger than Shadow Weaver. Shadow Weaver would die of old age before Catra would die of natural causes, so having her be a vulnerable mortal would be the best way to leash Adora. Shadow Weaver just honestly doesn’t understand what “happy and fulfilled together” means for people who actually feel emotions, so she didn’t realize it wasn’t satisfied. She genuinely believed that Catra was guaranteed mortal by the time Adora went undercover.

This fact had me laughing when I read the comments and saw people lamenting over Adora not saying "I love you”, since that silence was a factor in what was going to save Catra’s life later.

Chapter 3: First Contact

Shadow Weaver was listening to their conversation in the car through Adora’s hacked phone. She had bugs in both Catra’s and Adora’s apartment as well, but this conversation was the one that ultimately confirmed to her that Catra and Adora has been together this whole time. She was furious about it because she was certain they were soulmates until that moment, but her rudimentary understanding of immortals told her that couldn’t be the case and Adora must have another soulmate out there who she might leave Catra behind for, thus freeing her from Shadow Weaver’s manipulation. This is why Shadow Weaver was so paranoid and unwilling to play the long game.

Adora referring to Catra’s TV awkwardly as a “television set” is just a little nod to how fucked their childhood was that she would refer to something so commonplace in such an awkward way, because it really wasn’t a part of their lives.

Scorpia didn’t jump to assuming that Adora was talking about immortality just because they’re so rare and most people don’t believe in them. She found Perfuma when she was searching for a way to recenter and recover, and she met the rest of the Alliance through Perfuma and Entrapta, since both were hooked up to Angella’s network.

Octavia hated Catra’s guts ever since the eye incident, which played out very similarly to how it did in the show, but she did used to complain to Scorpia that “I hate that fucking stray, but I want Adora to pull her head out of her ass and get with her just so she’ll get laid and mellow out.” Little did she know that there is nothing on the planet that could make Catra mellow out.

They didn’t tie the sack onto Adora’s head because they were scared of doing it too tight and were cutting off circulation without realizing due to Scorpia’s paralyzing venom. Also, it didn’t matter if it came off since they were all wearing masks.

There’s a piece of Crew-ra Shadow Weaver art done by Diana Huh that is her lounging on a seat in Bright Moon. This is pretty much how I envisioned her when Catra arrived at her apartment to find Shadow Weaver inside.

My lore is that both Shadow Weaver and Hordak are drow in most AUs (Dark elves, though I don’t buy into the DND “all dark elves are evil” bullshit, Shadow Weaver is just obviously a drow and it’s the closest I can come up with for Hordak). Specifically, drow have grey, blue, or purple skintones, ranging in lightness from pretty much snow white to midnight blue or black. Drow have naturally occurring chemicals in their skin that can result in photodermatitus. The name “dark elves” refers to their nocturnal habits in sunny climates to avoid it burning them. Not every drow has enough of the chemical in their skin to cause a reaction, and the intensity varies (often it’s stronger in lighter skintones, though dark skintones can have intense reactions as well).

Perfuma was the one to tie Adora up. I have a headcannon that she’s into rigging, which ended up being mentioned in a later chapter. She ties both Entrapta and Scorpia up. Scorpia finds it hot, whereas Entrapta finds it peaceful and comforting. The suspension is a good sensation for her and lets her just think. Sometimes she requests it when she needs to brainstorm because it helps her focus and think.

Adora’s cover was supposed to be that she got “hysterical” after dying for the first time and Shadow Weaver tried to assure her by telling her about Scorpia and the Alliance, but Adora was still like “I fucking DIED”. At which point Shadow Weaver was worried about a Scorpia repeat, so she let her take a few weeks off to “sort herself out and process” with the insurance of Catra being kept firmly in Horde territory so she knew that Adora would come back for her. Shadow Weaver was supposed to “accidentally leave out” the report on where Scorpia had been spotted before Adora took her leave. Adora was then supposed to have, of her own free will, gone to seek out the Alliance to figure out what was going on with her, since Shadow Weaver was withholding it as another method of controlling her.

Thus, Adora telling the Alliance that Shadow Weaver was holding her girlfriend hostage was all part of the plan, but her telling them that Shadow Weaver wanted her to come find them wasn’t. She was supposed to genuinely believe it was a slip that Shadow Weaver “left that report out”, but instead she straddled the line between being truthful about the undercover operation and lying, admitting that Shadow Weaver definitely wanted her to come here and gather intel, but not telling them that she was reporting in to Catra and there was a whole plan there.

Adora never tells them the truth about this during the fic because it stops feeling like it matters to her after she and Catra have left the Horde, but it still matters to some of the members of the Alliance. Adora does end up telling them a few weeks after the end of the fic. Some of them like “you should have told us earlier”, but Catra leaps in to explain how little Adora actually shared at their check-ins and things like Adora lying about being bugged to avoid giving the Horde information, and it diffuses the situation. Though some members make comments about it here and there, the nature of these is mostly teasing. It’s a bit like “yeah, you should have told us, but we get why you didn’t, so now we’re just going you shit about it.”

Hint #3 for soulmates: Glimmer saying the “nature of immortals” means they’re good people. They exist to love, not to hurt others.

Hint #4: Perfuma asking how long Adora had been with Catra to determine if it’s possible that Catra is her soulmate (+ her certainty that Catra was mortal after hearing that they had been together for years).

Shadow Weaver showed up at Catra’s apartment both to threaten her just in case and because the tracking on Adora’s phone had suddenly gone down. Entrapta killed it when she, Glimmer, and Mermista showed up in an SUV to transport the unconscious Adora back to the base. Scorpia literally stuffed her in an alley and loitered outside waiting for the others to drive over. It’s the Fright Zone – anyone who saw something untoward going down quickly looked the other way.

Chapter 4: Immortal Boys Club

Scorpia grew up in the Horde and never knew anything different. Her mother’s, however, were forced into it. When Scorpia regenned in their apartment, they had no clue what was happening, but they knew that the Horde thought she was dead and they had to use the opportunity. They finally told her every horrible thing the Horde had done that they had hidden from her so she wouldn’t be in constant emotional agony over what she was serving, and then they smuggled her from the city. A few days later, Shadow Weaver called them into a meeting, at which point they were captured and tortured for weeks before one of them finally broke and admitted they smuggled Scorpia away, but they insisted the Horde would never see her again. Shadow Weaver killed her for insubordination. She continued to torture her wife, trying to get her to admit Scorpia’s location now she knew she was out there, but she wouldn’t admit anything. She didn’t actually know where Scorpia ended up after she escaped anyway. She spent months in the cells before she died in her sleep from a combination of injuries, the stress to her body over time, and a lack of will to go on. She and her wife were both dumped down the body chute, where Catra was eventually tossed in Chapter 6.

Yes, Entrapta does consider disabling tech killing it.

The Alliance really wasn’t worried about showing Adora their faces. They already believed Adora, but even if she was lying/spying, most of them are pretty old and don’t have mortals into their lives they have to worry about if they were exposed. Entrapta and Frosta are the only ones who aren’t legally dead, and Entrapta can’t do much with her legal identity considering she doesn’t look anything approaching the 40 she’s supposed to be.

Hint #5 is basically the same as hint #2, when Adora brings up immortals only dating each other. She draws the incorrect conclusion that this is because they can’t stand losing someone mortal, but I can’t make things too easy on y’all.

Shadow Weaver was mad because: a) Adora’s phone tracker never came back online, b) she listened to the tapes and now “knew” that Catra wasn’t her soulmate since they had clearly been together already, and c) Adora respawned at Catra’s apartment, indicating that Catra was her home. Which is good as far as using her as a hostage goes, but Shadow Weaver was annoyed by Adora’s dedication to her not-soulmate because it seemed to fly in the face of the rules she knew of for immortals (thus implying she didn’t fully understand it, an implication she resented).

Chapter 5: Truth Hurts

Bow and Mermista exchange a glance when Adora asks if she should wake up with Catra because they’re both thinking about the inevitable change when Adora meets her soulmate.

Scorpia didn’t know for certain that her mothers were dead when she returned to the Fright Zone. She knew they likely were, but she was hoping that since they hadn’t tried to desert themselves, Shadow Weaver would let them live, even if she knew they were likely tortured. When she returned, however, she found everything they had once owned long reclaimed by creditors or stolen and that none of the few people in their personal life outside of the Horde had seen them in years.

Scorpia stayed away for so long only because her mothers insisted on it and she swore to obey them. She didn’t even know for sure the Horde ever discovered she had lived, she just stopped receiving letters from her mothers and knew the likely answer as to why. She also tried calling them despite how they made her swear not to (so as not to be discovered/tracked for her own safety) and found their phone line had been disconnected.

Scorpia was hoping that they would somehow find her moms alive and well and they could move into the spare bedroom that became Adora’s, though she knew it wasn’t likely.

The different nature of love between soulmates is actually a metaphor for the inherently different way lesbians experience love in a world openly hostile to their kind of love/sexuality. People joked about gays being immortals in the comments but that’s… kind of the answer. Yes, queer people’s different relationship with love and sexuality doesn’t give us superpowers, but it does give us an understanding to a world outside of cishet’s people experience of the world, analogous to the broader experience that living a long time affords. Immortality is a metaphor for the queer experience.

Mermista said at the start of this chapter that there are no hard and fast “rules” to being immortal, a sentiment Adora then promptly forgot the moment Perfuma said Catra couldn’t be her soulmate. The truth is that it’s all a balance, and if you didn’t get enough time to be happy with your soulmate, then you regenerate when you die.

Chapter 6: Death of a Bachelor

Initially Catra was supposed to cling on to life for awhile, finally passing on when she was thrown down the body shoot (I referred to this in the outline as “meeting Scorpia’s mothers” since they were down there too), but I really didn’t want to extend the suffering since it was already a lot.

Shadow Weaver left Catra’s body on the floor of her office as she ranted and raved to other lackeys for awhile so she could watch it to be sure it didn’t vanish, but the bodies tend to linger and delay regenerating when there is someone looking at them. Basically, she needed to turn around and look back, which she never did before she couldn’t stand seeing Catra’s body anymore (she wasn’t remorseful, and she was in fact still incensed, but at the same time it was hard seeing the body of the girl she projected so much on) so she called someone in to grab it and dump her down the chute.

Shadow Weaver then came to regret this decision within an hour, paranoid that Catra had regenerated the moment that she took her eyes off of her. The people who dragged her to the chute assured SW that she was dead and no one could survive that fall anyway, but Shadow Weaver immediately set to reviewing all devices monitoring anywhere she thought Catra might regenerate, checking her apartment, their old bunk, and Adora’s apartment. She didn’t know about the blanket in the van, but even if she did, she doesn’t understand how emotional ties work for most people or that Catra wouldn’t want to regenerate in a) the center of the hell that had been torturing them, b) her girlfriend who abandoned hers bed, or c) her apartment and the bed that she last shared with her girlfriend before she betrayed her. As a result, she never would have suspected Catra regenerating on the blanket even if she knew about it. She scrubbed through all the footage from every camera in the headquarters that day, but as Catra never emerged from the back of the van, she never spotted her and was satisfied that Catra really was a mortal that Adora latched onto as a substitute for her soulmate.

The body chute is a reference to an actual body chute at the abandoned Waverly Hills Hospital where they would drag dead bodies out of sight of other patients. The one the Horde uses is an old tunnel that leads down into an abandoned tank below ground where the old factory used to tap into the sewer system before it was abandoned. It’s a long drop to where the bodies pile up, and some have been down there for a decade or more. When the raid takes place, it takes them a few days before they find the chute and realize there are bodies down there, eventually going on a mission to recover them. Most of them remained unidentified, though they were able to match some of them with DNA or dental records.

Chapter 7: Lone Wolf

The Horde Trio finding out went like this: On Saturday, Kyle avoided the hell out of Shadow Weaver because she was on a warpath. That night, Kyle told Rogelio and Lonnie what he did and Lonnie was like “oh my god you’re stupid” and Rogelio was like “you’re stupid and I love you.” Basically, they both agreed with what he did but they were like this is the worst idea you’ve ever had. They were glad they didn’t have to make the choice themselves.

On Sunday morning, Lonnie wandered up to Shadow Weaver and asked if she could have Catra’s bike (which was currently taking up room in the headquarters’ garage). Shadow Weaver didn’t want to see the reminder of the traitor, so she basically said “fine” and waved her off. Lonnie said she thinks the keys were on Catra’s body (causing Shadow Weaver to instantly tense up given her hang-ups over Catra’s body). She then says the spare key was probably at her apartment, and that they should salvage it for any useful gear anyway. Shadow Weaver glared at her, but gave them permission to do so.

All three of them went over that afternoon and collected all the gear and money they could find, as well as anything they could claim as mementos of the five of them from before Adora turned and Catra died. They then brought the hybrid gear and half the money back to the headquarters, with Lonnie claiming she kept the stuff useful to her (weapons both she and Catra used, bodygear she could fit into, etc). They also said that since Catra’s money was made on their heists, they should get half of it now she was gone (1/6 for Adora, 1/6 for Catra, 1/6 for Shadow Weaver’s cut all would go to SW now, and then 1/6 for each of the trio would go to them). Shadow Weaver truly did not give a shit at that point except that the Horde had taken a hit to finances recently, so they gave her 4/6ths. They brought the remaining cash to the hotel that evening with her other things.

As discussed later in the fic, Adora has no idea how to cooking anything due to growing up on microwave meals with the other street kids. She isn’t experienced with kitchen mandolins. Mermista was trying to teach her how to cook (by which I mean Adora started an attempt to cook while Mermista was chilling at the kitchen counter and Mermista was like “what the hell are you doing” and then proceeded to neg her while scattering in corrections/advice) but she didn’t get up from the counter and show her exactly how to use it and Adora accidentally sliced like a centimeter off the tip of her finger. It wouldn’t stop bleeding and she was feeling faint so Mermista was just like “Regen” and Adora was like yep makes sense since I’m blacking out anyway.

Chapter 8: Drag-along

Mermista “looking considering” in the first scene is the exact moment she began to suspect that they could both be soulmates still, given what Adora just said about being punished for expressing affection.

Catra knew the Horde had abandoned the location because she was checking it in anticipation of Adora showing up.

Angella can’t be a regular historian because at least the sanitizing is done with lower stakes when it’s art history, and there’s things she knows are factually wrong but the academic sources were destroyed so she would just start tearing her hair out trying not to be like “I know because I was there!” and it’s best she just doesn’t deal with any of that. She has lived a thousand lives and been many things, but art historian is her current path.

Adora’s a lot more casual about dying now than she was when Shadow Weaver made her plans hinge on it because 1) she’s had more time to get used to the idea of being immortal, 2) she understands a lot more about how it works now, assuring her that she will actually come back, 3) she knows that if she did fight Catra on it, she wouldn’t force her into it, although she might drop her off on a street corner blindfolded, 4) poison is a lot less violent of a death. She knows that she’s still killing herself by drinking it, but it isn’t the same as being locked in a vault with a gun, knowing that pulling the trigger is your only way out.

Chapter 9: Rendezvous

The Wastelanders are of course a reference to the Crimson Wastes and a loose collection of criminal gangs banding together to pool resources and drive off others.

Chapter 10: A Little Messed Up (like you)

Chapter title is from the song “A Little Messed Up” by june.

There’s a whole backstory to the necklace I ended up cutting because it was tangential, it’s weird that Catra even knew it, and it broke up the flow. However, the story is this: It sold for 12 million at an auction two years ago, and then not long after, the person who bought it died under mysterious circumstances. Their estate has been tied up in an investigation ever since. The moment it cleared, the person who inherited the necklace put it up for sale. It was expected to go for upwards on 14 million at auction. The person who inherited the estate murdered the original owner for their wealth, including the necklace.

Catra took a loss for the necklace because she was selling it illegally and can’t provide authentication, especially on such a short time frame. Eddie has to make his profit selling it to his buyer too. He doesn’t even have one lined up at the moment considering how tight the timeframe was, he just knows he’ll be able to find one.

The little scar on Catra’s right hand was from when Catra, who had been favoring her left up until that point, was forced to use her right hand as her dominant one to conform with Horde standards (Shadow Weaver wasn’t about to get her left-handed scissors, never mind special equipment). She wasn’t as dexterous with her right hand during the transition period despite being mildly ambidextrous, and she accidentally gave herself a bad cut on her palm that Shadow Weaver wouldn’t “waste” medical supplies on since the injury was “her own fault” and thus it ended up scarring noticeably despite having much more mundane origins than some of her others.

Catra tenses when Adora first drapes over her during the smut because she suddenly felt a bit suffocate, but Adora pulled back and let her adjust, which lets her relax again.

Okay, so I wrote the majority of the chapter on the 27th, then moved on and kept writing and editing. I came back to this chapter multiple times (specifically the scene in the car) to keep it consistent with the other edits I was making to hammer out the arc of their relationship. Finally, on the 3rd, I came back to do my final edit and post it. When I got to the end of the chapter, the final scene just wasn’t there. I was so confused. I went back into my version history, and found literally ten minutes after writing the scene (with totaled 1k), I somehow accidentally deleted it, because it disappeared between versions with everything else inexplicably intact. Luckily I was able to go back and recover it. I love the scene and it established some things important for the Alliance to know before Bow’s shooting, but I’m still confused about what happened.

This chapter ended up with a quite different set-up than it was intended to. Below is the original outline.

[Adora is shocked when catra materializes over her shoulder and hands her a slushie. “What is this” “just drink it” “did you poison it” “obviously”. Adora looks at her for a moment, and then she drinks it. catra takes her hand and leads her towards the park. They walk around it, hand in hand, almost like a date, until adora starts stumbling. Catra leads her out of the park, towards a car. “just a bit further, princess”] [adora wakes up and cuddles the hell out of catra. Catra misses her] [“the last poison tasted awful”. “I got a new one” “aw, for me?” “no” she snaps. Sighs. “Yes”. “Take me out again some time?” “im taking you out right now” she responds and hands her the glass]

Okay, I obviously changed things. They were less enemies at this point than I initially planned, and the consensual drugging felt iffy to me anyway (I certainly wasn’t going to have any smut in this chapter when it was a plot point, because I didn’t want those two events anywhere close to each other) so I cut that entire beat and replaced it with another blindfolded Swift Wind drive (which also allowed me to have them talk around the drive – part of Catra’s initial reasoning for the drugging was to avoid talking, but then they were going to do it during the cuddling anyway).

Chapter 11: The Scarlet Ibis Job

Knifepoint is really an example of the way a hero loves versus the way a villain does. There’s a great post about it somewhere on Tumblr, and it kept popping up into my head when I wrote some of Catra’s lines.

The hotel’s name is all thanks to @malachi-walker. I wanted a name that referenced the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas (due to its ties to the mob & Bugsy Siegel’s murder) and was struggling to come up with a suitable bird. Scarlet Ibises look kinda similar to Flamingos (not that you would confuse them, but that they have visual similarities).

Speaking of, the title of this chapter is a reference to the show “Leverage”, where all the episode titles were “The [blank] Job” (EX: “The Juror #6 Job”).

Chapter 12: Soulmates

The words that Catra says to herself and label as “Shadow Weaver’s words” are from throughout the story. You can find her thinking or saying them in earlier chapters, and Shadow Weaver says a lot of them pretty casually in Chapter 6. EX: CH8: “She was willing to leave everything behind to join them, planning to haul Catra around like a stray she expected to follow her anywhere.”

If someone had died in the fire, Catra wouldn’t have lost her immortality. Basically, if you kill someone on accident, then it doesn’t happen. Everything is a balancing act with immortality, though, so it isn’t just that simple. If you hurt someone knowing that it could directly lead to their death (IE shooting them in the leg and they bleed out, even if it’s a “non-fatal” shot), then their death will “count as murder” and you’ll lose your immortality because you were reckless with their life. However, if you’re driving and someone walks in front of your car, you never had any intention to hit/hurt them, and their death doesn’t count. Especially the longer from the initial action their death is (aka you shoot them in the shoulder with a rubber bullet, which somehow leads to complications like a blood clot that cause their death years later) the less likely you are to lose your immortality because of it.

Because Catra had taken every precaution she could and was actively trying not to hurt people and to protect them, any accidental deaths wouldn’t have led to her losing her immortality. However, if she had been uncaring and, say, set the house on fire without sweeping it and someone died, even if they weren’t in the house but ran in after the fact to help, they would count as murders because she was purposefully being reckless and uncaring with life, well aware there could be someone else inside who died. Intent and the amount of recklessness are important factors. It’s like karma.

Adora ducked into a nearby alley and ran. Grizzlor got out of his car to chase her down, but it took too long and she escaped. During this, bystanders saw and were watching Catra’s body, which prevented her from regenerating. Grizzlor then quickly returned and threw her body in the trunk. All the upper level captains had been told that Adora defected and was to be captured and never killed if found so they could interrogate her and learn what she had given up. Catra they were told had been killed for helping Adora defect, but her body was inappropriately disposed of before it could be verified that she was dead, so if she was spotted, to attempt to arrest her and interrogate her if possible.

Grizzlor was actually aiming for Adora, attempting to incapacitate her, but Catra got in the way and took the bullet. They had been explicitly instructed that if one of them did die, their bodies were to be taken back to Shadow Weaver so she could personally verify their death and that they should never take their eyes off their bodies because the Alliance uses heart-rate slowing poisons to fake their deaths to escape custody (the lie Shadow Weaver told the Horde at large to cover up immortality). Because they didn’t know this really meant you can’t take your eyes off them for even a second, Grizzlor threw Catra’s body in the trunk and fucking booked it. The cops were already nearby from the explosion and he needed to get to headquarters. He called Shadow Weaver on the way and she screamed at him, since it was basically now confirmed that Catra was an immortal. Sure enough, she was waiting when Grizzlor pulled into the Horde, and upon opening the trunk, they found it empty. Shadow Weaver stabbed her knife right through the lid of his trunk. She would have stabbed him if her lackeys weren’t already waning in loyalty/availability/number already due to the Horde losing power and sources to supply them.

Chapter 13: The Matriarch

Sea Hawk made French toast for everybody and then Frosta insisted on having him put cinnamon sugar on hers. Mermista: “That is not how the French do it.” Frosta, with a cold, dead stare: “Viva la révolution.”

Angella was the daughter of a merchant in the Roman Republic in around 200 BCE. I’m not a history expert, so forgive me for getting this wrong, but Angella had lived in many places over many centuries and changed her name as appropriate to accommodate them. She chose her last name of Proserpine in the modern era as a nod to her heritage. Proserpine was the Roman version of Persephone, but only grew to replace the previous goddess of Libera in the beginnings of the century 200 BCE. As such, Angella was familiar with both, but authorities considered Proserpine a more respectable figure of worship for women. Angella considers herself as Libera, an ancient relic dressed up in the robes of Proserpine (pretending to be a normal mortal) to make herself acceptable to the world around her.

Bow refers to her as “Dr. Proserpine” because she and his dads work together and so he was used to referring to her that way in the academic setting.

The scene with Angella greeting everyone was inspired by the vibe of when the entire family gathers to greet a relative who is visiting from out of town.

It is possible to transition after becoming immortal, just more difficult. Because a lot of the methods used are relatively new and there are so few immortals (and thus very few trans immortals), there’s a lot less known about transitioning compared to things like changing weights or growing hair. It doesn’t take eight years of HRT to lock that in as your body’s “natural state”, but no one assumed their body would just adapt like that, so it took them a long time to notice.

Factors include a) how long/if they were taking the med/had it in their system when they did for the first time, b) how often and in what concentrations it is in the system at the time of death/regen, c) how long and often it is in the system between regens, so as to “trick” the body into thinking it is supposed to be there (this factor especially means having to go longer between regens, because if you’re only alive for 2 days, then the drug can only be in your system for 2 days and it’s hard for your body to accept as natural). Generally, it has to be been in the system for a long time – years – for the body to accept it and naturally produce it.

In the next chapter Catra speculates that Angella asked about Adora’s death to justify killing Shadow Weaver to herself, which is partially true, but it is a question she tends to ask immortals to offer them space to talk about it with someone. They can’t exactly go to traditional therapy for it, so Angella has kind of been the best thing they had.

Chapter 14: Her Love’s Like A Funeral

The title for this chapter is from/inspired by Funeral by Meg Myers.

Angella just wanted to be with Micah and live normally. I know some people won’t consider Angella’s arc as a “happy end” but it is happy because she is happy. She has lived a long time. She’ll get to grow old with the love of her life and watch her daughter grow into a young woman – what could be happier than that?

I’ll be blunt: I had some plans for an epilogue for this fic, but I got sick the day I posted chapter 12 and struggled to write. I was sick for an entire week (actually, longer, but I was unable to write for a week) and totally lost my steam for the fic. I had already written chapter 13, so I managed to finish off Chapter 14 as I intended, but I just didn’t have the motivation for an epilogue anymore and writing it wouldn’t have been fun for me because of that. Below are some of the ideas/scenes that I wanted to cover as a kind of extended look at their life beyond the fic.

Angella stays for an additional few days, beginning to turn over her network/empire to Glimmer slowly (over many years). She’s lived far too long to share everything before she goes, but she keeps lots of records, and Glimmer replaces her as the head of the network with plans to one day train a protégé to carry on in her place, ensuring her mother’s legacy and that immortals have continued support through the decades.

The Alliance – and Catra – always make jokes about Catra and Adora going to Catra’s place when they have screaming sex. Catra maintains her basement as a base and fallback locations for regeneration. They do go there when they really want to let loose, but they primarily stay at the penthouse. Adora and Catra both like staying somewhere with windows to let in light now they have that option, but the basement is a secure place for them.

Catra finally told Adora about everything that happened while she was in the cells a few weeks after the fic ends, after they watched a news report about the investigation into the Horde earlier that day. It was emotional and Adora petted through her hair as she finally learned about Catra cutting it to stop Shadow Weaver from dragging her around by it. Catra takes one look at Entrapta’s calendar for growing back out her hair and goes “yeah, no”.

Catra one day just, like, realizes that she’s immortal and suddenly goes on a tear eating all the foods that are toxic to her that she has never gotten to eat. They won’t actually kill her, but she doesn’t have to suffer through the aftereffects when she can just reset. She tries chocolate – isn’t a fan, which then sets the Alliance on a quest to find The One Chocolate She Will Like which resolves on a different day – eats human ice cream, pastries, baked goods, pasta, etc. It takes her a while to work through all the foods she has always wanted to try and she finds she likes the savory carbs well enough but not the sweet stuff so much as she never developed a taste for it. Adora finds it all very amusing and supports Catra through her candy rampage. Afterwards Catra is like “I can’t fucking believe you eat that shit all the time” despite how it doesn’t make Adora feel trash like it does for Catra.

The “I know the chocolate that Catra will actually like” competition is held literal weeks later because some of the chocolate had to be flown in from fucking Switzerland and shit. Everyone in the Alliance put forth one chocolate and the one that Catra likes best becomes the winner. Catra blind tastes each chocolate without knowing a) what the wrapper looks like (though Adora has a card with all the flavors so Catra will be forewarned and not dislike one because it surprises her with a nougat center or something), b) how expensive it is/where it’s from, or c) who selected it for her. The competition is fierce just because they’re all like that.

Perfuma puts forth her own homemade chocolate which is her attempt at basically making a magicat edible (none exist since magicats can’t have chocolate or weed lmao). It includes alcohol and catnip (though catnip isn’t a drug to magicats, it does help them relax, as other herbs do in humans) (if you haven’t read previous fics, alcohol effects magicats similar to how catnip effects cats). Catra knows who’s chocolate that is even during the blind taste test because of the homemade aspect. It comes in third place because she doesn’t like the idea of getting drunk/high while eating, but it is good.

First place goes to Adora, because she knows Catra’s palette better than anyone, and while some others do figure out the “she doesn’t like sugar” thing, they just can’t match her tastes. Mermista got her a super fancy dark chocolate from Europe, convinced it was the best in the world, but it’s not going to be Catra’s taste – which is, by the way, a dirt-cheap grocery store dark chocolate. Catra used to live on the street. That fancy shit isn’t what she’s acclimatized to. The others accuse Adora of cheating and consider Entrapta the “unofficial” winner since competing against Catra’s soulmate is unfair anyway. Entrapta got second place with a mid-dark sea salt chocolate that appeals to Catra’s more savory tastes.

Angella gets them all matching loungewear outfits in varying pastel & neon shades for Christmas one year, like a mom getting everyone matching sweaters. They all have a rhinestone letter on the back spelling out “THE ALLIANCE” on the back. They need one more person, which Angella says can be Frosta’s soulmate when the time come (Frosta pulls a face) but for now Angella takes an ‘A’ and Micah takes the photo of all of them wearing them. T – Perfuma. H – Scorpia. E – Glimmer. A – Angella. L – Bow. L – Sea Hawk. I – Mermista. A – Adora. N – Frosta. C – Catra. E – Entrapta.

Entrapta is insistent that her ‘E’ is the finale e of “Alliance” and not “The” despite Angella having set it up so she can be next to her girlfriends. No one knows why Entrapta decided that, but Entrapta just knows her e is the last one and considers it “misspelling” when they try to arrange her next to Perfuma and Scorpia, so everyone goes along with it (yes, this is what the ND experience is like).

Despite Catra’s insistence on staying solo, she quickly starts tagging along on some jobs after Adora makes puppy eyes at her. She still does solo jobs (or occasionally small jobs with just Adora) and she resists being an official part of the Alliance for awhile, but one day she realizes that the plan has just assumed that she’ll be joining them without asking for the first time. And then she’s like “I’m not part of the Alliance” and everybody Looks at her and she grumbles and tucks into Adora’s side but she goes on the job. She doesn’t join all their jobs, and she appreciates being asked, but she’s satisfied as long as she maintains her freedom and side jobs as well.

Angella has a few safehouses around the world (that she passes on to Glimmer, and the penthouse is amongst them). After about a few years, the Alliance packs up and moves cities. They actually settle down a bit there, only pulling jobs occasionally, before they move again and go on a tear. They have all the time in the world, so they ebb and flow. At one point Perfuma semi-retires to teach yoga again for four years before getting back in the game, just chasing whatever interests her. At times the Alliance decentralizes (living in separate apartments and working/living more independently) but they often come back together after awhile because they’re all friends and kinda adrenaline junkies lol.

Angella and Micah die old holding each other like in the notebook.

Original Outline:

This fic followed my outline pretty closely. Some things ended up taking longer than I thought or being moved up to the chapter before, but overall, it was pretty true to form. I would say that they were supposed to be more antogonistic towards each other at first after separating, fighting a bit more about Adora leaving and Catra not wanting to, but it just didn’t fit once I reached that point.

Initially the first 5 chapters were supposed to take place over a more stretched out timeline, with Adora joining the Alliance and slowly beginning to see how awful the Horde was once she was on the outside and could a) see all they were doing and b) that it didn’t have to be like that. Adora comforted herself with the fact that all the criminals in the Fright Zone were like the Horde when she was in it, but that simply wasn’t true. They were a special kind of evil.

However, doing this would mean drawing things out to a point that just felt unnecessary, especially once I started writing and was able to show that growing distance and tension between Catra and Adora anyway. Adora was supposed to truly be undercover, then slowly grow to feel at home with the Alliance. She was going to be surprised when she suddenly regenerated with the Alliance. They would then throw a “welcome to the family” party, meanwhile the whole time Adora was worrying about the Horde finding out, which of course they had. Shadow Weaver would then order the kidnapping.

During the kidnapping, Catra was supposed to “interrogate” Adora a bit, both trying to determine if she had defected and kind of slipping her information as she spoke about what Shadow Weaver knew and suspected so Adora could try to lie around it. She failed to do so when Shadow Weaver came to her in the cell, she was tortured, and the screams haunted Catra just like they did in the fic. She then slipped in to free her. Adora’s death was supposed to be a lot more brutal. Catra was supposed to kill her with her claws because she had already turned over the poison pills to Shadow Weaver.

The rest of the circumstances changed before I wrote it, but I actually did write this version of Adora’s death and it was just too gruesome and dark, so I went back and edited it. Using the pills also let Adora justify to herself that Catra was able to free her secretly and thus didn’t face retribution for it, because if she thought Catra was still trapped there and being tortured she would have run right back after regenerating elsewhere.

Meta:

Extra #1: Shadow Weaver

Extra #2: Soulmates, Angella, & Micah

Extra #3: Death counts

Fic Notes #2: Timeline

Other meta: The Horde’s structure, Entrapta’s overalls, Adora’s dress in CH11, platonic soulmates.

What’s next?:

My next AU is Lullaby of the Drowned, a siren/pirate AU! I’ll start working on it now Knifepoint is done and should begin posting it any time in the next week or two.

#knifepoint #ficmeta #fic notes

[gay-little-fruit]

Hi, I'm An Adult Queer Person. I'm Going By They/Them Now.

I Go By Rosie Online.

I Have A Lot Of Blogs And I'm Famous Among My Mutuals For Having Too Many Sideblogs So Here Is A List Of Them.

Some Of My Favourites Are :

Books :

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

The Simonverse Trilogy

The Song Of Achilles

The Anna And The French Kiss Trilogy

Red, White And Royal Blue By Casey McQuiston

Boyfriend Material By Alexis Hall And Nearly All Alexis Hall Books

The Light We Lost By Jill Santopolo

Till We Have Faces By C. S. Lewis

The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

Shows :

Skam (I Love The French,Italian, Spanish And Belgian Remakes And The Evak/Elu/Martinico Season)

Asian Dramas (Not Korean, Mostly Thai Yaoi) [ Here is a list of some of them if anyone is interested]

Meteor Garden (The Chinese Remake, 2018)

Crush (Cdrama)

FRIENDS

Love, Victor

Good Omens

Marvel's Daredevil

The Umbrella Academy

Schitt's Creek

Brooklyn 99

Movies

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Kill Your Darlings

Spirited Away

Kimi No Na Wa (Your Name)

(I Don't Really Watch Movies Much And I'm Very Picky So This List Is Kinda Short But Those Listed Are My Absolute Favourite Ones)

Singers And DJs:

Taylor Swift Is The One For Me. I'm A Swiftie.

Troye Sivan.❤❤❤❤

I Love Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Khalid, Marshmello, Alan Walker, Ruelle, Halsey Too.

Bands :

Panic! At The Disco

Imagine Dragons

Getsunova (It's A Thai Band And They're Damn Good)

F4 (Yes, I'm Talking About The Chinese One)

Queen (The One And Only)

I Love Some Specific Songs By Maroon 5, The Chainsmokers, OneRepublic, A Great Big World, Tilly Birds And Three Man Down (The Last Two Are Thai Bands)

The Only Korean Bands I Like Are Blackpink And TXT

My Ships :

Books : Malec, Jessa, Wessa, Herongraystairs, Kitty, Thomastair, Ghostwriter, Arianna, Edmund x Linette, All Canon Ships In TSC, Patrochilles, FirstPrince, Simon x Bram, Leah x Abby, Anna x Étienne

Shows : Victor x Benji, Amm x Cris, Polca, Babii, Peraya, Elu, Martinico, Evak, Cris x Joanna, Sobbe, Crowley x Aziraphale, Claire x Matt

My Favourite Friendships And Siblings' Relationships :

Books : MAGNUS AND WILL, WILL AND JEM, Jace and Alec, Izzy and Alec, Tessa and Sophie, Ella, Will and Cecily, Gabriel and Gideon, Ty and Livvy, Emma and Cristina, Clary and Simon, Charlotte and Sophie, The Merry Thieves, Kit and Mina, Christopher and Anna, Magnus and His Gang, Simon and Rebecca, Kit and Livvy, June, Nora and Alex, Bea and Henry, Simon, Leah and Nick, Simon and Abby, Anna and Étienne's Friends Group

Shows : The Cool Gang In DBK (Pete, Kao, Sandee and Thada), Almost All BL Leads and Their Funny Besties, Marti and Gio and Their Gang In Skam Italia, The Parallels of Milan and Robbe From Skam Belgium (WTFock) In Skamverse, The Parallels of The Girl Gang In Skamverse, The Parallels Of The Girl Gang and The Boy Gang in Skamverse, Basically All Friendships In Skamverse, Chandler and Joey, Chandler, Joey, Ross, Phoebe, Monica And Rachel, Crowley And Aziraphale, Adam And His Gang, Matt and Foggy

Honorable Favourite Show Character Mention : Pete's Dad From DBK, Imane From Skam France, Manon From Skam France, Milan From WTFock, Gio From Skam Italia, Anathema from Good Omens, Gabriel From Good Omens (He's Hilarious Please-)

People I'm Currently Simping Hard For :

Jem Carstairs - My forever husband❤

Will Herondale - This baby I'm✨catastrophically✨ in love with and who's my spirit animal deserves the universe and more❤ I am literally Will Herondale IRL. You won't believe the similarities. Also, #NOQUACK

Anna Lightwood - The best Lightwood❤ Anna could break my heart in pieces and step on it and I'd say thank you🌹

Matthew Fairchild - I love this boy with all my heart. I want to mend his broken heart❤ and I'm in love with his love for Wilde and green carnations

Alec Lightwood - the sassiest cinnamon roll Consul ever❤

Magnus Bane - The elder brother I've always wanted. The best there is❤

Lily Chen - LILY QUEEN👑❤the nicknames are genius✨

Ty Blackthorn - He's too lovable and precious❤

Izzy Lightwood - The Sass queen❤✨

Mark Blackthorn - This babie is too precious and innocent for this world❤

Cristina Rosales - Damn! The perfect one❤🌹

Simon Lewis - My comfort character. I relate too much to him ❤❤

Alastair Carstairs - Bolastair deserves nothing less than the world. Needs to be protected at all costs.❤❤

Thomas Lightwood - Deserves better than what he gets. My small awkward giant Lightwood. GIVE HIM WHAT HE DESERVES AAAAAAA❤❤❤❤❤

Lucie Herondale - Oh my sweet precious smol bean. The perfect combination of Wessa.❤❤❤

Cordelia Carstairs - I might as well have a crush on her PLEASE she is so AJSJSSJSDHBDHDHDH❤❤❤ edit : not anymore bye

Ètienne St. Clair - Precious precious precious ❤❤❤❤❤

Cricket Bell - He's so cute and precious❤

Leah Burke - I relate to her on a spiritual level❤

Ms. Albright - The queen of Simonverse👑✨❤

Nora Holleran - I'm just like 😍

Beatrice Fox Mountchristen-Windsor - Again I'm like 😍👑❤

Patroclus - Must be protected at all costs❤

Augustus Waters - Do I have to say anything about him?❤

Huaze Lei - The only show character I fell hard for. He's so precious and cute and sweet and perfect I can't-❤

Matt Murdock - Guess Lei got company ;)

TK Strand : I've adopted

Carlos Reyes - very sweet and very hot

I Like To Write, But I'm A Writer Who Barely Writes.

I'm A Professional Procrastinator.

I Like Coffee, Sweaters, Books, Solitude, Winter And Fall. Yes, I'm A ✨Sweater Sapphic✨.

Fun Fact : I Don't Like Noodles And Birthdays And Any "Special" Day, In General.

I'm A Complete Socially Awkward Dork. I Am Sometimes Very Social And Talk A Lot And Sometimes I Just Ghost My Friends, Both IRL And Online. You've Been Warned.

I Like To Swear, But Not When I'm In A Bad Mood.

I have a Tumblr family, which includes :

My Archaeoweirdist And Fellow Hoe : @herondalesunsetcurve

My Parabatai : @herondaleinc

My Herondale Sibling : @crumpled-up-pieceof-paper

My Braincell Twin : @tessherongraystairs

My Girlfriend : @the-blackdale

So Yeah, That's It.

#Rosie's permanent pin #rosie's important post #don't rb #pinned #about rosie

[orangemonster33]

SEEKING STUFF TO BETA/PROOFREAD

Ok guys, now that my first year of med school is over and I am into my summer holidays, I am bored af. I need stuff to do and I am so ready to beta and proofread fanfic (or creative writing that isnt fanfic), school/uni assignments, research papers; hell even emails. So if you need anything proofread for grammar feedback or general feedback please please send it my way! Thank you!

#fanfic beta #fanfic #supergirl #xena #xena x gabrielle #patsy x delia #pupcake #call the midwife #star wars #bea smith #berena #ballie #wentworth prison #supercorp #sanvers #bechloe #pitch perfect #clexa #commander lexa #clarke griffin #franky doyle #alex danvers #carmilla #hollstein #carol (2015) #cophine #wonder woman #holtzbert #ghostbusters #jasia

[mrhyde-mrseek]

I’ve posted a lot of Ineffable Bureaucracy stuff on here. So how about we show our beloved Ineffable Husbands some love?

Ineffable Husbands ship songs

“Perfect Picture” by Bea Miller

“Young and Beautiful” by Lana Del Rey

“Sinners” by Lauren Aquilina

“Fools” by Lauren Aquilina

“Shadows” by Sabrina Carpenter

“Lucky Stars” by Lucy Spraggan

“End of the World” by Lucy Spraggan

“You Love Who You Love” from Bonnie and Clyde

“Halo” by Beyoncé

“Driving Through a Dream” by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

“Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash)” by Pink

“Somebody to Love” by Queen

“The Apple” by RaeLynn

“Out of the Woods” by Taylor Swift

“I Know Places” by Taylor Swift

“Sparks Fly” by Taylor Swift

“We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)” by Rihanna

“Loaded Gun” by Lucy Spraggan

“Thanks for Choosing Me” by Lucy Spraggan

“Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy” by Queen

“Marching On” by Krewella

“I Choose You” by Sara Bareilles

“What If It Doesn’t End Well” by chloe moriondo

“Smash Into You” by Hey Violet

“Sparks Fly” by Hey Violet

“End Up With You” by Carrie Underwood

“4 Leaf Clover” by Letters to Cleo

“For Good” from Wicked

“Inside Out” by Zedd & Griff

“Willow” by Jasmine Thompson

“Stand By You” by Rachel Platten

“Finding You” by Kesha

“Flowers” by Lucy Spraggan

“Between Us” by Little Mix

“Stargazing (feat. Amelie)” by Severo

“Please Don’t Say You Love Me” by Gabrielle Aplin

“invisible string” by Taylor Swift

“Runaway (U & I)” by Galantis

“Wonderful” by Janet Devlin

“Strangeness and Charm” by Florence + The Machine

“Cosmic Love” by Florence + The Machine

“La Vie En Rose” covered by Daniela Andrade

“Wings” by Birdy

“Come With Me” by Chxrlotte

“Gonna Get Over You” by Sara Bareilles

“Whataya Want from Me” specifically from & Juliet

“Finally // Beautiful Stranger” by Halsey

“A Million Miles Away” from Aladdin

“MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X

“Oozin” by Beach Bunny

“Butterflies” by Lucy Spraggan

“Bon Iver” by mxmtoon

“Missing What’s You (feat. Frigga)” by Elijah N

“Levitating” by Dua Lipa

“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol

“How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” by Florence + The Machine

“Apollo (Eurovision Version)” by Timebelle

“Still Into You” by Paramore

“Come Alive” by Beth Crowley

“Midnight” by Beth Crowley

“Intertwined” by Reinaeiry & Annapantsu

“I Know A Place” by MUNA

#ineffable husbands #aziraphale good omens #aziraphel #crowley good omens #anthony j crowley #aziracrow

[poettier]

Clubcamping | The legend of Pedro Rodríguez | Director's Cut from Clubcamping on Vimeo.

Racing driver Pedro Rodríguez was one of a kind, a legend in Latin America, and an idol to Porsche fans all over the world. And not only because he was a crazy skilled driver: he made history driving the iconic Porsche 917k, which we can only assume was based on a discarded Batmobile design deemed too unrealistic.

Fifty years after his tragic demise while racing in Germany, we teamed up with The Community and Porsche to honor some of his feats.

Crank up the volume and get ready for a 60-second trip at 300 km/h.

This is our director's cut version for: The Legend of Pedro Rodríguez!

Let’s start by saying we were granted unprecedented creative freedom in this project by both the agency and the client.

But even before the slightest idea came to our minds, we knew one thing for sure: we needed the car to look perfect in 2D. Animating the Porsche 917k frame by frame, without a reference, sounded like the premise of the next Saw movie, so we decided that a 3D model of the car to produce some sweet 3D layouts was a fundamental asset to get our hands on.

To build Pedro’s world we thought about ‘60s and early ‘70s graphic design, movies, cartoons and tv shows, and discussed with Juan what pop culture and art milestones had left a mark on our styles. We agreed we wanted an overall vintage vibe but with modern visuals and animation ideas that would challenge our craft.

“Speed Racer meets Akira” was our pitch.

In a process we like to call “blind parkour design”, we started importing materials into After Effects and mixing it to see what happy accidents we encountered.

Jumping from After, to Animate, to Photoshop, to C4D, trying things out, not thinking whether something might work or not but simply doing it. Letting our subconscious sublimate. An intense animatic process ensued, where tons of new ideas and references kept flowing and popping up spontaneously.

We wanted the animation timing to feel a little limited, but with lots of super-sharp poses and eases. We chose to work at 24fps and its multiples, focusing mainly on animating in 3s, with 4s and 1s as extremes.

The comp was going to be extra heavy⁠—we knew it and wanted it to be that way. Lots of glows, defocus, and grain. But the hardest comp ever was the one with the oil monster. It required a tremendous amount of coordination, organization and patience, constantly going back and forth between layout, animation, cleanup and comp. That shot alone took about a whole month to produce.

We promise you everything was under painful control.

One last thing you might be wondering: what about the square format, with rounded edges? We worked in a 2202 x 2202 1:1 format so as to easily come up with different versions later. The idea all along was to deliver a 16:9 format. As we went on, new details and compositions increasingly made sense when displayed in 1:1. We sat on it a little, and then El Señor Rodriguez himself inspired the final touch: what if we added a nice frame with rounded corners, giving it a lovely super-8 vibe like the footage of Pedro we were already showing at the end?

That was the last touch. The vintage vibe was exactly what we needed to close the circle.

We raise our cups to Pedro and what his star at 300km/h might bring us.

Credit list:

Clubcamping Creative direction: Mariano Fernández Russo. Art Direction: Juan Barabani. EP: Ana Sieglitz & Juliana Millán. Line Production: Carolina Cantero. Animation Direction: Mariano Fernández Russo. Animatic: Mariano Fernández Russo. Illustration: Juan Barabani & Victoria Farelli. 2D and Motion animation: Mariano Fernández Russo, Maricel Piazza, Emmanuel Zampalo, Franco Pelliciaro, Pablo Rago, Fernando Lamattina, Katherine Pryor, Ana Artaza, Penblade Animation & Alcides Izaguirre. Clean up: Alan Mohamed, Sofía Díaz, Gabriela Bosco, Daniela Donato, Julieta Culaciati, Clara Riavec & Rafael Pires. Compositing: Mariano Fernández Russo. BTS Editor: Juan Raimondi Render: Yago Lopez.

Sound (CC Director's Cut Version) Music: Facundo Capece Sound Design: Felipe Barandalla Client: Porsche Agency: The Community Global CCO, Founder Jose Molla / Joaquin Molla Executive Creative Director: Ricky Vior Associate Creative Director: Gabriel Da Silva Associate Creative Director: Rodrigo González Content Creator Lead: Rosario Avila EVP, Head of Integrated Production: Laurie Malaga Maker/s (Producers) Executive Producer: Debi Rubiani Sr. Production Lead: Juan Manuel Sosa Account Team: VP, Managing Director Latam: Julieta Rey, Brand Lead Regional Latam: Sandra Giraldo, Brand Supervisor: Barbara Palacio/Julia Isabel Hernandez, Connections Strategy: Sebastian Ibarr Digital Content Director: Monica Godoy Brand Strategy Director: Alessandra Noceda Brand Strategy Planner Alejandra Margain Business Affairs Business Affairs Director: Natalie Greenman Business Manager: Priscila Hourihan Production Assistant: Aldana Bea PHOTOGRAPHER / ILLUSTRATOR Photographer: Richard Monning

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4. Do any of your muses have children? 7. Do any of your muses have advanced degrees? (Ie: Master’s, doctorate, etc.) 12. Which two of your muses would make the best couple? 23. Which muse have you written for the longest amount of time? 32. Are any of your muses business owners? 41. Have any of your muses won any awards in their field or are they notable in their professional success? 46. Have any of your muses ever killed someone? 48. Which muse is your ‘main muse’ or the one you find yourself writing the most often lately?

Multi-muse meme questions! @residualed

Do any of your muses have children? Yes! Canon children include: Angie (Danny), Bea (Debbie, deceased in most verses), Bree (Andrew & Danielle), Doreen (Joshua, as often than not write her before his birth), Elizabeth (Jack, sometimes will write her post-Jack Senior but without Jr), Gabrielle (so many, so complicated, usually will write her pre-any children), John (usually write pre-kids unless single-dad verse), Kate (adopted niece & bio baby, write her before and after), Katherine (Dylan x 2, it's complicated), Liz (Sophie & Artie, estranged), Marie (Danny, deceased in most verses). But also many additional children in various other verses.

Do any of your muses have advanced degrees? (ie: Master’s, doctorate, etc.) Amy (Masters in Social Work), Bridget (Masters in Forensic Psychology), Harley (Masters in Addiction Studies), Lucy (JD/MBA - Juris Doctor degree & Master in Business Administration), Tara (PhD in Forensic Psychology)

Which two of your muses would make the best couple? Some maybes outside of canon couples — Justino/John/Rosemary/Lucy/Trixie in some combination, Bridget & Amy, Franky/Amy & Elizabeth, Daisy/Rosemary & Delia, Amy & Harley/Kate, Lucy & Robin/Patsy

Which muse have you written for the longest amount of time? Matt, Nyssa, Daisy, Delia

Are any of your muses business owners? Bree (catering), John (gardening), Marie (brothels)

Have any of your muses won any awards in their field or are they notable in their professional success? Lucy (a variety of military awards/commendations, including Meritorious Service Medals, Army Achievement/Commendation Medals, Afghanistan Campaign Medal), Rosemary (numerous acting awards in modern verse)

Which muse is your ‘main muse’ or the one you find yourself writing the most often lately? It varies but overall — Franky, Bea, Allie, Amy, Delia, Justino, John, Kate, Robin

Have any of your muses ever killed someone? Under the cut because I have some followers who are only part-way through Wentworth — major spoilers so only go below the cut if you're fully up to date or don't care about Wentworth spoilers!

11/Jack/Leslie/Matt/Sonia/Zara (endless amounts), Allie (shot Sean Brody during prison siege), Bea (stabbed Jacs Holt in the neck with a pen, shot Brayden Holt), Boomer (smothered Liz in mercy killing after she suffers a stroke), Franky (accidentally stabbed Meg Jackson during prison riot), Katherine (shot Wayne Davis, her abusive ex-husband, whilst being held hostage by him), Kaz (knocked Sonia Stevens off a roof in defence of Liz), Liz (ran her mother-in-law over with a tractor), Marie (once directly alone and once with someone else, numerous people indirectly), all canon Criminal Minds muses/J'onn/Lucy/Nyssa in a work context, Rita (in a work context, also beat Zara Drago to death to defend Ruby)

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SYFY is doing episodes they deem Xena/Gabrielle (I refuse to call them some mashed up name) heavy this month for Pride, but they started off having Debt in one watch so clearly they're not fully up to the task; if you could pick 20 episodes from the series to showcase the couple which would it be? Please share some of why you picked that also! And yes, if Quest is not on your list it's invalid!

🥺🥺🥺 anon... I... LOVE... making lists 🥺🥺🥺 thanks so much for asking this 😭

^me making this list lmao. Get it?! Because The Debt is a BONKERS episode to include in a “shipping” type marathon?! No wlw born before 1990 were consulted on the SyFy list 😉

I’ma say this is the order I want, too, for maximum effect. I’m going not just for the heaviest subtext but also use the emotional oomph of the storylines.

(Skip legendary journeys for sure. Booooo legendary journeys)

Sins of the Past

The Titans - This episode is RIDICULOUS in the best XWP way, and it does a good job summarizing early X/G dynamics despite not being that important to the long run storyline

Hooves and Harlots - gotta set up the Amazons!

Callisto - There is a method to my madness.

Is There a Doctor in the House? - Look, Ephiny is just one of my FAVORITE characters and not just bc Danielle Cormack went on to become Bea Smith from Wentworth. Plus, y’know, the whole, Xena almost losing Gabs bc she’s being stubborn thing

Return of Callisto - Keep waiting...

The Quest - My list would absolutely include this episode, HELLO??

A Day in the Life

Maternal Instincts - I know it hurts...

Been There, Done That

In Sickness and in Hell - Let’s not overlook the fact that the title is taken from wedding vows, also I love when they let Renee and Lucy do a lot of slapstick

Past Imperfect

The Ides of March - This is it, ya’ll! This is why I wasted so many of my 20 eps on Callisto pain! Right here!

Them Bones, Them Bones

Punch Lines - So, by virtue of plot, Xena and Gabrielle are apart for a lot of this episode, but I think Renee and Lucy are full on acting out a married couple that’s terrified of being bad parents and I love that

Looking Death in the Eye - Hi, have ya’ll seen how good Renee and Lucy look in late stage season 5??? Also, if you set aside whether you hate the Twilight plot or not, this is an episode about trust and love

The Abyss

Return of the Valkyrie

You Are There - I’m convinced Michael Hurst was the biggest X/G shipper of us all.

Many Happy Returns - That’s my emotional support episode of Xena: Warrior Princess

#asks #xena #xwp #xena x gabrielle #long post #listicle