alright its late, way past my bedtime, which means its fine if i release a bit of my top gun writing for the first time, right? right.
this is a snapshot from a sequel (that i haven’t written) to a story (i haven’t finished), because why should I follow time and behave in a linear fashion?
anyway. thinking about Rooster attending Ice’s funeral as someone who’s not only estranged from the family, but was, up to this point, actively antagonizing and trying to drive away the person closest to him (i.e. Maverick). thinking about Rooster as someone with a lot of anger and, on a normal day, nowhere to direct it but inward. thinking about what being furious at the people you love most in the world for 20 years would do to you, as a person.
and also, as always, thinking about the Yearning™, even and perhaps especially from pov outsider.
(edit: now with an extended version on ao3)
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No wife. No kids. No one to mourn you if you burn in.
Bradley knows it’s not true, even as he says it. But they’ve all been living Uncle Mav and Uncle Ice’s lie for so long, it’s easier to spit out in anger than the truth.
That does nothing to relieve his impulse to choke himself out right now. If he’d known Uncle Ice was sick again—
But he didn’t know. No one knew. Not even the rest of the Uncles, if he can still read their expressions right after years of distance and without the uncanny, graceless intuition of a child to help him. Maverick…he can’t tell with Maverick. The man could never be angry with Ice, not for anything, and he’d be no less devastated with forewarning than without. His other uncles seem pissed as hell through the tears, though.
He feels like complete and utter shit for having said that to Maverick, because he might as well have been setting him down on an oil slick right before fate threw a match. It’s not—he’s not unaware of the effect he has on Maverick. Bradley knows what the distance between them does to his father; it’s just that normally he’s too angry with him to care.
Right now, he cares. And it’s disgusting, grief clearing his eyes enough to show him what a bastard he’s been.
If he’d known—
God, what he wouldn’t give for one last family dinner at the Kazansky house. Uncle Ice and Aunt Sarah and Maverick, all his cousins, whichever of the Uncles were in town at the time…they filled out the dining room, filled it up with laughter and delight and love and it made the years after his mom died more than bearable; it made them worth living.
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tf2 characters are my dolls to figure out new techniques and rendering styles. trying something 'animated movie ish' and loosely spiderverse (concept art) inspired
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Hey, I had a thought for the fantasy au! So on one of the previous versions of the WH website, there was a rhyme for the show that went:
A house is a place with four walls and a floor,
with a ceiling above and a lovely front door.
There's a bed to cradle you safely at night,
and windows to bring in the morning sunlight.
Your house is a mirror of just who you are,
A reflection that tells you to never stray far.
Which I thought might make a good incantation for when Wally properly summons Home (I can't remember if that's ever required for Warlocks but hey, it's still a fun poem regardless).
ohhhh this. i like this...
bonus og sketch! big ol eyes...
& no capalet because uhhhh eh nah and also i wanted Home's pendant to be on full display!
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Archie realizing he is bisexual in his 30s but panicking because he is so far behind in his gay education he hardly knows how to gay, goes to the riverdale gay bar and freaks out because they ask him if he is into twinks or bears and he has flashbacks to that time he fought a bear and goes home in survival mode, and jughead is there like hey archie what's wrong dude did someone try to kill you again? but archie is like no jug i don't think i can do this bisexuality thing, betty makes it look so effortless but she doesn't get asked if she is into twinks or bears because everyone knows she is into woman who kill, and jug is like hey pal calm down I'm sure we can find a way to help you out. so they visit gay kevin for a crash course in gay but kevin is soooo condescending and gatekeeps gay because he doesn't want more dating competition, so jughead is like archie pal we have been going about this whole thing wrong we must ask the bisexuals. and they go ask fangs and toni but they assume that jughead is tagging along because he too is bisexual and toni says why don't you two come to the bi night at the white worm you can meet other bi people. so archie and jughead show up together to the bar but everyone assumes that they are a couple and keep refering to jughead as his partner and archie is like yeah haha my partner in crime. and the next day everyone thinks that jughead also came out when cheryl sends them a fruit basket and a congrats bert and ernie card.
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