#it was supposed to be just a few lines

[mrssimply]

ROADRAGE

V stopped the Porsche, tires screeching into an abrupt halt, dust flying everywhere around the car. He got out of the driver's seat like he'd the devil on his ass. 

And maybe that was more accurate than imagined. Johnny let out a mean laugh when V slammed the door and kneeled on his seat to crawl over the shift. His handsome face was twisted into a snarl, aviators firmly placed on his nose as he lowered the window completely.

V was shaking as he paced in front of the car. If he’d longer hair, he would be tearing it right now. As it was, he gritted his teeth and tried to breathe through the anger. It was rare nowaday that Johnny could work him like that, but the rocker had been in a foul mood the whole night, and talked shit without a break.

They’d been driving a while before V threw them on the side of this deserted road in the middle of the Badlands. A twenty minutes trip under Johnny’s constant belittling and nagging, and whining, and anti-corpo propaganda, and general criticism of V’s life choices.

Until he lost control.

“Aww, what’s the matter, babe?” Johnny sneered with a mean smile, “Did I get you all jealous?”

V closed his eyes and tried to find the patience and serenity needed to deal with Johnny when he got like that, but found none. He kept seeing the man slouched enticingly right next to that Animal psycho. She could’ve snapped his spine in three with her pinky but Johnny kept taunting her and making lewder and lewder suggestions. Worse was, she hadn’t been immune, her interest shifting from the business V had wanted her to conduct to the resurrected legend by his side.

Legs wide open, stretching his dark jeans until he might have torn them apart, Johnny had sagged in his seat, making his shirt ride up and flashing her with a hint of his flat stomach. V’s Kiroshis had zoomed despite his best intentions to her nostrils flaring, and her pupils dilating visibly. 

Johnny had smirked, his victory visible to V from the corner of his eyes, making it clear this was entirely intentional.

That was when the merc snapped.

He opened his eyes and turned to Johnny. Like a cobra rising out of its basket, the man was now bent through the window, looking at him with anger.

“Is that why you headtailed out of that gig? Are you that gonk? It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to make them heel for good and you botched it, why? ‘cause you can’t handle some cow making eyes at me?!”

“She wasn’t just making eyes at you,” V growled, stepping closer, pulled into the maelstrom surrounding Johnny like this was his first rodeo with the man.

The rocker laughed, out loud and cutting like a knife. 

“So what?! It’s not like I couldn’t have taken her.”

“I don’t think that’s what she was thinking about,” the merc hissed through his teeth, nearly nose to nose with his friend.

Johnny’s face fell into a sneer, eyes like cold diamonds behind his glasses. 

“Oh yeah? What was she thinking about huh?” he challenged, “Same thing you’re thinking about half the time, right? I don’t see where the problem is, V, if she was bold enough to try, maybe I should let her have a go.”

Jerking back and turning on his heels, V put some distance between them. He wasn’t gonna lose his cool, because that was exactly what Johnny had been looking for since he woke up yesterday.

“Let’s fucking go back, V,” Johnny growled, “right the fuck now.”

V only glared at him from over his shoulder, arms crossed.

“Get me back here so I can let her do what you’re obviously not capable off,” the man went on, pointing to the general direction of the city.

Amazingly, after his rebirth, Johnny had let V continue driving the Porsche. A clear proof of love if you believed Kerry and Rogue. V felt like this was a cursed gift because while Johnny insisted V drive him around, the man was on his ass the moment he took a too sharp turn, yapping on about his precious girl. The point was that Johnny liked to use V as his personal taxi, but the merc wasn’t in the mood right now.

“Drive yourself,” V replied, giving him the finger.

They looked at each other in stubborn silence, before Johnny smirked again. 

“Fine,” he concluded, becoming liquid as he folded himself back into the car.

V blinked, experiencing a moment of doubt. Johnny wasn’t really gonna get back to that mammoth, right? He wasn’t gonna let her do what he’d hinted at, right?

But the rocker was also known for his stupid pride, and apparently this was now a matter of making V lose, whatever the cost.

As Johnny turned the key into the ignition, V stepped closer again, arms coming loose at his sides.

“You’re not really going back,” he declared. 

Leaning into his seat and resting his metal arm on the windowsill, Johnny looked at V from over his glasses.

“What if I am? I mean, did you see her fingers? Bet it’s gonna feel amazing around my throat.”

In a last bid for wisdom, V tried to close his eyes again, like that had ever worked for anyone.

“Johnny…”

“V..” the man drawled the same way.

“You’re not going back to her.”

“Or yeah? You gonna do something to stop me?”

That was the question. V knew what Johnny was aiming at, he could understand the need crawling under his skin, but he generally turned to Kerry for that. 

“Are you gonna stop me?” Johnny breathed again, mouth right by V’s ear. “Shut me up like you’ve been dreaming the whole way here?”

His voice brought shiver to V’s flesh, an excited frisson running down his spine. 

“Or are you gonna choke up and chicken out? ‘Cause I bet she won’t. I bet she could hold me down and destroy me with just one hand.”

Before he realized, V had Johnny’s chin in a tight grip, fingers whitening around the rocker’s red mouth.

“Fine,” he snarled, “I’ll give it to you, bitch.”

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#cp2077 #cyberpunk 2077 #johnny silverhand #male v #virtual photography #Johnny x V #silverV #to quote a friend #Johnny's calling is to be a bottom #nsft #it was supposed to be just a few lines #my curse

[championsandheroes]

No, I'm still not ok with Certain Comments and how we weren't allowed to call people out on their bs. Like, come on, you've only got one god, Cassandra, surely there's plenty of room for you to adopt some more?

Patreon, society6, and redbubble are not responsible for the hurt feelings of any deities.

#champions and heroes #dragon age inquisition #solas #cassandra pentaghast #inquisitor lavellan #Lavellan #fen'harel #I am also sad that we didn't get to talk shit about Fen'harel in front of Solas #just to see him vibrate with the need to correct #we can't have it all I suppose #but you'd think an elf would have gotten a few more lines about how they actually know their own religion better than the shemlen #the old injustices

[carlyraejepsans]

I'm never gonna finish this fic, sooooo

#it's supposed to be a ''skelebros' first birthday party on the surface'' fic. i had a couple of fun ideas for it #but I can't string them together into a story to save my life #it was gonna be about sans finally drawing a line under his past life once and for all #and just accepting that things ARE going to be better and that he has a future to look forward to #and that he doesn't have to settle for ''good enough'' anymore. and how terrifying that is. since he's finally caring about something #100% caring i mean #but also it was stupid as fuck. the skelebros have no idea what actual age they are. because time-space fuckery #toriel gets tipsy and shows off one of her old party tricks. which blasts the window clean off the wall. #there are more than a few explosions. sans is threatened with karaoke #everyone tries to physically prevent mtt from hiding in the cake. which isn't even like a big wedding style cake #it's literally just a bigger version of toriel's usual pies #this doesn't stop him from trying #undertale #sans #papyrus #alphys #undyne #grillby #mywriting

[neproxrezi]

you ever boot up a video game and totally forget every mod you had installed

i sure just did

#dibi #resident evil #this is just like the time i forgot i installed the mod in fnv that makes the WHAT IN THE GODDAMN line like 8000% louder #anyways im doing hardcore s+ to derust real quick #i'm def rusty as hell but cat ears are making it a breeze lol #made it to the clock tower in barely sub 3 hours #i used to be a lot faster before i went to play other games for a few months >:[ #but it'll get me the S+ i suppose #god that assault rifle you get in the castle is so fucking fun #i never really used it too much #it's a beast with infinite ammo

[starrysharks]

tried to test the waters by asking my mother what she would do if she had a gay child and she said that she'd have them sent to ghana (home country) to be purified. ok

#like idk what i expected other than that but damn ok #this is why i'm glad i didnt try and come out or anything when i was younger a few years ago #anyway she said the other option if 'purification' didnt work was to disown them so i guess ill just come out to spite her as an adult #i do not give a fuck about this family line its ending with me brother #deleting this later i just wanted to get it out #i guess i should tag this as #homophobia #? #and maybe also #religious homophobia #because her hatred comes from supposed bible teachings but also africans are usually just Like That when it comes to homosexuals #africa moment

[rosepompadour]

JULIE CHRISTIE rests between takes on location for DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, 1965

#julie christie #doctor zhivago #the silver screen #marshmallow worlds #* #this is a christmas movie #much like die hard #but with bolshies #i first read the novel during my freshman year of college #and every week we had to go to a seminar where we were supposed to talk about our ~new exciting lives and being away from home etc #and the professor was like 'sarah rose! what is on your mind?' #me: 'yeah why does pasternak kill off lara guishar in just a few lines?' #professor: 'pasternak? don't you have any questions about college?' #me: 'no. this is literally the only thing on my mind right now.' #i wasn't even reading it for a class #i was just a girl with her priorities in order 💅🏻

[arttitude130]

what do you do if your blorbo is the ability to dodge a bullet

#disco elysium #this was supposed to be just a meme then i was like damn how do i draw reaction speed anyway and then i go too attached immediately #spoilers the part when she doesnt accept the figurine and he says he thought it would be nice is literally one of the few skill lines with #so much sad emotion in it you can hear his voice break #god damn #all he wants is to be fast and give a little gift #anyway

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

To Shape A Dragon’s Breath

YA fantasy

a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic

historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes

bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC

#To Shape A Dragon’s Breath #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is really really good i loved it! #the chapter titles are all like snippets of a story. or like sentence fragments that match up. which is cool #it is definitely more about being indigenous in a coloniser institution than Dragon School - not Super dragon heavy if you want that #I suspect the subsequent books will get into that when she gets big enough to ride and stuff #t’s also def YA! i’ve seen a few ppl assume it’s adult and be like its very young :( but like. I mean its perfectly reasonable for a 15yo m #definitely a Lot of racism and colonialism which is not fun to read! though it's still through a YA lens. there was def a part of me that #was imagining consequences of the narrative as if it were an adult novel #on that line of thought - at the end a lot of it is kind of solved by them going to the king and he's is like. oh no racism is happening? #that's bad i'll deal with those people! which felt like. a little simplistic. but maybe the easiest way to end the narrative for book 1 - #I don't think the author ACTUALLY is going to portray the king as a Good Guy throughout the series - it just felt conveniently like - #a simple YA solution to some very big and complex elements? if that makes sense? (but again - it is YA so it's allowed I suppose!) #some of the worldbuilding (like all the science learning) is probably setup for next books - we don’t really see any practical application #the romances are also subtle and not Overbearing In Book One which i like - leave some space for the series! #also her getting fanmail from a 10yo mixed race girl who looks up to her 🥺 #anyway. i really loved it! #oh also it reminded me a little of leviathan. i guess just the steampunk/time period/european culture.... #To Shape A Dragon's Breath

[yourqueenb]

I’m salty about this for multiple reasons.

1. Because I don’t think everybody should be screaming at Mal. They were getting overrun by the Ancients. Maybe his plan wasn’t exactly well thought out, but it worked and everyone is fine.

2. Mal apologizes to Nia immediately, yet MC still hasn’t gotten one for his comments to her? Maybe it’s just me that feels this way, but I think that’s honestly what I need to start fully enjoying his route again. We’ve had some nice moments with him, but they all ultimately still feel hollow to me because there’s been no acknowledgement of whatever underlying resentment he obviously feels towards MC and none of how her suffering being diminished and ignored made her feel either

#choices bolas #choices blades #blades of light and shadow #choices stories you play #playchoices #like yeah it’s fun to be flirty and mischievous and goofy with him #but things can’t just go back to the way they were in book 1 after MC was kidnapped and violated for a year and his comments to her #shit ain’t that sweet I’m sorry #and how am I supposed to feel something from these ‘heartfelt confessions’ he keeps making when #again we haven’t even acknowledged the major issue in depth #and they’re so few and far between because they’re shoved into diamond scenes and one line interactions #choices #choices app #pixelberry studios #pixelberry

[front-facing-pokemon]

#metagross #bonus angle under the cut because i didn't even know this thing had a mouth #TPC knew when they named this thing… they even put “meta” in its name… #i always used to pronounce this “meta–grahhss.” but i've also been told multiple times that it's “meta-grohhss.” don't like that #like the word “gross.” they're not gross..! they're strong competitively or whatever..! yeah this is never a pokémon i cared about #some folks only care about pokémon for their competitive viability but that just is not a factor for me when determining pokémon i like #i do like how the X on their face goes over their eyes to make them look angry from practically every angle. i think that's a nice touch #and steel/psychic is rather cool. but i still don't know what this thing is supposed to be. though again i guess there's something to be #said for a pokémon that isn't necessarily Based off anything and is just its own creature. i think there's gotta be at least a few of those #out there‚ innit? i thought the trapinch line was but. lo and behold i guess. maybe they're all based off something and i'm just wrong

[meymeyzart]

tough crowd I guess...

#sometimes I think of tatsumi trying to save kaname when they got jumped by the school😭😭 #pics taken seconds before disaster yadda yadda #also this is what I meant by I've been doing a lot of ink stuff in black and white lately. just this kind of crap #my art is changing little by little I suppose #in this case the horror vibes work well for obbligato fanart. though I know the lines are a bit hard to read.... #enstars #ensemble stars #tatsukana #tatsuname #kazehaya tatsumi #tojou kaname #kaname tojou #tatsumi kazehaya #himeru #fanart #my art #I swear one day I'll: #1. depict the fact that tatsumi got injured here somehow #2. include jun in an obbligato fanart ☠️ I've planned to a few times but always had to cut him... sorry king better luck next time </3 #OH also tatsumi winking is a remnant of the original drawing which was gonna depict the kaname vision of the strongest kazehaya tatsumi #thing or whatever #guess now he's just straining or got something in his eye or something

[jakeperalta]

I never really got it when people would talk about getting the ick but alas. now I do

#to be clear this is about taylor not about my actual relationship lmao #i feel like if there was ever a thing that would pull me back into fully committed swiftiehood it's a big sad breakup song #but i am just... not feeling it even whilst my entire dash loses their minds #as a song i like it the same way i do essentially all of her songs #but idk i'm not listening to it feeling sad for her #if anything it's all just making me cringe a little. like why is this being tacked onto midnights when that's not what the album is about #i think if it had been released down the line as part of a breakup ep/album i might feel differently #but right now it's like i've become detached from her i'm just not FEELING it anymore #which is sad because being a swiftie has been a big part of my life for years :( #and now it's like ok. she's losing me i guess :( #also! my post saying I've never been less excited getting 900 notes vs now my dash acting like nothing has been off the past few weeks #just makes me feel like ok i suppose everyone else is excited now and i'm still not #talking #taylor swift #ts discourse

[plantb0t]

WAIT. FRENCH? FRENCH??? THEY MADE TAAKO FRENCH????

#NO. NO #the thing is i was in the fandom when these books started coming out and i know taako is blue specifically because of the discourse #between . you really should make him hispanic vs no you absolutely shouldn't because his whole thing in the first few arcs is stealing shit #and then also no he shouldn't be green either for you know jewish stereotype reasons #and as an . attempt. at compromise. the mcelroys made him blue. i remember this happening #which is definitely coloring how i am reading them replacing taako using a spanish word here with a FRENCH WORD #and now that i think about it. in the gerblins book griffin also mentions something taako says as being ''very french'' what. what #WAS THEIR ATTEMPT AT COMPRPMISE JUST MAKING HIM FRENCH INSTEAD?? IS TAAKO SUPPOSED TO BE FRENCH? #IM LOSING MY MIND #btw if you forgot the original line was ''bad news compadres this place is magic as hell'' #so exact same line except with french instead of spanish. i fucking guess #taz b lb #.txt #taz gn #taz gn lb

[sysig]

Really digging out the old OCs now; Pan-na, Pilok, Azalea, squirrel boys Will and Damien, and Cupid and Venus <3 (Patreon)

#Doodles #Original #The Original Onslaught has begun >:) *stock maniacal laughter* #Lots of old faces! Lots of unfamiliar faces haha #You might actually recognize the last two individual boys as Blind Willie and Big Boy - those two I've Actually posted over here lol #The rest not so! Goshdang! I actually don't think I post Azalea much of anywhere lol like Maybe once on DA? Possibly? Heck #Same with Pan-na now that I think of it actually she's a Tomodachi Life-specific character haha #I had a few that despite not being fandom-tied I just can't get rid of to make room <3 They're residents! I'd miss them! #I really spoiled Pan-na - lots of cute clothes and a pretty room - so she gets special treatment in doodles too haha #Pilok was made while I was really into making original species on DA - anyone else here fill out the long development sheet? Fun stuff haha #I wish I'd finished a few more memes that got popular on DA back then ♪ Like the OC Remix! Very fun I made a rough of one years ago #Looking at Pilok now she kinda reminds me of the aliens from the DBZ special where Bardock gets sent to the past lol #Azalea was another random design that got a few doodles 'cause I thought she was edgy and cool haha #A more animalistic take on a stomachmouth - I don't think she can talk even she's just shaped like a humanoid maybe to blend in? Dunno #Oh looking back at my notes she was only supposed to have three fingers lol oh well #I don't think I ever drew her with her stomach open either but I'm pretty? sure I always imagined it being teeth-lined haha #Chomp #Squirrel boys! If you remember a few years ago I tried to draw Will again and was like ''>:?your face'' lol - I think I got it better now! #Still not 100% but better! He has very Shaped features haha #Big Boy turned out silly haha very one-large-anime-eyed - he deserves it lol #His hair falling over itself looked cool in my early doodles :0 Careful lines! Not so careful now lol #And Buzz is just missing haha #And finally Cupid and Venus <3 <3 I don't remember now but those two and their third girlfriend Spider might've been my first polycule? :0 #These two were a couple before inviting her in tho haha - there's a whole big backstory of how they met and all that #Venus was one of the main characters in Other Side of the Gun and then split off into her own side story with Cupid- It's a whole Thing #They're very sweet tho <3 I love them ♥ #Kinda seasonal for Cupid haha I didn't plan that! Her favourite holiday is Valentine's Day of course

[sisterdivinium]

Category: F/F Fandom: Warrior Nun (TV) Relationship: Jillian Salvius/Mother Superion

"It was just as impossible as wishing for a sudden refreshing shower in the outskirts of sunny, suffering Madrid during a false angel’s draught, wasn’t it? If perhaps only a bit more indecent." In unrelenting weather, it's hard not to hope for the impossible...

#warrior nun #doctor superion #jillian salvius #mother superion #warrior nun fanfiction #narratives and similar #is this perfect? no. did i send it in time for the community challenge? yes lol #but there are a few bits i rather like in it! #i suppose -- and one day i'll have to write this out -- that a lot of this ship is in between the lines for me #i have this One long idea that would be a bit of a slow burn but apart from that it's all structured on its own to me #so i can just pop in select a scene and be like that gif that says now kiss lol #anyway. considerations for some other day. for now have this ficlet #once more initially posted to the fan_flashworks dreamwidth community. i do enjoy a challenge myself #idk why the word count isn't showing up on ao3 yet LOL but it's 2576 if that's important to you

[rosepompadour]

LITERARY LOVE: J.D. SALINGER & OONA O'NEILL

Bright, pretty and spoiled, and cute as hell. I’m crazy about her. - J.D. SALINGER, 1941 He was out of his mind with adoration for this woman. - HARVEY JASON She was the love of his life, the one woman whom he loved more than any other. He never recovered. - PAUL ALEXANDER It was a tremendous love story. They truly loved each other. - LEILA HADLEY LUCE Oona was the movie always in his mind. - DAVID SHIELDS Your U.S. Army hero kisses you on the cheek, on your right eye, on your left ear and then feverishly travels down to your neck. Little Oona, you save my life several times a day and YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT IT. - MANHATTAN'S BABE I would marry Oona tomorrow if she would have me. - J.D. SALINGER

#historicwomendaily #oona o'neill #j.d. salinger #literature #i don't know what the fuck baba o'riley is actually about but in my mind it's always been about catcher in the rye #especially this line but also the general *~teenage wasteland~* of it all #i really hate how salinger scholars love to rip oona apart like jerry was just la la la traipsing across the western front #this guy literally stormed the beaches at normandy with the manuscript for catcher in the rye in his back pocket #he fought in the battle of the bulge and LIBERATED DACHAU #and I’m supposed to believe oona was just some frivolous marshmallow he was hung up on for the rest of his life? #a man who’s seen the face of hell itself wouldn’t spend 70 years pining over a barbie doll #i know she had her faults but she must have been a phenomenal girl if she brought someone as brilliant as salinger to his knees #‘there are still a few man who can love desperately.’