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Buford: Three of the four elements are represented as types of hockey. Air hockey, ice hockey, and field hockey. Fire hockey needs to be a thing.
Isabella: Fire hockey absolutely does NOT need to be a thing.
Phineas and Ferb, already building: Do you care NOTHING for the balance of the four elements!?
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ursaribbon · 9 months
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Dwampyverse themed doodle dump :)
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Mexican-Jewish Cultural Festival vs. Summer All Over the World
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livelovelyatt · 1 year
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I know there are very very few left in the Timeless fandom (understandably so, of course) but I wanted to pass along the GoFundMe for Annie’s son and husband as they grieve the loss of their mother/wife. Please consider donating if you’re able :)
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tortoisesshells · 11 months
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Flynn & Lucy 23. while we slept
first off: I really meant this to be a happier thing! But I got in my head about it, and. Well.
to be a living thing (Timeless, T, Lucy & Flynn mid-season 2/post "The King of the Delta Blues", ~850 words, warnings for Lucy wondering about the Grandfather Paradox of time travel verging into nearly suicidal ideation.)
In which Lucy looks to Flynn for companionship, even as she weighs up whether she'll be able to walk away from their war on Rittenhouse alive - or even having existed, to begin with.
or,
She hasn’t been sleeping well, Lucy Preston thinks, staring at the cold featureless concrete ceiling of the Bunker – she hasn’t been sleeping well for some time. She keeps a notebook of this, and things like these: a diary of useless little wakefulnesses, the things she thinks about where it is just her and the spidering crack above. Amy. Her mother. Dad, so far back in the past he seems less real to her than – than Abraham Lincoln – whose grey matter she still shudderingly thinks she can feel on her, months or years later. How she has cut innumerable alleys through time, and ducked through them, and yet the past she had is still stubbornly out of reach, and though her hand (of its own accord, it seems) goes again and again to her locket, it does not seem any longer to be a living thing.
Read the Rest on AO3!
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misscrazyfangirl321 · 7 months
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9 People You Would Like to Know Better
I've been tagged by... A lot of people. @authortobenamedlater @fairytale-lights aaaaand it seems like somebody else, but those are the only ones I'm finding in my drafts. ANYWAY, thank you! <3
1. Three ships: Jisbon (Patrick Jane/Teresa Lisbon, The Mentalist); my first ship that really introduced me to the concept of shipping/fanfic/fandom in general. Garcy (Garcia Flynn/Lucy Preston, Timeless); to this day my best experience with fandom as a community. It's hard to explain, but something about the bonding that took place while everyone was fighting to save the show together will make that ship forever hold a space in my heart, I think. And Emotional Compass (Will Zimmerman/Helen Magnus, Sanctuary); Chosen for being the latest ship living rent-free in my head, though I'm due for a new one any time soon.
2. First ever ship: So Jisbon was the ship that introduced me to fandom, BUT my first ship before I knew what shipping was? Either Superman/Wonder Woman, or, going back further, a spider and a worm from a couple of kid books I read. I don't remember the titles or anything now, but they were buddies, and I shipped them hardcore.
3: Last Song: Champagne Problems (Clean Version) by Taylor Swift
4. Last Film: The 1950s Cinderella
5. Currently Reading: Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card, and Once Upon A Christmas Heart by Melody Carlson. Vastly different books, I'll say.
6. Currently Watching: Not much. I've nudged a few different shows, but nothing is really sticking.
7. Currently consuming: Nothing. I have a bottle of water I should probably be drinking from, though.
8. Currently Craving: Rest. I had a busy and stressful dream last night (late to work+can't find boss's phone number to call and explain+texts to coworkers aren't going through+tried to drive there but drove to the wrong side of town+oh no I tried to get back in my car to drive to the right side of town and it Wasn't There Anymore+you get the idea), and am hoping I rest better tonight.
Tagging @accidental-spice @kanerallels @amandamonroe @the-kirbe-anon @taleweaver-ramblings @zeegeetee @exhaustedhope @songsintheattic and @dangerously-human but only if you want to play! And anyone else that wants to join in, feel free! Yes, that means you; I'd love to get to know you better! <3
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patientlibrarian · 5 months
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IT'S LOVE GARCIA FLYNN DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New to "Timeless" this year (you wouldn't believe the series we've either not had or have almost been 'hidden' from us in the UK over the years) and also social media, this isn't going to be the most professional post for this special day, but I had to join in. I'm still getting it together with blogging.
And we're off.........
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Where to start?! Oh yes!! If you can take your eyes off the biceps for a while (difficult I know) I love the way he looks so intently at the journal.
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Oh those long fingers!
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Don't worry, I won't struggle! Already reminding us of the height difference between Flynn and Lucy.
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Mean, moody, magnificent!
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"Okay, we just love to see the profile."
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"Oh, you're here at last! I'm ready! Just let me say 'goodbye'. "Bye!" Now close the door quick!
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"Don't I look adorable?"
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I REALLY wouldn't be struggling"!!! Terrific scene displaying the choices Flynn feels he has to make and how he struggles with that.
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"Sorry! Should have warned you this one was coming!" One of the most addictive scenes.
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"Had to include the tongue!"
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"Just showing off my profile again!"
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"Is this the sexiest, the absolute sexiest look of all?"
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"I DO have a 'thing' about him in suspenders/braces!"
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"It's the 'tongue' again!"
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"I quite understand! Although I'm quite ready to sit and talk if you want!"
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"And here's the tongue again!" Oh he looks like he is really having it bad in prison, as we know he does.
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He really does have to bend down doesn't he?"
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"Oh!! That protective arm. Gets me every time!" Another 'look' and indication of how he feels about her.
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Ohhhh! That look! A scene that has SO much in it.
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"Ohh! So nearly holding her!"
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+++"One of my utmost favourite clips. I STILL say that they could be holding or touching hands!" Trust you-know-who to ruin it!
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"Oh thank you!"
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"Oh those looks again!" Another of my favourite scenes and the way they look at each other not knowing what their future holds.
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"Ready and waiting."
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"This is almost too much to bear at times. Oh the emotion, the obvious way he cares about her.
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"And we're back at the 'looks' again!" One of only a few 'watchable' scenes in this episode.
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Yes, I am one of the people who believes Flynn moves in for the kiss, because of the way she looks at him. The only reason to watch this episode is for how fabulous he looks with the beard.
I can't get over what an incredibly complex character Flynn is and how his life changes after he meets Lucy. I decided I had to get involved with the series fans after surviving (just) the last episode(s) earlier this year. After "...all my love, Flynn.." I was a broken woman. I couldn't believe that the team were standing there toasting him, when the means to save him was just yards away!
I'm so grateful that so many fans have kept this series alive and what wonderful stories are to be found on AO3. Thank you.
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kncrowder88 · 4 days
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Alright, Garcy fans, I've been considering that AU engaged idea of mine some more and I honestly think it would work so well. There is a lot of ideas I recall from back when I was so obsessed with the show I was helping with the saving of it and planning the saving of it and all that ... anyways I remember Garcy fans loving the idea of Flynn sneaking into Lucy's lectures before he stole the mothership.
It is rather true that we don't get a lot of things concluded within the series but thats okay this is why fanfic exist. So, lets say we go with this idea of upon the return from the Hindenburg with Lucy getting back home and learning all this new shocking things about her changed life ... we also get Flynn getting a phone call, from Noah (lets no take the Carol route, she wouldn't put herself that close that early - and its clear in the show that Rittenhouse has a means of monitoring the changes).
Noah is very likely a Rittenhouse member as well - it would make sense that Carol Preston wants her kid engaged to and having a future with another Rittenhouse member, keep that 'royal' line going. We never even got Noah's last name for all we know he was actually a direct line descendant of the Rittenhouse family. Which honestly, would go in line with some of the stuff we saw later in the series. Anyways, back to the AU stuff .... basically the returns happened. Lucy walking through her door calling for Amy. Jump to Flynn back as well and walking through his bunker or wherever he's landed, a phone starts ringing. Back to Lucy, calling for Amy, heading through her house. Back to Flynn, diary in his hand. Maybe Anthony behind him in the background going for the phone on the table - confused as he looks at it, maybe one of the other goons doing this. Then back to Lucy as she finally gets that turn point where its her mom and not Amy and she's stunned because her mum is well. Then back to Flynn and someone telling him the phone is for him, he's turning because who calls him. He doesn't know anyone who would want to call him. Not here, not in the present. They only have a phone for needs of the mission and honestly he cant deny his goons a chance for untraceable calls to their families if they ever asked - he'd get asking. This sort of thing just keeps repeating and repeating bouncing between the two - I could see it on the screen. Playing and playing. Until its Carol Preston asking about Lucy's ring and Noah on the line with Flynn asking him out for beers, making a joke about bachelor days (but not making it clear whose bachelor days - Noahs or Flynns?) Then jump into the Lincoln episode and all that chaos. Flynn processing having a friend/person/someone close enough to want to get beers with him in his life. Lucy processing the loss of her sister and gain of a fiance. Rufus and Wyatt trying to figure out how to help Lucy process her sister being gone. Because how do you help someone just disappearing - not dying just never existing - and they dont even know she's engaged yet. And not to mention that she so easily just seemed to shove it aside when the history date was mentioned and jumped into the mission like it was so easy, and they dont get that.
Then of course, you have the encounters that would happen that mission. Lucy with Robert Lincoln, talking to him, and the way that Flynn would engage with her. The conversations. Her frustration. His boiling under the surface of "WHY DIDNT SHE WRITE ABOUT NOAH?!" And just all of that. Only for the mission to be over and them to get back and Noah is bringing him to a house, a nice house, and Lucy is returning home - her mother frustrated she is late to her own party and how dare she ask about her father on this day - and Lucy is turning from that because she cant and there in the doorway he stands. Noah's left him to go find her mum - update her of course its his job - and she's just there staring at Garcia Flynn in her house and all he could say is
"I guess its me who is getting engaged not Noah." and all she can say is
"You have got to be kidding me"
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isharaneith · 8 months
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My YouTube playlist with fan videos for Timeless. The lion's share is Wyatt/Lucy and Flynn/Lucy, but there are some single character as well (mostly Garcia) and as many Rufus/Jiya as I found (which is sadly not a lot :( ).
I'm going to repeat myself, over and over. But I think, the following, applies to all fandoms.
In my opinion, playlists are currently one of the best ways to find fan videos on YouTube. Especially for less popular or older fandoms or smaller creators. If you have one created for Timeless, I encourage you to reblog or comment under this post with a link. Let's spread the love for vids and vidders and help each other find hidden gems.
Also, please, if you like any of the videos, don't get discouraged by the fact that they're old. Like, save and make comments. I have yet to find a creator who isn't happy when people interact with their older creations. It can make someone's day. Who knows, maybe it will motivate them to dust off their skills and love for the fandom, if they have time.
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lo-diehards · 4 months
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Law & Order: SVU "Tunnel Blind" -- An Excellent Landmark Start
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"Tunnel Blind" (written by: David Graziano and Julie Martin / Directed by: Norberto Barba) I don't even know where to directly start with this so I'm just going to jump in and start with; thus far, this was the best episode written under David Graziano's direction since before Kelli Giddish's departing episode last season, if not the best in total. I hope over the hiatus during the writers' strike that Graziano and the writers room sat down and redirected their focus because the S25 premiere was a great first opener and the preview for next weeks episode looks like it's pretty high octane.
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They really captured everything that is SVU from start to finish, it had a feel like we took a brief step back into season 22, just without Rollins/Kelli, sadly. I'm going to start with the story but then work on the rest of the episode. So as Carisi and Rollins (Peter Scanavino and special guest star Kelli Giddish) celebrate the Baptisim of their newborn son, Nicky (could he be Dominick Carisi III?), the case this week in concerning a girl named Maddie, who was abducted from a store and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) sees the abducted girl at a traffic light. The case goes full steam during the investigation in hopes of trying to find Maddie Flynn before it's too late but then it's later discovered that she was abducted for another reason, where the perpetrator needs her to stay alive, at least for now. Olivia blames herself for not following her abductor in traffic, the squad continuously telling her it's not her fault, nor did she have probable cause to pull over the van in question.
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It's a nice twisty case that goes in many different directions as the SVU squad basically 'rounds up the usual suspects' until the squad hits a dead-end. Benson reaches out yet again to Professor Amanda Rollins for help with the case, as well as for some personal insight - something Benson has done with Rollins increasingly over the last decade. Rollins clearly still wishes she was working SVU cases, even so as making the slip in saying they would find "our perp," which Benson promptly calls her out in feigning shock for her saying. As Benson leaves to go pursue the new track you can see that Rollins is somber but also in thought as her next round of students come in.
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Fast forward as they think they're on track to find Maddie Flynn and their perp in New Jersey, they joined forces with a detective there from the Bergen County Prosecutors Office, Sloane Parrish (who is portrayed by, Amber Skye Noyes, who portrayed Roxie in "Townhouse Incident" back in season 17), after they find and rescue another victim, Tanya Garcia, who was left drowning in a bathtub in a seedy motel room OD'ing on fentanyl by their perp, George, from Canada. Chief McGrath (Terry Serpico) shows up at the squad, happy they found a different victim who had been missing for more than a year, and says NYPD needed to hold a press conference. Maddie's mother Eileen shows up at the press conference, distraught that her daughter hadn't been found while NYPD was holding a press conference, Benson assures her that she is still working Maddie's case, but it doesn't help as Eileen's husband has to pull her away.
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Olivia Benson's voiceover: "It's moments like these that remind me of the oath I took, to protect the innocent. This is not a solitary act… but more of a life long commitment. I'm honored to wear the badge, but my duty doesn't end when a case is closed. They all stay with you, whether innocence is saved or lost. My goal is for the world to be measured by how safe it is for the innocent. And after all these years, I've come to accept that maybe it's not possible. But I still have a duty to hope."
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So again this episode feels like SVU again, that went missing last season, I was on edge during the episode and I haven't been in that feeling in a long while. Everyone in the cast brought everything they had, but there is one thing that is missing and it's clearly Amanda Rollins/Kelli Giddish. It feels like the writers are trying to lead us to something with her, it feels like she'll be back again [permanently?] real-soon. Even the cast gathered during the opening credits just seemed to still lack something, that something is her. If we are getting a Rollins' return story, I'm very curious to see how it plays out with her and Carisi, like does he even know she's not fully happy teaching? And if he does know, is he going to acknowledge it? Is she to him? Questions I'm sure that will be answered as the course of the season goes on. But Kelli's permanent return would certainly right a terrible wrong that never should have happened.
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Meanwhile Benson's love life: I'm of the opinion of ICE T and Dr. Lindstrom (Bill Irwin), can Benson and Stabler either do something or move on? Seriously though. "Will they/won't they?" is tired and there have been some major flops [in my view], in attempts to make something happen ("the letter"/"The Christmas Episode"/Bronx trilogy/compass necklace). I'm not a Benson-Stabler/EO shipper personally, but if this is going to be a thing or is on the road to it, the road is STILL under a lot of construction, on both shows. Benson and Stabler have not had a serious conversation with themselves about where they stand, what they feel, and for Benson, what all she endured while he was gone. Absent that happening, if they pursue a relationship of any kind (physical or otherwise), without any of the aforementioned, that's basically ignoring over a decade worth of history that Organized Crime doesn't seem to even acknowledge when it comes to Benson. I felt cringe watching the opening scene where Benson is discussing her necklace with Carisi's cousin Steve (guest star Hamish Allan-Headley). This is my opinion but, before this can be something, there's a lot more that needs to happen.
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chaptersbycaz · 5 months
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𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗰: 𝗮𝘃𝗶 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮
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sorry i haven't updated in a bit, school just started for me and i already hate it. anyway, here's transmasc king, avi!!!
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there are three words to describe avi garcia: loud, sociable and charismatic. now a high achiever with a big social circle, he's come a long way from the shy, awkward, nobody from colombia in middle school. he's just learn to move on as gracefully and as effortlessly to the next big thing in life.
this time however, he's probably underestimated how big this next thing was going to be. the battle of the bands has him all turned around, from the added pressure to be the best and the threat of an old enemy returning looming over his head making him feel like maybe he's bitten off more than he can chew.
but it's all okay, right? as long as he has his friends with him.
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𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ° 𖦹。⋆☽
full name: avi ramón garcia navarro
pronouns: he/they
age: 17 (high school junior)
birthday: august 10
gender: transgender male
sexuality: homosexual
ethnicity: latino (colombian)
extracurriculars: film club, vocalist and guitarist for hunter and the hounds
love interest: conan flynn
mbti: esfj
likes: reading, animals, science, vacations, painting his nails
dislikes: extreme cold, hallmark movies, hospitals, liars
height: 5'3 (160 cm)
hair: brown with blonde highlights, wavy and in a shaggy mullet
skin: almond with a warm undertone
eyes: dark brown
noticeable features: loves wearing baggy jorts
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𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 ° 𖦹。⋆☽
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in order: the smiths ⋆ weezer ⋆ ajj ⋆ mother mother ⋆ will wood ⋆ tally hall ⋆ tv girl ⋆ bo burnham ⋆ basement ⋆ selena ⋆ alex g ⋆ wham! ⋆ green day ⋆ jack stauber ⋆ cavetown ⋆ spirit phone
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𝗳𝘂𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀! ° 𖦹。⋆☽
he looks better in real life than in photos because he can't smile for a camera to save his life, however he looks good even in candid shots
he takes pride in his hair and always brushes it before bed every night
he has seasonal allergies
he is a heavy sleeper and can sleep anywhere, but it takes him a while to do so
he has a parrot named shakira shakira!!
he internalizes everything and hates talking about his problems, especially about his home life and his past
thank you so much for reading and again, sorry it's been a while!!!! up next is regina's sister, rachel!!
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mathgirl24 · 10 months
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Spoiler for The Hunger Games : Mockingjay.
When you first read or watch Mockingjay, did you know or predict that Primrose was gonna die?
Who do you think were responsible for her death? Why?
If Katniss couldn’t protect Primrose until the end, was it all useless?
Disclaimer : these questions are for textual analysis, it's not meant to incite fandom war, please DNI if you don't like this topic.
Thank you.
@curiousnonny
Hi again nonny! You always have such insightful questions.
Well, my answer is pretty lame. After I read the first book, I didn't read the next 2 until I had spoiled myself silly. I fell in love with Peeta in the first book, and I was certain he was going to die eventually (I have an unfortunate penchant for loving characters who get killed off... see Elizabeth Weir, Garcia Flynn, etc.).
So I knew what was going to happen before I read it. I thought it was very brave, how Suzanne Collins framed the whole thing with the questionable ethics and all. I think many were responsible for Prim's death. Mainly Coin (and Plutarch, if he was truly involved). But Beetee and Gale are slightly responsible too.
And while I was terribly sad reading about Prim's death, it didn't make me angry like those other character deaths did because Prim's death made sense in the narrative (like Finnick's also did). It made sense that even from the first moments, Katniss would never be truly able to save Prim, no matter what. It was a fight she was destined to lose. It wasn't all useless, but Prim was destined to die. But by having Katniss volunteer, and then work with the rebellion, she could make a better life for her children as well as the rest of Panem, even if she couldn't save Prim.
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qqueenofhades · 2 years
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Sorry to see that you've got the Rona. If you're up to writing a soft, sweet n' smutty Garcy fic maybe it'd help you feel better (and feed what feels like a dying fanfic fandom)? Thanks! I hope you feel better soon.
They have left the window open at the back of the chalet, and the wind that sweeps inside, the first vanguard of the oncoming thunderstorm, is cool and wet and rattles the dishes on the table, the bottle of wine and the leavings of the baguette and whatever brand of Camembert Flynn expertly selected from the cheese canyon at the supermarket. (Lucy has traveled to a lot of places by now, albeit largely not in the twenty-first century, but that was the first time she had seen so much cheese in one place -- welcome to Switzerland.) When the wind is followed in a few moments by the violent rattle of rain on the roof, soaking everything that it can remotely reach, Lucy sighs deeply, reaches out with her foot, and prods Flynn's leg. "Garcia," she says indistinctly. "Close the window. It'll get our books wet."
"Nnngh." Flynn is still sprawled flat on his back, looking mildly stunned, and it might be a stretch to expect coherency any time soon. (Then again, with Flynn, it is a struggle to get him to use his words at the best of times.) "Jus' a second."
Lucy supposes that she could get up and do it herself, since she was the one who kindly blew his brains out with that last orgasm, but she's also feeling boneless and breathless and utterly disinclined to emerge from the twisted nest of sheets, and it might just have to wait. It feels decadent enough as it is: lounging around in a remote Swiss chalet with her handsome European lover, having just finished a luxurious late lunch and an even more luxurious round of midafternoon sex. (Well, several rounds if you're being picky, but never mind that.) The trip was Flynn's idea; he knows how to pull her out of her own head when she's working too hard, and Lucy hasn't had the chance to enjoy traveling for its own sake, in the here and now, that's not for the express purpose of saving the world. This place is high in the Swiss Alps, an hour from the nearest village, and you can take a cable car down from there to a ski resort with shops and services. But up here on the mountain, there's nobody except them for miles and miles, and it is absolutely a place to give into your inner Maria Von Trapp and run skippingly up the hills while singing about the sound of music. Not that Lucy is running (or indeed, singing) anywhere. After all, she is from California, and hence the adjustment to thin mountain air makes her wheeze horrendously. (Flynn, obnoxiously, is as Flynn-like as ever.)
Lucy rolls over onto her side, her thick dark hair coming down on her shoulders, which are marked with the insistent brands of Flynn's hot and hungry mouth, and tries to summon up the volition to actually exit the bed. The sheets are cloud-soft, white as the summer snow that still gilds the summits of the knifelike peaks that surround them to every side, and that's not even to mention the weight and gravity of Flynn behind her, as he reaches out one long arm, loops it around her waist, and pulls her back in. "Forget about the books, Lucy," he orders. "We can always get more of them."
Lucy utters a small noise of complaint; those are very special books, picked up from a historic secondhand shop on a fairytale cobbled street in Zurich, and she doesn't trust that you can just hop on Amazon and order a replacement. Finally, seeing that she's not going to let it go, Flynn sighs deeply, rolls backwards, and vaults to his feet -- all magnificently nude six-foot-four Croatian giant of him, as Lucy eyes his backside with deep appreciation. Flynn strides across the floor to the table under the window, sweeps the books out of danger, and sets them on the sideboard. But as he's about to crank the window shut, Lucy says, "Leave it open. I like listening to the rain."
Flynn quirks a darkly sassy eyebrow at her, as if to ask what else Her Majesty would like him to attend to while he's up, but as ever, he complies. Then he turns around and comes back to bed, and Lucy reaches out both arms to pull him halfway on top of her. She buries her nose in the crook of his neck, breathing in the scent of male sweat and sex and deep satisfaction, and Flynn lets out a small growl of happiness. Lucy strokes the muscled column of his back and tips her head back on the pillows. Like rain on the mountain, she thinks, like wind on the meadow. And there is no sadness in it, no poignancy, no parting. Just the beginning of something, not an end. Not an elegy, or a lament. Only this, and them, and love, and eternity.
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potterandpromises · 2 years
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Coney Island Forgiveness
Set at some point after season 2, in which Flynn and Jess discuss their common ground.
Content warnings: Talking about murder. Also, premature babies (not in detail, just as backstory.)
Also on AO3
Jessica holds her sleeping baby tight to her chest and gives Garcia Flynn a sidelong look.
He eyes her up and down in return, until apparently satisfied she doesn’t have a knife or an old-timey pistol concealed in Harper’s blanket.
All things considered, the middle ground is better then she could have hoped for. When she went into labor, when she accepted both it and her situation were real, she thought either she’d give birth to a premature baby in the 18th century, or she’d go with Wyatt and the others to the 21st, which wouldn’t have guaranteed a hospital, and would have likely meant prison time. 
She might have never seen her daughter again, and bizarre as Coney Island‘s baby incubator attraction of the 1920s is, it saved Harper’s life and preserved her freedom. She’ll send Lucy a fruit basket, she decides, someday years from now.
Wyatt’s more reliable then he’s ever been. He visited every day, from her prospective. From his, it was closer to once or twice a week, because time travel.
Jiya came as well, to pilot, and to assess her then levels of evilness. What she looked for, Jess has no idea. She hopes she passed her judgement. If not, or if after they meet today, within the hour, Denise decides her knowledge of the new Rittenhouse isn’t good enough or she isn’t sincerely reformed enough or whatever, then her and Harper are staying here in the past. That’s the deal.
She doesn’t trust them, not really, but what choice does she have? If the recollection of their little girl cradled in Wyatt’s arms doesn’t stop her from slipping into the crowd then Rittenhouse’s boogeyman at her side does.
He gives her an irritated look. Her stare must be like ants on his skin.
He always came too, as far as she knows, and stayed outside with Lucy, only coming into the exhibit when she did, which wasn’t often. They seem to be a package deal these days, which Jess finds relief in as she tentatively salvages her marriage.
She’s going to raise her daughter.
Flynn doesn’t get to raise his.
“I looked into you.” He looks into her, sharp as the knife she wishes she had. “Let me start over.”
“That is the idea.” His growl does not deter her. This might be her only chance.
“Has Wyatt ever mentioned his father?”
“What does that— do we seem close to you?”
She shifts Harper in her arms. "Well, has he?”
He looks at her for a long moment. His gaze drifts to the baby and snaps away. “No.”
Jess adjusts her daughter’s bonnet, shielding her skin from the sun. “I killed him.”
He blinks, rises his eyebrows. “Because of Rittenhouse?”
“Because I had a good reason.”
Bewildered, he looks like he’d rather be anywhere other then here, with anyone else. The feeling is almost mutual, but this is important.
“Look, this story has a point,” she says. “I was 15. We have something in common.”
He gives her a sharp look, as if his service record isn’t public information, as if she couldn’t put two and together. Rip the band-aid off, get it over with, push down the guilt for Harper. “You had a daughter and from the articles about the case you were a good dad. How were you going— or did you plan to tell her about when you were a teenager?”
His jaw’s clenched like a fist and his eyes shine with rage but Jess knows the baby in her arms makes her safe. She’s never been sure of that until now.
“You have a lot of nerve asking that.” He’s barely audible above the crowd noise, despite their uncomfortable proximity. It’s meant to be a warning, she thinks, a breathy threat, but it’s nearer to panic.
“I know.”
“So fuck off.”
“But it’s not for me.” 
Harper stirs and yawns, grunts and falls back asleep. She still sleeps like a rock. The parenting book Jess read half of warned the phase wouldn’t last forever. Flynn watches her, too.
“I’m sorry,” she says, “not for asking, but for what Rittenhouse did to you and your family. I didn’t even know about it until a few mouths ago, but for whatever it’s worth, I am sorry.”
“Save it.” He shifts from foot to foot, agonized.
She learned what Rittenhouse did to that five year old child and she couldn’t justify them anymore. She tried, she really did, but with that revelation the threat to her own child become too great and she couldn’t stay.
Harper wakes up again and fusses. Her diaper is dry and it must be less then an hour since she was last fed.
“I wouldn’t,” he says finally.
Jessica bounces her. “What?”
“I wouldn’t go back because I... wouldn’t be good for her, for them.” He won’t look at her and Harper for very long, and rotates surveillance of them with  surveillance of the crowd. “But before all this,” he looks at her now, “my mistakes weren’t a part of me like they are now. I could forgive myself.”
“Are you saying I should forgive myself?”
“I’m saying I don’t have a problem with you, not really. I’m saying you were a part of something evil, almost born into it.” That’s the part Jessica can’t yet fully accept, despite her clearer eyes and the overwhelming evidence, that Rittenhouse isn’t just dangerous or misguided or flawed, it’s evil, and she never had a chance to see it until Harper. Or maybe she did, and what does that say about her? “You want my expert advice? You’ll be fine; you aren’t ashamed. They raised you, you saw them as your family. She’ll understand that, eventually.”
He looks at her, at Harper settled into her shoulder, for one moment, with an openness she never would have imagined him capable of, that she’ll no doubt never experience again.
She wants to say: are you ashamed? Instead: “You don’t have a problem with me?”
He grins wryly, with all his teeth. “Not yet.”
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Flynn & Lucy + 10. Breathe Again
(it is a truth universally acknowledged that I will always be a little frothed at the mouth over Flynn/Lucy as antagonists to whatever the hell is going on by "The King of the Delta Blues".)
Lucy wondered, after the ringing in her ears subsided and her breath came easily again, if it was only that she wasn’t on speaking terms with many soldiers-of-fortune-turned-renegades that made Flynn’s fluency in the language of violence seem so exceptional, an easy knife up and under her ribs. All the luridness of H. H. Holmes’s murders distilled down to his purposes – if her conscience could not be leveraged, then her friends’ lives could: what wouldn’t you do, Lucy, to save your own friends – your family?
And, unbidden: someday she would, apparently of her own volition, hand Garcia Flynn a neat little atlas to history, with a promise that that he would not always be alone in this – this war of his. If she bent a little – allowed herself to help Flynn assassinate three men (three men she didn’t even like) and rewrite the twentieth century – would that be all of what she had meant, in the future?  Flynn watched her consider all this neutrally – as though he already knew the answer.
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