galaeus

[galaeus]

going to write a bunch of my owed drafts tmrw but if you want a lil bebe starter from moi please like this post or reply w/your multimuse blorbo!!!

#ok ill keep accepting these #i have the current drafted to write/send #but hi hello let me come love u after my big ol hiatus!

[galaeus]

closed starter for @fasciinating this isn't my fault.

To serve, to marry, to harness the power that comes with standing beside a Duke at the helm of an empire is a reward most Bene Gesserit prospects strive toward. In a never-ending game of chess, one could only hope their strategically-chosen pawn is treasured, sought after, so that their offspring may eventually see to greatness in their great plan.

Yet as one that survived her own sisters by the skin of her teeth, Echo can only wonder if this Duke will be disappointed. Derived under the pretense of an arranged marriage -- a soon-to-be Duke and his blushing, accomplished bride -- the Bene Gesserit are able to infiltrate yet another royal bloodline in the Great Houses.

And infiltrate she does -- except they don't particularly act like newlyweds eager to start anew.

Small, but mighty: should Echo fail her mission, then it won't be as much of a devastating loss as the others, but a loss nonetheless.

She pads barefoot out to the gardens overlooking their bedroom, her arms crossed. Her eyes settle on the crown of his jet-black hair as he rests on his calves, half her height.

"Do you spend most of your days studying plants, dear husband?" Even the term of endearment sounds manufactured.

#au. the duke and the gesserit #look i gave us an au DKJFKDF #fasciinating #closed starter #v; dune

[galaeus]

'you owe me a pizza.' - Halofcrged (context? 🤷🏼‍♀️ who knows)

Unbelievable; after recovering from getting her ass royally kicked 'til kingdom come by the UNSC's elite, Echo doesn't anticipate reuniting with the myth of a man at the mouth of the locker room. Tugging her dog tags out from her fresh tank top, the marine squints at Master Chief with amused apprehension.

"Out of all the food you could ask for on Reach, you settle on pizza? Chief."

As if they're friends. They're not even in the same stratosphere.

Her wrapped hand slams the slim locker door shut, the heel of her boot turning in his direction. A part of her wants to ask if this is a joke. Another suggests that, given his current (albeit rumored) track record of not only being out of commission but shelved for duty, he doesn't have the capacity to crack them.

"There's no way in hell I'm spending my night off eating pizza when there's an entire strip of street food," she sighs before stepping toward and around his hulking frame. "If I owe anyone anything, then it's gonna at least be something worth tomorrow's bruises. Let's go."

-

@halofcrged

#d #halofcrged #v; halo #finger guns i hope this was ok for their first interaction!

[galaeus]

SHE DOESNT EVEN COME UP TO HIS SHOULDER FHSMSKSJDJD

@galaeus

#ooc #halofcrged #every thread will just be them sitting #or her standing on a table DHSKSKKS

[galaeus]

creating a gofundme for all of these tall people this tiny menace has to deal with on the daily because she will soon be in need of a neck brace or a backpack-enabled step stool talking to all of you

#ooc #shitpost #the way penny and i were discussing echo and johns height diff last night #and i'm yet again reminded #that 90% of the people i write her against #are so much taller SKJDFKSDFJ

[galaeus]

Hands by DannyLaiLai

#;insp #;child of ice #v; dune #v; to the stars #v; starfleet #v; mass effect

[galaeus]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER SENTENCE STARTERS

❛ I'm sorry for your loss, your...your losses, rather. ❜

❛ Nobody gets away with anything. Not really. ❜

❛ Don't lecture me about family values. You're just as shit in that department as I am. ❜

❛ That day was the last day we were all in the same place. Alive. ❜

❛ They will love you because I love you, and the only thing stronger than love is how scared they are of getting cut out of the will. ❜

❛ And most people go their whole, wasted, stupid lives without one minute of true resolution. Not me though. ❜

❛ You know what a resolution is? It's a deal you make with the future. ❜

❛ The people in charge of making us healthy make us sick. We cheat the dying. We fleece the poor. Promote the racist. Let the demons run amok. This world needs changing. ❜

❛ You're supposed to be shadowing me. Shadows don't fucking talk. ❜

❛ This is beneath you. And you're going to kill it. But you're better than all of this. And the minute you figure that out, you're going to be unstoppable. ❜

❛ There's no such thing as a step back. You go forward. If you hit a brick wall, you don't go back, you go through. ❜

❛ Nearly realized is the sweetest. It's better, I promise, in the moment just before than in the moment after. ❜

❛ You are consequence. And tonight, you are consequential. ❜

❛ You are a pretty, pretty little thing. ❜

❛ You wonder why people hate us. This is why. ❜

❛ Everybody knows that edible arrangements are what you send to people you hate. ❜

❛ If you start thinking this is reality, you'll just slip into the abyss. ❜

❛ We can talk about it after because I've had a shit day and I really just wanna starfish and forget the world. ❜

❛ Don't talk to me until I've come at least twice. ❜

❛ I love how deliciously, pointlessly mean you lot can be. ❜

❛ You still didn't need to come here though. It could have happened quiet. Peaceful. In bed. But I guess it's got to happen like this. ❜

❛ It's amazing how far you can get on denial. You know why so many people use denial to get by? Because it really fucking works. ❜

❛ You can't enhance this image? You see it all the time on TV. They hit a button, it enhances it. ❜

❛ I don't even own anything funeral black. ❜

❛ Satin is silk for poor people, no one should wear it to a funeral, unless they died in it. ❜

❛ Nobody knows they're the fall guy until they're falling.❜

❛ Women are the natural leaders of the species. Ancient Egypt had it right. ❜

❛ Okay, just because the door's open doesn't necessarily guarantee you a seat at the table. ❜

❛ You're not who I thought you were. ❜

❛ I really didn't want to think it, but...you're all fucking monsters. ❜

❛ Watching you shit on your principles would have been worth every fucking penny. ❜

❛ The mind of guilt is full of scorpions. And I wouldn't wish their sting on anyone. ❜

❛ Don't have to be smart to be dangerous. I'm not scared of rattlesnakes 'cause they're so smart. ❜

❛ You're so out of touch with your human side...you can't even listen to anything outside your own head. ❜

❛ I haven't seen you sleep in like...I mean, it's been a fucking long time. Like, horror movie long. ❜

❛ Life is insane. It is madness. The sooner you understand that, the better off you'll be. ❜

❛ The world might not be safe but listen to me, and listen carefully. I won't let anything happen to you. ❜

❛ All these terrible things and I thought, that's when people come together. But we've never been further apart. ❜

❛ Tell me it's worth it. Tell me you know the risk and I'll be there with you. I'll back you up. Just tell me. ❜

❛ Shut your mouth, get your shit together. The fuck is wrong with you? ❜

❛ Men, when they think they're immortal, all they want to do is fuck. When they figure out they're going to die, all they want to do is fuck. ❜

❛ It just makes you think, you know, life is so fucking short. ❜

❛ You don't have to be a tyrant, but if you don't want to be consistently cruel, then you have to be sufficiently brutal at least once to establish authority. ❜

❛ I thought it was an act. I figured you just played the housewife so you could keep a roof over your head. Spread your legs or suck his dick twice a week and you're set. You never have to work a day in your life. And I thought, "Good for her, she found her angle," but...this is really you. Isn't it? ❜

❛ Words got us into this, words can get us out. ❜

❛ You're a collection of impeccable, elaborate masks in orbit of a stunted heart. ❜

❛ There are certain things one shouldn't have to face in life. Time enough for self-reflection after. ❜

❛ I don't normally like to get my hands this dirty, but honey, you earned it. ❜

❛ I see you now. I look at you and I see... You. The poverty of you. ❜

❛ The real world is Darwinian. Survival, chaos, power. Leverage. ❜

❛ You feel it. In the air. We're sitting outside of time and space. ❜

❛ This is the moment luck meets opportunity. ❜

❛ In the ancient world, we'd seal this with blood, or spit. And then later, papyrus. But, a deal's a deal all over the world. ❜

❛ We're a... virus, I think. People, I mean. ❜

❛ But everyone loves something. And in that love there's collateral. ❜

❛ I say this with love. Let it go. Let it all go. ❜

❛ So I say, we stand tall and proud. Bill's come due. Let's not hide here in the basement like we've got something to be ashamed of. No. Not us. You and me against the world. ❜

❛ It may not have been perfect, but you can't say we didn't change the world. How many people can say that at the end? ❜

❛ I knew I would climb to the top of the tower on a pile of corpses. ❜

❛ It don't matter in the end why you did any of it. I don't fucking care why you did it. We don't want your confession, or your rationale, or your explanation. ❜

#thisssss show #memes

[galaeus]

you will lose so much before this is over. will it have been worth it?

spock &&& echo /// 003

#i lied i deleted that one #bc this one felt apt to our thread rn! #pain!!! LSKDJFKLSDF #fasciinating #otp: winter fire #mine #manips

[galaeus]

On this vast planet, they are prey. From the murderous intent of the Harkonnen, the betrayed balance the Fremen, the unwelcoming environment of sand and its inhabitants under the surface -- they'll be lucky if they last a week out there. She knows this. She knows she does not need to tell him this.

"I'd like to see them try," she growls, allowing a flash of rage to pass over her face before covering her face with the remaining fabric of the stillsuit. She squeezes through the barrier, holding tight to her weaponry as they run--

To nothing.

She'll ask for forgiveness for abandoning a warrior's death.

For hours, it's like this: trudging into an abyss, the chaos soon silent over the giant hills. She slides down a slope, stopping a fall with her boot before she points ahead.

"How far do you calculate that..." She doesn't have a word for it. The woman looks to it, squinting. "...rocks. A mountain of rocks?"

LIKE ECHO, HE WON’T LOOK BACK, NOT at the orange haze of smoke, not at spiraling red death clouding the skies behind them, not even just to glimpse her face again. Once they have breeched the gates, there will be no return, no sanctuary as they once knew under the banner of House Atreides.

Everything burns. And they must keep moving. He cannot say with any certainty as to where, or how; Duncan Idaho traveled for days before the Fremen came upon him.

He only knows that they must.

“ Unfortunately, they may not be the only things we will contend with. ” Slipping his fingers into the grate, Spock tugs with a foot bracing the edge of the wall, Vulcan strength inching open the barrier until it widens enough for the two of them. He will not tell her the statistical likelihood the Fremen will attempt to salvage them for water at first sight. But he will tell her this: " Quickly. The Harkonnens will be seeking survivors. Whatever the desert sees fit for us will be a far better fate than should we be caught. "

#v; dune #fasciinating #did a little jazzy time jump bc sand takes forever

[galaeus]

Exploding on the only person willing to help her warrants no victory. Her blunt nails dig deep into the flesh of her palm, puncturing crescent moon indents with the intent to hurt. Pain will distract. It will ebb away the impulsive need to stare at a damn hangar for days on end.

Her voice forces itself to stay neutral while her eyes focus on the liquor in his glass.

"If it's the right colors, then it's probably about four on detail, a pilot, and then whoever is inside the ship for bargain."

Organic cargo. Over and over, the phrase plays in her mind. She flinches when she digs her nails too deep, waking her from mild dissociation.

"They don't get a single breath of relief." Her blue eyes find his. "We hit them, you relieve the hostages, and I'll handle the rest."

It was a more polite reaction than he'd anticipated, but that was a good thing. The last thing they needed was to make a scene here in the Afterlife; they were only tenuously accepted here to begin with.

At least Echo seemed to understand. Garrus' shoulders lowered as he held his glass close. "There's not much prep we can do until we have more information on just what is docking. All we know is that it's on its way, and it's most likely our targets."

"So... how do you want to play it? Hit them when they get in? Wait for them to scatter and relieve them of their cargo? Sabotage the ship?"

#v; mass effect #murder party on floor six! #aamusedly

[galaeus]

Perfectly still; her eyes do not leave Duncan's even with the sword under her chin.

Bested. Her nostrils flare with distaste for that.

He's their best liaison. That much she's learned.

Those pledged to Leto's colors take their roles very seriously.

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about."

@galaeus: “I can already see things will get worse before they get better.”

Thought he’d left the soothsayer at home in his royal PJs.

Would you look at that. Not just a traitor.

❛ An optimist. ❜

‘Cause who said they get better?

The sword’s still under her chin, no tremor. You’ll notice he’s taking his sweet time killin’ her.

❛ What else didn’t they hammer out of you out there? ❜

#v; dune #rejectory

[galaeus]

closed starter for @impercre !!

"I should hope you're not busy." Perhaps a tad unruly, she wastes not a moment more to sit beside Seneca on a bench. She ought to be studying. No book can be found.

"Because surely we have better things to do today, dearest Seneca."

#v; dune #closed starter #impercre #i was going to go angsty as hell but for some reason she went #tehee bug seneca #on brand ig for younger echo #but i can also do something devastating if you want more of that brand xo

[galaeus]

With a quickness she follows, eyes darting to the center and askew. Whatever the other girl does, Echo must follow. There's no time to make a mistake, not when enemies crawl these dunes.

She may flounder in sand, but the heart of someone who refuses to die can be a tricky thing. Adapt. Adapt. Adapt.

As soon as she stops crawling, both freeze. Wait. Other.

She doesn't hesitate.

With another shimmer in the sand to the left, she can hear the heavy footsteps of this other, ears attuned to violence, before she surges from the spray of orange and shoves her blade into the belly of the dome-headed enemy.

Again and again -- she drives them down into the sand, sliding down the slope with the hope to drag the body down with her.

they slide like things without arms and legs; and squat; and her mouth is scruffed with sand.

midday is a bad idea to raid during.

it wrings you stupid. it oversweats you and weighs down the tubes if you’re lucky to have any, but you won’t know the difference until it’s too late. outworlders have come and dried to raisins with nothing left to give, useless even in death.

acrawl, elbows and chest in a rock cleft tight as an embrace, chani doesn’t check how well the woman mimics. even the most hard-headed learn to bend when arrakis is cracking and pinking them. if not, that’s fine. shai-hulud is always hungry.

she stops at once. other, the awkward sound warns. otherotherother

her eyes cut up—

#rejectory #v; dune

[galaeus]

She's humble enough to admit that even someone as stubborn as her would have been desert food without the young heir.

Echo doesn't question whatever divine right or blind confidence leads his way, but she does question his methods.

"Hey."

She stomps through the sand and takes a thread's pace ahead of him, chin raised.

"Stay at my side or behind it but never before. Understood?"

❝Months,❞ burns, skins inside out, ❝if you don’t know the way.❞

Pulled in every direction by the taffy of his mind, Paul risks by so much as blinking in unfocus. Or answering her question.

It asks and it asks. Whatever it is, he doesn’t want it.

Arrakis must be a shock for Echo. Bone-deep cold to seasons to this. He sees it in how her body tires too soon.

Paul leads the way.

#rejectory #v; dune

[galaeus]

whenever i come back to this blog i can always count on @fasciinating to throw some hoematoes at me so i can look like this

#ooc #shitpost #fasciinating #my ride or die right there always down to f-- #--ind a great plot and not be thirsty at all #not at all #nope

[galaeus]

i beg you to love me, say that i'm enough, but you tell me— why are you like this? i think there's something wrong with you.

for @shestrying

thanks to @acelania for finding the unknowns!

in image / desperation sits heavy on my tongue, tumblr user tullipsink / mary oliver, ‘north country’ / virginia woolf, letter to violet dickinson / in image / blythe baird, from if my body could speak / Alice in Bed: A Play' by Susan Sontag (link in comment) / lynee rae perkins, criss cross / elena ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay' (trans. Ann Goldstein) / rainer maria rilke, from rilke’s book of hours / in image/ in image

#what if i-- #web weaving #;the little sparrow #;insp

[galaeus]

PROMPTS FROM GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) *  assorted dialogue, adjust as necessary. who ya gonna call?

i want you to concentrate.

you can't see these, can you?

i'm getting a little tired of this!

what are you trying to prove here, anyway?

will you excuse me for a second?

we're close on this one. i can feel it.

you are a legitimate phenomenon.

this is big, [name], this is very big. there is definitely something here.

that would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.

i hope we can clear this up quickly and quietly.

back off, man. i'm a scientist.

listen! do you smell something?

this happened to you before?

could you come over here and talk to me for a second, please?

one of us should actually try to speak to it.

i'm gonna take back some of the things i've said about you.

the possibilities are limitless!

this is preposterous. i demand an explanation.

your methods are sloppy and your conclusions are highly questionable.

you don't know what it's like out there.

for whatever reasons... call it fate, call it luck, call it karma, i believe that everything happens for a reason.

where are we going to get the money?

i think this building should be condemned.

hey, does this pole still work?

wow, this place is great. when can we move in?

you gotta try this pole.

hey, we should stay here tonight! sleep here! you know, try it out!

you wanna come in for a mineral water or something?

are you troubled by strange noises in the night?

have you or any of your family ever seen a spook, specter, or ghost?

we're ready to believe you!

you can't park that here!

i bet you like to read a lot, too.

i collect spores, mold, and fungus.

i'd like to talk to someone, please.

what i'm about to say may sound a little unusual.

i'm sorry, i don't believe in any of those things.

if something's gonna happen here, i want it to happen to me first.

you don't act like a scientist.

i'm gonna go for broke. i am madly in love with you.

i bet you're going to be thinking about me after i'm gone.

hey, anybody seen a ghost?

did you ever report it to anyone?

i hope we can take care of this quietly.

well, no sense worrying about it now.

i think we'd better split up.

don't move. it won't hurt you.

i feel so funky.

there's something very important i forgot to tell you.

wait wait wait! i've always wanted to do this.

well, that wasn't such a chore now, was it?

we came! we saw! we kicked its ass!

you're a big celebrity now.

so who the hell was that?

i'm not at liberty to say.

i want to know more about what you do here.

that's a big twinkie.

do you have any excedrin or extra strength tylenol?

listen, maybe if we start dancing, other people will join in.

that's a different look for you, isn't it?

do you want this body?

i want you inside me.

you said before you were waiting for a sign. what sign are you waiting for?

i have a terrible feeling that something awful is going to happen to you.

i think that would be extraordinarily dangerous.

how about a little music?

you had your chance to cooperate, but you thought it'd be more fun to insult me. well, now it's my turn, wise ass.

i'm not interested in your opinion.

if he does that again, you can shoot him.

i am going to get you a nice fruit basket.

i was in no way prepared for that.

you wanna play rough?

are you a god?

let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown!

i couldn't help it. it just popped in there.

well, that's something you don't see every day.

sorry, [name]. i'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

i feel like the floor of a taxi cab.

#memes