#not Pike; not Pike ever again

[moiraineswife]

Moiraine + That Pesky First Oath

1x06 vs 2x05

#moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #rosamund pike #wotedit #rand al'thor #wot on prime #wheel of time prime #wot show spoilers #wheel of time spoilers #wot gifset #moiraine gifset #LOOK SHE'S REALLY TIRED OKAY LET HER /LIVE/. #moiraine really out here like: #'and i would have gotten away with it too! if it hadn't been for my meddling oaths!!!!!' #rosamund pike really just fully committed to the face journeys in both of these scenes #truly a delight #this woman dumped charisma as a stat like 'eh when will i ever need that?????' #and then was forced to deal with 5 of the world's prickliest young adults #also appreciation again for how WRECKED she is in ep 5 #remember when we were all watching ep 7 like 'LOL LOOK HOW EXHAUSTED AND UNHINGED SHE IS' #and now look at her #2x05 Mo would literally kill to have 1x07 Mo's sleeping pattern/eating habits #also brief F in chat for randal in that second gif #really was all excited/hopeful like 'oh what's she gonna say about me!?' #and then #.............rand #ty to the discord squad that i polled to determine if i had enough '....'s or not #my gifset #my gifs #mine

[essektheylyss]

Also the bookmark poll just reminded me that I got my spouse two books for Christmas but I bought them while out shopping with the friend we were staying with in New England, and the only reasonable bookstore to get to was Barnes and Noble, and I forgot to take out the little "Join our rewards club!" slip from the receipt they'd tucked into the book, so he opens it up to read it and went, "GASP. You went to Barnes and Noble? BETRAYAL."

This is how genuinely ride or die my household is for indie bookstores.

#listen I didn't buy them off of amazon and in this day and age that's REALLY what matters #man I loved hay on wye but I will say. I did not get the sense that the uk has the indie shop branded bookmark trend. and I missed it. #I LOVE a lil branded bookstore bookmark! it's like getting a fun bandaid after a shot or an 'I voted' sticker #not intrinsically necessary to the experience but a delight when it happens #but legit at home the closest bookstore is the absolute GOAT of indie bookstores so like. I literally do not ever go anywhere else. #however I should get to the little poetry shop downtown again. it was fucking awesome. #I LOVE a poetry specific bookstore. there are not enough of them. #also a fan of left bank books on pike but like. do I ever want to be on pike. no. #(that's not true I will stroll the market on occasion but it's rare at this point)

[queenlua]

#very fun list. probably applies outside of academia too imo #(reminds me a bit of an old prof of mine who was very crotchety about Students Used To Be Better And Smarter What Happened #at some point i mentioned this to *another* prof who went to the same undergrad as the original prof #and this other prof just laughed and laughed and was like. look. that man has always been the smartest guy in every room he's ever been in #there were TONS of shit students in our year but he just had the ability to ignore them #he's been bitching about this every single year since they forced him to teach undergrads again #ah nostalgia bias.) #also i do find it baffling how a lot of the people who are Most Pissy about Where Are The Good {Conversations or Art or whatever} #are often SO obviously aggro and shutting themselves out of opportunities to have those things #but if you tell them that they're like I'm Not The Problem. They're The Problem lol #(see: rob pike's self-own in that Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant rant)

[tenpixelsusie]

brian: yeah! im like, 90% sure theyre dating.

stewie: WHAT?? but she isnt-lois isnt a LESBIAN! she slept with men like she was paid for it-i think she was, sometimes!

(cut to lois in The Grocery Store. a man hands her 20 bucks and she rips off her shirt and begins making out with him sloppy style.)

brian: yeah but, shes also attracted to women. shes bisexual stewie.

stewie: WHAT! since when? i think i wouldve heard about something like that.

brian: she came out in 2016, after the network decided it was cool to be gay, remember? we had a whole episode about it.

stewie: yeah but i thought-i thougut thay was a phase.

brian: WOAHHH

stewie: WHAT??

brian: WEIRDLY HOMOPHOBIC OF YOU STEWIE!

stewie. IM NOT HOMOPHOBIC! IVE MET LOIS’S GIRLFRIEND AND I WASNT EVEN SCARED!

i know i literally sent this to you on discord but the drawings paired with the actual ask really makes this

#griffley #the bagel draws #asks? in my inbox? it's more likely than you think. #reagan ridley #lois griffin #<- mentioned #brian griffin #stewie griffin #THANK YOU AGAIN PIKE. THIS WAS SO FUCKING FUNNY #subjecting myself to everything ever by putting this in the character tags #doodles #shitpost

[hauntedfalcon]

actually, upon seeing a totally unrelated post it occurred to me that people in Exandria think of the gods like people in America think of corporate brands, and I'm gonna turn that one over in my mind for a while

#Critical Role for ts #religion mention for ts #arguably that could be the point of the campaign. for people in general to recognize there are stakes beyond which god gets their worship #the existence and power of the gods is not in question but it's still treated very casually #Deanna makes the commitment of being a cleric as a 'thanks Sunny D' for her resurrection #FRIDA has a level of cleric because they like Deanna not because of any connection to the Dawnfather at all #and FCG was out casting cleric spells before he ever considered a deity #Pike seemed to be an exceptionally devout cleric by all the campaigns' standards (I have not watched C2) #for everyone else it seemed to be a matter of utility #which I make a conscious effort *not* to read as players wanting a particular spell list while not wanting to engage in the devotion aspect #(simply because cleric *is* the all-around performance class for when you join a preexisting campaign. fills the gaps in the party you know #and have there been any paladin PCs besides Zerxus and Yu? again. I've only watched C3 in its entirety and a handful of C1 + LoVM #(pour one out for Emily Axford's original concept of playing the horniest possible paladin. even hornier than Zerxus)

[lonesomedotmp3]

I know that everyone else is enjoying do revenge incorrectly because barely anyone is talking about camila mendes eating everyone else up and is instead talking vaguely about maya hawke and kissing girls and being gay. u are all so fucking annoying god bless

#'maya hawke could do gone girl but rosamund pike could never do do revenge' never ever EVER log into letterboxd ever again thanks. #.txt

[nomaishuttle]

KILLING MYSELFFFFFFFF

#IF THERES EVER ANY GOOD PROPAGANDA FOR TAKING MY TESTOSTERONE CONSISTENTLY. GDDDD #literally last night i ws pike Huh my stomach hurts but not in a normal stomach hurting way it feels Justttt like when i used to get cramps #UGH. #hopefully this is just like. th last time i went off my meds for a bit and itll last like a day #esp bc ive been getting back into taking my t again #but ughhh. if theres anything worst than just Having yr period its having yr period after like. 2 years of not having it #tmi.. sry #gross tw #ig. periods arent gross or whatever just like. Dies

[knowlesian]

one of the best fandom feelings in the world is when a fic gets old enough you have mostly forgotten the writing process

then you read it again and you’re like, damn. this shit slaps. the million ways i felt i could have done it better have faded and i am left with remembering i wrote this in the first place because it was what i wanted to read

and now time did me the favor of sloughing off my own rough edges so i can see whatever the hell it was other people who enjoyed it at the time saw, while i was stuck on what i didn’t like

#sometimes you still hate things alas #buuuuut ohhhhh when the ‘whoa this is… GOOD?’ feeling hits #i will p never write for the 100 again ever but i was rereading my s1/2 kabby aus and my dc au #and i actually stand by them i wish i had any desire to finish them #i wrote down the entire plot point by point for both #ugh my s3 of the 100 would have been dope #i could have made pike make sense! #i could have made… anything make sense

[crystalbehindthescenes]

was scrolling thru bcuz i do like seeing discussion abt modern sailor moon stuff and I hadn't seen you on my dash in a while and when there was discussion a good studio to handle sailor moon as opposed to toei, I honestly was surprised no one brought up bones. like they choreograph some incredible fight scenes as seen in mob psycho 100 and one punch man (look up the mogami fight if you haven't seen mp100) but when i thought of a bones sailor moon, i first thought of carole and tuesday (directed by shinichiro watanabe- cowboy bebop) because bones can do very pretty, girly anime on top of create engaging fight scenes like mp100 (which btw if u haven't seen carole and tuesday its p good u should give it a shot). i keep dreaming of a bones sailor moon that looks something like carole and tuesday mixed with s1 sailor moon crystal.

Ive been busy with irl stuff, hadnt had time to go sakuga searching like I used to. im also working on a project with sailorcrisis and im trying to focus in that but adhd and depression be damned

I thought about bones or madhouse i only never mentioned bones cus I haven't seen recent anime from them outside of things like OPM and Mob.

Rememeber sailor moon is a melodramatic shojo anime first, with ballet, ice skating, fashion and vogue ect as its aesthefic. the aciton comes secondary and is not something like BNHA or OPM. you need that subtle sakuga for the emotional scenes and someone willing to make scenes slow, and a patinet audience willing to sit through scene i feel need to be slower than what Crystal-Eternal does. not the wild extreme action sakuga bones and madness tends to do form what i see. overacting really isnt sailor moon imo

subtle animation is also kinda hard to pull off

I'll have to look at Carol and tuesdy tho

#and i should mention i akways do say no studio can guarantee quality #i mean again look at s1/2 its Toei for christ sake but theres been some banger znimation moments #from the likes of Iwata Hayashi Shida Tanaka ect #i wish i can expkain what overacting looks like but u ever see when a charcater just mvoes too damn much? #like hayashi's usagi and mercury soeech is lively but its not too much its just a bit biuncy #shida i coukd say his action is def too much and downright unwatchable sometimes #tanaka doesnt have a lot of cuts i can see outright besides serenity and mako vs mako in act17 #bht his sakuga reel is full of promise #i usually suggest kyoani cus i feel they have some subtle moments that dint feel very Over the Top Anime tm #pike idk manga sailor moon always came off as like. vintage disney kinda animation #with bright colors but also not as saturated colors like eternal nd crystal and slkw movements #but especially eternal and cosmos the colors are crazy bright... #i also feel just a lot of modern anime feels flat in general (note i havent seen many but its starting to irk me) #and while Naoko's style is flat i feel it can benefit from a style with depth (not realsitc just depth) #iscmvref also music like sialor moon to me is a very quiet anims. of couree theres acfion still but again those small moments #just kinda quiet

[muirneach]

the thing about having a d list fave. is that you find them from watching the mildly acclaimed usually cult classic movie that they have a prominent role in and then decide to explore the rest of their extensive filmography. to which you have two options 1) see them in actual popular movies but they’re like security guard #1 or whatever and have one line of dialogue and you spend the rest of the movie missing them or 2) watch the stuff they star in except they were all box office flops and the movie is really really bad and its not even worth it

#this is again about lee and harry dean. lee isnt even d list and his popular movies are literally silver dollars so you know. not obscureee #but like. have you guys ever tried to watch his filmography. some really mid stuff!! some good stuff too tho #however for harry dean… god. its rough out there. you watch repo man and paris texas and youre like hey those were crazy good #what else does this guy do!! [watches uforia or twister or whatever else] what the hell is this #the perfect middle ground is when ur d list fave is like. a supporting character but not totally sidelined #i havent seen pretty in pink or cisco pike or inland empire yet #but i presume thats what those movies are like

[lina-lovebug]

I'd Fight The Devil

Alastor x fem! reader

Background: (Y/N) is the elder Morningstar, and wants to fix her relationship with her dad. But her dad hates her boyfriend.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - Finale

Allusions to sex, actual sex, angel being angel, and cannibalism

_____

Angel spit out his drink, "You're with Alastor?!"

"Yeah, thoughts?"

"And prayers, girl," Angel could never imagine a sweet girl like (Y/N) getting it on with the Radio Demon himself.

But everyone has their kinks, he supposed.

Alastor manifested behind her, and she immediately felt his presence. Pressing herself against him, he leaned into her warmth and kept his arms around her shoulders.

"How was your day, mon amour?"

"It'll be even better," She trailed off, turning around to face him, "when we meet my dad for dinner."

Silence.

And not even radio silence.

"Not to be rash, but I'm sure your father would sooner see my head on a pike than on my body," Alastor adored the fact that she was mending their bond, even more so when Lucifer makes the effort.

But announcing their relationship to him?

He could see it ending in flames.

"I know you two don't get along, but I thought a nice dinner might smooth things over."

"And if he disapproves of us?" He lifted her head upwards with his finger, bemused as to what her answer may be.

"Then he'll have to get used to it," (Y/N) replied, sending a shiver of excitement up his spine.

Only a feeling that the she-devil he was utterly obsessed with could provide.

"Ugh, can you guys go fuck somewhere else?" Angel said, "or at all? I can't imagine going a lifetime without dick."

Alastors eye twitch, "now that's our business, isn't it?"

"Okay, okay," Charlie spoke up, "you guys go get ready."

Charlie couldn't help but notice the change in Alastor. It had only been a few months, but being in her sisters presence alone has made him kind. Sure, the both of them would skin someone alive over an insult, but Alastor would rip out his own eyes if (Y/N) asked.

A perfect match.

(Y/N) dawned a black dress with a pearl necklace that Alastor bought for her. Well, she thinks he bought it but he actually stole it off of a fresh kill.

How sweet.

"Pumpkin! Oh look at you! You're as radiant as ever!" Lucifer fawned over his daughter as they made it to the restaurant, making it a point to ignore the red demon behind her.

"Catching strays?" Lucifer gestured to him.

"Lovely to see you again," Alastor retorted.

"Dad, why don't we go inside? And Alastor will be joining us," now, Lucifer didn't forget what he said. He recognized that the fearsome deer demon had the intention of claiming Princess (Y/N) as his own, but did his daughter return such feelings?

Honestly, Lucifer feared that.

Not it being Alastor persay, but his little girls being hurt.

He knew how awful it felt to go through the divorce with Lilith, and then her disappearance.

He didn't ever want his daughters to feel that way.

"So, Alastor, what do you do again?"

"I have a radio broadcast. Your daughter has actually helped me repair the studio after the attack," He laid his land on hers.

And Lucifer picked up Alastors hand.

And placed it away from hers.

"Uh, dad-"

"Look, if you two are fucking, don't tell me."

"Dad!" Her face burned red, "we aren't-that's not. . .I love Alastor, and he loves me. I want you to accept us both."

"Love? Whoa, whoa, whoa! Pumpkin, I don't think-"

"I'm not a little kid," She interrupted, "I'm a grown woman, and I'm able to make my own decisions. I want to be with Alastor because I love him. You may not think I know what love is, but I know it's what I feel with Alastor."

That's when he saw it.

That look.

Whilst (Y/N) was defending herself, defending their love, Alastor looked at her. Only her. And it was like he was staring at the nebula itself, seeing all its beauty in the Heir of Hell. His smile faltered, closing his mouth, and his eyes softened.

It's the same look that he used to give Lilith.

"If I ever hear that you've made her cry, or even laid a single hand upon her," Lucifer stared him down, "I'll make you disappear."

"A man true to his word. Looks like we have something in common," Alastor agreed, his hand back on hers. She gave him a smile, one that reminded him of Lilith.

The rest of dinner went off without any incidents. The small jab here and there, but no one died, and no one was stabbed. Lucifer learned more about his daughters business and how she lit up talking about it.

"You hardly ate, Alastor. Is something wrong?" (Y/N) asked when her father went to the restroom.

"Oh no, my dear. Just hungry for something else, is all," His eyes raked up her form, earning a cough from the she-devil.

Honestly, she didn't know where he was on his spectrum. She was fine never even being intimate, so long as he was happy, but this spark in his eyes lit a fire within her.

"O-oh. . .are you sure?" Believe it or not, (Y/N) had only had sex twice and both times she'd call it lackluster.

"I don't want you to force yourself if you don't want to," oh how innocent she was. Honestly, Alastor assumed he was aroace before he met the she-devil. Her ferocity - her chaos in fights, her genuine kindness, and her soul - itself brought out that spark.

There are moments where the carnal desire needs to be satisfied.

"Mon cher, I'd never ask if I didn't mean it."

That look, it made her softly gasp.

"Alast-"

"Ew."

Right.

Lucifer.

He showed up from his restroom break and found the pair giving eachother "fuck me" eyes.

"Could I eat my dinner without you groping my child?" Lucifer hissed, despite Alastor only touching her hand.

He blinked, thinking how he's never even groped a woman.

"Maybe."

Sick bastard.

_ _ _ ☆ _ _ _

"Fuck! Alastor!"

(Y/N) had never cum before, so Alastor being her first to ever do so and smiling away at her quivering legs made it so much better.

"Oh fuck. . ." She moaned weakly, his tongue slithering in and out of her to lick up every last drop.

"Al. . ." She was breathless, staring at his strained member. Reaching up to unzip his pants, he tutted as he grabbed her wrist.

"Al?"

"It's about you. Don't worry about me, amour," He purred, kissing the bite marks on her thighs.

"But you-"

Before she could detest further, wishing to satisfy him, the door opened.

"Oh my God, they were right! Alastor, you sly dog," Angel Dust was at the door, and Alastor quickly covered his beloveds' body with the covers before his horns started to grow and his back stretched.

"I'm going to kill you."

"Not before you make love to me, you're not," still in his demonic form, (Y/N) blew a gust of wind to slam the door shut.

Her body displayed on the bed, Alastor agreed.

"And stay in that form. It suits you."

#alastor imagine #alastor x reader #hazbin hotel imagine #hazbin hotel x reader

[stra-tek]

This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.

#star trek #star trek aos #star trek movies #tng #voyager #star trek picard #star trek phase 2 #roddenberry archive #strange new worlds #set design #deep lore #star trek ships #star trek tech #star trek discovery #star trek enterprise #enterprise #uss enterprise #ncc 1701 #starfleet museum

[unachinrileys]

Thinking it's time for my almost monthly rewatch of the cage if I don't get more una content soon I might burst

#the cage fave episode ever but i can only watch the pike/vina bits so many times i just wanna see my wife #nobody point out i can rewatch snw. i know. but why do that when i could watch the cage again #star trek #saz trekposting

[bet-on-me-13]

Steph's Year of Recovery

So! Danny noticed that a new face had made it's way into town. Two new faces actually, an older lady known as Dr Leslie, and a girl about his age called Steph.

He first met them when he was at the hospital for one of his parents. They had stood too close to an explosion again, and he met them while he was in the waiting Area.

Dr Leslie was a strict but obviously caring older woman, who seemed to be the one taking care of Steph as a kind of maternal figure, or maybe more like an Aunt. She greeted him simply and then walked away to talk with the Secretary, leaving him to talk to Steph.

Steph was a blond girl in a Wheelchair, and he could see bandages piking out of her clothes as he talked to her. She explained that she had been in an Accident a few weeks ago that left her wheelchair bound for a while, and that she had come to Amity for their surprisingly good Medical Centers.

He and Steph got along really well, and by the end of it he asked her for her Number so they could continue talking later. They stayed in touch, and when she was finally permitted to leave the Hospital, he introduced her to his friends. They all got along like a House on Fire, both figuratively and in one memorable case very literally (Vlad had pissed them off okay!)

Eventually Steph recovered enough that she moved from a Wheelchair to Crutches, and their shenanigans got even more chaotic (Vlad hadn't even pissed them off, this time was just for fun)

The only thing Danny could complain about was the fact that Steph was hiding something from them.

She said that she had been in an Accident a while ago, which was why they had come to Amity in the first place. But Danny knew it was more than that.

He could sense lingering traces of Death coming from her after all.

...

Steph honestly loved her current life.

Sure she had lost everything, her home, her health, her friends, her life, but she had gained new things too! Like Danny and the Gang! They were honestly some of the best friends she had ever had, and for some reason they just clicked with her instantly.

Danny was interesting and funny, Sam was vegan and a badass, Tucker was smart and witty, they all fit with her personality perfectly! It almost felt like she bad been friends with them for years. (She ignored the way her heart skipped a beat when she saw them)

But she still couldn't shake the sense that they were hiding something from her.

She knew it had something to do with the Ghost Problem in the town. And wasn't that a kicker, there was a whole Supernatural Ghost Outbreak in this Town and nobody knew about it. Dr Leslie had said that Amity was off the map enough to hide from Bruce, but she hadn't mentioned it was hidden from the Justice League itself!

Danny, Sam, and Tucker definitely knew more about it than they let on however. Whenever a Ghost Attack would happen, at least one of them would rush off with some practiced excuse and return after the Ghost Attack was over all dirty. She could guess what was going on, and she really didn't like it.

(This had killed her, she had died doing what they were doing, she didn't want to lose them)

Eventually she had to confront them, coincidentally on the same day they decided to confront her.

"Are you Vigilantes?" / "Did you die?"

"..."

"What?" / "What?"

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Stephanie Brown #Stephanie Browns Death #Steph actually did die to Black Mask #Dr Leslie didn't manage to save her but did manage to bring her back #How she did it is up to you #But because if that Steph needs Physical Therapy and Treatments only found in Amity #Amity is also secluded enough that Batman won't find them there #Steph knows she died but is willfully ignoring it to the point of almost repressing it #Especially because she doesn't know how she came back to life #She doesn't like that her brand new friends are also Vigilantes because being a Vigilante is what got her killed #She doesn't want them to die like she die #She doesn't want to lose her new friends #Trauma #Steph is Traumatized #Also all of them are 17 in this #Stephs age when she died is very vague but 17 is the most reliable middle ground #So the Trio has been Vigilantes for 3 years now #They know what they are doing and have a system so they can share the workload #Sam and Tucker still have their powers #So they can help Danny with the workload #Idk if Steph would develop Powers from the Treatment or her Resurrection but I kind of like the idea #Also yes this is Poly Eternal Trio + Steph cause she deserves happiness #I NEED more Steph Ships cause she deserves more attention

[janaispunk]

28 "No one ever cared about me like you." for Joel or Marcus Pike, please?? Thank you for writing all this amazing stuff for us <3

no one can hurt you now

pairing: Joel Miller x f!reader

word count: ~1.2k

summary: You’ve been traveling through the country with Joel and Ellie. After finally arriving in the safety of Jackson, you realize how much Joel means to you.

tags/warnings: post outbreak, mentions of infected, fighting and blood, reader doesn’t value her life that much tbh, angst, anxiety, comfort, able-bodied reader, no use of y/n (please let me know if i missed something <3)

a/n: dearest anon, thank you so much for your kind words and for sending this prompt in! this started out as a drabble but got out of control, so i hope you enjoy this little fic 🫶🏻

dividers by @saradika-graphics who is amazing <3

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The clicker’s teeth snap at you inches away from your face, your arms straining desperately to hold the creature off. A shot rings through the air and the clicker stills as blood splatters across your face.

You push the now lifeless weight off of you and try to stand back up, your shaky legs underneath you barely cooperating.

“Thanks,” you mutter, gasping for breath.

“The fuck was that?” Joel barks, the gun still grasped so tightly in his hand that his knuckles are turning white.

“It was- running at Ellie, I just-“

You’ll admit that you hadn’t really thought it through when you lunged at the clicker that had charged in the girl’s direction without any weapons in your hands. Not her, had been the only clear thought in your head. She wasn’t replaceable.

You were.

“You just what? Thought you’d get yourself killed?”

“No! I don’t know, okay? I still bought us time, and you got it, so-”

You don’t like the way he’s glaring at you, like you did something fundamentally wrong. You took a risk, yes, but his main objective is taking the girl across the country. You’re just… there.

“So?! Fuckin’ stupid, is what it was,” he snaps before he turns around abruptly and stomps further into the abandoned house that you’re hoping to spend the night in. You wait until your legs finally stop trembling before you follow him.

It’s the middle of the night when Joel finally speaks to you again. You had settled down in one of the bedrooms on the upper floor, not before searching the house extra thoroughly after the clicker incident earlier.

You can hear Ellie’s soft snores from across the room and you would have sworn that Joel was asleep too. Your mind didn’t rest, replaying the scene over and over, the way Joel snapped at you making your chest hurt each time.

“You don’t get to not make yourself a priority, you hear me? I won’t let you.”

You flinch at the unexpected sound from his corner of the room, but his voice is gentle, like he’s approaching a scared animal.

“But Ellie-” you still try to protest.

“I care about Ellie just as much as you do.” He hesitates for a second. “But I also care about you.”

You feel heat flushing your cheeks and you avert your gaze, even though it’s too dark for him to see your face anyway.

“You shouldn’t,” you mutter, “she’s the one that matters.”

“So do you,” he grumbles.

“Not like her.”

He heaves a sigh and you hear him moving closer to you in the darkness.

“Listen to me.” His tone is gruff, but you can feel the intensity behind his words. “I couldn’t- shit, I couldn’t do this alone. Just take care of yourself. Don’t be stupid. Okay?”

“Okay,” you agree in a hushed voice.

You know that this is the closest that Joel Miller will ever get to admitting that he doesn’t hate you. You try to fight the feeling, but warmth is spreading through your chest at the thought that he actually wants you around, that he’s not just letting you tag along because he doesn’t know what else to do with you.

It’s your first real night in Jackson, the first time that you’ve arrived at a place and didn’t immediately make plans on where to go next. The first night that you’re spending in a real bed in god knows how long. The first night that you don’t have to sleep with one eye open, always waiting for the next danger to find you.

And the first night in a bed with Joel. Neither of you had protested when you were assigned to one house with him and Ellie. You know what Joel and you look like, from the outside. You don’t think that you care, not really.

The house has three bedrooms anyway, so it didn’t matter. At least that’s what you thought, until you had all said good night to each other and you were lying alone in the darkness, wide eyes staring up at the dark ceiling, as you were trying to stop the anxious shivers running through your body.

It was too quiet, the mattress too soft, the room too… empty. You had gotten used to the steady breathing of two other people around you, and now that they weren’t in the room with you, everything felt wrong. What if you woke up tomorrow to find them both dead, to find yourself alone in the world once more? How were you supposed to make sure they were safe when you weren’t with them?

Before you could overthink it, you got up, checked on Ellie who was sleeping soundly and padded over to the room Joel was in.

“Can’t sleep?” his low drawl had greeted you as soon as you cracked the door open.

You wordlessly shook your head and he sighed.

“Me neither. Doesn’t feel right like this, does it?”

That’s how you ended up under the covers next to him. No touching of course, both of you keeping a firm distance. This was just so you could both catch some sleep. Just for tonight.

Except that you’re still not able to let sleep drag you under. Your body is tense, acutely aware of his presence next to you, his body heat easily traveling the short distance between you. You could bridge it just as easily, just reach your hand out to - do what, exactly?

You huff out a breath and turn onto your side, shuffling the sheets with your movement.

“What’s wrong?”

His voice is barely above a whisper and before you can open your mouth to respond, his fingers find your face and graze over your cheek in a barely there contact.

He had touched you before, of course, checking you for injuries, soothing you with a hand on your arm or a brush over your hair, but never like this. Never in the darkness of the night and never when you could sense the tension in the air between you, could almost feel his breath on your face. You have never been so acutely aware of the warmth of his fingers that’s seeping into your skin right now.

“I just- I never thanked you for taking me here, for taking care of me.”

It’s not what’s on the forefront of your mind, not the thing that’s plaguing you in this moment, but it’s still true, and much easier than admitting to him that feeling his body so close right next to yours has you practically burning up, has your fingers itching to touch him, to breathe him in.

Joel hums.

“You don’t have to. Of course I did that.”

You try swallowing the lump that suddenly builds in your throat.

“No one ever cared about me like you,” you admit in a whisper.

“Hey,” Joel mumbles, alarmed at the thickness of unshed tears in your voice, “come here, sweetheart.”

Both of his arms reach towards you and his hands splay over your shoulders to pull you into his chest. His warmth engulfs you and you feel the tension in your body subsiding as you’re resting your head over his steady heartbeat.

“We’re safe now,” he whispers into your hair. “I’ll always keep you safe.”

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[dreaming-of-lu]

A/N: Cause I'm in a soft, gooey mood. I'm thinkin of the Links being married.

~~ Imagining Wild smiling so softly down at a letter, looking so love-strucked yet yearning at the same time. Of course, one of the boys called out to him in a teasing way, wanting to know what got him all head in the clouds like their fellow skyloftian knight. He huffs softly and replies with a voice filled with longing, "My spouse wrote me a letter, basically wishing me safety and sweet dreams of them to soothe me."

~~ First normally kept to himself about his s/o, wishing to keep them safe during his time in prison for 4 years. Pushing you away from Demise's grasp with one last kiss, as he headed off to fight hard and long til his last dying breath. Only to reawaken in a coffin, tumbling out and wondering where he was.

His first thought after was wonder of if you were alive and kicking. He rubbed his left ring finger in a panic, sighing in relief when the metal met his skin. The impression of your bright, sweet smile soothed him, made his heart beat fast until the sound of a screech reached his ears.

~~ The look on the chain's face when a body slammed into Legend was hysterical yet made him shy under their wide questioning gazes. He wanted to squirm out of your hold, only to halt when those eyes, filled with tears of relief and love made him melt on the spot. He softly sighed and rubbed their head while exchanging gentle words between them.

The ring on your hand made them choke in surprise; so those rings on his hands are for distractions, huh?

~~ Hyrule kept his ring on a necklace under his tunic, away from sight due to conflict. His head was always threaten to be on a pike, didn't help when he carried all three pieces of the triforce on the back of his hand. He was constantly hunted, he worried they would come to find you if they were to ever find out he was married to you. Yet alas, he would be found by Legend with him sitting there, idly messing with the ring around his neck, a far off look on his face and a gentle smile. Of course, the veteran was going to be curious of whom caught the dear traveler's heart.

~~ Four watched you idle around the living room, gesturing a flick of your wrist to who could lay where without the worry of stepping on somebody. He stares with his chin in his hand, smiling softly as you jabbered on about something to one of the Links. The colors laughed when you bickered and bantered with that Link before silencing at the sweet smile you quickly flashed over to him alongside a wink.

He covered his face with his hand, flushing red at the laugh that echoed in the home.

~~ Once again, he had his head in the clouds with a dreamy smile on his lips. Sky clutched the letter close to his chest and heaved a tranquil breath, his ears flapped wildly, almost imaginary hearts fluttered and popped around his head. Some of those groan, while the other laughed and shook their head at the lovesick expression on the skyloftian's face.

He raised the letter above his face, pressing a gentle kiss against the ink on the bottom of the page then one to the ring gracing his finger.

"I'll be home as soon as I can, my love."

~~ He was so giddy to be home. As one could be, he was always the composed and conscientiousness captain, but when given the opportunity to reunite with his love. Warriors is practically floating down the path to his shared home that the group is struggling to keep up with his rampant pace. He can't help himself! He needs to smooch his spouse! It's a crime to him to be away for this long from them.

The look on their face when he entered the house with a flourish yell of their name, made his heart soar.

~~ Time chuckled when you fussed over Twilight, tucking him in before glaring at the male when he tried to protest. His descendant looked at him with a silent plead for help, only to slump when the old man shook his head and made an 'x' symbol with his arms. He knew that butting in would not protect him from your glare too.

He rather walk straight into a pit of lava than face your glare head-on. Though he melts at the passing thought of you tucking your future child in, sternly telling them its bedtime and that rest is important. He makes his way over, pressing himself against your back, lacing his hand with yours and placed a kiss against your forehead.

~~ He was already suckered from the day you first played together when you were both children. From the shy glances to the shared giggles, to the sleepovers and to the shared secrets. Twilight knew he had to have you as his spouse when you jumped into his arms and kissed him without a thought after he saved Hyrule.

Even as he stared up at the night sky during his watch, he could still remember the sight of you walking down the aisle with a shy yet giddy smile on your lips. He rubbed the ring back and forth as the memories took over his mind, making the time go by fast til he was tapped out by the next watch. He falls asleep easily when his head hit his pillow, with a faint smile on his lips.

~~ He felt smug when the chain jaws dropped at the sight of him running towards his spouse yet ignores them as their squeals and giggles graced his ears. Fierce swung them around softly in the air before slowly lowering them in his embrace, holding them by their waist, closing his eyes and pressing his forehead against theirs. He purrs at the hands that cupped his face, sweet yet butterfly like kisses gracing his skin that soothe the ache that grew in yearning for their touch.

He felt them move away the white strands away from his forehead, placing a kiss against the blue 'v' shaped mark there. He retaliates by placing one against the ring on their finger before opening his eyes to them. Feeling himself melting in their ever so loving and gentle gaze, "You still look radiant, my dear jewel."

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