#that lady's stacked

[dragonnarrative-writes]

WIP Wednesday

I have so many ideas for this OC, but none are cooperating with me.

Meet Bricks!

Simon notices, immediately, when the American girl enters the bar. First of all, she’s loud. Announces her arrival with a blast of laughter that rings through the room, for all that she’s surrounded by a group of rowdy people. Secondly, she’s dark-skinned, voluptuous, and seems to want everyone to know it. She’s dressed for the clubs more than a side street bar. Two guys she’s arrived with are obviously vying for her attention, but she floats over to one of the active pool tables and immediately starts flirting for the next game. Simon’s not immune to a soft woman with miles of leg, so he can’t blame any of them for welcoming her and her posse.

“Damn,” Kyle mutters, giving her an appreciative once over from his seat.

“What?” Johnny asks, looking over his shoulder like a fucking muppet. “Oh, damn.”

Price arches an eyebrow at Simon. “That good?” When he gets a nod, he turns to look. “…Damn.”

She has to know that everyone at the bar is looking at her, but she doesn’t seem to care. Just talks and laughs, flirts with the men and women around her like breathing. Simon never loses awareness of her. She’s in his sight line. But eventually, he’s integrated her into his awareness of the space. She’s a bright spot, but not rowdy enough to cause issues.

And then she passes their table on the way to the bathroom with her friends. She meets Simon’s eyes, gives him a quick up and down look, then winks with a little smirk as she disappears from view.

“What about you, LT?” Johnny’s voice breaks in.

Simon replays the conversation in his mind for a moment. Recruit performance. Lance Corporal Bennett. “Don’t much care for him. ‘S cocky and mean.”

“Good scores,” Kyle points out.

“He talks shit about the others,” Simon counters. “Good scores don’t mean shit if no one wants to work with him. We’ll see how he does with coordinated drills.”

“Now, Bakshi,” Price says, “he’s got promise. Scores are decent, and I can’t find a single person to say anything bad about him. Except Bennett.”

Johnny snorts. “Except Bennet.”

Simon lets the conversation fade away again. The pool tables are getting a bit rowdy without the American and her girl friends to dilute the testosterone. A couple of the boys over there are from the base, and they keep throwing glances over to the 141s table, and a table of other officers across the room. They’re keeping things cool. For now.

Just as chests are starting to puff enough that even Johnny and Kyle are paying attention, the girls reappear and diffuse the tension. The American says something that knocks the wind out of one boy’s sails and laughs as she takes his pool stick. She buzzes a kiss against his cheek, then playfully shoves another guy to rack. Just like that, the energy settles.

Simon lets himself be coaxed back into the discussion, especially now that the topics have strayed away from work. He can’t turn the hyper-vigilance off, but he likes going to the bar with his team. Likes talking books and TV shows with Price and mocking Johnny’s taste. He likes listening to Kyle talk music. He’s entering an artist’s name into his notes app, which is why he doesn’t notice the American strutting over until she’s right between Johnny and Kyle.

“Hey guys,” she says with a grin, leaning onto the table. “I thought about asking if any of you have a light, but my friends are leaving to get laid and the pool boys are boring. Can I hang out here until they lose interest? I’ll buy you a round.”

Price snorts into his whiskey. “They stop buying you drinks, then?”

“All they want to buy is drinks,” she laments, fluttering her eyelashes and pouting. “I’ve had three, but they’re not getting any more interesting. I’d rather have some fries and sit and chat.”

“Pull up a chair, bonnie lass,” Johnny says, which predictably gets the girl cooing over his accent.

She introduces herself as Ericka, an American student working on her Masters. She talks with her whole body, and doesn’t seem to know how to have a conversation without flirting. She hates the gym. She likes riding horseback, and winks at Simon when she mentions it. She “kind of pegged you guys as military. It’s the muscles.” She prefers whiskey over scotch, and her friends were supposed to take her clubbing tonight.

“But Tracy’s boyfriend hates going dancing, and she’s got a spine of a jellyfish,” she says, rolling her eyes. She’s waving a fry for emphasis. “So of course, we ended up here after I dressed up-up. Trust me, I know this is not a casual night at the pub type dress. I didn’t get the change of plans until the uber dropped us off out front. But I guess it turned out alright. I have no idea what kind of music I’d have been subjected to. Devon has shit taste, so I probably dodged a bullet.”

Even with as much as she’s batting her lashes and sending him interested glances, Ericka doesn’t try to make Simon talk more. With the rest of the table, she’s an excellent conversationalist. As he scans the bar again, he listens to her pick up the music topic with Kyle, drawing Price into a light hearted disagreement. Turns to Johnny with a pout for a tiebreaker. Which somehow gets them all into discussion of the best rock and roll genres. She talks, she listens, she engages. It’s refreshing. Most of the Americans they have to deal with are pushy and self-important officers and mercenaries.

Simon’s not above admitting that it helps that she’s beautiful.

After a couple of hours, it’s nearing 1am. Right on schedule, Kyle yawns. “Sorry, sorry. Not a night owl like some.”

“’S late,” Price admits. “Should probably head out. You have a ride home, Ericka?”

“Yeah, I’ll call a car,” she says, easily. “Thanks for hanging out with me, I’ll have to come back some time.”

“If we’re in town, we’re here,” Johnny says, grinning.

Outside, Erikca’s car gets delayed a couple of times, so Simon sends the boys ahead home and stays to wait with her. Price claps him on the shoulder and Johnny gives him an exaggerated wink. Ericka rolls her eyes and shoos them away when their car arrives.

“So,” she says, when it’s just the two of them. “Was I too subtle before, or are you interested in coming back to my place?”

“Barely spoke to you all night,” Simon points out.

“Come over and you can tell me about your tattoos,” she purrs. Then she smirks. “Or not. Up to you. But I figured I’d shoot my shot.”

[Super sexy sex happens here. Probably.]

Monday morning, Ghost sips a fresh brewed travel mug of tea and listens idly to Soap’s chatter on the way to one of the smaller briefing rooms. He’s looking forward to seeing Laswell, who’s on their side of the pond for a change. It’s always good for him to lay eyes on allies and confirm for himself that they’re alive.

It’s a shock, then, when he and Soap open the door to be greeted by Kate in deep discussion with Ericka.

Soap, of course, is more than happy to say what they’re both thinking. “What the fuck?”

When Ericka looks up and sees them, she grins. “Hey there, boys.”

Price and Gaz, when they arrive, are similarly gobsmacked. Once everyone is settled Lazwell stands.

“From your faces, you’ve all met,” she says. “So I won’t beat around the bush. Say hello to your new infiltration asset. Meet Bricks.”

All of them are speechless as Ericka lays four gray USB sticks on the table. They’re all the ones Price had distributed Thursday, with instructions that the keep one on them at all times. Plus an extra one. If Simon had to guess, Gaz was the one to have a decoy on him.

“Bullshite,” Soap says, pulling an identical USB stick from his pocket. “I’ve had mine on me the whole time.”

“Decoy,” Ericka, Bricks, says. “Slide the port out, you’ll see a pink dot.”

Simon pulls his from his pocket, pushes the little slider. Faded, but present, there’s a pink spot of permanent marker. “Fuck.”

“She’s one of the best infiltration assets we have,” Kate goes on. “She’ll be joining you to get information from Jacó Barboza. We have reason to believe he’s the link between Moscow and Rio, which opens the door to Bogotá.”

#dragonnarrativewrites fanfiction #wip wednesday #manic pixie dream ghost #all 141 of them #watcher one kate laswell #oc: bricks #that lady's stacked #also - subtle as a brick to the face #laurence this one's for you #(posting to remind myself that i don't have to be perfect)

[chiropteracupola]

Our trusty and well-beloved Captain Jane Roland.

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #jane roland #I think of her and brick house begins to play in my mind... #'that lady's stacked and that's a fact' &c &c...

[fromtheseventhhell]

She was the night wolf. But only when she dreamed. (The Blind Girl, ADWD) "The hour of the wolf. The blackest part of night, when all the world's asleep." (The Kingbreaker, ADWD)

Thinking thoughts...It's the longest, darkest hour of the night, Arya is the Night Wolf + Dark Heart, it's the time when "the world's asleep" and Arya wargs into Nymeria and the leader of a giant pack of wolves while sleeping, and it's likely she'll reunite with Nymeria right before the long night...

#arya stark #and it being the the hour before dawn... #corn plate moment or no y'all? cause I see the vision 🤭 #It just fits so well? like Arya being the Night Wolf alone is enough for me to make the connection and run with it #also the hour of the wolf being an actual historical event denoting Cregan Stark's time in King's Landing? #reminds me of Harwin kneeling to Arya at the Inn of the Kneeling Man...Arya really stacking up historical references #The Lady of Winterfell-ism is just so strong in her chapters and connections how can I not say Queen #/a time for wolves/ was actually about Arya Nymeria their pack and her becoming a leader in the North (and I'm only half joking) #also feel like this could be tangentially related to Jon via the /Black Bastard's heart/ reference + him waking at the hour of the wolf + #his connection to the Others and the North + foreshadowing for KITN...could be a hint of his resurrection #or it could be nothing and I'm just overthinking things but I've seen a lot flimsier theories so 🤷🏾‍♀️ #twow speculation #?? I guess

[keatonkeatonkeaton]

Inspired by @hotvintagepoll to make this in appreciation of Gilbert Roland and his hotness 🥵

#gilbert roland #robert stack #bullfighter and the lady #1950s #old Hollywood #vintage movies #buster keaton #movie edits #hotvintagepoll

[meddybears]

The Final 8 | Women's Singles | 2023 Wimbledon Championships

#the girls are quite simply FEASTING #it's like a stacked field.... and then there's peggy and marketa lol #i'm sooooooo annoyed ons + ryba and elina + iga play each other so early :( #iga swiatek #elina svitolina #madison keys #aryna sabalenka #marketa vondrousova #jessica pegula #ons jabeur #elena rybakina #tennis #tennisedit #wimbledon #wimbledon 2023 #u* #I refuse to write “ladies” sorry to the all England whatever the fuck club #m*

[foulfaced]

oh boy two am! perfect time to start a new drawing :D

anyway this was just to get this poto x 14dwy crossover out of my head but i think itd maybe be fun to finish? and maybe let anyone who wants to add their mc in a blank space but who knows lol

#i realize now. it would make more sense to make leon be raoul but consider i am stupid heart emoji #also i just think its funny picturing ren being his own rival. stacking the deck if you will.... #wip #14dwy ren #14dwy redacted #14 days with you #digital art #if anyone is reading these tags i think in this au itd b funny (painful) if ren as phantom wears the mask bc self loathing just that strong #like that episode of the ex actress? lady who thought she was hideous but she was just a normal lady i think about that episode a lot #anyway off to sleep i go!

[dalkyum]

[GOT7 REVIVAL] WEEK 7 ✧ ↳ Moments that made you an Ahgase ·˚ ♡

#got7revival #got7 #got7edit #got7daily #malegroupsnet #kpopco #im sorry this post is like actually ridiculous lol i started thinking of ideas and then i couldnt decide #so here are literally all of them #also the one where they are stacking on top of each other...why did they put bambam on the bottom #the dance practice for magnetic was the first got7 video i ever watched and also when i decided yugyeom was my favorite :') #it was the pink hair i am a simple lady #i love u got7 xoxo #flashing tw #emigif

[fruityfroggy]

So…..just me testing the waters for posting about my r1999 OCs…..here’s their incantation card descriptions! (As a teaser maybe?)

This post and the format of it were inspired by @authorchia, so ty<3

(6* Star) Lady Clef:

“The night is young, so stay a while, darling. I’ll show you a night to remember.”

Kiss of Smoke (Attack): - "Catch it, before it's gone."

Deals 150% Mental DMG to 2 targets. Gains 1 stack of [The Coveted]. If a target was defeated by the caster in the previous round, this attack steals 1 Moxie from the target.

Melodic Entrance (Attack): - "Each melody envelops tightly."

1-target attack. Deals 200% Mental DMG and gives self a stack of [The Coveted]. If an enemy's HP is below 50%, additionally deals 40% Genesis DMG.

Glorious Closer (Ultimate): - "Let this sparkling bliss end your night, mon cheri."

Mass attack. Deals 700% Mental DMG. Purifies all [Stats Down], [Negative Status], and [Control] statuses from all allies, while dispelling all [Stats Up] and [Positive Status] statuses from all enemies.

[The Coveted]: If [The Coveted] is at 6 stacks, consumes all stacks and casts [Plaything] as an extra-action.

[Plaything]: Drains all Moxie from the enemy with highest amount of Moxie. If 2 enemies have the highest amount of Moxie, the effect goes to the one with highest HP, while inflicting [Bleed] on the other.

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(6* Plant) Verdigris:

- “Hm? Oh, sorry. I didn’t notice you coming in. I lost track of time again…”

Sway With the Brambles (Attack): - "They're just excited to see you."

1*: 1-target attack. Deals 180% Reality DMG.

2*: 1-target debuff. Deals 200% Reality DMG. Inflicts [Seal] and [Failed Prototype] on the target for 2 rounds.

Upkeep (Health): - "Just some maintenance should do the trick."

Mass healing. Restores HP equal to 80% of the caster's attack to all allies. This healing effect gains an additional 40% Critical Rate; An additional 30% Critical Rate is given to a random DPS ally.

Staticize (Ultimate): - "The inanimate can be beautiful too. So don’t be afraid to be one of them. Frozen, unmoving, and motionless."

Mass attack. Deals 400% Reality DMG. If [Plant Fiber] is at 6 or more stacks, consumes 6 stacks and casts either [Sucessful Prototype] or [Fibrous Friend] (depending on circumstances).

[Plant Fiber]: Gain [Plant Fiber] when any team member actively uses a character incantation or when an ally takes an extra action.

[Failed Prototype]: The target’s Critical Resist -25 and is unable to score critical hits.

[Successful Prototype]: Critical Resist +25 and +40% Critical Rate for all allies. [Successful Prototype] is cast when more [Plant Fiber] are obtained from character incantations than extra actions.

[Fibrous Friend]: All DMG from enemy attacks deflect and redirect back onto the enemy team for one round. [Fibrous Friend] is cast when more [Plant Fiber] are obtained from extra actions than incantations.

If you have any questions about them, pls ask! I’ll be happy to post more about their lore if there’s anyone who's interested in learning more:) Okay byeee

#if I’m being honest I’ve already been thinking about writing these for a while #I just procrastinated #so it was more so motivation than inspiration that got me here #I still don’t know if I accidentally made them too powerful #but I tried my best #I took inspo from so many characters #the whole stacks thing just seemed really fun to incorporate #reverse 1999 #reverse: 1999 #r1999 #reverse 1999 oc #r1999 oc #long post #fun fact #these ocs were made for oc x canon ships actually #hope that doesn’t ruin them for you #but it may be kinda obvious who they’re shipped with so I won’t spill a thing unless prompted #>:) #Lady Clef r1999 #Verdigris r1999

[clonerightsagenda]

Appreciate that Lucy avoids any overt romance plots by failing to pick up on any of it. Yes she moons over Lockwood for 5 books. No she does not process the implications of a ghost disguising itself as her to lead him to his death. She missed Holly having a crush on her and also missed Holly telling her about it. The skull keeps going *PS5 voice* 'leave your friends we don't need them' and her reaction is 👍 read 7:35pm while Lockwood gets one look at him and mentally speedruns the 'she likes bones' bit of Harrow the Ninth. Queen of dodging YA n-drangles by simply not perceiving them. Any number of additional characters could be hitting on her but how would we know? She doesn't.

#I was going to say prospective suitors need to hand her their intentions in MLA format so she doesn't miss the point #but Lockwood literally had to give her the necklace with a stack of paperwork bc she didn't read the room when he tried to bring it up #Lockwood: hey my dad gave my mom this necklace as a symbol of his devotion... #Lucy: neat. new lockwood lore dropped. thanks for sharing #someone could be proposing to her and she'd be like 'why are you showing me this ring. is it haunted' #love this for her. hope she never changes #perpetual perpetual ladies night #lockwood and co

[wantbytaemin]

got the working from home station swag

#on my sholo album stack there’s a quote from the badass women of zagreb tour that i went w my london friend #this lady was a teacher and poet but most widely known for being this insane mountain climber and she’d do it in a dress and like #inappropriate shoes and everything (bc it wasn’t proper for women to do it anyway) and i pulled THAT quote as my little gift from #the end of the tour and my friend was like ‘that is SO you’ and i laughed so much i got tears in my eyes #the red thing right behind it is a traditional Zagreb decorated little heart ❤️ also from that tour #then some (pink of course) clogs from the netherlands my scorpio work girlie got me #and you can’t really see it but there’s like a metal little case of mints with van gogh’s self portrait on it #from the van gogh museum (my cancer bestie got me 🧡) #and the picasso - guernica bookmark bc i was standing in front of that painting in Madrid like a woman possessed #i was in that room for 10 mins like 😮😮😮 #and on the side dali’s painting of a dream he had about his beautiful wife 🫶🏻🐯 also got it in madrid from the thyssen #AND MY LEEBIT MUG MY LONDON FRIEND MADE MEEEE 🥹🥹🥹🥹 #ok now going to WORK fr prommy

[therefugeofbooks]

Happy June 🌈

#booklr #books #book photography #the lady's guide to petticoats and piracy #less #heartstopper #the lucky list #how it all blew up #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #queer books #june #books and plants #alice oseman #mackenzi lee #rachel lippincott #arvin ahmadi #becky albertalli #andrew sean greer #rainbow books #rainbow book stack #the refuge of books

[fadingdaggerr]

“girl” “miss” “young lady” i will hunt you down and eat your femurs

#who are you calling lady?? #i look like two kids stacked on top of each other in a trench coat #for the love of god

[kuwdora]

tagged by @poetikat ! ❤️

Currently Reading: I recently finished Defekt a sci-fi novella by Nino Cipri. A queer anti-capitalist adventure taking place inside a fictionalized IKEA with some world-hopping elements and other SF elements. The main character is Derek and he finds out he is not as alone as he thought and finds community and discovers some interesting things about himself. It was sweet and cute. Definitely made me want to punch management in the face. Great story. I'm gonna go and read the first novella in the series now.

Last Song: Oh, whatever that RuPaul song is from that improv dancing video I've seen on my tumblr dash several times this week.

Currently Watching: I recently finished Midnight Mass. I'm also watching Only Murders in the Building, Ahsoka, Nailed It! Baking Challenge. Star Trek Lower Decks!!! And the occasional Suits episode.

Current Fic: Currently in the middle of reading several long fics. 😍 And So We Fall Together (The One With The Unicorn) by galeaspida, AMAZING Yennefer/Tissaia story. I'm also rolling around my Ciri and bandit feelings with @poetikat 's At Another Time. I've also got @dragneto 's Midnight Mass fic ...in vitam aeternam in my to-read queue this weekend while my religious horror feelings are still fresh. I'm just CHOMPING on those tags. I have a few other stories I need to pull out of my saved tabs this weekend.

Writing: Going to be working on my Vilgefortz fic edits. I'm also trying to make headway on some yennskier/geraskefer stuff and a smattering of other witcher wips.

Next on watchlist: my to watch is so long, I haven't picked anything out yet. Probably something from my horror list since I'm behind on horror films from the last six years. Or maybe John Wick 4.

Current Obsession: I'm still rolling around in a variety of witcher feelings for all the canons. It doesn't want to let up. I have so much fic and many vids to make and try to finish. uhhh I don't know who to tag for this round so if you want to do it!! do it! and tag me please so I can read. ❤️

#i went to the library this month and have a nice stack of books to get through #and i'm almost done with my lady in the lake reread #AND i finally signed up for Kanopy with my library and have a bunch of awesome documentaries on my watch list now #so many things #really. gonna work on the focus thing #finish fic! post fic!!! #tag game #answerdora #blogdora #textpost

[reestablishednexus]

i already have so many characters i cant even keep them straight but uhhhh.... yeah we have room for you

#it's much more noticeable ingame #but this lady is stacked #i think her name is celeste? #idk we got like no story or intro for her she just joined after we saved some elves :v

[sickgraymeat]

they’re the same picture

#but obviously my two favorite people is that episode where kelsey introduces stacks and wildernessa #adventure time #craig of the creek #Jake the dog #jp mercer #lady rainicorn #maney of the creek #maney of the meadow? #is there a ship name for either of these #funny dude + horse gf

[lotussokka]

so i made some things….

the bag was made entirely from plastic shopping bags. it got 3rd mostly bc of how small it was, but im a little salty bc the 1st place was entered in the wrong category (Recycled Articles > Useful > Any Other, but it shouldve been in Useful > Fabric) and a LOT salty bc the 2nd place was shouldve been in Recycled Articles > Decorative > Wood

the gloves were obviously a close race. first place had a better cast on edge (mine flares out) and the first place for the ““sleeveless sweaters”” was absolutely beautiful and intricate bc judith doesn’t fuck around

eat shit judith! you could sweep all your other categories but my hat was better

#from what i hear the judith in question is a very nice little old lady #when i went to pick up my things they were next to judith’s massive pile of afghans and sweaters and shawls and i had a little neat stack #hats and socks were the only competitive categories so im extra proud of my hat #you dont care #im so so salty about the 2nd place entry in the recycling category #it was just a bunch of bottle corks in a frame and im pretty sure they were just purchased bc none of them had indentations from a corkscrew #the first place was at least a well made crocheted area rug made from tshirt yarn #my projects #if you somehow went to this fair and saw these in person no you didnt #im mostly posting this for record keeping and to add the photos to the ravelry projects #i might make another post for the tank top to have a wider variety of photos to add on ravelry #textile arts #knitting