#with the steel chair

[birgittesilverbae]

thinking of babea au again…

bea going to the movies for the first time with mary and it’s like 2008, so they’re going to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

bea frets and spends daaaays agonising over it because she wants to go see the film in her padawan robes that one of the sisters helped her sew and she wants to bring her toy lightsaber, but she’s also terrified of standing out. doesn’t want people to stare at her, because it’s not very jedi-like to hide in mary’s jacket while she orders popcorn.

and it’s shannon who finds her haunting the chapel, coming in barefoot, sore, a little dab of blood still on her neck, which bea points out to her with a soft fingertip as shannon settles into the pew next to her.

“that was ketchup,” she tells bea, swiping at it with the heel of her palm.

“you shouldn’t lie in a church.”

they sit in silence, votive candles and their soft puttering, casting spear-tip shadows up the stone walls.

eventually, shannon yawns, “so hey, sister agatha said you disappeared before lunch. it’s 7pm.”

“i know what time it is.”

“never doubted you for a second” - shannon reaches out to tuck a rebellious strand of hair behind bea’s ear - “but my point was more about you and me maybe going to the grocery store to get some stuff to eat? we can get those instant noodle pots and add M&M’s. have you ever tried that?”

a perturbed frown, “noodles with M&M’s?”

“yeah, the pretzel ones.”

and bea senses, then, that shannon’s trying to rile her up and slip through the cracks formed by her frustration, so she settles back against the pew, folds her hands in her lap, “no thank you.”

but a moment later she’s clenching and unclenching her small fists, staring fixedly at one of the crucifixes. it’s her favourite, apparently, because instead of nailing his feet to the cross, the sculptor gave jesus a little shelf to stand on. ‘that’s actually a little cruel,’ beatrice told her once. ‘without the asphyxiation, it would take him much longer to die, unless the centurions were feeling merciful.’

“bea,” she says, soft. “you know you can tell me what’s wrong. i’m not saying i can fix it, but i’m not going to say it’s stupid.”

bea’s silent for a minute. “but it is stupid.”

“more stupid than noodles with M&M’s?”

her brown eyes are almost blackened by the shadows in the chapel, irises laced with faint impressions of candlelight.

“mary’s taking me to a movie tomorrow.”

“i know,” shannon reaches into her pocket, produces two slightly-crumpled pieces of paper. “i picked up the tickets this morning.”

“oh.” bea squeezes her eyes shut, like she’s trying not to cry. “it’s just… i don’t think i want to go.”

and she tells shannon why, taking out her plastic lighsaber (blue, of course) from under the pew, holding it.

shannon kisses her forehead and takes her through the convent to her room, where her armour rests on its stand in the corner. someone’s already cleaned up the blood.

she lets bea touch the gauntlets, the links of the mail bumpy-smooth under her fingers. tells her, “i felt ridiculous wearing it, in the beginning, but then it saved me from a stab to the chest and i realised” - she huffs a laugh - “that i’d rather be alive, and myself, than one hundred percent comfortable all the time.”

she puts a hand on bea’s shoulder, “you should wear what you want, bea.”

so she does. holding mary’s hand with the sleeve of her padawan robe slipping up her arm, passing kids wearing darth vader helmets and carrying lightsabers just like hers. a couple of them wave at her and say “hi Obi-Wan!” and she buries her face in mary’s jacket, but she’s hiding a smile.

she has a short lightsaber fight with another kid in the lobby while mary’s ordering popcorn; a girl who shows her a pack of Top Trumps cards and tells her she thinks C3PO should be more powerful. bea gives a soft sigh of appreciation whenever Obi-Wan appears onscreen, and afterwards shannon picks them up in the van and bea falls asleep against her ribs as mary drives through the dark streets.

S.O.S. not shannon showing bea her armour and getting her even more invested in warrior nunnery

#ask #'anon' #with the steel chair #warrior nun #babea au #sister beatrice #shannon masters #shotgun mary #long post

[ascending-donotdisturb]

I was not expecting Paulina beating the snot out of Bane to actually go so well concidering I wrote it in 30 minutes on none sleep when I was very definitely SUPPOSED to have been sleeping...

But it did go very well????

And everyone is being very nice and lovely????

And I love and would die for all of you.

Anyways should I write about the Amity class trip from Tim POV or nah?

#dp x dc au #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp #dc x dp fic #dp x dc writing prompt #paulina sanchez #with the steel chair #but Tim

[release-the-mccracken]

"The thing is I like James. Lars, I can take or leave. I think that the whole world kinda looks at it like that too."

DAVE PLEASE-

#dave mustaine #with the steel chair #metallica #megadeth

[lady-raziel]

i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

#taylor swift #RAW AS FUCK #oh my god monica lewinsky with a steel chair oh my god

[aether-friskets]

i am normal about heather mason i have not been having kin-adjacent thoughts trampling my brain for no apparent reason for the past few days

#idk man maybe it's jsut silent hill 3 obsession coming back in #with the steel chair #and thats it #its hard to explain lmao

[whatisamildopinion]

whatever the true reason is for Kipperlilly hating Riz specifically, there is something uniquely hilarious to me about the idea of this high strung rogue harboring this pathological, foaming-at-the-mouth-with-hatred, one-sided rivalry with another rogue student for two whole years, and then she shows up to the first day of junior year and gets read for filth by his cleric friend, who goes on the immediately surpass all previous levels of hatred and create a two-sided rivalry that the original rival is just tagging along with because of Friend Duties. absolutely hysterical that Riz hates Kipperlilly out of disdain for the ratgrinders and solidarity with Kristen, meanwhile Kipperlilly's main-character rivalry with Riz was usurped in roughly .5 seconds by Kristen Applebees whipping out "What are you, like, four dogs?"

#fantasy high #d20 #fhjy spoilers #I'm sorry but this is just TOO FUCKING FUNNY to me #Kipperlilly has been waiting for the fulfillment of her rivalry with Riz for Two Whole Years #and then Kristen came in with the steel chair and seven truckloads of venom for her #Riz does not care. Riz is doing extracurriculars. Riz does not have time to have an arch nemesis like Kristen does

[suenitos]

HBOMB

#with the steel chair #apr23

[mari-lwyd-fannibal-blog]

Hope the execs at Universal Pictures get absolutely fucked by all the fines and fees for damaging the trees at the picket line to sabotage the strikes. 🙏🏻

#They sabotaging the strikes by trimming the trees at picket line in heat of summer BUT WAIT TREE LAW IS COMING THROUGH WITH A STEEL CHAIR! #tree law #support the strikes #support the wga #sag strong #writers strike #actors strike #oc meme #sag strike #wga strike

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#birds of a feather #feralnette au #tw self harm #AND LOOK WHO'S COMING WITH A STEEL CHAIR? #my art

[thankstothe]

The most suspicious man alive offers you a cup of coffee, do you accept?

#house md #gregory house #james wilson #hilson #screencap #s03e22 “Resignation” #genuinely losing my mind at how suspicious house looks in the first one #and Wilson brought a overkill of a steel chair back #which isnt overreaction of course bc its house and he drugged the drink #they can't have normal interaction ✨ #do not accept anything from house btw unless you're his patient lol

[bishy437]

congratulations to moshang for being the most popular pairing of my mxtx charms! 💙 🧡

And congratulations to Coffin!Hualian for being the overall most popular item LOL ❤️🤍

#i'm actually obsessed with moshang winning i didnt see that coming at all LMAO #I love how much the west loves them <3 #i honestly thought hualian would win but then moshang came out with the steel chair xD #Bingqiu was very close to hualian tho! didnt expect that either #also didnt think the coffin!hualian would do numbers so that was hilarious lolol #moshang #hualian #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #svsss #scumbag self saving system #hua cheng #xie lian #mobei jun #shang qinghua #mine

[scienceandfandoms]

Well, it looks like Queen Elizabeth is gonna pull through, and- oh mY GOD IT'S CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!

#queen elizabeth ii #christopher eccleston #christopher eccleston with the steel chair #scienceandfandoms #she speaks

[navycat305]

Something something Max Jagerman prevented Pete from shooting his shot with Steph when he was alive by beating him up and then prevented Steph from shooting her shot with Pete as a ghost by stopping the fucking bullet she was trying to shoot him with

#the true transition from normal high school bully story to oh god oh fuck here comes the supernatural with a steel chair #starkid #nerdy prudes must die #max jagerman #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #original post #does this make sense? i don’t know #do I care? maybe. I get anxious about these things #npmd

[charlottan]

wip map of every blog i recognize ever

#charlottes webs #im back on my shit again. someone hit me over the head with a steel chair

[dejasquietplace]

a real saint

#deja arts #dmc #dmc kyrie #dante sparda #dmc nero #vergil sparda #i think kyrie should be allowed to hit vergil with a steel chair just once #i have a disease that makes me think a lot about underwritten fem characters #i like her a lot #also i'm projecting my love of dad rock #devil may cry

[7crowsinadress]

the urge to be Incredibly Normal about our larp characters vs. the desire to seem normal to my new friends... FIGHT

#and its #cowboy brainrot #with the steel chair