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i bet lilith drug her tongue along the rottenness – soil of your torso, below-mason-dixson line grime . you hip-swinging cadaver , bag of osseous matter and seersucker love , what pagan wasted trucker has come to run us off the road ? in smoked out foxholes shall the lilith repose . she touches herself . she skins off her clothes – brandi nicole martin, from “exit music (for my sweetheart the cheater)”
𝙰𝙽 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙴𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙼𝚄𝙻𝚃𝙸-𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙴 , 𝚂𝙻𝙰𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 𝙱𝚈 𝙼𝙾𝚆.
#kicking tumbleweed across my dash#so uHHHHH .... anyways <3 hi#001. | 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏 𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒 ﹆ promo.
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patience is a learned behavior. not one she inherently finds pleasure in, but one that's worth its weight in gold. so she listens, watches – counts the revolutions of the tires on the pavement, mentally files away the target he'd been after. she'll send the poor fucker an edible arrangements later this week, ensure his security team knows how close of a call it'd been. her fingers are busy, set to the task of re-aligning and calibrating the prongs of her widow's bite. when she hears the change of pace in his breathing, the shift of awakening from from forced unconsciousness.
“<Доброе утро, спящая красавица.>” lazily spoken as her fingers finish their work, as green eyes shift to land on his face – realization that he isn't all there yet apparent in the cold stare. she wishes she could feel any amount of surprise, that she could feel anything other than the annoyance of a job not yet complete – surely, some part of her lingers towards an ache of wanting to be remembered by the only man who matters; but wherever that part is, is long unattached. misused. out of service and no hopes of a grand return. her boot kicks his ankle, purposeful drag of the soles across the floor of the van, before her head tilts, and she nudges a knife just out of his reach. “<Если сможешь дот��нуться до него, я позволю тебе сделать один взмах.>”
tempting fate, teasing the hungry, never loyal dog. if anyone gets to kill her, it's james. purposeful or not. she pretends to not think about the fact that he'd never forgive himself for it, pretends to not know the slippery slope he'd careen down if he were successful. natalia relaxes back into her seat across from him, unbothered, back to counting revolutions of the tires, back to tracking each turn and mile. only a few hundred more before there's enough distance between them and his handler; only a few hours left of travel before the safe house is on the horizon and she can tote him inside to think about his choices. consideration for the fact that maybe, after all of these years, she should think about her own. how many more times would they do this dance? how long until whatever ticking timebomb exists in her own cells ruptures and the end comes? would it all feel worth it, then?
“ get comfortable, it's a long ride. ”
the world always feels the same when he sleeps ; like floating or puppetry. when all nerves are deadened and he's deaf to everything besides his own slurry of a mind. a scream. a thud. his pulse a fractured wardrum in his ears. if he could name it, he wasn't sure which he'd choose. comfortable disquiet was, in itself, a contradiction. but the familiarity loosened the tension his unwaking muscles still held, turning the soldier from a knotted dead weight to something pliant and more easily moved. slumped burden that sagged across narrow shoulders in a way he would, fondly, if able, admit wasn't a first. wouldn't be a last, either. an untamed trajectory called for it. planned behind his back for another round. another after that. until the dance was as old as they were — older even — and, perhaps, he learned better ways to step.
he doesn't feel the shift, nor the bite of steel bonds that crimp skin to metal. he doesn't feel the lurch of the van or the lull of his head, fallen forward, to touch chin to chest. james feels cold. at the brink of hibernation, he walks the tightrope strung over a chasmous void still sloshing beneath. from the mechanical programming and a string of muted words to warmth, bright and waiting for him, at the other end.
stalled in the middle, he rocks.
if they sped or cut sharp, he didn't know. registered little beyond fingers that moved in sluggish, twitchy stir. boots that shifted a thunderous drag amid the silence inside the cripplingly antiseptic guts of the vehicle. as though it were made for something just like this. grinding cybernetics, come back online... glassy gaze staring blind into the veil of dark hair his slouch had left for it. whose hair is that ? his was long.. longer, once, too. but the knots were new. they curled in sweaty rings around one another, swaying with the next set of turns and his own rising head.
give it some time, the ache would be shed. he'd go back to an itchy hum no digging knuckle could reach in his temple. he'd go back to his mission. mission ? the man in the file. right. the one with the square, tortoise shell glasses and smile lines that sank deepest when under a camera's lens. he'd been hot on his tail, tactical blade in hand and..
and——
there she is. sat across from him, expression patiently vacant. red hair.. red lips.. he knows her, he thinks. feels the tickle of familiarity tiptoe a hazardous route up his straightening spine. he knows her, but he can't remember from where. can't place the skip in his chest or why, now, it's paramount he close off. reconstruct a wall decades in the making by doctors and scientists who'd sculpted him equal parts inside and out. down to tenderness cleansed from his stare and a finite punctuation once shoulder blades hit the back of his seat. upright but not-so-attentive, the soldier's survey is a quick one ; a driver out of reach beyond heavy iron bars he knew without testing, he could break through if desired. no weapons, save the ones on her person.. a loose screw that squealed when he shifted his weight further to the right.
he knows her but his expression won't admit it, thin-lipped behind tested tape and neutral as his heels drug back, further. not relaxed, but coiled. waiting. somewhere a needle dropped and even the asphalt underneath them lost its music against rolling tires.
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stares at my blog in wanting to change my graphics again.
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i bet lilith drug her tongue along the rottenness – soil of your torso, below-mason-dixson line grime . you hip-swinging cadaver , bag of osseous matter and seersucker love , what pagan wasted trucker has come to run us off the road ? in smoked out foxholes shall the lilith repose . she touches herself . she skins off her clothes – brandi nicole martin, from “exit music (for my sweetheart the cheater)”
𝙰𝙽 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙴𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙼𝚄𝙻𝚃𝙸-𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙴 , 𝚂𝙻𝙰𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 𝙱𝚈 𝙼𝙾𝚆.
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the crowd goes mild, i add the two additional asoiaf characters i have the most muse for here and continue to exist every 6 days
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would you believe me if i said that predators are quiet? you never die when you think you're going to. one day you'll hit your head & something will leak out and you'll think – oh, so this is what death is like. because it's never what you think it is. slow, deafening. one blow after another. your teeth will never be straight again.
𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝘎𝘌𝘖𝘙𝘎𝘌 𝘙𝘙 𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘐𝘕'𝘚 𝘈 𝘚𝘖𝘕𝘎 𝘖𝘍 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘍𝘐𝘙𝘌, 𝔖𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙰 𝔖𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙺.
#i am still dead from my millions of hours at work but sansa got a lil blog reboot for when i am back#( i will still be here to haunt all of u )
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i drag my carcass onto the dash, i expire.
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me showing up on my dash 3 hours late, tired from work, and covered in spray cheese (also from work).
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bonk the lil heart if you want some memes from your tag sent your way <3
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Fountain of Youth (2025) | Eiza González as Esme
“Hello again?” “I'm hurt. You've not mentioned me?”
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there are, undoubtedly, some people who are capable of doing this – their job – with all the cold, sterile, calculations that's preferred of a russian operative. unattached, disinterested. natalia romanova, for her part, used to be one of them. what difference was the blood of an innocent to the blood of someone who wasn't if they got in her way? easier to merely take out whatever distraction, whatever momentary hardship or speedbump in the road and go about her business, no matter who else suffered. time has changed her. love has warmed a heart meant to be coated in permafrost. the death of an innocent twists her stomach in ways that'd make professor grigor ill to think about. undeserving of a hardship at hands meant for helping relieve a future they'd not asked for. she may not be a hero, may not consider herself aligned in goodness with the likes of steve rogers, but hers is a part played nonetheless. she has james to thank for it.
he is a good man, without the solider's reprogramming. a caveat distinction, the asterisk that often leads to a looking down upon. he's not himself when he's like this, can't be held responsible for actions that were given as orders – not to a man who's lost control of his body and mind.
she does not let him fall. it would be easy to, so simple to watch him crumple to dirty pavement like a worn aluminum soda can. quick reflexes and an adoration insist otherwise, shifting weight from where he'd gripped his wrist to sling his arm over her shoulder before she squats low and lifts all two - hundred and sixty pounds of him across her shoulders in a fireman's carry. a feat she'd never come close to managing without the widow serum coursing through her, then again – without it, he'd no doubt have killed her by now either way. better to die at his hands than anyone else's, but she can't imagine the guilt that'd settle into the depths of him when he awoke. if he ever did again.
heels of her boots click on pavement, steady movement as free fingers tap at the gauntlets on her wrist – and their ride appears at the alley's opening moments later. unassuming food truck, closed down for the day or so it would look to those who'd see it on the street. james is loaded into the back, cuffed at his wrists and ankles, duct tape placed over his mouth – before nat taps a rhythm to the front, and ivan begins to drive to the designated safe house. it'll only be peaceful for a handful of moments, only be quiet for a little longer before the body before her wakes – and she'll be forced to carry on a conversation she may not want to have. all depending on who awakens in the body, solider or sweet james, killer or lover?
there's red hair between his fingers. tangled as fleshy pads rub circles against the scalp beneath. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't try to prove to himself she didn't leave. for james barnes, this is enough. this tender silence under threadbare sheets, one slender arm resting over his chest while the other moves against scar-riddled side. " <не вставай.> " he isn't a beggar, but he could be, for her. a pious man, forfeit his valor, at the foot of her altar because only she listened when he called out against the dark. only she was the warmth that saw him thaw.
he is frigid, now.
there's red hair between his fingers and the soldier torques, best he can, to attempt to rein her back in. steal what distance another firm blow had claimed in thanks to her superior speed and the bulkiness of a hazy hard drive in the choke of the alleyway. not enough space to swing, knuckles clipped brick, its crumbling a racket that moved vermin somewhere out of sight against discarded newspaper and tin trashcans. there's no pain, not when skin splits and a cold night finds that bitter warmth still in him. too mundane is a busted knuckle when the purr of steel prongs meet his neck and, for a second, brief and liberating, his mind is quiet. it's a fuzzy hum.. the static of a radio out of sync. cresting waves against a shoreline. the chatter of a full crowd on the boardwalks of coney island..
there's red hair between his fingers and the soldier torques, his grin wide and taunting when another blow is blocked and natalia resorts to a temporary retreat. spindles, every bit the spider in her web when she moves, the dance is one he practices, often. in a soldier's clumsy boots, he ought not've learned the steps so quickly, " < уже сделано? > " asked as he's crossing the room ; prompting the next round of choreographed strikes that'd become his second favorite reason for sore muscles with her.
a clenched jaw, teeth grit and he thinks he hears a scream in the distance. guttural, rose up from the belly, it's only once his throat bore a burn that he realized it was him. cybernetics all twisted and seized, bionic arm a dead weight that sagged his left shoulder and dropped him, with a thud, to a knee. just the one, he's of a mind to push upward with the other, but finds his sole rooted and the air around him sparkling static. between his ears.. down his spine. there's no second wave to the electricity, but his muscles quiver all the same. provoke him to reach for a delicate wrist he can't manage to squeeze into submission, but chooses, in consolation, to make his anchor. hold tight with the promise he'd drag her down with him.
that's what you're always doing though — dragging her down with you.
the world doesn't go black so much as it fades to a dove's delicate grey. it's the inside of his closed eyes, clicking heels on the cobblestone of the street now forgotten and dreamlike. there's nothing outside of this alley. there's nothing outside of this quiet. there's nothing but red hair, still, between his fingers, as he plummets.
#002. | 𝚁𝙴𝙳𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙴𝙳. ﹆ romanova † riposte.#sovietstrings#ily. nat loves james.#black widow does not love the winter solider but alas <3
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samara weaving as bee in the babysitter (2017)
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𓈒 ೃ࿔*˚⁺‧͙̩̩͙̼ ✟͏ 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗦 , ft. @borndie + dean.
the twenty - first century humans have a word for this, for the reckless nature she carries herself, for the way she flirts with danger at every turn. adrenaline junkie, seeking the rush of a situation that might go wrong – that could go wrong, perhaps, given the right set of circumstances. the thrill of death lingering so close and yet so far away is a feeling she can relish in; one she hasn't felt in centuries. he'd had every reason to track her here, every reason to believe she's none the wiser, too. her brothers might not have taken an interest in playing with their food, but there was a certain enrichment to a long-standing dullness of time watching a struggle arise in confused eyes. watching realization settle in, the aha moment, before it all comes crashing down in an instant.
a graveyard should be too on the nose, but rebekah'd be lying if she didn't enjoy the stereotype. another thrill of playing into such steadfast beliefs brought on by decades of hollywood propaganda.
the steady click click click of her heels on the worn pavement of the car path, feigned ignorance to the barely there shuffling of boots on grass; as if she couldn't hear the very breath drawn into his chest each time he carefully chose to exhale. her pace slows as she nears a mausoleum, glides perfectly manicured nails across marble before she shifts one inch to the right, narrowly avoiding the wooden crossbow bolt that shatters against the mausoleum wall instead. she turns slow, a purse of her lips, predatory blue eyes landing on his frame immediately, tsk falling from her mouth as she crosses her arms over her chest. “ now now, there's no need to be rude, darling. ”
wooden bolt nudged with the toe of her heels, rebekah tilts her head, a sigh that signals more disinterest than disbelief – but something about him feels almost familiar, on the very fringe of a memory she can't quite place. a thousand years worth of memories were awful to keep track of. “ didn't anyone teach you it's proper manners to introduce yourself before you try and shoot a lady in her back? ” half a dozen steps closer, slow on purpose, she wants him to see all of it. “ or did you just get nervous and have a little … pre-mature release? ”
#002. | 𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙶𝙸𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝙱𝙸𝚃𝙲𝙷. ﹆ rebekah † riposte.#borndie#borndie: dean winchester#i am VERY sorry for everything rebekah does and says#dean should absolutely shoot her for real
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okay … not around tonight but tomorrow!! perhaps !! when i am home from … the pokening ™️
#i.e: getting my first awake steroid injection.#i will not say where on dash bc it is in fact … not a fun spot.#:blows kisses: i hope ur all doing well#i am around on discord until i pass out <3
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blinks tiredly onto the dash. i’ve been in this car for an hour and a half already.
#i am unfortunately ….. a car sleeper but trying not to be#i will maybe be around in a better capacity later once im at the hotel#MAYBE
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predictable, like the train that's always on time – a well - studied creature, no twitch of muscle that isn't reminiscent to her. that she hasn't seen half a hundred times before, all across the globe now; he falls into the same patterns every time. each dance the same choreographed steps, the same fluid strokes of death. they'd not strayed much when re-shaping and reformatting the wires of him, a closely followed manual, no room for error; little room for improvement. at the very least, she supposes she should feel thankful for that – the soldier's deadly enough in his ways, especially to those who do not know him. winning only comes in the form of understanding the enemy. understanding that he can only see two steps ahead, and not that the path to victory involves throwing the table across the hall. there is no time for playing fair nor even.
it'd hurt more when she was younger. before she'd come to realize the way of the world – before she'd come to realize that this man and the one who rested his head in her lap were not the same. two ideals within the same host, none of this is personal. a better way for her to rationalize, to compartmentalize the ache each time it rose in her chest and threatened to churn bile in her stomach. the soldier wasn't james. would never be him. yet he resides in there all the same, burnt away and buried deep; left to rot beneath over-conditioned nerve endings and neural pathways. it'd hurt more when she'd thought there would be no future, no more warmth of nights curled into sheets that smelled of him. no hope, no anything; drawn out pain she could swallow down but never forget.
“ <конец пути, солдат.> ” eyes trained to the serrated blade, a new toy – but it makes little difference now. feigned left, then rolled right, gracing right by lunged blade as it narrowly misses black fabric of her suit. another kick to his knee, distraction for the way her left hand glides through air; seemingly missed punch before two prongs extend from her gauntlets and bite into exposed flesh of his neck. “ <прости, любовь моя.> ” no pleasure in it, merely an effect of her position. of his. thirty - thousand volts pulsed into flesh just to the left of his jugular, a swallow as she watches electricity course into his body. never any easier, either – but she'd not resign to let anyone else be responsible for cleaning up the mess. his problems were hers; if she were better, he wouldn't be where he is now.
the night is cold, but it doesn't touch him. a cool breeze doesn't know him in passing any more than those idling eyes that pry where they oughtn't. and that should be the whole of it. where mission takes precedence and the quiet thud of heavy soles turn from rhythmic to a dull, marching pursuit. of a target that wanders aimless, clueless, several meters out. a man to be made an example of. made a mess of. till no one is confused about the cause and some distant, unnamed handler jots the details into a file he'll never see the insides of, nor does the soldier wish to. a tightrope of purpose.. how it nestles beneath his chin and sinks to cinch. a collar. a cause. a tickle at his nape to raise hackles high and swear in the moonlight he'd caught a glint in peripherals one time too many.
it doesn't matter ; it shouldn't. a hiccup is a hiccup is a body in the way. an obstacle to cross and conquer if necessary. squashed beneath the will of shadowed faces and a ledger that sits, now, abandoned in the ashes of a hotel room set ablaze.
it shouldn't matter, but coincidence dies a sudden, deafening death. skids to a stop quick as his choice to reroute and strip loose ends before they fray. back up an alley that swallows with its darkness. through the guts of a city whose nightscape is crippled enough without added efforts, but shudders all the same for their addition. a different time.. a different place, in the mind of a different man, he'd see the irony in this.
but there's no irony here. there's the whir of shifting gears and a scuffed smack of flesh on flesh. whining leather.. the soldier's fingers are gloved but they leech the warmth of a throat that bobs a swallow in the curve of his palm. she speaks through the vice he digs deeper. addresses him with a name that puts an itch in the canal of his ears otherwise ignorant to her protests. small, but not delicate. familiar to the core of him, his hearth is hot and the fire licks for her stoking it. with the dig of nails. the sharp, demanding drive of a heel against his knee. far less unfeeling than he's meant to be, behind the mask he grimaces. bares teeth in a snarl that sits silent, spread just then receding. off — in a tone that tickles reminiscent. off — in a tone that says he has no choice in the matter.
" <слишком близко>, " fact for warning. statement and threat. between spikes of pain and a leg primed to buckle, she earns the distance sought when the brick at her back is abandoned for asphalt and distance. a throw for space and time to seek the blade, sheathed at his hip. serrated, shining, quiet so as not to startle a mark still within earshot, outside of this choked belly no blocks behind him. " <в пути>. " easily enough remedied with his lunge forward.
#002. | 𝚁𝙴𝙳𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙴𝙳. ﹆ romanova † riposte.#sovietstrings#ldskfj nat vc: bad dog :// BAD DOG ://#no one pay attention to the small woman about to deadlift her 1/4th mechanical beef boyfriend in the alley#u don't see nothin
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