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Thinking about the time I mentioned to my dad that I was watching the MacGyver reboot series, and then like a week later he just silently sent me this photo of Mac hitting the "had to do it to em" pose with a roll of duck tape.

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OH MY GOD??? THIS EPISODE?!?

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Happy 28th birthday Stargate!!

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Nobody warned me that college would be this funny

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I’ve been trying to figure out how I keep ending up with 1 defined curl lmao

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Excerpt from the next chapter of a TOG fic I'm working on. "to forget loneliness (and to remember)"

it's been my first time writing for the fandom despite The Old Guard 1 being my favorite movie since it came out :)

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The water was frigid. That might have been Nicky’s least favorite part of the innumerable dives he’d undertaken searching for Quynh. Not the squeeze on descent, not the burning need for air, not the burst eardrums or the stinging eyes or even the drowning, but the cold. It was always shocking, always unforgiving, and always stealing precious breath away right as it was needed most.

Somehow Nicky had become the best diver out of the three of them. Joe had hated diving, Nicky had watched the ocean wear him down faster than the rest of them. His curly hair and beard turning frizzy and dry from the salt, his art on water-damaged paper becoming dark and dull and rare. He’d mustered a smile and carried on, but Nicky had seen it from the beginning. The ocean eroded him, like waves against a cliffside. He was never meant for it.

Andy, on the other hand, didn’t have the nature for it. She was angry and tense and raw, like a live wire before live wires ever existed. Energy required oxygen, drank it quickly and greedily. She wanted to dive into the depth and free Quynh from it, needed to more than any of them, and that was what handicapped her. More often than not, Joe and Nicky had needed to reel her back in from the water after she drowned. She’d hit the deck of their boat, spitting and writhing like the ocean was an opponent she was trying to beat into submission.

So Nicky had dived the most, and he’d felt the weight of their wretched mission heavy on his shoulders. He could dive deeper, and for longer, which meant most of their slim chance of finding Quynh was on him. They’d all known that, though none of them spoke of it. He’d seen it in Andy’s eyes, a desperate entreatment, and a gratefulness every time he’d dived into those godforsaken waves.

“Until you stopped.” Quynh’s voice echoed, garbled and directionless underwater. Nicky tried to place a direction anyways, aiming down. It was always down, as if they were trying to bring Quynh back up from hell itself. Nicky couldn’t reply without letting his mouth and lungs fill with water. Maybe it was for the best, he didn’t know what he could say anyways.

“You humored Andromache.”

Nothing but endless darkness, blue bleeding into black, ears aching, only getting colder and colder with every meter of depth.

“But only until you had the slightest taste of what she felt.”

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A sneak peak at the future of Reichenbach from my plotting doc lol. I'm so jealous of the people who can plot neatly/with a diagram or something. Also, readers, uh, don't worry about it :)

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A couple Mac sketches

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Why is this so cute ???

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MFW I'm not allowed to "put him to sleep or something"

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Common jacket ig...?

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Despite not being a little brother for twenty years, Colter manages to pull off a classic younger sibling face as Russel tries to tell him about his motel sexploit.

+ More brotherly moments from the episode, like Russel slapping Colter's hand away, getting arrested together, Russel ducking into a potentially dangerous room first, the "so what lie are we going with?" glance they exchanged, combat bros, Colter fussing...

Russel going "if you're gonna shoot, shoot my brother first" just for Colter to reply with a weary "oh, come on, why would you do that?"

and then Russel's constant concerned "you up for this, man?" / "you good?"

and then Russel stopping in his tracks for an emphatic "hell no!" when Colter asks if it's goodbye :(( Russel so badly wants a relationship with his little brother, and he leapt at the chance to reassure Colter of that.

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Love me a protagonist who can pull off the kicked puppy look

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I just barely caught the split second view of the screen before it cuts away, and it made me laugh. Colter is being all evasive and mysterious, and his whole found family is just giving him judgy looks.

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Does anyone have a gif from Thunderbolts where right after Bob/Sentry dies and then he goes Void and then his eyes open? Like I want the gif of the first time his eyes open as Void. It was very creepy. I loved it.

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I did a comic page for a scene in one of my MacGyver fics :) (chapter 6)