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thinking about "the unicorn is my favorite extinct animal" and Gale's tired wife expression oh how I miss them dearly

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John's the type of guy to buy a busted up locket when he's in town one night and steal a picture of Gale (maybe one Marge took or maybe he managed to convince someone to make a copy of Gale's official portrait) and carefully cut the picture until it fits perfectly inside the locket and he wears it on his chest, right next to his heart, and kisses it every time he goes up in the air

who wouldn't want this face in a heart shaped locket

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MOTA GIFS PER EPISODE | Part 3 You're on the way to Purgatory and you reach a fork in the road.

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2025 MoTA Omegaverse Week | August 4th-10th

a weeklong celebration of omegaverse clegan!! as well as all things omegaverse masters of the air: fics, graphics, headcanons all accepted!

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MASTERS OF THE AIR as told through stills (03/∞)

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callum turner credit: dark dreams.

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an austin butler/callum turner primer, maybe

hello comrades

the past few days i've really been itching for some new content (preferably of the two of them together but i unfortunately live in reality so separately will do) and i've decided to be the change i want to see in the world. so behold. a primer of sorts.

the sheer delight in each other! it gets to me! (kiss)

first things first, who are these guys?

austin butler

austin (born august 17, 1991) is a california girl through and through. he has an older sister named ashley butler and a bff named ashley tisdale (you're all familiar). he was discovered at 13 and immediately took acting SO seriously. i'm just going to link his esquire article here, because it's honestly required reading and they go over pm his entire life. from painfully shy home schooled baby austin to losing his mom at 23 to coughing up blood after filming for elvis wrapped. a quote:

When Butler wasn’t working on bringing Buck Cleven to life, he toiled away at finding Austin. “I was just trying to remember who I was,” he admits. On set, he had a dialect coach whose main job, he says, was to help him stop talking like Elvis. But the whole Masters experience feels like a blur to him now. “I hardly remember filming that,” he says. “Almost the full year that I was in London.”

FASCINATING. callum in the mud tbh. stop the primer, austin doesn't even remember that man.

and then there's this paragraph that just makes me laugh because honestly, what a little weirdo:

Austin Butler has a funny habit. Rather than fill a natural lull in a conversation, or the space between questions, with words, Butler fills them with—and I’m not kidding here—smiles. Eyes lock. Lips curl. It is impossible not to return the expression. But then you’re just two people, sitting in the back booth, smiling like idiots at each other.

smiling because he doesn't know how to answer a question! making it a whole performance! he is so deeply in his head all the time!!! i wanna crack him open like a walnut and study his brain!!! seriously, read the esquire article and then come back.

anyway, moving on.

callum turner

callum (born february 15, 1990) is a chelsea boy who was raised as an only child by a single mom on a council estate. he often talks about growing up right next door to some of the most expensive real estate in the world, and the huge wealth disparity between him and his classmates. his mom sounds like the coolest person in the world - she was a club promoter when callum was a kid and boy george coming over wasn't an uncommon occurrence. a quote:

Turner’s mother ran nights at London clubs including the Ministry of Sound, and fostered her son’s early interest in film (he cites Billy Elliot as a childhood favourite). She had wanted to be an actress, but hadn’t had the chance. He credits her with his performing gene, and his chutzpah. “She instilled this belief in me that if I wanted to do something, anything, I should go for it. Although she was also always saying, ‘Get a trade. Become a plumber.’ And I’m like, ‘No. I don’t want to be a plumber. I want to be a footballer.’ I didn’t want the safe option. It’s nice to take risks.”

spoiler alert: he didn't become a footballer, but he IS sad about that. i just love how he talks about his childhood and growing up:

‘Oh, I know them all,’ he says of his coterie of fabulous London acquaintances by birth. ‘The thing I always find interesting in my childhood was, yeah, I was growing up on an estate, single mum, working-class, but then I also had all these colourful characters around. It wasn’t about navigating two worlds,’ he says. ‘There were three, four, five more.’

and a last one about his childhood:

Turner was raised by his mother, a “brilliant woman” who worked as a nightclub promoter during the New Romantic movement in the Eighties. Her job meant an eclectic mix of characters from across the London club scene were constantly passing through Turner’s front door, with some even living with them when he was a child – “The father figures were a lot of different gay guys, basically.”

this is explained in detail in all the linked articles but he signed as a model at 17-18 and travelled the world a bit for burberry, comme des garçons, etc, having to lose like 6 inches off his waist bc the fashion industry is evil. if you ever wondered "damn, he looked so skinny in his modelling days", there's why. after that he worked at dover street market (a cool high fashion clothing store, i am told) for a couple years while trying to make it as an actor.

just including this because it makes me laugh tbh

in the independent article he also talks about being a big stoner and self medicating with weed for a good few years because he "was dealing with a depression or a frustration".

I was acting, doing films, and smoking weed every day. I never smoked on set but as soon as I got home, I was like a real addict. I definitely missed four years of my life.

including this because he seems like such a happy go lucky guy, but he's got his own demons. in a different interview he also talked about trying out therapy, and his mom retrained as a therapist as well. i'm a big fan of the turners.

anyway, that was too long, on to:

callum & austin

(so sorry to nate and anto for the crop)

in february 2021, austin was supposed to fly from australia (where he'd just wrapped on elvis after working on that for 3 years straight) but instead his body gave out and he was hospitalised and bedridden for a week. either during this period or after he flew to the uk and was doing his 10-day covid quarantine, callum sent him a first voice note, and austin replied in such an elvis voice that callum was like we're past that babe:

Butler and Turner exchanged voice notes after Elvis wrapped, just before they were set to start shooting Masters. [...] “It was like a voice note from Elvis, you know,” he says. “And I just sent him a message: ‘Elvis has left the building.’”

i'm sure he thought that was very funny. if i think about the voice note period too much my brain starts to conjure up too many scenarios so let's move on. to bootcamp!

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mr presley you're doing such a great job

they spend the next 10 months filming together. they bonded right away and seem to have spent quite a bit of time together:

The two bonded, spending downtime walking Turner’s dog, or grabbing a meal on a Sunday. “Austin and I have a very special relationship,” he says. “It’s deep, and it’s profound. I’ve made friends through the years that I love. And there are people that you work with, and have a great time with, but they don’t necessarily become your friend. You still love ’em. But Austin’s my friend.”

genuine friends!! and obviously these quotes are from the mota press tour in january 2024, more than 2 years after filming wrapped, so we can assume they've kept in touch, despite austin's phone allergy.

also at some point nearing the end of filming callum, austin, fionn o'shea and mustafa the poet went to see... something idk. this was posted october 2021, if someone wants to sleuth and tell me lol.

and this is where i introduce ruthie rogers. you may have heard austin and/or callum mention ruthie in interviews before when they talk about their weekly sunday roasts. maybe, like me, you assumed she was someone from the mota crew or a previous project that they'd befriended, but you'd be wrong, she is in fact the owner of the river café in london, which has a michelin star. lol. here's a quote from an interview with ruthie herself:

Rogers, whose Italian nonna-ness extends to her home, tells me how she hosted a group of actors that included Austin Butler and Carey Mulligan for supper for 39 consecutive Sundays following the loosening of lockdown rules. “Everyone was away from home and their families so they would come to me. They would help me cook and then we’d play cards. It became a sort of tradition.”

39 consecutive sundays! carey mulligan! okay! that's fine, i don't desperately need to know who else was there or anything

here's a podcast between austin and ruthie where she talks about the weekly dinners in her intro but sadly it doesn't come up during their conversation. it's a sweet listen though, they're clearly close and he calls her family.

and this is irrelevant to everything except it's so fucking endearing:

A WhatsApp message sent by the actor Callum Turner may have also landed on the industrious phone. “He sends me his Wordle score every day,” Rogers explains. “A sweet boy.”

a sweet boy! so true, ruthie

here they all are in september 2022, when ruthie hosted a party at the river café in honour of elvis being released. you've probably seen pictures of this event because austin basically unbuttoned his entire shirt and callum looked like the most supportive boyfriend.

like that's just a family portrait i'm sorry.

and speaking of supportive boyfriends, in december 2023 austin came out for a new york screening of boys in the boat too!

(austin are you okay) (is this the reason callum told austin to smile at the mota premiere)

alright so we've made it to january 2024, when mota comes out and the press tour starts. we immediately get hit with this gem:

Turns out the pair had hung out at Butler's pad and watched the Golden Globes one night earlier. Just the two of them. No glamorous girlfriends, no entourage befitting two major stars on the rise. "We were just going to go out and have dinner, and then we decided to do something relaxing at the house," Butler says. "So we ordered food, lit a fire and had a romantic little night in."

romantic little night in... probably the first time they had a night to themselves since filming ended... girl the possibilities

another quote because i can't handle how much callum turner loves austin butler:

"And we were just unbelievably kind to one another from minute one. I guess we just teased each other and looked after each other simultaneously. It was beautiful working with him. He’s such an incredible actor, and I learned so much from working with him, and as a man. Some days, I would go just to entertain Austin. If I didn’t make him laugh, I wasn’t doing my job. He was such a safe place, and I hope he feels the same with me, because we just loved each other."

"if i didn't make him laugh, i wasn't doing my job." 🫠 callum, say so much less. if you'd like to see them love on each other in video format, boy do i have the clip for you:

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if you wondered if callum knows he's being sappy, yes he does. he knows and he can't stop because he needs the world to know too, i guess!

i might as well stop here or i'll end up linking their entire press tour, but i just want to leave off by saying i think they're very neat, and i love that they're so different in some ways and so alike in others. the obvious extrovert vs introvert dynamic, where callum acts as a social buffer for austin, and makes him feel more at ease, but vice versa callum's also said that austin's presence on set made him comfortable taking big swings. it's about the give and take, the yin and yang!!

and they obviously share a huge love of movies and their craft, and they're competitive losers, they had to make their own way in the industry, they're beloved by all their castmates, etc etc.

in conclusion: they're in love. i hope you learned something and if not i hope you at least liked seeing it all compiled. thank you for coming to my ted talk, i love you like austin loves grabbing callum's shoulder

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was trying to find his most fratboyish pics for like. uh. smth. and i thought there'd be like 4. girl i can't even fit them all in one post

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why do you say it took years for austin to realise he was in love in this lore? what did you notice, how did he change, what was seen 😭

i just think it's the perfect storm!

first of all you have the aftermath from elvis. the method acting, the anxiety attacks, the hospitalization--austin's said he didn't really know who he was or what he liked anymore after wrapping that movie. he said he had to try and find a way back to himself, and i think that being so divorced from your own feelings and body for so long would make it really difficult to a) actively identify any of his feelings at all and b) his feelings for callum vs gale's feelings for john. so with All That going on that he could very comfortably remain oblivious to the way callum makes him blush more than anyone else, makes him laugh harder, makes austin immediately look for him in every room he walks into...

until, oh. i dunno. he realizes--smack dab in the middle of doing press for mota years later with callum flirting with him on camera during hours upon hours of interviews--that he's been in love with callum the entire time!!! all those little moments where austin gets a little shy and/or giggly, where callum tries to play footsie with him and says shit like "i fell in love with him immediately," where they have to talk ad nauseam about their ~bromance...and all the while austin's just sitting there like :)) haha :)) fuck :)))

meanwhile, callum:

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hello lady egg. i cant stop thinking about austin and callum they look so fucking good together im losing my mind

whatever you do don’t think about how austin came off of wrapping elvis and immediately went to mota bootcamp. don’t think about how his body literally shut down and he was coughing up blood and bedridden for like 2 weeks. dont think about how they sent each other voice notes before they actually met. don’t think about how austin spent so much time as elvis that he didn’t know who he was anymore. don’t think about how one of the ways he tried to find himself again was by taking a pottery class. absolutely do not think about how he made callum an ashtray. don’t think about how callum said he fell in love with austin immediately when they met. don’t think about callum staying in his american accent the entire time they were filming, even when it was just the two of them hanging out. don’t think about them discussing in depth the relationship between their characters. don’t think about callum making up (?) an anecdote that at gale’s wedding john joked it should’ve been john & gale getting married. don’t think about character bleed. dont think about them having what they called a romantic night in, watching the golden globes together. dont think about callum calling their friendship deep and profound. don’t think about callum saying he went to set everyday just wanting to make austin laugh. don’t think about how austin claims he can barely remember that year in london. don’t think about austin being physically incapable of realizing he’s in love with callum until 2 whole years later when they’re doing press together. don’t think about him rationalizing his love for callum as the love gale felt for john. don’t think about callum playing footsie with him during interviews. just…don’t.

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Have u wrote this before? Vampire! Buck x Vampire Hunter! Bucky. Maybe Bucky knows he’s being seduced. But he still lets Buck have his way with him. A bit of vampire sex until Buck thought he’s got Bucky where he wants and is about to bite when Bucky flips them over and handcuffs him. Saying he knew all along.

points this is vampire Buck yep that's him right there

Gale who's like a thousand years old but got turned into a vampire in his early twenties, still young and hot and beautiful absolutely no one can deny this young (?) man when he sets his eyes on something

John who's an experienced vampire hunter, has been hunting since he was a teenager (maybe some angst with loved ones and vampires who knows) so he's gotten really good at spotting them, knows when he's being played and knows every single trick in the book

he meets Gale at a bar, a young man sitting at the bar by himself with just a coke in front of him, looking around, looking lost until his eyes land on John and Gale's mouth waters at how good he smells, man he just wants to take a bite out of him right there in the bar, so he plays coy and aloof, eyes scanning over John once before darting away, shyly

and of course John knows what Gale's playing at, knows all of the signs of a vampire on the hunt, playing young and innocent but John can see the way his skin shimmers slightly and his chest doesn't move, you would think a vampire like this would know how to fake breathe by now, but John bites, lets himself fall into the trap and sidles up to Gale at the bar

John isn't one to turn down something young and beautiful, so he lets Gale seduce him, lets Gale play all of his tricks with his eyes moving slowly up and down John's body, taking slow sips from the coke bottle and flexing his fingers around it, setting it down and running his fist up the top like he would a cock in his hands, John would be a fool if he said whatever seduction wasn't working so he allows it, wants to have a little bit of fun

Gale's able to lure John to a hotel, a little rundown place with no guests and barely a receptionist and John plays along, arm around Gale's waist, biting his lip as he allows his eyes to look up and down Gale's beautiful, tight body, he can't deny how beautiful the man is even if he were a vampire

once they get to the room Gale shoves John against the door and kisses him like a madman, kisses him like he's hungry (he is) and immediately starts pulling on John's shirt, pulling it away from his neck and John smirks underneath Gale's lips, picks him up by his waist and drops him on the bed before returning to Gale's lips with a fervor, he has to admit he's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen and almost feels a little bad for what he has to do

John can almost forget a little bit when Gales hands are sliding underneath John's shirt, when he sighs and groans underneath John's lips and wraps his legs around John's hips to pull him closer and John almost forgets he doesn't have any blood running through him because he feels Gale's hard length, feels him firm against his hip and he can almost forget why he's allowing himself this pleasure to begin with

but of course he remembers when he licks his tongue into Gale's mouth and feels sharp canines, runs his tongue against them in a tease and that's when Gale pulls away with a well rehearsed moan, shoving his face into John's neck and playing overwhelm, but John can feel Gale's tongue working the muscle, can feel the scrape of Gale's fangs on his neck and that's when the fun is over and he has to do his job, ripping his neck from Gale's mouth and flipping him over with a grunt, pinning his arms behind his back and holding him down against the bed

hey it's terribly hot because Gale loves the thrill of the chase, loves that he's been caught, and maybe John does cuff him and intends to bring him in but Gales goading him, demanding that he finishes what he started, come on, fuck him like a man, and honestly, who is John to deny him?

nasty freak vampire sex yep pretty much thank you anon

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listen. college drummer senior year bucky urging freshman buck to sit on his lap as he plays. buck agrees but is also biting his lips and blushing from shyness while their friends record this interaction. bucky finds it absolutely adorable

OBSESSED I love this idea poor Gale is just absolutely floored

John who plays the drums in a stupid little garage band, plays in basements and house parties and frat parties to make a little bit of money, an alt rock type of band so every girl loses their mind whenever the band plays on campus and it's the talk of the town of whoever gets to have this band in their basement for the evening

and Gale doesn't know much about this stuff, he's associated bcs Marge is in a sorority and Rosie is in the brother fraternity so when they come to him excitedly saying that Johns band is going to be playing in one of their houses basements Gale goes along with it, doesn't quite understand the hype but goes just to have fun

the basement is hot, crowded, and loud and Gale pretty much hates it until Marge drags him near the front where the makeshift stage is and Gale sees the most beautiful man alive on the drums

he's not wearing a shirt and he has a backwards cap on, muscles tensing as he plays, sweat across his brow that causes the curls sticking out of his hat to stick to his forehead and okay maybe now Gale is starting to understand the hype behind this band

at some point the drummers eyes wander through the crowd lazily until they land on Gale, and that's when his eyes turn curious, and then hungry, and Gale could melt right under that gaze and to make matters even worse the man points at him with a drumstick and beckons for him to come closer, Gale can't fucking believe it until Marge pushes Gale to the stage herself

but the man is not pleased with Gale just at the edge of the stage and beckons him further, an absolutely devastating grin splayed across his face and Gale finds he can't deny that grin so he awkwardly climbs up onto the stage and walks towards the drummer, feeling everyone's eyes on him

"what's your name, beautiful?" the man asks and Gale immediately flushed

"Gale," Gale mutters and the man grins again

"Pretty name with a pretty face, come on Gale, join me for a set, the name's Bucky," the man, Bucky, says

Gale moves to sit behind him but Bucky just shakes his head with a sly smile

"nah not right there, come on, saved you the best seat in the house," John says, motioning for his lap, and Gale REALLY feels like he could melt right there

he should be embarrassed, should be a little ashamed, but Bucky is so fucking hot and he's waiting for Gale to sit in his lap and frankly, Gale doesn't quite remember the crowd of people watching them, so he easily straddles John's lap and smiles nervously down at him

that's when the whole crowd behind them cheers, cheering Bucky on and Gale can feel his whole body flush in embarrassment but Bucky just shakes his head, maybe even tilts Gale's head with a finger so he's only looking at John, and oh my God Gale might not survive the night

Bucky does the entire set looking up longingly at Gale, biting his lip and sneaking in a grin every now and then to which Gale shyly smiles in return

once the band finishes and the raucous applause ends, John still doesn't invite Gale to get off his lap, instead asks for Gale's number and invites him back to his room, which Gale really should say no to but he finds he's enraptured by the man and nods far too quickly

yeah Bucky being smitten from moment zero what else is new

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AUSTIN WITH KITTENS

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