#Sell my gun

[cashforarms]

Our mission is to ensure that firearms are bought and sold through safe and legal routes.  Preventing illegal firearm transactions leads to fewer lives lost to illegal gun violence.  This idea leads to every decision we make

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

Robert House watching The Courier rip all the copper wiring out the walls of the Lucky 38

[yourlocalabomination]

May I present to you one of the dumbest things iv ever drawn.

[kayden-i-guess]

I've just started Skeleton Key, someone please tell me this 14 year old finally gets a gun. " Oh he's too young-" HES TOO YOUNG FOR LITERALLY ALL THE SHIT HES BEEN THROUGH " He's not ready to kill" HE SLAYED A MAN. HE SLEIGHED A GROWN MAN!!! I love the other inventions they are so cool and Smithers does a great job but please at least ONE gun. or a stun gun that has more than just one fucking dart because that didn't even make it to Point Blanc.

I know he probably won't get a gun, dear god this child needs a break from saving the world.

[emberglowfox]

grappling hook saga

[cryran88]

hi comment on the reigen post but his grip is awful lol. hes holding the bottom weirdly and doesnt have proper thumb support, and his hands are not both on the side of the gun! he looks like hes probably learned from tv and is just very bold bcs of his love of mob

Yeah okay honestly you are correct lmao I completely forgot how badly he is teacupping the grip, i just got ahead of myself because of his perfect aim and composure. But yeah:

This makes total sense though because he really would be able to perfectly mimic a movie actor grip, wouldn’t he? What a silly little guy.

Again, apologies for my bold statements on that post that blew up. Some desperate part of me just really wanted Reigen to be a badass 😩 I’ll just have to beat that part of me back into submission for being so impulsive :’)

Thank you anon!

[feryl-the-clown]

Feeling pretty usable. DM me for content, lots of 🩸🔪🔫 stuff. 😈

[modharvest]

Seepy

[epiimetheux]

Dagger!Ice Au

It was Ice’s father who attended TOPGUN the same year with Maverick. Even though the accident with Goose still happened, Mav managed to win TOPGUN title. Ice’s father was furious cause he saw Mav as a reckless pilot who didn’t deserve a place in the navy. Ice grew up listening to his father’s poisons about Mav and was pushed very hard to become the opposite. Over time, of course, Mav has changed. But Ice still saw him as a person his father despised. Having him as an instructor for the deadly mission put Ice in immense doubt.

Goose didn’t die from the jet wash accident but because of severe injuries, he couldn’t fly anymore. Carole had cancer when Bradley was a teen and asked Mav not to send Bradley up. The paper was pulled but the conflict was resolved quickly when Goose knew what happened. Goose died shortly after Carole out of heartbreak and his weak body. Bradley and Mav were on good terms but Mav still felt guilty about everything.

[shhh-secret-time]

No, see, because, like, you fucked up. Now you have to write that. I need that. I need the Star Park AU.

Below I will present my case:

1) That name is so freaking cute and I love it

2) Your tags made me fall in love with it

3) I know you have more ideas in that beautiful brain of yours

4) I really want it.

Please see points 1 - 4 if you have any questions.

Aafjdjakak Dude?! I'm cackling!

Fuck it we ball. Please look forward to it I guess.

I'll throw more in the tags!

[compacflt]

my apologies if this is too simple or juvenile or personal a question but HOW did you become such a proficient writer? and do you have any tips or pointers to keep in mind? i know you must do a lot of reading and a lot of writing, but your skill is just incredible to me. your prose!! your cadence!! when we get around to talking about it is genuinely one of the best things i've ever read and i'd eat it if i could!!!

this ask was so sweet thank you!! rly made my day when i needed a boost. Hope you don’t mind i took a couple days to think about it cause no one’s ever asked me for writing advice before

idk how i became a “proficient” writer bc I really don’t write that much. something about my fic gave me brainworms and i went into overdrive but that’s…not my usual MO. which is why it’s weird for me too. admittedly i am studying english/creative writing as my second major at uni, but i haven’t learned anything in any of my classes you couldn’t learn by just reading and writing on your own. honestly i should’ve stuck with my IR major instead, i find structured cw classes a complete waste of time. but here are some little tips i thought of that would’ve helped ME:

This is more a “do as I say not as I do” because I’m really bad at habits like this, but keep a diary. You can write about the big events (went to the store, did homework, got laid etc.) but that’s boring—focus on the details (watched someone at west side market throw a glass bottle of olives at a rat, broke a pen and permanently stained my dorm desk and won’t get my deposit back which pissed me off because I move out in a week, this guy’s breath smelled like lemon pledge and it made me wonder if he drank window cleaner before kissing me etc.). Real life is really interesting! How can you write about interesting real life in an interesting way? It’s a good way to practice. You don’t have to do a big reflection at the end of the day or anything. It’s okay to jot down something you saw & then immediately forget about it. It’s the act of figuring out how to translate life into words that’s important

If you type, learn how to type FAST. This is just my experience, but I think typing faster makes your cadence, clause length, dialogue, IDEAS flow better/more naturally. We think in words/sentences, not letters.

This is a super lame tip that’ll make you roll your eyes, but read poetry. Poetry is all about how words/ideas/images sound and interact with each other. Don’t get hung up on one poet—im not really recommending any for precisely this reason—read poetry you love (for me, Ada Limón, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, ghazals etc) AND read poetry you hate (for me, Rupi Kaur, Emily Dickinson, Whitman, etc)! Read all genres you can get your hands on. (I think there are like “great poetry anthologies” you can find for free online if u don’t know where to start. Also you can’t go wrong with subscribing to/reading a variety magazine like the NYer. It’s pretentious but it exposes you to all kinds of weird topics, ways of writing about them, etc.) Figure out how certain combinations of words and punctuations make you FEEL, and why, and why the writer chose (or not) to make you feel that way. Figure out which literary sounds you like and which ones you don’t. For me, i figured out that I REALLY like alliteration, comma splices, zeugmas, the rule of three, and

“he’s [verb]ing again… yeah compacflt’s characters are [verb]ing again… big shocker”

If you have an idea for a piece, figure out what it is you really want to get out of it—to say something? to experiment with a different style? to see your fav characters do something? to have fun?—and then figure out how, on a technical level, you should write to match that goal (this is where the poetry training comes in handy). If you’re just writing to have fun, don’t listen to any writing advice (incl. mine), because most of it is bullshit and over-generalized and will make you feel bad about yourself. Just take the advice that you think will work for what YOURE trying to write.

But if you’re writing to explore some political idea, then you should think about HOW to best write about that idea. What would be a convincing story/allegory/scene to engage with this idea vs. not convincing. I talk on this blog all the time about how disappointed I am that my very-adult-grown-up attempt to deal with the dynamic of “immovable internalized homophobia vs unstoppable falling in love anyway” is rendered a little childish/immature by some pretty unconvincing plot points like the characters buying a house together—I really should have considered how that plot point would interact with the characterizations I’d built already (hint: poorly). You can think of writing as kind of a military structure if that helps—you have strategy on the overarching campaign (plot/character growth/allegory/theme) level, the battle (scene that advances the above) level, and the tactical (sentence-level construction/syntax/wording) level. They all have to work together. If a scene is failing to properly engage with the idea you’re trying to convey, you’re losing a battle that will weaken the overarching campaign. Same thing if you choose a weird word in a sentence/write in a style or tone that’s weirdly out of place with your idea—it makes your engagement with the theme/idea less convincing. just try to be purposeful and consider your strategy on all levels of your work as you’re writing it!! At the very least it’ll make editing easier lol.

But then again when I read my own writing from just a couple months ago I cringe out of my skin, so like—just also accept that it’s a process and we’re all just making it up as we go along. Be proud of being embarrassed of your old work, because it means you’re growing. Own that shit. When I finished writing WWGATTAI i thought it was the best thing I’d ever written, and maybe it was. But since the day I finished working on it, it’s the worst thing I’ve written since then. That’s a great feeling. Not to be like writing grindset obviously bc it’s supposed to be fun—but if what you want is to get better at writing, the strategy is to WRITE a whole bunch of shit, and then own your embarrassment about how much you’ve grown since you started. And know you’re still always growing and learning. there should never be any “goals” where skills are concerned 👍🏽

[vayneoc]

"Wow. It's not often you see someone make such a scary look with such a shit of a pose." ©Wilson

I like to think that since Vayne is not a mercenary originally but a counterintel agent, not shooting people herself but delegating it or just making some "happy accidents" happen, obviously she doesn't have much of a skill at that point. So after finding her new "career path" (via getting thrown the fuck away from her previous one) she spends hours daily at a shooting range. And maybe she's talented enough to shoot right stuff in the right direction. Yet still one rookie shit of an actual merc.

Here Wilson, being a guns devotee he is, just gets a good opportunity to put some proper knowledge into a head, not littered with "10 must-know aiming tips that will make you a pro" and other crap from the net as popular as it is useless.

He mentors Vayne on shooting and guns tinkering. And it's his bad gun-manic influence and Vayne's natural love for learning stuff that results in her after a few weeks finding herself with interest discussing different trigger pull weights or open carry vs concealed pros and cons.

Tho first like 5 days it's them not knowing each other and Wilson just throwing stuff like "Oh cmon, just raise that fucking elbow, it's about shooting the targets, not the floor!" at Vayne and her not having a single idea the fuck is the dude's problem while sternly glaring every now and then.

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

sometimes i think about what would have happened if richard had died instead of henry and the rest of the book had been narrated the song of achilles style and it hurts

[joonisstrange]

I regret everything. But also nothing.

[gho2ty]

off topic tmi but for the first time in my life im being forced to make an actual wishlist for my bday to give to some friends and this is hell

[rawliverandgoronspice]

tbh what I really think is that guilt-trips and pressure over genuine disgust or refusal to engage with the system after its repeated abject failures and current genocide (and worldwide genocide denial) is definitively not the way to go.

if certain elections go... any given way (or any elections honestly, counting the coming french ones where I absolutely intend to vote blank on what I assume the second turn will look like --unless a miracle happens-- and no force on this fair earth can make me do it a third time, I already massively regret having been coaxed into doing it a second time if you must know), it will absolutely not be the fault of the people who refused to engage with a completely broken system that repeatedly failed everybody, but will entirely be the fault of those who profited from said broken system to enable their own power at the literal cost of the powerless dying by the thousands

no matter what everybody ends up doing and what sort of internal peace anyone manages to find within themselves in a truly grueling historical moment, and I genuinely extend my sympathy here, in the name of everything precious let's not get it twisted over who ends up getting blamed in the end.

let's not lose the plot here.