#didn't expect for it to happen that soon

[healing-is-cool]

A.I. took my job🤠😭

[milky-shea]

New skrunkly acquired

[youssefguedira]

V, JoeNicky & Nile

V. An abandoned or empty place.

When Joe pulls the sheet off the couch it kicks up enough dust that it makes Nile sneeze. The couch underneath is old, wooden frame rotting, fabric stained and full of holes where moths have eaten away at it. 

“Sorry,” Joe says to Nile when she finally manages to get the sneezing under control. “Didn’t realise it was that bad.” He puts his hands on his hips and looks down at the couch. Nile looks it over.

“There’s no saving that,” she says, wiping at her eyes. She can heal from falling over ten stories, but she can’t get away from allergies.

Joe frowns. “I liked that couch.”

The house is older than anywhere else they’ve brought her, and has been abandoned for long enough that it’s falling apart. But through some trick of posing as their own sons, or something, Joe and Nicky still own it, even if there’s a giant hole in the roof and all the windows are broken. Why they’d decided to come back here, Nile doesn’t know, but it’s a nice enough area, and a good distraction from, well. Everything. Growing back a leg, she’s discovered, is not fun. 

From one of the other rooms – she thinks it’s the kitchen, she’s not actually sure where Nicky had wandered to – there’s the sound of something breaking and crashing to the ground, and a muffled curse. 

Joe makes a questioning noise in the vague direction of the kitchen. A few moments later, Nicky appears in the doorway, covered in dust. “I am okay,” he says. “But I think we will need to go out to eat tonight.”

“Nothing?” 

Nicky shakes his head. “Unless you want to start a fire and go hunt some rabbits.”

Joe grins. “Just like old times, right?”

Nile shakes her head firmly, which makes Nicky smile. She loves them, but there’s no way they’re doing that. 

“We can probably clear out enough space in here,” Joe says, gesturing to the floor. “Get the sleeping bags out of the car. Probably have to start a fire anyway, but…”

Nile looks around again while Joe says something to Nicky in Arabic that makes him laugh. The house is falling apart, sure, but it’s structurally stable, and the bones are all there. It could be something. They’ve got time to make it something. 

Nicky is the one who goes for pizza in the end – he doesn’t trust Nile and Joe to order it if left to their own devices – while they try to clear out a space in the living room. Eventually, though, after Nile has another sneezing fit, Joe suggests they just take the sleeping bags outside instead, which works out a lot better. He sets about starting a fire with practiced ease while Nile sets out the sleeping bags around it. They’re far enough away from civilisation that she can’t hear cars passing by, which is kind of surreal, and the stars are brighter than she’s ever seen them. 

When Nicky gets back, two boxes balanced on one arm and a bottle of wine in the other, he looks over their makeshift camp and laughs. “Just like old times, then?” he asks.

Joe grins. “Except we have pizza.”

“And actual sleeping bags,” Nile says.

“Ah, these modern inventions could never quite match the comfort of a pile of furs,” Joe says wistfully. Nile gives him a look. She’s ninety percent sure that one’s bullshit, but she can never quite tell with him. 

Nicky sets down the pizza boxes, and jogs back to the car to grab the pack of plastic wine glasses they’d bought before they got here. 

“We should’ve bought marshmallows,” Nile says. “Could have made s’mores.”

“Well, we’ll have to go to the hardware store tomorrow anyway,” Joe points out. “And I think it’ll be a little while before we can actually sleep in there.”

“Tomorrow, then?”

“Tomorrow,” Nicky agrees.

[silver-horse]

guys I felt genuine fear in my stomach while reading this tweet...

[thedreadvampy]

sometimes I forget that my experience has been. um. not 'your experiences are not universal' vibes but more like 'your experiences are EXTREMELY atypical'

[h0estar]

[alinelie]

sheet for kian

victor's sheet

[starlightswordfight]

WHEN ????????

THANK YOU ?? SO MUCH???????? HOLDS ALL 62 OF YOU IN MY HANDS AND RATTLES YOU AROUND LIKE YOU'RE ALL MARBLES. I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING PLANNED FOR THIS I'M SO SORRY

[makorragal-312]

Okay, I already clocked that Lois was gonna find out that Clark was Superman, especially from the show promo with that clip of Clark telling Lois to hold on before he started to fly.

But just the thought of Lois feeling betrayed by Clark and thinking he straight up lied to her face during their interview, (ESPECIALLY with the new developments of their relationship this episode), fucking terrifies me.

[yeonban]

I have to say, whatever happened to me writing-wise yesterday needs to happen again Posthaste bc my inbox was in the 110s just two days ago

[windslar]

My reaction too, Debare.

[epitomees]

((IT'S HAPPENING IT'S HAPPENING IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!

((WAIT!!! NO FREAKING WAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

((SHE BECOMES HIS PERSONA THAT'S ACTUALLY INSANE HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

[cinematicnomad]

i lingered around the office this evening and caught my crush on his own and then we went for drinks to gossip about our teams and he paid for everything 😱

[nihil-ism]

I... Got an appointment for a new apartment just now 🧍🏻‍♂️

Still baffled bc I half gave up to find a new place (those who stuck around for a hot minute know I have been suffering from excruciatingly noisy upstairs neighbors for years now).

It's a maisonette apartment too and they don't mind that I have two cats so I'm... Cautiously excited??

[aethes-bookshelf]

started da2. the plan was to romance fenris but then I met merrill and she's so fucking cute!!!

[meownotgood]

under the influence: epilogue will be posted tonight! aha... it's finally over.....