#mentions of cancer

[adiduck]

Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Characters: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Sarah Kazansky, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky and Sarah Kazansky's Children - Character Additional Tags: Past Sarah Kazansky/Tom "Iceman" Kazansky - Freeform, Mentions of Cancer, Serious Illness and Recovery, Serious Injury and Recovery, Hospitals, Disability, American Sign Language, growing older, Complicated Relationships, Fathers and their children, Slow Burn, get-together, Slice of Life, Warning: Author Is Easily Distracted By Planes Summary:

“You have a fractured left scapula, left humerus, right radius and ulna near your wrist, and thoracic vertebrae ten, eleven, and twelve,” Doctor Oliean said, glaring at him like he’d done this on purpose. “You’ve also sustained a hairline fracture to your right femur, and micro tears to your right achilles tendon and left ACL, as well as extensive bruising along your torso and hips. I have no idea how you are walking at all.”

“Ah,” Maverick said. “Honestly, when you put it like that, neither do I.”

(Or: There are consequences to ejecting twice in the span of two very, very long weeks. Maverick deals with them. Ice, recovering from his own bout of nearly fatal pneumonia, inserts himself like he always does.)

And that’s a wrap! Thank you all so much for reading and enjoying! Watch this space for more IceMav and other shenanigans. I have so, so many ovens in the fire, there will be more ;)

And because it’s tradition now, I’m going to leave you with a song. Actually, I’m going to leave you with two. The first you can take as Mav’s POV. The second, since by now he’s managed to find his voice, is Ice’s.

Here On Out, by Dave Matthews Band Eric’s Song, by Vienna Teng

[memelovescaps]

Elementary again pulling me in, because that's what it does best.

Where We Belong.

Sherlock & Joan, or Sherlock/Joan, whatever you want to read it. Rated: M. Words: 2 904. Hurt/Comfort. Discussion of cancer. Discussion of drugs. Guilt. Lies. POV Sherlock Holmes. Protective Sherlock Holmes. Hurt Joan Watson.

Set in the last episode S07E13 “Their Last Bow”. Missing scene after Sherlock decides to stay with Watson, and the time-jump of one year later. The reality of Watson's illness suffocates them, Sherlock's guilt eats at him for having been away when he should've been with her. Emotions run high, and Sherlock wants nothing more than to comfort and reassure Watson.

Her skin was cool from the shower, but his touch was warm and steady. She looked away, her gaze darting around the room. His thumb stroked the back of her hand, slowly, gently, the rhythm matching the slow, deep breaths he forced himself to take to keep his voice steady. His eyes sought hers, but she wouldn’t meet them. Not yet.

“It’s alright, Watson. Arthur is safe with Rose, and I won’t leave come morning. Tonight, we can take it slow. Agreed?” he said, his voice low. There was a softness to his tone that surprised even him, a warmth that felt foreign and yet… right. Like an old habit finally remembered.

Watson nodded, her lower lip quivering. He could feel the tremor in her hand now, the faintest shake as the weight of her emotions began to surface. He saw the tears well in her eyes and stepped forward.

His arms easily found their place around her, holding her close, as though they belonged there. He pulled her in, gentle but secure, grounding her as she trembled in his embrace. 

The scent of her washed hair—a hint of something floral—filled his senses, stirring a deep, familiar ache in his heart.

He was home.

A home he had missed without realising just how much.

For three long years, he had delved into work, needing an outlet to forget the fact that he missed her. It had been hard to accept that, regardless of trying to focus on his health and sobriety, without Watson it felt like he’d forgotten how to breathe.

He threw himself into work, closing case after case. Trying to avoid thinking about her and spiralling out of control.

All the while, he hadn’t been there when she needed him. When she faced life without news from him, not knowing if he was dead or alive. When Arthur came into her world and he welcomed him. Or when her diagnosis came.

He’d fought his own battles, forcing her to face hers alone. Without him.

And he had failed her when it mattered most.

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[virtu4l-archieve]

and this, your living kiss || opal_bullets

rating: explicit

audio length: 7 hr. 5 min.

ship: dean/cas

tags: poetry, writer!dean, professor!castiel, college au, john winchester's a+ parenting, mentions of past prostitution, mentions of cancer, angst with a happy ending

summary: after years of no longer writing poetry under the name jack allen, dean begand to crave a sense of being alive again. he suddenly decides to move in with sam and elienne, along with their son jack. searching for answers dean reaches out to his old mentor, missouri moseley, who recommended dean to audit an advanced college course in poetry taught by professor castiel novak. who happens to not only be devastatingly handsome and see something in dean, but happens to also be academic’s expert on jack allen.

um does anyone have any poetry recommendations? i’m searching for the similar highs i get from hearing jack allen’s poems. read this fic. read this fic. read this fic. actually- listen to it instead! atylk is known as a classic deancas fic- AND ITS FOR A REASON! i loved it found myself shrieking and talking to myself out of pure excitement as i listened. (god bless podfics!) i’ll definitely listen to it again in the future. xx

[elizaellwrites]

When I was 7, I was up late one night as always because I was an insomniac child with no healthy sleeping habits, and the thought of death crossed my mind. My mom was fighting breast cancer and had been since I was 5 years old, so the shadow of someone dying had been an idea for a while, but that night was the first night that I actually comprehended what it meant beyond an individual.

Of course, I ran downstairs to my parents' room, where they comforted me and did their best to answer my questions without upsetting me further. It wasn't the question of what happens to someone when they die that haunted me the most, it was the realization that so many people had died, and the vast majority of them were forgotten and the world moved on as though they never existed. I was terrified about how everyone I knew would one day be among those who would be gone and forgotten but for a stone in the ground and the fragile material items they left behind. I only cried harder when I realized that eventually, I would be among them too.

This fear was overwhelming, and despite my parents doing their best, it would go on to linger in the back of my mind as I watched my mom slowly lose her battle and pass away when I was 12. I know my words that night probably impacted her too, as she pushed through experimental treatments and fought as long as she could to be able to spend as much time with my brother and me as possible so we wouldn't forget her.

Years later, I used this as a starting point for the darkest points of my writing. The terror of a seven-year-old facing death, the grief of losing a loved one- and the memory of them, the deepest desire to be remembered, and the lengths that one could go to in order to preserve what they have left. My past shows up in different ways within my characters, plot, and worldbuilding, but this small memory of that night in 2007, on a date I don't remember anything else about, is one of the most influential within my writing.

[rosemelon82]

Just finished watching a strange world and I honestly have to say that it is such a beautiful story. There’s a lot of different views you can take on about the story, which just makes it even better. First off, I am just going to say that there is so much representation in this movie. They have quiet acceptance for the queers because our main boy Ethan is gay and according to the disney fandom page, the third openly gay Disney protagonist. Not to mention, his voice actor is also openly gay which is totally awesome. It was just Ethan falling for Diazo and *spoiler* them getting together in the end which was just the cutest thing. I also definitely thought that Callipso gave off butch lesbian vibes but that might just be me being really attracted to her. And not really related to this but Meridian just slays so hard the entire movie and I really hope you enjoy her character. She's just so awesome.

ANYWAYS, it also has a lot of awareness about the environment. It directly/indirectly talks a lot about how humans really need to think about the consequences of our actions on the planet. Everything we do, makes it look like its good for us and our survival as humans. But did we not get multiple warnings about how disastrous our lifestyle is to the environment? Did we not completely ignore it and choose to hide it away? It's going to keep coming back to us and we won't be able to fix things until it's too late.

Third, this movie hits a little close to home for some. It might just be me who interprets it like this but I thought it also represented cancer. It felt as though Jaeger was the one who was dying from cancer and the others were trying so hard to save him. The pando, in my mind, represented radiation therapy or chemotherapy. It seems like it's working until it's not and the only way to get rid of it is pulling it out from the roots. It isn't always possible and doesn't always end well but in this case, it did.

Fourth, I really loved the way that they did not hesitate in showing that parents really do end up forcing things on their children. They might not realize it sometimes because they've tried to get away from it themselves. Love that Ethan was getting the understanding and love that he deserves.

I also love the way that they showed Avalonia as so small. It really puts things into perspective. Maybe the world that you know is so small only because it's the only thing that you've tried to see. Definitely make some decisions that might seem out of the box or something that you don't think you'd do or try because it might be the way to bring you out of that small world that you know. Not to mention, the creatures in the other parts of the world are just absolutely adorable. Also, I got like really excited over the ending. I really hope that you enjoy it, if you choose to watch it. It's such a beautiful movie. I almost cried multiple times. But yea, anyways. Enjoy and thank you for reading to the end of my little rant about this adorable movie.

[cumgrandpa]

Well, everyone, here's my CIA torture playlist. I made it myself for if I was the CIA and I was torturing you. Good fucking luck!

@falconiforme

[nade2308]

This came to life thanks to those pictures of Tom for his 39th birthday that I saw on Tumblr last night, and I was "nope, nope, nope" and then @thethistlegirl was like "ALTHOUGH HONESTLY I CAN SEE MAV DO THAT IF ICE HAD TO DURING CHEMO. He would be that boyfriend." And then there I was three hours later with a finished product of my thoughts.

Mentions of cancer, although I do not describe anything explicitly, there's also mentions of chemo, and hair falling off as one of the side effects of chemo.

Hopeful ending.

These boys are in love and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[allatariel]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: William Adama/Laura Roslin Characters: Laura Roslin, William Adama, Aaron Doral, Saul Tigh, Zak Adama, Anastasia "Dee" Dualla, Billy Keikeya, Lee "Apollo" Adama, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Ellen Tigh, Original Characters Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Domestic Bliss, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mentions of Cancer, Mentions of Drunk Driving, Past Child Abuse Summary:

In another life, Laura and Bill reunite after three months apart before the opening ceremony for a new kind of museum aboard the battlestar Galactica.

What if Laura and Bill met twenty-one years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and had an altogether different fall of their own?

[onlytiktoks]

[adiduck]

Chapters: 1/8 Fandom: Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Characters: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Sarah Kazansky, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky and Sarah Kazansky's Children - Character Additional Tags: Past Sarah Kazansky/Tom "Iceman" Kazansky - Freeform, Mentions of Cancer, Serious Illness and Recovery, Serious Injury and Recovery, Hospitals, Disability, American Sign Language, growing older, Complicated Relationships, Fathers and their children, Slow Burn, get-together, Slice of Life, Warning: Author Is Easily Distracted By Planes Summary:

“You have a fractured left scapula, left humerus, right radius and ulna near your wrist, and thoracic vertebrae ten, eleven, and twelve,” Doctor Oliean said, glaring at him like he’d done this on purpose. “You’ve also sustained a hairline fracture to your right femur, and micro tears to your right achilles tendon and left ACL, as well as extensive bruising along your torso and hips. I have no idea how you are walking at all.”

“Ah,” Maverick said. “Honestly, when you put it like that, neither do I.”

(Or: There are consequences to ejecting twice in the span of two very, very long weeks. Maverick deals with them. Ice, recovering from his own bout of nearly fatal pneumonia, inserts himself like he always does.)

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

—Chuck Yeager

And here we are! The end of one leg of this journey (writing it), and the start of another (posting it for all of you!) It took me nearly a year to the day to finish the first draft of this and then another week and a half of editing before I felt confident beginning to share it. I want to give a VERY HEARTY thank you to my betas: Yoshifan456 for the overall readthrough for understandability (especially for non-native English speakers), Firecracker_aka_Teaminator for the very thorough scrub (especially the open battle conducted against my commas), Henley for the down and dirty plot thread tracing and advice on where to fill in and how to adjust my flow (as well as holding my hand through the great ‘smile’ purge of June ‘24), and Serie11 for the absolutely essential cheerleading throughout this entire journey, and for the quick initial scrub of Part 1. I love you all, this fic would not be half as good without you!

This fic is complete, and will be posted every other day. There are eight chapters. I hope you have as good a time reading as I did writing!

[kalea-bane]

TW: Death of cancer

It’s weird how differently you see life when a close friend is about to die.

Last week I learned that a close friend of mine is dying of cancer. The doctors are not sure of how much time she has left. Even though she suffered from colitis ulcerosa (some chronic inflammation of the colon) most part of her life, it was still a shock when she was diagnosed with cancer in her colon three years ago. It seemed like she beat the cancer but it came back for worse. Now she is waiting for death.

The only positive part about is knowing that you’re friends till the end.

I struggle a lot with this situation especially since my mum was also diagnosed with cancer this summer (luckily the chance of it returning are extremely small after removing the thyroid, because the tumors were small and encapsulated) and it feels unreal.

This friend of mine has the talent to be a really good friend. She always offers her shoulder to cry on paired with empathy and unapologetic honesty (that may be offensive first but you’ll recognise really fast that you needed to hear it). I love that she’s always herself. A bright ray of pure sunshine paired with the most radiant rainbows. Some people think of her as being annoying and tbh I sometimes understand those people but I still enjoy her company (I’m also quite annoying from time to time. I mean who isn’t?). We share a love for Disney, cats and horses and I would have loved to give her the chance to get close to a horse for a last time (I work with therapy horses) but she spends her last days in a hospice that’s to far from my workplace for her. She can barely walk and it’s so weird because she used to be so energetic.

This whole situation changed a lot for me. Two days ago I saw a stunning sunset and it felt different and I was thinking that this could easily be the last sunset I saw. Suddenly life feels so short and at the same time you see so much beauty in it because I get focused on the small things my friend won’t be able to enjoy for much longer.

I hate losing her but I will treasure every memory I have with her.

[justhereforkeefe]

This story was amazing

[420technoblazeit]

has anybody else seen the bit in tommy's new video yet. where he asks mumbo jumbo if he can revive technoblade with redstone. bc that actually made my jaw DROP hol yshit. the pause just before he says it. you can hear the gears turning in phil's head as he realizes what tommy's about to say. the immediate psychic damage. truly horrid thank you tommy. ik techno would be losing it over that joke

[hedonistbyheart]

The brothers Green being cute.

[warlenys]

house md’s worst and best hate crime is wilson’s “i should have spent my life being more like you. i should’ve been a manipulative, self centred, narcissistic ass who brought misery to everything and everyone in his life” followed by house’s “you’d still have cancer” and then wilson’s “yeah, but at least i’d feel like i deserved it!” house risks his entire life to let wilson do too much chemo. wilson didn’t even ask him to do it. house gives up the last of his vicodin to stop wilson’s pain. he lies to wilson about it. house tells wilson that all they need in life is each other. house promises to let wilson die in his apartment instead of being taken to a hospital. he risks everything because wilson asks him to. then wilson tells house that he deserves cancer. there is no fucking reason for this. it’s the best thing they ever did.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Legend behavior from Belle Grace