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Realized I've never drawn him

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First Lines tag game

tagged by @hr-twink 🩷 ily

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

So decided to do it half with my drafts and half with things I actually post on my ao3 [gonna include games staff tho I have @johnisababy blog for that]

1. Cyberpunk 2077 _ Johnny Silverhand/V [draft]

• When the door from the backroom of the club slid open, V saw Johnny in the middle of snorting a fat line of some white powder. Everyone from the band turned their heads toward V, only Johnny was a second late with that, as he finished the line.

2. Slow Horses _ River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb [posted on ao3]

• If River was an animal, he would be a dog. Not a pretty one or some fancy breed. He was that kind of dog that got neglected and then abandoned in a shelter. Even though, when James looked at him sometimes, the way the sunlight caught in his hair, it was hard not to compare him to some beautiful golden, slightly-red retriever. But no, River was like graying mutt, not really old but unloved, just waiting to die.

3. Elden Ring _ Messmer the Impaler/Tarnished [draft]

• Messmer knew that everything would change when night fell over the Shadow Realm. […] It was dark now, but not completely dark. The sky was full of stars and the big moon couldn't be missed. He sent his knights to ask Rellana, if she had heard anything from her sister's men, scholars from the academy. The response came quickly and was delivered by Rellana herself, suggesting the seriousness of the matter. „Lord, darkness has taken over the lands between. Queen Rennal's scholars are still trying to make sure, but there’s apparently a new Elder Lord. They claim it's Tarnished”

4. Slow Horses _ River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb [posted on ao3]

• He always called here late at night, just in case she was on the other side of the world and it was noon for her. He didn't call her often, actually only on her birthdays, but he forgets about them every other year. It wasn't her birthday today.

5. My Own Private Idaho _ Scott Favor/Mike Waters [draft]

• Mike woke up in the car, in the front seat. It's better than waking up in the trunk at least, he states. The car was nice. He took a look at the driver. That was what really woke him up, almost like a line of cocaine. Without even thinking he tried to get out, jump out, just run away. The driver reacted quickly, tugging him hard by the jacket, when Mike opened the door just a little. A sharp wind blew inside the car, which was going quite fast, or so it seemed to him. The wind and its sound as it entered through the narrow gap effectively scared Mike enough to slam the door shut. „You’re fucking nuts” the driver, Scott Favor himself, said, glancing wide-eyed from the road at him, still firmly clinching his fist on Mike's jacket.

6. Slow Horses _ River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb [posted on ao3]

• River and Spider were training at the only men's facility. All the guys who were send there, lamented the fact, that they ended up there and not in a mixed facility. Spider complained about everything except that. The clothes are ugly, there is too much mud here, the water is to cold, the mattresses are shitty and so in, but he never participated in those series of lamenting the lack of women. River didn't participate in those either.

7. The Boys _ Gen [draft]

• It’s been two weeks since Soldier Boy fucking exploded. One week since Homelander decided to introduce Ryan to the world and since he lasered someone's head in front of him.

8. Slow Horses _ River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb [posted on ao3]

• After that night of their compilation about River's Onlyfans career, they continued sleeping together. They met on average once a week, sometimes a little more often. Now after the whole drama with Cartwright's father and his grandfather moving to the nursing home, River was at Webb place almost everyday. Obviously, River didn’t took finding out, that his father turned out to be a psychopath, who was impregnating women to make his own little army of psychos, very well.

9. Kingdom Come: Deliverance _ Dry Devil /Jan Žižka [draft]

• Right after Devil shoot his best friend in the eye Katherine and Godwin took Zizka inside the fortress, to patch him up. Katherine and Godwin have long since comeback and gone back to drinking their victory. It was getting dark, Zizka still hadn't returned, so Devil decided to check on him.

10. Slow Horses _ River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb [posted on ao3]

• River had no idea why, he couldn't stop thinking about what Spider had said. Specifically, that his true calling was starting an Onlyfans. Why couldn't he stop thinking about it, when his colleague remained kidnapped. Maybe because he doesn’t remember when he had a good fuck last time and he’s stressed and flustered all the fucking time.

don’t have anyone to tag so that’s it :P

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you are not serious people etc etc

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Pinterest has been feeding me pictures of young Jack Lowden, plus my bf has been chatting to me about it so here is a not-complete list of Young River HCs hehe

• Grandparents dressed him the best they could, but he ended up looking like a newspaper boy from the 1940's most of the time.

• Tornado of a child, he was always up a tree, knee-deep in a creek, digging in mud, or scaling old stone walls.

• ALWAYS had some kind of bruising or scratches on his knees and elbows.

• Autistic and ADHD as hell, and combined with him being raised by elderly people, River didn't really fit in with others his age and ended up gravitating towards the older teens and young adults in his village who took on older-sibling roles to this insane kid.

• Was often bullied by others his age and got good at outrunning them.

• Going into his teens, River was a bit of a delinquent.*

• He would steal cars and break into people's houses/shops, not out of malice or to actually keep/steal stuff, but just to prove that he could. Also, to prove himself to his grandfather as a spy/agent.

• As such, he'd often end up carried by the scruff of his neck back to his grandparents by the local police. Never got in too much trouble though.

• One time he stole a car and managed to get it all the way home. His grandfather made him return it immediately, but was somewhat proud of his grandson for managing to not get caught this time.

• Was top of his team in track and field. Would often keep running well past what was needed, found it meditative.

• Never studied and was a chronic daydreamer but managed to do well in his classes due to his ability to recall information so well after only hearing/seeing it once.

• Listened to a lot of old music cause of his grandparents, but got into rock/alternative stuff in his early teens due to his older friends.

• Drank in fields on the reg #teenagerinthebritishisles

• Read old cartoons often (Tintin, Asterix, Corto Maltese.)

• Got so many uniform write-ups from his time in secondary school.

*(inspired by these pics of young Jack Lowden, and my bf wondering how River knew how to steal a car so easily.)

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Can someone tell me, will it be possible to watch "The Fifth Step" play with Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman, online, recorded or something? Before you hate! I’m not asking because I’m stupid idiot who doesn’t want to pay for tickets and go and see the play in theatre. I would love to! But I can’t just fly to UK anytime soon.

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lines that keeps me up at night

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the face he makes…

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i can’t imagine why would he said that, besides gay panic

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he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

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did anyone ever took this man seriously?

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lately half of my free time i spend writing about those two losers, if you want to give it a read, here it is

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Aaaand here's another plot bunny (spoilers for book 7): what if after his (nearly fatal, but not quite) head injury Spider is admitted to the same MI5 establishment where Sid is recovering from hers?

Eventually, they both end up on the run and looking for River's help—and he'll have to deal with the two of them bickering. Poor boy. How will he cope?

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i can’t believe me and Spider's dude-bros watched the same scene on the bridge. River's thigh in between Spider's legs, their faces centimeters apart, River looking back and forth between Spider's glossy eyes and his lips, Spider starting hyperventilating on the ground, tho River’s already gone. And the dude-bros are like 'yeah! that’s our man! our alpha! our sigma!'?

Spider, i hate to break it to you, they aren’t your dude-bros, that’s cartwebb fanclub. You got played just like River…

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character of all time to me

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it hurts so much, that they didn't include River's memorie in the apple tv series, about seven years old him being dropped off at his grandparents' house. David telling him right after seeing him for the first time, that his name is stupid and it’s a shame he’s not a dog.

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no difference