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[pinkmanapologist]

when men are hiding the fact that they're all broken and battered and bruised up underneath their clothes, they're basically wearing lingerie. to me

[cartwrong]

Last Line Tag Game

Rules: Post the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you want).

Tagged by the amazingly talented @abubblingcandle This is from my big bang, Prodigal Son

Everything — every bruise, every punch, every minute spent in the dark in a cellar with barely any food or water — had been for nothing.

No pressure tagging @bedannibal-lectaurier @dreamer-98 @whumpdoyoumean @midnightdemonhunter @therineye

[whumpdoyoumean]

Happy birthday to Jack Lowden!!!

Aka River Cartwright, aka my most favorite tryhard cringefail nepo baby!

[whumpdoyoumean]

[midnightdemonhunter]

Jackson and his joes.

[the-grey-books]

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[disappearinginq]

It has been approximately eleventy billion years, but lo! I have actually posted the first chapter of the Young River and Lamb AU!

Under Your Scars

In which I get to be a little nicer, then a little meaner, and then a lot meaner to our favorite Slow Horses.

[tenderlywicked]

Yes, I'm looking at you, River Cartwright.

[lorquiana]

terrible screenshot of my own post but i really really enjoy. how when river jumps between walkways during temple run (escape the park edition). the dogs are just kind of standing there watching him

like yeah. Sure. I guess thats one way to go about it. might as well happen.

[nbcreates29]

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thank you for the ask!

have an out of context sentence for my big bang-

River briefly considers this and then decides that actually, he’d likely remember falling into a coma.

[the-grey-books]

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[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

RANKED: River Cartwright Head Injuries, from Least to Most Concerning

2x04: Unable to brace while falling to ground after getting Tased, probably lands on face

This one barely counts. Also he falls onto dirt and it's the middle of summer, so the ground probably isn't even very hard. I give it zero ambulance sirens out of a possible five. Get up and try again.

5x04: Elbowed in face

Personally I would have liked to have seen more suffering. I give it 1 ambulance siren. 🚨

4x03: Fall through roof into pile of tires

I think he should have cut or scratched his face on the roof while falling. Overall, I give it 2 ambulance sirens, mostly because this occurs maybe an hour after a definite brain injury. 🚨🚨

3x03: Headbutt to nose

Probably broke his nose at least, which goes unaddressed. I give it 3 ambulance sirens. 🚨🚨🚨

4x02: Butt of pistol to back of head

This one looks pretty bad, but he seems fine. You could argue that's adrenaline, but I don't want to argue. Very enjoyable, I give it 4/5 ambulance sirens. 🚨🚨🚨🚨

1x02: Hit in face with pistol butt

He looks super dazed right after, which is probably something to be concerned about. At first I thought maybe he was bleeding out the ear after this, but upon further review, it seems that it was just a cut on the side of his forehead.

I award it 4 sirens. 🚨🚨🚨🚨

3x03: Thrown into lockers and then into wall, implied that beating continued while show cut to other POV characters, further injuries likely

Fun! 4 sirens, and then he manages to remain standing for several hours after that. 🚨🚨🚨🚨

3x06: Knocked out for a few minutes by close-range grenade blast and files/filing cabinets that fell on him

At minimum, no one should have allowed him to drive a car 30 minutes later. 5/5, stunning work. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

4x02: Butt of rifle to side of head

Two hard hits to the head in quick succession (not something they recommend). He remains unconscious for all of the following:

the entire drive back through town

being removed from the van

being carried/dragged into the house and up at least one flight of stairs

being lifted onto a bed

Victor leaving the room, locking the door, and going back downstairs

That's a pretty long time to not wake up after a head injury. Severe brain trauma! Love that for him. 5/5 sirens. Seek medical attention immediately. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Also what a choice to then bonk his head, which I have to imagine is throbbing in pain, against this door.

Also notable that he again chooses to operate a vehicle shortly after injury.

So impressive how he just manages to keep on going despite serious bodily harm, the Kerri Strug of failures.

[disappearinginq]

Brushing at your fingers pleaseeeee

This is so roughly even an idea, I don't even know if it's fair to call it a WIP. But considering how often I come back to it, I think I can count it.

This is an experiment on my end as a writer. It's an alternate season 4 ending, but like....River gets kidnapped by Frank and Patrice, and disappears for months, but rather than us following him on that journey, River completely blacks it out.

So from River's perspective, he goes from being taken from the convoy by Patrice, to instantly at the bridge where Louisa is screaming at the Dogs to lower their weapons, that River is one of them, and he has no idea how he got there, but everyone seems very mad about the fact that he's there at all, and he's trying to figure out what he's done this time, and as he starts to lower his hands, he realizes he's actually holding a gun, and he doesn't know where it came from, and why is it so warm, and where are the Christmas lights, and how are the leaves suddenly out on all the trees, and where the fuck is the guy who kidnapped him in the first place, etc, and like...he has no idea what is going on.

And as Louisa convinces him to drop the weapon (which he's like fine, take it, I don't want it) he gets arrested by the Dogs almost immediately, and is dragged to the Park where Taverner and Lamb are there, which is already fucking surreal as fuck and River now 100% believes he's having a fever dream, because there's no way they would be sitting in the same room next to each other both looking actually concerned, and the more they try to question him, the weirder it gets for everyone because River is borderline hyperventilating trying to figure out a way to snap himself out of whatever the hell is going on here when finally Lamb asks him point blank if he knows what day it is, and when he says January something (or whatever the month is in season 4 when he meets Frank face to face), Taverner tells him "It's June." and River is already freaked out thinking that it's been 6 months, and then Taverner tells him the year, and it's next year. It's been 18 months.

And it's a plot line where River never really remembers in detail what happens, it's just a blank. He's basically time traveled a year and change into the future as far as he's concerned. But while he doesn't remember in detail he does get the odd flashback of something he doesn't understand, or nightmares that clearly aren't memories but like...Horror Version of an event, there are feelings of absolute dread with things but he doesn't know what causes them, or what he needs to do to get rid of them, etc, so his life becomes a minefield that he doesn't know how to interact with. He has scars he can't explain, he has to be told by the Slow Horses what Patrice's name is and what they think happened while he was gone, but it's just guesses. He has violent reactions to things - and not like, cowers but he meets it with violence.

So it's a recovery fic of "what do you do to heal a hurt you can't see" type thing, that is almost 100% psychological. Marcus is alive because Patrice doesn't go back to finish off David, Patrice is alive and makes an appearance much later (which is fun to poke at because Patrice is surprised River doesn't remember him at all).

Whew. Lots of words. But no snippets yet - just trying to hammer out details of what exactly would be happening in this story. Thanks for playing!

[lorquiana]

awesome piece of information to learn

[acecroft]

SLOW HORSES 5.03

[ponyregrets]

can't believe I'm expected to work even though I don't feel like it and would rather not

[tenderlywicked]

River Cartwright waiting when it gets better. Spoiler: it doesn't!

[cartwrong]

what do we think shirley wanted marcus to promise her in 3x6?