we all have claws

but only some of us are willing to use them

[knightwar]

Selina has always tasted like the streets. The kiss of asphalt. The heat of a blistering cloudless day. The unwavering freezing emptiness of a dark night. She is inhaling war into your very lungs, where everything is an act of violence, of claiming, of pursuit, where the chase only ends at your grave. And perhaps in the long span of her absence, it’s what he’s been missing. 

To survive is feeling alive, wasn’t it? Or was it the other way around?

It didn’t matter. His hands wound into and clasped onto her hair, keeping her close as if it was her teeth and her bite was all that was keeping him together. His sanity at the tip of his lips and inevitably hers. Heart and body, for once, at one. Pushing, pressing, crowding her against the wall as if his very life depended on it; as if giving an inch, even a micro one, would let the cat loose and run out to play with anyone else but him. 

A growl stirs when he feels her pull away, parting for reasons THE WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE could not comprehend in the moment. His gaze clouded, lidded, intoxicated with her. His breaths quiet, like a prayer only held between herself, his god, and air. Clinging to the tail end of each one to keep himself whole. Until of course she steals it all away from him without even a slash of her claws or the plunge of a knife. 

Heart. Breath. Thoughts. 

All in her hand and crushed under the heel of her shoes. 

And he wonders briefly, his eyes falling to watch the slow swell of her chest with every inhale and exhale, if this must be what love was. Feral and disastrous. The perfect tandem of them two. His expression shutting down. His words dying in his throat. And he’s not sure if it's supposed to ache this bad or burn this good. 

“ Wait till you try our bed. “ 

[shepurrs]

The cat was away, and oh boy, the mouse did play. He answers her frank honesty with a taste of her own medicine. And her reaction is to HISS at him, face set in a snarl, teeth on full display. Her pointy nails dig deeper into his cheeks, not dragging down to leave the full effect of a claw mark, but bitting into his skin enough to begin drawing blood. To begin leaving another reminder of all the destruction they have caused each other.

She does wonder what tokens the Amazon has left behind on him, too, because there's no way the legend that follows her around is true. There's no way anyone can be that fucking good. It just doesn't exist in this world. Goodness, kindness, they're all like Hallmark holidays. Ploys to twist the narrative into something that's bullshit and made up. All they ever accomplish is making the pain hurt more when it comes. And, make no mistake, it always comes.

Her heart beats against her chest, and she worries for a second that it has grown claws, that it's gonna jump out and leave her dead on the rooftop, in the arms of a man who can't seem to keep his dick in check.

He was a terrible husband, and he makes for a worse ex-husband. Because he won't let her go. They're glued together. It hurts, yeah, but tearing it off would be so much harder.

Still hissing, still all feral cat, she rubs against his lower half, cursing his Kevlar for hiding the hardness she knows she's egging on. At his request, she thinks of their bed, that lonely place that became just another battleground for her to bleed out on. She hates him again!!! For reclaiming something for himself that he ruined!!!!

❛ Did you enjoy fucking her in our bed? Does she make you come as hard as I do? ❜ She's growling and hissing and literally spitting the words into his face.

❛ Tell me everything, Bruce. Tell me everything you did in our bed with her, or I swear to fucking God I'll leave tonight and you will never see me again. ❜ She wants him to hurt her harder. It's not an empty threat.

They both know how capable she is of leaving him.

[blackcatrph]

» black  widow  movie  quotes.

PART  TWO.

“ move to the door on the south wall. ” “ just don’t make a scene. ” “ you made a scene, didn’t you? ” “ move your ass, super soldier. ” “ what are you doing? Are you kidding me? ” “ we’re both doing a really good job. ” “ this would be a cool way to die. ” “ why the aggression, huh? ” “ you don’t have to get so clinical and nasty. ” “ it means so much to me that you came back for me. ” “ can we throw him out the window now? ” “ i think we should wait till we get to a higher altitude. ” “ i swear, if I hear one more word from him, I will kick him in the face. ” “ what is with this tension? did I do something wrong? ” “ no one can match your efficiency, your ruthlessness. ” “ you both have killed so many people. ” “ you smell really bad. ” “ if you got soft, it wasn’t on my watch. ” “ i didn’t say anything. that’s not fair. ” “ you can’t defeat a man who commands the very will of others. ” “ you named a pig after me? ” “ the world functions on a higher level when it is controlled. ” “ our family was never real, so there’s nothing to hold on to. ”  “ please don’t say that. it was real. ” “ the best part of my life was fake. and none of you told me. ” “ i came in here because I didn’t want to talk. ” “ i wish I could believe that you cared. ” “ you were selected by a program that assessed the genetic potential in infants. ” “ i believe a bargain was struck, your family paid off. ” “ i’ve always found it best not to look into the past. ” “ tell me, how did you keep your heart? ” “ this is a much less cool way to die. ” “ you have a two-inch blade concealed in your beltline. ” “ is this your haunted past? ” “ you just sent away the one thing that would stop me from killing you. ” “ how are you controlling me? ” “ when was the last time that you had a conversation with somebody that wasn’t forced to talk to you? ” “ if I don’t tell you when to stop, then how will you know when to shut up? ” “ come on, think i can’t take a punch? ” “ you seem desperate to impress me. ” “ thank you for your cooperation. ” “ slight change of plan. i completely demolished one of the engines and we are going into a controlled crash. ” “ you get to make your own choices now. ” “ i am clearly injured. ” “ okay, well, if you’re leaving, then I guess you should take this. ” “ you came back for us? ” “ you ever not sleep? ” “ you see what i can get you with a bit of time and money? ” “ you’ve always been a really good friend to me. ” “ you’re not supposed to be bothering me on my holiday time. ” “ coming here makes you look desperate. ” “ i want a raise. ” “ i’ve got your next target. ” “ maybe you’d like a shot at the man responsible for your sister’s death. ”

[knightwar]

Isn’t it fitting - he thought - that he lost the war to an Amazon only to find himself thrust back against her. The universe must think he’s a joke. And even through it or despite the guilt, his lips curl upward. Feeling his heart crawling, digging its nail at every purchase, to climb out of his throat and spill into her clawed up hands. 

This - this he could understand. 

They were a match stick and gasoline. One wrong move and the world implodes without a warning. And it’s breathing air in a WORLD ON FIRE and loving the smoke that binds to the walls of your lungs. 

And it feels like that again - his thoughts foggy, his world burning - but after a long long time - like he could breathe again. 

His forehead rests on her. His gaze staring into her. Seeing it all. The price of the last few years. And how the words are like slash marks against his skin, sizzling and burning and burying and digging in excess, trying to claw something out of him. 

Flesh for flesh. 

And perhaps sometimes, suffering means hope. Perhaps, sometimes, pain means living. Perhaps, loss breeds…whatever the fuck this was.

He tries not to think about it more past the goading. He doesn’t try to worry too much at how easy his grip finds the back of her neck and how even after everything, the answer is simple. It’s easy. And she knows it. How could it be anything else? 

His lips answer for him. Claiming hers. Crushing and biting. His. His. His. Ruinous in its pursuit. As if one kiss could make up for the last three.

[shepurrs]

How funny, that what others might call a kiss is something Selina just calls inevitable. He answers how he was always going to answer that question, with his mouth attacking hers. And then, her mouth attacks his right back, not "fighting for dominance" like a fucking bullshit, cheesy romance novel but fighting to make a mark. Fighting tongues and vicious teeth to remind each other that this is it for them. This is how they begin and this is how they end; all animalistic pursuit and carnal knowledge. They know each other so deeply, and every single fucking time, they use that fountain of knowledge to stab each other in the heart. The back would be a kinder target.

She knows how to kiss him to make him do what she wants. She knows what degree of tongue will get what reaction out of him, knows where to lick to get him to do whatever she wants. The problem is she isn't sure what she wants from him. So, all she can do is kiss him with wild abandon, biting and licking and sucking as she pleases in the moment.

Her clawed fingers tease his cheeks, not threatening to scratch him, but promising to, until suddenly, she doesn't. Until suddenly, she stops the kiss, because even if he fucks goddesses and fights aliens these days, he's still just as human as she is.

Besides, they've never needed claws or swords or magical powers to make each other hurt.

Fingers still holding his face, she stares back into his eyes, pressing the lower half of her body into his groin. She leans to rack her teeth against his ear lobe, before whispering her next attack just loud enough to allow him to hear every word clearly.

❛ Your tongue still tastes like your Amazon's cunt. ❜ They've never needed to hurt each other with lies, when the truth cuts sharper than barbed wire. It doesn't matter that things didn't work out with this deity he claims to love; it doesn't matter that she doesn't know how long it's been since he's fucked the woman that's not her. Selina can still sense her scent all over him in ways that go deeper than she cares to admit.

This time, when she laughs, it's genuine. It's a spiral of cackles that belong more to a witch than a cat. It's cruel.

But maybe it's his fault, for thinking she could be anything other than what her nature dictates she is, for thinking she could be anything other than feral.

[knightwar]

Bruce should have had some inkling - some guess of what he should have expected. Anger? Claws? His heart dislodged from his chest? Something achingly..human. 

But there was a lack of clarity in him in the last few months. 

Perhaps since that year where MAN MET THE SUPERMAN. 

His vision became singularly focused, pulled away from the grave of the worlds, and to his own. Crawling his way closer and closer just so he could pull the weight of the frame and see the dirt pouring over. 

That was then and this is now. And all he can see and hear again is the profound beating of his guilty chest. So loud in his ears. Blaring like sirens, deafening him into complete s i l e n c e. He can hardly hear himself breathe, let alone drink in her rage. And it’s like a switch - how he quiets his own body for the sake of her. To properly hear her and digest the words he knows is seething with reserved rage. 

Rage he rightly deserved, as he might have mentioned in that letter. 

If he were any more brave, he would have said it to her face. Before all of this. Before he’d fully lost her all those years ago. And perhaps if he had been any more a decent person - he would have recognized that in the pit of his grief. But he is only a man made of shadows and regrets now. 

She deserved better. 

( They all did. )

His gloved hand cups her cheek then. The silence grounding him to an extent where he can see his thought break down into words he can speak. “ You’re right. “ He admits. A rare occurrence for the Bat. Defeat in Insolence, maybe. “ You’re right. “ He repeats again, leaning closer. Cupping her neck with the other and making sure she could see the sincerity in his gaze and the object severity in his voice. “ You deserved better. I’m sorry, Selina. “ He whispered. 

One more step closer. 

“ I’m sorry for everything. For the letter. How I handled…How I handled D–How…I handled our marriage. For everything. You deserve better.”

[shepurrs]

He touches her face, and instead of melting, instead of pushing him away, she growls. Fucking growls like the feral cat she is, a noise that grumbles from the depths of her throat. Her mouth opens to reveal teeth that are sharper than they are white, teeth that have bitten into him and broke his skin so many times before and are considering doing so again. And why not? What's more pain after all the hurt they have already caused each other? Why not just continue racking up all the scars and the heartbreak? So, she growls and she shows teeth, and it's all because he's touching her and because she's no longer used to affection, but especially not his.

As for his apologies? They somehow mean nothing, because they fix nothing. But they also somehow mean everything, because she doesn't need him to fix anything, she just fucking needs him to see her. Do you see her, though, Bruce? Beneath the leather and the green eyes and the taut body and the skin that glistens in the moonlight, do you see the woman beneath the facade? How twisted that is, that her own skin and bones feel like a mask, but they do. They do so much that she wants to rip them off sometimes.

She looks at him, so close to her, really looks at him, and she can't really hide the hurt from her eyes and she definitely can't close her mouth and retract her metaphorical fangs. What she does do, though, is listen. She listens to every word, hangs her breath on every syllable. She does nothing with her hands. She neither invites his touch nor discourages it.

❛ You let me leave, but you never let me go. ❜ Her voice drips with the venom of a heartbroken woman. There's an accusation in every noise that makes up the words she speaks. Because she replays it over and over again, how he signed those divorce papers, how he didn't even fight. How he went on fighting and fucking other people, but didn't bother with her. Even now, he smells like others, smells like people that aren't her. She grinds her teeth. If she didn't, she'd bite him.

But she, too, goes closer, brushes her nose against him in a way that bastardizes the affectionate gesture. There's nothing soft or gentle about it, about how she could break both their noses just to spite him and herself. ❛ So, what's it gonna be, Bat? Are you finally going to pull the trigger? ❜ Does he fucking know how to pull a trigger?

She's challenging him, all feline bravado. ❛ Are you going to let me go? ❜

[crimefightr]

Bruce has many theories - notions that are never breathed to life on his lips and only in the cages of his thoughts. Inevitably, he thinks it boils down to the obvious. To how misery loves his company and how he personally loves to tolerate it. Broken and cracked like his mother’s pearls on the ground. A facsimile standing in armor and kevlar - pretending to be man instead of foolish boy. 

And he thinks its a comfort when she asks that. He thinks the smile on her lips is no longer a familiar scythe but a comfort. He thinks too much or too little when she was around. A burden and a gift all the same. But he’s older now than when they’d last seen each other. His bones weary from pretending to be Atlas when he should have been Hades all along. 

The world wasn’t just for him to carry, after all. 

A mistake he knew had caused the downturn in their marriage. 

His gaze is steady on her long after she throws her own question back at him. Again, Bruce has many theories, he thought. Too many to breathe to life with his lips and make real. Too many to validate his failure. And perhaps only a few remotely true. Instead, he takes off his cowl so he could see her. 

( And maybe, for her, to see him. )

“ Selina? “ He asked, tenderly. His voice sounding like an open wound. “ Did you get my letter? “ 

[shepurrs]

She might be a thief of jewels, but he's the stealer of her heart, a robbery that she can't ever forgive him for committing. Whether she's alive or near death, it beats because of him, fighting against every force to return home to his arms. And she thinks, again, how she hates him for this, hates him for becoming her heart, something she can't live without. He takes his cowl off, reveals himself to her, shows her the face that has haunted her like she's an old house and he's a ghost who can't escape it. Her mouth falls open just slightly, because no matter how much he owns her, she still stubborn.

Green eyes look away, look anywhere except his face. Easier to look at Gotham, this city she has learned to hate, then the man who can make her weak. The man who has made her weak over and over again, who has taken and taken and taken until she had nothing left to fucking give. Yeah, that man.

❛ You mean the letter that said you're bored of fighting clowns and have moved on to fighting flying gods now? That one? ❜ Of course, she knows the one, Bruce. She got the letter, and didn't open it, until one night, a year later, the unknown words burned her so much that she had to look. And then she couldn't stop reading, like he'd written her the most riveting poetry, but really, was just a dying man's last words. She knows the letter.

The letter that said when he died, when he took his last breath, she'd be his final thought. What the fuck was she supposed to do with that, Bruce? It's cruel, so cruel, of him to bring it up. That's what they are to each other. Cruel and greedy, always using claws instead of fingers. Because she is cruel, too, Selina grasps the edge of her mask to take it off, the familiar moonlight shining to show off her face, a face that has aged with wrinkles and all the other signs of a life lived rough and fast.

❛ I don't deserve a lot, but I deserved a better goodbye than a fucking letter. ❜ There's a tear in her eye, a single tear that escapes from the wrath of a scorned woman too stubborn to cry but too tired to stop it from happening. Maybe that's why she's here. For a better goodbye. Or maybe she's lying to herself. In this case, she'll take a sweet lie over a harsh truth. ❛ Fuck your letter, and fuck you, Bruce. ❜

@knightwar

[shepurrs]

❛ We never would have worked out. ❜ This, Selina knows. This, Selina has had to accept. There's heartbreak worth fighting through, and then there's heartbreak that just beats you down. And she doesn't think she has anymore heart left for him to break. Doesn't mean she can't smile at him now, though. ❛ But sometimes it's fun to pretend. ❜ A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to survive, right?

@nightvow ) quick & random sc.

[shepurrs]

❛ Can't say I've ever been with a man who considered being called the fastest a compliment. ❜ It's low hanging fruit. A low hanging fruit that she wraps her lips around and bites down on. Metaphorically, of course.

@speedprofessor ) quick & random sc.

[shepurrs]

love a middle-agedish milf selina

[edenmemes]

uncharted sentence starters

❝ if you’re done lying to me, then you should stop lying to yourself. ❞ ❝ it’s not going to be easy, you know. ❞ ❝ well, it sounds like you’re working for a nutcase. ❞ ❝ make sure that you’re safe. ❞ ❝ look, i wanted to tell you! i wanted to! but how could i? ❞ ❝ see? i’m not just a pretty face. ❞ ❝ i’m sorry for what happened to you. ❞ ❝ i think i have a bit more experience with this thing than you do. ❞ ❝ wait, wait, wait. something about this feels kinda hinky. ❞ ❝ what a warm and homey place, huh? ❞ ❝ i’m willing to forgive and forget. for old time’s sake. ❞ ❝ looks like he was killed. ripped to shreds actually. ❞ ❝ these guys have been tailing me for weeks. thought i lost them. ❞ ❝ should i be flattered, or worried? ❞ ❝ so with our luck, what’s the odds this volcano is going to erupt on us? ❞ ❝ i hope i don’t go to hell for this. ❞ ❝ i can handle this. i’m tough. i grew up with nuns. ❞ ❝ fair warning, last person who betrayed me wound up dead. ❞ ❝ you told me you’d say out of trouble. ❞ ❝ how do i know you’re real? ❞ ❝ don’t ever point a gun at me again. ❞ ❝ make sure that you’re safe. ❞ ❝ i have made a lot of mistakes. a lot. i’m not a perfect man. ❞ ❝ i had a lousy father. lousy childhood. ❞ ❝ sounds terrible. check his wallet. ❞ ❝ let’s not forget who walked out on whom. you don’t get to be jealous.  ❞ ❝ progress demands sacrafice. ❞ ❝ shut up. i really thought you were gone this time. ❞ ❝ i can’t leave you alone for one minute, can i? ❞ ❝ on a scale of 1-10, how scared were you that i was gonna die? ❞ ❝ i can’t walk away. i’m tired of walking away. ❞ ❝ even an enemy must be fed and sheltered. are you my enemy? ❞ ❝ we can still stop him. i can help you. ❞ ❝ gotta say, you have a real knack for breaking things. ❞ ❝ do as i say not as i do. ❞ ❝ looks like hell spit you back out. ❞ ❝ what’s your story, anyway? ❞ ❝ i don’t take big risks without a good payday. ❞ ❝ i guess it runs in the family, huh? ❞ ❝ you can’t reform the villain and save the day. it’s just not done like that. ❞ ❝ sorry, i just need to get my head back in the game. ❞ ❝ this isn’t our fight. it’s my fight. ❞ ❝ i won’t let them hurt you. ❞ ❝ skip the mind games. you don’t know me. ❞ ❝ no offense, but your ancestor was a right asshole. ❞ ❝ you’re unusually quiet. what’s up your bum? ❞ ❝ that was my last cigarette. ❞ ❝ okay, well, why don’t you just walk away? ❞ ❝ why this obsession? i’m just worried. ❞ ❝ i can’t…i can’t breathe…i just…can’t breathe… ❞ ❝ don’t touch me. get away from me. ❞ ❝ if you let these bastards win - after this - i will never forgive you. ❞ ❝ you’ve got your pride all tangled up in this thing. it’s making you reckless. ❞ ❝ any trouble you shoot first and ask questions later. ❞ ❝ dangerous to be out so late.  ❞ ❝ easy now. look at me. ❞ ❝ my leg! don’t touch it! i know it’s broken! ❞ ❝ are you going to join me, darling? ❞ ❝ this is my gig. you want your share, you play by my rules. ❞ ❝ we don’t get to choose how we start in life. real greatness? it’s what you do with the hand you’re dealt. ❞ ❝ i always felt that we were destined for something great. ❞ ❝ you should relax. you’ll live longer. ❞ ❝ i taught you better than that. ❞ ❝ so that’s a no? felt like a no. ❞ ❝ quit acting like you’re gonna lie down and die, all right? ❞ ❝ i have a spare bed.  ❞ ❝ is there no bottom for your ignorance? ❞ ❝ even cornered dogs bite back.  ❞ ❝ that one is my favourite. it makes your eyes twinkle.  ❞ ❝ admit it. you’re gonna miss this ass.  ❞ ❝ you think i’m a monster, but you’re no different from me.  ❞ ❝ how many people have you killed? how many?  ❞ ❝ you will not stand in the way of destiny.  ❞ ❝ you stick with me, i’ll teach you a few things. ❞ ❝ well, if you’d like, i can tell you where to stick it. ❞ ❝ face it, genius, you’ve been played. ❞ ❝ yeah, keep smiling, asshole. ❞ ❝ i got nothing to prove. ❞ ❝ don’t hand it to me. i’ve had everything handed to me ❞ ❝ you don’t know when to give up, do you? ❞ ❝ you stick your neck out, you’re asking to lose your head. ❞ ❝ oh, and now you’re blushing. ❞ ❝ just so you know, it’s not my first lost city. ❞ ❝ are you always this clever? ❞ ❝ i was trying to rescue you, as a matter of fact. ❞ ❝ you know, at this point, i’ve run out of words. ❞ ❝ what do you say we really ruin this guy’s day? ❞ ❝ whether you die or not, i don’t really care. ❞ ❝ i thought you…i saw you get shot. ❞ ❝ it’s like a camera. you just…point and shoot, right? ❞ ❝ god, who’s being unprofessional now? ❞ ❝ i always knew you were gonna make something of yourself one day. ❞ ❝ let’s just pretend i skipped all of sunday school. ❞ ❝ oh no you didn’t do that. that’s not funny! ❞ ❝ save the world, triumph over evil. ❞ ❝ are you trying to kill me? ❞ ❝ know what i love about partying with a bunch of crooks? nobody cares that you smoke indoors. ❞ ❝ you gave me a goddamn heartattack. ❞ ❝ i’ll die a thousand deaths before i let you win.  ❞ ❝ i didn’t tell you because i was afraid…of losing you. ❞ ❝ what ever happened to just living a normal life? ❞ ❝ even if you think you’re protecting me, you don’t have a right to shut me out like that. ❞ ❝ i mean… thanks for saving me. ❞ ❝ en garde, dickhead. ❞ ❝ i love you. ❞ ❝ come on! we can get out of here together. ❞ ❝ everything i touch turns to shit. ❞ ❝ how did you find me anyway? ❞ ❝ i’ve got my eye on you. ❞ ❝ you were going to sell me out, weren’t you? ❞ ❝ love to know what you’re thinking. ❞ ❝ well, well, well. get it? ‘cause you know, it’s a well. ❞ ❝ it’s a shame we’re leaving empty handed though. ❞ ❝ okay…yeah…how do i look? ❞ ❝ thank me after we get out of this alive. ❞ ❝ you’re lucky that i found you when i did. ❞ ❝ they’re just saying that because it gets to you. ❞ ❝ look, if you’re into shady stuff it’s totally cool. ❞ ❝ ha. that’s my girl. ❞ ❝ i made a promise that i was done with this life. ❞ ❝ listen, sunshine, the world doesn’t care. ❞ ❝ well, that’s it. now you know everything. ❞ ❝ don’t even think about not coming back. ❞ ❝ you know, i shot the man who told me that. ❞ ❝ i thought that i’d be satisfied. instead, i’m left with this strange feeling of emptiness.  ❞  ❝ as thrilling as the next adventure may be, in the end, you’re always left with that same feeling. ❞ ❝ you know, i didn’t think i could trust you either. ❞ ❝ i almost lost you once before. i just can’t do that again. ❞ ❝ don’t even think about not coming back. ❞ ❝ that’s it! no compassion! no mercy! ❞ ❝ sentimentality in this line of work will get you killed. ❞ ❝ i need your help…and you need mine. ❞ ❝ i kept your tears in a jar. ❞ ❝ i expected you to have my back.  ❞ ❝ tell you what. when i get back, pizza’s on me. ❞ ❝ death. it smelled like death. ❞ ❝ so they have beaten you, eh? your quest’s over?  ❞ ❝ you listen to your mum, okay?  ❞ ❝ trust me - your ego will mend.  ❞ ❝ i hope i live to regret this.  ❞ ❝ these men were all shot.  ❞ ❝ be a lot easier just to let go.  ❞ ❝ what? no witty remark? nothing clever to say?  ❞ ❝ seems like i am always saving your ass. ❞ ❝ i never asked for any of your bloody heroics. ❞ ❝ the guys in prison used to say, ‘you can steal to eat or you can steal to get rich.’ i say, why not both?  ❞ ❝ you were never a chocolate and flower kinda girl.  ❞ ❝ i don’t have your luck. people like me know when to walk away from the table.  ❞ ❝ appreciate the update, captain obvious.  ❞ ❝ you made your choice.  ❞ ❝ don’t tell me you’re buying all into that supernatural nonsense.  ❞ ❝ i couldn’t sleep last time i saw that.  ❞ ❝ it’s actually nice working with a woman for a change. ❞ ❝ i’m lucky you’re on my side. ❞ ❝ do you really think all this really could be true?  ❞ ❝ you know, it’s kind of romantic down here.  ❞ ❝ just wish i’d brought something to read.  ❞ ❝ you can relax. we’re safe here. ❞ ❝ i am surrounded by traitors and fools.  ❞ ❝ just don’t get us killed. ❞ ❝ what are you shaking for? ❞ ❝ parents must be worried about you. ❞ ❝ i wonder what you’re really scared of…not bullets, or blood, or broken bones… ❞ ❝ i don’t need your bullet-ridden-corpse on my conscience. let’s go. ❞ ❝ yeah, i’m fine. oh, but - you’re bleeding. ❞ ❝ i do seem to attract the scum of the earth. ah - no offense. ❞ ❝ all this grandeur, hidden away from the world.  ❞ ❝ if we don’t make it out here, i just want you to know - i hate your guts. ❞ ❝ i’ve got a bad feeling about this place. ❞ ❝ that’s my blood. that’s my blood. that’s a lot of my blood. ❞ ❝ you should play the hero more often. it suits you. ❞ ❝ eyes ahead, don’t look down. ❞ ❝ here - grab my hand. ❞ ❝ no matter what it is, you’re supposed to come to me so we can work it out together… as a team.  ❞  ❝ you know nothing is ever truly destroyed. just purified and reborn.  ❞ ❝ you just - totally crushed that moment. you know that, right?  ❞ ❝ you’re a selfish dickhead.  ❞ ❝ i do speak a little bit of ____, you know. wait, what did you say? ❞ ❝ i know you. you’re no hero.  ❞ ❝ i wish you could’ve been there. ❞ ❝ hey, are you happy? ❞ ❝ you’re not gonna pass out on me or nothing, are you? ❞ ❝ look, i…um….i’m not good with the whole people thing.  ❞ ❝ i’ve had worse nights, believe me.  ❞ ❝ let’s find somewhere a little more private. ❞ ❝ hey, take it easy. you’ve been out for almost half an hour.  ❞ ❝ to rule people, you first must sow chaos.  ❞ ❝ it’s not stealing if it was mine to begin with. ❞ ❝ take me with you. ❞ ❝ i’m left with this strange feeling of emptiness.  ❞  ❝ anyone ever tell you, you have a funny idea of romantic?  ❞  ❝ it’s nothing that years of therapy won’t fix.  ❞ ❝ no. it’s my turn to walk away.  ❞  ❝ nothing about our lives have been fair, but we’ve made it work. ❞ ❝ your people will beg me to save them.  ❞ ❝ we’re not on a first-name basis.  ❞ ❝ you know nothing about me.  ❞ ❝ do tell. maybe over some drinks?  ❞ ❝ we must keep to the shadows.  ❞ ❝ hey, you cool? ‘cause i need you to be cool.  ❞ ❝ you must be tired of these lectures. i know i’m tired of giving them. ❞ ❝ here, take this. you’ll catch a cold. ❞ ❝ is that a sin? i think that’s a sin. ❞

[shepurrs]

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[bigbadbruin343]

Catwoman #57 variant cover by Joshua Swaby.

Great covers are being wasted on a horrible run.

[crimefightr]

For a moment, he’s scared. Scared that if he looks down he’ll see where his fear and his guilt bleeds out around him. Corrosive and pernicious, eating away at the cement and the tiles of this dingy old roof top to leave nothing underneath. But his feet are still lodged in their purchases. The city stirs a breath but nothing more. And the twinge across the claw marks permanently imprinted onto his skin is nothing else but that. 

A damaged reminder that seizes - it contracts - stretches its spiteful tendrils around his chest and wrapped around the beating muscle in a vicious grip. 

It’s been an open wound since he was a child. A lifetime affliction he’s deluded himself into thinking could be fixed, remedies, built back up together so many times. And again he feels it light and paper thing in his hand. One curl of his fists and it could be gone. 

He exhales a breath. 

“ I do. “ He concedes as a whisper, as a plea, as well as an apology. Crushing nothing in his hands and tucking it away behind him. “ But it didn’t work out. “ He added eventually. His voice is still paper thin and tenuous  in his throat. “ I think it’s just me and this city, Cat. “ He murmured with what he had hoped would sound more like relief. “ All the smart people get out. “ While all the graves are with him.

[shepurrs]

Her heart stops beating in the cage of her chest. Bat says he loves another woman, and everything just stops for Cat. The heart, the mind, the soul, all abandoning her faster than she did her marriage. But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is how him saying that it's over with the other woman puts everything back in its place. Because maybe it does feel better, for no one to have him if she can't. There's a lot of implications for what the fuck kind of person this makes her, that him not being with someone and him being miserable feels better than him being with someone and her feeling miserable. Lots to unpack there. So, of course, she shoves it further down her throat.

She's not sure what part she's supposed to be playing here, so forgive her if she gets her lines flubbed up. She's not really used to being his ex-wife in person, hasn't seen him since before the divorce. This is all new territory to her, not something she even really feels like marking as her own.

But turns out she's not a total monster. Which means she steps towards him, just as sly on her feet as she was when she was decades younger. Reluctantly, her hand reaches to caress his shoulder. Always a 70/30 chance that those bones are broken at any given moment in time, so she's careful to be tender.

❛ You know how us wild cats are, Bruce. We can't be tamed. ❜ A smile finds its way back on her lips. ❛ What excuse does the Amazon have? ❜

[crimefightr]

Her annoyance was a familiar comfort. That he could recognize with absolute certainty. Her dislike for the city a close second. If there’s anything - it made her more of this city than anyone else. Gotham with its beautiful skyline and its seedy underbelly where the only way out was to claw your way out or for it to spit you out. 

He had thought she would have stuck with the former. 

Bruce doesn’t offer an answer for the obvious. Keeping his gaze back on the city that had kept his company perhaps more than any lover really has. A reminder of a prevailing realization that keeps biting him in the ass. Perhaps it should stay that way. 

“ I’m not answering that, Selina. “ He argues sternly. Three poignant scars across his chest stinging. The guilt tastes like smoke on his tongue; clinging to every taste bud and the roof of his mouth even as he swallowed nothing. Jaw clenched and eyes narrowing behind the cowl at her; the game they play draining. “ And it hasn’t been our bed for a very long time. “ He amends. His intent not to be cruel and yet his tone haphazardly makes it so. 

[shepurrs]

They don't speak with words. They speak with knives sharpened with the purpose of making each other bleed. Of making each other hurt. There's so many accusations that burn in her throat, bile that she just wants to spew and spew at him. She thinks he can see right through her, like she is made of transparent bones, and she thinks she hates him a little bit for the fact that he knows her so well. That she let him in the locked door of her heart and then he left her with absolutely nothing but a bad taste in her mouth and a gaping hole in her chest.

She loses the insincere smile. It slides right off like her lips are slippery and they have lost their balance. She doesn't look at him anymore. And the thing is, she's not normally a coward, but he makes her into one. She kind of hates the person she becomes when she's around him. Where once he made her feel strong, she now only feels weakness. He lifted her up only to drop her on her head.

When she speaks again, what she says startles even herself.

❛ Do you love her? ❜ That's not what she's asking. The question that she really wants the answer to is do you still love me?

[mcflymemes]

SPY / ESPIONAGE PROMPTS, PART TWO *  assorted lines from popular spy & action films

i've read your file.

i want my life back.

you'll never make it out of here alive.

we're probably never going to get that dinner, are we?

for a moment, i thought you wanted to kill me.

thanks for the warning.

it doesn't matter what you do. only matters what they think you've done.

it's not that i don't care about you. it's that i don't care about anyone.

let's make a deal.

you said you could help us.

there are no accidents. we create our own fate.

you see through people.

adversity is a great teacher.

it's so rare in my line of work to find someone who's just there to listen.

rescind the kill order.

you know, i'm really starting to not like you.

the world is run on secrets.

if you run, you die.

trusting a thief can be dangerous.

i'm a good guy. but sometimes i do bad things.

can you fly a helicopter?

i'm glad it was convincing.

i've been building a profile on you.

this is what you are meant to do.

they knew my name.

oh, you made it. thank god.

it's not what time steals... it's what it leaves behind.

i will do what is asked of me.

the news will tell them there will be no more secrets.

it's a simple mistake.

i thought you'd be back by now.

i think one day you will understand.

don't give them all of you. that is how you survive.

did you really think i was going to give you that list?

oh my god, i think i fucking love you.

you don't get to come in here and try to fix everything.

you know where to find me.

that's what we do, right? we put ourselves in danger so that others are not.

sometimes you got to work with people you don't want to eat with.

i have the name of the mole.

don't give me that shit. you were gonna leave me?

i trust you about as far as i can through you.

where the fuck are you?

why does someone want you dead?

you have the power to decide whether i die in vain.

after you turn me in, you will be a hero.

are you good guys or bad guys?

in six months, the information you have will be obsolete.

let's go home.

even if i did partner up with you, we'd still only have one brain.

trouble never sends a warning.

you want answers? get back in the car.

you said you had answers.

i never worked for you.

we're not partners. this is a marriage of convenience.

i'm putting you on leave, effective immediately.

i'm my own bitch now.

do what you can to stay alive.

you must become the missing piece, and they will tell you anything.

the world can burn for all i care.

i wish you the very best... for at least six months.

we're all gonna die one day.

there's another life waiting for you if you want it.

i never had a single day of freedom.

you're not made.

you can have excuses or results. not both.

i warned you about him.

are you going to lie till the very end?

let me help you with your bags.

it's only for tonight.

it's nearly impossible to disappear in the world we live in today.

you knew what would happen once i got into that room.

you've got some balls breaking in here.

you worked for me.

you were too fucking scared to do it yourself.

you must learn to sacrifice for a higher purpose, to push yourself beyond all limitation.

you're wanted in 18 different countries.

we're armed because we mistrust each other.

the world is in chaos.

truth and lies. people like us don't know the difference.

who won? and what was the fucking game anyway?

they will come after you, wherever you are.

tell him i have what he wants.

when you tell the truth, you look different. your eyes change.

[inkmemesarchive]

amazon  prime’s  the  boys  sentence  starters ↪  taken  from  seasons  1  &  2.  contains  non-contextual  mild  s2  spoilers.  some  have  been  slightly  altered  to  better  fit  out  of  context.  alter  as  you  see  fit  ♡

“i’m supposed to be this hero, but i don’t know what the hell i’m doing.”

“just remember who your friends and who your enemies are.”

“you can’t do this. you don’t have the fight, you never have.”

"my superpower is reading people. watching them when they think they’re alone. i see people for who they really are.”

“why have average when you can have extraordinary?”

“if i’m gonna make a difference, i just feel more comfortable doing it on a smaller scale.”

"i know a little about a lot of things.” 

“never let them see you like this.”

"just ‘cause you fall on your ass doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

"since when did "hopeful” and “naive” become the same thing?”

“you need to unclench your asshole.”

“i can do whatever the fuck i want.”

"pardon my french: fuck those fuckers.” 

"you tell anyone what you saw or heard here today, and i’ll cut your hands off and shove them so far up your ass, your fingers’ll give us a little wave out your throat, yeah?”

“when they’re apart, they’re absolute fucking rubbish. but, you put them together, they’re the goddamn fucking spice girls.”

“sometimes you get further with people by treating them like people.”

“i really did want to make a difference. i really did care. i was just like you.”

“i started giving pieces of myself away and i guess i gave away everything.”

“you see, i know your secret.”

“you’re not a bad person. just a scared one.”

“what have you got to lose that you ain’t already lost?”

“i figured if you wait around long enough, two plus two equals nasty.”

“here’s the truth. anyone who tells you they know the answers is lying.”

“you know, i managed to go my whole life without seeing someone die horribly, and now i’m up to about a half dozen, so i think i’m good.”

“we’ll cross that bridge when we burn it.”

“in a partnership, there is give and there is take.”

“i should’ve done a lot more stuff. because there is nothing up there. there’s nobody in the sky watching over us. not anybody. it’s all just lies.”

“i don’t know if they really want you to be a hero. i think they just want you to look like one.”

“he is too much of an asshole to die.”

“fuck this world for confusing nice with good. be a bitch if you want. be whatever. just drop the mask once in a while. feels good. you can finally breathe.”

“[name], how is it possible that you’re dumber than you look?”

“[name], you’ve done a murder. comparatively speaking, this will be a piece of cake.”

“we didn’t bring him here for a fucking happy meal.”

“i’ve got my phone linked to the ‘find your shithead friends’ app.”

“i just had to pop down to the shop. i was running a bit low on ‘mind your own fucking business’.”

“you know something? on my first day, I, uh … well, i felt like a fraud. but the good news is, everybody feels that way.”

“you ever touch me again, i will burn your eyes out. understand me?”

“wou know how you have this… image of yourself? like, i thought i was strong. you know? like, made of steel. a fighter.”

“uf you’re the fucking reason i can’t finish that vermont country dollhouse, i will fucking end you.”

“you are dispensable, which means you answer to me.”

“you’ve been walking around for months like you want to kick my ass. so do it already.”

“i can be that person that nobody thinks is awesome, but it turns out, they’re kind of fucking awesome.”

“i’m sorry but we’re not anything.”

“my nana’s your biggest fan.”

“not even [name] would have dared to try and pull this kind of shit.”

“shouldn’t we all just be competent at our jobs?”

“we can do whatever we want and no one can stop us. that is a good feeling. a really good feeling.”

“you need to get the fuck out of my house.”

“you were right. i’m not gonna get bored and move on. i’m not going anywhere.”

“life isn’t actually a pr strategy. you can say what you think.”

“pippi longstocking would bite a d, that’s for damn sure.”

“you write all women as either unknowable hitchcock bitches or michael bay fuck dolls. i mean, i get that a lifetime of jerking off to transformers didn’t exactly make you popular with the ladies, but a little effort would be nice.”

“i don’t think we have to damage control your fuck up.”

“look at you. my girl.”

“nobody likes almond joy. – jeffrey dahmer. that’s it. he’s the only one.”

“jesus christ! those are like the three worst candy bars in the history of candy. that’s it, you’re sick in the brain.”

“i’m wanted and you’re kind of super famous.”

“he’s an actor who didn’t lie to my face everyday.”

“don’t lie to me, not again.”

“she was already dead when i blew her up.

“my son is the furthest fucking thing on this planet to a normal little boy.”

“this is a moment. girls get it done.”

“there is just no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.”

“mom says being lonely makes you know yourself better.”

“i just want you to think about me when you are getting your skin peeled off your face, bitch.”

“you don’t fuck with the money. you never fuck with the money.”

“you’re my second wind.”

“it doesn’t matter who made us, or how we got here, the point is we are here. together. family. you guys, you are my real family.”

“oh, is it so hard to believe that i want you two to be happy? and in love? honestly [name], i am really, really happy for you.”

“the hate that you carry and the warpath that you’re on, it started so long before me.”

“we can’t afford to feel good or to feel safe or to let our guard down.”

“we’re all alone. that’s the truth.”

“i don’t need anyone but myself.”

“you’re so special, that most special man on the planet. everybody loves you. everybody. their love is your strength.”

“where’s the closest atm?”

“you let your canary die, how you gonna know when you’ve gone too far?”

“you know what i thought? i thought who fucking cares?”

“fuckin’ diabolical.”

“i’m a motherfucker with a heart.”

[sunraese]

twenty miscellaneous sentence memes

❛  there was nothing more you could have done… 

❛  wait. i can explain!

❛  you don’t have to be afraid of the dark.

❛  why doesn’t anyone go dancing anymore?

❛  if you could have one redo, just one in your entire lifetime, would you take the opportunity?

❛  that was the cowardly thing to do.

❛  i was so scared. and i had nobody. but now, now i have you.

❛  what more do you want from me?

❛  stop pretending like you know everything.

❛  you’re never too old to have a little fun.

❛  do you ever just, oh i don’t know, shut up?

❛  this took… a very wrong turn, very fast.

❛  if you’re smart, you’ll remove yourself from this equation, too.

❛  please… don’t forget about me.

❛  are you awake?

❛  i’m not okay. you’re not okay. nobody is okay.

❛  sometimes i get homesick, too; for a place i don’t even know.

❛  just for a minute, i wish the world would just… stop, you know?

❛  i never asked you to do that.

❛  don’t blame me when your demons come out to play.