Hello! I'm just getting into the show (after being a longtime Leverage fan), but I'd love to request a small gifset depicting the "midwestern person" line at the end of s1ep2 "and the sword in the stone", and CK's face ;)
A/N: Dedicated to @panzertorte!!! The seasonal prompt for this story was Road Tripping
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“ ‘Let’s go on a road trip,’ Cassian said. ‘It’ll be a great time,’ he said.“ Baze scoffs as he throws open the hood of the car. “Except he’s not the one with car troubles.”
“What’s wrong?” Chirrut calls from the passenger seat and Baze clenches his teeth.
He wishes he had packed along his toolbox, but Chirrut had insisted it wasn’t needed. Now, the two of them were stranded on a stretch of road with only fields as company. There wasn’t a single house in sight and Baze wasn’t about to push his smoking car for the rest of the trip.
“Hm, that’s not good,” Chirrut says next to him, having climbed out of the car and his hands on his hips.
Baze rolls his eyes, not in the mood for one of Chirrut’s quips but he’s cut off before he can get a word out.
“I can still smell when something’s wrong. Don’t doubt my nose.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it,” Baze grumbles, making sure Chirrut’s hands are where they need to be before he closes the hood. “We’ll have to call a tow.”
Pulling out his phone, Baze’s stomach drops at the glaring words of “No Service” and he just about throws the object into the bushes.
“Now what?!” Baze roars at the sky, marching into the field. “You call this a road trip?!”
“If we must,” Chirrut hollers back and Baze ignores him in favor of wading into the wildflowers.
Once he thinks he’s deep enough in, Baze unleashes his pent up anger, thrashing at the foliage around him while shouting insults into the air. Baze doesn’t know how long he wrecks havoc and by the time he’s finished, all he can do is sit down, burying his face in his hands. His breathing is heavy but he does not miss the sound of approaching footsteps.
Feeling the hand on his shoulder, Baze uncurls, watching as Chirrut sits next to him.
“Sorry,” Baze mumbles, running a hand through his hair.
“It’s been a long day,” Chirrut shrugs. “I’m surprised you lasted this long.”
Baze says nothing, but he puts a hand on Chirrut’s leg to let him know he’s listening.
“I know you didn’t want to do come on this trip. I shouldn’t have asked you to. Let’s just figure this out and go home, okay?”
It’s moments like these that Baze feels his love for Chirrut stronger than ever and he can’t help placing a kiss on Chirrut’s cheek. Screaming in a field worked wonders, now leaving Baze with determination to not give up yet.
“Are you okay with walking for awhile?” Baze helps Chirrut to his feet, leading them out of the field.
He’s surprised Chirrut had managed to follow him in the first place, but as they leave, he realizes he left quite the trail behind him.
“Of course.”
Even without turning around, Baze knows a grin is plastered on Chirrut’s face and he sets one of Chirrut’s hands on the car. Shuffling through the trunk, Baze grabs whatever he deems necessary before he and Chirrut start on their trek.
“Lucky to have such a nice day for walking,” Chirrut comments as they head down the road.
With the sun shining down and a soft breeze blowing, Baze can’t help but agree, his reply interrupted by the sound of an approaching vehicle. Pulling Chirrut off the road, Baze turns to see a red and white volkswagen van approaching them and he frowns when the window is rolled down.
“Need a ride?” Bodhi smiles at him and Baze crosses his arms as the rest of the road trip crew snickers at them.
“If you don’t mind,” Baze grits out before leading Chirrut into the vehicle first. “And just where did you get a van?”
“Did you not listen when we told you about this?” Cassian answers from the driver’s spot. “I said we should all go together, not carpool separately.”
Thinking back to his conversation with Cassian, Baze is sure that was never mentioned but he’s in no mood to argue, especially when Chirrut digs his nails into his leg once he’s seated.
Baze growls his frustration, but it’s covered by the rumbling engine as the crew heads down the road.
“We’ll call a tow at the next town, okay?” Cassian calls back and Baze waves, just thankful to have the scenery pass by at a faster pace.
It’s not until Chirrut presses up against him that Baze starts to relax. With the lull of the music and quiet chatter, Baze feels himself drift off and he thinks that maybe road trips aren’t so bad as long as he’s not the one driving.
Writing prompt (Painted Skin): demon bustin' buddies, post-movie, smiles and/or laughter. Friendship or ship, I don't care:)
sooo I haven’t seen all of Painted Skin but I tried my best :D here you go anette, read this which ever way you want
Xia Bing never thought she’d have someone she trusted enoughto share her family secrets with, but she’d faced a real demon alongside PangYong, seen him die to fulfil her family’s calling, and most incredibly of all,seen him brought back by the very demon that had brought them together.
Despite their strange beginning it only seemed natural nowto duck under arm as they sat by the fire in the courtyard of Wang Sheng’shouse, neither of them quite comfortable with staying inside. It only feltnatural to pass him the corked bottle of wine she held in her hand. It onlyfelt natural to interrupt his conversation by tugging on his stupid hair, justto pull a face at him and hear him laugh, before snuggling into his side,hiding her own laughter against his clothes. The idiot was nearly warmer thanthe fire anyway.
every time I finish rereading Persuasion I'm like "I love this book so much!" and then I promptly forget most of the plot and characters. It has happened multiple times. Which is weird, because I never have that problem with anything else, and definitely not with P&P or S&S! But the book is great, trust me ;)
lol, i can actually relate. i vaguely (i think???) remember starting to read it and then dropped it at about the second chapter or so bc the heroine was boring. yes, i know, i was a very foolish girl. this has been rectified. this will also be the first time i read austen where i will pay particular attention to the social criticism so i am, to say the least, looking forward to it.
panzertorte replied to your post “wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail you notifications of likes or...”
there's a tab for replies to the left of your "dash", and they are working on email notifs right now:)
Yes, I found the replies tab, and have gone on at length since then about its shortcomings (you must be seeing this entry very out of context, which, well, that’s how Tumblr works so why would I be surprised), but I saw that latest update from Staff as well so I am one thousand percent confident they’ve heard all about it without my input.
I’m a little startled that it took four waves of beta users before someone was like “... wait it doesn’t email you when someone comments? as is standard on literally every other form of discussion-facilitating website for the last thirty years? Maybe... it should.” but I mean. Clearly I have never coded a social media website from scratch so who knows what basic functionality I would have forgotten.
Also that same staff entry explained that not all replies show up in the reply tab-- if someone replies to a reply on your post, you don’t get that second one-- and I was at first like “shit what have I missed” but then I remembered that the replies dashboard is functionally useless except as display so as long as I clicked through to reply to the reply it showed me, I’d’ve seen any other replies too. However, adding in replies-to-replies to the dashboard is likely to just make things even more confusing, since that dashboard gives you no context at all and so it won’t be clear what those reply-to replies are in response to unless you click through, but since it’s a display you can’t interact with anyway it probably doesn’t matter.
So there’s the good news-- eventually, you will get email notifications of comments to your blog, on Pillowfort! And it won’t matter that the replies dash is read-only and not for actually answering and actually hasn’t given you context so unless you’re super good at remembering every discussion you’re involved in it’s not much good to you, because you can just get email notifs and bypass the useless dashboard anyway.
Also yesterday I managed to upload a photo, for the first time, and my browser totally spazzed out for a moment but then settled down and it posted correctly! Progress.
This all seems very snarky, but I do actually genuinely enjoy pillowfort and I wish more people were using it and I’d love to find more people to follow but don’t know where to start, so if you’re on there, hit me up!
panzertorte replied to your post: *desperately unfollows people to avoid disco...
I tag “Star Trek DIS”, I’m not watching yet but I might reblog things that cross my dash
Thank you! Any trek related tags are great, really. I'm not usually picky but I can't watch it til tomorrow and I got hit by a wave of really excited untagged reblogs...