#pub?

[lorquiana]

here i go again

[pazzyb449]

[mapsofthelost]

WHAT YOU GOT?

You might be enjoying a bucolic country walk across the Essex countryside near Danebury, in that beautiful golden sun of an early evening in late Spring. The world looks touched by magic, painted with light, and you breathe in the cooling air as you feel the warmth on your skin and smell the rich freshly-turned soil of the field next to the path. You are truly happy, for once, and do not think of your work or your relationships or the money you do not have. In the far corner of the field, near a sprawling oak, you see two men, one tall and lanky, the other much shorter. They are walking slowly, swaying from side to side. It puzzles you for a moment, and then you realise that they are waving metal detectors back and forth. You watch them for a moment, then smile and walk on.

You haven’t gone more than three steps when you see it, two furrows away. You tell yourself that in this light of this most English country evening, everything is painted gold. But when you step out into the field and pick it up, you realise that it really is gold, a battered round coin now sat in the palm of your hand.

Stunned, you think to wave the men with their detectors over.

Wait. Do not.

This is not so you can keep the treasure for yourself, for there is no treasure. The gold coin is real enough, and you can sell it and have the holiday you so need. But if you call the men over, they will dig with their special spades, and then all three of you will find out that the coin was pushed to the surface as bait, and if you dig deep enough you will all find out what pushed it, and then that will be that.

Count yourself lucky, flip the coin in the air and see it spin bright in that beautiful evening light, then drop it in your pocket, and walk back to the pub.

(Suffolk Rolling Countryside cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Adrian Cable - geograph.org.uk/p/80456)

[lorquiana]

s4e1 pub scene is like. there's So many levels to it. louisa mentions quitting her job and river goes :(. river really carefully works up to sharing one (1) piece of personal information while louisa immediately goes for the i dont like you like that defensive. 'whanging on about how close you feel to me' <- top 10 sentences for people who already got close to a coworker and it ended really badly (and this one keeps getting himself into near-death situations). river keeps going well i do i feel closer to you and louisa goes Let's Change The Subject Now. please. river goes here is my problem and louisa (least well adjusted person on the planet) goes Suck It Up but because river is equally badly adjusted it is the right advice to give. yeah i know i know i just needed you to tell me that. and to top it all off they're looking at each other like this the entire time. whos doing it like them.

[lorquiana]

two-headed calf

“Mm.” Lamb doesn’t say anything for a minute, then– “You get to meet our ex-CIA psychopath? Frank Harkness.” He says the last part with thinly-veiled distaste.

Must be the gunman. “Not really,” she says. “By the time I got to them the Dogs already had him.” She thinks about it for a moment, then adds, “He’s River’s father,” just to try saying it out loud.

Lamb, for his part, is almost reassuringly unfazed. “Yeah,” he says, sniffing. “I’d just about got there myself.”

[lorquiana]

louisa guy & river cartwright - sonnet

[lorquiana]

i have a lot of serious thoughts abt river and louisa's relationship development during the gap between seasons 4 and 5 but mostly they can all be boiled down to i think they're really annoying to share an office with. they'll be going 👀 at each other mid conversation and you know they're having a whole second conversation that is fully unintelligible to anyone else. one time river forgets to call in sick for like an hour (he overslept) and louisa doesn't say anything about it but also is actively lurking in various doorways until they finally clarify he's fine hes just got the flu. in jokes getting increasingly divorced from their original context and also darker and darker but since nobody else was actually there for half of what they're referencing nobody can tell if they're exaggerating. bad enough when they're getting along but even more annoying when they're mad at each other. you see the vision