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[mandolare]

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

[notquiteaghost]

project hail mary time travel fic but it's stratt. and she has to do it again.

[notquiteaghost]

the thing here is of course that it worked. it worked, so she has to do it again. she has to send him again. she's not even going to save dubois and shapiro, she's not going to save yao and ilyukhina, she's not changing anything, it worked.

except maybe she adds some supplies, to the ship. increases the amount of food, includes some organic compounds. more painkillers. and maybe she spends more time in proximity to grace. not working with him, not talking to him, just doing what she'd be doing anyway, what she's already done, with him in her line of sight

and he notices, because that's his job. was his job. that was the point of him, to know her well enough to notice something has changed. and he doesn't say anything, isn't going to say anything, and in fact maybe nothing gets said. neither of them say anything and the lab explodes and she sends him to die and she waits and waits and waits and the beetles come back and he doesn't. and then she wakes up again on an aircraft carrier off the coast of china

[notquiteaghost]

and it WORKED. and she's here AGAIN, because maybe this is just what happens to you when you are the final signature on a mass extinction event. maybe this is her penance. maybe the world continues on without her, warmer and brighter, but she has to stay here in the worst of it and hold it all together.

she did better. she tried. she knew more. once she'd killed him, once he was out her reach, she could change more. maybe less people died. maybe different people died.

she looks at him as long as she's able and she packs him more vitamins and she doesn't say anything and the lab explodes and she waits and the crops fail and she waits and the wars start and she waits and the beetles come back and she wakes up again on an aircraft carrier and she rolls over to press her face into the mattress and she screams

[notquiteaghost]

the fifth time, she promotes him. six months from launch, that's when she wakes up, and she gets out of bed and gets presentable and walks to his door and says You're the primary science officer now. and he says What? No. No, it can't be me. and she says It has to be you. and she's not trying to do anything with her face, with her voice, but something must happen anyway because he looks at her and says You're sure? You're really sure? and she says It should have been you from the start. and he says Okay, let me– Gosh, okay, I have been awake five minutes and all I've eaten since yesterday is candy, but sure, yeah, I'll go on the suicide mission. Are you– We're getting breakfast, c'mon.

she packs him vitamins. she looks at him. he gets mildly obsessed with a different c-drama every time, somehow. maybe that's the linchpin, maybe he just has to make it through them all. she fills a harddrive with them. she tells him she's never been more sure of anything than she is of him. she waits and she waits and she waits. the beetles come back. he doesn't. she wakes up on an aircraft carrier.

[notquiteaghost]

she stops the lab explosion. she keeps him out of prison by the skin of her teeth. the beetles don't come back.

she lets the lab explode. she lets him hate her for killing him. she's going to be older than his alien, soon. she's on the aircraft carrier, watching him breathe, for six months. and then she's waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for twenty seven years. twenty seven years is too long for any neat little montages of her catching things before they fall. the weather isn't even the same. it depends who wins the war for the sahara. she's sisyphus, she's prometheus, she's atlas. she kills her only warmth and it gets colder and colder and colder until she wakes up again and there he is. maybe it's a gift. six whole months of him breathing

[notquiteaghost]

she wakes up on the aircraft carrier and she lets herself lay there because he comes looking for her after half an hour and she sees his face and she says Oh, it's good to see you. and he narrows his eyes and leans forward to press the back of his hand to her forehead, and he's never done that before. he grabs her arm, he taps her shoulder, their fingers brush when he hands her something. that's it. that's all. it's like an electric shock, his hand on her forehead. his worry. she's going to kill him and he's worried she's running a fever. she doesn't deserve six months

he says, What? she says I'm fine. he says You can't wave a get-out-of-jail-free card at a contagion. You should go back to bed. she says No, I should get to my meeting. he says Oh I already told them you're not coming. C'mon, sleep another two hours. I'll find you some soup.

and she says I keep killing you and you never make it any easier. Why do I keep getting you back? and he says Why am I here at all? and he doesn't remember, he's just far too willing to follow her anywhere, and she doesn't want to lose him. she has to. she says It has to be you. and he says If you're sure.

[altschmerzes]

i love you friendship and qprs and best friends and friends with benefits and mentorships and roommates and found family and surrogate parents and chosen siblings and rivalries every single specifically and actively nonromantic dynamic that exists

[bean-wrld]

There’s a lot of things you’ve done that Becky doesn’t know about

[royalwhumpness]

“Have fun!”

[leoholzer]

You've gotta fool 'em, Starsk. You've gotta make it. And you know why? 'Cause without you, Starsk, there's no me. (x)

[pedrospascaled]

Wolverine Accidentally Stabs Rogue (by request)

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[bambicest]

This is what you've always wanted from me, isn't it Bambi? HALF MAN 1.04

[darkwingeddove]

I feel like I see lots of injured Whumpees but never any Whumpees who have objects of caused injury still stuck in them.

Picture it:

Whumpee crumpled up in a ball on their cell floor, clutching the hilt of a knife buried in their gut, blood seeping from between their teeth.

Whumpee who fell several stories during a buildings collapse and can’t move a muscle to escape the rubble because there’s a rod sticking out of their abdomen, pinning them to the ground.

Whumpee tied up in their seat, unconscious. Rescuer finds them with nails pinning their hands to the arms of the chair.

Whumpee who has been shot and Medic who is frantically looking for the bullet but can’t find it. Caretaker holds Whumpee’s head in their lap, trying to keep them from falling asleep as they slowly bleed out. OR…

Whumpee that’s been shot but has no way to fish the bullet out, whether it be too deep in or they just don’t have the knowledge to do so. They sew up the hole in their abdomen, limb, etc., with nothing more than a prayer that it didn’t hit anything vital.

Whumpee with arrow(s) through their shoulder blades, trudging along through a winter forest, leaving a bloody trail in their wake. They don’t know where they’re going, but they can’t let themselves sit down to rest for fear they wouldn’t get back up. But they’re so, so cold…

[possessable]

blorbo sickfic that turns into a possession fic halfway through

[drudg30n]

what does this meannnn

[possessable]

well you see,

[mid-knife-crisis]

Does anyone else have whump phases like, in waves. Like for a while you'll be like "Oh yeah, some cool whump content, that's great," but you'll just keep doing your other daily life shit. But then out of nowhere for anywhere from days to weeks you'll get hit with the Super Whump Beam(tm) and literally all you can think about is fictional characters getting kidnapped and tortured. And then after a while of that it's back to business as usual until it all happens again

[futuristicson]

[bloodiedbriars]

parental caretaker prompts pls <3

Parental Caretaker

“Hey, hey, whoa… What happened to you?”

checking in throughout the day, trying not to be too overbearing

“You're quiet today. Did something happen again?”

knowing their kid so well that they immediately know when something is wrong, even if whumpee insists nothing is wrong

“Hey, hey! One more step and I'll fucking deck you.”

giving comfort by letting whumpee lean their head into their chest

“Chin up, kid. Don't let them see when they hit your where it hurts.”

a hand on the shoulder from behind, squeezing lightly

“Of course I'm worried! That's my damn kid in there!”

making whumpee food and hot drinks after a hard day

“Are you okay? I'm so sorry, kid.”

guilt and self-blame after overlooking/dismissing their kid's distress

“Stop acting like my parent!” – “Well, your real parents aren't doing it, and I'm not gonna let you go through this alone.”

seeing themself in whumpee, and struggling to see the situation objectively

“Hey, kid. Look at me. We're a team, right?” – “Right.”

feeling an instinctual kind of rage when seeing their kid in danger

“If you ever touch my kid again, I'm gonna end you, do you understand me?!”

struggling in the aftermath, when they need to accept that their kid is different now

“You called me dad/mom/parent…” – “Sorry, I slipped up…” – “Don't apologize.”

[lupinescribbler]

Started watching Starsky and Hutch, and I'm only like ten minutes into the first episode, but I gotta appreciate this moment. Hutch just checks in Starsky's shirt and aside from the smallest "?" glance Starsky is just completely unreactive to it. What a funny subtle way to establish immediately how comfortable these two are with each other :p

[where-is-my-whump]

9-1-1 9x18 Promo

[ktkat99]

Pick one to subject your blorbo to and pass it on

Hurt with no comfort

Love and care they believe they don't deserve

Flashbacks or reliving the Trauma™

One good day where absolutely nothing bad happens

Stabbed and bleeding out somewhere remote

Their strained "I'm fine" is believed by their team

A mug of hot cocoa and the warmest, coziest blankets

Suddenly coughing up blood

A hug

Voting ended onMay 7

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Hey so I know we All Know This but I will NEVER be over a character being feverish and delirious and making No sense. I will never be over a glittery-eyed, shivering, distressed character weakly gripping another's arm and asking them questions they don't know the answer to, and probably don't mean anything at all. I will never be over characters calling out for people either long gone or right next to them, but unrecognizable in their delirium. I will never be over a character crying in frustration and fear over something in their head they can't explain to whoever is helping them, and all they can do in return is stroke their hair and shush them gently.