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RIP to Wednesday who proudly proclaimed she would never fall in love and then almost immediately met a boy that jump started her cold dead heart. You know she was fighting for her life when the butterflies started fluttering. Happens to the best of us girlie
#i was so proud I wasn’t boy crazy#then immediately bought some clown shoes#Wednesday#wednesday netflix#wednesday addams#the addams family#wednesday x tyler#another soldier down#rip#mine
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Just saw that my favourite fanfic updated and the author said at the top that they used chatGPT for this chapter because they were tired
#another soldier down#im grieving don't mind me#fanfiction#fanfics#chatGPT#AO3#Percy jackson#percyjackson fandom
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spartacus and crassus :)
this is actually a rejected panel from a much longer comic I’ve been fucking around with on and off for awhile- I had plans to do a long form spartacus comic for a long time, I just keep missing the last book on my research list in second hand stores 😔 I always have money when the last copy sells out aughhh
anyway! I might call crassus my girl in the group chat, but I’ve actually spent more years wishing that spartacus got to run crassus through on his sword and then read the fate of rome out of his entrails. ALAS.
on that note, isn’t it kind of interesting how spartacus’ funeral games for crixus turn roman order upside down and feel like both a foundational sacrifice and a curse? isn’t it kind of fun how crassus will not die in rome, and neither will pompey, who came in like a vulture to take credit for crassus’ work? (it’s VERY fun)
Plutarch, Crassus
#Spartacus and Crassus have a very specific kind of narrative foil dynamic with each other that I find extremely compelling#Team spartacus bc I love to see rome eat itself like the horrible machine of violence that it is#and then cower in the face of what it created#That one doc that dramatized the starting spark was spartacus not being able to turn away from a Roman soldier#raping another gladiator. That’s what it all comes down to. Christ#Team crassus when the cast is just Romans because oh you are weird. Crassus you are so fucking weird. What is happening there.#BLAH anyway. panel rejected bc the scene needed to be bigger. grander. more bodies on the ground#Spartacus still get to call him a dog tho. Tahol Crassus! Tahol!!!#usually I have more to cite. Like. Most of my gladiator stuff is backed up on a flash drive! but guess what is not compatible with#An iPad. My flash drives. Bc I literally only use this for drawing work 🥲 also reading/researching on a screen like this is hell#spartacus#marcus licinius crassus#spartacus tag
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EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PYRO!
Always ALWAYS take time out to bother my team's poor Sniper!!! Sniper mains have only ever been sweet to me but oh my goddd he looks SOO miserable. I LOVE IT. Thank you Sniper mains for playing Sniper voicelines for me it boosts my morale
#erron and no-face in another life to be honest#this was supposed to be vampire raiden but#i heard a sniper voiceline and got distracted#and started playing again and got even more distracted#and remembered my love for maining pyro! and then it was like totally over#ive only ever drawn these characters once before :( need to get on it#*writes down soldier naked covered in honey*#tf2#team fortress 2#sniper#pyro#fanart#shire art
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Angélique Brûlon, the first woman to receive the Légion d'honneur
Brûlon and served from 1792 to 1799 in the defence of Corsica. She initially fought disguised as a man along with her husband, but was eventually discovered to be a woman. Despite this, she had shown such valour in battle that she was allowed to remain in service. She survived her husband and was proficient with sword and dagger in hand-to-hand combat. According to her comrades; "she fought with us with the courage of a heroine... with the zeal and courage of a true republican".
Napoleon III decorated her as a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in 1851, aged 79. She was the first woman to receive that honor. The first request on her behalf, filed by Marshal Sérurier in 1804, had not been granted.
#napoleonic#napoleon#angelique brulon#so i went down a rabbit hole today about the legion of honour...#i also found a cool (but fictional) depection of napoleon giving the legion of honour to another female soldier which i need to share#but major props to angelique her name deserves to be known in napoleonic circles
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[altered version of:]
"mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be."
-by honeytuesday
#one of these days me and/or agentbluefox are gonna unleash a hell upon you#the unholy rant about how reggie and five are actually a little too similar#just think about it#maybe that's also one of the reasons his siblings have a beef with him all the time#somewhere deep down they KNOW he is like reggie#who got closest to five?#luther and klaus#who also made their way to be close with reggie one way or another?#five founded a commission which is basically just a group of well trained soldiers to do as he says#what was the umbrella academy for reggie?#THE VERY SAME THING#both ruthless effecient doing it all for love#yes actually reginald did it all for his abigail#rings a bell???#just...THINK ABOUT IT#umbrella academy edit#number five#umbrella academy#tua#the umbrella academy#tua edit#five hargreeves#tua sad#the boy#five hargreeves sad hours#five hargreeves sad#reginald hargreeves#number five edit#number five sad#number five sad hours
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unsolicited song rec της ημέρας: the ballad of jane doe για την αμαλία
αλ. αλεξανδρα. αλεξ. my beloved.
i will kill you.
πως τολμας. αυτο εχω να πω μονο.
AND IM ASKING WHY LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!
ναι οκ μολις μου εδωσες πολλα brainworms.
ιδιαιτερα και ως προς το fallen angel au και ως προς το time loop au.
do not do this to me. im not strong enough.....
#god's bravest little soldier < me trying not to start another animatic wip when im drowning in stuff i need to do#you are absolutely evil for this < guy who is cackling thinking abt this#ναι οκ. αμαλια brainworms lock down. hello my old friend.#asks
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As someone who quit the MCU but still checks in from to time…wow! Who would have ever thought it would get worse than Phase 4, but Secret Invasion is just…wow. Everett Ross has been a skrull the whole time? Rhodey has been a skrull since Civil War? It’s been difficult enough to rewatch the early MCU knowing it’s going to have a dissatisfying “conclusion” with Endgame, but what’s the point in rewatching the MCU at all if it’s likely just going to get retconned into not being all that it seems anyway?
There is no point to the MCU at this point, really.
It started off with setting up storylines that then all concluded in Endgame (well, not all, but honestly, the ones not concluded at this point would have been better off staying not concluded), and now its just...basically Disney/MCU throwing random crap at the wall and hoping something sticks.
And so far, nothing really has.
#anti mcu#shout out to how when phase 4 was announced#i was excited for some#but somehow they let me down too#like was excited for the falcon and the winter soldier but while it was good it had issues#loki was a dumpster fire#and wakanda forever....yeah did not enjoy#from how they handled t'challas death to killing off another female character#to just having weird stuff with namor and shuri (whose age is a mess now really)#and the fandom aint helping with my annoyance with that ship btw#(seriously dont get how anyone ships a ship where one partner drowned the other's mom when flooding their kingdom)#but phase five had zero excitement from me really#and was right to be like that
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i wish i had more collected and intellectual thoughts on jim and la’an. instead my brain just screams about them all the time
#ohhhh what if i was so cynical of everything. what if i was frigid and closed off and so afraid of other people#and i met someone with a passion for the universe. who loved everything and saw the beauty in it all. and just wanted to explore.#now am i talking about jim or la’an#my fave thing 2x03 does is subvert their traditional roles/characterisations#jim is suddenly that hardened survivalist who needs no one; la’an is wide eyed optimist who believes in the universe’s beauty#bc au jim is from another time!! where there is no earth for him to love!! there is so spock to keep him steady!! he’s lost his brother!!#and his planet!! and in turn his hope and awe#vs la’an from trek’s usual “”utopia“” who now has to convince jim HER timeline is worth saving#‘you could be an explorer’….. she says it with such wistfulness. wanting that role for herself in her own timeline#and YES ofc au jim is also full of whimsy and la’an is still very stiff but that hotel scene makes me crazyyyyyyy#i love how they make jim into the battle hardened soldier. and la’an has to become the beacon of hope#i think that makes her realise a lot about herself :)#i could talk about this episode alone for hours lol but i won’t bc i was meant to go to bed soon#me being like oh maybe i can get an early night :) BOOM struck down by noonirk thoughts#star trek#star trek snw#james kirk#la’an noonien singh#noonirk#ka’an#kirk x la'an
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1) Opens up drafts with my head empty, ready to be flooded, not knowing where I'll go.
2) 30 seconds later: Okay but I will go feral any day of my life over Perilous Trail, and the fierce dichotomy of Xiao and Yelan. While they're far from being 'the same', they both view themselves as soldiers in one way or another (it's a very difficult word to use for Yelan, so I'm using it very liberally and very loosely), they have both suffered losses on the 'battlefield' and carry the burden thereof in their own ways. And yet they stand so firmly in opposition throughout the entirety of that questline up until the very end of the 'the end of the line' conclusion of the quest. Yes, I know that she offers him her gratitude in its aftermath and it is genuine, but she still never agrees with him and the decision that he made moments earlier. It simply 'worked out' because of Zhongli's interference, he's the only reason it worked out. And it's because of that, that she doesn't give him a hell of a hard time (obviously she can't go down there, but imagine the inner frustration of severe extents; when you condemn someone who you can't even see anymore). In the same way that she would do to anyone who would sacrifice themselves for others, but in this case, I think it's 'beautiful' that it's to Xiao; the one who seems most adamant to do so (which honestly, fits into the contract that the Yakshas chose to sign with Morax; 'the ultimate sacrifice' to protect for Liyue; 'for Liyue', and Liyue has always centered itself around its people), the one who everyone reveres (and so does she, as she notes in her voiceline, 'if I ever have the honor to fight alongside') and respects for good reason, she stands against him, because in that moment, regardless of his status, he makes a call that she considers wrong. And he doesn't even... fight her on it very fiercely, and that's what actually hurts me the most, it's as if the following line hit the nail directly on the head?
"Besides, if you were really so determined to end it all, you wouldn't have given us the opportunity to share our opinions."
#[ mini study. ] that which hides inside her… that constant calling; it is the blood of heroes which has been howling for 500 years.#[ and then shortly after 'the point is: it's not time for drastic measures yet.' ]#[ /shakes ven into another dimension. ]#[ i thought the ost at the end of perilous ruined me enough. but tale of the yakshas may actually ruin me more. ]#[ also i love how i typed up the bit of the contract and 'for liyue' and zhongli in my head isn't rattling at bars but-- ]#[ he's sipping his tea (the equivalent). one day ven. i /promise/ you. one day you'll get him from me. ]#[ he'll likely be the 2nd genshin blog to run alongside yelan if/when i get to being able to run two again. ]#[ but until then. can we talk about the dynamic of xiao and yelan until we're blue in the face? i'd like to do that too. ]#[ i type this as if i'm perfectly chill but i'm not. i'm really not. the concept of self sacrifice and sacrifice as a whole. ]#[ BETWEEN THESE TWO. drives me /insane/. and part of me sits here and goes-- ]#[ god. what happened with yelan and her team down there? we know that despite every plan she ever made and prepared-- ]#[ their enemies (WHAT WERE YOU FIGHTING??) were too powerful and more specifically-- too smart. too calculating. ]#[ ... and too strong (okay literally what on earth were you fighting? are we talking the khaenri'ah soldiers? like what? or abyss mages?) ]#[ (but abyss mages don't exactly entirely fit the description in her story. ugh. UGH). ]#[ any way-- it was her and her team. /they/ all died and she didn't. yanfei describes it as... ]#[ 'knowing that your life was saved when others weren't'. surely the millilith didn't intervene or happen to arrive. yelan must've... ]#[ gotten away? or something? but that doesn't feel quite right. but i'm just sitting here left with the idea of... when you lead a team. ]#[ you bear the responsibility of even their lives. and yet despite bearing that responsibility; she's exactly the one who lived. ]#[ the only one who did. that has to be a /stupid/ burden. it's like the captain who has to go down with the ship but is the only one... ]#[ who gets to live. only one who gets to survive. i just. ]#[ i didn't think i'd love a character as much as this one. where did she come from; jesus christ. ]
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Yup, im fine. I'm totally fine.
Fuck..I can't do this. I'm not strong enough..
I..I failed my math exam. I got..a..13..
I thought I ate up that math exam but in reality I'm the one who got eaten. That math exam ate my sanity, mental health, physical health, endurance, dignity, hope, braincell and left no crumbs.
#yourfavepookiebear#math#exam#mathematics#math exam#fuck im not strong enough#crying screaming throwing up#crying screaming sliding down the wall#banging my head on my desk#srsly#ive lost the battle#Retreat soldiers#we have lost the battle#we shall come back another day to get pur revenge but for now just retreat
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Yusuf is there when Nicolò enters the old temple, not a vision of him, no portal behind him that will take him somewhere Nicolò cannot follow yet again before he has the chance to reach him, just Yusuf. He's alone, his head tilted upwards and eyes closed, illuminated by the shafts of sunlight that fall through the cracked ceiling. The sight of him - here and safe and whole, finally, after everything Nicolo's fought through to reach him - takes his breath away.
"Nico," Yusuf says, and opens his eyes to look at him. He smiles, and he's still Nicolò’s Yusuf, even after everything that's happened.
Nicolò can't wait another second, then, sheaths his sword at his back and walks up the stone steps towards him. Yusuf's smile widens, and then he's stepping into Nicolò's already open arms, laughing. "I missed you."
"Missed you too," Nicolò says. He kisses Yusuf's temple, holds him close. "So much, Yusuf, you have no idea-"
Yusuf leans back, cupping Nicolò's face in one hand. "I know. It's okay. I'm here."
But Nicolò knows him well enough to know something's wrong. "What is it?"
"It's not over, yet." Yusuf steps out of Nicolò's arms and back a few steps, leaving him cold. "There's so much more you don't know yet, but we're running out of time. He will return, soon, and we're not ready."
"Tell me what I need to do," Nicolò says immediately. He can't bear the idea of Yusuf disappearing again, not now when he's finally here, when every other time Nicolò has tried to reach him he's been a second too late. "Anything, and I'll do it, whatever it is. Just tell me what you need."
Yusuf smiles again, sad. "It's not you, Nico. We need more time. And I can buy it, but-" He cuts himself off.
"Then I'll help you."
Yusuf shakes his head. "You don't understand. For this to work, I need to reform the seal, and I can only do that by" - there are tears in his eyes, now, and dread running down Nicolò's spine - "by sealing myself away along with it."
Nicolò realises just a moment too late what that means. "Yusuf-"
"If I seal myself here, in the past," Yusuf continues, "when you return to our time, it will be just strong enough to hold. You will have the time you need to finish this. And once all this is over, the seal can be broken in our time."
"I can't," Nicolò says. "There has to be another way. This can't be it."
"It's the only choice we have," Yusuf says. "I cannot - this was always my path, Nicolò."
She's manipulating you, Andromache had said, the goddess. She's using Yusuf to make you do what she wants, can't you see? If Nicolò hadn't understood then, he does now - neither of them ever had a choice in this. Yusuf was chosen because Nicolò would follow him anywhere, and Nicolò was chosen for the same reason.
Nicolò realises something else then. "If you seal yourself here, you'll be trapped for thousands of years."
"I'll be asleep," Yusuf says, soft. "It'll be like the blink of an eye. So when this is all over, you'll have to come wake me up." He smiles, then, even through his tears. "Just like old times, no?"
And before Nicolò can say anything else, the air around him begins to glow gold, condensing around Yusuf, who tilts his head back and closes his eyes, and Nicolò cannot move, frozen in place by something beyond his control. All he can do is watch as the light gathers around Yusuf, blindingly bright, until Nicolò cannot see him anymore. Whatever's holding him releases, and he runs towards Yusuf even though the light hurts his eyes, and just as he reaches out the light fades.
Before him is what looks like a crystal, tinged orange, clear enough that he can see Yusuf inside, his eyes closed. He looks like he's just sleeping, like this is one of the mornings Nicolò had had to wake him but had paused for a moment just to watch him.
Nicolò lifts his hand to the crystal. It's freezing cold when he touches it. Yet again, he's too late.
"I'll come back for you," he tells Yusuf, even though he knows Yusuf can't hear him. "I swear it. I'll finish this, and I'll come back for you." His voice is trembling, but he can't let himself break down now, not when there's still work to be done. The faster he finishes his task, the sooner he can wake Yusuf.
(Nile is the first to ask when he returns through the gate, waiting for him with Andy, Quynh and Sebastien nearby. "Where's Yusuf?" she asks, looking behind him - the plan had always been that Nicolò would bring Yusuf back with him, after all.
Nicolò can't bring himself to say it out loud.)
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It feels like an age before Nicolò returns to the temple, now in the present. It's over, finally - the five of them have sealed the demon king away for good. The others are outside.
The crystal is overgrown with vines, now, just like their old favourite meeting place on the island where all of this had started. Its surface is scratched and clouded with age, but Nicolò can still make out Yusuf inside it, looking exactly as he had when Nicolò left him in the past. He hates to think of the crystal here, alone, for so much time.
There's a glowing mark on the crystal's surface that hadn't been there before. Nicolò approaches it carefully and places his hand over the mark.
Almost immediately, glowing cracks begin to grow from where his hand touches the crystal, spreading across the whole thing until it's glowing as brightly as it had when it was formed, but he can't look away. When the light dies down, Yusuf hovers in the air for just a moment before whatever spell had held him there finally breaks, and he collapses, but Nicolò is there to catch him, sinking to his knees and cradling him close. He doesn't move for a moment, and Nicolò is terrified, because what if something had gone wrong-
Yusuf gasps awake, his eyes fluttering open. He looks around frantically before catching sight of Nicolò above him, who nearly sobs with relief, holding him impossibly closer.
"Nicolò?" Yusuf whispers, his voice hoarse. Nicolò nods, unable to speak just yet, blinking back his tears and brushing Yusuf's curls away from where they've fallen into his eyes.
Then Yusuf asks, "Did I oversleep?" and Nicolò has to laugh even though it comes out sounding more like a sob, kisses his forehead and smiles. "It's over, then?"
"It's over," Nicolò confirms, and then, "I love you."
Yusuf sits up and wraps his arms around Nicolò's neck, buries his face in Nicolò's shoulder and holds on tightly. "I love you too."
(When they return, Nile is the first to them, hugs Yusuf so tightly he laughs, and then it's Sebastien's turn, then Andromache and Quynh both.
They choose to stay on the surface, all six of them. And neither Yusuf or Nicolò are the same people anymore - sometimes Nicolò wakes screaming, sometimes Yusuf gets a distant look in his eyes and it takes a worryingly long time for him to come back to himself. Sometimes there are things Yusuf still can't tell Nicolò, and vice versa.
They make it work, though. They find a quiet place in the woods, far away from the temple and any danger, and they're safe, and happy, and together.
It's all Nicolò's ever wanted, really.)
#neon writes#posting this separately in an attempt to unbury it a little#the old guard#kaysanova#ANYWAY guess whos playing skyward sword. thats right folks this is ANOTHER different zelda au#ive condensed the entire thing into this because im not going to write much else for it#but. the plot:#nicolo and yusuf are childhood rivals-to-friends-to-lovers. at the time when Shit Goes Down they're coming up to the point where they have#to pass a specific test to become soldiers/knights/whatever. the wing ceremony if youre a zelda fan but theyre both participating. anyway#they both win (andromache and quynh are two years ahead of them nile and booker are the year below but they're all like. adults. not 17)#anyway they win and go on some kind of flight around the clouds because the kicker is that this takes place on a sky island and they get#around by riding giant birds i love ss. anyway while they're flying around (victory lap or something) yusuf mentions weird dreams he's been#having. then a giant tornado appears things happen yusuf falls below the cloud barrier separating the land from the sky nicolo is thrown#from his bird. wakes up explains this to andy who is like Well Shit. cue epic quest to find yusuf who has some destiny shit to do#gods and all that. its not important#but theyre trying to defeat an evil demon king before he comes back. merrick with horns can be the visual for that. nicolo spends half of#his time chasing after yusuf who always has to leave before they can talk. maybe quynh isnt with them on sky island and is the one guiding#yusuf instead i dont know anyway eventually nicolo has to do some hero stuff and all that. and this happens when theyre running out of time#as a kind of last resort. but then nicolo nile booker andy quynh defeat The Evil and rescue yusuf and its all good#the plot of this isnt very well thought out. i just thought about that scene with zelda and then about them and had to make this about it#enjoy#the reference to yusuf oversleeping is bc there's a bit in skyward sword abt link always sleeping in and then having to wake zelda and it#causes me 10 psychic damage so i had to adapt it here. that line is the whole reason this fic exists
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Holy shit, will Iran take down Israel? Will Palestine finally be free?
#one of my cousins had sent me a link about Iran's plan to retaliate after Israel bombed their embassy#and with israel's economy/commerce down 20%#and how they had to send some soldiers home#and everything else#idk I'm kinda shaking#not really out of glee or horror#just anticipation#maybe some hope#this could be the catalyst to end Palestine's genocid3#and set the towers of genocide and imperialism crumbling to the ground#if iran even does anything#that is#i can't even say that it's going to be a bloodbath#because israel has already been causing a bloodbath#but humanity is in for another shaking
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Send a 📸 to see 3-5 pictures that my muse has/has taken of your muse(s) : featuring @marvelmyriad. ( accepting )
bucky. ( made up of several verses. )
jamie. ( made up of several verses. )
wade.
#marvelmyriad#dynamics ✡ are you a friend or foe?#anya&bucky ✡ i'll stand by you. won't let nobody hurt you.#anya&jamie ✡ hey brother. do you still believe in one another.#anya&wade ✡ that's my down bitch. that's my soldier.#okay so these were so much fun.#the last two for wade#you know anya took while laughing
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redrew an old oc for funsies bc i wanna revive her story and world
Ruriko Ishino - JUMP Stinger
#neo toku#<< tentative tag for this setting and characters#my art#my ocs#tokusatsu oc#she's the daughter of her world's kamen rider nigou pastiche who fights evil outside of a privatized hero industry run by her dad -#and gets labelled as a dangerous and violent vigilante because of it#while being mentored by the ichigou pastiche (who also was labelled a vigilante when he wouldn't sign up with his former partner's company)#like... straight up i think this story is kind of tokusatsu the boys but pg-13 instead of hard R#she's bee themed - obvs - and her twin brother is another JUMP user named JUMP Soldier based on an ant#JUMP being basically just like. the name for Kamen Riders in this world. they're JUMP Users#or JUMP System Users#interchangeable i guess lmao#she's also got a rivals to lovers thing with one of the ultra pastiches whose a corpo but grows disillusioned eventually#after mentoring a newer and younger ultra and kind of through him seeing how she was treated by the company in the past -#but on the outside looking in this time and is like now wait a sec this dudes a child and so was i - kinda fucked ngl#havent nailed down a name for this worlds ultras yet but. yknow#IDK IM HAVING THOUGHTS AHH#anyway i like ruriko
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@febuwhump Day24: Bloody Clothes (NSFW)
Rumlow/Bucky - 2240 words
holy fuck this is so soft, weirdly consensual winterbones??, hurt/comfort (gross), blood and injury, blow jobs
“Let me see,” the soldier repeats and Rumlow doesn’t bother stopping the other man from reaching out to lift away the sticky mess of his shirt - he bites back the rough sound in his throat when the soldier presses tentatively around the wound with flesh fingers, “hurts?” he’s asked and doesn’t manage to stop the proper laugh that comes out all mixed up with a strained groan.
“You’ve been shot before, ‘course it fucking hurts.”
READ ON AO3 HERE:
Bloody Clothes
#cara writes#febuwhump2023#febuwhump day24#winterbones#rumlow tag#winter soldier tag#that's one down#just another two to get through todayyyy
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