I just wanted to make a bit of a tiny psa; in that, there’s many instances where, if I’m shipping with someone, I don’t want to write with or ship with duplicates ( pending ppl using the same fc for multiple characters cause all interpretations are different). I have no interest in writing with the same face claims over and over, it’s not authentic to my brain. Nor is it authentic to what I’m building, canons are different, yes but there can be major associations with how someone plays them. if we’ve discussed it, then I have no issue practicing exclusively, especially with face claim association. for example, I will only ever write with one frank castle and billy russo because I have no desire to write with any others based on dynamics built. Face claim wise, I will not write with any others based Oliver Jackson-cohen face claims or honestly Jensen ackles because they’re associated with characters from partners I like writing with. But if we don’t have any conversation about these things, I won’t know. I’ll still prioritize your character if I’m not writing with any other canons or ocs with their face but I’m not tied to exclusivity unless we talk about it. But this psa is also me saying NO I DO NOT EXPECT THE SAME MANNER OF THINKING FROM OTHERS. and again unless the conversation is there, it’s business as usual.
Did this make any sense cause I feel like an asshole trying to explain my brain and I know I should put the list in my pinned and carrd but anyways.
29. ] sender wakes receiver in the throes of a nightmare, reassuring them, "it's okay, it's not real." @bruz3r
she breathes in dust, knees coated in bloody sand. gunfire cracks the sky open with fury, heart slamming against her ribs like it was trying to escape. the heat was suffocating; smoke, cordite, and burnt flesh filled her nostrils, coated her tongue until she gagged. hands everywhere all at once, fumbling for the medpack, pressing down on the shredded mess of a man’s open chest, shouting over the gunfire. stay with me, godamnit — desperate plea to gods that never listen. her voice cracked from the particles of caught debris and screaming for too long.
he was younger than he should’ve been. barely twenty. his mouth moved like he was trying to say something, but only blood bubbled out, fear wide in the glow of youthful green eyes. there wasn’t enough gauze in the world to hold him together. didn’t matter. she kept working. kept fighting. because if she stopped, it was real. there's a distant echo, a hollow sound overhead but she didn’t hear it. didn’t hear anything except the ringing in her ears, the desperate rush of her hands trying to clamp a mortal wound closed. trying to will a shattered body back to life. her hands slipped and his body jolted once and then went still. — no. no no no breathe for me, breathe kid, common! she beat on his chest, hands trembling, blind with panic as the shadow of death mocks her from the corner of the battlefield.
she hears it again.
distant sound gaining rhythm between ichor and carnage. someone grabbed her wrists, firm but not cruel. honey eyes wild and far from the present, her head snaps like the coil of a venomous snake. gloria's mouth twists into a broken scream from the depths of something animalistic inside her bones.
it's okay, it's not real...it's okay, it's not real. but it had been.
she pushed. reared back and slithered from the most gentle grasp. adrenaline still flooding her veins, muscles seized up, heart hammering. it took her longer than she wanted to realize she wasn’t wearing flak. no helmet. no rifle. no medkit. just sweat-soaked skin and the terrible ache of coming back to herself. back pressed against the wall, staring at the doorframe as though the front would materialize in front of her. ❛ did i hurt you? ❜ frantic, feral beat of war, placing a whole field between them with her palms up. ❛ i don't want to hurt you. ❜
it’s not Sunday and idc cause the world needs to understand that you HAVE to dominate her or she will edge you within an inch of your life and fucking laugh about it and talk shit in your face about it.
a twitch she won't snap up in her maw. the way he says the word CAMOFLAUGE like he knows what she’s been trying to outrun it since the first time someone shoved a tourniquet in her hand to save a man already half-dead. like he can see the thing coiled behind her ribs and how it gnaws when she lets her guard drop. and she knew he could see it.
❛ well then i'm paying too much for mine. ❜ she's been dissected by people in far colder rooms than this: by doctors, by superiors, by the mirror.
her throat tightens. ❛ i'm not— ❜ hungry? she's a terrible liar. he’s not wrong, and that’s the worst part. she just hates how much she agrees, how he can unravel the tireless labour of moral acrobatics at the promise of FEEDING THE ROT.
❛ bleeding is easy, billy. ❜ she presses words and invades his space. she isn't a threat...she's always a threat; a labcoat won't change that, but she's offering resistance by tenderness. it lands as a bruise and traces the veins in his forearm. ❛ i want to know what they do when the wound closes. ❜
❛ but be honest again, querido. ❜ a sharp hum, a burning sort of melody, amusement becomes a strange sickness brought back from the gallows. ❛ is that the only time you trust me? when you make me bleed? ❜
there's a subtle twitch behind his lashes—barely there. you'd miss it unless you were hunting for it. and someone like gloria? she always seemed to be hunting for something.
❝ suppose a psychologist would call that behavior 'camouflage'—if they were ditching the clinical lingo and leaning into something we’d actually recognize. ❞
he tilts his head, as if parsing her—like she were a wound to be stitched or a bomb to be disarmed.
❝ uniforms aren't made to make saints. scrubs, fatigues—shit, even the suits, gloria. all they do is color the appetite. but the hunger? it’s still there. ❞ he studies gloria, eyes locked into hers—too long, too knowingly.
❝ but if i gotta be honest... i trust people more when they're bleeding. at least then, you know what color they really are. ❞
@medicbled
30. netflix watch history. // HCS @pittmade
she watches him, watches the way his hand doesn’t reach. how it lingers in the air like an OFFERING, not a DEMAND. that’s it, isn’t it? he doesn’t take. he waits.
❛ funny thing about wounds. ❜ voice low and measured. each word turning over in her chest before it makes its way to her lips. ❛ they don’t scare me when they’re fresh. that’s the clean part, body’s in shock, adrenaline’s high—you just move. ❜ her hand finds his with the sureness of a decision she won’t unmake, even if it ruins her. grasped too eagerly, entwined too tightly.
a flash of recognition. in the same way those horrors play on a loop when her body wants to find rest, shiny snippets of lived-in carnage. ❛ it’s what happens after that haunts you. when you start making room for the pain and working around it...pretending it's not shaping every goddamn step you take. ❜
his invading scent almost clouds every rational instinct. now, it mingles with warmth and the taste of floral amber on her skin. honey and irreparable damage hasn't left his gaze, but she smiles like a ghost looking down on a life she couldn't have. gloria has forgotten how to want anything for herself. it's too selfish, too indulgent. she shrugs and it brings her even closer. watching his lips, his jaw, their tanged hands, anything else to lessen the blow of unravelling parts of herself she'd hardly admitted to the mirror.
❛ i was just made to hold other people's damage like it was mine. that's it, billy, the job. ❜ THAT IS HER WORTH.
❛ you say you trust me when i’m trying not to bleed but i don't know how to do anything else. ❜ she's quieter now, words flaying her open piece by piece. ❛ i don’t know what to do with that. i don’t know how to carry this kind of want without running from it. ❜
her thumb moves gently along the line of his palm. ❛ because if or when i love someone, i'm a walking wound that won't stitch shut. ❜
❝ nah. ❞ the word land irrevocably soft. an unabashed verdict handed down between partners instead of a jury. ❝ i trust you most when you're trying not to. ❞
his hand doesn't reach for her own, but it does hover as a palpable presence. if she wanted this contact, she'd find. billy's learned not to ask.
❝ don't be silly. i don’t need to make you bleed to trust you, gloria. ❞ his voice dips lower, but it's not tender—just stripped bare, the way cold nights can feel honest when the war's silenced itself for a breath. ❝ i just need to see how you hold the wound. ❞
he grins foxishly—wolf-mouthed in the dark.
❝ i know you've seen plenty of people hold a wound wrong. ❞ there's a deep glimmer of memories behind his eyes now—sordid, too close, close-quarters horror folded under surgical instinct gone frantic. he blinks then. the visuals and their effects shut down and thrown behind the doors in the dark recesses of his mind.
❝ what happened when you saw it? they panic, right? they clamp down. they tear it open wider. now you got tragedy all over the floor. ❞
he tsk'd, sucking his teeth. he shakes his head.
❝ but you?—❞ he leans in, just enough for her to catch the green apple and vanilla of his cologne, the salt of aftershock in his sweat. ❝ nobody can't tell you shit. you know how to press. how to breathe through it. how to keep your hands steady with someone else's life inside 'em. ❞
❝ that’s how i know. so, if i haven't made myself clear before, I'll say it plainly now: ❞ his voice radiates, warm steel. ❝ i don't want you bleeding, sweetheart. i want to see what you do after. ❞
@medicbled
❛ are you saying you want to secretly perform scientific experiments on your friends and coworkers to increase efficiency? ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @vanhornrn
gloria's cool date idea: a fucking nap and you pretend like she didn't drool on you a little bit cause she's comfortable with you.
SC// @muutos ( price )
she came here because she knew he wouldn't flinch. john never tried to fix her. he saw her as she saw him, what war carved out of a person and didn’t look away. he knew the terrain because he’d seen the worst of her and never asked her to apologize for it. that had always been the unspoken deal between them: mutual recognition without pity. she could breathe in front of him, even when it hurt.
especially when it hurt.
gloria could feel the pulse in her jaw, the clench of muscle that hadn’t quite relaxed in days. maybe weeks but she wasn’t sure anymore. everything felt…off. like her skin didn’t quite fit right, like her body was still bracing for impact even when the threat was gone. attempting to be something normal, to press healing into the edges of so much death she couldn't scrub off her hands. that’s what no one ever told you about coming home — you never really came back. not whole at least. like being dropped into a quieter war where no one was wearing a uniform and everything demanded something she didn't know how to give anymore.
she glanced at him then, really looked, and something caught in her throat. her hand curls around the whisky glass, all of her frame leaning towards him. it was more than memory, more than want, so much deeper than anything she could translate into any language. nights in the field where she'd crawled beside him and shared a drink in the darkness because sleep meant silence and silence was where the screams lived. nights where she'd pressed her forehead to his shoulder and let herself believe, just for an hour, that she was still human.
but she also came here because he needed her, too, and it would be a fine frozen day in hell before she ever said no to him. ❛ i had my shifts covered for the next week and a half. ❜ and there it is, a mere glimpse of a devotion that doesn't know how to let go. ❛ you have me on this, john.❜ then comes the reach of a hand, gentle and sure of itself as it slips into his. ❛ but if you brood about how bad you feel bringing me back into it, i might take it back. ❜
ADRIA ARJONA as Madison Figueroa HIT MAN (2024)
❛ i'm going to wait until i'm on my deathbed, get in the last word and then die immediately. ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @walkeddeath