Saoirse Ronan And Jack Lowden In Mary Queen Of Scots, Dir. Josie Rourke (2018)

yeah lower decks put a decon scene on my screen and my dormant entheadism reactivated like the winter soldier. sorry.

+ closeups!

One day river has a dream. He's old. To his mind's eye, he looks like his grandfather. He's in a care facility exactly like the one he dropped David off at - except River isn't alone. There's another old man there, with hair wisped over a bald spot and gold half-rimmed glasses perched on a nose sculpted with unusual perfection, like someone's paid good money to erase any signs that it was ever broken. The man carries a cherry wood cane, although he rarely needs it, and he has a permanently fussy look stamped upon him, with his pristine coat and his bespoke house slippers.

In the evenings, the two of them retire to one of their rooms. Together, they sit at a small table barely fit to hold a tray, and they play cards. The card game they play, the only card game they ever play, is the only game they know that gives neither one a clear advantage. It's also the only card game they both hate. They both know this, although neither one wants to be the one that admits it first. That's the real game they're playing, and the first to crack loses.

If River squints, he can spot on the other man's temple, poorly hidden behind the thinning hair, the crackling, spidery web of an old scar.

The voice that speaks hasn't aged a day.

"Tell me, River. Did you ever become the best?"

River startles awake with tears on his face. He doesn't know why.

He's older than that voice now by a few years, and it's always going to stay that way.

(And he's still at Slough House.)

Jay and Dick

From NYCC 2024

#commissionspam

Cartwebb + personal space? we don't know her. SLOW HORSES — 1.05 'Fiasco'

holy shit is this gorgeous.

See you at the bottom brahs. This canary is about to fly.

bro not now she has to commune with the dead

This is hilarous. Gil-galad edit narrated by Ben Walker (the excerpts are from his interview in Rings and Realms). source

“It’s happening again. In our lifetime, it’s happening again.”

Just some more appropriate angst for ‘The Sharpshooter and the Vet’—WWI AU of acgas 2020

Maomao ✨ No wonder Jinshi fell hard for her