Soft warm light filtered into their bedroom and illuminated Sergei stretched out in bed, reclined against the pillows with the weekend edition of the local paper.
Sergei contemplated their lazy Sunday morning with joy in his heart. As open and cloudless as the sky outside their window, he rejoiced in their time together. The woman he loved would be at his side in only a moment.
Margo interrupted his reverie when she entered the bedroom with two mugs of coffee. Sergei sat up smartly from the bed and lifted the blanket to allow Margo to slide back into the warmth under the covers with him.
Handing him his mug, Margo harrumphed when she saw the discarded section that featured news of the asteroid orbiting Mars. He set his mug aside and snatched the paper away from her, holding it out of her reach.
“Nyet, Margo,” he chided as Margo clicked her tongue, “Work can wait.” Sergei braced himself; Margo did not like to be handled.
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This idea will live rent free in my head.
I just want to see them happily retiring together, with him as a Battlestar Commander turned househusband, and her as the Secretary of Education, a working wife. Then, years later, a party asks her to run for presidency, and she gets elected, and they become the unstoppable power couple they are.
(Also not me, trying to write a fanfic where they first meet at the Galactica decommissioning ceremony and then fall in love. Adar regrets losing her, especially to an aging soldier he deems unworthy and socially inferior.
He even insults them, saying she's playing a matador, messing around with a Tauron bull, and trying to SA her. But she punches him in the face (because Bill taught her boxing skill), and it's all caught on camera. Suddenly, she's the talk of the town, praised for defending herself against assault and becomes the new face of #metoo.
And Tauron people all become fans of her because she chose to defend her Tauron partner and chose him over the frakking President of the Twelve Colonies himself. And baby Kyliegh Curran as Lenore Usher, may or may not be their granddaughter from Lee and Dee, who's so close to and loved by her grandparents <3
But since English isn't my first language and I'm so busy with work and adulthood, I don't even know if I could find time to continue drafting this shite. I just love Roslin x Adama in AUs without the attack soooo sooo bad.)
This scene is beautiful for its subtly.
In the last episode, these two had said some angry words: “You’re so afraid to live alone! / “And you’re afraid to die that way!”
We needed to see them make-up, right?
Of course Laura will not die alone. Bill will be there, reading to her at her bedside, during every treatment.
As always.
The acting here is brilliant. GIFs cannot show this. There’s no dialogue beyond what Bill is reading in the book. But you can see Laura is grateful he’s there. He was right. She is scared to die.
And Bill is sorry. He’s telling her - through the book’s words - how much he loves her.
She will never be alone.
Because of him.
She understands and smiles.
Oh and the book?
Love & Bullets, by Nick Taylo, Chapter One.
“It started like it always did. With a body. This one was in the river. I could tell she had once been beautiful, but this bullet and fast current had taken away from her. All we are, all that we think we are. All that we are certain about is taken away from us.
When you’ve worked the streets and seen what I’ve seen, you become more and more convinced of it every day. Caprica City had been my teacher, my mistress. From the moment I open my eyes, she’s in my blood, like cheap wine.
Bitter and sweet, tinged with regret. I’ll never be free of her, nor do I want to be.
For she is what I am. All that is, should always be.”
I don't really understand this webzone. But, as an old, I don't really want to fully engage with fandom other than to give people kudos. I do wish I could communicate with others how much I appreciate their artistry and competence in their contributions to fandom (specifically fiction), but I'm useless at the words.
So! If you end up here somehow, hello! And please excuse my hit-and-run type "interactions". I enjoy everything you do and am cheerleading your efforts!!
She was the professional, everyone else was just playing at it. Tremble before her competence, intelligence and confidence!
- And we pulled that stupid prank on you. - Wiener schnitzel and sauerkraut. - Yeah, we thought we were so clever. Eva von Braun, right? But you– you just set it aside, and you put your head down and got to work.
FOR ALL MANKIND 1.02 He Built the Saturn V || 3.03 All In
it just might be adamczyk appreciation day again
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Part 1
For all Mankind 3x03 - All in
I made an extra version of the second gif, obscenely large and slow, as a treat. It's under the cut. Click on it. It takes a while to load, but it's worth it ;)
Jason Mantzoukas's Taskmaster Series 19 Interview