agents and butterflies

Merlin’s grief had been weighing heavily on him. It was always there in the background, like a dull ache most of the time. But this was his first Pride without Harry and he was taking it pretty hard.

There was a part of him that wanted to stay home.

Harry would tell him to stop being so dramatic, drama was Harry’s job.

Stitchery Bespoke

It’s Crown princess Victoria’s name day today. It’s a national flag day and the Crown princess family greeted the public on the inner courtyard today at noon. Princess Estelle was there, even though it’s a Tuesday and she started school in August. It prompted me to write this.

Eggsy stood in the middle of the drawing room, his arms crossed and his jaw set. Tilde, sitting on the sofa, looked up at him with her ‘you don’t get it’-look that drew him crazy. Usually he just folded, throwing his hands in the air and giving up because he didn’t think the fight was worth taking.

Not this time.

“It’s a school day,” he said for the third time. It was his only argument, but he found it a good one.

Tilde retorted with her own only argument, “It’s my name day.”

“It’s a school day!”

“Eggsy.”

“No. Uh-uh.” Eggsy shook his head. “This isn’t a photo op in our home or some press release. This is our daughter’s education and you can’t pull rank. I’m not taking her out of school to work a fucking rope line in the courtyard because it’s your name day.”

Tilde looked down for a moment. She took a deep breath before meeting his eyes again.

“It’s one day. She’s smart, she’ll catch up.”

“None of the other kids—“

“None of the other kids are going to be Queen of Sweden either!” Tilde yelled. “What do you think will prepare her more? Reading about Herr Punkt and Fru Frågetecken or going out there with us?”

Eggsy inhaled through his nose, his lips made into a thin line. He wanted to argue against it, but he couldn’t. Allowing this would go against everything he had promised himself when it came to raising their children, because this… this was not part of a normal childhood no matter how much he squinted.

Their daughter wasn’t a normal child, though. She had never had that opportunity, she’d been born a public figure. It pained him, it physically hurt that Tilde was right. Not being in school on Tuesday would be better for her future career.

“She’s six years old,” he said, quietly. “Six.”

“You didn’t have a problem with this last year.”

“She wasn’t in school last year.”

“It’s one day, she’ll manage.”

“Yeah, but she doesn’t need on-the-job-training just yet, does she?” He sighed. “Can’t we—can’t we give her the illusion that she has the choice you didn’t? Can’t we be those annoying parents who let their kids think they can be whatever they want?”

“Isn’t that crueller?”

Eggsy rubbed his face and made a frustrated sound. “Fuck…”

“How important is this to you?” asked Tilde after a short silence.

“I don’t know, I just—I don’t want her to feel more ‘other’ than she already does.”

“So pretty important?”

“Yeah, suppose so.”

Tilde nodded. “Okay.”

“Okay?”

“Okay.” Tilde nodded again and got up. “Only ‘on-the-job-training’ on weekends for now.”

“What—? That—? Okay.” Eggsy blinked, slightly confused. “Did I just win that?”

“Yes, you did.”

“Wow.”

Tilde smiled, she stepped up and wrapped her arms around his waist. “Or maybe Anne did.”

It’s impossible to see Jim’s actions as driven by ideology or duty. We know, as Jim kills the man we assume was once his lover, that he experiences Bill’s betrayal not to Queen and country, but as a betrayal of the heart. - Joanna Di Mattia, Senses of Cinema

COLIN FIRTH and MARK STRONG as BILL HAYDON and JIM PRIDEAUX in TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011) dir. Tomas Alfredson

Like, why was Michelle having her suit fitting while Roxy was on a different continent?

And, why hadn’t anyone invented teleportation yet?

More importantly, why wasn’t Michelle two fingers deep right fucking now?

Also, would Roxy prefer Michelle out of the tux for such activities, or would it be sexier to leave it on?

Additionally, would the strap-on look better over the trousers or under them?

Suddenly this blasted mission, which was apparently crucial to international security (or world peace, or whatever) didn’t seem quite so important.

Another impossible question, “Is it a bit much for a community college mature-age secondary school graduation?” Michelle asked over the video call.

Did this little thing for fun

Orgasm Control

Wall Sex

Chapters: 21&22/22 Fandom: Kingsman (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad & Merlin, Harry Hart | Galahad & Original Female Character(s) Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Merlin (Kingsman), Original Kingsman Character(s), Kingsman Agents Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Backstory, Homophobia, Sexism, HIV/AIDS Crisis 

Summary: In Harry’s old friend group they said that a person had ‘gone to Scotland.’ No one asked follow up questions on that one because no one wanted to know if it was the disease or if it was suicide that had taken them. Or if it was something else. Whatever something else might be. […] Harry wondered sometimes if they talked about him that way. If there were people who said that he had gone to Scotland too. The people he’d been closest to knew that he wasn’t dead, but to most people he had just… disappeared.

Gone to Scotland. Joined a cult.

He had heard people’s disappearances referred to as that as well. That one was almost fitting to what had happened to him. He had joined a cult of sorts. An independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion. It sure sounded cult-like.

A look at Harry’s first years at Kingsman, as a gay man in Thatcher’s UK during the AIDS crisis.

Chapters: 20/22 Fandom: Kingsman (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad & Merlin, Harry Hart | Galahad & Original Female Character(s) Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Merlin (Kingsman), Original Kingsman Character(s), Kingsman Agents Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Backstory, Homophobia, Sexism, HIV/AIDS Crisis 

Summary: In Harry’s old friend group they said that a person had ‘gone to Scotland.’ No one asked follow up questions on that one because no one wanted to know if it was the disease or if it was suicide that had taken them. Or if it was something else. Whatever something else might be. […] Harry wondered sometimes if they talked about him that way. If there were people who said that he had gone to Scotland too. The people he’d been closest to knew that he wasn’t dead, but to most people he had just… disappeared.

Gone to Scotland. Joined a cult.

He had heard people’s disappearances referred to as that as well. That one was almost fitting to what had happened to him. He had joined a cult of sorts. An independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion. It sure sounded cult-like.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Kingsman (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad/Merlin/Gary “Eggsy” Unwin Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin, Daisy, Michelle Unwin, Merlin (Kingsman), Percival (Kingsman), Other Kingsman Character(s), Chester King | Arthur, Richmond Valentine, Roxy Morton | Lancelot, Gazelle (Kingsman), Professor Arnold (Kingsman) Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Light BDSM, Puppy Play, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Dom/sub, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Permanent Injury, Presumed Dead, Not Canon Compliant Series: Part 24 of Evil Angel Summary:

Mysterious things have been rumbling under the service at Kingsman for quite some time and they all seem to lead toward one person: Richmond Valentine. Merlin has been doing what he can to find the source of the rumbling and weed out the good from the bad, but suddenly that rumbling erupts out of Kingsman and into the real world, destroying everything they hold dear.