#recklessness

⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚ DATING HCS PT 3 — ᴅ. ᴡɪɴꜱᴛᴏɴ

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⋆·˚ ༘ * — warnings : none that im aware of

⋆·˚ ༘ * — a/n : sorry this is short!! i absolutely loved this prompt though!! also tysm for the support!! i really appreciate it :))

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• you two would DEFINITELY sneak into the drive in together and steal popcorn and drinks from people😭😭

• however, if you were to get caught, Dally would always take the blame

• Dally loves you, like really does, he would never admit it though, and so he would always get mad if you got hurt doing something that he thought was stupid

“I told you to stay away from that fence, I got a scar about as big as your head from doing the same stunt you tried pulling.” Dallas said, wiping your scratches with disinfectant, his other hand holding yours as you squeezed from the pain.

• Dally got mad every time you hurt yourself, he never got mad at you though, only at himself for not watching you closer.😭😭

• would be SO upset if you ever ended up in the cooler, like absolutely devastated

• whenever one of the gang jokes about you two being the perfect couple he just laughs it off but secretly he gets all happy because your like perfect for him and he’s happy other people can see that.

• Would 10000% steal stuff with you, like after you two leave the store you would mention you being hungry and he would just whip out your favorite candy from behind his back with a grin on his face and then you would pull out his favorite as well😭😭.

• he loves that your like him but he also hates it😓, like he loves when you steal stuff for him but he also hates the idea of you getting into the cooler. He knows what it does to people and he doesn’t want it to happen to you☹️☹️

• you guys patch each other up after getting hurt and it’s the cutest thing ever, ofc its mostly dally getting hurt from bar fights and all that but just you guys sitting together patching each other up while just starring into each others eyes🥹

• Even though he does love you being reckless, he doesn’t like when you get in trouble, and lowkey goes into dad mode😒

“I told you, you gotta go left and then right so that the cameras don’t see you. Don’t you ever listen?” He said, scolding you after you got caught trying to sneak into the Drive in with your friends🙄.

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i didnt have alot of nsfw hc ideas for this prompt because like 99% of the nsfw hcs i have for this are already mentioned in his dating hcs one so enjoy these two💔💔, but if you would like a fic about dally x reckless reader fee free to request it!!

• would get a boner in his pants whenever you sneak out of your window to hangout with him. IM SORRY HE WOULD JUST FIND IT SO HOT. like the way your risking getting in trouble just to hangout with him?? 😫😫 EVEN HOTTER IF YOU HAVE REALLY STRICT PARENTS

“Patience” was not Michelangelo’s middle name at the best of times, especially when it came to having fun. He didn’t want to wait around for this or that to be just so; he’d dive right into the deep end and make it fun no matter the conditions!

Unless Leonardo had anything to say about it.

“Not so fast, Michelangelo!” he’d scolded, tugging him a step off his skateboard right before he could push off. Rude. “Where’s your helmet?”

“Uh…Off the top of my head?”

“It’s back at the lair, isn’t it? You’d lose that head if it wasn’t attached,” Leonardo sighed, unfazed by Michelangelo’s offended pout. “Wait right here, I’ll go grab it. I’m going back for another water bottle anyway.”

To his credit he had at least waited until Leonardo was out of sight before rolling his eyes and his board with them, already with the perfect handrail in mind to grind. With a ninja’s impeccable balance, what did he have to lose?

Consciousness.

Blood.

His lunch?

Possibly even the sun, as darkness seeped threateningly in around the edges, only to be chased off again by Leonardo tapping anxiously at his cheek.

“…angelo! Just focus on me, okay? Stay with me!”

“Stay…? M’not…planning on going anywhere, I dun’ think…M’ right here,” he mumbled, barely audible over the pounding, roaring, rushing sensation sloshing around his heavy head. “Wherever…here is. Where are we?”

“We’re at the skate park. I didn’t see it but you—you took a bad fall, hit your head.”

“…Wha…Huh? What ’bout my helmet? S’posed to h-help with that…”

Useful image to drop in reader submissions about motorcycles and how girls and women can ride them too.

Maybe one of the others could be like wtf? You killed Caduceus! holy shit! And then the two of them could have a nice chat like they did when Taliesin got back (I so wish he hadn't been absent that next episode, but it is what it is). Percy got punched in the face by Vax for forgetting to check for traps, which accidentally killed Vex, which they very much amped up for the animation into him coaxing her into being reckless. Veth ACTIVELY exploded Caduceus to death because she wasn't paying attention to where she aimed or collateral damage radius to her weapon! They've gotta play with that!

It can also set up a pattern of recklessness that pays off in the fact that she very much got herself killed fucking around dismantling deadly traps. I don't remember if she was drunk or nott; C2 E83 (3:19:15) AND how later on her and Jester being loud and reckless endangered her both their friends and families and got Veth's son killed. I'm not still salty about C2 E129 no siree, I'm not still irritated that Veth and Jester couldn't sit still for 10 fucking minutes to let Caleb cast the dome, nope, not me lmfao. (Speaking of life lessons I hope they emphasize a little harder in the animated show, Marion and Yeza are waaaaaay too nice hahaha. Also they didn't really know it was 100% Jester and Veth's fault but I digress). Combined with her arc about alcoholism and self worth I can see a really great storyline. Those are very strong, interesting themes to write about.

Maybe she goes on a mini bender out of guilt for hurting Caduceus after or something, or just some actual conversations between the characters about it, anything really to have it in the narrative. That death is when he gets his first in campaign major vision from the Wildmother as well, so that would be very interesting to see. Especially if they manage to preserve the blink and you miss it information buried in a beautiful conversation with his sister later on that he used to eat lilies (which are poisonous plants irl) to try to talk to the Wildmother when he was all alone. Campaign 2, Episode 130 (2:37:32) The subtle tragedy of his loneliness and isolated devotion are so slept on sometimes so I really hope it's addressed more.

The United States of America is now a full blown Kakistocracy. Europe has made it clear they are no longer tying their future to Crazytown. Here is the definition:

kakistocracy

/kakɪˈstɒkrəsi/

noun

government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

"the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy"

a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.

plural noun: kakistocracies

"the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"

By electing Trump by the narrowest of margins, just 1.5% over Kamala Harris, the country of my birth and upbringing, the country which has given me so much, has chosen national suicide rather than allow queer people to be themselves. That’s really what it comes down to. Oh, and fear of brown people cleaning the kitchens of the Mexican restaurants they love to stuff their faces in when it’s Taco Tuesday. Those nasty brown people doing construction in 95 percent humidity in Florida, picking the oranges, get them out!

I have had to accept that tens of millions of Americans would rather burn the entire country down than have to see a man wear a dress. Or a woman with studs in her temples with green and purple hair arm in arm with her wife. Seriously.

It’s been brutal to watch the downfall of the world’s preeminent superpower in less than one year. Everything moves so quickly these days. Progress and forward motion are things MAGA hates. That’s why they voted for someone who promised to take the country back. Back in time, to when colored people knew their place and a woman’s place was in the kitchen or making white babies so that white people can remain the dominant race. This is one of the reasons why MAGA went so ballistic over a talented and handsome brown man doing the halftime show at our favorite group sporting event.

My favorite philosopher drummer Michael Jochum picks up the beat from here:

There is something grotesque about a president who claims to “hire the best people” and then hands life-and-death authority to loyalists whose primary qualification is obedience. Donald Trump does not appoint experts. He appoints sycophants. He appoints people who mirror his defiance of reality. And nowhere is that more dangerous than at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a harmless eccentric. He is the top public health official in the United States telling a podcast host he is “not scared of a germ” because he “used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.”

That isn’t edgy. It isn’t rebellious. It isn’t brave.

It’s reckless.

I am twenty years sober. Twenty. I know addiction intimately. I know the humiliation of it. The secrecy. The selfishness. The moral erosion. I have suffered consequences. I have made amends where I could. I have looked people in the eye and owned my failures. Recovery, if it’s real, strips you of bravado. It replaces swagger with humility. It teaches you that addiction is not a punchline, it is a grave.

So when I hear the Secretary of Health reduce drug abuse to a chest-thumping anecdote, as if snorting cocaine off a toilet seat is some badge of anti-germ toughness, it turns my stomach. That isn’t recovery language. That’s ego. And ego is the first thing sobriety is supposed to kill.

I have compassion for anyone who fights addiction. But compassion does not mean lowering standards for public safety. Recovery should produce responsibility, not podcast theatrics.

This is the man responsible for vaccine policy. For infectious disease response. For the health infrastructure that protects infants too young to be vaccinated, cancer patients fighting for their lives, grandparents whose immune systems are fragile. He has repeated debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. He has downplayed measles vaccination during outbreaks that have killed Americans from a disease eliminated in 2000. He frames immunization as a personal lifestyle choice while viruses spread without regard for politics.

Viruses don’t care about bravado.

Meanwhile, this administration labels immigrants with past addiction struggles “the worst of the worst,” while their own health secretary jokes about cocaine. The hypocrisy is staggering. The double standard is structural.

And let’s be clear: Donald Trump did not hire RFK Jr. because he is qualified. He hired him because he is useful. Because he undermines trust in institutions. Because he feeds the grievance machine that distrusts science itself. Loyalty over competence. Always.

Public health depends on trust. Once that trust fractures, it doesn’t heal easily. When the nation’s chief health official treats germs like a punchline, it sends a signal, that seriousness is optional, that expertise is elitist, that swagger is strength.

It isn’t.

Real strength is accountability. Real strength is humility. Real strength is knowing that your words ripple through 330 million lives and choosing them carefully.

I worked twenty years to earn back credibility, in my family, in my profession, in my own conscience. I know what it takes to rebuild trust. And I know what it looks like when someone squanders it.

This isn’t partisan outrage. This is parental instinct. Grandparent instinct. The basic human expectation that the person in charge of our nation’s health understands that germs are real, addiction is serious, and public office is not a stage for self-mythology.

If you cannot speak about recovery with humility, you have no business running public health.

Resign.

but so what?

Sometimes all we need is a little bit

of recklessness to feel truly alive and free.