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TY u have read this before beloved….like a year ago. i wrote more but i dont like it. thats why its a year ago. BUT-

The newscaster’s voice was drowned out by static on my car radio like it always was. I tried tuning it for the third time, despite knowing it was to no avail. It needed replacing. I didn’t want that. Replacing meant taking yet another part out of the vehicle and yet another part lost to time.

A driver overtook me and yelled something I didn’t register. Cairo’s traffic was a blur and it got worse every time I traveled.

I quickly glanced at my phone I had haphazardly thrown on the passenger seat. No calls meant good, I reminded myself. My pager was equally silent. The day had been quiet.

I had seen Samira off to school (she skipped Thursdays twice before and I didn’t want that to become a regular occurrence), before making the trip to Port Said and back.

Rashid’s coffee house had been closed for a little over two years. I didn’t want to bother with keeping up appearances and I was less than suited for being a host. Aside from a handful of meetings upstairs, the place had not been used. There was still some furniture in the living area and I avoided the decision of what to do with it like the plague.

This is a Jimmy/Lydia fic and a sequel to the first one I wrote, where he’s taking photos for a new restaurant and brought her along! (It’s only for work, I promise.)

It’s almost a year old, but I might actually finish and post it since I’m interested in Lydia again and there’s going to be a lot of DC hype over the next year. Here’s some of it.

🎄2025 OC CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN🎄- @shellibisshe + @statichvm

I was tagged by the wonderful @leviiackrman @statichvm and @chuckhansen to post my five favorite current songs. Thank you! 💜

Tagging @playstationmademe @thomrainer @nightwingshero @r6shippingdelivery @gear-redfield and anyone else that wants to do it!

Every Night, Every morning - Maddie & Tae

Adderall - Slipknot

Gotta Let Go - Hollywood Undead

A Father's Arms - Miracle of Sound

It takes Mattie an absurdly long time to realize the man she’s been traveling Hope County with is her soulmate. She thought he was just like that, that he would bare his soul to anyone who paid attention to him, that he’d just casually announce, “I am not gonna lie to you, I have not pooped in six days,” to anyone who would listen to him without being a dick about it.

Hurk certainly never seemed to act like the stuff pouring out of Sharky’s mouth was unusual. Sometimes he’d even nod along, like when Sharky was talking about the cousin of theirs who worked the parking lot “as a prostitute, not a truck driver,” because it was stuff he knew and it was also stuff Sharky would normally say aloud.

How the fuck was she supposed to know he physically couldn’t lie to her when he never acted like he hadn’t meant to tell her the truth?

She suffers through the stories about his exes, the one he fingerblasted at the telecom tower and the one who kicked him in the balls with her roller skate, the one who cheated on him and broke his heart, the one who dumped him when she found out about the fur suit.

(Okay, maybe that one should have been a clue for her. He did look uneasy when he admitted that one night, but she’d thought the flush on his face was from the campfire between them or the bottle of whiskey they’d been sharing. She’s only been a cop for a year, okay, and there’s a lot going on, you’re just going to have to forgive her.)

He asked if the furry thing bothered her, and she said no, because it doesn’t, but it didn’t occur to her there was anything hanging between them that would compell her to tell the truth. She wouldn’t lie and tell him it did bother her, and he didn’t ask if she was into it because that would have been a different answer and still not something she’d lie about in any case.

So, yeah, maybe she was just being dumb for the weeks between meeting him and figuring it out, and maybe the way she finally fucking put two-and-two together and came up with four for the first time instead of three isn’t the way she would ever admit it to anyone else, but she figured it out in the end, didn’t she? Just because they’re going to have to pretend the first time she tried to lie to him and couldn’t was about why she was so squirmy and insistent on looting a pharmacy doesn’t mean they’re any less destined to be together.

When someone asks, probably Nick because he doesn’t have much of a filter either, or Hurk because he probably knows and just hasn’t brought it up, or oh holy Jesus Whitehorse next time they’re at the jail, she’ll just lie. She can lie to them, right? She’s only contractually obligated by the universe to tell the truth to one Charlemagne Victor Boshaw IV, not everyone else… right?

She doesn’t have to tell them she realized she’s been with her soulmate when he casually asks her, “What’s the deal, Po-po?” and she finds herself saying, instead of something polite and vague and designed to get a dude to stop asking questions, “I have a yeast infection and if I don’t find the fluco-whatever I’m going to murder someone.”

She also doesn’t want to admit that their first kiss was from opposite sides of the pharmacy counter, or that he’d sadly admitted he thought she knew and was ashamed of him, or that they also looted two boxes of condoms to use later.

Most things just aren’t anyone’s business.

John was pretty good friends with the Ryes before Joseph started getting super intense about the Collapse and got the ball rolling about getting people into the bunkers.

The mystery meat Jacob gives the Dep is just raw ground beef/whatever but the man knew exactly what he was doing about following that with the Miller story. Psychological warfare, ftw. 

 Jacob made the watery mac and cheese. Better yet, he made it watery on purpose just to fuck with the other residents of the county. 

On ye old “does Joseph love his siblings or is he just using them” debate:  He absolutely loves them with every fiber of his being. That said, the Voice is a force to be reckoned with so he kind of gets lost in what’s right/wrong and what’s best for the world, so he knows how to manipulate his siblings into giving him 110% for the Project. He doesn’t have to work that hard for Jacob because Jacob would do anything for him regardless, he knows John strives for his approval so all he has to do is act disappointed with him and that’ll get John to be more determined, and a threat here or there with Faith (if that was even true to begin with) and she’s set to go.