clinteastwood-blog:

Favorite Clint Eastwood movie characters:

John “Thunderbolt” Doherty / “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (1974)


Thunderbolt: “The clock uncoils the working day, and he wakes up feeling his youth has gone away”
-Lightfoot: “Now what the hell is that? A prayer?”
Thunderbolt: “A poem.”
-Lightfoot: “Ah. You stick with me, kid. You can live forever.”

So lovely. Of course it had to end badly, it was 1974, they couldn’t be allowed to live happily ever after

rawhiiiiide:

Rowdy & Jed

Stephantom (quoting from memory cause i can’t cut and paste here): where Rowdy struggles to get ouf kf an unhealthy relationship, becomes his own boss, gets a new surly boyfriend, and accepts his caring with embarrassment and awkwardness

Me: Oh yes. This. Every word. Well, except “surly”. Self-contained? Serious? (Some of the time). Rowdy’s tentative half-smiles, delightful. Good luck to you both.

Space Raiders of Nassau – ElDiablito_SF – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

jadedbirch:

Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Captain Flint/John Silver, Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint
Characters: John Silver, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Madi (Black Sails), Billy Bones, Hal Gates, Eleanor Guthrie, Max (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: Arranged Marriage, IN SPACE!, Alternate Universe – Space, Featuring the Maxanor, past Silver/Madi, everyone has a thigh holster, Explicit Sexual Content, Vague references to past trauma, Canon-Typical Violence, Gratuitous overkill of sci-fi tropes, TW: Gross™ and ridiculous pet names, TW: repeated mention of weaponized earsies

A SilverFlint Big Bang Fic with art by @aquafolie and @krimsnkrams

Summary:

The space station Nassau is in open rebellion against the interplanetary Imperial Alliance. Captain James Flint is in deep shit for rearranging the face of a fellow raider captain. As punishment, Nassau’s leaders assign an inside man to his crew, with a very convincing cover story (that they’re married). Complicating things further is the fact that Flint’s shifty new husband, John Silver, knows a lot more than he’s telling about their secret mission. Their own survival as well as Nassau’s future depend on how successfully they can navigate the dangerous skies… and each other.

“What exactly does that mean?” Gates stepped up, moving Billy out of the way to size Silver up himself.

“We got hitched,” Silver explained. “You know, married. Wedded bliss. Does your ship have a honeymoon suite, babe?” he asked, turning towards Flint.

“It’s true,” Flint concurred rather morosely. “He’s my husband. I am not without human foibles.”

“Foibles,” Gates repeated, his eyes seeming to traverse the galaxy having crawled out of their orbs. “Does Miranda know?”

“I will have a word with Miranda.”

“You do have all the best words,” Silver purred right into Flint’s ear while batting his eyelashes.

Space Raiders of Nassau – ElDiablito_SF – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

A friend who lectures at a Melbourne university has asked me if I would give a lecture on Italian Westerns in August or September. Three guesses as to what I answered. 😀🤣👍💪

She used the term “spaghetti Westerns” – when the time comes I will explain to her students that the disparaging term is based on the misconception that Italians tried to make Hollywood Westerns and failed, while in fact they are two different (sub?)genres altogether.