A meme round-up.

[my_belfry_of_fun]

Various Memes from Bakerstreet--see the Top-level comments for the memes.



The Rain Meme

The Insomnia Meme

The Stargazing Meme

Nursed back to Health Meme

Let's go to the Fair Meme

Late Night at Denny's Meme

The Enchanted Forest Meme

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5 - kind of game compliant

[amongfriends]

[Gamora has seen many moons in her time. This one is different. It is bigger somehow. The light of it makes the field they are lying in glow. A late-night picnic under the stars had seemed like a silly thing when it was initially pitched to her.

Things have finally quieted down. Gamora is weary. Maybe it isn't too silly to take stock of the world around them and hope this natural beauty isn't another strange omen of things to come.]

This wasn't a terrible idea. [Gamora admits. She can't say she's having fun.]

Re: 5 - kind of game compliant

[whose_son_am_i]

[Sometimes one simply needed to take a break. Silly or not, distractions could be useful and Gamora had absolutely needed a distraction. Which Loki was happy to provide. Lying there on the blanket, one leg up and the other crossed at his knee, with his arms pillowing his head, Loki hmmd for a moment.]

That's hardly a winning endorsement however. What's on your mind?

[amongfriends]

[Gamora considers lying. She isn't good at it. She hardly sees the point aside from saving Loki some distress. He is old; older than her at least. He can handle the consequence of his question.] It occurred to me not that long ago that this life I lead with you, Alice and all the others is all I will ever have. I wished Thanos dead as he killed me. That will not save my life. I will never see my family again.

[She lets the words sink in.] It is a heavy burden to carry.

[whose_son_am_i]

[Loki has faced worse, and would know if she was lying anyways. Few can actually accomplish deceiving him, really. But he's patient and lets Gamora approach this in her own way for now.]

We still don't actually know how the wishes work, or how any of it does. By all rights, based on the knowledge you've given me then I already know none of us will get our wishes. For I wished not to die, to not let that be the end. Would that I could've done Thor more good... Perhaps I could've found another way. Perhaps I should never have grabbed the tesseract and hoped that it would be destroyed as Asgard was.

[Blue-Green eyes look up at the stars. Unfamiliar stars, and an unfamiliar galaxy far away from the nine. But he still hopes that perhaps Frigga is watching him. Proud of him. Perhaps maybe Odin too, somehow.]

You found Thor, after all, but no mention of me. So am I to assume then, that our wishes mean nothing and are lies?

[He's meditative in his tone, softly voiced but not to be gentle. More out of respect for the mood.]

Do you know why I still go on, then? If the likeliest answer is that there is no 'hope'? Especially as I've never been one for sentimental nonsense. Better to let it burn.

[amongfriends]

[She listens without comment. He's not saying anything unreasonable. The fact that she came from a time technically after the wish was made isn't promising for any of them. While he is good to her, their child, and she assumes Puck, he's no more sentimental than she is. The depth of her hope began and ended with the thought that people deserved better than oblivion or the horror of surviving what Thanos planned.

Gamora takes an audible breath and admits:] That is exactly what I wish to know. You are dear to me, but I am not foolish enough to think I know your every thought.

[That honor still lies with Peter. The burden of knowing lies with Thanos.]