The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Dir. Francis Lawrence

            a short bark of laughter comes from arthur as he stands, thumbs coming to hook into his gunbelt. his smirk is CROOKED, stretching over tanned skin in a way it often doesn't. it half comes from amusement, half because he's always a little put on the spot when teased by a woman.

                    " can't have that. i've got a reputation. "

            arthur is QUIET for a moment, his smirk fading because he feels his work isn't yet done. emotional upkeep falls far beyond his scope of expertise - but arthur knows how it is when the chips always feel like they're down. like he's run out of options. it's not a feeling he wishes on any decent person.

            " all's i'm saying is gut feelings ain't there for nothin'. what's the point in learnin' something the HARD way if you don't learn from it ? "

"trust your instincts. when the chips are down, they’re all you have." from @quastari / arthur

her gut is a constant: the way instinct has kept her alive, kept her aware. young woman is a contradiction - the gentleness of her features, of her mannerisms,  even of her silence... yet how cleverness fills those doe eyes, always studying the world as if waiting for the next disaster. she's not blind to the universe and how things really seem to go. yet over, and over, brunette does her very best to keep on choosing to see the good even when she knows how likely it all is to end badly.

"the chips always seem to be down." it's a dry little joke, quiet under her voice, attention still on the papers she's carefully sorting through. if anything - she knows it's a flaw she's so often tried to ignore her gut in favour of trying to understand other's opinions. it's how she ended up engaged to bobby after all, isn't it? "careful, I'll think you're concerned about me."

joel tag drop.

Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021) dev. BioWare

ENDLESS EDITS OF WILLIAM RIKER [ 002 / ??? ]

how to sit, a guide by william t. riker (mutuals may reblog)

Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947 - 1963

♡ for a starter / memes from arthur morgan

archer & the nx01

jack daniels tag drop.

bayek tag drop.