#doomed middle aged yaoi

[shuggyisreal]

everyone keeps acting like shanks is this free spirit. “carefree pirate” my ass. when it came down to it, he chose the world. like what gaban said, he's the “destined man.” the great red-haired savior or whatever the fuck. he'd always chose the big picture.

buggy wasn’t the world, buggy wasn't even in the picture. so he didn’t get picked.

don’t forget robin was given the same choice. iceberg told her that her surrender could destroy the world and what did she say? she said fuck the world then, gg. the strawhats gave her something the world never did. a reason to live and she said fuck it, i’m choosing them.

shanks couldn’t possibly do that. because the world never hated him. it handed him a lot. power, legacy, birthright, everything. he was a lucky man. I mean he shined the most even as a kid. he doesn’t know what it’s like to have to choose between the world and one person. and if he does, he clearly failed that test.

so when he stands there saying “i wanted to be carefree pirates together,” it’s a joke. like bro, you can’t talk about freedom when you’ve never picked it. buggy was right when he said he's a coward. because he truly is.

you don’t get to cry about not being free while standing on the throne you chose.

fuck that mf

[98chao]

what deltarune did yall play

this is their height difference btw i just need you all to know that because it sent me into hysterics laughing when i put them next to each other. theyre at his fucking knees

[fishymom-art]

2024 was the gayest year ever without it being actually gay

[wormspoodle]

uh hey man. pretty sure "thou shalt not covet". and yet here you are

[bugdoppio]

love like you.

[ezlo-x]

it has been a hot minute since I've last drawn these two...

[brooklyn-house]

amoset and octakahale literally same but opposite trajectories to each other. amos hosts set and it violently wounds his mind. spends ttof healing and is eventually able to reconcile things with set and understand his insanity, working with it rather than against it. michael is by octavian's side, his coworker, henchman, friend for however long, and he could leave at any moment, but he doesn't. they both say it's just convenience, but they're lying to themselves. octavian starts to spiral and becomes insane and a shell of what he used to be. michael wants to see the boy he loves, but he knows that he'll never be the same.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Guan Yu lets Cao Cao go at Huarong Pass

[celluzu]

poorly describe your cubito to me

[s0lemnhypn0s]

(Crocodile genderbenders DNI)

Constantly and always thinking about Mihawk's deal with fate and how he wholeheartedly believes Zoro will be the one to take his life. Thinking about what that means for his relationship to Crocodile. He loves him yet when he looks at Crocodile, all he can think is that there will soon come a time where he breaks his trust, that he will not live to see his plans come to fruition, he will die and there is nothing he nor Crocodile can do about it. He found someone worth trusting, worth living with, living for, and yet it was never meant to be, he has his marriage with Crocodile but his honeymoon will be with death. And what a sweet escape it will be.

[gluttonsmouth]

his favorite

[shuggyisreal]

buggy literally threw everything away because shanks existed. his dream, his pride, his confidence, his self-worth, his ambition. all of it. he saw shanks shine and just decided he didn’t deserve to stand next to that. he just accepted that he was the side character in his own life. and u know what's the messed up part? buggy made peace with it. it was hard but he let go of everything he ever wanted because shanks was there.

and then shanks had the audacity to act like that never happened. like buggy was just chilling all those years, not sitting on top of all the shit he buried for shanks’ sake. like buggy didn’t spend his whole life convincing himself he wasn’t worthy to be at the top so he settled at the steps.

when shanks just says he’s not going after the one piece just like that. that felt like a slap. like it’s no big deal or that it doesn’t matter. like buggy didn’t throw his whole life away thinking at least shanks would go and find it for the both of them.

and now he’s just supposed to accept that too? to just dig it all back up? shanks acting like they’re the same. like they’re still equals. like buggy didn’t already lose. like buggy didn’t already throw everything in the trash and repurposed his ambition to loyalty.

because even if it wasn’t all shanks’ fault on why he chose the plot or the lore or saving the world or whatever the fuck. at the end of the day, it still means he didn’t choose buggy.

and that’s what’s unfair. shanks at least had a choice, buggy didn't have anything left. buggy literally crushed his own pride under his own feet just to keep standing next to him. and shanks choosing something else on top of that felt like spit.

then shanks had the audacity to ask him to join him too? it was fucked up. it was fucking disrespectful. like how dare you? buggy trusted him to understand. especially him.

so buggy said fuck you then and left his ass.

[localunseeliefae]

i have an idea for a heart-wrenching iwaoi historic au in which they are growing up together in some village forgotten by the world until the war begins and oikawa doesn't have to go but his passion and pride pushes him to join the army, when iwaizumi stays home and provides for his family because he can't simply leave them to fend for their own (also oikawa makes him promise to take care of his mother and sister othewise iwaizumi probably would go with him)

tooru climbes high in ranks because he is passionate and determined and suprisingly good at reading the enemies strategy and iwaizumi hears about it in bits and pieces through very few, very short letters he receives in the span of those months he is gone;

when the letters stop coming iwaizumi doesnt really worry at first, because from the ones he received previously he concluded that the work of oikawas unit is coming to an end and maybe, just maybe tooru is already coming home and wanted to suprise them with his sudden appearance (after all he always had a flair for the dramatics) but the waiting period begins to stretch excruciatingly long and even though hajime doesn't want burden his and oikawas family with worry he can't help but feel this gut wrenching fear whenever he thinks about tooru

when his pendant comes back to them, carried by a man in the same uniform they probably dressed tooru in, hajime isn't really suprised; he felt it coming for a long time, even though he never admitted it to himself

maybe that's why he doesn't break down in tears like tooru's mother did when she saw the man, maybe the numbness he felt was caused by the fact that he expected to see the man more, than he expected to hear toorus irritating voice making fun of him ever again

maybe that's why he doesn't cry over tooru, not when their families mourn him, not when he digs him a grave in which he will never lie in, not when he rereads the letters tooru send him and he read, not knowing that those would be the last words he ever heard from him

or maybe he did not really mourn him because he could not for his life believe that he would never feel his best friends warm body pressing into his, when he insisted that he was too tired too walk on his own and "iwa-chan how dare you push a man in need away", that he would never see those brown eyes light up when they would speak about something tooru was currently fixated on

maybe that's why despite their families begging for him to not go, he still decided to join the man, the bearer of tragic news, who after a few days rest was to go back to the army stationed nearby

maybe he was convinced, that by joining him, he will quickly find tooru and drag him back to their families, before any harm comes to him or to them

and maybe that's why hajime welcomed his own death with relief rather than fear, because he knew tooru would wait for him for a thousand years if he had to, just like hajime would do for him

[nerditudes]

my buddy has an interview coming out with lee and i'm trying to keep my jimmies from being rustled but DEAR GOD THEY'RE RUSTLING

[impossible-rat-babies]

I’m realizing now that my da world state is just. wow tragic romance huh

[flamingredanon]

So I may have turned these two into OCs and launched them into THSC universe...

So meet Lex (the guy with the moustache) and Wolf (the guy with the eventual cybernetics).

Don't have an exact story for them other than gay crime boys get into trouble and Wolf saves Lex but almost dies. Then the Government finds and slaps cybernetics on Wolf, suppressing his memories so they can test him out with missions until Lex finds out and eventually saves him, with the two either going on to become bounty hunters or join with the Toppat Clan (don't know exactly which yet).