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It was extremely late at night when Vex found them. Percy had his coat draped over Vesper’s shoulders, rubbing her back and sometimes reaching up to wipe away a stray tear. 

“Bad dream?” Percy looked up at her sadly, giving a gentle nod. 

“Seemed like it.” Vesper was fast asleep by then, and thankfully so were the two brand new babies across the hall Vex had just finished tending to. Vex knelt next to them, pressing a kiss to Vesper’s head before cupping her husband’s cheek. 

“Think she’s good to sleep?”

Percy gave a heavy sigh.

“I think so, but I’m not going anywhere.” Vex simply drew a breath. 

“Darling…” 

“You can go back to bed, I just…” Percy’s tone grew haunted as Vex took his hand. Silently, soothingly, she rubbed his knuckles in encouragement. “…. I remember so many mornings after nightmares where I didn’t have anything to remind me that I’d woken up.” 

Vex’s heart sunk. 

“I know it’s sort of foolish. And I know it’s not a comparison,” he looked at Vesper almost reverently, “But I can’t ever let my children feel that way.” 

Without another word, Vex took a seat next to him, wrapping an arm around her daughter and husband. 

“Okay,” she kissed his cheek and made herself comfortable, “Then I’ll just stay here.” Percy smiled sadly. 

“I’m sorry…” 

“Don’t be, Percy,” she kissed him again, and gently kissed Vesper’s hair, “You know there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”

So when morning came, and memories of Vesper’s odd yet terrifying dream started to resurface, she was quickly reminded of her safety by the steady presences of her parents. 

And in that moment, Percy provided a comfort he would once break the world to receive. 

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a bit more time

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someday we'll find it

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someday we'll find it

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This plays in my mind every time Liam mentions Orym’s amazing jumping ability

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thinking about how veth says caleb like “cayleb.. . oh cayleb” and how jester says “bowuh !” instead of beau .. and says “cadewwsis” every time. thinking about beau calling jester “jes” and cad calling jester “miss jester” and yasha “miss yasha” and caleb “mr caleb”. thinking about fjord calling caduceus “ducey” and beau calling him “cad” and everyone calling him all kinds of silly nicknames even though his plan was to be known just as Clay, to keep himself distant. thinking about how mollymauk is molly and caleb is lebby and caduceus is caddy and jester is jessie and i miss tmn so much 

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I fucking love how Our Flag Means death has explicit, unabashed queer romance and character but ALSO has wall-to-wall metaphors and symbolism. We can have the kiss but we can ALSO read into the colors of wardrobes and whether a character wears gloves or not. We can read into the metaphor of Stede’s secret closet and letting Ed in, and ALSO have a fully fleshed-out storyline about a gay man in a loveless marriage telling his wife “his name is Ed.” We have the red silk scene in the moonlight, of gently handling a bit of cloth to represent a heart, and we have “what makes Ed happy is…you.”

We get all the subtle details of brief touches and meaningful glances, but not instead of explicit queerness—it’s that the unabashedly queer characters and story deserve that level of build-up and poetry.

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haha izzy i am sleeping with your captain 

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i love david jenkins so much, he really said “the gays won’t care about the logic of time and space so long as we give them pirates who kiss” and he was absolutely right. at this point ed could have his full beard back at the beginning of season two with no time jump at all and i would just say thank you. lucius could survive being thrown overboard due to the buoyancy of his wooden finger and i’d be like yup, makes perfect sense, no notes. i am willfully forgetting everything i’ve ever known for this show. i am not just suspending my disbelief, i am loading it into a cannon and blasting it to the heavens.

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Really loved the insight from this article

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You know what’s some crazy $hit?

This fabulous bitch

She makes a shit ton of poses (like 16,000 or some crazy nonsense).  I used this lovely lady to draw so much as a teen.  Whether it was some nerdy pose for my Mary Sue as fuck OCs

or for full on fight sequences

or for tragic deaths of my OCs in the arms of a totally OOC main protagonist.  

this bitch hooked me up.  

And with the wildest, craziest stuff that you could see in your head but had no way or resources to reasonably draw like

or this

or this

DUDE!  INASNE SHIT!!  So I was using her for a pose reference and decided, you know what, I owe this bitch some cash.  Lemme dole it out for her.  BUT then, I looked and saw she only has 286 fucking patrons!!  This chick gives out free shit and spends countless hours arranging these shoots and setting this stuff up.  

I’ll fork up the cash, SenshiStock.  You’re worth it.  

Check out this amazing woman’s stuff, and get knowledged:  https://www.deviantart.com/senshistock

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It’s just about how your fandom behavior has changed since about March 2020, and there’s only 8 questions which are all multiple choice or checklists, so it won’t take up too much of your time. Thank you if you take it, and thank you even more if you reblog this post to share it with others!