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Caitlin Siehl, "Cut" // i.g.p, "Mama Bore a Girl" // Natalie Wee, Letters from Persephone // Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire // @klyukvav // @heavensghost // Carol Ann Duffy, "Medusa" // Aria Aber, "Ideology" // Clementine von Radics, "Vigil" // Ocean Vuong, "Prayer for the Newly Damned"

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hold your fire (by the throat)

1/? Chapters | One Piece | Zosan

It’s a terrible, lovely thing that Zoro holds in his hands, Sanji’s red, red heart. And so Zoro counts each beat echoing across the space between them, his ears uniquely tuned to the sound, until it’s all he can hear. It’s the rhythm by which he measures his life, ever since the day he laid eyes on the cook of the floating restaurant in the East Blue. Beat by beat by beat. And still, Sanji asks. He gave Zoro his heart in every way except the way Zoro wants the most, and still, he has to ask.

That night in Onigashima, Sanji trusted Zoro with his life. Or, maybe more accurately, his death. But then they leave Wano and Sanji’s still himself, so Zoro’s pretty sure that the promise he made will never come to pass.

Things change when Sanji’s emotions start to slip away.

(AO3)

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Put an egg in your ramen. Put scallions in your ramen. Put chili oil in your ramen. Put kewpie Mayo in your ramen. But nori in your ramen. Put tofu in your ramen. Put miso paste in your ramen. Put mushrooms in your ramen.

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I love it when people use "shrimp" to mean "beyond the human range". like "shrimp colors" but applied to other things. "shrimp emotions" "shrimp sounds" "shrimp morality", as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend

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can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context?

You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a ‘kinda hurts’ level of pain and you’re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you’ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.

You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you’re healed instead of looking for ‘another way around’ everybody just looks at you and goes “okay try again”.

You’ve been fighting for hours, you’re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you’re still hungry, you’re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have ‘no excuse’ to stop.

You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it’s hand-waved because it’s ‘such a small injury you probably can’t even feel it anymore’ but the point was that you felt it at all?

Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you’re not bleeding you’re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don’t you think it’s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog? 

Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole ‘fireball’ thing but the ‘I don’t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore’ effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter’s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn’t work? No i’m not dead from the dragon’s claws but I can’t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.

Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.

But man.

That stuff is scary.

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Level of respect a class of teens I have to teach art to have for me when I walk in: 0%

Level of respect after I draw sasuke from memory on the whiteboard: beyond anything you could possibly imagine

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#the Nowhere Man who waits and the God of Stories who watches

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LOKI 2.02 // 2.06

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#obsessed with their priorities

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OWEN WILSON as MOBIUS M. MOBIUS in LOKI S2x04

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#a man who DESERVES A SLICE OF PIE

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Trying to fix what’s broken is hard. Hope is hard.

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I can’t offer you salvation, but maybe I can offer you something better.

Loki goes searching through timelines for his Mobius, and meets a sinister variant. 

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They’re distracting a nervous dog during a blood draw.

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Overly Honest Methods in science.

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making a knock, knock joke after a death threat is so mobius 😆