#☩ genuinely about to haul off and start biting ( ooc. )

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rolls onto ur dashes. time to check urself before u wreck urself:

med check: do u have a regular/daily thing & did you take it? are you hurting and haven't noticed and would otc stuff help?

water check: have you had any today? do you need to refill your cup/bottle?

food check: have you had anything today? have you been putting off grabbing a snack? now's a good time to do it

posture check: roll your shoulders! stretch your arms! unclench your jaw! try not to favor one hip too heavily it can cause pain!

friend check: give your buddies a little wave or kiss or something, if you haven't talked to them in awhile/yet today

pet check: locate ur fur (or feather! or scaled!!) beast(s) and make sure they aren't getting into things, maybe kiss their noggin

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actually their two daughters are brilliant and delightful and by that time it would honestly just be silly to name jack godfather for age difference reasons alone (it's Hetty, Hetty's their godmother) and ---

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nobody: me: what if the compass really did unleash jack's greatest fear but instead of 'a pirates greatest fear be salazar' (which honestly always sounded like barbossa going doubt.jpg to me anyway) and the answer is actually jack's greatest fear is the enemy he doesn't remember. because he spends so much time understanding the complexities of his adversaries and learning how they tick in order to pick them apart or point them elsewhere and it's like. here's the one thing you forgot to remember and it's going to be what kills you

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hmmm i wasn't going to write today until i finished this however i am simply about to fling my tablet through my screen so maybe i'm done for today here is a preview and i'm diving into my drafts

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what if also this was maybe a plotting call? u boop it and we talk about an idea (maybe a plot, possibly a dynamic, who knows) at some point in the nearish future?

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sometimes i think about how henry would 100% be fine/comfortable swimming in the open ocean and it makes me want to expire

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Ok so this is the first time I've said this, I think, because it's the first time I've really felt like it's really happening, but if they really do covert this website into twitter2.0 I will leave. Twitter is horrible for my mental health and if they mimic it here it just. it genuinely won't be...for me. Because it will encourage the same kind of posting as twitter had which is just. It's so bad, man.

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this is gonna be one of those things i just sit here and think about after saying it huh

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general affection post for the dash btw

u guys are cool i'm glad you exist ♥

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unpopular opinion time but there is concept art of carina on the star/gem island in pants and like, pirate gear? and im actually really glad they did not do that and she stays pretty classically dressed because while i don't think she's opposed to like. wearing clothes suited to tasks (or, as she does in her lil solo novel thing, to get her way (she sneaks into a mens-only university auditorium thing by cross-dressing)) i feel like? she's not really challenging her status as woman but where a woman's status sits.... yknow?

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Anyway (your well-being and you as a person are more important than your hobby), I agree, but framing it like a person wanting replies back and getting frustrated by unfinished threads or unresolved plot points as them being petty or uncaring ain't it chief. Those things aren't mutually exclusive.

You can be friends, prioritize someone's well being over writing, and also be invested in your writing. You can absolutely value someone as a real person and still get annoyed/disappointed/etc. about threads going cold when you were having fun writing it or you were very invested in the bond it built between characters. Feelings aren't some empty thing to wave off as if they're irrelevant to a relationship? And furthermore you don't get to just Decide not to feel them. What matters is how you behave about them. As always, communicating with your writing buddies is the best thing you can do, but saying their feelings about the thing that brought you together don't matter 'in the big picture' is very dismissive, actually.

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hey you know how the entry to the cove is called The Devil's Throat? what if the (potentially colloquial because I honestly doubt they have cause to use it very often) name for the signal they use to communicate with the lighthouse is called The Devil's Eye?

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you know on a note of "other media inspiring me in regards to this one" i actually haven't stopped thinking about this line

and it's written from a very long lived character talking about the short lives of humans (and, in particular, she herself lost a(t least one) child who was an infant) but also gosh it's just so true and it brought me again to. How often I see criticism of DMTNT specific to the genre of "Elizabeth wouldn't do nothing" which. As ever brings me to-> raising her son as a single mother with no living family to fall back on in an age openly hostile to unmarried* women who have children is a weird thing to call "sitting around doing nothing" but ok.

(*because her marriage would not at all be recognized if for no other reason than that they didn't have a single actual dedicated witness, but also so many other reasons)

but the real point being actually. The way nobody accounts for? Having children will change you?? LIke I'm not saying she returned to colonial society because I just don't think that would happen (and there's no evidence that strongly enforces it. Literally we know nothing about how Henry was raised other than 'obsessed with pirates and rescuing his father.' We quite literally don't know what life he led other than what is explicitly shown in the movie and the one (1) line that would have firmly identified it was the only thing cut from a particular scene, ergo they left it ambiguous on purpose for you to fill in yourself! As so many of us had already done! Your anger about this is stupid!!!! anyway)

the. im trying to get to. I agree, Elizabeth would have wanted to do (and very likely Did do) something about Will but the thing is is. Elizabeth had Henry. to think about. to worry about. to raise. no father to shelter her no mother to guide her no siblings to lean on. she had. to build and build and build, no matter if you put her in a colony or some random fishing village where neither england nor the pirates could come looking or if you stuck her in the center of shipwreck with that title crowned on her brilliant head the fact is she has. to. build. she has to build a (bassi)net for her son, to keep him safe. to love him and to teach him and to let him be wild in a way that didn't teach him lessons of concealment as she learned, or abandonment as will learned, or fearful unbelonging as jack learned- she built him. a home and a life and love!!!! love!!!!!!! so much stupid love did you watch this movie did you hear him talk? i know im biased but come on there's no way to miss it he is so loved and looked after and he's educated and he's strong and tall and by all accounts strapping and handsome and has oh so clearly never ever wanted for anything but the father he cannot have so of course he becomes obsessed with this and the point is is Elizabeth! had! Henry! and I think. every single post about why DMTNT killed her character with a cameo, simply do not consider this enough or even at all when they say those things. She did not do nothing! No matter which version of canon you decide to fill in you cannot say she did nothing becuase there! is the boy! who proves you wrong!!!! right there in living color and with all the audacity of a child who knows he is cherished!! what do you mean she wouldn't do nothing?! of course she didn't! and of course she didn't go galavanting off into that blasted horizon because she. had. henry. and if she did to him what had been done to her with her mother's death, done to will when his father abandoned him, done to jack by a family who handed him off like something unwanted, who would she be then but a betrayal of her very own loyal and savagely loving self hmm?????? when has elizabeth swann ever not done the Most for the people she loved???? of course she stayed and loved him. he is not immortal and neither is she.

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good morning happy pride this is the icon i made last(...?) year (or year before I don't remember ;dkfj;dkjfg;kdljg) and I might make a new one i haven't decided yet but the real point of fact here: i love you I'm glad you exist! ♥

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you know i got excited spontaneously remembering there was a whole summoning ritual for Davy Jones in TPOF but

they kind of just go "bloody fishman, bloody fishman, bloody fishman" huh