#I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT THEM

[aeaiila]

i know everyone is talking about the maxiel implications of that FL point but have we considered the dando implications... moreover, have we considered the crazy post-singapore maxieldo triangulations...

[ahsokas-left-elbow]

first art posted to tumblr since 2014...feels...good. (sry for the crunchy quality)

[sissiarte]

I had to paint this as soon as I saw that one fancy official art

[Original painting is "The Meeting on the Turret Stairs" by Frederic William Burton]

[ikpwecanfly]

Healthy relationships really have no place in the vampire world.

The healthiest relationship we've seen so far is claudiline, and it was it's own demise. Madeline cares for Claudia. Not in a possessive way but truly. She wants her to be happy and have as much good as the world is willing to give her. She doesn't want to stop Claudia from killing herself (re: the conversation with Armand) She wants Claudia to WANT to live.

Where lestat and Armand locked Louis in to "protect him from himself", Madeline went away with Claudia and showed her around. Where Armand dressed Louis in drab black, Madeline made Claudia sunshine yellow dresses.

Where lestat tried to distance Louis from everyone who cared about him (his sister, miss Lilly...etc), Madeline sensed how much Louis cared about Claudia, and suggested they all meet up in a bar on a double date because yeah, she'll endure Armand's company for an evening, she bet it would make Claudia happy.

[arscorpii]

episode 1 / episode 39

[nuppu-nuppu]

give Megumi his dad back

[monsamborabutterfly]

Thinking gay thoughts 24/7 aka these two live rent free in my mind

[miserable-something]

it's the thought that counts (he's permanently banned from the kitchen)

this is loosely based off of my fanfic Good Good Things on ao3!! it's basically all fluff and these two being cute together, so feel free to check it out if that sounds good to you :3

[yunamiudon]

Hazbin Hotel - Huskerdust ☔️

[fifisettos]

based off a similar post but with whizzvin

[drowningmoon]

"oh yes they both reached for the gun" but it's Eli Cardale and Victor Vale and they're each other's gun

[drowning-moonlight]

Something about the ASL Brothers that I found so intriguing is that in a "normal" shonan manga/anime, Ace and Sabo would actually be the ones that fit into the regular protagonist archetype.

What I mean is, if Luffy is taken out of the story but the world of One Piece is still the same, who could the story feasibly follow? There are lots of characters that could potentially carry the series as the main character but I feel like Ace and Sabo both fill roles that are very protagonisty even though they aren't main characters.

Ace is the son of the previous Pirate King. Roger is the character that sets up the McGuffin that the whole series is named after i.e. the One Piece itself. It would make sense for the son of this character to be the driving force of the story if Luffy didn't exist. Ace, though he is never called this, is essentially the "Prince of Pirates" trying to distance himself from his father's legacy that has caused him nothing but pain. He does not want to live in the shadow of his father or be judged for being Roger's son. "The Sins of the Father" is a trope that very much haunts Ace in the narrative and that trope is also often part of a typical protagonist's journey. Of course not every single protagonist from every media ever follows that trope, but many do. (One can even argue that Luffy follows the "Sins of the Father" trope to a degree with Akainu wanting to kill him for being Dragon's son at Marineford but I digress.)

My point is that one of Ace's roles in canon is to represent the theme of Legacy (even if it's breaking that legacy), which is a strong Main Character theme.

He's on a journey to find himself, to find freedom from the ghost of his father, a journey to find a father that he can actually love and look up to. Ace represents a journey of self love, self worth, and fulfillment. He tries to find worth in himself outside of who his father was in an effort to be his own person. The sheer fact that Ace is the biological son of the character that basically sets up the whole plot of the series and yet wants nothing to do with the man very much has Main Character Energy to me.

Then there's Sabo.

The world of One Piece is deceptively cruel. At first glance, it's just a silly world with lots of pirates searching for treasure. But as the series progresses, we learn that the world is controlled by a corrupt government and military system full of people taking advantage of the system to further their own gains at the expense of the safety and well being of the common citizen.

In a more "typical" series, a world like One Piece's world would have a Main Character that's sole purpose was to bring down this corrupt government. Now Luffy does fight the power structure at times and has no love for the World Government or Navy, but his main purpose as the protagonist is not to tear down the government - his main purpose is to be the Pirate King. Take Luffy out of the story and who is set up to fulfill the task of tearing down the government? The Revolutionary Army as whole and Sabo specifically (also Dragon but this post isn't about him). Sabo is the one that directly declared war on the WG when he destroyed the Hoof/Claw of the Celestial Dragon in Mary Geoise.

Sabo represents the common person fighting against a corrupt power system in order to make the world a better place for the most amount of people. Again, this very much has Main Character Energy in my opinion.

I just love the ASL Brothers so much and the fact that each one of them could be protagonists in their own way make them all the more interesting.

[heartsgettingwiser62]

When you pull bitches by having internalized homophobia and being neurodivergent:

(bitches=another neurodivergent kid with internalized homophobia that happens to be your best friend)

[acabspocky]

[darkacademiaarchivist]

coffee. Gwen/Alice playlist. Gay.

[bosons]

tommy told buck about the soot on his face and does he want to clean it up but buck's like "nah, it's gonna be fine. probably" and then grabs tommy's hand "let's go congratulate the happy couple" and drags him towards chim's hospital room. everyone notices the soot on their faces and buck seeing everyone's reactions gives a little sigh and smile of relief and signals to tommy "see it's fine, come on"