#and I feel the shame everyday

[ellenchain]

Pirate AU! (I haven't watched Black Sails at all)

47 is a spy working for period-appropriate ICA organization which is really run by the British aristocracy in service to the crown. He takes out key figures which improves circumstances, albeit half of the time only temporary until the position gets filled with someone worse. He unknowingly spreads colonization around, destabilising communities.

Lucas, mercenary for hire, can't bear to live in a world where decision makers tell him what to do, especially if what to do is either be miserable or spread misery. So he steals a ship of his employer Cobb, although officially it sank, dragging the whole crew to the depths of the ocean. He repainted it and hoisted the jolly roger.

Bit by bit he starts to commit acts or piracy but with the goal of fighting against colonization. Naturally the ICA eventually gets wind of that and sends 47 out to take care of the pirate captain.

His subtle methods won't work, Lucas sees through every disguise and when getting him on land fails, 47 sneaks aboard the ship.

He thinks he's getting lucky when a British ship attacks, easy to take out Lucas in the fight. But he realizes that things don't add up and Lucas is no a merciless monster but takes care of his crew, distributes wealth around and offers to take the defeated crew on if they swear loyalty.

Lucas finds him and offers a truce. 47 will stop trying to kill him and allows Lucas to show him the world for what it really is.

The story looks optimistic at this point but of course the ICA doesn't like that 47 is compromised and sends more hitmen and Lucas bit off more than he could chew when his pirate fleet expands and he's losing control of the crew who sometimes commit atrocities because they can instead of serving his goal.

Cue drama, heartbreak, desperate fights, yelling and, if this is a true gritty pirate au, everyone dies.

omg you put so much effort into this, it sounds fantastic!

Lucas would fit the pirate role so well. Basically that's what he is a bit in canon too - I mean, he has a very strong sense of justice, but somehow also agrees with taking hostages (but not hurting them!), blowing people up (but only the bad ones!) and robbing organisations for his own military base (but only the ones doing bad things! Jobs and people attached to them are somehow irrelevant)

So yeah, he fits pretty well as a (modern) pirate 🏴‍☠️

I love 47 as a spy - the best the Crown has to offer. Diana is proud to have him. But just like in H2, she lets herself be talked to after 47 returns from Lucas' ship (and she will join them of course!)

(Let's not talk about the spicy details that Lucas probably captures 47 first and puts him in a small cell on the boat, but brings him food and water regularly and talks to him, perhaps opening his linen shirt with the tip of his sabre and watching him intently as he tells of his plans to bring down the Crown, 47 tied to the floor, letting Lucas do whatever he has in mind and - )

And I do ask to avoid everyone's death, we have H3 as a heartbreaker, that's enough 💔

[dennisboobs]

i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

[bunnihearted]

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[rideroftheoctocorn]

Maybe this is my “I’m from New York so I didn’t choose to live here I was just already here” kicking in but can we actually learn to respect people’s privacy and acknowledge the fact that not everyone who lives in a major city is doing so because they want to be famous or the main character or an influencer or whatnot. I’m so sick of seeing tiktoks go viral that are just plainly stalking or doxxing random people who didn’t ask for attention or fame and are just living their lives. Especially given how many people in NYC are living with a wide variety of mental states, abilities, divergencies, and diversities treating them as a spectacle for your entertainment is deeply dehumanizing. Particularly in the past few years seeing so many content creators move here and gain their fame here it is becoming increasingly frustrating to feel like just existing in my home is not coherent with the burgeoning voyeurism culture that’s growing online. I, nor anyone who lives in a large city, should have to leave their homes every day worrying about the potential of being recorded and ridiculed online for just being a person.

People should be able to live their lives with the right to privacy. This isn’t to say that certain instances of internet activism shouldn’t have happened; for instance the Central Park bird watching incident (google it if you aren’t familiar but a woman was being racist towards a black man bird watching in central Park and his recording on the incident vindicated him). But instances like those are the exception and not the rule and many cases of publishing interpersonal conflicts/interactions is not from good faith activism or even from an activist point at all. Honestly what sparked this for me was that dumb tiktok that blew up of that girl looking for the person who kept writing “monke” on the whiteboard at her gym and the series of videos she made amassed more than 25 million views as she made a very public game out of trying to find the identity of this person. Some of her tactics included staking out at the gym waiting for this person or even asking the employees at the front desk who the person was. Maybe this person didn’t want to be a viral tiktok sensation and just wanted to write something goofy on the whiteboard at their local gym. Instead, this person has millions of strangers online seeking them out using unethical/invasive methods. All over someone who just wanted to write “monke.” Can we not just be a little silly in public without being at risk of it being the next internet sensation? If you live in a busy metropolitan area is it now your responsibility to make yourself as invisible as you can every time you step outside your front door? I genuinely leave for work each day wondering if I’ve maybe picked the wrong outfit, makeup, or maybe there’s an embarrassing stain or issue with my appearance that someone is going to see, record, and share online. I’ve even now seen TikTok’s of people recording through peoples windows commenting on how they’re living in their private lives now as well (the video in question is of a young woman recording a couple dancing through their apartment window). Even the guy who goes around “turning average people into models” initiates these videos by first taking non-consented photos of strangers on the street. Invasion is not flattery as much as people on the internet might like to think it is.

It is deeply unfair to ask human beings to live their lives in an unending panopticon. We should be able to go outside, make a joke, leave a silly note, have a bad day, an embarrassing moment, an emotional outburst, leave the curtains open with the knowledge that these moments belong to ourselves and are not suddenly (and without our consent) just become something for the masses to consume. Small spats that should remain small spats become global debates, a conventionally attractive or unattractive person becomes the internet’s object of desire or disgust. Let people exist. Let them have their dignity.

[napoleon-usher]

do you ever have just a sudden realization of how bland your own personality is like damn I must be absolutely boring to be around

[snootlestheangel]

Snootles Rant: Lonely AF edition

Snootles does not feel well (she's fine just being dramatic) and is going to rant about being down bad (like seriously being horny on main right now do not perceive me)

*slumps on the floor* I wanna be a housewife so bad

I don't wanna work, I just wanna stay home and crochet/knit and then make some food

And then get absolutely pinned by my beast of a husband

Is that too much to ask????

Is it too much to ask for a big burly man to absolutely ruin me in bed but then he's dedicating himself to me in other ways???

I just wanna live on my own, at least. Crochet a bunch of flowers and vines and shit and decorate my place with them. I want friends I can just surprise with little crochet hearts or flowers and take on dinner dates.

*my ill figure pushes an image towards you* *muttering* I just need to be under him

The photo in question:

Fuck I also love him

*holds these two pictures and cries more*

WHY MUST I BE CURSED?? I AM NOT PHYSICALLY WELL ENOUGH TO HANDLE THIS BEAUTY AT THIS HOUR

*it's late I should really go to bed*

Instead I shall complain more because as hard as I've tried to stay horny off main, I am unfortunately a weak-willed woman

And I am a simple woman with simple needs.

And those needs are currently to get fucking decimated by one of the above men. Fuck it, if not both

[cowboy-robooty]

okay. calling all yandereheads. does anyone know any stories that has a yandere but like they have a sidekick (that doesnt really want to be their sidekick but is forced into it and decides to make the most of their situation and ends up acting like a silly friend to them) and at first they hate their sidekick and want their ass dead but keep em around bc their sidekick helps them stalk their crush but then the story does a switcharoo where the yandere realizes sidekick is their #truelove and goes yandere for sidekick

[ame-to-ame]

there are things that you don't do for a year or more and pick up just right where you left off and these days i fear loving you might be one of them

[dragonsmindramblings]

TW: SELF HARM AND BAD THOUGHTS :(

*is currently curled up in Don's bed, crying softly because instincts and guilt.*

Its your fault.

*his bed is also a nest now- complete with his weighted blanket and one of his hoodies + (insert article of clothing) from Vee.*

Control yourself better.

*I sniffle, tracing the scar the length of my forearm with my claw.*

You're selfish.

*presses down a little with a blank face, a drop of blood pooling, red against purple.*

Awful.

*pulls my claw away, immediately feeling shame at what I've just done. I hide my arm and go back to crying, eventually falling asleep.*

[girlbob-boypants]

OK I will say that Frieren is a little. Obtusely hetero with its storytelling but other than that it's good

[bewby]

having new interests for me means that i feel like i'm dying a million deaths i love boys planet but i'm about to like actually like rip my lungs out and feed them to random ducks outside because i can't TAKE IT i have so many feelings and it's KILLING ME LIKE IT'S EXHAUSTING ME MY BODY IS GOING THROUGH THE DEPTHS OF HELLLLLLLL‼️‼️‼️‼️ why can't i feel things like a NORMAL PERSON

[tortademaracuya]

It feels undeserving 👍

[flaurrari]

Dear @baku2017,

You tagged me into your 10 songs list and i have no idea what the original assignement was, so here is , just for you, an insight into my 10 most listened songs of 2022.

Veridis Quo - Daft Punk

I did this weird thing of listening only to this song on repeat for the whole eurostar trip both times I went to London this year, and now I don't think I can take the Eurostar without this song in my ears.

This might actually be my favourite song ever.

2. Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes feat Adam Levine

TMTC this song is my ultimate Seb Song, but now it also reminds me of you so it's twice as perfect.

3. The Nights - Avicii

My 2022 was only about vibing.

4. Something just like this - The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

I can't help it, I'm not sorry, this song speaks to me.

5. Feel this moment - Pitbull

Embracing the fact that I actually enjoy Pitbull's music is the best decision I took last year.

6. Instant Crush - Daft Punk

This song is just. I don't know. Good. But like. Really, actually good.

7. Timber - Pitbull feat Ke$ha

Every single morning on my way to work. I can achieve anything in life after listening to this. Pure Magic.

8. Wrecked - Imagine Dragons

I'm always surprised to see it in my top. But yep, I just can't skip this song. This is my emo side.

9. Cheap Thrills - Sia feat Sean Paul

Perfection in musical shape

10. Rockabye -Clean Bandit feat Sean Paul & Anne-Marie

Une maître classe, tout simplement.

ok I might have cheated and skipped a few songs from the actual list but all of these are in my top 20.

2022 was really one of my best year !

[teardropsonsmyguitar]

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[toastsnaffler]

ahh.. I have tickets for a small music festival tmr which I went to last year + had a whale of a time but this year theres only like 2 artists I wanted to see but they released the schedule a couple days ago and neither are playing before 9:30pm. since I don't live local anymore I'd have to leave to travel back home around that time or I'd miss the last train... and there's not rly anywhere I can crash overnight there (and I was planning on going alone anyway like I did last year). so I think im gonna have to let this one pass me by :-(

[kartana]

Once I eat breakfast and go outside I think the minor heartache will subside