#bond trading

[tenth-sentence]

Within a year of Westpac's purchase of Pollock the US federal government, in response to pressure from would-be players, suddenly licensed a host of new, and in some cases very large, primary dealers, taking their number to a peak of 46.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[kennahjune]

I’m a firm platonic stonathan believer (and romantic but that’s not what this post is about).

And I love Steve and Jonathan being really friendly albeit awkward with each other.

But you know what I absolutely LOVE?

Stonathan who can’t STAND each other.

But would also go to fucking war for each other.

Some asshole is being a prick to Jonathan in school? The dudes suddenly thrown off of every sports team he’s on and the principal is fully aware of every time he cheated on a test. Steve just so happens to be at the high school that day to pick up the kids.

There’s some dickwad giving Steve a hard time at work every day? The guys windshield is busted in and car’s been keyed. Jonathan was totally just stopping by Family Video for a movie at the same time.

It’s just so funny to me. The idea of them both putting on this kind of mask around the whole group where everyone thinks they’re at least friendly with each other— the awkwardness is a given, honestly.

But then when it’s just them— getting high together or smth idk— they trade insults that would have anyone else in a ball crying.

And then them both slowly coming out of their shells around the whole group.

And the first time it happens Steve had called Jonathan a home wrecker and in turn Jonathan called Steve a whore.

Everyone was flipping shit trying to make them both apologize to each other before another fight broke out. But Jonathan and Steve sat and laughed at them.

Nobody ever gets used to their bitter teasing towards each other (nobody’s ever heard Jonathan use such foul language) but they learn to accept that that’s just how they are with each other.

This is kinda like a begrudging sibling-bonded stonathan.

This is also how I imagine madwheeler being btw. But I’ll make them their own post eventually.

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG SM Unbroken Bonds (2019) & Cosmic Eclipse (2019) illustrations by 0313 🤩

[0vergrowngraveyard]

4 year old tails when sonic almost gets them both killed for the thousandth time that week: it’s ok you’re so cool and can’t make a mistake ever :D

8 year old tails when sonic creates a minor inconvenience: *changes every entrance code at his labs, locking sonic out of all of them, while googling how to get emancipated at the age of 8*

[foemancer]

The two survivors… This is what she made us.

Skyfall (2012) Dir. Sam Mendes

[cosmopoliturtle]

Familiar Bonds

My half of an art trade with @ravenmoodle -- they have a lot of creative creature designs as a part of their @familiar-bonds project. Check them out!

[rosemarytrash]

I love your rose cuz of her big eyebrows 💔

trust that life is all about change and transformation, nothing will ever stay the same, even that which appears stagnant is slowly being corroded and degraded into new, fresh form, and the only constant in life is that what you have now is not yours forever

except for how I draw rose's eyebrows. that will never change

[oceanwithouthermoon]

yumehara and kuboyasu both write in a diary but yumeharas is lovingly and carefully decorated with adorable stickers and she writes in beautiful frilly handwriting with glitter pens (her handwriting actually sucks but she spends hours making this diary look pretty) while kuboyasus is filled with messy vent writing, ripped pages, and messy doodles, and the cover is fingerpainted on

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Oh dear god what have i started

Ok i am addicted to making these. Look guys it’s everyone’s favourite character… walkway guard !!

[rhaenin-time]

[marclef]

my art trade for @the-little-knight! i, uhhhh. remembered you mentioning once how Brian and Peppino both despise Pizzahead. and well. this happened.

YES this is based on that one Jojo meme i'm so sorry

[eternally-tired-cryptid]

Y'all would not believe the situations I can put ocs in. Rotate them in my brain microwave.

[boiledegghole]

that cunty whale from exit (1990)

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG SM Ultra Prism (2018), Unbroken Bonds (2019), Unified Minds (2019), Cosmic Eclipse (2019), SWSH Promo (2020) & Chilling Reign (2021) illustrations by Shibuzoh. 🤩🤩🤩

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

wanted a compilation of some of my favorite unused scenes for the spy and the liar intro bc i think about these things all the time

[bropunzeling]

i wish you would write a fic where jamie and trevor don't realize they're soulbonded until after the trade

yoooooooooo ok as u kno i love a good old fashioned soulbond fic and as u KNO i love when the soulbondees are real stupid about it. and i think something where like. the connection is so easy so simple so fast even when jamie is mad on the plane from world jrs he's trevor's best buddy in mere months and it's like, why would he question it? trevor's funny and likable and okay an annoying lil shit but he's JAMIE'S annoying lil shit. and of course it makes sense to be roommates once and then again, that's just how they are, it all makes SENSE

and i think, for the deliciousness, things don't really go haywire for jamie once he gets traded. like, it sucks, he's bummed, but he's figuring it out. the boys are nice. he figures out an apartment. he's not playing great but he's playing okay when he isnt playing hurt. trudging through the season towards may, and yeah everything feels kind of mid, but he’s on a mid team and not surrounded by palm trees and sunshine. he tries to call trevor pretty often. and if trevor also seems bummed, well, the ducks have been shit for as long as they've been there, and the rumors are swirling, and it seems shitty to push, so jamie isn't gonna. they can both have an off year.

summer comes, the way it always does. trevor comes east to train. tells jamie he should visit, and it should be in the thoughtless way that trevor tosses out invitations without ever expecting to have to follow through, except when jamie texts him flight options trevor blows up his phone with emojis. is there to pick jamie up from the airport. hauls jamie into a hug as soon as he's within reach.

the second trevor touches him, jamie feels his whole body realign, like someone's walked up and down his spine. his skin tingles. when he opens his eyes, everything feels sharper, clearer. better. he doesn't want to let go. and judging by trevor's noisy inhale, the way trevor's clutching his shoulders, trevor feels just like him.

"fuck," trevor says. jamie has to agree.