#definitely going to hell for this one

[starchild-unnamed]

Finally, FINALLY finished the absolute behemoth of an Ace x OC one shot! 4.4k words that will absolutely send me straight to hell, but I am so incredibly proud of myself for finishing it. Can’t wait to put it out there for y’all, so keep an eye out for it very very soon.

Xx Nyx

[ryllen]

" no one will know ~~ ♥♥♥ "

- more like me thinking of Trey going ham if Jade is in a pinch

[ascesabo]

the great irony of early one piece antagonists believing zoro was the actual captain and using luffy as a puppet ... oda really threw us a bone and curb-stomped it right in our faces. yes, zoro could be a captain in his own right. yes, zoro could match luffy in strength. yes, zoro knows this perfectly well. and you know what? he chose luffy two years ago, and he will continue to choose luffy again and again. roronoa zoro, the pirate hunter, who followed a wannabe pirate with a nonexistent crew on a whim because luffy brought him his swords and made a half-assed attempt at a bargain. zoro, who made a vow to never lose again on both his and luffy's honor. zoro, who told luffy he'd make him commit harakiri if he got in the way of zoro's goal, only to turn around and be willing to sacrifice his dream if it means that luffy reaches his. zoro, who stood in place and took luffy's pain and told a warlord to take his head instead of luffy's, who got down on his knees before his supposed rival and begged mihawk to mentor him so that he could return strong enough to protect his captain. zoro, who has conqueror's haki- a natural born leader- but chooses to stay at the right hand of a man he has deemed greater than himself.

and the thing that luffy fears most? being alone. being rejected. being left behind. and what should have been his foil- the pirate hunter to his pirate king, the nonbeliever to his divine, the king of hell to his sun god- instead becomes his first and most devout follower; the one who demands to follow him to hell and back. oughhhggg i'm sick to my stomach

[waterfallofspace]

something about a breathless "sorry-" uttered right between the last sneeze they've barely finished, and the next they're already starting to hitch for~

[eydilily]

really cringe but i wanted to test out how to do an animatic again and the only clip i had was this one from pearl

i have not . touched anything moving in so long oh god

[mrmeepsmadmind]

his horns (finials) (idk)(ears)(whatever) shaking... the jumping ??? the struggling 😭 the off center twitching ..he is PISSED. AWF !!!!!!

[descendantofthesparrow]

The way this stupid mf has invaded my brain is unfair

[soundleer]

triple axe insanity 🪓🪓🪓

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reference video

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine looking at a character whose entire premise is that in every stage of his life, he's made every version of himself into someone that inspires people to such a degree that EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF HIM has people wanting to literally follow in his footsteps in some way or another.....

And coming to the conclusion that like.....the most important things about him are the sum of all his trappings. His entirely homemade developed from scratch could not exist if not for what he already was and brought with him BEFORE crafting this newest version of himself trappings, with his greatest trait throughout all of it being his adaptability; his ability and willingness to roll with the punches and not try to simply weather any opposition or changes to his life but instead reshape himself as needed to better fit INTO whatever new shape his life and the world around him takes. All while managing to carry the most innate, fundamental and necessary aspects of himself from one version to the next. Thus every single version of himself is different but simultaneously every single version of himself is also undeniably the same person.

The strength of this character, to me, will always be that he can be so many versions of himself, he can become so many things, all without ever actually losing or discarding any of the aspects of himself he considers most essential, the things he's not willing to lose or give up just to keep going. Finding that road not taken by most, usually because most never even think to look for it as an option. But one that he's always able to find because the one trick he's mastered in his tumultuous life is threading that needle of not just digging in his heels in an unproductive way but rather being selective about when and where he makes a stand and decides "this is not a thing I'm willing to compromise about" but here are places and ways I can and will change and evolve and adapt in order to make it possible for me to hold onto these parts and keep them as they are.

And that's why its always so mind-boggling to me that so many writers can't seem to think of anything else to do with Dick Grayson other than invent some new reason for him to just....not be that person, or to like just take the character whose most basic fundamental trait he's NOT about to compromise on is willingly giving up his spot in the driver's seat of his own life.....and make him just a passenger in his own life and stories.

Dick Grayson at age nine....at age nineteen...at age twenty nine....the one core thread running through all versions of him is the only way he's standing back and letting you call the shots for him or putting him on the sidelines in some way is over his dead body.

HOW he goes about that, what that looks like, who he becomes and what aspects of himself he plays up at some times and what traits he lets fall by the wayside at other times when they offer less in service to his primary goal here....that changes constantly. He changes constantly.

But those changes are almost always (or at least they used to be/should be IN MY OPINION) made with the intention of keeping certain things about him or his life as consistent as possible.

That's the duality of Dick Grayson that I'm here for. The inherent contradiction of him that COULD allow for endless conflict and breaking new narrative ground in all sorts of ways if mined properly:

His eternal willingness to compromise....but only ever in pursuit of doubling down on the ways he's not willing to compromise.

Forever walking that tightrope in ways that only a kid born and raised in a circus could ever hope to.

[gifti3]

mc lmao...

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Something that really makes me feel insane about Ashton is the way a solid chunk of their arguments have always been that they’re Just A Guy. They’re nobody. They’re nothing. The gods never paid any attention to me, I don’t matter. I’m not special. And sure, with the information that was available early in the campaign, that was a reasonable conclusion for them to have drawn.

But now? When they know the powers that live inside them, powers that never have been combined before and likely never will be again? When several people have all independently pointed out how unprecedented their existence is? That basis for their argument loses all credibility. How many people on Exandria are walking around day to day with a fragment of a titan and a piece of the Luxon inside them? One. Ashton is a singularly unique being. “I’m nobody, I don’t matter,” bitch you’re the main character in a YA novel, calm down.

[starchild-unnamed]

^how I look writing the Ace x OC one shot I’m mustering the courage to post.

The plan was a few hundred - 1k words. This thing has broken 3k. Not sure what happened; I think I must’ve blacked out at least once.

[camels-pen]

you never know what might bite you in the ass later

[perchanibly]

Thought this scene was very funny so I made a little sketch of it! Can you tell I got lazy at the end? 😞

fic by @thewitchwholivedao3, go check it out, it’s really really good!

(Quality is nerfed on tumblr so click for it to be better)

[citycrows]

So I just learned that apparently 'swordtember' is a thing but because Suo obviously suits the sanjiegun better I'm just gonna be over here doing a more inclusive 'weap-tember'

anyway have a modern special strike force concept feat my son Takanashi (padding the numbers by packaging him with the main boys we're gonna siphon all their fame to you bb)

[skrevel]

I've been thinking on the Inquisition companions post vg. I definitely think that while Lavellan has definitely figured out how to keep in contact with Dorian after leaving with Solas, either through the crystal or through her having yap sessions via traveling to Dorians dreams, the other companions don't have a private get together after. I think that it would literally only be the people who were on a first name basis with her to have a night where they have some sort of send off/celebration of life for both her and Varric. While it's not a funeral on her end, she is gone from their world and not coming back, I think a private thing for closure definitely would happen on their end. I imagine Dorian would burn an Inquisitor outfit she never cared for (bc she never wanted the position to begin with and hated the style of a lot of the formal wear she wore as the Inquisitor). If the sending crystal still works she would be chiming in trying to get them to not be sad on her behalf.