#honest compliment

[smiling-sakura]

" Too often we underestimate the power of a touch , a smile , a kind word , a listening ear , an honest compliment , or the smallest act of caring , all of which have the potential to turn a life around . "

-Leo Buscaglia

[parketmansion]

One of the advantages of being a child is that you can say your honest opinion, and people will believe it is an honest opinion. Now that I’m older, I can no longer tell the two wonderful women who had dinner with us that they looked like an elvish princess and a fairy queen, because they would think I’m being over the top and not genuine.

[ruporas]

i’ll find you again in every universe. let us be a little more honest, let us have a little more time.

[bitchapalooza]

Franky: Wow, Usopp! This is really good! Youre super at this art thing, lil bro!

Usopp who’s never had his art complimented like this before and now feels weirdly shy: Haha, uh, thanks? But it’s nothing really. Just a quick doodle of a seagull and the ocean in between working on blueprints. Its not that great, really childish in fact…

Franky: No really! This is SUPER AWESOME, dude! You mind if I hang it up in the workshop? Seeing it makes me feel relaxed and I like that feeling, especially if I’ve been in the workshop for hours but don’t wanna leave yet.

Usopp clutching his chest and crying: I-is this what little kids feel when their parents hang their art on the fridge?

[ozzgin]

Hello, do you have art request? I would like to see Ben Drowned in your style!

If you don’t do art request, I request a writing yandere! Nyarlathotep x player! Gamer! Reader writing instead.

Soo I theoretically don’t do art requests, simply because I’m still trying out styles and I’m not too confident in my abilities, nor fully satisfied with my approach yet. So I’d rather not stress myself with the additional anxiety of “oh no, what if this isn’t what they expected” and end up making empty promises, you know?

That being said, I have attempted a yandere-looking, modern graphics Ben boy to kind of prove my point :’)

[sadlynotthevoid]

Okey, but, I feel like og!Cale is the type of person that, if someone tried to make fun of him for a crush, he would be like "ah, yeah, that's true" and openly admit it.

So, og AlbeCale AU where whenever someone tries to mock Cale about liking Alberu or asks him about it, he downright says the truth. Regardless of who is hearing him.

As in, maybe once someone asks if Rok Soo and Cale are dating because they seem close (in part because they're kind of close, and in part because Cale keeps knowing what he is thinking, but they don't know that's just a Cale thing). And Rok Soo is like:

Rok Soo: Nah. This guy's type are baker princes.

Cale: You got it wrong. I don't like any princes who bake, I like Alberu only.

And Alberu, who was drinking tea on the background, suddenly chokes on his cup. Which they notice, of course.

"Oh. Hey, Al. Are you okay?"

—Totally unfazed for having Alberu heard the whole conversation.

He's so shameless about it and it's completely unintentional.

He has no idea of how people treat their crushes normally nor is interested on doing the same. He knows that some people tend to get shy, but a decade purposefully acting as trash killed most of his shame— Well, at least when it is about others' opinions of him—. If he wants to do something, being laughed at is not what's going to stop him.

And what he wants is to say how adorable he thinks Alberu is, so that's what he does.

Rejection? He isn't proposing anything. He doesn't plan on dating or wooing Alberu either. It's not that he wouldn't like it, it's just that it hasn't occurred to him that that's even an option. For him, who had spent years hearing everyone say the worst of him, the idea of someone wanting him by their side is so far away that it has yet to form.

So he keeps making casual comments about how cute Alberu is when he's confused, or "his hair looks so soft, I bet it feels that way too", or "he looks so handsome when he's tricking people. I like it more when he doesn't have to, tho", while everyone else feels embarrased for it. Except Rosalyn, she thinks it's hilarious.

Of course, he's pretty much respectful about it, never crossing the line to sexual harassment. And he would stop if Alberu told him too, but he doesn't. He kinda didn't realize that was an option at the beginning and, at this point, he got used and actually enjoys it a bit (a lot).

Cale: oh, sweets! They're my fifth favorite thing in this cruel world.

Rosalyn, fully knowing what she's doing: what are the other four?

Cale, carefully choicing which cake eat first: Well— *rising a finger per item* my family, animals, Alberu and wine. In that order.

Alberu: *frowns* I'm only third?

Cale, picking a chocolate tart: Mm? I loved animals since before meeting you and, at this point, is a part of myself. The other day I saw a dog and spent two hours squatting at her side without realize. It was not a conscious decision, it was... a soul impulse, let's say.

Alberu, looking at his thighs because damn, that's a lot of time to stay in that position: Oh. Wait, you've also loved wine since before meeting me.

Cale: Yes, but drinking wine is a choice. I can live happily without it. You would be... more difficult to leave.

Alberu: *processing* (that means— can't be happy without me aksjdjsj) "blushes hard*

Rosalyn, looking at Alberu's silly fuming face: (don't laugh don't laugh) Pff—

Cale: cherry pie? *Holds a mini pie in front of Alberu*

The turn tables when Alberu realizes that Cale doesn't have resistaince against genuine compliments. He never takes fake glibbery words seriously, but if someone says the slightliest good thing about him and they mean it, he'll become a mess. He just— doesn't know how to react when someone believes anything good about him.

So, Alberu starts complimenting him seriously— as reprisal, of course ("that's just flirting, nephew. You two are flirting, stop calling it vengeance"). Small but real things, details most people doesn't notice, deeper things that he deserves to hear (because, honestly, someone should tell him how sweet he is. How considerate he is. How much he should be appreciated because he's precious. And it seems Alberu is that someone). It works everytime.

Alberu calls his smile cute once and Cale stops talking. Face red and eyes avoiding everything, he can't pronounce a single word.

He calls him kind after Cale subtly helped a strange for no reason (he's obviously doing it in a way others wouldn't notice unless they knew what to look for. Alberu wonders if this is other "Cale thing"). Cale trips and almost gets discovered. When Alberu looks at his face, he's pouting.

Curiously, he doesn't have the same reaction when he gets called smart. He just smiles a bit and sometimes puffs his chest. Huh. Still adorable, tho.

[etrevil]

Dazai the kind of person to find Chuuya beautiful even when he's covered entirely in blood and scars, or when wrinkly and old, but still say he's as ugly as ever with a big fat lovesick lopsided smile.

Chuuya the kind of person to hear his bullshit, understand the hidden meaning, smile exasperatedly because this bastard can't be honest for the life of him, then say that Dazai doesn't look bad himself.

Then Dazai grows redder than a tomato, and continues spouting insults at Chuuya, who just enjoys his wine.

[1ncend1ary]

leon on the mind

[allastoredeer]

I agree with your whole take on Lucifer being a complicated, multi-faceted, ego-driven character that would be the top in a relationship with Alastor.

One aspect I love about their dueling egos is that Alastor is used to being the one charming others, or antagonizing. Lucifer in top form is perfectly capable of both and in antagonism I think they match up well (That whole Looney-Tunes Dad Beat Dad show for example).

But Lucifer has millennia of experience charming people, original tempter for lord's sake, and I believe Alastor would balk at sincerity. Especially, since he's used to smarmy manipulations and fake charisma.

Lucifer is many things, but fake is not one of them. Like Alastor he is very sure of who he is, he doesn't have to project a fake persona, he just code-switches like everyone else based on who he's interacting with. IF he felt inclined to compliment Alastor, it would be sincere.

And that would put Alastor on the back foot, in a good way.

All this to say, Lucifer could play Alastor like a fiddle and do so without making him feel like he's being personally attacked, after enough time at least. Alastor would have a helluva time trying to do the same because he loves needling others and would be terrified to let his guard down enough for that kind of openness.

I love all the analysis this fandom has on Hazbin's characters.

Sometimes, it's so easy to forget just how ancient Lucifer is. That guy witnessed the birth of the Earth. He was there when humanity was first created. He has been alive for a loooooong time, and it's fun to consider the experiences he's had in comparison to the other characters in the show.

And yeah, I agree about Lucifer being a charmer, cuz, like you said, he was the original tempter. And I also agree that he's not very fake. Or, at least, he's not very good at trying to be fake. It was very, very obvious how he felt about the hotel when he was first looking at it XD

Alastor would 100% balk at sincerity and I think once Lucifer realizes that, he'd be one-upping Alastor on a daily basis. Arguing and getting defensive is exactly the outcome Alastor is expecting (the outcome he wants). He's not used to someone responding to his jabs/needling with sincerity. What's he supposed to do with that? He's not going to be genuine back, that's wacky nonsense.

LOL it'd leave him fumbling so bad.

And, just to make it extra fun, I don't think Lucifer expects Alastor to be sincere in return, so when Alastor realizes he can level the playing field by using Lucifer's own trick against him, you bet your bonnet he's going to do it. Anything to have the last laugh, however hard it is for him to pry an honest answer from his teeth.

This is to say, Alastor opening up and building an honest and sincere relationship with someone out of pettiness and spite is the most Alastor way to form a connection, and I'm so here for it.

[camellcat]

some doctor who cyanotypes I made for my photography class that I just realized I never shared

[carduelism]

Jason Todd my beautiful butch woman ALSO taking comic recommendations please I feel so overwhelmed by all Red Hood stuff if someone could pop into my DMs or asks with recs or a guide of the sort that would be a blessing

[batri-jopa]

Cinema Therapy - Therapist Reacts to TREASURE PLANET

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I've always felt that it'd be Killua who initiates the first hug we see between him and Gon

[plulp]

kylar with the teeth

[abushelandablog]

thinking abt how oli kissed kylian necks and pulled him close after the world cup thinking abt how he had to be restrained to not run to kylian when he broke his nose thinking abt how he told off that journalist in his polite olivier giroud french way to fuck off after the journalist insinuated that oli would be happy bc now itd give him more chances to start thinking abt how the only one to ever match oliviers goal record is kylian thinkibg abt how "kylian mbappe will outdo me" thinking abt kylian instinctively jumping into gigis arms when they won against poland thinking thinking thinking...

[wellthebardsdead]

Kaidan: Vaermina ey? Well that explains the horrid nightmare I had last night. Dreamt I was running through a city naked as the day I was born, nothing to cover my bits except me hands.

Taliesin: if you ever find yourself in that situation in real life and- something tells me, you have. I suggest covering your face instead of your genitals.

Kaidan: Erm, why?

Taliesin: do you want me to be honest or tactful?

Kaidan: tactful I think…

Taliesin: Your junk simply isn’t that memorable.

Kaidan: WHAT THE FUCK-