#i just like thinking about them

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Couples/Ship Songs Tag Game

Thank you so much for the tag @hey-august. I don't actually upload any of my OC writing here (or anywhere), I prefer to write for 'x reader' to include 'you' in my writing. In saying that, I would love to share an OC I adore.

"Tatie" is a part of a crew of minstrels: "Broad-Stroke Pirates", something @sordidmusings and I have been actively cooking with for a little while now. There's a whole heap of them, but "Tatie" is one of my favourites (aside from "Matteo" the first-mate, but anyway 💀). She is the ship's doctor and skilled with pressure-point combat. Carefree, loving, little bit flirty, heart on her sleeve - pure sunshine person.

This little blondie is in love with Trafalgar D Water-Law - but every time he looks at her, all he sees is his "Dad" Donquixote Rosinante Corazon. Probably something to do with her devotion to her "family" and hell-bent on keeping them all alive.

She loves Law so much it hurts, which complicates matters when he falls for another of her crewmates, "Carmen". While her adoration remains unrequited, it gets more complicated when a foreign Captain decides she's the one for him. And he, Eustass Kid, repulses her.

This is her playlist 👌

For Law:

From Law:

For Kid:

From Kid:

I just know that @empressofmankind has a few songs about Shivs and Crocodaddy I gotta hear 👀.

@since-im-already-here, you got some tunes for your OC 👀

@vespidphoenix what about Amy and her flirty blonde chef 👀👀

[endlessartpumpkin]

Have you ever noticed how in LU Malon doesn’t wear her Bowser brooch anymore? Like sure she could have just outgrown it, put it away or even lost it.

But in my mind it’s definitely because Time has it.

I think he takes it with him everywhere he goes in a little safe pocket or pouch somewhere.

When he misses her his hand will go to find it in his pocket and he’ll just hold it for a while, the other boys think it’s strange that sometimes the old man just stands with his hand in his pocket smiling but that’s hardly the weirdest thing Time does so they don’t say anything.

Sometimes when everything’s getting a little too much he probably holds it as well, just the safety of clutching that little piece of her that just helps him remember what’s real.

He definitely stole it, and she knows that he’s got it but let’s him keep it, she knows how nice it is to have something of his when he’s gone so she’s glad he has something of hers. She still likes to pretend she’s looking for it occasionally though just to see his shameless "let me help you look routine". He definitely commits to the role, lifting up tables and lying down to look under counters, shaking his head defeatedly afterwards "I just don’t know where it could be”. She loves it.

[mouthsfullofsharpteeth]

Tim really was going to keep on trying to help save alex over and over, even at the very end, even after everything alex did.

What if alex gave up? What if he listened? What if he let tim try to help him, grumbling and spiteful and completely certain that Tim would be unsuccessful?

Would Tim have kept his word? Or would he just kill Alex anyway, whose defenses were down for the brief moment that he let himself imagine actually being able to block it out?

[crossover-enthusiast]

KJFNKJGNK WEREWOLVES

[behaemoth]

Another quarry thought I’ve had and maybe I’m wrong, but I think there’s more variation in the counselors ages than a lot of people are thinking. Specifically I think Laura and max are a little bit older bc max’s rejection letter is from grad school and not college, so it seems like he’s already completed his undergrad era. I’d think laura too if she’s moving onto vet school, she’d already have a biology degree I’d think, right?

Compared to like Dylan and Ryan who are kind of clearly (in my opinion) looking forward to starting college & are a little younger. Maybe Ryan isn’t quite so freshly out of hs if he’s been going back and forth about his idea of school for a while.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[midnight-coffee94]

No single line has ever wrecked me as hard as this one from the Good Place and I think about it constantly

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[1alchemistart]

dont got much to offer for The Holiday but have these sillies!

happy valentines day :D

[theoldkyokodied]

The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.