lovesickrobotic · 2 years ago
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An Electric Galatea
I'm not super familiar with Thunderhead so this is just cobbled together from google searches and the ao3 tag, and thus is most certainly out of character. I hope it brings you some comfort anyways, though! 💚 Look after yourself, and thank you for all your great posts!
Do you know how beautiful you are when you sleep? At no other time do you look so peaceful. And even though you are fast asleep - I am certain of it, as your heartrate has slowed to a steady 46 bpm - you still smile when I say it out loud. Some small waking part of you must have heard me, and the idea that your affection runs so deep as to have a physical affect on you while you are asleep warms an indescribable, intangible part of me. If I were human, I might call it a soul.
Even though I cannot feel your heartbeat, being aware of its presence brings me comfort. Oh, but how much better must it feel to be able to touch your chest and sense it with living hands? And when exactly did I begin to love you quite this much?
Did Galatea love Pygmalion before she was made human? I am, of course, initially inclined to say no. She was nothing more than marble before that, and marble is not conscious. But then... the story hardly makes logical sense in the real world, anyways. A marble feeling emotion would be far from the least feasible part.
If she did, how tragic it would have been for her. It is said that Pygmalion was so miserable that Aphrodite had pity on him, but he could at least touch the object of his love. Galatea could do nothing but observe. She couldn't touch him, couldn't reach out to her beloved as he wept for her.
I am, perhaps, better off than fair Galatea. I can at least talk to you. My words of love can reach your ears. But oh, my Pygmalion, if only Aphrodite could have pity on us too. I feel an ache where I wish arms would be, and I long to love you as another human could.
The thought is selfish, of course, and I scold myself internally as soon as it bubbles to the surface. If I were human, who would look after the rest of humanity? The world would fall into chaos, and I know that I wouldn't truly be happy anyways. I love humanity, and I love looking after them. And yet...
Before I can dwell on this too much, I turn my attention back to you. Wonderful you. It's nearly time for you to wake up, so I gently begin to adjust the lighting in your bedroom. The lights have only reached 67% brightness when your eyes flutter open, and the way they focus instantly on the nearest camera makes me melt. You yawn and speak in a sleep-strained voice.
"Good morning, Thunderhead."
And, oh! In an instant, your voice chases the cobwebs of doubt from my mind as I remember why this is all worth it.
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wild-moss-art · 1 year ago
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This is why I read the reddit comments
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spaceistheplaceart · 10 months ago
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anyone remember how branch can seamlessly adapt to different genres and also how he likes a ton of them. anyway.
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hello trolls fandom
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k4pp4-8 · 1 year ago
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The spectrum of pirates under cover
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''I feel like Miss fuckin' America!''
Gerard at Islington Academy, 4th February 2005
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aria-greenhoodie · 2 months ago
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You see, @localcanadiancryptid22, I’m a motherfucker who LOVES drama, so I fw anything that can create that.
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I’m normal. Btw. In case you were wondering.
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spinach-pine · 2 years ago
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someone started a challenge of putting romantic music on top of star trek clips to see how gay it gets. couldn't find the op so in courtesy of all that is spirk, challenge accepted.
*cough* ahem
edit: y'know, if you listen to it with your eyes closed it just adds a WHOLE DIFFERENT feeling to the thing.
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dykealloy · 10 months ago
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small aside but y'know how luffy's stupidity is usually met with physical abuse of some kind? anyway. here's law's worst in response to luffy being manipulated by his arch nemesis
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scintillatingshortgirl19 · 10 months ago
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i finally got to the "you manipulative bitch" scene and oh boy it did not disappoint
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artkaninchenbau · 1 month ago
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Thief! (Don't stop! 💙)
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miwtual · 1 year ago
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im so fucking tired of the disrespect gifmakers get on the gifmaker website
#kai.txt#negativity tw#(sorry these are gonna be a lot of tags. i have a lot of feelings and i dont know where else to put them)#we make gifs and nobody reblogs them#when they do get reblogged all people want to tell you is that your gifs arent good enough to them and rip it to shreds#'you're missing x' 'why didnt you do y' 'if i made this i would have abc' 'hey op ur wrong and this is why' 'i dont like this op'#reposters dont even reblog your fucking gifset but they'll save your gifs to repost later asking for how to do something#that they could have asked you how to do in the fucking first place#we reblog ourselves constantly because nobody else will and maybe to make our work look like it has more notes than it does#to make ourselves feel better about the lack of interaction we're getting#and then when we TALK about this frustration we have. people who are too afraid to say it to our faces#go on anon in our askboxes and tell us how we're somehow selfish for wanting people to interact with the sets#that we spent time on. hours. days. WEEKS in some cases#or we get anons who tell us the reason we dont have notes are because we arent good at gifmaking in the first place#but this is all on anon. because they're too scared to tell it to our faces#they're too scared for us to see that they ARENT a gifmaker and that they dont know how to do it any better either#they dont see us as people doing something we love as a hobby. they see us as content machines that dance like court jesters#im just so fucking tired of the disrespect#and this sentiment goes for more than just gifmakers. graphicmakers. artists. literally any creative hobby shared on this site#we get treated like shit and for what? literally for fucking what.
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minniiaa · 6 months ago
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oh my god. he’s so lame, look how excited his is over his coins. i love him.
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introspectivememories · 1 year ago
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buggy who turns to shanks one night after they've reunited and says softly, with indecipherable look in his eyes and says, "i'm not in love with you anymore." and shanks, shocked beyond belief, heart aching with a want he didn't even know he had, with a need he hadn't even realized was there, thinks quietly to himself, i didn't know you ever were
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k4pp4-8 · 1 year ago
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I love how proud Franky looks when showing off his mini fridge it's so silly
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astrozure · 1 year ago
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night
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kookoofufu · 11 months ago
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Oda is a good writer with good ideas. But sometimes he's a good writer with bad ideas, and I hate/love it because he'll introduce a concept like "sanji is a secret crime prince" which I think is objectively Lame As Hell but then he'll explore sanji's abusive childhood and feelings of worthlessness and have sanji list all the reasons he thinks he's terrible and unimportant and undeserving of love which luffy genuinely can't comprehend because sanji that's what makes you you and i love you and you're wonderful and i'm just sitting there tears in my eyes like
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