#what was i do to? D:

[lilyrizzy]

75!

don't you lock when you're fleeing, I'd like not to hear keys

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Daniel used to promise he'd take Max to Perth.

The first time because Max had been too honest like always in front of Daniel, but there had also been a camera crew, a journalist shoving a microphone in Max's face, asking questions about what he would do with his winter break.

"What do you mean you haven't been to the beach?" Daniel had asked with a laugh, but his eyes had looked strange. Like he was worried. "Are there no beaches in Belgium?"

Of course there were. Victoria would make collections of shells from the ones she and his mum would visit, presenting them proudly to Max the next time she saw him. "Your present," she would say, and Max would pretend he'd been there, elbow to elbow at the shore with her, searching for them.

"I did not go on many holidays," he had shrugged to Daniel. Only to be told, as if it could ever be that simple,

"Well shit, we have to get you to Perth then, Maxy. You need to see the sea."

He'd mention it to Max every so often. Even after he kissed Max for the first time and found out he was bad at it, the way Max was bad at everything he'd never done before. Even after the first time Daniel made space for himself inside Max, even- Even after Daniel knew he did not have to say too-nice things to get Max into bed, he'd still talk about it.

What they would do in Perth, the things they would see. The people Daniel would introduce him to, even though Max wanted to tell him he thought it would be best if it was just them. At the end, he'd been glad he hadn't said this because that's what made it all be over.

The last time Daniel asked Max to go, the Qantas Airlines page had been loaded up on his iPad, and he'd asked, a little angrily, for the reason behind the "yeah right," Max has answered him with. When Max had told him what he thought Daniel already knew, that "people of course cannot know," he'd thought it would be okay. Daniel had said that, said "okay, Maxy."

Then a week later he'd told Max, "I don't think we should- If there's no real future here, Maxy, what's the point?"

Max had been angry and sad, but mostly hopeful that Daniel would miss him too much to stick to his stupid decision. Why did two weeks in Perth matter so much, when Daniel could spend the other fifty with Max, like always?

Then two months later, Daniel brought a girl to the paddock. Somebody pretty, somebody who smiled at Daniel all the time, just like Max, but who also held his hand walking through the paddock the way Max never could.

Somebody Daniel can take to the beach.

< send me a number & i'll write you something based on that song on my 2022 wrapped playlist! >

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[incredubious]

HES RIGHT BEHIND ME ISN'T HE.

orig audio (with timestamp)

[soaked-doors]

a comic about wine, a wager, and reconnecting through your weird kids

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this behemoth of a comic is finally done - and just in time for zoros birthday huehue. initially i wanted to make a zolu introspective from an outsider POV and was like you know who would have really funny input on this … mihawk. and then it spiraled into seven pages of mishanks sitting and talking. i thought it would be funny if mishanks ended up doing self imposed couples therapy the day mihawk brought luffys bounty bc well. its kind of hilarious to think abt mihawk realizing shanks was onto something all those years ago after he meets zoro and luffy. like sure this new generation is batshit crazy but my god are they cooking. anyways. cheers. get some kids

[ciearcab]

musing over a priest or something like that

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[soranker]

my girlfriend

[d-does-art]

Ace with the Straw Hats!

I'm slowly making my way through them all.

[ionomycin]

ligament

[mintypsii]

i can't believe one piece invented gay people

[getsilly]

[keferon]

Pow you messed with the Wreckers. Or something haha

Listen I don’t have a type. BUT SOMEHOW every time I find and add a character to my favorites, he turns out to be a wrecker. My best theory - I have a built-in wrecker radar~

[ratfest]

my heartbeat sounds funny!

[itsthislake]

“Icarus.”

it's all about freedom really

Credit goes to An Sifakah for the poem. Enjoy!

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[wtfforged]

IDK IF I EVER POSTED THIS OLD REDRAW. here:) my fav chapter illustration i think....

[spielzeugkaiser]

I come back for a hot second (and go into hiding pretty much right again) with some redrawn screencaps of what I'm watching currently!! 👀 All I have in me are the sillies-