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Star-crossed

If you would like it as a print you can purchase it at my store <3 

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found a tiny pin-up drawing and i had to do it

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sanji will claim he wanted proof that zoro was actually showering but real ones know the truth

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Not to keep harping on Sanji and fashion, but I really need everyone to understand that the reason why Sanji wears a suit is because he grew up in a restaurant with a dress code. The suit is part of his identity as a chef.

Once he joins the strawhats I’m certain he started to see wearing a suit as part of his image as “the chef of the strawhats.” It’s like a uniform bc that’s literally what it is when you work in a restaurant.

The base for his character is “dude who worked at an upscale restaurant but is a pirate, and didn’t change out of the suit.”

All the time Sanji is dressed down or “off the clock” he dresses like the most normal man on earth or a traumatic brain injury caused him to forget what the concept of “style” is.

These are just from the color walks I own (1-5) but I think it’s interesting how the extra content shows a lot about his personality. Sanji seems to really love bold colors and patterns. Even when he’s dressed in his suit he really loves a gaudy patterned dress shirt.

I think it’s a lot more fun to imagine sanji as a guy who may not know a lot about fashion, but has a love for bold colors and patterns, and has the confidence to wear them.

Imo hcing as Sanji very looks oriented makes him like a lot of other anime men who wear suits. There are plenty of pretty boy anime guys who cry when they have a hair out of place, or scoff at the idea of wearing plain clothes. Sanji is a fun loving guy just like Luffy is, and likes to goof off with the other guys, and I think his clothes really reflect how goofy of a character he is. And it adds to the charm that he has.

(Also I had more examples and didn’t even get to include looks from the movies bc of tumblr’s image limit, but trust there are many many more photos out there of Sanji in the ugliest fit possible)

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The truth of it 🤣

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So, it's been exactly two weeks since this Stetopher fic idea was born. (See this thread for background info)

Within those two weeks, I have written 69k words in my brainstorming document (AKA the 'brain dump' where everything starts before I tidy it up into finalised notes elsewhere, separated into character, plot, outline, etc.).

I repeat, I wrote 69,000 fucking words. In two weeks.

(I had to repeat it, because I still can't quite believe it)

I've broken all my own personal writing records.

I've realised this fic is going to be at least 150k words, possibly 200k.

I've split the fic into 5 Acts, covering over one and a half years [there are cliffhangers between Acts that are already planned and that have me wanting to cackle like an evil villain].

I'm essentially rewriting seasons 1-3A adjusted for several key 'what if' changes pre-canon and exploring the domino effect of how things continue to change from there.

I've currently got a 3-page-long detailed and colour-coded timeline of events that happen in the fic, which is growing every day as I figure out where things fit (which included printing out monthly calendars for the relevant years and using 4 different websites to reference when the actual full moons were for each year).

I spent hours on university websites and several other resources figuring out what programs different characters might take, what courses they might take, what their schedule might look like, what are the start and end dates of semesters, etc.

I spent even more hours with several google maps tabs, wikipedia pages, geographical maps, and fandom wikis open to figure out where the fuck Beacon Hills might possibly be located and figuring out the distance from this fictional location to several real ones.

Do you have any idea how long I've spent doing math? MATH?! I hate math! I thought I was going to drive myself insane trying to figure out ages and timelines and dates and ughhhh. Just. No more math please? I beg.

If you've made it this far down (wow, thank you), here are some things you can look forward to in this fic, in no particular order:

Unresolved pre-fire Petopher drama

Stetopher endgame, obviously

Allison & Stiles friendship

Boyd & Erica live

Pack bonding

Stiles yelling at Derek about how to be a good fucking alpha

Chaotic pack board game night (that may or may not involve Chris tackling Peter over the game board)

Stiles already knowing he is a Spark, his mother having taught him about magic when he was growing up

Domestic fluff

Stiles unknowingly driving Chris and Peter crazy with his lack of boundaries, oversharing, and oral fixation

Slow burn

Stiles getting to study magic at university

Stetopher nerding out over research together

Stiles somehow having keys to everyone's places (Peter has no idea how Stiles even found out where he lives)

Christmas pack fluff

Several key alterations to the Argent background, including Kate & Gerard being arrested & sentenced to jail after the fire, Chris divorcing Victoria, and Allison finding out about the supernatural a few years early. (Stiles may or may not have had something to do with at least one of those things)

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If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.

The music is a remix of the song Mere Dholna from the Bollywood movie Bhool Bhulaiyya, a remake of the classic Malayalam horror-comedy Manichitrathazhu. It's about a young bride that seemingly becomes possessed of Manjulika, a dancer of the ancient royal court whose tragic death has turned her into a vengeful spirit, one who evokes the wrath of the goddess Durga Kali. In the iconic scene that is repeated across remakes, the groom and his family discover his bride dancing in the dead of night in a manic, disassociative fugue, wearing a moth-eaten dancer's costume and a face smeared in kohl, ash and vermilion. She's hallucinating that she's Manjulika dancing carefree for the court with her lover. The upbeat music is deliberately incongruous with the pathos and creepiness of the scene in reality, especially as it crescendos in the bride's head to the moment when the king decapitates Manjulika's beloved in a fit of jealous rage.

This specific number is by the all-male troupe B Unique, performed for the Indian reality talent contest Hunabaarz. It's a modern fusion based on Bharatnatyam that turns up the creep factor by 200% and is basically a showcase of contortionism and synchronicity. One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen. Truly incredible!

The group is still taking their work across the world's talent shows. And yes, that guy is hypermobile enough to do that with his neck. XD

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Answer the question, Derek.

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A series

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you know how most of the things humans use as spices are poisonous or repellent to most other mammals? and you know how anything vaguely d&d inspired has dwarves being way more poison resistant than even humans?

dwarf cuisine shouldn’t be bland, it should be unimaginably spicy and potentially harmful or fatal to humans. like green potato and rhubarb leaf salad with a festive garnish of yew berries and deadly nightshade berries, that kind of thing.

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"You're losing blood" no I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't ever underestimate me.

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This is killing me omf

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shake things up by killing your character in the middle of the story and replacing them with some random new guy