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snuurp · 4 months ago

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i made more of them whoops. six wasn't enough apparently.

also i don't normally draw fluffy dogs or long face dogs because both of mine are short haired BRICKS so any advice is appreciated :) i love Scratch so much. more info and plain text under the cut again

i will draw Halsin and Jaheira eventually i swear. the diner doesn't have a name yet either, but it WILL. one day. i kinda want Astarion to work there in the future, his cafe job is a different, worse one. Halsin lovers i need your feedback because i do not know much at all about this man.

and thank you for the support on my first post!! i've never gotten this many notes before lol

sidenote: Fennel is a drow. she's just got that dragonsblood sorcerer thing going on and also i like horns. (she IS lolthsworn in game, i'm still debating how to include that here. is three characters with religious trauma too many??)

FENNEL

5'9"

works at Halsin's coffee shop/diner as a line cook.

first stable job she's had in ages because she has no tolerance for rude customers and kept saying things that got her fired.

adopted Scratch after his owner passed away, does everything to improve herself for his sake.

met Jaheira through the diner as well, who recommended the support group to her.

this was 90% because Jaheira likes collecting these nonfunctional gay losers to watch the drama unfold in ways better than any sitcom, but she (probably) actually cares at least a little.

hates the idea of going until something (or someone) suddenly motivates her ooOOOo what could it beeeeee........

coffee order is a plain americano until she gets introduced to sweet drinks and realizes life is worth living.

it's hot chocolate now, caffeine doesn't do anything for her anyway.

favourite board game is phase ten, but she never wins. just happy 2 be there.

absolute beast in mario kart tho, matches Karlach's competitive streak.

SCRATCH

best boy!!!!!!

used to be a drug sniffing dog, VERY task oriented. Fennel has to hide things for him to search for daily or he gets antsy.

he's shockingly intelligent, knows more than a dog should.

misses his previous owner a lot. has to be walked to the cemetary weekly for visits.

likes all foods, but LOVES fruit a weird amount.

blueberries are his high-value treat.

calm in thunderstorms but can't handle fireworks. howls at sirens because that's the noise that took his best friend away :(

his previous owner was a handler for a different dog. he knew Scratch wouldn't hurt without a good reason, so when Scratch attacked a TSA agent, he took Scratch with him and left the job.

this saved Scratch and he knew it, was extremely loyal. the other dog got moved to a new handler, no harm done.

very protective little guy, he loves the gang. sees them all as his responsibility.

those losers are HIS sheeps, and he is a VERY GOOD GUARDIAN.

can his sheeps stop being sad please. also stop having "jobs". walk him instead.

#:) art tag #snuurps bg3 au #bg3 tav #bg3 scratch #baldurs gate 3 au #baldurs gate 3 #bg3

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lv-iceprince · 1 year ago

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🎃…overall ship…🎃

@horanghaejamjam

goddamn katt, the self control i needed to not immediately write this ship, i'm so shy around you which is why i barely dm you but you're also the reason i like to procrastinate. i could write ships for you all day and fail university. you are my priority always <3

and just when I think i can’t fall for you harder than i already have 😩 the hair 😩 but like for real i was so excited to see you request again!!! i missed you so much 😭 the emojis are speaking for themselves but man I’m on cloud nine rn.

one extra special ship coming up!

i went so over word limit for this but i couldn't stop writing this, i have an addiction to this ship and i have to say this ship is the best one i've done so far, and it's extra special because it's for you. normally these ships are just over 600 words 630 max but holy shit this ended up having a word count of 1041. i literally struggle to write 1000 words of an essay but i can simp over you and this member and write a whole ass novel.

and such a sidenote but i just realised why i am so whipped for you and now it's so obvious, but it wasn't until you dyed your hair that i saw it. you remind me of a cartoon i used to watch as a kid, i used to watch all the time when i was 7-9 it was called ruby gloom and the theme song still slaps and you are literally irl ruby (even if your hair isn't red)! you're making me cry so much at that realisation

~ateez~ seonghwa🎃

This was the quickest decision I have ever made in the history of my indecisiveness. There is something that feels so beautifully domestic whenever I picture you and Seonghwa together, it’s so vivid that I can see the exact smile he would have for you, describing it wouldn’t give him justice so here you go.

You possess this incredible gentle nature and you are also the most honest and proud person I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. You transcend the need to hide so you wear your personality on your sleeve and it the most endearing thing in this world.

But I’m not the only person who thinks so, Seonghwa would be besides himself and it would really show in everything does. You bring forth this sense of docile innocence in him, even if you weren’t dating at the time Seonghwa would have the irresistible urge to open up to you and be his most vulnerable self.

Even though Seonghwa is very loving this would be a big deal to him, normally he feels that he has some control over the relationships that he has, both platonic and romantic, but in this case, he really wants to take the back seat and see what happens.

He adores your kindness and your willingness to even give him the time of day, even though he is the literal Park Seonghwa and he doesn’t owe you anything he still feels obliged to show you just how good a boyfriend he is.

I can’t say this enough you make him feel like a good memory, you bring him so much peace and he can’t imagine ever wanting to leave your side.

Before I return to the more drabbley section of my ship we need to address your absolutely stunning visuals! Each time I see you and your aesthetic I actually get so emotional.

You are so pretty in the most wholesome way and you are an absolute icon starting from your hair to your aesthetic outfits. You literally have forest pixie visuals and your eyes are just so hypnotic, it is only natural that I ship you with THE siren eyes visual Seonghwa.

Both of you are so dreamy and beautiful, but in a way that I haven’t seen before. You both exist outside of the standard beauty standard yet you also just outdo every beauty standard ever. I truly can’t express how fond I am of your visuals and combining that with Seonghwa you get a dream couple.

Now, the creativity that just about oozes from your fingertips will never not impress Seonghwa.

Following the soft domestic relationship dynamic Seonghwa truly loves how he can just stick close to your side and experience the most exciting sense of comfort.

Your internal black cat mom energy has rubbed off on Seonghwa and he really starts to assume the role of being the dad, aka, acting like a husband even if neither of you explicitly mention the idea of having a family.

But let’s be real he definitely wants to have a family with you whenever the opportunity arises.

You’ve actually plagued him with so much wholesome energy that it makes the other members gag, it’s so sickening to see how gentle he is with you. Seonghwa is actually shorter than you, so the most sickening act off affection you do is resting your head on top of his just to give him a soft little kiss.

Oh, and we thought Yunho was the one and only spiderboy but Seonghwa totally looks up at you with a blush coating his cheeks as he places a feather-light kiss on your lips.

I don’t know where else to put this but talking about kisses he totally has this fixation with your tattoos he will aimlessly trace them when he is sitting next to you and he will even kiss them. His favourite will definitely be the pawprints on your thigh.

He also has a habit of treating your dogs like his babies up until the moment that you have babies.

Another thing is that SEONGHWA IS PRACTICALLY MADE FOR BOOKSTORE OR BOBA DATES YOU CAN’T TELL ME OTHERWISE.

He also tends to giggle, like actually giggle whenever you call him “love”, “darling”, or “hun” even if you give that nickname to everyone you know.

Seonghwa loves you, that much is clear by how much of a damn baby he is around you, and he absolutely swoons whenever you present him with gifts or notes of encouragement but please be warned...

He will present you with even more elaborate gifts, and sometimes they are normal cute relationshippy things but other times they have this Seonghwa flare like him designing a custom you-seonghwa-and-your-dogs-in-a-cute-house lego set that you could build together all while he tells you that you’re way prettier in person.

All in all, there is something special about you, the way you look at him is enough to summon all the butterflies. Even if he holds back on the pda he will always say just how much he loves you, he will smother you with those three words. But it’s all in good faith. So many things have happened in his life but meeting you and having the privilege of falling in love with you is the greatest thing to have ever experienced in his life.

Now, picture this, a bed full of plushies and in-between all of that is you and Seonghwa using your five blankets as a means of hiding away from the world. All the sounds around you are muffled and yes, it’s fall, the leaves have finally morphed into a flurry of browns and oranges.

Seonghwa’s slow breathing is irregular since he is humming some small song that has come straight from his heart. The lattes for two he made sit off to the side, widely neglected as you stare into each other’s eyes, he feels like he is living a dream, he wants you to pinch him so he could wake up and go about his days. But when you playfully poke his cheek, he finally realises that the sweetest thing in his life isn��t a dream, it isn’t a wish…

It’s true love.

#kpop matchups #kpop ships #overall ships #ateez #fall aesthetic #Halloween energy #cozy aesthetic

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yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere · 3 months ago

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this is so silly, first i HATE comparing, second i love all of these 3 people and their voices but i would never compare, like... Rachel and Jonny i believe are both theatre kids so some of the ways they learned the craft can overlap but that is all. And Halle's voice is literally like an actual siren's voice. They are completely different people with different singing journeys how can you even THINK of comparing, let alone making THAT connection.. i don't understand. One thing i CAN say tho is that all three of them have three different voices so.. yeah.

All 3 are amazing and that's that.

also about tags?? To the person hating on Jonny? You can watch him shine in WICKED soon and cryyyy about it! (sidenote, please don't hype up/ support your favs by talking trash about someone else that is so low)

No because I just saw someone comparing Halle Bailey's and Rachel Zegler's voice to JONATHAN BAILEY'S.

Like what !?!?!?!!?!

#jonathan bailey #halle bailey #rachel zegler #i wish i could say i was joking #I'm not #someone hated on jonathan by saying #“he stands nothing against rachel and halle”#????

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margovasilovich · 5 years ago

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text 💬 pogo

Margo: Which trope do you think is more romantic, the pirate and the mermaid, or the marine biologist and the mermaid? Because I just started watching this show Siren and like, it kiiiind of might be changing my vote!

#text #text:poppy #asupoppy #poppybloom #//sidenote i have never actually watched siren so #this reply holds no facts

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neverheardnothing · 4 years ago

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rewatching joe iconis and family lincoln center performance at 4 am instead of packing or sleeping just to feel something and i have so FEW and so MANY thoughts and yall are gonna hear em all. no i will not put this under a cut. im going to be an absolute bastard about this.

i love the story joe tells about why he's singing mitb as the first song so much. like. the spite of it all. the defiance of it all. the pride of it all. the dig it or fuck off and disappear of it all. the joe iconis of it all.

“i know exactly the song im going to sing as my first song at the american songbook series.” i love that he highlights the fact that this is the american songbook series.

then immediately jumping right into broadway here i come with molly hager, the other song he is most known for!!!

every time i think about this performance i think about how this was the first (?) time this song was performed by them since the closing of bmc.

and then lance rubin comes up to sing try again. which is the only time that i know of that anyone but joe has sung this song.

i remember a remark made during watching it live that having someone else sing the song made it seem so clearly more about joe and his career. but also having lance sing it immediately makes me think of bbh closing early which yeah is part of joe’s career but also lance’s.

and also the line “if you’re an actor and another actor gets the part you auditioned for” reminds me of how lance found the auditioning process of acting and the whole [not acting part] of an acting career to be terrible which is why he quit to then become an author and the juxtaposition of him singing try again is Something. but also he DID try again he is just applying his efforts to a different creative field and it’s working out great for him. good for lance rubin.

lol i haven’t even talked about the actual performance aspect of this song anyways it’s very different from the two versions ive seen of joe doing it. he plays it a lot more comical. i love it.

sidenote not specific about this performance, but i love love LOVE the line and the music at “use the stairs, walk to the street. see the people, feel the heat, and apply yourself again.”

and also the line “when they cast you out to sea, there’s a lifeboat manned by me called try and try again” will never not make me think of bsol/last on land and bonus lance was also in that show! it just keeps circling around.

everything about these past 3 songs performed at this venue in this set list order in this moment at joe’s career is honestly so wonderful. like you had a songs about an anxiety attack, a suicide/loss of self in success, and repeated failures before this song all sung by individuals. two of these songs were written at points where joe felt frustrated/sad with his career. one written in the aftermath of specific frustration about the first closing of be more chill. one an actual song from bmc. like what a SETLIST for your first three songs! fucking michael in the bathroom, broadway here i come, and try again. truly something.

THE WHISKEY SONG!! i love hearing joe sing so much. while i think we can all agree he’s not the most skilled singer there’s something special about hearing a composer perform their own work. he adds like 3 levels of charm to make up for lack of singing skills lol. just a very charismatic guy.

lance rubin back on tamborine for the next bit of the song and he’s like laughing through it. not completely sure what he’s laughing about honestly but this Is a comedic song (after 3 real downers of songs) and also joe was playing it up.

jared weiss down on the floor with his guitar playing along. that’s its own bullet point.

audience cheering as more family members start coming on stage! i love that the band is getting cheers. love that!!!

the camera isn’t on him but from the audio, nick blaemire is presumably running around giving high fives to people in the audience.

i can’t exactly tell with the camera angle and the lighting but i think that more family members get up from different seats in the audience or at least enter in the back and walk through the audience to get to the stage during this instrumental break. reminds me of how joe loves theater that physically touches you. giving you high fives in this case.

love liz lark brown. she plays it pretty like. frenetic and frazzled. love it.

amara, badia, danielle, will, and nick are just chillin sitting on the steps of the stage. 100% contributes to the vibe of this song. top fuckin notch.

SOMEONE screams AH during the drunk part of the song and i cannot figure out who but it gives me so much life.

jared pulling lance down to the floor with him.

jason going “man.... this place is a dump” like i LOVE the irreverence.

everyone actually getting back up and also converging On the stage during the (kind of) acapella break.

and now your whole gang is up on the stage at the fancy ass appel room singing your what sounds like a mostly upbeat fun song but is actually about self medication with alcohol and it’s a fucking jam. i love the 3 solo songs and then bringing in everyone for a big group number.

sidenote not about this specific performance: the lyrics “i’ll pour some more and then—AND THEN?—i’ll pass out and then—AND THEN!” the and thens were not on the things to ruin album and i wonder why not ALL the time. was it just deemed extraneous? or was this an innovation after the album was recorded?

i love that you can see the band singing along.

yesterdays / i can’t relate. i love this song i fucking love it. i love the synthy keyboard that was an active choice made. which means that joe is not the one accompanying jared in this song.

jared: i hate today. joe: *snorts in the background*

“i like music you can hold” -> old records black suits, susannah’s obsession with music which was of course in vinyl format back then

will once said hearing lgw was very exciting because he’s first and foremost a fan of joe��s so he was hearing a new joe song for the first time and the world got just a bit larger and i think about that quote a lot in relation to this song because i was like Oh i Get What He Means now because this is the first new joe song i heard since like getting into his work and i felt that world getting a bit bigger.

jared’s monotone chorus on top of the girls underneath is so good. it’s so fucking good i cannot.

liz lark brown velociraptor fuckin classic. specifically in this performance the weird ass electric guitar noise at “there’s a dinosaur” is SO good. i love it.

i know people say Trans Vibes from next song (jeff) but this song also gives me trans vibes. i think joe inadvertently writes stuff trans people relate to because of his propensity to write for People Who Are Different.

people cheering as will takes off his jacket hell yeah.

i am way more used to the jeremy morse version of this song and really consider it more his so it’s so fun to hear will sing it.

i love the canon of the “oh”s so much.

after will sings “i go to the window looking out and what do i see? myself just staring back at me.” and someone in the audience AUDIBLY goes “oh.” like what a MOMENT. way more subtle than when someone screamed “WHAT” at the “naked korean girl” reveal during the pipe night performance but on the same tier of Great Audience Reactions.

smooth fuckin gliss bro i love it. arms out by side. i love it.

Classic Jason Sweettooth Williams Singing Helen. but this time they added like some REAL like. oh god i have no idea how to describe it. electric crunchy electric guitar noises. and it’s so good.

i havent mentioned this yet but in the background of every song people who are not in it or are backup vocals are just sitting and jamming along and it’s so nice because me fuckin too.

honest to god just have to give a timestamp for this but bullet point for whatever the fuck eric is doing in the background here.

will and katrina circling each other singing directly into each other’s faces. so good.

the Unexpected dynamic change and following crescendo i am Living.

katrina rose dideriksen riffing up top. yes. YES.

joe starting to play helen sharp and then forgetting part of his introduction to the song is so good.

the inevitable laughter at any performance of this song at “it is not lost on me you’re all here at my show”

i know nothing about the movie death becomes her so i honestly always just think about joe when this song gets performed. also thinking about how in the youtube premiere of this song, joe was talking about how lauren was shouting out the names of all the musical theater composers joe is jealous of.

right place/wrong time. i read a bsol review a while ago about how katrina rose dideriksen was underutilized and gotta say i Agree holy Shit let her sing More.

i also remember how joe once said this song felt the most personal to him and that he cried when writing it

police siren piano.

the first time in this entire song they sing in sync is at the line “i wonder if his/her life is just like mine” and i just start screaming.

when eric and katrina turn to each other for the first time and start singing At each other!!!!!!!!!!!

honey! thinking about jen ash tep talking about how Each performance of this song gets Wilder and Wilder.

love it when nick just gets off the stage and starts singing to people in the audience. apparently one of the people was will’s mom lol.

ACAPELLA BREAK!!!!!! joe just fully gets up from piano and starts WILDLY clapping along!!!!

woman of a certain age! i remember when the live show happened the album had not come out yet and then when the yt premiere of it happened it Had been out for a week or so.

piano note elevator bell

the electric guitar is doing some fucking weird ass things in this song and i am living so fucking much for it.

the riffs badia does are so fucking incredible i immediately paused this video to go and watch her sing big fat ruby again just because i wanted more badia content.

the story behind old flame is so good and joe waiting until the last fuckin moment to give her the song is so fuckin funny.

i love love love these types of joe songs that are like 7 minute long story epics like right place/wrong time and the actress and ammonia and old flame.

“the best way to get past the past is to shoot it in the head” and then the audience cheers and i fucking love it. my commentary is getting shorter. it’s 6 am and i’m tired can you tell. i also just had a lot of thoughts about this early on and less thoughts about later on.

revolution song. the deep ass fucking electric bass is So good i Will go apeshit. like honestly that might be my favorite smaller detail of this song. like i imagine if i were in the room it might be loud and deep enough that i could feel it In my chest. like you can Feel the revolution coming.

i love the faster tempo revolution song has in the cabaret version.

i also love the cabaret specific lines of “evolution in the institution”

joey is a punk rocker was honestly not ever on the list of songs i thought would get performed here but im so glad that they did. like the obvious choice would have been veins for annie golden but they went this route. obsessed with this choice. obsessed with the fact that amphibian replaced this song as the act 2 opener. obsessed that annie is the one singing this.

i am never not screaming about wave and yall know this. just throwback to me losing it in the tags in a reblog of picture of the wave passage going on about how it really does mirror joe’s career and bmc specifically. and again this song being performed for the first (?) time since bmc closed makes the “so today on a hill in las vegas” and onward part SO fucking sad i literally just started crying. the entire song being in past tense up until that part. i will just go die now.

will in the yt premiere talking about texting the line “our energy would simply prevail” in the leadup to bmc coming back.

find the bastard. for some reason when this happened live i thought it was gonna be outlaw that was performed.

i swear to god it is literally physically impossible for me not to AT LEAST mouth along to “what’s your name, what’s your name” during this song

NAMES ARE FOR ACCOUNTANTS.

MY NAME IS AWFUL LONG AS IT’S THE LYRICS OF THIS SONG.

the goodbye song. it’s never not sad. i love love love that this song is the final song every concert. i also love the recent lore of finding out that penny dreadfuls was the encore song at concerts before they became too long and it had to get cut.

finally gonna mention the background car lights. what a beautiful backdrop.

also since im always on my wrol bullshit i love how fucking clearly you can hear him at the end

accelerando accelerando accelerando. insert [joe iconis peaked when he wrote the accelerando in the goodbye song post of mine].

katrina singing an octave up is always SO fucking impressive i am so impressed by her voice she is so fucking good i love her so much

the bows are so fucking sweet i love them.

goodnight it’s 7 am.

#teresa talks #also as my life gets Increasingly busier i decide to come back #social media truly a cesspit i can never escape #many no thots head empty full yes no <3 #im very tired #iaf #joe iconis

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timeisacephalopod · 6 years ago

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Since you asked for prompts: WinterIron, Tony is a researcher on a boat and Bucky is a mermaid/sea creature of some sort.

You got it! This has the flavor of a historical fic, but don’t let that fool you. This isn’t rooted in our world’s history. Just think of it as like… earth 2 to use a DC reference I suppose. Also Tony is more adventurer than researcher, but he’s got a scientific mind so that aspect is still there. Its not tooooo shippy, but its got its aspects there. Sidenote: sorry this took so long!

Tony has always yearned for adventure. He gets restless easily and Rhodey says its going to get him killed but he doesn’t really care so long as he doesn’t die in a field or his father’s bakery. There’s only so many ways to bake a bread before it just gets old.

“Get that look off your face, we’re going to die out here,” Rhodey says, curled up to the side of the large boat they’re on looking a little worse for wear. If not for his skin tone Tony is sure he’d be green. He doesn’t do well at sea but Tony doesn’t mind.

“You’ll be fine Rhodey, you’ve survived worse than this. Remember the trip back to Italy?” he asks. Rhodey gives him a dirty look because yeah, they ran into everything from sand storms to a freak wave that was like a hundred feet tall. It was nuts and when Tony told people about it they thought he was nuts but whatever. He saw what he saw.

“I also remember thinking your pale ass was a ghost and a bad omen and now you’re going to get me killed,” he says, clenching his mouth shut as the boat shifts more than normal.

Tony rolls his eyes, “and I thought you were a demon that was going to kill me, lets not act like first impressions matter,” he says. In hindsight his reaction was stupid, he knows people come in different skin tones but he hasn’t run into many people that are darker than him in his area of the world. Up north is where they get really pale, but compared to what Rhodey is used to he must have looked like marble. “Also,” he says, “we’re three days away from land by my estimations.”

Rhodey lets out a long, thin noise. “You said that three days ago,” he mumbles.

“Yeah, but this time we’ve been seeing birds so we’re definitely close to land. And we still have those sweet fruits from the last time we hit land, they keep well,” he says excitedly.

“I wish you were actually a ghost,” Rhodey mumbles.

“Well I’m happy that you aren’t actually a demon. You scared the hell out of me.” Didn’t help that the ship Tony was on hit a storm and washed up on a beach who the hell knows where and Rhodey was who found him. He’d been delirious and confused and its not like Rhodey knew what to do with some random soggy adventurer. Its a funny story now but they were right freaked out when they met. Tony has to wonder why the hell Rhodey thought ghosts would show up soggy and starving on a beach but hey, he thought Rhodey was a demon and he doesn’t even believe in demons so its not like Rhodey was the most illogical one in that situation.

Tony has to physically restrain Rhodey from jumping off the ship and swimming to land when they finally see an island and he’s not impressed about it. “Look, I need that land,” he tells Tony.

He rolls his eyes, “you will survive for another forty five minutes, Rhodey, now relax.”

Rhodey glares at him, “you’re only saying that because you aren’t ready to barf, Stark. Get. Me. To. Land.”

He rolls his eyes again but does his best to follow Rhodey’s request. When they’re far closer to the island though he frowns. “Is anyone else confused as to why we haven’t hit land yet?” he asks. They’re close enough that they should have hit something by now.

“I’m not confused, I’m pissed and nauseated,” Rhodey tells him, looking unimpressed.

Tony looks over the edge of the boat at dark water, too dark to be this close to land usually. Of course they have to run into a weird island. “You know what, whatever. Rhodey is going to whine and cry over here if he doesn’t get to throw up in the sand so drop the anchor,” he says. When the thing nearly runs out of chain to keep it attached to the boat they’re all shocked but they manage to make it to shore just fine and Rhodey lays in the dirt with the waves lapping at his ankles for an embarrassingly long time.

As usual the first thing he does is explore, which Rhodey refuses to do with him after finding what appeared to be a pig with tusks. Tony doesn’t find anything he finds especially unusual so when he finds a cave he enters it, somewhat surprised to find water in it. There’s a light source coming in from somewhere too, shining in on the water. Its stunning so Tony decides to sit for awhile and relax some. He watches the water for a long time, admiring the way the light hit the water before the sound of something surfacing causes him to turn his attention to it.

Obviously he’s heard the legends, they all have, but he’s never seen a mermaid in real life. The mermaid stares back at him for a few long moments before it moves a little closer. Tony has heard all kinds of stories about them, like that they lure sailors to their deaths, or that they’re mostly innocuous, and he doesn’t know which kind this one is. If there is a kind specifically. Or was it sirens that lured sailors to their deaths?

The mermaid swims a little closer, head barely above the water as it moves closer. Tony leans forward out of curiosity, marveling at the way it moves so effortlessly. Its more graceful than any fish Tony has ever seen.

When it gets to the shore, if you could call it that, Tony realizes that the water must be a lot deeper here than he thought. The mermaid sticks its head above water, revealing long brown hair and surprisingly bright blue eyes. “Um. Hey,” he says, not knowing if this thing understood his language or not. He gets a squeak back so he takes that as a no. “Waters around here are pretty deep,” he says for lack of anything better.

The mermaid squeaks at him again, throwing some water out of the sea with surprisingly human-like hands. The webs between the fingers aren’t normal though. Well, for humans. The mermaid squeaks again, throwing water out of the sea again but this time its aimed and Tony so does not appreciate being wet.

“Rude,” he tells the mermaid, throwing water back on it. The mermaid doesn’t look phased by this at all, probably because it lives in the damn water.

Bucky has always been curious about humans though he knows to be cautious, they can be vicious when they want to be, but the one he finds on the shore is soft. He can tell because he cares so much about the darker human he seems especially attached to. Bucky has learned to recognize the friendlier humans and this human in particular has shown all the friendly signs with his other human companion. Plus Bucky watched this human wander around the island as best as he could, curious about his bright eyes and smile. He seems to take a special delight in things that are different than him so Bucky is sure that will extend to the things in the sea.

He thinks maybe he should warn the human away from those red flowers that hurt his skin but he doesn’t know if humans have skin like his anyways. They certainly can’t swim like him, they flail around in the water in a way that’s embarrassing to look at. The human doesn’t understand the language of the sea though and the noises that come out of his mouth are unpleasant and strange. Not worse than any of the other noises he’s heard humans make though. Each group seems to be different and he’s figured out that boats headed from certain areas tend to use the same noises. Natasha thinks that humans have a bunch of different languages. Bucky thinks that’s inefficient.

The human seems to react well to his attempts at contact, which makes Bucky feel vindicated because Natasha said he’d get killed and Steve was too sick to chase after him. Then the human thinks throwing water on him will draw a reaction, which he seems to realize is stupid fast.

Bucky tries to tell him that it’s pretty strange to throw water on a sea creature but the human doesn’t understand. Instead he pulls back a little and Bucky worries he’d offended him or something but he pulls out a strange orange ball. He peels some of it away, which Bucky finds odd, before pulling the ball apart and handing a small slice to him. He considers not taking it but the human shakes it a little, something he recognizes as a sign of urgency from watching humans for so long. He takes the small slice and sniffs at it. It doesn’t smell bad but he doesn’t know what it is.

The human takes a bit of the ball himself and sticks it in his mouth, chewing on it. Food, then. Strange food, Bucky prefers fish to orange balls, but he puts the food in his mouth and chews. He wrinkles his nose at the strange taste, its far too… sweet for his tastes. The fish is bitter, flatter in taste and this is an explosion of flavor that he doesn’t like. He shakes his head because this is not good. The human seems to find some kind of happiness in this because he makes the noise all humans do when they find something amusing.

Tony is curious about the mermaid so he goes back, finding him there more often that not. After he started bringing food regularly, finding that the mermaid didn’t like most of it, and the mermaid starts bringing him food too. He’s never seen the fish he gets as a gift before but Rhodey seems to like them quite a bit. Tony isn’t overly fond of fish, he prefers fruits and red meats, but he always takes the gifts.

He’s sitting by the shore eating a fruit he found on the island when the mermaid drags him into the water unexpectedly. He lets out a loud yelp and flails a little but eventually finds his metaphorical footing and treads water, earning a disapproving look from the mermaid. “What? Not all of us have fins,” he says though this guy moves especially gracefully. And his tail is beautiful too, black with bits of sliver and a bright red that’s Tony’s exact favorite shade. He’s also far larger than Tony.

The mermaid shakes his head at him though, swimming closer and grabbing Tony’s arms. He tries to pull himself free because he kind of needs those limbs but the mermaid pulls him closer. Tony frowns, not understanding until the mermaid shakes his head again and moves his arm a specific way, freeing Tony’s arm and trying to force it to move the same way.

In the ensuing twenty minutes Tony learns how disappointed a fish can be at his actions as he tries, and fails, to teach Tony how to move in the water. But Tony isn’t aquatic, he’s meant for land even if he can technically swim. That doesn’t mean the mermaid doesn’t try though, hard. He keeps bending Tony’s limbs this way and that and Tony can’t mimic his movements for the life of him. But he does get a few good tips on how to move in the water even if his companion obviously isn’t impressed with him.

Humans get pruney in the water, which Bucky learns after Tony gets out of the water sopping wet with wrinkled finger tips. Bucky’s skin doesn’t do that and he wonders what would happen if a human stayed in the water too long, or if that’s possible. He keeps this in mind the next time he drags the human, his companions seem to call him ‘Tony’ if he’s getting the noise right, into the water. As usual Tony lets out a yelp as he flails around in the water and Bucky sighs. This is a travesty, the water is weeping at Tony’s inability to move.

He tries to get Tony to move right until he’s pruney and then frees him with some fish because someone has to ensure this human eats something worth eating instead of those orange balls. Tony still eats a strange amount of orange balls, and some other strangely colored things Bucky recognizes from the island and those don’t taste good either. He wonders if Tony has some kind of desire to punish himself.

Rhodey doesn’t believe Tony when he says he found a mermaid, and he sure as hell didn’t believe that’s where the fish came from, but when Tony starts waxing poetic about the damn fish he decides to go see it for himself. No one else believed Tony either but they figured if he kept coming back with fish they weren’t going to complain. They stayed away from the fruits though, figuring they had hallucinogenic qualities. Rhodey ate some of the fruits, they don’t do that, but he’s pretty sure Tony must be on something if he’s going on about how pretty the fish’s tail is.

“See,” Tony tells him proudly, “I told you I found a mermaid,” he says, gesturing to an honest to god human fish. Much uglier than Rhodey thought he’d be with the webbed hands and pale skin, but he thinks the skin thing is fish specific. Tony’s skin tone might have confused him at first but he’s pretty in a way the fish is decidedly not.

“Well… that’s a fish,” he says eventually, unsure how else to react. The mermaid swims up to the shore, right up to Tony and reaches out of the water.

Tony steps out of his shoes and takes the mermaid’s hand, laughing as he’s flung into the water and oh hell no Rhodey is not swimming with the fish. He’s not fond of the water on account of the seaweed and also the crustaceans that look too much like bugs for his liking. People eat those sea spiders and he doesn’t understand why that is a thing. But then most people don’t share his fear of bugs and all things like bugs, including the things in the sea. Water scares him even if he swims just fine, its just that land is much more solid.

Tony doesn’t give a damn because he fears absolutely nothing, and he especially doesn’t fear the fish. They swim around, the fish much more graceful than Tony though it does seem to be trying to correct his movements. Rhodey is pretty sure Tony can’t move that way but Tony doesn’t seem to care and oh, oh.

“You get out of the water!” Rhodey tells him. Tony looks over, frowning. The fish seems to be confused too and Rhodey doesn’t know if it knows their language, or if it can understand Rhodey’s accent, but he doesn’t care either. “This would never happen where I’m from! We eat fish, we don’t make heart eyes at the fish!” Its a crude translation but he thinks he can be forgiven given the situation.

“I’m not making heart eyes at the fish and he’s a mermaid,” Tony says. “Very intelligent too. Does not like nuts at all. He likes fish more than anything else.” Tony says this like Rhodey cares what the fish eats.

Rhodey doesn’t give a damn what the fish likes. “You are so making heart eyes at the fish. Get out of there before you do something you won’t want to explain to your mother.”

#winteriron #fanfiction #tony x bucky #tony & rhodey

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almaasi · 8 years ago

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reaction post typed while watching SPN 12x11 “Regarding Dean”

<3 <3 <3 smol cursed Dean is my jam, Meredith Glynn is my peanut butter, and thus I raise a toast to this episode

06:06pm

all i know about this is from the promos i saw on instagram. kind pumped, kinda wary. cursed-by-a-witch!dean was one of my favourite fanfic tropes though, back when i still read other people’s fanfic. i think i’ve written the trope myself once. maybe twice or three times? definitely In Which Dean Frogs Up is a cursed!dean fic and i love that fic dearly

this episode’s written by meredith glynn, who last wrote the dean-kills-hitler episode (the memory of which makes me smile. FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY)

(but actually though, it was weird how it was more of a “fuck your symbols” rather than a “fuck the bad thing you actually do” narrative?? if half the people who watch this show are republican, i assume many of them voted trump, and are therefore associated with nazism. and yet??? i’m sure many of them would also be like “hell yeah destroy hitler” without realising that the racist pumpkin and his motley crew of swamp-dwellers, who they just happily elected, has gotten nazism point two up and running, post-millenium)

06:18

ANYWAY

let’s watch this thing

dean caring about rabbits!! yes good

i’ve forgotten so much about the early seasons, i only watched season 2 & 3 once

06:22

EYY RABBIT

i hope this rabbit makes it out alive

(also dean is still a disney princess fight me)

06:23

I’M

HAPPY

BECAUSE DEAN AND RABBITS

AAAAH

“HEY BUDDY”

BUT LIKE?? WILD RABBITS ARE THE SCAREDIEST THINGS ON EARTH. I KNOW IT’S A TRAINED RABBIT BUT. IF DEAN CAN PICK UP A WILD RABBIT

HE’S A FUCKING DISNEY PRINCESS

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE THING

06:25

the fluFFY WHITE DOG

IS THAT A SAMOYED

IS THAT THE SAME SAMOYED I SAW IN AN EPISODE LAST YEAR AND COMMENTED ON HOW DEAN WASN’T SCARED OF IT

I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT I’M LIVING FOR THIS RIGHT NOW

06:27

it’s so nice that sam can say “right. well i’ll text mom”

mary was what this show needed

06:29

i’m really enjoying dean

just... existing

he’s good

06:31

THIS AUTOPSY LADY BETTER A) HAVE A NAME, AND B) LIVE THROUGH THIS EPISODE

06:31

c) fucking SPEAK WHAT THE HELL SHE DIDN’T SPEAK AND NOW SHE’S GONE

HER HAIR WAS SO COOL

but hey she didn’t die, that’s a plus

06:33

sam’s hair looks really good

also i like that sam judges dean really hard when he’s being an asshole

06:34

dean is actually starting to look more like season 1 dean

it’s the mussed hair and the stubble i think

and the pouty half-open lips

06:36

dean: “who’s dean?”

this is too relatable

i don’t think it’s meant to be relatable

but whenever this show does “something is wrong, they can’t see straight and they need blankets” i relate so hard

06:38

EEEEEY DEAN LOVES DORY

WE ALL LOVE DORY

DORY IS ME

(flashback to a few weeks ago, me standing in a hardware store, bawling my eyes out because i couldn’t remember why i needed to go the hardware store)

(turns out i went there to buy paint, but they didn’t have the paint i needed, and my brain freaked out and shut down)

(there was a nice sales guy in the garden centre though, and i bought a fern, which made me happy, and still makes me happy. nice people and plants are the best)

sidenote: DORY IS VOICED BY ELLEN DEGENERES THEREFORE COUNTS AS DEAN LIKING QUEER STUFF PROBABLY

06:43

sam put a note on the lamp

this is legit just reminding me of my own fics, i feel as if i would get along with meredith glynn if we ever met

06:44

rowena playing cards with a dude of colour

if she flips and murders them all i’m so done

also i had to google “crowley’s mother spn” because i forgot rowena’s name. i knew it began with r

and she’s one of my favourite characters

how the heck am i still alive