#Thanks for being awesome

[harrywavycurly]

Hello my loves!! Just wanted to say I love each and every single one of you and I’m glad you’re here and if you need me don’t hesitate to reach out! I’ll be around all day! Y’all make my little corner of the internet very fun and special so thank you! Have a great day or a merry Christmas to those who celebrate! 💖✨

[savemeafruitjuice]

Hiya bro 🥹💞✨!!! I might request something (I’m out of ideas atm…) but I just wanted to stop by since you opened up asks again to say I’m really happy I met an awesome person such as yourself.

This might sound weird but like…….I GET SO HAPPY WHEN I OPEN UP MY DASH AND I JUST SEE YOU. I smile like a lil kid on Christmas day lowkey 😚💅🏾.

Just wanted to say I think you’re super duper amazing and I can’t wait to spend another year with you! You’re a spectacular writer (gonna be spam reblogging your fics soon so watch OUT 😈) and a wonderful person that I’m glad is in my life.

~ Love, Emery

Ohh my god agghddkksk-

Duuude thank you SO much!!!! You are literally so kind and just- 🥰🥰🥰

I am sosososo glad to have met you, you're quite literally who inspired me to write and create freely, and to just try new things. Thank you so much for being so incredible, and I am so excited to spend another year with you as well!!!

Seriously though- without you, I probably wouldn't still be writing today. It's so hard to put it into words, but you just being you has given me so much confidence and happiness, and has really let me discover what I want to write, and how to enjoy this silly ahh hobby. 🫶🫶

I know I got pretty mushy, but I mean what I say! I am so thankful to know you, and want you to know how much I appreciate you! 💗💗💗

[serial02721]

ROTTMNT PEOPLE LETS GO!!! HELLO!!!

[imagination-is-forever]

Thank you @cheesecake-clown and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

Please take a moment out of your day to look at these lil guys I drew two years ago X3

Should I redraw them digitally?

[kociamieta]

so, here's the second short story! set in the same world as passenger9027, but not directly connected to it : )

[calamarispiderart]

everything i do is derivative

[cowboythewizard726]

beautiful orc girl leed helllOOOOO beautiful leed alert oh my GOD she's so cool WOOAHHHH beautiful siilly girl she was really pretty and awesome and so kind i think shes wonderful and there should be a statue made just for her thats really big and in the center of everything and she should get anything she wants ever smile face

[equallyloyalandlethal]

I needed this. <3

hi this is your daily writing reminder that I am so proud for opening that document and adding a line to it, or for thinking about those characters, and reminiscing about that plot twist.

[gojosattoru]

��� RYOMEN SUKUNA PHONE WALLPAPERS ★ -> requested by anon Hope you like it darling! Thank you for your request! Had loads of fun!! <33333~~ Hope they look good!! Sorry for being so late!

COMMISSIONS/KO-FI AND REQUESTS OPEN!!!

[stevens-pastrami-sandwich]

SHRRGFFFF... OUUUUUEUEUUUUUU PROFESSOR BOXLEITNER NOOO DONT CRY WAAHH anyways og under the cut

[pepperpixel]

Initial drawings of that old man… I literally, I haven’t finished reading the book of bill yet!!! I had to stop and take a break for a week to feverishly draw fanart of myself petting fords floofy hair and giving him attention and shit…!!!! The urge was too great….!! I’ve literally. I had a crush on this guy the instant he was first REVEALED in the show, but I did not have the artistic prowess to draw good looking old men back then… but I do now… thank god… thank fucking god

[j-rye]

bun ny bunny bu nny bunny ? @wolfertinger666

[spenglernot]

STORIES TELLING: NED LOWE AND THE DEATH OF POOR REPRESENTATION IN OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

In history, Ned Lowe was one of the most sadistic and violent pirates in the early 18th century, so he’s an obvious choice for a villain for season 2, episode 6 – Calypso’s Birthday.  What is interesting is what the OFMD writers chose to do with him.

Lowe announces himself to the crew of the Revenge with great fanfare (cannon ball attack) and gets right to the point.

Ed is thoroughly unimpressed.

Cut to Ed and Stede tied up while Ned attempts to set the mood so he can monologue about why he wants to kill Ed.

Ed knows what’s coming. He is going to suffer but he still can’t be arsed to meet Ned with anything but vaguely bored dismissiveness (and Stede is happy to play along).

Up on the deck, Ned prepares the crew for his big, dramatic moment of symphonic torture.

Note that the Revenge crew is tied down, braced by vices and generally unable to protect themselves from imminent torture and possible death, but their spirits are up. They don’t seem terribly fussed.

Then Stede uses his people positive management style to happily orchestrate a worker uprising in Ned’s crew.

Ned’s crew responds instantly; severing their allegiance to Lowe and telling him off.

The crew sails away and talks profit sharing while Ned dully threatens to hunt them down.

Ned is now a prisoner of the Revenge crew and seems entirely disinterested in his own survival.

And Ned sinks to the depths, without struggling at all.

There is a lot going on in this episode: pay and labor equity direct action, gay love engagement bliss, kink humor, Stede being a hero and saving his crew by playing to his strengths, then having to decide whether to kill in cold blood and feel the consequences of that choice. Ed having one more reason to be done with piracy (while being so impressed with and fond of Stede), and then watching his man make a fraught choice and having to deal with the fallout from that. (And, damn, I haven’t even mentioned the passionate sex bit.) Anyway, back to the point.

Now for the the meta part

The Ned Lowe sequences are perfectly in keeping with OFMD’s signature blend of madcap violence, humor, and big emotional gut punches. But something about Ned Lowe just strikes me as off for this show.

Ned is seriously threatening the crews’ lives, so why don’t they take him seriously?

Why does Ned have such a boring, throwaway backstory?

Why is Ned so nonchalant about his own death; like it’s a foregone conclusion?

Why does Ned have a silver violin and silver spurs on his slip-on dress shoes?

Why is Ned sartorially monochromatic?

And then I realized who Ned reminds me of.

This guy,

Earnst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever (1971)

And this guy,

Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994).

And this guy,

Xerxes, 300 (2006).

And it sure seems like Ned Lowe isn’t just an episodic villain. He is an archetype of the one-dimensional, stereotypical queer-coded villain that has been endemic in film and television throughout history. The OFMD writers have a lot to say about what to do with this kind of character:

Don’t respect him.

Feel free to openly mock him.

Don’t let him take your joy, even though he will hurt you.

He won’t disappear on his own. You have to throw something at him (take action) to make him go away.

Once he’s in the water, he’s content to drown. He’s not into what he’s doing any more than you are.

Oh and, just to be clear,

The LGBTQIA+ community has a very long history of turning shit media into better stories. So, hey, big media, prepare to have your crap characters wrecked (improved).

Now, back to our transformative pirate show with rich, complex queer characters and a multi-layered plot that surprises me every week and makes me feel big feelings - most of all, joy.

Final thought: I do wonder if Ned Lowe is monochromatically silver as a tribute to/poke at, Hollywood and the silver screen.

This meta was written before OFMD season 2 has fully aired. No idea what’s going to happen in the finale (and I’ve generally fled social media to avoid spoilers). I’ll be back, looking at everyone’s fascinating posts after episode 8 airs.

[c00kietin]

@clownpalette HIM 💖💗💖💗💖

[paintpanic]

Calculating probability of survival... It doesn't look good.

[frontierpsychopomp]

some birds