#The Sound of the Rain

[regnigt]

old One Piece gen ficlet (end of Alabasta arc)

I woke up to the sound of rain this morning and it's been raining all day, it's wonderful. Years ago I wrote a short One Piece ficlet from Vivi's perspective on the night after all the fighting. It was part of a series of Strawhat-centred ficlets based on canon moments. This morning I remembered it again and I felt like sharing it right here on Tumblr, since it's so short. Title: The Sweetest Sound Setting: Based on pages 11-13 in manga chapter 212, volume 23.

The steady sound of raindrops on the roof continued all through the night. The full moon outside looked blurry through the wet windows, but the light still spread itself all over her friends’ sleeping figures. Perhaps tonight it was raining all over the kingdom.

Each of them were wounded and wrapped in bandages, with deep cuts and broken bones and bruises all over. They’d been roughed up and smashed down and dried out and poisoned and utterly exhausted.

Vivi turned her head from the window every so often, seeing how the shadows on their faces shifted as the moon gently moved through the night-time sky. The rain kept falling and her friends kept snoring and somehow the two sounds combined was the sound of victory. No, more than victory. Of peace. Of freedom.

It had been a very long day indeed. The longest she had ever been through. And now that the battle was over, there was little enough she could do.

She stayed in the sickroom throughout the night, and the rain never stopped. It kept coming down in gentle abundance, and she watched it fall while keeping guard over her friends, knowing deep in her heart she had begun to tell them goodbye.

[happyheidi]

[kittymeiga]

Atmospheric zen video of my cat trying not to fall asleep sitting up next to a window while it rains. Keeping this one to relax me on stressful days

[sandflakedraws]

woohoooo the time has come - i can now post the piece i did for Interlude, a Mushishi seasons zine

[blumineck]

I did some more fantasy archery trope testing. This time the arrow stabby thing!

[maureen2musings]

nostalgicraindrops

[seafoamsol]

Violence!

[luxmoogle]

୧ ‧₊˚ ☆ ℌ𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔶 𝔉𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 13𝔱𝔥~!! ୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅ ☆

[pnwander]

incoming.

[crswoodferns]

Here's two rainbows to brighten your day 💞

[gina025]

Soothing weather

[gaywineauntsstuff]

Every single member of the Batfamily lies about their taste in music

Damian will claim that he only listens to classical music and that everything else is beneath him.

Damian will unironically listen to trashy Arab pop and the absolute worst Bollywood songs known to man (Dick introduced him to them and he hates the fact that sometimes he gets Sheila Ki Jawani stuck in his head during missions)

Tim will put on the most ear grating hyper pop you've ever heard and claim with full chest that these is the peak of humanities capabilities with music (Damian, Jason and Steph have all tried to kill him for this take) He will also play stuff like the living tombstones and sing it obnoxiously loud when he's working on the computer.

Tim however loves his 90s grunge and it's all that's playing in his headphones. (think nirvana, pearl Jam, Melvins, Alice in Chains etc) He has tracked down so many shirts and concert posters and watched every bit of content from the older shows.

Jason will claim he only listens to east coast rap, biggie, Nas, Jay etc and maybe some older metal. He will fight you on east vs west coast music, there will be weaponry involved.

Jason likes rap music... he unfortunately prefers west coast rap and has listened to no vaseline like 500 times. He will deny this till the day he dies...again. (Dick knows and threatens to tell Steph)

Steph will steal the aux and play Taylor Swifts greatest hits until one of the Boys threatens mutiny. Every single one of the bats has had style stuck in their heads during a stakeout at least twice. She will claim that the only rap song she can tolerate in Eminem and the 7/11 is Beyoncés best song.

Steph is an underground fan, think the dude selling mixtapes on the subway type shit. She also unlike Jason genuinely loves East Coast Rap music more than anything and knows every single wu-tang clan song by heart, same with Biggie. Not only does she love the music she also spends any free time binging those "history of rap and its consequences" videos and has been a firm believer that P.Diddy had a hand in a lot of the Death row records well...deaths.

Cass, well everyone thinks Cass has really good taste bc its Cass and she has zero flaws (don't @ me) she never takes the aux and will usually listen to her music while she's chilling or doing stretches. None of them have heard or seen a single one of her playlists except Duke.

its all 2010s top 40s pop music and like the trashy kind too, Beauty and the Beat, Kesha, Katy Perry. It's her turning of her brain time and she will be straight vibing to Rude! by magic or Boom Clap or Shower. she has shown this to Duke, smirked and told him that even if he tried to tell anyone they wouldn't believe him.

Duke is the only one who doesn't... lie. He just hides a few things. Lies of omission don't count as lies when the bats will lie to you about what they had for breakfast, while they are visibly eating breakfast. Duke says he listens to everything and he does. Literally everything. His patrol Jam is offensive bc it with start with Norwegian death metal and immediately switches to "like a G6" followed by kendrick Lamar and then descendants Disney channel movie music.

Bruce... Bruce is just weird, everyone asks him and gets a different answer. Bc he doesn't... like music. Like at all. It's all noise, his mother played instruments so he learned like 14 and he hates how they all sound. He just like vague batwings fluttering in dead silence.

Dick Grayson will obnoxiously play top 40 and radio music religiously around the bats. He claims it's the best music for rhythmic acrobatics and trapeze work and that true! Jason hates this kind of music the most, it's formulaic and holds no substance and drives him insane.

But Dick only listens to that music when he's moving, flipping doing high energy stuff. When he just wants to chill? This man has the most depressing music taste you've ever seen. You know that sad song from ur favorite artist that you can't listen to without crying. Yeah that's his bread and butter. Every single song is just flat out tear inducing, some of these bands have like 100 listeners and he is one of them and it's just their saddest song that reads like suicide note. The titans have conducted an intervention bc its just... concerning. He just thinks it's neat!

[ask-the-pioneer]

Life or bath for dry slugcat?

// SOUND WARNING!

[nothingbizzare]

Rain

[velvet4510]

Note: this list references the 1961 version of West Side Story and the 1954 version of A Star Is Born.