#affiances

[itsrainingbubbles]

Law: lets form an alliance

Luffy, thinking: Torao wants an affiance?

And he takes a moment to think about it and he's made up his mind yes he'll marry Torao, it's a bit weird since he's only met him briefly but he can already tell he likes him. Plus the king of the pirates needs nothing but the best, and Torao is the prettiest person he's ever seen, so of course he needs to marry that man

[sunflowerwizard]

Mrs. Aele'nor Ravenguard 😭💖

[unproduciblesmackdown]

furthermore going like okay not Sure of timeline things But. concerning bonus material Atlas's Actual Shirts deal

a) that bonus material is bonus material but this sure seems to fall into the [could be canon] &/or [basically is, but unseen within the main material b/c there's not really a place for it there] realms

b) both acknowledging the Marriage(tm) with a critical deconstructing lens huh. the girls & the gays. fucked up that someone might for example have an ongoing Gayce Moment (presumably aro as well, hardly irrelevantly) where their transactional associations must hinge on math, murder, etc

c) appreciating like okay mordecai would've lost everything but the clothes he was already wearing when he had to impromptu hightail it out of nyc, so that's when atlas must've given him his own clothes; this is Definitely Years Later (edit: definitely Months! Perhaps years! plausibly like a year or two! and apply that throughout the rest of this post)

d) when i) mordecai can surely have afforded to replace all the lended clothes & ii) his fumbling to argue the Practical Reasoning behind currently(!) wearing atlas's clothes still means it's Not for practical reasons. years later. while dodging & glaring at & competitive with & needling at atlas's wife. Oh You Know

e) and what a choice on atlas's part to give mordecai his own clothes. sure, that could've been the quickest way to give him Anything to wear (not now bloodstained, for instance) but buying new clothes would be like some possible Next Day shit, or, i dunno, asking around for Other people's secondhand clothes, both of which account for: this being several years prior to when this conversation could've happened, mordecai was how old when he met atlas? 16-18? 21 while we have it that:

this, after the fray at the lodge (noticing for the first time mordecai still has marks on his face from that here. it's been seventeen years Still noticing brand new things. like wick in volume one looking at a group photo in the café ft. the only characters known to us being mordecai, atlas, & viktor. what are you interested in about that hmm???) wherein, with the band on the stage, mitzi with a ukulele, & the dialogue suggesting as much amidst the context that atlas didn't really start being allied with marigold until after the lodge fray proper slaughter, atlas seems to be in the earliest stages of Meeting His Wife here. with his Ferocious Little Shadow. who i also note is looking Entirely Away even as prior i've simply interpreted this as Keeping An Eye Out &/or general disinterest in Anything going on at the speakeasies. competitive to near-homicidal relationship with atlas's ever-present wife....which, remembering what i was getting at in the first place. if atlas's shirts are noticeable big on mordecai at that point, surely all the more so originally. and he kept them! and kept wearing them! for Emotional Reasons Only Actually. goodness gracious.

f) where's the walking on sunshine mitzi & mordecai shopping montage? which did apparently happen, unless instead mordecai then rushed to get new bespoke shirts himself to avoid others Perceiving him judgmentally and the walking on sunshine montage specifically. she gives him a makeover (from buttonups to buttonups. whaddaya gonna do) she asks him for begrudgingly familial makeup touchups....she shares intimate exclusive secrets with him concerning my firm [they were both in on atlas's death, and so would atlas have to have been too] stance....Girl,

g) "atlas and i discussed that" what???? who???? when & why???? mitzi kicking her legs like so tell me about your Ferocious Little Gay Little Two Steps Ahead Shadow. did atlas volunteer mordecai's Entire Backstory as he knew it? did he provide it upon Request? did mitzi ask "why's ya boy wearing shirts that don't quite fit" and atlas goes "oh yeah that's because they're my shirts. i have noticed this without saying anything. for years" like imagine. what's going on around here

h) i forgot how i planned to work in this image of "i love this shot of & Look for mordecai." disheveled freshly wounded undershirt towel suspenders now as fashion accessories over pants Annoyed Sideeye & it Does help that elsa, real fave tertiary character, is here serving as well with the waist pants & putting her hair up & they're both always serving anyways. You Better Not Be Cunty Mordecai when i get over there to fish the shotgun pellets out of your body, Said No One!!!

anyways recap atlas giving mordecai his own shirts (at all genuine or All about trying to spam the [benefactor] key so mordecai sticks around & shoots people for him?) mordecai accepting and continuing to wear them for years until thwarted by atlas's wife whom he is Competitor with and now in one of those classic duos of "do we hate each other? well maybe, but also no of course not. we also share an understanding we can't have with anyone else. which is a secret about the same guy who neither of us wanted to die but were both involved in his death" mitzi Knowing things about mordecai, oh i know all about you wearing my husband's shirts years later, mordecai is at atlas's funeral nobody else we know but mitzi & asa are there obviously mitzi would have to know about this too like. transcendent. fluorescent. head in hands. happy pride

[causeimanartist]

Oh my god another fan of the master of franken chaos? (aka things like the franken soap)

You know it!! I've followed her since the early days of her channel

[mellawildheart]

Pat's face here. A confused bby 😍

[fideidefenswhore]

Sometime in late 1529 or early 1530, Anne went one stage further, personally commissioning an exquisite handwritten French psalter in which her Rochford heraldic arms appear on several pages in a lozenge, intertwined with a cipher that links her initials to Henry’s. Now in the Getty Library at Wormsley, this was an aspirational work: teeming with brilliantly coloured rubrication and elaborate borders including interlaced acanthus leaves and flowers, strawberries, jewels, pearls, dolphin’s heads and so on, it proclaims to the world her imminent arrival in the royal family.

Hunting the Falcon, Julia Fox & John Guy

[klaus-in-a-whole-foods]

Affiance tour vlog 

[lesbianjobutupaki]

My gf tag should technically be my fiance tag now, but for simplicity's sake it will remain gf tag.

Also because it's more obviously gay.

[itsleifnotleaf]

sometimes living my best life is listening to midnight burger while brushing out my dog’s fur. it’s like my own personal walk-in, i can avoid anything, even an ex-bot

[thebaldergatescandal]

my cleaving the What Astarion Sex is More Moral To Have discourse down the middle by saying of course I think he wants to be a slut again, and feels frustrated and limited and damaged by the effect his past still has on him, but I think he would be happiest with a long-lived character who's already had decades long relationships that flow naturally from friends to lovers to a weird undefinable middle ground to back again as they go through life, where waiting several years or more for emotions to turn again into something physical is not a remarkable or difficult length of time to wait.

[itsrainingbubbles]

STILL THINKING ABOUT 'AFFIANCE' ARHHHH

law and Luffy are sitting in the crows nest, luffy was keeping watch and law couldn't sleep so Luffy insisted he stayed there with him

So they're talking and law brings up the alliance and luffy quickly says 'affiance' as soon as law says alliance to correct him

Law at this point realizes that Luffy knows the difference between the two but he's trying to be in denial so he tells luffy he's pronouncing alliance wrong (as if his crew haven't been telling that since forever)

Luffy argues and says he knows the difference between affiance and alliance, and he knows he's been pronouncing it right because robin taught him that and Robin wouldn't lie to him

And law is slowly losing any and all hope that Luffy just doesn't know what he's saying, so law asks if he knows what affiance means to which luffy responds 'of course I do! It means torao and me are going to get married' with his arms crossed, looking at law as if challenging him to prove him wrong

They have a mini argument about why or why not they're getting married with law progressively getting more and more flustered

By the end of the night law starts referring to them as affianced captains

[didyoubringauntienat]

I just had to fix Affiance Tale links because apparently, they didn't exist when in fact they did so yeah if you had any problems opening them... they should work now. :)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

looking for an audio file in my documents folder & then going "what the hell is xmas handshake.gif"

this can only be from some random xmas romcom i watched years ago & had such a godforsaken experience it gave me a headache

[artificialkids-2k23-official]

what is dtls

Crossover roleplay between Ducktales and RWBY that me and @astro-b-o-y-d do. Our archives are here if you're interested.

[weirdplutoprince]

I love villainesses isekais because they always open to some shit like "I've reincarnated as Evilla Von Lily, the empire's only princess and I'm destined to die after becoming affianced to Prince Rytius de Citrus?!?!?" and you think ok so just not marry him, right. Cant be that hard? But then chapter 1 in kicks in like " Evilla, sweetie your father and I are sooo glad you're marrying your Highness prince Rytius otherwise all these 56 orphans we tend to would spontaneously combust. Like, immediately. don't ask, we dont know how either. anyways proud of you" and youre like oh shit evilla

[fideidefenswhore]

In particular, the emphasis on faction risks understating how serious Henry VIII was about his religion. It was more than just a question of which side to pick in the international league of confessionally inflected rivalries. It has often been hard for commentators to grasp that this most self-serving and intermittently tyrannical of rulers nevertheless had a religious faith that was deeply held, if idiosyncratic. His detailed scrutiny of religious formulations and energetic participation in religious debate indicate how solemenly he undertook his role as supreme head of the Church in England. This was the lens through which he saw much of the world around him, including his relationships with women.

Whip with Six Strings, Lucy Wooding