#b&e were just like

[ryllen]

.+💚. Green .💚+.

[hercarisntyours]

dreamt about oplita and woke up crying from happiness and cuteness

[raiiny-bay]

b/a for the boys’ anniversary edit :-)

[qkmlh]

Still ducking hilarious to me that Zoro & Sanji began their beef because they thought the other was misogynistic and it came to a head of no return when Zoro felt his title of ‘Luffy’s specialest boi’ threatened by Sanji’s comment

[wikitpowers]

I think we as a society don't talk enough about that part in lady midnight where ty suggests going back to rook's house and this time use his son as a pressure point 😂 homeboy was looking for an excuse to see kit again, he was obsessed from the moment he stumbled upon kit

YES YES YES!!!! anybody who says ty didn’t have feelings for kit since day 1 must not have been reading the same books bc looking back, it was so obvious that he felt drawn to kit and his presence from the get go! and it’s really giving red string of fate if you ask me… they’re soulmates🥹

[deus-ex-mona]

scrolled a little too far back on mogetwt and found pure gold:

[marsbotz]

not going to lie i do find it quite upsetting that so many ppl think that animals that arent immediately relatable to humans are completely incapable of thought or feeling. and thats the only thing that matters when it comes to animal rights arguments a lot of the time

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

I asked someone smart and shanks related on twitter about it but they didn’t feel like they could answer this.

What do you think of the theory that shanks sword is a gryphon because his animal is lion and mihawks is hawk and they are fated rivals? You are reasonable

huh! never made that connection before.

the traditional griffin is a lion+eagle combo—the king of beasts and the king of birds, coming together for a bit of an ultimate king of nature energy. if you’re gonna assign shanks a mythical creature, that’s a solid choice right there. they’re also usually treasure guardians in myth… something you could argue shanks tried to do for the gum-gum fruit, and maybe even for the one piece, by not attempting to claim it for himself though he knew, broadly, how to find it.

to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a one piece character out there assigned ‘eagle’ as symbolic character, so ‘hawk’ is close enough, i guess. why not have the sword symbolize the connection between this lion and hawk?*

…one problem with that theory, though.

gryphon is a fairly recent acquisition. it’s too long for young shanks to have wielded it, and it has a totally different hilt from shanks’ romance dawn sword. the wiki seems confident that gryphon is also different from the sword shanks had when he met ace, about two years pre-canon.

i’m less convinced of that. we only see gryphon’s hilt in this first appearance, at a head-on angle, which is different enough from the rear view of the ch552 sword that i think they could be the same sword from different views. if the guard attachment appears to drill through the grip from the front view, but is actually molded around the rear of the grip… the ch552 sword could be gryphon.

…not that this makes any difference for the point i’m about to make.

because, given the dismissive words mihawk uses when shanks suggests they have a fight in ch96, their rivalry was at its height before romance dawn, when shanks still had his dominant arm. so gryphon wasn’t the sword shanks used to fight with mihawk.

so, to answer your original question, i don’t think gryphon as shanks’ sword indicates that he and mihawk were fated rivals. (emphasis on fated.) the timing just doesn’t work.

…but it could mean shanks has a twisted sense of humor, and acquired a lion-eagle sword after mihawk stopped fighting him… perhaps in an attempt to get mihawk to fight him again?

[todayisafridaynight]

i cant explain it but daigo being subtitled to just be like 'you're making me look like i have no balls' feels so illegal and wrong. hilarious but something's off

[orcelito]

Ok. Real question. How many people Actually have believed in Santa? Bc I never did, mostly bc my dad never bothered with the entire pretense, so the whole concept is just. Really fucking strange to me

Putting an actual poll bc I feel like I'm losing my mind a bit thinking about how apparently widespread it is. Like. It's just so... weird? Why is this the thing people have popularized? It makes no sense.

[plistommy]

Fr I feel you tho. Like I can only enjoy Harringroveson when Steve's the center of their attention. Especially when they fight each other for him but come to a compromise when Steve asks them to because they're too infatuated to deny him anything.

And when Eddie and Billy are more than platonic, most fics try to make the doting equal with them three, but I don't care about equality or balance. I just want Steve to have two boyfriends who smother him with love and attention all the time.

ANON, YOU GET IT!!!! 💕💕💕

There is very rare fics like this where the guy’s only obsess over Steve and it’s killing me, but the few that are there are everything to me!

Like I personally can’t stand the idea of the guys doing something without Steve. Steve always needs to be there!

I ship Steddie and Harringrove separately, but smash them together into Harringroveson so my favorite metalheads can fight over Steve (I don’t know what it could be called then though, because if E and B aren’t attracted to each other at all then that name doesn’t fit) or like I said on my post, are willing to share him, but don’t want each other that way. They just want Steve and Steve wants them both!

[mint-is-here]

hey guyss,,,, if i did a like.. murder drones lmk au would you guys like. be fine iwth it??? pls i need confirmation

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

No but something I love is how fucking loyal Miklan really is (in Hopes specifically since we don't have enough information in Houses).

At the camp, he takes his job seriously. Very seriously. He doesn't act begrudging or like he's just doing anything by force. As the chapters go on he not only goes from relatively aloof to a full fledged commander (which is great development in that span of chapters btw considering how fast the story has to progress) and one who fights for Faerghus because he wants to (why would he reassure the player that he's going to, literally, hold down the fort? Why doesn't he flee when his life is in immediate danger despite that Dimtiri prefers his allies to flee and save their lives over sacrificing themselves? Why does he like helping citizens who had their lands destroyed by the war, despite being a bandit who used to plunge towns just like those?).

At any time when the Empire was attacking, he could've surrendered and even joined their side because of not liking Faerghus and its people... if he didn't like Faerghus and its people. Also, someone brought this up to me once that Miklan likely has family in the Empire still, because his mother was from the Empire. He had a perfectly good out that wouldn't even necessarily be considered treason to Faerghus, i.e. surrendering and going to the Empire to protect that side of his family.

He doesn't. He dies for Faerghus. It was both a matter of honor due to the fact that he was finally living the life he always should've been and wanted to be respected for that, and also his loyalty that followed in the past's wrongs being righted. No matter what you think of Miklan post disinheritance, he was the heir who was removed because he didn't have a Crest. All over just that, despite that Sylvain having a Crest never meant they didn't still have someone capable of fighting off Sreng invasions.

They had someone able to wield the Lance of Ruin, so why did it matter if he was officially the heir? Miklan felt like his life was stolen from him (and I'm not saying what he did to Sylvain was okay either). Dimitri gave him all of that back and he started to become loyal to Faerghus and its king because Dimitri was giving the chance even the man's own father never gave him from the moment Sylvain was determined to have a Crest.

What happened in his life before Dimitri had him brought to him as soon as he became king is, in a way, almost like it never happened as far as Miklan's behavior. It was obviously there at first, but over time it's like it never happened. That is, if someone met him and didn't know about his past, by chapter 9 they'd never even know he'd had that history. He was the person he would've been years ago if he hadn't been disinherited, which led to the mess that led to him being disowned (and he says he just "left", but Matthias doesn't mince facts. At all. If that had been the case he wouldn't just say he disowned him. He would admit Miklan ran away. That means Miklan claims he left as a means of coping and trying to convince other people that it was his choice and not forced on him).

Miklan became a lot more loyal than he's ever given credit for, both in the game and in the fandom. Gwendal did recognize it, but that's about all we're given.

Gwendal corrected himself when Miklan died, referring to him instead as Sir Miklan instead of the insults he was spewing during their fight which were very clearly pissing Miklan off; but Miklan kept fighting and defending the fort, not just because he wanted to prove Gwendal wrong but because he was here because he was pulled out of his life as a bandit. The people he was defending the fort for were the people who effectively gave him his life back.

Basically, he would've been there in that fort defending it anyway if he had lived the life he should have to begin with. If his value was acknowledged all along, he would've been defending the most important fort in Faerghus all along (if this exact scenario occurred and everything was the same except him being disowned in the first place). He would be there being the commander and fighter he was supposed to be.

Mind you, it was the king himself who gave him that chance, meaning the person who reigns over Faerghus and has the most power to change whatever the hell he wants - including how people with Crests and without are treated. Miklan was part of a fight to better their society and be part of the new generation taking over. Nobody could truly change things unless the king - the top power - had the thought to change them (not saying Lambert thought the political climate was good the way it was, but he clearly had other priorities and it didn't seem to be something weighing on his mind. He may not have even truly noticed the problems and power discrepancies because he was so focused on other things).

However, the moment the king thought to change all that old stuff, Miklan was one of the first people who came to mind, and one of the first people he took action regarding, to integrate into his new army (and he even mentioned completely rearranging his army and whatnot, and then we find out he had Miklan located basically right after becoming king. We had a two year timeskip and Miklan had been there for those two years because of how soon after Dimitri was crowned that he had decided to bring Miklan back and give him another chance).

If the king sought to change things and was taking active action to prove it, that was something Miklan could see and realize was actually going to happen. It wasn't a blind trust - he could see Dimitri was actually doing it. He had a reason to be able to trust him with this.

He was also able to trust the people who were watching over him, i.e. the people Dimitri had making sure he didn't revert back to any sort of banditry. Those people could have easily faked it, made up that he did something and that they had killed him on the spot. Dimitri trusted those people not to do that of course, but those people were not told to bring him to Dimitri if he did anything. They were told to apprehend him and kill him immediately (which is reasonable, given what he'd done in the past, and they wouldn't want to try to wait to get Dimitri over to wherever they were. If Miklan escaped in that time, they'd just have a big problem on their hands).

So that is to say, those people could've just faked it at any point and killed him. They didn't. They, like Dimitri, were willing to give him another chance provided he didn't do anything bad.

The same goes for Felix and everyone else who had qualms about him being allowed into their army. Dimitri explicitly stated if anyone had issues with his appointment as a commander to "by all means" kill him themselves. He literally made it an open option for his friends to just up and kill him if they truly couldn't forgive him (which at that point was more reasonable of a time because the war was still new and people didn't know if they could trust him with this specific appointment yet. By later in the story I don't think it would have been as reasonable for someone to try to kill him after he'd already been proving himself).

In other words, nobody did it. Everyone, literally everyone, backed off and respected Dimitri's decision (and technically Sylvain and Matthias' as well). None of those people, even when given open opportunity, turned a weapon on him. Not one. These people all gave him a chance. These are the same people he died fighting for, and for himself to be able to feel like he was fighting and dying for what he would have to begin with if he hadn't been disinherited - Faerghus and its people.

In the end Miklan was in both rank and heart a top ranking commander of Faerghus and he both appreciated it and knew he appreciated it. He was looking forward to the future Dimitri would bring, basically saying that he thinks Dimitri is a fool ("weak-willed") for it but that he now believes in it too. If anyone wants to try arguing those points, I have receipts as the young folk call them, fresh from Miklan himself about his feelings about it as spoken to Catherine and Shamir!

Miklan fought for the future he was hoping to see, and he died protecting that future. Again, not something he by any means whatsoever had to do. He was tasked with guarding the fortress, but was never told to lay down his life defending it. After years and years of being hateful and angry, he finally had some peace of mind and hope for what he could be. He was loyal to Dimitri in the end because Dimitri was loyal to him - that is, he kept his word and Miklan was able to thrive in Dimitri's society without being a bandit or having to worry about his future because of his status.

Like Dimitri said, the only thing holding him down by that point were his past mistakes. It was up to Miklan to do something about that for himself with the opportunity he was given to fix it. Dimitri said here, fix it, and Miklan said okay, and worked to fix it. For me the saddest part is that he didn't even get enough time to properly fix it and be able to be free of his past. He died for Faerghus though, with his dying words being that he was able to buy them time (to arrive and fight back against the attacking Empire). That's not something someone who holds a resentful grudge would say in their last moments. He was grateful he managed to buy the other fighters time, even though it cost him his life.

hopes was a dumpster fire a whole lot of times but its incorporation of miklan into the plot was not one of them. miklan fire emblem my love you will live on in my heart and in my fics. i am also deeply grateful to hopes for uh i guess hopes-canonizing (hopesonizing???) basically every one of my headcanons about him before the game came out.

[kyalinzumi]

...dare i start writing it?

[lem-argentum]

i figured out how to use the printers on my campus itz so over (has ability to print blorbo pictures for wall)

[deus-ex-mona]

i miss her…