#beach split

[wacky-wonders]

🎶i enjoy being a boy in love with youuu !!

[cosmicwhoreo]

well, good news is my first chapter to the Beached Mermaid AU is almost done! Bad news....

I may have wanted to get the entire setup done in one chapter.

[nicecurves]

[gelatinous-globster]

Mer-glob for the tail-end of Mermay! (pun intended.)

Click for quality!

And a more tonally-compliant with canon bonus:

@drama-glob @enbydemirainbowbigfoot

[jessfandrawer]

Jinko poll art #4 (final!): Broadsword Beach

Thanks for going on this little Jinko journey with me. ;)

[yogadaily]

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[ourflagmeansgayrights]

back at it again with yet ANOTHER Thing That OFMD Does So Fucking Well, this time im thinking about how for all that this show has the "love at first sight" trope and even textually says that "love feels easy," it still takes what i like to call the "anti-soulmate" stance, or a rejection of an easy "happily ever after" romance.

you know what im talking about when i say "happily ever after" romance, right? romantic stories that act like there's a Perfect Person in the world for you and that once you guys are together it's smooth sailing for the rest of your lives, the end. stories where the drama is all in getting together, and once we get the dramatic kiss at the finale the curtains close and the credits roll and that's all, folks! they're together, now! everything is fine!

and like anyone who's ever been in a long-term relationship (which is uhhhh Not Me, but i've heard it said) will tell you that this is NOT how relationships work at all. long-term relationships, no matter how well-suited the match, take a LOT of work.

and this is SO CLEAR with stede and ed. all of season one showed us the many, many ways that they fit together so easily. they have the same crazy "thinking outside of the box" plotting approach, they both have a penchant for drama and showmanship, they have similar senses of humor, they both enjoy fine fabric and good food and other fancy things. ed is the first person in stede's life to enjoy stede's presence so openly and honestly, and stede is the first person in ed's life to not balk at the less "blackbeard" side of him. the more they learn about each other the more they appreciate each other.

but. but. IT'S NOT ENOUGH!!!!

stede and ed got to the dramatic kiss. they got to the confession of mutual romantic interest and the "now they're together!!" part. in many love stories, that's where the credits start to roll!!

but then, very quickly, it all falls to shit.

yes, there are a LOT of external forces that drive ed and stede apart in episode 9 and 10, but the real thing that causes stede to run back to his wife and kids in a panic and causes ed to retreat back into blackbeard is the fact that these two fucking idiots never just TALK TO EACH OTHER

"communication is the key to any successful relationship" is something people say All The Time, but the thing with that phrase is that it doesn't really convey how fucking HARD it is to communicate. because communicating isn't just about talking to your partner, it's about expressing your desires, your weaknesses, your insecurities. it's being incredibly vulnerable and it takes a lot of practice and a lot of constant effort.

it is SO much easier to try and slowly distance yourself from someone because you don't want to come off as clingy (ed at the beginning of e7). it is SO much easier to come up with bullshit reasons to hang out instead of just saying "i want to spend time with you" because that's admitting how much you care about this person (stede with the treasure hunt). it is SO much easier to bite your tongue when something makes you upset because you don't want to make a fuss (stede when ed blew up his chest of drawers). it is SO much easier to choose your shitty ex over your new crush without actually explaining to your crush that it's not about him, it's about how you feel responsible for the shitty things your shitty ex just did (ed leaving the Revenge with jack). and it is SO SO SO much easier to never actually admit to your new friend, your co-captain, and the love of your life that you were never going to be good at "teaching him the ways of an aristocrat" because you've never actually fit in back in your old life, that you've never had a real friend before him, that you've been ridiculed your whole life for being yourself, because what if your new friend/co-captain/love of your life realizes just how pathetic you are?

for ed and stede to get their happily ever after, they of course have to deal with the narrative obstacles the show is throwing at them (izzy, the british, whatever else is coming for us in season 2) but more importantly they have to learn how to communicate directly, so they both understand what the other is saying. ed needs to know about stede's insecurities and stede needs to trust ed to choose what ed wants and understand that he's not "corrupting" or "defiling" anything when ed says he wants to stop being blackbeard. ofmd shows us that ed and stede would be an incredible couple, but even if the feelings of love are easy, the work that goes into having a successful relationship isn't.

[neviagreatestart2003]

The Masked Singer Season 6 Characters!

List of Contestants/Celebrity.

1st: Queen of Hearts - Jewel

2nd: Bull - Todrick Hall

3rd: Banana Splits - David Foster & Katharine McPhee

4th: Skunk - Faith Evans

5th: Caterpillar - Bobby Berk (Wildcard)

6th: Mallard - Willie Robertson

7th: Pepper - Natasha Bedingfield (Wildcard)

8th: Jester - Johnny Rotten (Wildcard)

9th: Beach Ball - Honey Boo Boo & Mama June (Wildcard)

10th: Hamster - Rob Schneider (Wildcard)

11th: Cupcake - Ruth Pointer

12th: Baby - Larry The Cable Guy (Wildcard)

13th: Dalmatian - Tyga

14th: Pufferfish - Toni Braxton

15th: Mother Nature - Vivica A. Fox

16th: Octopus - Dwight Howard

[magsinhiding]

Woke up at the good awful hour of 4:15 to try and get on an early flight out, but I missed it by one person. Had to wait for my original flight, which was delayed an hour. I sprinted through the airport to make it, knowing if I missed it I wouldn’t get in until 9pm or later. I’m not flying standby next time - the stress is too great.

Although this does help cure my anxiety about flying (not anxious about the actual flying it’s really the security theater that gets to me). I’m flying to London Saturday for work and feel much less worried than normal.

I am now laying in bed with Oscar feeling so tired.

[sidetongue]

she’s so cheeky 

[frog4278art]

These are incredibly fun to do (don't worry wenclair fans I'll be posting more of them soon)

[mofffun]

THEY ARE WEARING NEW SUMMER OUTFITS IN KYUSHUU!!!! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗヾ( ˃ᴗ˂ )◞ • *✰

[nicecurves]

[dwampyverse-tournaments]

There are too many episodes to seed. Please help me out (4)

[voidfishbitch]

Key Takeaways from Ethersea:

MLM want to kill god

WLW inadvertently become gods

And non-binary aroaces want to be giant robots

[melaninsenshi]

I'm always acting tough

Close my heart and now I starve the love

And no, I never wanted

I never wanted this for us