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Anonymous said: The sender of the gift will be long gone by the time Yukari discovers them, there's no card, only a large bouquet of deep purple roses and a small note containing a short poem: Look inside the hollowed tree, it may seem empty, but it is teaming with life - from a mysterious Kuroh anon
" Oh? What is this? Do I have a secret admirer? " Yukari looks amused - both at the tactic of leaving a gift and running and that, of course he did. Yukari always had some. It was a less a question of if and more of how many.
They're quite beautiful flowers. Yukari lifts a hand to admire the petals - a rich and vivid color that appeals to him. Royalty, mystery, luxury. Something rather fitting to be tied to the beauty angel. A shame there's no card.
Wait!
His eyes catch sight of the note tucked within the bunch of roses, carefully placed to ensure it didn't fall. Poetry? He always had been fond of it. Although there's precious few who share the same love for it, fewer who would gift it, and even fewer who wouldn't do some cheap or cliché poem. On the contrary, he recognizes this particular poem
" It almost feels like two gifts in one. " Yukari smiles - clearly Kuroh was the culprit when it carries the voice of their past king. " Thank you! " Kuroh likely wasn't anywhere around to hear it, but he liked to think that the wind would carry his thanks in it till it reached the black dog's ears.
#Anonymous#FLOWERS AND POETRY ARE A GOOD COMBO#yukari approves of them#classics are classics for a reason#also just :') something ichigen related too#after so long#᛭ — [IC] you are a falling star burning bright [YUKARI MISHAKUJI]
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Offline by NotEvenCloseToStraight
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Bond isn't sure what to think of the new Quartermaster, of the high tech gear and the way the man is always in his ear thanks to mandatory ear pieces for all agents. The old Q hadn't required those things after all, and everything had worked fine. But Bond is a risk now, after Vesper, seeming to kill without noticing, without caring, and there are quiet rumors that he wont seduce his targets anymore, and that his drinking is out of control, so Q is told to keep a sharp eye on him and his mental health. Bond is irritated with the constant presence of Q, but somehow their traded insults turn into teasing jabs, and then genuine affection, and eventually they move from talking via earpiece on missions to texting every day, with messages growing more and more explicit as time goes on. But Q is nothing less than professional whenever Bond is around, and the agent has a hard time reconciling the aloof Quartermaster with the teasing devil that has him bringing himself off desperately at night to the naughty texts. Q is a man connected to his tech, and Bond is a man living in the field, and the only way to be together is offline somewhere. But which one is going to take the first step?
Broken by NotEvenCloseToStraight
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It took months of therapy for Bucky to break his Winter Soldier conditioning, and Steve was there for him, encouraging him to talk about his past, his fears, his time as the Soldier. And Bucky talked about everything-- except why the barest mention of an Alpha makes him panic. When Steve brings Bucky home, Alpha!Tony is ready to welcome Bucky with open arms and wings, but Bucky can't look at him, can't be in the same room without his wings flaring out to keep the Alpha away, a broken Omega panicking in the presence of a strong Alpha. But Tony is a good Alpha, and the team pulls together to help Bucky, showing him what it means to be loved, to be healthy and whole, and one day when Tony holds his hand out, Bucky trusts him enough to take it. And Bucky realizes that with a family behind him, with the safety hes found in the Omegas, the companionship from the Betas, and the unconditional love from the Alpha--HIS alpha, he isn’t broken at all. But with a team like the Avengers, tragedy is never far off, and this one rocks the family to their core. How can they fix the broken pieces of their lives when their Alpha is gone?
I know there is some weird idea floating around here (especially with the younger people) that reading and commenting on old fics is somehow ‘bad’ or ‘cringy’. But I think people thinking like that are missing out on amazing stories. I personally don’t think that stories ever get ‘too old to read’, they were written down to last for eternity so why would it be different with fanfics?
So yes, I am still going through @not-close-to-straight library and I’ve come across these two stories that I am excited about. I had no idea they had written a Bond fic! And I still wouldn’t know that if I hadn’t gone back to the beginning of their library and started reading their ‘old’ stories.
So, I guess what I’m saying is.... Stop worrying about looking ‘cringe’ or ‘weird’ and just read whatever the hell you want and don’t focus on how new or old a story is.
#fanfiction#notevenclosetostraight#classics are classics for a reason#in books and fanfiction#lets all stop being so damn afraid#and just read what YOU find interesting
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.
#not that anyone but me probably needs to hear this but…#it’s OKAY to have Big Feelings about popular things#they’re popular for a reason - it makes sense to have a big reaction#but yeah - i should really know by now but i’m STILL floored every time i read or watch a classic and it Gets Me#like. this story has been Getting people for decades or centuries or MILLENNIA and yet STILL i’m surprised#‘i didn’t think the story would Get me’ says man about story that’s Gotten everyone who’s ever heard it
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best summary of this film ive ever read
#if you watch it & can't understand what their conflict is if theyre both so super-hot. the reason is in the above tweet#elizabeth taylor#paul newman#cat on a hot tin roof#queer#gay#lgbt#queer characters#hays code#classic movies#old hollywood#classic hollywood#1950s#vintage#photography#production still#richard brooks#tweet#queer media#book adaptation
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Please, God, let me live again.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir. Frank Capra
#It's A Wonderful Life#It's A Wonderful Life 1946#James Stewart#Jimmy Stewart#George Bailey#it'sawonderfullifeedit#filmedit#movieedit#filmgifs#moviegifs#oldhollywoodedit#classiccinemaedit#classicfilmblr#ritahayworrth#classicfilmsource#Old Hollywood#Classic Cinema#1940s#pureanonedits#This is a great movie for many reasons.#But not the least of them is Jimmy Stewart looking incredibly attractive while extremely emotionally distraught.
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hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au
turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else
now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident
also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out
#turbo#turbotastic#fix it felix jr#80s boyfriends#hammertastic#headcanon about them exchanging their trophies isn't mine but i loved it A LOT#and “darling” is turbo making fun of how felix was calling him in 80s#this hc about “doll” and “darling” pet names also is not mine but i adore it#turbo here is a complete freak who just stays around felix most of the time even when felix has moments with calhoun#and felix is an ass who keeps secrets from everyone bc he doesn't want his dirt to come out#he's ashamed of his previous relationship with turbo and doesn't want anyone to know any details#and calhoun to just know about it#this just gets worse and worse#they also didn't actually break up and were still technically dating when turbo went gamejumping#and he's mad af at felix because he's the reason ppl in the acrade made a boogeyman out of turbo and he couldn't come back#like imagine your bf says to you what you are better than others think of you#and then behind your (presumably dead) back tells everyone that you're just an egocentric maniac#i believe turbo has other reasons why he gamejumped (besides jealousy which took place but wasn't the most important reason)#and felix is an unreliable narrator#so yeah turbo HATES his ass#(but still would-) no im not making it suggestive#anyway i hc that turbo had put A LOT of emotions in this relationship even tho he's bad at this#he tried his best with felix but they were just making each other worse#and turbo while feeling betrayed never really moved on (yes even after 25 years he's PATHETIC)#and felix is just full of regret about everything but he won't admit his mistakes in his relationship with turbo#bc “well he turned out to be a bad person so that automatically makes me in the right about everything”#but felix had made a lot of bad decisions while dating turbo and was just classically ignorant about a ton of things#sorry about this random ass essay in tags i'm done for now#wreck it ralph#wir
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etho: ohp someone put a ren stamp in
martyn: that was me
#steals a ren stamp and then does this OKAY!#classic treebark bait#hermitcraft#hermitblr#hermitcraft charity livestream#martyn inthelittlewood#ethoslab#smallishbeans#“we're gonna send joel for some reason”#they're all insane#mcyt#trafficblr#trafficsmp#boat boys#renchanting#too bad rens living it up in south Africa right now#he would have loved to give these two a tour of his gigacorp city#renchantyn#hermits charity live 2024#treebark#dogwarts#renchanting duo#rendog#renthedog
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blight dump
#the owl house#amity blight#alador blight#darius deamonne#hunter toh#the golden guard#hunter deamonne#aladarius#mine#toh#2023#you can pry autistic amity and autistic alador out of my cold dead hands.#the only reason alador is so chipper in the morning is if he stayed up all night and got the classic 6am second wind
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c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.
#em draws stuff#em is posting about temeraire#temeraire#temeraire worldbuilding collection#⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬𐂂#<- tag for organizing when I'm drawing stuff that is temeraireVerse but not in the line of the plot of the books themselves#for school reasons I have been reading a lot about 14th-17th century mesoamerica#and thus am Interested in how that would have potentially played out in temeraireverse...#anyway! not sure if I'll draw these two again but I Have given the lad a day sign name (five deer) so I could Potentially. who can say.#haven't come up with a name for the dragon yet... maybe cipachcoatzin would work if can't think of anything else#<- Please Forgive My Dubious Command of Classical Nahuatl Grammar I Am But A Student#on that note zoomorphic interlace is not very much a style from this period/region but it helps me with composition things#five deer himself is mostly based on the illustration of the tlacuilo's son in the codex mendoza#the dragon is drawn more from a fusion of older scribal styles (ie. the codex borgia) and my own shorthands for dragon anatomy
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some sketches/doodles of my dnd character, Gorb :] my stupid lizard boy with a -1 intelligence modifier
#releasing my gorb drawings from my drafts <3#“have you tried not being a warlock” is such a classic#oh also fun fact he has a cursed (?) dog shield#and also spent months traveling with a group of fey-adjacent (?) beings simply known as “the jimmithon brothers”#which are the reason why he is currently broke#fern's sketchbook#original art
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“we saw you from across the bar and we really hate your vibe actually”
#just a quick one#because the image of them judging you at a cocktail bar somewhere won’t get out my head#for some reason#doctor who#classic who#fifth doctor#vislor turlough#fiveturlough#art
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whats the worst dr who episode to watch while high
#no reason/#or torchwood or sja or class those r also dr who. To me#i feel like its probably either a classic who one or torchwood.#but sja and modern who could definitely be it as well.#ari opinion hour
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Going Merry
based on Hiroshi Yoshida sailing boat series
#one piece#anime#going merry#classics study#hiroshi yoshida#I wanted to draw the Sunny but the Merry fit the mood and simplicity more#Also free handing the entire ship was very relaxing for some reason
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Yes. I'm bringing this back.
Vincent Price being strip searched by Burt Reynolds.
You're welcome.
#vincent price#burt reynolds#riverboat#classic tv#first of all ..#this had no reason to go this hard#look at that thrust in the second gif#this is so homoerotic and im fucking there for it#GODDAMN#lucky burt#i want#fuckkkkk meeeeew#i need a moment#bicon#bisexual#horror#old horror movies#vintage#movie#actor#handsome#gif#gifs made by me#my gifs#gifs#gif set
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