#emphasis on 'ships'

[baconpncakes]

Mentorships

(part 1 here)

[toupee-or-nottoupee]

my favorite ship dynamic is "I've had to watch you go into the path of no return and I love you" and its just blonde boys watching dark haired guys literally make the worst decisions known to man

[moved-to-satoruswaifu]

✎ three simple words, yet many possible ways to convey so much. imagine your f/o‘s confession…

❝i love you.❞ — it is me who loves you. even when you think no one did, i always did. and i always will.

❝i love you.❞ — how did you not see it before? i need you to know. i can no longer be silent.

❝i love you.❞ — there is no one else in the world for me. it‘s you, only you.

[kacievvbbbb]

I’m not someone that particularly cares about a ship being canon or not, in fact I would rather the media I consume have no romance at all (giving my blog confusing yes I know)

But there is something about the canon ties between Shanks and Mihawk that drives me feral with need to see what their whole deal is.

Because like there are so many little inconsequential details that when taking separately seem pathetic and weak. But then put together it feels like it paints the picture of a larger undeniable connection and understanding between two wildly different men.

The fact that their main color is both red (Mihawk’s is a more wine dark red than Shanks’ bright red and a little more “subtle” given that Shanks is literally called red hair) but even then their main symbols, their identifying features, are red! Mihawk’s eyes and Shanks hair (yes while I love the gold and think that’s better I cannot ignore the fact that Oda consistently colors in Mihawk’s eyes red even though the gold is infinitely more popular)

They have the same birthday, are practically the same height, both with the promises to our two main protagonists to meet them at the top with a parting “gift”, both serve as a mentor to the protagonist (mihawk literally thought zoro how to kill him 😭), both with the bird(ish) iconography.

The fact that Mihawk, Mihawk! A man whose introduction was that he didn’t care much about anything and caused destruction on a whim, cares enough about what Shanks thinks to mentally apologize before trying to kill luffy (what the fuck).

The fact that whitebeard felt the need to reference his duel with Mihawk in his conversation with Shanks, despite not really being very relevant to the conversation and the fact that this is the first we’ve seen shanks in years and it is brought up in the same context as his relationship with Buggy (an already established relationship) reveals his relationship to Roger seems to point to the fact that this duel between Mihawk and Shanks is an important relationship to shanks. It couldn’t just be to show strength because he was about to clash with whitebeard the strongest man. It’s also hard to notice that those two relationships didn’t end particularly well for shanks.

Also the fact that it was Mihawk out of every character , Mihawk that brought luffy’s bounty to Shanks. Something he obviously knew would mean a lot to him. I used to think the scene was just there to show us how big a deal Shanks actually is like look at that fun childish alcoholic gang inspired our main hero? He’s actually a super big deal and he used to spar with the strongest character by far we had seen at that point (it wasn’t even close) and they fought on equal footing. It added a new layer of mystery to Shanks.

But it’s also the fact that even now with Mihawk’s bounty Shanks was mentioned and he’s the only one who this was mentioned for. Crocodile is just for his df and intelligence and they don’t mention that he literally tried and almost succeeded in subjugating a country and he was beat by luffy “or smoker given how many marines actually know the truth” even buggy who was literally Shanks’ sworn brother under the pirate king doesn’t get a mention like that. But Shanks and this duel is so integral to Mihawk’s character that it’s mentioned along with the only other long lasting fact we know about him and that is that he is the World’s Strongest Swordsman. Isn’t that fucking insane.

And like I feel insane scrapping all these details together as proof of something because they are all (besides the duel) the barest bones of a connection but god it is actually driving me insane.

And I’m not saying Mishanks is going to become canon or that it should or that I even particularly want it too. What I do want is to see how deeply these two are connected. What are these red strings of fate tying them to each other. Why can’t apparently ten years of little contact sever it? I swear to god if it’s actually nothing much I will lose my fucking mind. If nothing ever comes of all of this I will actually go insane. How can some people look at this and not see foreshadowing!?!?!!

[ubepan]

I have very normal feelings about a situation where Toshiro visits Melini after a long while. Laios has established himself as king, although he still has much to improve on. Toshiro carries on the family mantle, but that isn't relevant now; he's on a break, seeing friends he hasn't seen since their last chaotic adventure. Laios waits to greet him at the docks when he arrives. Toshiro feels his heart quicken, though this is very quickly brushed off. Who wouldn't feel excited when meeting a companion after so long? He runs down to the docks—he forgets himself—He runs down the docks, ecstatic.

Laios greets him with a handshake. It's... much too formal. Diplomatic. The attitude befitting a king, not a friend. Toshiro forgets himself. He greets Laios with the handshake he's extended, yes, but he feels weird about it.

As Laios walks ahead of him, he is aided by his trusted advisor, who is bickering with him while telling him what to do. Laios is comfortable, with him. Toshiro is an outsider; he forgets himself.

[urfavcrime]

dsmp is still SO insane to me. still not completely convinced it wasn't a social experiment. it is something that can never be replicated again due to the really specific circumstances that attributed to it's creation and popularity

[bruhstation]

Can we see some interactions between Ryan and Thomas and/or Ryan and Daisy?

in daisy’s defense, she always saves ryan from all the awkward and borderline WWE-like gresley family reunions. he’s gotta make it up to her.

[stinky-bus]

I always find it so interesting how those people on reddit and other places will go after queer ships being like “why cant people have same sex best friends anymore? Why do you guys make everything gay?” which has the potential to be a valid point about the instances where people actually do this, but they are almost always complaining about it under discussions of the ships with the most queer coding or the ones that often heavily border the line between platonic and romantic affection.

Like yes, i totally agree we need more rep of close and intimate platonic relationships (especially those between men, where they are able to be emotionally vulnerable and connected with eachother and it just being that, a meaningful friendship) but the examples you are using ARE the gay ones.

[blacksheepoftheclass]

Thirteen : I heard people are shipping us!

Mephistopheles : What are you doing in my bed?!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sequel to this ramble cause the way james talks bout the reduced cherik scenes throughout the xmen films in this video is making me want to kill people. 'we'll always have paris darling' what if we all blew up.

[skylee-spider-lillis]

I know most of the DBDA fandom probably thinks at paineland at the trope of "x fell first, xx fell harder" is Edwin falling first and Charles now falling harder; because Edwin was obviously shown first to express his feelings.

But consider this-

Charles falling in love with Edwin slowly a little more every day, falling a bit deeper for him every day they spent side by side.

And at some point later- Edwin is crushing hard. Realizing "oh shit, I love him-" and falling hard in a chaotic storm of feeling he doesn't know how to deal with, he's a complete mess.

Idk, I personally prefer the second version more but both options can be great interpretations of their dynamic.

[queenhawke]

"if grimpop was slash everyone would ship it" and if my grandmother had wheels she would've been a bike. like yeah dawg, it's almost as if there is a lot of cultural baggage that comes with older men/younger women ships that does not exist for gay relationships and that might be one of the reasons people aren't into it romantically

[novemberhush]

Me: Okay, I’m not gonna binge all of the new series of Father Brown in one or two days. I’m gonna spread it out over a week or two to make it last longer.

Me, five hours and halfway through the new series later: Aw, it was nice to see Flambeau back again.

[trauma-bot]

MURDER DRONES SELFSHIPPERS LETSGOOOO

HIIIII YES IM HERE <3333 IM HOPELESSLY IN LOVE WITH THESE ROBOTS

i think about my oc/self insert (guy who ive made a 5+ hour long spotify playlist and one impulsive animatic for) and how he interacts with uzi and N a normal amount

i care about them all so much........ what if we kissed and kissed and kissed and oughghrhghrhgrgththtgtgrrr *GNAWING ON MY DESK*

[sonknuxadow]

everyone look what i just saw at walmart immediately

[chimkinnuget]

Sorry for the /neg post but I HATE HATE HATE how some people are like "oh after Mr. Puzzles Clubhouse Mr. Puzzles isn't my favorite character after what he did to Meggy :((((" LIKE YOU FAVORITED A VILLAIN. VILLAINS DO,, SURPRISE,, VILLAINOUS THINGS!!!!

like I genuinely can NOT stand mr puzzles fans who completely ignored all of his actions up until this point. HES DONE SHITRY THINGS TO MEGGY BEFORE. HE IS A VILLAIN. HAVE YOU SEEN HIS LIST OF CRIMES? HE ISN'T JUST A SILLY GOOFY GUY. YOU'RE WATERING DOWN HIS CHARACTER.

anyway I really liked that episode. I love it when he's scary :)