#how to grow a beard

[blaiddraws]

@gouda-nough 's chandelure-ingo bodyswap au. i enjoy it:)

bonus- they're pals :)

[weevilfan2006]

wanted to do a species swap inspired by the changelings in dungeon meshi i had sooo much fun designing every single one of these can you tell

[sunshineandlyrics]

👦🏻 Madrid airport, 25 July 2024 /

🧔🏻 Santander airport, 4 August 2024

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

[venting402]

you guys know how Neil can grow out his beard? well what if Soap can too?

aka Johnny grows out his beard and then surprises Price with a beard just like his. Price isn’t amused. bonus points if the others pretend like they’re twins/hard to tell apart from the other

[druidposting]

[Narrator: Phineas plays anxiously with the bead of caenum on his abacus]

[preyinstincts88]

He tilts my head and runs the razor down my jaw, the blade running so smooth I barely feel it. Fingers slipping along my chin, bending me this way and that, his larger frame behind me in the mirror. Looking at my face; but not looking at me. I say I can shave myself, I say I barely need to shave at all, and he gives me that look, hand tightening ever so slightly. I close my mouth. The glide continues down my neck. He wipes down my face, turning me with a firm twist to inspect his work.

I want to run my hands along his jaw as he does mine, feeling the texture of his stubble, running my fingers up into his hair. But he hasn't told me to move yet. That had been his only rule as he brought me into the bathroom, stay still, and I had, hadn't I?

I barely get my hand half way in the air before the hand on my face is tilting me up firmly, another hand closing around my wrist. Stay still, that's all you had to do. I feel him press me backward until the cool tile of the wall jars the skin on my back. His hands, warm, press firm on the column of my throat. You ask me to show you how to do things, like a real man, but you can't listen to instructions hm?

I wonder whether I can speak now, or if that is one of those questions with no right answer. But before I can even try to reply he continues. Did you even listen, after I took all this time to show you how to shave, or did you just feel my hand on your face and turn into a brain-dead slut on instinct?

Now that I can't respond to, or maybe the whine I let out was a response given the way he smiled. A smile that matches everything about him, cutting, sharp and perfect. He kisses me, his scruff sharp against my fresh sensitive skin, a shaky breath and a bob of my throat beneath his palm. His body, angular, broad, perfect, against my own, which is changing slowly too.

Once the comparison made me feel small, but now, every time we kiss I know my jaw is sharper, one day I'll be strong enough to pin him too, push him to the tile, my beard will scratch against his sensitive inner thighs and he will shiver the way I do.

[mothielad]

Epic artists: Odysseus’s hair and beard get longer as the odyssey goes on since he doesn’t have access to hair cutting tools!

Eurylochus:

[bloodrock-lobster]

"duergar are ruthless and cold and cruel and bald an-" dONT CARE

JOY, HEAVY METAL/RED DEAD LOOKIN, DUERGAR CLERIC OF ILMATER BE UPON YE

[halohalfangel]

Y’all… how we feeling about Past shadow milk with a beard..?

[onomatoseeyah]

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We won, or we think we did

When you went away, you were just a kid

And if you lost it all, and you lost it

Well, we'll still be there when your war is over

-In Our Bedroom After The War by Stars

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Pose Ref

[reineydraws]

Saw your Mishanks bodyswap art! Very cute and fun! (Mihawk with a genuine smile on his face so so fun)

I imagine Shanks whould have trouble fighting in Mihawk's body at first since it's been years since he's had two arms

yes absolutely, i imagine that too! conversely, i think mihawk would have a little bit of trouble adjusting his balance and reach with a body missing one arm, as well. it's interesting to think about how they both would be forced to change their fighting style, and whether or not they would exchange swords.

mihawk's been seen using yoru with just one hand so he could probably pull it off with shanks's body. also interesting to think about shanks tripping up on having two arms until he naturally slips into his old fighting style again--or would he? because there's also the question of muscle memory, right? would mihawk's body automatically do things that shanks isn't predisposed to doing, and vice versa?

the other thing i find intriguing about body swapping in one piece is the question of whether or not your haki powers would switch as well. they say haki is spiritual presence, so presumably your haki switches if your spirits switch, but if it's the kind of spirit that's tethered to the presence of the body? then consider mihawk having the strongest conqueror's haki out on the blues, or shanks being able to use observation haki at mihawk's level, practically being able to predict the future--or mihawk, able to counter with shanks's haki-kill technique. food for thought!

[lichqueenlibrarian]

*hand holding intensifies*

[alaraxia]

omg Ortega hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

[loudfederationscreeching]

really really super enjoying how the dominion is slowly introduced over the course of season two

first wind we catch of the dominion is via quark when he hears of them through an attempted trade agreement with someone in the gamma quadrant - makes a ton of sense that the first thing we learn is that they are a powerful force in the economics of the gamma quadrant, and it also makes great use of both quark and zek as narrative forces

the second reference to them is when a group of three million refugees make their way through the wormhole - this was also interesting because the group had been essentially farmer serfs to a more powerful species (or maybe just political group? its unclear) on their home planet, and were freed as a side effect of that group being conquered by the dominion. this to me felt like a really interesting second thing we learn; it really underscores the way deep space nine is seeing the ripples of the dominion far far before anything concrete

and then! the third reference! is a man who survived his planet being conquered, and recreated his life via hologram on another world - this episode serving to really put a face to the harm that the dominion has been causing in the gamma quadrant

this all leads up to the season two finale where sisko, quark, nog, and jake encounter a jem'hadar soldier while on their camping trip. SUCH a multilayered approach to introducing the major antagonists of the series, a great slow burn and easily the best execution of this in any star trek in my opinion. deep space nine so perfectly transitioned from episodic to serialized and it blows my mind every time

[dreamofcamelot]

did……. did it ever cross Arthur’s mind that they’d never get to see each other grow old?